The problem is in the solution. Rationally, those Herdsmen need to hash out an agreementfor the fair use of that land to keep it just below it's carrying capacity.

But what really happens that some 'nobleman' declares the entire commons to belong to him and sends a goon squad to wipe out any herdsman who disagrees. He then 'allows' the herdsmen to use the land in exchange for a painfully large share of their productivity. For some reason he expects gratitude for that arrangement.

Alas, we've moved beyond even that. Now the 'nobleman', seeing that the herdsmen are making do with a smaller commons over the hill but unable to grab control of it sends his goons to salt the earth overnight so the herdsmen will have to 'rent' land from him.

But even that isn't enough for some. They want more 'rent' than any herdsman can pay while still making a living. So they leave the field fallow while trying to grab even more land. For some reason they think they can squeeze blood from a turnip.

If you find that unbelievable as an analogy, explain why there are entire blocks in NYC that haven't seen any space rented in over 10 years, yet the asking price hasn't budged even as the neighborhood has been given over to rats and junkies.

Don't reply to trolls. He wants you to reply because your comment gets modded up and that keeps his comment visible. Without your plus three comment keeping his comment visible the idea is he's putting out disappear because his low-modded comment doesn't show up on most people's screens. The mod system hides his comment as the low effort troll post it is.

Wait a little bit and let the mods do their job. Now sometimes the mods failed to do their job and sometimes sock puppets mod things up anyway. If that happens that's when you want to step in.

And remember, DEI is woke which is sjw which is PC which is desegregation.

Bankers in America at least don't really do that. What you're thinking of are large investors. People with net worth over 500 million.

Bankers just loan money. These days they don't give a shit who they loan it to as long as the loan is big and they can justify the loan to shareholders and the government. Which of course is remarkably easy because we don't regulate things properly anymore.

The banks don't care about the quality of the loans because they have set themselves up so that if they go down they take the entire world economy down with them basically meaning we are all in a hostage situation.

The same is true for those ultra wealthy investors by the way.

Thanks though are an institution rather than individuals. That's an important distinction because Banks are, or at least should be, heavily heavily heavily regulated to force them to be run safely and intelligently. The problem is we've gotten so obsessed with free market bullshit that we don't regulate things that we need to be regulating anymore.

Getting back to AI bullshit though that's going to be investors and big shareholders demanding limitless returns and line go up.

That's funny I thought they only did that in there Arcady games like NHL hits.

If you REALLY want to you can set this in pavucontrol in about twenty seconds. Should last until the browser restarts.

Might even work with pipewire if the planets are aligned.

And you can play it on mame. It didn't get released because they couldn't figure out a way to make baseball profitable in the arcade.

The problem was baseball doesn't break up into easily monetizable chunks like football and especially basketball. So it's hard to get the pacing right where you're getting a user is done before ordering every few minutes. I think older arcade baseball games could be profitable because they were much simpler, usually just boiling down the home run fests. But by the 90s people expected to play a full game.

It's also possible that those older games weren't profitable but operators didn't really notice as much. I won't say that I didn't see the ball games on the floor back in the daydidn't didn't go to arcades very often. Still it was usually football in the '80s and basketball in the 90s

Democrats are fighting for people to have health care and food. Republicans are fighting to starve children, rape children and steal our money. There is absolutely no comparison. You're comparing the Republicans who are Nazi fascists to the Democrats who are moderately competent administrators who occasionally line their own pockets a little.

This isn't 1994. Republican party went full Nazi and never looked back. There are nothing but pedophiles and Nazis now.

This is about surveillance and eliminating anonymity on the internet. A handful of victims lobbying doesn't do jack shit anymore if it ever did.

That kind of naivety is why we can't actually solve problems.

They want to dismantle capitalism and installed themselves as feudal Lords.

They are sick and tired of being dependent on consumers and employees. So they want to automate basically everything so they can eliminate virtually all employees and then keep a handful of people around to keep the machines going and then a handful of thugs to keep the engineers in line. Maybe mix in a little bit of religious zealotry and extremism. Set themselves up as gods like the emperor of Japan did maybe or the Pharaohs.

The rest of us, including you, will live in the most unimaginable abject poverty. Think like South Sudan or the remains of Gaza or the Indian reservations before the casinos. Every now and then they'll probably use drones to fire bomb us when our numbers get too high and we might pose a threat. Basically pest control.

It remains to be seen if they will pull it off they've been at it for about 60 years and so far they have achieved all of their goals. They have unlimited money and power so they never stop trying and the vast majority of us are blissfully unaware of what they're doing.

But holy fucking shit did you see those 14 trans girls playing field hockey in the midwest? Stop whatever you're doing right now and stop whatever you're thinking that is the most important thing for you to be concerned about right now.

Facebook was aware of the scams and was actively ignoring them. These are cases where they had upwards to 500 reports that the advertisements were scams, their internal checks detected they were scams and we have leaked internal communications where Facebook employees talked about them being scams.

Those leaked communications also say that they made sure to let the scams go so that they could keep getting money from them. All told 16 billion dollars.

At that point you're just plain complicit in the scam and you're committing a crime. It isn't legal to allow criminals to make use of your business when you know they are criminals. There's a wide variety of laws governing that that were put in place back in the days of the mob.

Then all the other theft combined. Look it up. Corporations steal more from you than any Petty criminal ever has or ever will.

They knew how to spot the scammers and kept taking their money. 16 billion worth

Off of the most scammiest of scam advertisements on their site. I don't mean all the other ones that are probably scams but the ones that are so obviously scams that they had been flagged hundreds of times as scams.

Some internal documents leaked where Facebook employees were talking about how they needed the extra cash to fund all the stupid AI bullshit they were doing.

The government should obviously be stepping in and investigating and regulating. It's one thing to get duped into running a scam ad it's another thing to know that you're running 16 billion dollars worth of the worst and most obvious criminals advertisements.

But fuck me laws don't matter anymore. Keep an eye on your grandparents people or your parents if your old like me. It's open season on them.

Diligence my ass. They won't do that because means testing helps dismantle programs and because they get off on hungry children.

I mean, if those 14 year old girls aren't poor and hungry then they're not going to be as impressed when a republican picks them Up in their beat up Camaro and they're not going to put out.

You're going to do a 60 minute commute one way and you're just now noticing the bridge you're stuck under is crumbling because we haven't built infrastructure in 30 years.

It's almost as if giving all of our money to the rich because we were busy being distracted by moral panics was a bad idea.

The funny thing is when I say moral panic everybody agrees with me but if I mention the specific moral panics that caused you to give all your money to the rich then everybody gets upset.