Schmoo

@Schmoo@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Aside from being reductive, yes, I’m an anarchist. I’m not opposed to writing down some rules, but I am opposed to the coercive use of force to impose them on others. It is possible to organize a system of preventative and restorative justice without the use of a hierarchy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is where we disagree. Because, to me, thinking that every single lawmaker in the history of humanity (we have laws that date back thousands of years and are just copy-pasted between countries) was writing laws with malicious intent is some form of paranoidal insanity on par with “lizard people are controlling the government”.

  It’s not about the intent of each individual cog involved in the creation and application of the law, but the intent for which the system of laws and hierarchies were created. Plenty of reform-minded people or naive pro-establishment folks participate in the legal system with good intentions, and sometimes find success reducing the harm that it causes, but that doesn’t change that the system continues to uphold class society and was created for that purpose. The effect of our system of laws and hierarchical institutions is the preservation of a system of division between distinct classes, and since I have yet to see a legal system that does not do this in some form I have concluded that this is the fundamental nature of laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All of those laws are unequally enforced. Anti money laundering laws are applied only to the subjugated socioeconomic group (drug dealers belonging to the working class, etc.). The dominant socioeconomic group gets their children protected, their rape victims to receive justice, their human rights defended. The subjugated socioeconomic group rarely benefits from these laws, which is why thousands of rape kits sit in warehouses never being investigated, why children born into poverty are more often separated from their parents and institutionalized rather than receiving the help they need, and why human rights are routinely violated without consequence.

  The people making such laws can sometimes intend for them to be universal, but such people fundamentally misunderstand the nature of laws, and it never quite pans out that way in practice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The law is extremely clear in this regard - the ICE dude murdered a person for no reason. The rules on the use of deadly force literally use a moving car as an example of when not to use deadly force - as long as there are “other defence options, such as moving out of the way”.

  When the people tasked with upholding the law consistently disregard it in particular circumstances - as they do when it comes to abuse of power by law enforcement - that law only exists in the circumstances in which it is consistently applied. Things like qualified immunity have effectively nullified any law that ostensibly holds law enforcement accountable. The law does not exist for any other purpose except to protect the dominant socioeconomic group in a given country without binding them, while binding the subjugated socioeconomic group without protecting them. Who is in which group is dynamic and always subject to change, but this rule almost always holds except in cases where very skilled lawyers are able to argue in court that someone in the latter group actually belongs to the former in some specific circumstance. That is the law being used for something that it was not designed to do, a bit like an exploit in a video game soon to be patched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh you misunderstand, he knows the law well. He just knows how to use it as a tool to protect the elites from accountability and as a bludgeon to punish the people for non-compliance, as well as how to make sure that never gets flipped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yummy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Neck-deep in liquid mercury wearing tungsten shoes is how I do my morning workout. Better gains than the Dragon Ball gravity chamber.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this even a question?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the kind of thing the blazed out of his mind guy sitting next to you at the Waffle House at 3am says to you unprompted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reduce the crime rate to 0⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m familiar enough with right wing misinformation to know that immigrants being responsible for increased crime - and even that crime is increasing at all - is an entirely fabricated narrative in the US. I confess not being familiar with the situation in Sweden, but I can recognize the same false narrative reflected in your previous comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reduce the crime rate to 0⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as you continue to blame all of your country’s problems on Muslims you will never have the understanding needed to actually fix them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that annas archive exists despite how fucked up everything is right now gives me hope. Every time I start to feel cynical about the future I remind myself that there’s people out there working to preserve the art and culture of our modern era with all the most powerful corporations and governments working against them, and they’re succeeding.

  Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because Dems are capitalists and always have been. Even when they had the support of powerful unions it was only the class collaborationist unions, never radical unions. The Dems were social democrats when there was a strong socialist movement that threatened capital interests, making it necessary for the capital owners to co-opt and redirect it. FDR implemented his reforms in the interest of preserving capitalism, not for the benefit of the working class. He saved the ruling elites from their own hubris, and they hated him for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just the imperialists telling on themselves. They don’t consider what is Taiwan’s as Taiwan’s, but as being made exclusively for the US’ benefit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨life hack⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those who do not have fat baby JD Vance memes in their gallery will be denied admission.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone eating that much THC has been working their way up to that for a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uncharacteristically self-aware of you to post this in the shitpost community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate how inescapable politics are on Lemmy, but ya know, at least nobody's constantly asking how I wipe my butt or pick up my dog's poop then completely ignoring me when I try to answer.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Trump administration literally sold merch at the front gate of one such camp in Florida. Old prisons are being reopened and new ones are being built to hold all the new ICE detainees, and they throw them all together in a cell with deportation papers in the middle of the room hoping they’ll give up and sign to be willingly deported. ICE now has massive deportation quotas that they’re being pushed to meet.

  The above doesn’t even scrape the iceberg of everything that’s been happening. Your confident ignorance betrays your stupidity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The placebo rage bait effect works even on those who are aware that it’s placebo rage bait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crazed gamer plays Minecraft using a receipt printer as a display — crippling 0.5 fps frame rate not even the biggest drawback⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Crazed gamer now wears thigh-highs because the BPA and BPS coating on the receipt paper mimics estrogen in the body and is absorbed through the skin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why the real poverty line is $140,000, this strategist argues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to remember that a lot of people weren’t working or getting paid either, so even though their expenses went down many were still struggling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm cooked, chat.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Losing mine at 26. Yay!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their name⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Mutual aid” is not trademarked and if anyone attempts it I’m going postal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to know some specifics. For one, where is this charter you mentioned? Another, is there some kind of technology that you’re attempting to pitch to activist groups or are you just describing organizational strategies using computer science jargon? If there is actually something tangible that you’re presenting here then your communication skills need some serious work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If this is meant to be a call to action it contains way too much technical jargon and not enough straightforward instruction. What is it you expect people to do after reading this? You can’t recruit people to prefigure a new society by just describing how you expect it to work, you need to give clear instructions and concrete steps that can be taken.

  The way you’ve written this sounds more like a pitch for a crypto scam than a political project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no my harvest is too bountiful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now go further back. Where does the latin word nucula come from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Topology is one of those sciences that is hyper-niche to the point that it seems like it would have very limited scope, but when you take a closer look it’s actually studying something fundamental.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the biggest predictor of whether people will vibe with Outer Wilds is how much natural curiosity they have and how self-motivated they are. Outer Wilds doesn’t push players towards any particular objective, it instead tries to give players questions so they go looking for answers. Of course a game that relies so heavily on intrinsic motivation isn’t going to be for everyone, but the thing that makes the game so difficult for some people to get into is the same thing that makes those who do get into it love it so much.

  Some non-spoilery advice if you decide to give it another shot:

  Use the ship log every loop and read what’s new. Look at the biggest cards in rumor mode and try to find them. There are several “secret” locations in the game that many of the hints point towards which contain information that puts the game’s mystery into perspective and gives players a sense of direction and purpose. In the playthroughs I’ve seen where they didn’t finish it was almost always because they played for a long time without finding any of the “big” secret locations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also the origin of some anti-semitic tropes. After Christianity rose to prominence in the Roman Empire, Christians considered lending money with interest to be a sin, so they were forbidden from working related jobs. This resulted in Jews, who were forbidden from owning land and many other professions, taking up the role of merchants, money lenders, and tax collectors. In the Christian view of the time, they were doing the “dirty work” because they were immoral and sinful, and the nature of the work made them easy scapegoats for many of society’s ills. The reputation has followed Jews into modernity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1919 (correctly)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad’s ringtone is a motorcycle engine revving at max volume, and he never silences it. He also just lets it ring when he doesn’t want to answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explain that⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally after seeing it a couple times I can read it naturally, but I can see how that’s not the case for everyone. I think the fear of difference and assumption that it’s for attention are big reasons for the hate, but I have another theory as well. I think a lot of people use the threadiverse in a similar way to Tiktok, moving quickly from post to post and skimming comments mindlessly such that they get very annoyed when they come across something that breaks their flow. You’re interrupting their dopamine stream and that makes them cranky, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m no scientist but I think it would take an absurd and unrealistic amount of these to have any sort of noticeable effect on average wind speeds.