Well the original poster wasn't necessarily positing a completely non-capitalist system:

I would say a Democratic Socialist capitalism is certainly "patched", and different, from the American system.

Generally the response to this is normally "any Scandinavian country". But usually what then happens is a bunch of excuses why they don't count for some reason.

Fuck, that's the only evidence you're using? That she's gay?

You really are the bottom of the pile, aren't you?

For most of human history people were traded too. "because things happened in the past" is a terrible justification.

Good information to learn though, isn't it? So worth spreading for learning? You seem to be suggesting it shouldn't be said. The baby boomer needs to gatekeep even more things?

apart from anyone younger than you that you desperately search for reasons to feel superior to.

https://xkcd.com/2165/

I would agree with you for previous iterations, but the RPi 4 with 4GB of RAM is pretty capable, I've been using it for the last few days and it's really been fine. Which isn't something I would have said previously.

*exactly*, this whole endeavour has traction because we think we're above Europe, better than them intrinsically and therefore just need to present ourselves to the rest of the world and they will be falling over themselves to give us favourable terms. And in reality the world is going "meh" and getting on with their more important things.

As a Brit who is in a country still struggling to deal with this exact process (we're just about 100 years ahead of the US, well into the decline) I'm afraid I have to tell you it will not be pretty... The exact qualities that got you power (aside from good fortune) of care and attention and dedication, are the ones that get forgotten, replaced by a belief in your own bullshit. That you deserve to be there, that you're somehow better than everyone else. And while you're there patting yourself on the back, all the other countries eat your lunch.

Oh dear did the word trigger you?

Tools can be used for different purposes or by different people, and therefore need to be designed differently. We're happy enough with different PC layouts, some people like trackpads, some people prefer mice. Why are phones one-design-fits-all? Depends on what you want to do with your phone - one solution doesn't fit all.

I always find these discussions really interesting because living in the UK, and being a relatively slutty / successful employee / contractor means I've been in a *lot* of offices over the last couple of decades, I've *never* seen a cubical. Everywhere is open plan.

I pine for some privacy... but I can't afford to hate the setup here, it's all that is available...

I'm intrigued... what do you trust for information? Because you have to trust somebody, though I get your concern, if ad-sponsored & subscriber-funded sources are out... what is in?

Who says you published it? Your smug superior argument falls down when someone else takes a photo of you and posts it. You didn't take the photo, you didn't give consent, yet there you are, for all to see, recognise, track, whatever. Even if you did, is it reasonable to expect everyone to have always understood the consequences of data sharing? The internet never forgets, so anything you did a decade ago when the net was a different animal still affects you now.

Our laws and social norms are *not* built to deal with this, we are going to have to change them to keep up. And yes that might mean (horror of horror) new laws around privacy and data.

Still no constructive ideas from you though.

Wow you Godwinned that really quickly.

Assuming you accept that climate is being damaged by carbon emissions (if you don't then we have nothing to say further), what would your solution be then? Because if the cost of your feint vague fascism worry is mass migration, starvation, disease, etc, you're gonna have to come up with a better trade-off.