The question is: can a wealthy philantropist do more good than a wealthy psychopath can do harm? Buying cars is not really bad per se, it just shows they don’t care for anything but themselves. Spending money on research to solve global warming on the other hand…

Edit: I’m just playing devils advocat. I know it is no solution to all our problems and I hate cumulation of wealth in the hands of a few. But thats the world we live in and I just try to find a silver lining.

I believe it’s peer pressure once you have that kind of money. They are so far from reality they just don’t think about it. All their cocaine-buddies ramble about how they “deserve it” to throw money out of the window, they worked so hard yadda-yadda.

It’s bonkers. But I also never had that kind of money. Maybe we would all do the same thing?

Some for politics, some for growing, some for the music. Growmies don’t want to discuss politics, they want to share pics and knowledge. Some vapers never grow but want to showcase their DIY-vape.

We have a thousand communities about computers, whats up with that 😜

Cannabis-related communities:

English:

• !trees@lemmy.world
• !marijuanalovers@lemmy.zip
• !cannabiscultivation@slrpnk.net
• !weedtime@lemmy.world
• !vaporents@lemmy.world
• !stoner_rock@sh.itjust.works

German:

• !cannabis@feddit.org
• !bubatzgartenclub@lemmy.world
• !hanfanbau@feddit.de

NOOOOOO

Bazzite is awesome. Installed it yesterday, first “distro” that just works with everything out of the box, including Logitech Keyboard/Mouse and fan control. Had to switch to X11 with dual monitor setup and nvidia, but anything else is just smooth. No tinkering, no going back because that one programm doesn’t work properly. Love it!

We are way past that. Björn Höcke, AfD führer-in-spe, went to court to test what he could say. He got away with a wrist slap.

I’m using e/OS - the operating system with the most annoying name - for ~5 years now with my Fairphones. Banking works, App Lounge is anonymous and it syncs everything with my Nextcloud. I really like it.

Should have asked the Swiss, they probably know how to drill holes in rocks. Don’t need a startup for that…

Or the war on drugs

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It’s 2024 and we still have news about these “security problems”?

That Zhang guy can only hope not to go to jail anytime soon. Every prisoner who knew about that password wants to have “the talk” with him. Snitches get stitches…

How can we control a kindergartener with unlimited money and ressources just to, you know, make sure they don’t destroy everything around them? Like little kids do?

That is my biggest fear for our future. It’s not a grumpy AI-engineer or evil dictator who wants to destroy humanity. It’s a handful of people with unlimited ressources who can decide if we go forward or not. And total power corrupts, that’s just a fact.