I light highlighting in ebooks and extracting those notes. But I also pirate my ebooks, so I always have a copy. I would buy them if someone offered DRM free ebooks, but no one is willing to offer such epubs except for Kobo, in very limited selections.

I have a book quote bot: nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqp0ejzlvrcp3y9ty3pnedj5wrscl8zd6chdqep0ejwn2mdgel0ntssdzh3w

The true richest people in the world are not the Gates and Bezos and Musks ... the ones with the most power keep their wealth distributed and their names away from public scrutiny.

Okey Dokey Artichokie

Sometimes you have to try to plant a seed 🌱. I was very idealistic as a kid too, but my views grew to be more complex. If people stop talking to each other, we'll never truly grow.

Yes. Definitely. I remember back around 2009 when I had a friend who hated Wal-marts, and had stopped shopping there. But he had two kids and was like, "Over half my shopping list is $1 cheaper" and started shopping there again.

While I generally agree with the sentiment, and have lived my life by being careful who I give my money to, you can't really escape the power of advertising and economies of scale. I wrote this a while back about "voting with your dollar":

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/you-cant-vote-with-your-dollar/

Capitalism and fascism are literally two opposite things. You talk like someone who doesn't know the definition of things.

Capitalism at its core, is the ability to choose who do give your labor to in exchange for capital (it's in the name). Would you prefer feudalism? You are born into a family of accountants, therefore you will grow up to be an accountant and that is all you can ever be?

I suspect it means someone found and exploit and updated that record as a defacement/vandalism.

Capitalism shouldn't have ethics, it should be based on merit. But we don't have real free market capitalism anywhere in the world.

Any type of Inclusivity is always going to exclude people based on bigoted preferences. Inclusivity is a mantra chanted by the weak to impose their own form of othering as if it were a virtue. I wrote about it years ago:

https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/society/exclusive-inclusivity/

I can fix them make them worse

I imagine an "Is Revolver Released Yet" meme with Strongbad as P answered an e-mail "How do you type with boxing gloves on."

I think Google was the first to put "Gulf of America" on their map, although Bind/Apple have it now too.

Amazing Polly was a YouToober who was banned in 2020 and had her Twitter account removed. Her account was never restored either after trying off and on for a year:

https://rumble.com/v6i401m-hello-and-yikes.html

Twitter has never been a "free speech" platform, even under the control of the MMOPRG cheater. Musk is a technocrat, he openly censors people and he wants to chip peoples brains.

People going to BlueCry are equally retarded. I setup my own PDS and you don't have any control over anything even running your own instance. It's still an algorithmic feed from a centralized system.

You could stick in Mark Dice or Matt Walsh trolling and it'd be impossible to tell the difference. They're so retarded I want to assume that they have to be trolls.

children who were never disciplined by their parents in their lives

Are you trying to say it's full of garbage and the remnant of the BP oil spill? Is the Atlantic then the clean and pristine Sea of Pleroma?