Uriel238 [all pronouns] @ uriel238 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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If you're near a university, get your butt to the law school department and ask professors how feasible this is. (Buy them lunch if possible / necessary) And if it's as brilliant as it sounds, they might be able to hook us up with the legal experts necessary to follow through.

We are in very interesting times, which may give the notion more traction than a far off whimsy.

We have colleges here in Sacramento. I'll see what I can do here.

Aargh! Okay, I'm going to fix this and the fine tuned universe argument all at once.

Nature does not care about your silly numbers and hypotheses. All of our scientific mechanics are models of the observed universe. The ones we call theories are just models good enough to be usefully predictive as to forecast outcomes, allowing us to safely land airplanes, build bridges, make safe pharmaceuticals (or super addictive ones, if we want), split atoms safely to produce power (or unsafely to level cities) and so on.

We care about the math and the numbers because they give us results that are consistent with nature. But nature is doing what it's doing because it's behaving as a giant causal engine (ever-smaller forces that drive observable phenomena, at least until we get to Planck scale). So when it comes to the fine tuned hypothesis, to quote a Texas physicist whose name I can't remember These numbers ain't for fiddlin'

If there are any storm gods at all, anywhere in the world, to the last, they are content to allow lightning to behave strictly according to static-electricity electrodynamics. And ball lightning happens whether or not we have a model that explains it. (Presently, we don't.)

If one or more of the many-worlds hypotheses are true, no given universe cares what its science-savvy inhabitants have determined and whether their mathematical models allow for models that are factual. Facts don't care about your feelings. Facts don't care about your science either. It's more that the science does is best to describe what's going on in the facts.

Irreducible complexity is solved.

PS: This also stabilizes the cosmic horror scenario of Azathoth's dream, that Azathoth gibbers in the center of the universe dreaming its whole, and each and every one of us is a mere figment, who will vanish to oblivion when eventually he awakes: From what we can observe Azathoth has been dreaming consistently for thirteen billion years, and doesn't seem to be in a hurry to wake up, and his dream is profoundly consistent so that the mathematics we use to send probes from planet to planet, eventually into the outer solar system always works. Azathoth has our back!

No I meant dull, or drab. Fixed.

The history of advertising indicates otherwise, as does Das Kapital by Karl Marx. Capitalists will always push the limits, ever seeking to maximize profits.

However upper management appears to want to hold royal court and subjugate their serves (the worker pool), since the goal of profit maximization set by shareholder primacy contraindicates common practices like micromanagement, over-surveillance of the workforce (keylogging, and prohibition of private use of the internet) and crunching, all which reduce workforce efficiency (by a lot) and yet are typical.

In the 1980s, when Reagan deregulated children's programming, a lot of shows that were essentially half-hour-long commercials (say, the entire Transformers franchise) were released and sold a lot of toys. The weird thing is when we oversaturate a generation with commercials, they develop a tolerance to them, and the marketing industry has been losing that battle since the 1950s, when an hour long show would have a thirty-second sponsor spot.

But business attire is so droll dull. Even in the Guy Kawasaki was differentiating between the ties (business suits) and t-shirts (techs so skilled that their casual attire was tolerated.

My tactic was to be upfront and sincere, to own my bullshit when I did it, and if they get wittingly manipulative, don't tolerate it.

The keepers will strive to do better. The others will reveal themselves.

Of course, my advantage was years in the recovery sector and the BDSM community (which plays with fire, sometimes literal, sometimes psychological) so I had a leg up re: self awareness.

Yes. And if we go down that path, not only will millions perish in the purges, but then China will take us economically, and may be the Allies to our Axis.

And much like Germany, the brain drain and infighting at the top ranks will slow them down and become an exploitable weakness.

If we're not careful, we'll organize a rebellion and overthrow the Trump regime only to have it replaced with another despot, and then (as the pattern goes) another and another and another until everyone knows someone who's perished in the fighting. And that's no guarantee of a democracy.

It's one of the reasons I've advocated we do something that (AFAIK) we've never tried before, and create a constitution before we try to overthrow the government. Make it public; get legal experts to pick at it for loopholes and exploits to close until it's ironclad. And then, unlike the constitutional framers of the US, don't let the fighting leaders take place as administrative officials.

But I'm a novice at history and sociopolitical studies. Maybe we are doomed to a century of tyranny and all we have wrought will burn in fire. But I know instances have occurred in which something different happened, via non-violent resistance, even.

At this point get involved with your mutual aid orgs and community orgs. The more of us that organize to resist, the more likely it will actually succeed.

PS: To borrow some phrasing from Donald Rumsfeld, You build a society with the people you have, not the people you wish you had or might have at a later time. But we do still have access to the internet, and not just Facebook and Twitter, even if a lot of people barely move beyond social media. We have the resources to train people to think critically, to develop class consciousness and civic and political literacy.

ETA: PSS: Feel free to use that phrase and accredit as Rumsfeld's law. I'll enjoy the schadenfreude of the guy who tried to justify state-sanctioned torture programs being grossly annoyed that he is attributed with a left-wing adage.

I want to add a running theme in GRRM's A Song of Ice and Fire is that doing gross and inhumane things may horrify us in the moment and make us feel overwhelmed but tends to turn around on those who would resort to such methods despite Tyrion Lannister's opinion that those methods are not to be taken off the table when considering options.

The most well known example in the series was the Red Wedding, the marriage of Edmure Tully, Roslin Frey, which was followed by the massacre of Rob and Catelyn Stark and many others, while under the protection of the tradition of hospitality. If we ignore the GoT Season 8 revenge by Arya Stark (which isn't canon but is based off an implied plot by Lord Manderly), reputation of fell deed figured in House Frey losing allies and trade, and Frey casualties numbered to exceed all its gains and those inflicted on Stark and its allies.

IRL, Trump's heavy-handed response to the George Floyd protests in 2020 only doubled the protest sizes in the following days. Notoriously after Putin-style LGMs (unmarked uniformed men in military gear abducting citizens without due process) and brutal police action at the Portland ICE building resulted in the moms joining the protests and then the dads (who brought their wireless leaf blowers, handy against CS gas).

An example that will be applicable to the US is the rise of the French Résistance during the German occupation of France. Despite efforts by German administrators to advice soldiers to stay polite, they couldn't help themselves and were brutal to the French civilians. The people started engaging in light direct action, tearing down or defacing German propaganda, slashing tires, cutting phone lines, until they found each other and organized. Within two years, they were a formidable fighting force.

Yes, the find out portion of the upcoming era is going to be harsh. People who need services and supplies will not get them. Police will be cruel to folks at the border, and may even hunt down migrants and Trans folks like the SS after Jews. It will be fucking scary, but it will turn bystanders into resistance sympathists, sympathists into activists and activists into militants. And yes, it appears police just can't help themselves but be brutal, and the resistance will not only feel justified in cutting them down, but will eventually hunt them to the ends of the earth to assure they see tribunal, even when the last guard and bureaucrat is ninety.

They don't want the gifted kid who turns into the mathematical supergenius, because either they get out of control in their own quest for world domination, or they get abducted by the government wanting to control them, and extract secret knowledge from their calculations. (My dad went the latter route)

But they don't know it, so when they get the ASD weirdo like me whose gifts are in fields they don't yet understand (talking to plants, radical left wing sociopolitical theory, or in my case, the ability to recognize that my cat is enlightened sitting in his box) they're disappointed that the government is not clawing in to take them away.

Well, you see, there's this thing called capitalism...

Innsmouth fashion.

That's cat for I like you! I trust you!

It's redundant within the sex positive community. Polyamory presumes you're communicating with your partners to the degree they want information and respecting established boundaries.

This is not to say there aren't relationship troubles or missteps in a complex polyamorous relationship, but that these are aired and resolved.

Adultery issues are not about illicit sexual contact, but deception.

To be fair, it's only because no arrows or swords in the story are allowed to actually cause harm.

There's a whole song about property law, which maybe we shouldn't have.

Before NSDAP existed (but not before purges and genocide), this is what a Roman Salute looked like.

The XKCD is strong with this one.

What if we get married move in together and adopt kids as a joke?

Except that the oligarchs are now using the legal system to create an oppressive regime for the working class. In the meantime they'll get to stabbing at each other. In the end, monarchy will remain.

Monarchism is the only end for capitalism (according to Marx' Das Kapital ...and the steady march of history has been consistent so far with this). So for those who disparage capitalism, they're choosing the despotic totalitarian situation that Washington fought against during the origin of the US.