Does that mean it should have its time wasted? Anti-robot bigotry is at an all time high and I, for one, think it's time for change.

Unfortunately an economic system is only as useful as its buy-in, and that's the hard part. If you want you fight financial hegemony, don't give wealthy people another lever of control.

It's hard enough to get people on board with social movements that directly help them and have no downsides; you're going to have a hard time promulgating a financial system that undermines the wealth of the people who dominate the standard financial system, especially when the more wealth you've accumulated (in the standard system) is directly proportional to your ability to spread propaganda to support your wealth.

There are better, more winnable, battles to fight than the global financial system.

While i agree that a victory there would be huge, part of the reason it would be so huge is because of how very, very unwinnable it is.

That said, if you're super stuck on finance as the issue you want you be involved with, imo, the best thing you can do is communicate the questions -- the problems with contemporary finance, of which there are so very many -- and don't waste your time offering solutions.

(Even if we had a solution that could work, it would surely be obsolete by the time it could be meaningfully implemented. Cryptos of all kinds, at this point, can only provide their benefits to people with disposable wealth, who can afford to take the risk, and those are exactly the people who don't need you to fight for their interests. Or anyone -- but you're not anyone, you are you; your energy is finite, spend it where it can help the people who need it most.)

It's not illegal to sell bibles. I'm sure there are loads of churches that will fill their pews with them, but they're not sending money to the campaign, they're sending it to Trump. Why would he make this harder for himself, he can just take the money and put it in his pocket, there's no reason to get the campaign involved.

Tell me it was "Top 10 Steven Universe Betrayals" without telling me it was "Top 10 Steven Universe Betrayals"

Did you know that Kant used to criticize people who drank more than one cup of coffee per day. Also, he would refill his own coffee cup before it was empty, so he never had more than one cup.

Idk, for me, the game "sparked my imagination" -- but my imagination and I would go to my room with photos of actual people.

That's honestly a really great approach. I'm going to do that next time I fuck up at work. Boss: "The production server is down and the database is hosed!"

Me: Omg I'm so sorry! I'm drunk on a cruise!

There's a faulty assumption in here that I was to call attention to: it's the it's that capitalist companies are charging less than the market will bear.

100% of the time, prices are as high as they can possibly be. There's no situation where a company says, "we could charge them $5, but let's charge them $4".

If we stopped tipping and people got raises, the balance would have to come from CEO salaries (etc) which is what they're really saying when they say they can't do it.

That said, for situations where tipping has become kind of expected but not required (eg baristas, who are paid minimum wage, but not eg waitstaff who are paid less than minimum wage), the expectation that prices have to go up to account for raised wages will raise "what the market will bear."

Maybe not for deliveries? Since everyone already thinks delivery fees are tips? Idk.

It's not a zero sum game. We could be losing money to rich tax dodgers and also to tips.

(There's unlikely to be any tax losses anywhere near what we lose to tax dodging - but it's not a competition.)

That said - it's not the tippee's fault (yeah I'm going to call them tippees and there's nothing they can do about it). The employee (commonly referred to as a "tippee") isn't being paid a living wage, so the employer makes up the difference with tips. The tips aren't taxed (they're only taxed for waitstaff since their tips are a "part of the salary"), and don't go into the business owner's books - so they can ("truthfully") state that their business is successful at their current rate of pay, and there's no real record of the reality.

The politics of being an oppressed class within a class of oppressors isn't new, and there are a lot of opportunities for white women to act in fucked up ways (eg Karens), and for people to treat white women in fucked up ways. She was probably chosen to be specifically humiliated and brutalized because of Missing White Woman Syndrome, and it's playing out as they expected - which will embolden them to do it again.

Attributing our concern to her whiteness racializes and politicizes her humiliation but it's still a disgusting humiliation and brutalization.

By citing the MWWS without context, the implication is that we should be ashamed for our concern, as though we only care because she's white - a statement that is, for me anyway, and I think for more and more people these days, false - but it's irrelevant - MWWS is a phenomenon, but she was a person. Her treatment was disgusting and trying to undermine legitimate shock and disgust is cruel.

While MWWS and the politics of white femininity are important (and specifically caused this woman's uniquely horrific treatment), it doesn't help to discuss them in the aftermath of specific horrors, and trying to shame people for feeling disgusted by disgusting behavior is, well, it's why you're being downvoted. The point of equality isn't to treat privileged people worse, it's to treat underprivileged people better.

Why? He has no linguistic expertise, and he didn't have the perspective of the format's popularity when he made that decree. And his decision was based on intentionally infringing on copyright. And it intentionally goes against the intuitive pronunciation. And the term "gif" now even refers to files that aren't even .gif - it's way past him.

This may sound harsh, and I want to acknowledge that he did something really awesome - but the Jif pronunciation will not survive once he, as a person, is forgotten. But the format will. It's not his anymore.