SreudianFlip
@SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh 5 days ago:
She is not creating the system, but is in fact reinforcing it. It is by definition undemocratic.
I am glad she’s shedding the capital, but be real, she’s never going to shed enough to come back to the realm of ordinary humans. She married an oligarch, and by being an oligarch that temporarily embarrassed billionaires such as yourself stan for, she is a shining beacon of justification for the system as it is.
I hope that once I achieve oligarch status myself, that you and I can carry on this deep conversation!
- Comment on Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh 5 days ago:
Uh, copypasta? Trolling?
- Comment on Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh 5 days ago:
She’s unelected, and dictates the disbursement of a great deal of unearned funds.
Big picture, no nuance needed: it’s feudalist to let her make these decisions.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
so as a citizen, besides not buying their shit slurry, what is there to actually do about it more actively
Well there’s a vast landscape between ‘citizen’ and ‘not buying’!
As a participant in state and local politics, you do what you can. I learned during years of NGO work that the longest lever for the non-owner class is policy.
That means working on specific issues by directing persuasion to policy makers, and often you catch those flies with honey. Appeal to the cooperative side of politicians and bureaucrats, make them feel like leaders and other ego things. Also, usually, pressuring with risks, like looming financial or political losses. This seems like very unsatisfying work because it is far from the front lines and providing direct relief, but systemic change is easier when protests aren’t necessary.
Meanwhile it’s also possible to start the Transition to a new economy, without fuss. Cooperatives are all around you, join them. Find every little opportunity for mutual aid, and take them when you can. Make non-commercial transactions normal. Participate in repair cafés, and develop thrift economy, like clothing exchanges and toolshares and small buying clubs. Electrify and find more efficiency. Group study. Build small organizations and ventures.
And crucially, participate in a little Direct Action, for your sanity and honour. What that means, whether it’s food charity or illicit art, is unique to you.
- Comment on I CAN'T go outside without permission - is there any way I can help fight for a better world from the comfort of my bedroom? 2 weeks ago:
Antonio Gramsci is pretty relevant lately.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 2 weeks ago:
cf. Children of Men
- Comment on Tips for moving from TrueNAS to Debian for a NAS? 3 weeks ago:
Again not reading what I wrote FFS! I did not call you uneducated but said you were kneejerking then said you are being anxious, because you were not reading the comment and making it about you instead of the previous commenter. It’s not an insult.
- Comment on Tips for moving from TrueNAS to Debian for a NAS? 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t even imply that, so I will now call you anxious.
I was defending people who write well and craft long detailed answers. Read it again.
- Comment on Tips for moving from TrueNAS to Debian for a NAS? 3 weeks ago:
Come on, some of us paid attention in school and actually format things properly while using decent grammar. Bonus if you’re an organized thinker. Definitely a touch grass moment, the internet is wearing on you.
- Comment on Be fabulous 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, sure, fuck the yank dominance of topics.
To be clear, though, this is a shitpost about how you can’t escape authoritarianism no matter your creed or country. Buckle up kids.
- Comment on Be fabulous 3 weeks ago:
Yep it’s just memes all the way down…
To material conditions
- Comment on Be fabulous 3 weeks ago:
Authorities gonna roll wherever they be
Different shoes toe the same lines
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- Comment on I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany 3 weeks ago:
Those are good points but Torino as Turin is complicated, some folks there still call it that in dialect etc. and historically, run by the Lombards and all that.
English is terrible at this, Venice is Venezia, if you can say pizza you can say that.
- Comment on Off the Rails 4 weeks ago:
OK but no-one knows for certain.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 5 weeks ago:
I started by swapping floppies for PS 1.0, and used it professionally since.
Cut the umbilical last year. To replace it I need a few programs for different aspects of what PS did for my workflow, and it’s not 100%, but close, it’s waywayway cheaper, and now I can pollute my RAM with all kinds of tools at once without swap loading up hard.
Affinity did a pretty good job with muscle memory for switchers, though I don’t rely on it as much as I expected.
- Comment on Why do we produce so much porn? 1 month ago:
Indeed
- Comment on Why do we produce so much porn? 1 month ago:
Oh, read some Octavia Butler then! Brilliant and, well, kinda what you just said. The Xenogenesis series.
- Comment on Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting 1 month ago:
groak is your password too?
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month ago:
Sam_Bass’s comments are mainly mildly contemptuous one-liners. Condescending is part of the persona, and when others interpret that manner as right wing, it seems to affirm sam’s misanthropy.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month ago:
I fully believe that you are antifascist in sentiment. I also see that you are asking people to show some skepticism about media that is obscure in origin and used to evoke strong feelings.
I was a media literacy activist for decades and this was one of the basic points, that framing can reverse the meaning of an image or video or even story. So you are essentially just asking people to show a little media literacy, which is laudable.
Your manner of argument, in a highly charged subject, is tone deaf, which is what seems to have triggered the downvotes. Righteousness is druglike, the veracity of the recorded action is immaterial, and we all need the narrative that punching nazis is normal. Plus, actual nazi propaganda techniques include sowing doubt about their existence, making false equivalencies, minimizing their transgressions, etc., and the tone deaf manner made it look like you were doing that.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month ago:
You know, the subcontinent has around a billion people on it? Who see it scattered all around, for thousands of years.
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 1 month ago:
I guess foggy there means it’s “mildly” xenophobic when you don’t bother to get someone’s name right.
A lot of names got changed during immigration due to wilful xenophobia last century, for example. Xenakis to Johnson, etc.
Structural linguistic problems like not having notation for foreign pronunciation isn’t necessarily xenophobic, but failure to address the problem might be.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 month ago:
Well, for one thing, the supply of googly eyes will run out and you will have to adapt.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 month ago:
Gold is good as notation for big things, like an excavator and a dozen barrels of diesel. You can’t trade that shit for cucumbers and canned tuna.
You can use gold as an excellent long lasting conductor for electric equipment. You can make it very thin. It would make a comeback in basic dentistry, as you can actually eat it: it’s non-poisonous. Doesn’t tarnish. A smith can do a lot with gold.
Gold is a resource. That said, I don’t have any right now. Just some silver coins, and some packaged goods like knives and flour mills (business leftovers). Given the market insecurities now and gold’s all time high price, wish I did.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 1 month ago:
To clarify, when people colloquially refer to “the collapse of society” they don’t mean that all forms of society would cease to exist, but the failure of the nation state, or possibly the international order, and the long supply chains that go with it. Etc.
So society at various scales would still exist, in overlapping ways and jurisdictions. Basic units like neighbourhoods and firefighters and towns and regions would be organizing based on the old rules and adapting. People organize well in the absence of warlords, so that and extinction events are the threats to trade.
The value of trade goods might be indeterminate if a comet wipes nearly all of us out. Otherwise, many people love to dicker and argue about the value of things, so I’m pretty confident about rare raw materials like gold having both utility value and a reasonably inflated exchange value in a prolonged regional or international crisis.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 month ago:
Al is a pretty good guy but he can’t be everywhere. Maybe he can use some A.I. to help!
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 month ago:
Yes, and that’s exactly what everyone forgets about automating cognitive work. Knowledge needs to be intergenerational or we lose it.
If you have no junior developers, who will turn into senior developers later on?
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 1 month ago:
I wasn’t familiar with those two products so I Gurgled them and the search results were… interesting.
- Comment on Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds 2 months ago:
It was off, it’s LTT. It was intertainment with some interview.
Still, L.T. had fascinating things to say, and a refreshing down-to-earth outlook on things like data storage (keeps no files really, just uploads to git and lets others worry about whether it’s worth saving or not), a.i. (important, somewhat inevitable, overblown hype, horrible business practices), and how he geeks out playing with hardware designs for things that are completely out of his expertise so it’s low stress (e.g. guitar effect pedals but he doesn’t play).
