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god, I switched from Husky to Tusky and now everything is buggy.... is there any good fedi client that "just works" ?

I am jesus *starts civil war*

online Dating 101

programming is one big debate

so many arguments

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who the fuck are these people

like, they always have no post history and their first post is always in my workshop discussions

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@d @chjara @terryenglish im not saying it’s never corrupt just that both are usually done for the wrong reasons in most countries with developed countries being a notable exception and even then you still have corruption sometimes

@d @chjara @terryenglish deregulation tends to be done with the goal with offload assets to the political elites’ buddies in most countries and even in the developed world like with the electricity market it can end up doing more harm than good and that’s why most people have a negative reaction to the term deregulation which is why when anyone talks about deregulation it’s important to ask for further details

@d @terryenglish @chjara wealthy oligarchs swooped in and bought all state assets after they were privatised along with other things

@terryenglish @chjara @d that’s why just changing policies alone is no and you need a complete overhaul of the governance system to mute the impact of wealth on elections and provide an environment in which multiple actors can compete to form the government or just be lucky and have a benevolent dictator

@terryenglish @d @chjara it depends on what the government doing deregulation is aiming for is it removing environmental regulation because big oil is lobbying for it or is it removing unfair advantages granted to state owned enterprises. I don’t think any sensible person would say that there’s no corruption in market systems but if you look at countries with freer economies they have citizens with much better living conditions.The UN is a really terrible organisation reforming it to be functional would take god knows how long and it would take probably centuries for it to gain all the trust it has lost to people who think we need it never mind the people who aren’t sympathetic to organisations like it.