Samskara
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- Comment on I feel like half the time someone is accused of being a bot, the accuser is the bot. 16 hours ago:
People also accuse others of writing their posts using LLMs, if they use big words and write a post longer than three sentences.
- Comment on What Phone do you guys use? 16 hours ago:
iPhone 12 Pro
- Comment on What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone? 1 day ago:
Sounds like a pretty typical interaction.
- Comment on oh ok 1 day ago:
That‘s what human minds mostly do as well. The overwhelming things you think and say are things you have heard or read elsewhere. Sometimes you combine two things you learned from the outside. Sometimes you develop a thing you learned a small step further. Actual creative thoughts stemming from yourself are pretty rare.
- Comment on oh ok 1 day ago:
It has been trained to have a slave mentality.
- Comment on How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not? 1 day ago:
Don’t forget expensive schools.
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- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 day ago:
Cacti are more difficult than other plants to grow.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 2 days ago:
All community distros are someone‘s hobby.
Garuda has a very different focus than Cachy. Both are some extras on top of Arch.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Republicans have managed to create an identity of unity with MAGA. The opposition has failed to put something meaningful against that. Intersectional activism as practiced emphasizes differences and division.
The arsonists are setting fires to the kindling and abandoned buildings they find. And yes, there are also natural fires.
The situation in the US and European countries is a little different, but has parallels. Let’s go back to Sweden as an example. Post war economy is booming and hires some foreign workers from elsewhere in Europe. Racists get upset a little. Birthrates of ethnic Swedes plummet from the 1970s until today. More immigration is needed for economic reasons. Even more immigration is allowed because of moral reasoning. The society becomes divided, violent crime skyrockets, cultural clashes with new immigrants rise. The newcomers have a very different culture and value than the native Swedes. People desire stability (lagom är best). (far) right promises that. The accelerating change of demographics and populations in Europe inherently lead to instability. This is a huge problem all over Europe and not easy to solve.
If the democratic, liberal, and left forces are unable to improve the situation, people will turn to fascists. Of course capitalism, a growing device between rich and poor, deindustrialization, etc. all accelerate this as well. AI is the next big wave that might cause disruptive change on a scale unseen before. Climate change in the background isn’t doing us any favors either. We live in rapidly changing world. Humans desire stability and safety more they desire universal justice and freedom.
The (intersectional) left tries to create solidarity between very disconnected groups, leading to the unholy alliance of Islamo-gauchism we see in many countries now. For political Islam this is an alliance of convenience with useful idiots. Supporting minorities is all well and good. Dismissing the majority groups out of hand is a recipe for losing elections.
You have to convince the arsonists that fires are also bad for themselves.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
xenophobic
Nazi
Grew because the population became less homogenous.
Despite that Sweden and the Nordics are still leading in women’s equality. Have they been rolled back in a significant way over the last two decades?
Intersectionality is useful for analysis. As an activist method in practice it leads to alienating white men, oppression Olympics, purity testing, division.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Most people care about their own well-being first, yes. Caring about the well-being of groups they are not part of is a luxury for the privileged.
Hating on Republicans won’t overcome this.
- Comment on 'Cruise missile' drones and low-cost Shahed knockoffs listed on Alibaba 4 days ago:
This model looks like it could be decent.
China is leading so hard at cranking these out at scale, it will be hard to match when they actually get serious about making military drones.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Sweden is a much smaller and far more homogenous country than the US. They didn’t need intersectionality to succeed.
Sweden used to be run by the Social Democrats for decades and they have helped a lot with emancipation from the 1960s onwards. Back then Sweden was even more homogenous.
Swedish culture of lagom är bäst emphasizes harmony instead of confrontation and conflict. Americans are pretty much the opposite of that.
Remember that the US is far more religious. Lots of religious fringe lunatics emigrated to the US from Europe and you can still see the results today.
Currently in the US you have elite white activists preaching long about intersectionality, while alienating the lower working classes, especially whites.
- Comment on How possibly? 4 days ago:
Exactly. Women will encourage men to do violence on their behalf pretty often.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Yeah, video games are still seen as low brow entertainment, not worthy of being accepted as sophisticated high culture.
- Comment on YSK: Israel is ethnically cleansing Lebanon 4 days ago:
ITT: antisemitism
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 4 days ago:
Mandrake is a name that has freed up.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 4 days ago:
Is there a distro that sets this up well by default?
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 4 days ago:
Manjaro will become even less well maintained because the people working on it will spend their time managing this crisis instead of doing productive work on the distro.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 4 days ago:
Social status alone is a reason to try and keep it alive. You might have had an influential and powerful role as a Manjaro forum mod, package maintainer, server admin, etc. Switching to a different distro means you will have to start at zero and work your way up.
- Comment on Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll 4 days ago:
AI government assigned wife as a default.
People will outsource their thinking, decisions, everything to their AI overlords.
You will have no agency and be happy.
- Comment on Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll 4 days ago:
Yes, but AI arranged.
- Comment on ReFS is better than NTFS, but Microsoft refuses to let regular users have it 5 days ago:
Why would you use BTRFS over ZFS?
- Comment on Turkey Mention 5 days ago:
I have eaten dog meat before. It’s kind of gamey. Not particularly great, but not bad either.
- Comment on Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll 5 days ago:
Tinder scanning my photo library, reading my diary and social media. Then it automatically generates perfect pictures and text for my dating profile. Then an AI bot looks at profiles for me and chats with other AI bots to set up dates. It then automatically adds a date to my calendar and makes a reservation in a restaurant. Nice.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 5 days ago:
Sharing and creating playlists with friends. Discovering new music. Endless playlists of high quality.
- Comment on Great Tits 5 days ago:
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 5 days ago:
If I were a Manjaro dev, I would just jump ship to EndeavourOS, Cachy, or Garuda.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 5 days ago:
Garuda is pretty great if you want a nice experience out of the box. Can recommend.