Yes.

There’s always demand for heroin too. Demand doesn’t mean it’s good.

No, I disagree with the “sometimes”.

I’m not like, attending a protest rally or anything. I think it’s perfectly fine to spend literally 7 minutes of my day telling people that this movie is shit.

You “no one should ever express disagreement with anything” people need to chill.

Fuck you, minecraft is excellent. You just don’t like it because it’s popular.

This movie is bullshit but minecraft is excellent.

Yes a thousand percent. You can entertain young children by showing a dancing clown on a colorful flashing screen for 3 hours straight. Kids will love it. But that doesn’t make it a good movie.

A good kids movie is not a movie that appeals to kids. It’s a good movie that also appeals to kids.

Depends on your location. Good Samaritan laws vary widely.

More like helping fix a problem they caused in the first place, but yeah.

It’s usually not that much extra effort to take the carcass and bring it to a butcher, so they do that sometimes. But yeah. Often, just leave it.

It’s actually not all that bad because we have a lack of natural predators (because we already hunted them almost to extinction) so hunting keeps the deer population from exploding.

In my country it’s mostly done for fun.

Would only work if you also made them immune from lawsuits due to people getting sick from eating expired food.

You’re being obtuse.

More of an accusation than an assertion.

That’s what I meant by causality. Pro-americanism and anti-americanism are not inherently dogmatic. It’s just that the anti-american sentiments I see on lemmy are usually dogmatic. It’s an observational theorem, not a derived one.

Sure I can downland a thing. But what can I DO with it?

You declared a causality that I did not intend to imply.

The source code is open and free, ergo people can do what they want.

You really don’t see the parallels between this statement and “anyone can become a millionaire”?

Not everyone has the opportunity or the skillset to “do what they want” with the source code. I’m not a coder. How can I do whatever I want? I’m beholden to the structures that other people build.

Straw man. Or misunderstanding.

Me? Just now?

There’s no monetary profit, but I could absolutely see competition for whose ideas gain the most support.

And the Fediverse does not collectively own all the instances. Each instance is created and supported by an individual or small group of individuals.

You can even see the failures of unregulated capitslism in how lemmy (especially lemmy.ml and lemmy.world) are consolidating users and engagement. Unregulated capitalism trends towards monopoly.

It’s an extremely apt metaphor for capitalism.