AlteredEgo @ AlteredEgo @lemmy.ml

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Can you support "the political prisoners of Palestine Action"?

Can you say "Palestine Action is not a terrorist organization"?

Can you say "Outlawing Palestine Action is terrorism"?

Or is that also illegal?

Fucking fascists... A sad end to the Labour Party, but it was clear what would happen after they stabbed Corbyn in the back.

Victim blaming has arrived for gun violence. This marks an historic achievement in the development of propaganda!´

Thousands of cops and fascists are smacking themselves in the forehead right now and saying: Wow! Actually I invented this! I've been saying years ago "Hey, why are you hitting yourself?"

Tear gas. I guess technically it's a chemical weapon. But it's also used against protesters all around the world, so this makes this sound rather lame.

"Baskets" is an excellent documentary series about becoming a clown (jk)

Sure, but that's not really the point. And I do think it's an important point to understand how trumpism and neofascism works.

Basically when I look for new hardware, I always look at specs. And it's so easy to get sucked in by "oh this is a little bit more expensive but has 20% more performance!".

Well I do think he is "casually" racist but not serious. Like it's not a guiding ideology. If it's between making a scene or shaking the hand of a colored person's hand he has no problem with that. He doesn't really give a shit. He's a malignant narcissist, which means he is driven by the psychological need to be "the best and most amazing person". Justifying that just because of his whiteness would probably almost be an insult to his unique greatness.

I also think his mind is in a kind of fugue state where he's not fully conscious, like sleepwalking. He's more like an LLM that is constantly throwing things out "to win" and his mind is optimized to do that very well. If you'd institutionalize him, put him on medication to calm him down and then slowly and calmly begin talk therapy you'd probably find he's just a standard narcissist without any special ideology. Possibly Hitler was similarily "out there" in that regard, but they actually and truly believed in their ideology. They also believed in their nation and making it great, which Trump doesn't give a shit about either.

You can define fascism (including racism or sexism) as a "sincere belief in inequality based on identity". He certainly believes in that, just only for himself. In comparison, neoliberals also have a sincere belief in inequality, just based on class / wealth.

Evil, Scary China Refuses To Passively Let Us Encircle It: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix – Caitlin Johnstone

That's a pretty good article explaining it. The funny thing is that the US media is always framing China as the aggressor. But one look at that map, like with your real eyes, not the crazy eyes, should show you the US is way out there on someone else's doorstep and who the aggressor is. That's just geography.

Personally I don't think China is going to invade Taiwan unless things escalate further. For example, the Russian perspective on the Ukraine is that the US supported the regime change through the NED, helped far right elements overthrow the democratically elected regime and then supported their stance to ban Russian language, oppress Russian speaking populations in Ukraine and supplied them with massive amounts of arms and intelligence. All of this is true historical fact. And in that situation even the chief of NATO Stoltenberg publicly said that Russia launched a "preemptive war" in response to this quasi-NATO membership right on their doorstep. If the US does the same with Taiwan, China might invade. That particular gabit is rather unlikely to succeed in Taiwan though, and Taiwan is far less dangerous to China than a hostile well supplied Ukraine is to Russia (only like 500 miles from Moskow). The smart play for China if that happens is to play rope-a-dope until the US gets tired. Kinda what Iran is doing about the numerous provocations and acts of war against them.

Interesting debate, and certainly has some truth to it. Because individuals seek personal gain, they fulfill someone else's ideology they don't really care about but it helps them to get promoted or get rich. But Hitler definitely planned the holocaust as a "final solution to the Jewish question" in Mein Kampf.

In that sense Trump is very different from Hitler - he doesn't really believe in anything but being the strong man. He has no ideology. He's not really a racist. But he adopts ideology that enchants and beguile the masses, so it works similar to the functionalist view.

I believe that MAGA functionaries actually look for things that would shock and pain liberals, and then make that real, simply because it would be "fun" for the MAGA crowd and enrage the libs, and keep them constantly in a confused and shocked state. Just to keep it all going.

Gravity is just a side effect of the fundamental laziness of all things. Causality moves slower near mass, so it's kind of relaxing to move towards it. That's why everyone does it.

PS: There is actually a SciShow Spacetime video about gravity being an emergent property instead of a fundamental force. And no I didn't get this from ChatGPT, I'm just that dumb when it comes to advanced physics haha.

Thanks. The rhyme doesn't really make sense though, right? Or am I missing something?

I can't stand the look of Windirstat lol.

I use explorer++ now because it can show subdir sizes. Unfortunately performance suffers quite a bit because of no caching and unsmart file system lol. Maybe linux has this basic and essential feature in it's file explorer.

+1 for using space sniffer. It's the best of such apps I've found. Unfortunately doesn't seem to get updated any more.

I've been looking into this air fryer / self-stirring cooking pot "Delonghi Multifry". Could work to get it mixed with butter while air frying.

Although I'm mostly thinking about air frying breaded chickpeas, noodles / spätzle, gnocchi and potatoes. Not to save on oil mind you, just to avoid having to get off my ass and stir the pan all the time.

You're not wrong. Obama won because he was a corporatist and easily manipulated and ran on empty slogans, so he had the backing of the mainstream. Harris did too, but AOC won't have that backing.

That also means she could run on actual popular policies. Something Trump did. His voters now kinda got the same scam with him than the progressives got with Obama lol.

But there is deeply entrenched propaganda in the media and the minds of people. Like you'd need a movement that comes together. But you can see the liberals in this thread would balk at any tankie demanding and end to US or EU imperialism lol, just like they will balk at putting another women on the ticket.

Yeah absolutely. Material incentives are needed, but they don't need to be so high, just fair. Certainly not a monopoly over predictable technological progress (more or less predictable) that allows them to prevent people using that progress. Especially since that monopoly is being captured by capitalists.

And incentives can and should be non-materialist too. Think of a oscar or grammy show for the best new inventions. Or something similar to crowdsourcing platforms where people can vote on what inventions they want to see rewarded and implemented. A bank that can finance risky ventures like this instead of concentrating more wealth. We have more tools and possibilities today and we need an updated economic theory that can use these tools.

The idea of a lone inventor that can profit of his own invention is sort of like fantasy economics today. I believe it comes from comics and superhero movies lol. Reality is privatizing profit and socializing the costs of previous research and slowing down implementation of progress.

I was thinking of the Gemini (protocol) - Wikipedia but a bit more elaborate, and yeah I'm not sure how far text compression can be pushed. But I think LLMs could be useful and help reach a critical mass of being able to download and store tons of articles.

Torrent V2 and other official extensions Updating Torrents Via DHT Mutable Items allow some ways to do this. Like hosting a youtube channel and updating it with new videos, without any new network protocol. Well theoretically since this isn't yet supported well in torrent clients or lib.

I've been thinking how this would work for a while but it's kind of frying my brain haha. Like a "P2P version control database" that is truly open source. For articles and blog posts, but also for metadata for manhwa, movies, tv, anime, books etc. Like anybody can download and use it and share, edit, fork it without needing to set up some complex server. Something that can't be taken down, sold or if abandoned someone else can just pick it up and you can merge different curated versions and additions easily.

You'd basically want a "most popular items of the past X time" that almost everybody downloads, and then the whole database split into more and more exotic or obscure items. So everybody has the popular stuff but also has to host some exotic items so they don't get lost. And it has to be easy to use and install.

But the whole database has to be small and compact and compressed enough that you can still easily host it on a normal HDD. It the current times with economic and political dangers lurking this would be a crucial bit of IT infrastructure.

I believe everyone can, it just takes practice and is only relevant for 120hz games. Or VR.

Time to block this community lol

People, in general, do not work for material gain. They work because they have to in order to live, procreate and raise their children. People want a minimum amount of prosperity and economic safety. Beyond that, they want to work in a way and a place that fulfills them. Work itself is fun when done right, and working with others is awesome. Not even the "smart ones" or whatever work mainly for material gain in general. There are an overwhelming amount of counter examples to any variation of your claim. It would be more accurate to say people work for fame and glory, or to get laid (again reproductive success).

But even if what you said was true, it does not justify a complete monopoly. You could have something like "congrats you patented a new idea - if it catches on you will get a free house as a price!"

Of course you know all this and are just arguing facetiously. If "the person who can solve climate change" does anything but trade stocks they would contradict your argument. There is no money in inventing climate solutions. But nice insult to the people who are working on things like that.

Your actual argument is that we reward gambling and non-productive activity too much. That the smartest people are not working towards the survival or wellbeing of humanity, but for... crumbs off the table of the capitalists. That our economic system is not efficient in working towards our shared human values.