The references in that video contradict its own content.
There is no evidence, historical or contemporary, of a society in which barter is the main mode of exchange;[27][26] instead, non-monetary societies operated largely along the principles of gift economy and debt.[25][24] When barter did in fact occur, it was usually between either complete strangers or potential enemies.[29]
The documentary “Finding The Money” has a takedown of this exact myth (Link to timestamp)
Not exactly. If you’re interested in the history of money and how it works, you should check out Finding The Money
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Don’t trust internet strangers to weigh in on this. Talk to a therapist or someone you trust to thoroughly consider the details that you haven’t (and shouldn’t) share here. Without the details, we’re just guessing, but even then a single post-and-reply exchange is not a good substitute for a full IRL conversation.
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Season 2 is coming! Probably late 2026.
It’s Common Side Effects IRL
Oh there’s lots of trans people in orchestra
Conceptual analysis of proximity isn’t exactly what I expected to see when I joined Lemmy
But it’s… 😎 close
Gamehub Lite is pretty wild. It does take some fiddling, but it’s amazing how well (and relatively easily) you can get x86 Windows games to run on a $200 ARM Android device.
I’m 12/13 so far on getting games to work at an acceptable level.
Inexplicably, Vampire Survivors causes the entire device to crash. I guess they pull some pretty silly memory tricks to keep that game responsive with potentially hundreds of thousands of projectiles, so maybe it’s not so surprising.
Be really obnoxious about the ballot format in the Florida 2000 election until they either fix it or news outlets do a good job educating people about how to correctly vote for Gore
“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: we’ve been too naive. We’ve left children’s digital lives to platforms that never had their wellbeing in mind. We must move from digital captivity to community.”
Powerful words.
Small question: Why are you giving these horrible platforms more leverage over their digital captives instead of just banning them or outlawing the worst parts of their business models?
I’d settle for just requiring interoperability. Seems like a reasonable requirement for a government to demand the ability to change vendors.
We have that requirement when it comes to munitions. You’re not allowed to sell the military a gun for which you are the only ammo manufacturer.
A side effect would probably be that more commercial software would be interoperable as a result, just because it’s easier for the vendors to maintain a single product rather than wildly different variants.
Intersex is pretty common. She might know that she falls into that category and doesn’t want to provoke a debate which may go against her.
Buuut we should probably have that debate. The sooner a major athletic org has to admit that a strict gender binary is untenable, the sooner we can bulldoze that talking point from transphobes’ scripts.
Basically: signal-to-noise ratio
Cory Doctorow explains it better than I can: https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/25/communicative-intent/
Okay, question to people on Lemmy: What’s the right community for asking questions about Lemmy?
Money is fine. Financialization is not.