Soggy
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- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 3 hours ago:
Education existed before capitalism. Or are you going to tell me that Socrates was an industrial shill?
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 3 days ago:
When was the last time Randy Pitchford got through a day without being a prick?
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 4 days ago:
They don’t just put it in there for fun, you can bet that milk powder affects the eating experience in a way most people enjoy. Snack companies invest a ton of money refining every nuance of their recipes.
Very nice supervisor though, the everyday compassion makes big impact.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 4 days ago:
(Beans are technically seeds, the pod/shell they grow in is the fruit. -botany)
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 4 days ago:
That doesn’t seem to be true. Patents are listed foremost among types of IP in multiple sources.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 5 days ago:
How are patents not intellectual property?
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 5 days ago:
cough UBI cough
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 6 days ago:
My point is that people make stuff even without a profit incentive.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 6 days ago:
Pretty neat how capitalists invented art and it isn’t at all an intrinsic part of the human experience since at least 40,000 years ago.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 1 week ago:
Why come you don’t have a tattoo?
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 1 week ago:
Probably. Reasonable storefronts are the only thing keeping the warez at bay.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 1 week ago:
They want fuckin 40 bucks for a vinyl these days and they don’t even throw in a digital download for that price, and the radio is owned by like three companies unless you live near a college station.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 2 weeks ago:
Gaben is gonna be the first person to digitally upload their consciousness.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 2 weeks ago:
You know, in a few hundred thousand years.
- Comment on Constitutional right to a wild garden with weeds and bees to be tested in Ontario court 2 weeks ago:
Tell that to the noxious invasives.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Latency is horrific though.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 3 weeks ago:
Many game communities have opted for the “unbridled vandalism” strategy to push people away from fandom. Just replace all the articles with plausible lies.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’ll happily blame all religion, thank you. Nobody should build a worldview where an unaccountable (and imperceptible) third party is responsible for moral decisions.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 4 weeks ago:
Size only really matters if you’re using the map for overland navigation. (And it’s quite telling that the project is just injecting their own bias instead of actually pushing for accurate representation.)
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 1 month ago:
Good luck, I’m behind 7 proxies.
- Comment on Ancient food are absurdly complicated. 2 months ago:
Probably some variation of “fuck I’m hungry”
It’s a great motivator.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 months ago:
My position is that people are selfish because they’re raised in a society that rewards selfishness. There’s always going to be outliers but that’s the goal of vanguardism: someone needs to steer the ship while the generational change happens. I don’t know if that’s the best path forward but it is a path and might work better with more safeguards against a Stalin or Mao or Pol Pot type but that’s a hard conversation to have when people aren’t willing to to consider any element of communism.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 months ago:
At no point in here have I said that Russia isn’t a fascist state. It checks all the boxes: violent, authoritarian, nationalist, suppressing minorities and marginalized groups, single party, lots of corruption. You’re confusing my Communist sympathies with uncritical support for the modern regime dressed in red.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 months ago:
Well that’s easy, I don’t. Looking at the actions of Putin or Xi Jinping and saying “this is a communist state that I fully endorse” doesn’t make sense to me. But I think there’s a lot of people that look at those countries through the historical lens and resonate with the aspirations and ideals of Marx and Lenin and other political thinkers of the era and get wrapped up in the association. And America has made it really easy to bash America, that tends to land you among modern and historical rivals.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 months ago:
I think you’re losing some nuance but yeah “anything that goes against US interests is the priority” is a real problem in some leftist spaces (I was banned from /r/latestagecommunism for suggesting that maybe the things we hear about North Korea aren’t just Western lies to discredit a true Communist state.) Of the “big three” I see the most of that on lemmygrad so I don’t bother.
But there’s a scale of uncritical support and I think people use “tankie” a little too broadly to dismiss people rather than consider the different facets of belief. Online discourse sucks.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 months ago:
Oh it’s a terrible app, just the worst.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 months ago:
There sure is, including “vanguardism” which was what many conflate with totalitarianism because of how the Cold War shook out. Really, it was the success of anti-Communist propaganda in the Red Scares that has colored so much of our assumptions and talking points as well as the unbridled might of the American military to suppress and punish any nation that tried something other than subservience.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 months ago:
Hexbear is specifically the shitpost refuge of displaced terminally-online /r/chapotraphouse diaspora and it’s hard to parse the layers of irony and in-joke and I’m not invested enough in that community to try and fairly represent it here. I’m not surprised that people have an aversion to it but the amount of space it takes up in some people’s head here is bonkers. The goals and culture are very different than .ml.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 months ago:
At the extreme, sure. Authority/Anarchy isn’t a binary selection. (Fascism is an authoritarian position, specifically it’s a right-nationalist movement centered on cultural identity)
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 months ago:
Anarchism isn’t the only way to be a leftist.