Comment on In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico

Bojack411@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• DJDarren@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s possible to know about this while also knowing that extreme fuckery is occurring. But its not like your average Lemmy user can do anything to stop either.

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• MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Current U.S. leadership: Our billionaires are gonna be bigger than all the other billionaires in the world put together. (I honestly believe there’s an insecurity motive there: if US billionaires don’t amass significantly more wealth, they won’t be competitive in the billionaire world against outside billionaires.)

  U.S. Democracy: If one dollar = one vote, I guess we should save all that money we have been wasting on elections.

  The real reason for the surge in prosperity of the middle and lower classes after WWII: decimation of the ultra-wealthy throughout the developed world. Remember: the post WWII US income tax on the wealthy was 91% - literal decimation, for those who paid.

  wolterskluwer.com/…/whole-ball-of-tax-historical-…

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  • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    (I honestly believe there’s an insecurity motive there

    Once you have more money than you could reasonably spend in a lifetime, it just becomes another penis measuring contest for insecure manchildren.

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    • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I could see myself wanting to own multiple private islands, getting Larry Ellison to sell me Lanai is going to take a lot of money.

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  • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They also returned from the war to a much stronger welfare system.

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    • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Oh, hell yeah. My parents got 4 and 6 year college degrees based off the income of a teacher, hairdresser, mechanic, and night watchman.

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• xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  thank you, enlightened one… we are all forgetting every other crazy thing they’re doing and focusing exclusively on map apps….
  we’re all so blind, thank you for helping us see!

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• hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  What specifically do you think that OSM maintainers should be doing to stop this instead of maintaining OSM?

  Also coup has a p.

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• mPony@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  no doubt it’s all been squirrelled away into crypto. They’ll have fun trying to hold the guy accountable. Oh wait, no, accountability is for the poors.
  Anyway, enjoy the sound of the keys jingling, folks

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