the status quo is at once ‘capitalism is the best system we got, freest shit ever, yo don’t even try anything else we have it sorted’ and ‘you need to live in reality, the world is the way the world is, we can’t fix problems inherent our society’
i do what i do for free so someone hit me up with the link of where i get paid for this, honestly i can be motivated to do it more
I was annoyed with ‘anti tankies’ long before I ever consider myself a tankie. it’s just so annoying seeing people dismiss like some perfectly logic argument with ‘u read theory? tankie’
character creator, shove a RobCo Reflectron in the newborns face so they can generate their preferred potato look
Something something you have to fix the system from the inside! Something something change is slow and can only and should only happen incrementally, after 4 years! Something something you guys are just violent LARPers fuck you >:(
yes, for sure. I think we all do.
I think it requires a reframing of the mind. The ‘smart-dumb’ scale is an oversimplification of human intellect. It was never entirely accurate. Ignoring intellectual disabilities, every human is equally as capable as being as smart as any other human. We’re the same kind of animal.
The true factor in intellect is your curiosity. Some people are naturally curious of different subjects and will learn more about those subjects. Some people are incurious about most subjects and won’t learn much at all. Most of the traditionally ‘smart’ people you think of were just sufficiently curious in whatever field they’re qualified in. None of the traditionally ‘smart’ people you think of were born smart.
Foster your curiosity. If you know what excites you, you’re already half way to intelligence.
N-noo!!! Government housing is depressing! I only want private landlords neglecting my concrete box.
I don’t think it’s going to happen over any single event. I think Federated platforms will remain small scale but very active, and that’s all they have to do as mainstream social medias spring up, monetize, and collapse, over and over and over again.
Then one day in the future, the latest generation of cool kids will just realize that it’s way cooler to be on the Federated platforms than it is to be on the mainstream sites.
Hook my number up and I’ll be the voice assistant. I promise I’ll be extremely private and secure.
In all seriousness just posting to boost, good luck on this project. It seems really promising and wish I could contribute.
Love me ProtonMail.
Climate optimism is just cope of the highest order. Some people will repeat the idea that ‘we need significant, global mobilization comparable to a world war to minimize climate change’ and then also assure you that these ‘little wins’ should instill optimism in you. Current power structures will never sufficiently reduce man’s impact on the climate.
These are just my thoughts off the headline, I haven’t finished reading the article yet, but damn does the double think piss me off.
that amount of money is simply not able to be accrued quickly, ethically, legally, and safely. a loan is the only thing that comes to my mind other than crime time. you could try visiting mutual aid communities and crowdfunding. you’ll get something from your comrades, at least, but probably not 24k
asking the real questions
i don’t have an answer but im here for the question
If you’re part of the global south, there’s a decent chance NATO opposes you or someone you’re closely affiliated with. Is your suggestion to those countries for them to just not be part of the global south?
Because that’s incredibly hard to do.
NATO is a purely defensive alliance, not a battering ram.
You can definitely see how this isn’t true, right? It’d be incredibly problematic to be opposed by NATO and to have NATO creep up to your borders. Superpowers flipped their shit over stuff like this in the cold war all the time. It’s not any different today.
in a few hundred years historians will look back at this time of the internet and feel extremely frustrated that we had perfect record keeping systems that would retain all this knowledge and culture forever but we for some reason let companies blackhole it
Ah yes, in-game currency is fiction. That’s why it costs real money, and publishers mandate developers lock down the game as much as possible to ensure no one circumvents the ‘fiction.’ The mind boggling profits they bring must also be fictional.
Fuck, I hate GaaS.
Haha, online games licensing sucks. It’s almost as if, when we discovered we could distribute media freely and infinitely by digital means, we should have restructured how media and licensing works for these products. but we didn’t, and now we have bizarre situations where publishers try to delete their own games from existence rather than spend some upkeep for music licensing
‘Cuz you ain’t been doin nothin’, if you ain’t been called a red, if you’ve marched or agitated, then you’re bound to hear it said…
yeah the coolest thing about modern economic systems is that we can culturally recognize the ethically barren landscape of pyramid schemes as a bad thing that we obviously don’t get into and even ban in sane places! But economically well yeah sometimes your friend since high school is just going to bumble into an MLM scheme, financially wreck themselves, bomb their social lives, and spew propaganda about being their own boss selling soaps, and that’s just ok. that’s fine. if anything, it’s their fault for falling for it!