true kindness would be to not demonise and ban entheogentic medicines with thousands of years of contemporary peer review in the sickening pursuit of corporate greed
ganymede
cos nothing proves "microsoft <3 opensource" like releasing a project over ⅓ of a century old
i agree with everything you've said including your links between causation etc
except the final link you make that its the consumer, i note you said 'partly' a consumer issue, so its not a full attribution - perhaps i'm misinterpreting what % you're attributing.
tbh my take is alot of people would like an option between paying $2 for a garment they know involved exploitation/slavery vs an accessible^1^ independent option that doesn't cost $500/garment.
i don't think people are still choosing the $2 option because they're ok with slavery. but (tragically?) they're more ok with someone else being the slave vs them being the slave - which is what they'd basically be if every piece of clothing cost them $500.
and i think we know the reason there's very little accessible options in between is because the game is rigged, you (HelixDab2) can't realistically enter the game without serious capital behind you (ie. wealth/connections) to reach the volume prices which might give us an option in between - the market isn't fair, its been stitched up long ago, by the same people who don't produce anything and greedily skim off the top.
the venn diagram of independent designers fairly charging $500 for their labor and the greedy skimmers getting fat without producing anything themselves is two separate circles - they're worlds apart
^1^ Quick note on accessibility, there are ofc some scant options between $2-500, but what isn't clear (ie. readily accessible) to the consumer is which of those options isn't just some greedy bastard buying a $2 option and selling it on for $15.
I love the way you think.
In other words its not because of the consumers, but because of the greedy skimming off the top.
have you checked out freecad?
for the pricetag ($0) i'm pretty impressed
great news, openai keeps getting more open by the minute
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they're just projecting their own tactics on you.
they're the one moving the goalposts with that laughable brad pitt bs.
the mental gymnastics you go through to parrot corporate propaganda is honestly just astonishing
its not the actual money laundering they object to.
it's that they didn't get a cut.
if you wanna continue to embarrass yourself go ahead. i won't be entertaining this sad display any longer.
anyone is free to search the thread and read what i wrote in the full context it was stated.
and to see your blatant dishonesty.
good luck mate, i hope you find some kind of peace to whatever is keeping you so fixated about windows users that you need to fabricate an enemy in me over that aspect, despite me clearly and repeatedly denouncing it from day 1 of this discussion. all the best.
and probably have some of the most depraved porn habits imaginable