I’m not your fwiend, buddy!

No, and I’m not a guy. 👍

Cheers!

I think that’s interesting!

As someone who works in retail, the thing that pisses me off frankly isn’t so much the stupid questions (though yes those are annoying af), it’s the fact that most of the time customers don’t even attempt to figure it out before asking. A question pops into their head and they immediately ask someone. Maybe they should try to use that brain inside of their head before bothering a severely underpaid & overworked retail worker who can barely afford food on the table before asking such an inane question.

Stupid questions don’t bother me as much when I can be assured they who are asking them at least made an attempt to figure it out on their own first.

It also doesn’t help when I’m asked the same question fifteen times in a single shift. (No, I’m not exaggerating.)

Some asshole downvoted you, so I gave you an upvote because there’s nothing wrong with admitting you don’t know something. Welcome to today’s 10 000! ^_^

As for your question, a nonprofit cannot make profit and has to work toward a societal good, while a not-for-profit also cannot make profit but is not bound to that obligation.

From this article:

While all types of nonprofit organizations share the common goal of not pursuing profits, their legal and operational characteristics can differ:

Mission: Nonprofit organizations are required to benefit the public or advance a social cause. Not-for-profit organizations, or “other nonprofits” as the IRS deems them, can also benefit the public or they may focus solely on benefiting their members.

Scale: Nonprofits are typically larger organizations that aim to fulfill a larger need, such as the American Red Cross, while not-for-profits (or “other nonprofits”) are often smaller, serving only their members, such as a social club.\

Revenue Sources: The revenue of a nonprofit organization primarily comes from donations, grants and memberships. The revenue of a not-for-profit organization (e.g., a social welfare organization, civic league, social club, labor organization, veterans’ club or business league) is mostly derived from sales and membership dues.\

Tax-Exempt Status: Nonprofits are often granted tax-exempt status under section 501©(3), while not-for-profits (or “other nonprofits” as the IRS calls them) can be tax-exempt under other 501© sections.

This is, perhaps to needless to say, a US-specific distinction and may be different or even nonexistent in other countries. :)

Cheers! <3

No problem! ^_^

Haha, no worries. Glad I could help! ^_^

It’s recommended to use CoMaps as that is the more-ethical successor to Organic Maps. (If you’re not aware, there was a problem with Organic Maps being very…non-transparent should I say, and people got fed up with it and forked the project with the intent of establishing a successor app but that was more dedicated to transparency in decision-making.

company or organization that’s not comically evil

In a capitalist system? Good luck with that.

A nonprofit organization, sure, but definitely not a company or a not-for-profit organization.

Oh, of course, I was never denying that.

Sure, just as we have small independent email instances. But by and large the vast supermajority belong to a few large players.

I have no doubt the same will happen to the Fediverse.

Capitalism ruins everything in the end.

Oh good gods I hope not. That kind of popularity is what killed Reddit.

Getting hugely popular --> Higher server costs --> Increased temptation towards profit-seeking

Sure, the whole of Lemmy wouldn’t privatize (at least at first), but what would likely happen is just as what has happened over the last 20 years with email: a few instances gets most of the traffic over the course of a decade or two, meaning small, independent instances won’t be able to compete.

Sure, their hosting ability (“users/dollar”, if you will) would plateau, but as more and more people join the big instances (think lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and so forth), the percentage of the Fediverse going to small, independent instances would increasingly get smaller, until we end up a corporatized federated Web to match our corporatized unitary Web.

Money and the power of “fuck you”.

:(

I have no opinion because “Latin Americans” are human just like me. They have the same struggles, the same worries, the same joys, the same priorities. Their game pieces are the same; it’s only where on the board they put them that’s different.

To paint a whole group of literal hundreds of millions of people spanning across a geographic region of 1½–2 continents (depending on reckoning)

and twenty countries

is utter nonsense.

Definitely just the hammer & sickle. It still very much applies.

Alternatively, though this is not strictly Communism but Socialism, I really like the common logo used for Democratic Socialism, the Fist and Rose!

I also really like the logo of the Democratic Socialists of America!

Except not all comrades are white-collar workers.

A very large number of us, believe it or not, are blue collar.

(I’m one of them.)

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I think it’s nonsense.

The “free market” is never truly free, and if there isn’t something holding the capitalist class back, they will always dominate the working class until the system just breaks. The only way for a stable society to exist is for checks and balances.

People in the European Middle Ages (5^th–15^th centuries CE, in case you’re curious) thought the earth was flat.

Because it never should’ve been made in the first place.

Like the Star Wars sequels, it was just yet another example of

• a mainstream, well-known, toe-the-line corporate Hollywood director who
• is known for making big bombastic movies that are great eye-candy but shallow stories (“a mile wide but an inch deep”),
• who aren’t actually fans of the franchise & are thus actually just outsiders to the fandom and thus don’t know what makes actual members of the fandom “tick”, what makes the content great and all that,
• and because they’re not huge fans of the franchise, rather than spend the time & energy to consume, understand, and get up to speed with all the years of varied lore (good and bad), they just go the lazy route, say “fuck it let’s just do a reboot” so they don’t have to do all the work.

It’s easy to say that the Kelvinverse is “just an alternative canon”, but that’s only because it largely flopped. If the Kelvinverse had taken off, or if Paramount had been stubborn and kept with it like Disney has with the Star Wars “Disney canon”, it would have undoubtedly been the only officially recognized canon. This is exactly what happened to Star Wars, and as it stands Legends/EU canon have only largely been kept alive by the fans, with very few exceptions (one of them being the Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO).