silent_water [she/her] @ silent_water @hexbear.net

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getting banned is silencing them, fool. it prevents them from recruiting more people. they can talk to themselves day in and day out but without fresh meat they can't grow. the lesson of the last decade is that deplatforming 100% works. your free speech bullshit is exactly how nazis cover for themselves. liberals clutching pearls about muh

free speech for who, for what purpose, and at what cost? do you ever stop and think about the people harmed by the presence of the people you're JAQing off for?

everyone has a line past which they won't tolerate "free speech" -- if they were advocating for the murder of the people you love 0% chance you'd be pulling this shit. the problem is you feel safe and comfortable in the knowledge that they don't threaten you. you're comfortable with the bigotry, shielded by the bottomless chasm of your ignorance. wake up call: if they seize power, they will hurt you and everyone you love, just as much as the rest of us. you're not fucking safe.

"free speech except these people" viewpoint requires some objective point of reference for what's acceptable

it extremely doesn't. communities have standards -- they get to decide.

It's fairly obvious to 99% of people when it's things like Nazis and pedos but it's not always as clearcut with more controversial topics

I'd extremely like to know what more controversial topics you have in mind

a functioning public transit system covers the whole city, nearly point to point, and it runs on a regular schedule with buses and trains arriving every few minutes.

but who's going to pay for it???

it's really a good thing no one has ever run the numbers on this and there's absolutely no literature analyzing the costs of various forms of public infrastructure to determine which is the most cost effective. there's no way at all anyone has ever done that.

have you ever been to an American city? everything is at the service of roads, cars, and space to park the cars. we have thoroughfares through residential neighborhoods, monstrous intersections that are unsafe to cross by foot, infrastructure that's unsafe to use by any mode of transportation that isn't a car -- because the cars will run you over -- and it's all wildly more expensive and less efficient than a functioning public transportation system. think of it like this -- if more people can get where they need to go by public transit, the roads won't be so congested.

what's the remainder of pi after division by 3 and 3^{2? notice how the remainder is the same -- i.e. there's no 3s digit needed. and the same will be true for all higher powers of 3. this is because pi is <3}n for all n > 1. but we failed to express the fractional part of pi. if we extend to the p-adic rationals, we can express it as an infinite expansion but that's not allowed for p-adics -- they can only have a finite number of digits in the part to the right of the radix.

yeah, the remainder of pi after p^{2 for p>2 will always be the same as the remainder after division by p (p}2 if p=2), so it truncates to the left of the radix, and p-adic rationals can't go off infinitely to the right of the radix. also, more trivially, pi isn't algebraic so it's not the solution to any polynomial with rational coefficients, so it's also not the solution to any polynomial mod p^n.

it's definitely 5-adicly rational

I mean it will wind up warmer than Siberia is now.

youtubers/streamers have a parasocial thing going with their audience that makes the idea of donating a smaller mental step for their audience (senpai might notice me if I donate type brainworms). FOSS projects historically have really struggled with funding, unless they're able to secure funding from an org/corporation.

what does partnership mean in this context? lemmygrad and us have an existing relationship so than makes sense but what does it mean to partner with leftist internet personalities?

a gift economy is also an exchange of goods but it's decidedly not capitalism - no one earns any profit and there's no flow converting money into capital and capital back into money.

vegan archbishop also sounds pretty cool but then people are gonna assume you're catholic

transphobia: not even once

there's a balance. arming up and prepping without organizations is pointless - the paramilitaries will crush a lone homesteader. community defense requires a whole community.

it's a cycle that keeps escalating so long as profits get squeezed tighter and tighter. at some point the whole system breaks and the only question is who seizes power when that happens. if we have orgs and can channel popular discontent, it will be us. if not, we'll be posting from the camps. the future is not yet written - projecting the present forward into the future is good at telling you what will happen next week but it's a shitty approximation before you even get out to a year.

acting like you were there and know what happened when you actually sat at home on your ass so you could post about it is peak whiteness.

imagine realizing this and going "they should ban queer people" instead of "banning politics is impossible because there's no such thing as an apolitical stance"

publicly traded is privately owned - buying common stock doesn't give the public, most of whom are too poor to afford said stock, meaningful control over the business. the stock owning class have interests that directly contradict those of workers (ie the vast, vast majority of us).

politics? in my treats?