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colin @ colin @lemmy.uninsane.org Posts 11Comments 125Joined 2 yr. ago
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you're not going to believe me, but this comment reminded me, so i checked, and by happenstance i am actually wearing my "Helvetica Standard" t-shirt right now.
Democrats too. half the country lost a pretty significant right to their own bodily autonomy that they'd taken foregranted for basically their entire life. and they just... rolled over and took it? that's about the most concrete domestic loss they've taken this century, and more concrete than anything else on the table right now, so i honestly don't know what would have to happen in order for the left to do anything meaningfully violent.
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we're experts at claiming to be expertised. how do you know? because of how confidently i just claimed to be an expert.
lets grab lunch sometime, i think we'd be compatible
cute art style 😻
fruit roll-up
that's one way to do the endless handkerchief clown trick
but in practice it’s the opposite. electric cars have set the precedent that cars being serviceable only by the manufacturer is OK. ICE automobiles are on their way to being banned in a decade or two. that’s a huge opportunity for automakers to bring practices like these to the wider market, and policy makers will defend them because it’s hard to say “yes to electric cars, but only if …”
will 2024 finally be the year of Linux on the car?
saw this one at the arcade last week. this one’s on the more extreme side, but arcades are the most reliable place i know to find this stuff. like 5% of the cars outside a big arcade here will have stickers of some sort.
do i spy a Dirk Gently reference? i say it's a bit of a stretch, but that you should choose a video recorder for the metaphor... well, nothing is ever a coincidence.
me when i take too long to put my seatbelt on in the passenger seat so the car beeps at me and i decide “well if you’re going to treat me like that then i’d better not put the belt on” so it beeps LOUDER and i decide “well if that’s how it is i’m just walking away” but it won’t let me unlock the door while the car’s in motion so i have to pull the e-brake to get it to stop but they know doing that without a seatbelt can be fatal so was there ever really a choice to begin with
alright, you've made a pretty solid case there. one single nit:
A machine costing a lot of money, only matters when most of the money is hoarded by a few individuals.
"power corrupts", as it goes. if there's a single lever that could be pulled to enrich the few, then they will try, and the many have to remain vigilant. better many small levers than a handful of large levers where possible, since that's just more difficult for any small self-interested group to control. but i'll take democratic workplaces over the existing.
so: how to get there? like, what do you or i do, aside from just considering these things as we navigate our careers? if someone else has done a good job with the deeper writing here before, i'll take a book rec. there's space on my non-fiction shelf.
bleh. arguing over words and definitions is a stupid waste of time. i shouldn't care what "monopoly" or "libertarian" or any other word means to someone else, i should only care if they embrace the ideas that help us work together.
sure, i'm against private monopolies -- whatever word you want to use to describe it. i think it's accurate that government is that player which is granted the "exclusive use of force considered to be legitimate", even if that's a mouthful.
anyway, i yield the floor for as long as the topic is definitional instead of substantial 👋
If technology was used in service of humanity, the majority of humanity would be working very little, and things like starvation and homelessness would only be possible under unexpected circumstances like droughts and after wildfires.
this i agree with, but i don't take that all shapes of technology are equally susceptible to serving profit instead of people. in our case, the factory systems which allow for 1000:1 production are huge and costly and beyond the reach of the average individual or family or community. but that same technology in a different form could be made to be within reach of smaller communities.
If the dominant forces in society are utilizing technology for profit, rather than to increase human dignity and freedom, then what you get is what we have;
if a machine within the reach of your everday person could have that same 1000:1 production factor, then you don't need the dominant forces in society to be directed at human dignity. you just need them to be tolerant of benign alternatives, and only 0.1% of society needs to go along with you to allow that alternative to be reality. the bigger thing is that we've had 100+ years in which technology has been developed for that factory system with far less development catering to any alternatives, so the alternatives available legitimately do not have that same 1000:1 production. there's no way to get that outside of factories without playing catchup on the technology front. but catchup is possible without destruction because factorized production does incidentally create generalized tools that make the alternatives easier (your typical hammers and saws and all that).
that seems kinda revisionist. if i think i have a better way in which to provide healthcare, am i allowed to pursue that alongside others who consent? if “no”, then something has monopolized healthcare — be it a private entity, public, or some combination.
the libertarian refrain is “government is the monopoly on violence”, and that seems broadly true, even if the police force is publicly directed… no?
we’re conversing via a communications system where at least the very top portion is free of exploitation and coercion. probably lemmy.tf is hosted on an operating system also free from that coercion. not to be all techbro, but it’s kinda like we’ve achieved this in one specific niche and completely failed to apply it to anything real/useful (i.e. “the stuff that could kill you in its absence”).
i used to contribute a LOT to the 3d printing space ten years ago: at the time it seemed like the way to bridge that (half the parts in my machine were built with a friend using his machine). i still think there’s something “there”, that we can build parallel systems that won’t be captured or killed by the existing powers rather than solely embracing destruction, but it’s just a long game. how long has the capitalist system had to develop? anything else has to endure nearly that same amount of catchup until it can provide for us in any way you would embrace.
how do you build a restaurant under the sea? expert carpenters.
where do you find expert carpenters? Lazy Town.
just think about it, that's all i'm trying to say here.
Nichijou was ahead of its time. but 15 years is a lot of time in which manga authors have caught up, or absorbed the potent parts of Nichijou into their own works, and on the anime side the budgets on hit series are wayyyy higher now.
Nichijou is underrated, in terms of its impact, and of what it was. but Nichijou is overrated, in terms of how it would stack up against the competition if it had been released today. but that's coming from an English speaker: i hear the amount of humor which "doesn't translate" is reallly high for this one.