It won’t be a better world if there’s no private property or freedom of speech or freedom to breed or freedom of thought.

The instant these freedoms are forfeited, the world becomes worse.

To your second point, I think you’re somewhat right about that. However it’s a weird mix of traditional Republican values and this new Nationalism. Republicans were traditionally for a small federal government (except military of course)

That Trump is neither conservative (in any way) nor cares at all about any traditional Republican values

You could never wear socks because your feet would get diseased.

FWIW, I haven’t had a job that didn’t have all those things since I was 16. I am in the US.

It’s not hard to find jobs that have all those things. But you have to be choosey.

Any scene where people talk in the prequels.

Old. No.

lemm.ee and lemmy.one have a bunch of good communities. The star trek communities are on their own instance.

So yes. There’s a ton of important and good communities that aren’t on the two biggest instances. I mean… This is the nature of federation

D and D character

Almost all ‘new’ ideas borrow from old ideas. If we don’t count Star Wars, then there’s nothing we can count.

Yup. Also the more blonde / light brown hair color the better gold looks on you than silver.

Also, I really like how dark skin and black hair look with gold.

So for me, it’s really the medium to dark brown hair and maybe really fair skin goes well with silver.

That’s just my personal preference of course.

But on like cars and stuff? Gold is hideous.

Yeah but it’s not like that can’t happen on Lemmy.

I happen to like !whatcouldgowrong@lemm.ee

Probably because I am a mod there. :-)

Clearly it’s !whatcouldgowrong@lemm.ee

Or drug money from selling to a foreign country

But that’s not what happens.

Greatest recent example is Elizabeth Warren. She supposedly wasn’t going to bow down to the big banks and wrote legislation to “help” the consumer. All she did was end up writing legislation that the big banks highly approved of, killed off many of the smaller banks and made banking way less competitive so that the consumers are suffering.

But if you get a coalition (example ICANN) to regulate stuff, you’ll get a better mix of both small and large companies.

And we’ve seen too much industry manipulation in government too.

But the big companies turning their platforms into absolute crap isn’t actually a problem for the industry. Other players will rise up (such as lemmy, kbin, mastodon, and other non activity pub sites) and make good platforms.

Regulation should come from the industry not the legislators. Legislators don’t know enough about it anyway and will end up just getting the biggest players to write it anyway.

But if the industry does it, certification would be voluntary and it would be transparent who wrote the regulation. Much easier for smaller players to contribute and shape it.

And the best part is that if it sucks, they don’t have to participate. And then they can try again

Ventura here

I don’t get to do it much anymore, but watching cartoons on Saturday morning.