A friend of mine has their large corporate company telling everyone they have to show up to one of their offices on at least two days each week. Now a few people just walk there at 2355, clock out at 0005, and spend the rest of the week at home.
Silly conditions -> silly behaviors
If you don’t and just enjoy the thought of killing people you disagree with then you should be out celebrating alongside MAGA over the murder of Renee Good.
This is a bizarre comparison.
UnitedHealth, and therefore its leadership, are collectively responsible for the systemic social murder of many thousands. They (like the rest of the industry) are so ingrained into bipartisan government though lobbying and other forms of soft power that we have consistently seen no legal justice, and have no reason to expect it.
Renee Good, on the other hand, was not responsible for mass death and not an ongoing threat to millions of innocent citizens.
In the past 5 years I’ve only ever had minor issues*, like a power button light not being on. But as a developer, I’m aware my hardware choices are more likely to be popular with other developers who would have already noticed and fixed issues.
* excluding on niche distros, like Puppy ones.
What are some things you preferred in KDE over Cinnamon? I haven’t explored KDE much.
I don’t think it’s helpful to pretend there’s a contradiction in the definition. I’m already sick of explaining to libs that a state governed by a vanguard party isn’t claiming to have established a socialist MoP the day after the revolution.
Yep, was expecting to see the BBoC mentioned.
Emphasizing the part in that wiki page where they mention two of the co-authors disavowed the book as the main author was apparently ‘desperate’ to increase the number of counted victims in the ridiculous ways RiverRock mentioned.
Welcome to the magic of federation! This is how I’m seeing your posts: https://lemmy.ml/post/38812210/22162387
Basically, the Fediverse are lots of different sites that all use the same language (protocol), and some are able to talk to each other. So a Mastodon site (instance) like mastodon.world
I haven’t kept up-to-date with what’s possible and what isn’t working yet, so I might have missed something.
I wouldn’t even call it purity testing, they’re just testing. I’ve seen obsession over purity taken to a counterproductive extent, and I maintain that it can be a problem when dealing with a complex unideal reality, but what BadEmpanada is talking about here is fine. That’s a healthy level of testing, and important in preventing recuperation or sanewashing. Democrats are a bourgeois-controlled party and don’t share our class interests.
To give an example of the kind that is counterproductive, I know of a (small) socialist organisation in my country which has been banned from worker strikes after counterprotesting one, insisting that since industrial unions are bureaucratic, the workers should all just boycott the strike and make their own union. This group claims all other socialist organisations are impure and pseudo-leftist whenever they compromise with material reality and present conditions.
And, obviously, that’s a whole other world of purity testing to what you’re talking about. The problems are when it reaches no-true-Scotsman levels.
My understanding of anarchism is the goal of eliminating government
The finer details will always change depending who you ask, but yes, it’s generally either the elimination of government, or of all ‘unjust hierarchies’ (which includes state government).
As someone else mentioned, ideological anarchists tend to be socialists, and in this context ‘anarchism’ is assumed to be that socialist strain, but not everyone calling themselves an anarchist is also a socialist. It’s a broad school of thought.
That won’t eliminate an economic system that originated organically.
Capitalism isn’t organic. I can’t think of a case where it has developed outside of a revolution (like the anti-monarchist revolutions) and/or imperial suppression. It requires the enclosure of the commons and development of private property security forces like a police, neither of those are an organic phenomenon.
If anything, I would assume anarchism is more organic, since it could be found in many hunter-gatherer gift economies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_communism#Example_societies
Now, I’m personally not convinced that this makes anarchism appropriate for our industrial/post-industrial societies, but it’s not inorganic.
Since you mentioned them, I respect that some have been life sentenced and a couple put to death for serious crimes. There is a billionaire problem but at least they’re more controlled by the government than the Western ones controlling their governments.
Hi, I’ve trained machine learning models. I’ve been creating and studying them for over six years.
ChatGPT is not capable of fact checking. It stylistically outputs data based on the input data it was trained on, and it’s important to understand why that’s different to fact checking even when it can sometimes state facts.
So I tried to find DJ Stryker voice clips and it turns out a couple of years ago plenty of people made AI-gen parodies. Some of them are a good laugh.
They also won the 1999 prize, and are famously the peace prize winner who were bombed by another peace prize winner in 2015 (Barack Obama).
Depends on your instance and the community you’re posting in.
For example, on lemmy.world a user might get warned or banned for openly celebrating the shooting of Brian Thompson. (I forget exactly where they draw the line, but it’s an “advocating violence” thing)
Or here, a user on lemmy.ml might get banned for bigoted statements, even normal things that plenty of people don’t even notice are bigoted because it’s “common sense” in their own country.
But you’ve got to be pretty damn intolerable to get banned from more than a few instances. Like, actual Nazism.
A government or state, like a corporation, will always act in its own best interest.
I can’t think of any human structure, or any person, who doesn’t tend to act in their own perceived best interest. The issue is when self interest contradicts mutual interest.
Self-interest is an important concept in understanding why capitalist corporations are consistently antisocial and why most states act against their citizens, but self-interest isn’t a reason in itself.
It was just called thoughts before governments weaponized it.
Government propaganda definitely predates the modern English language. e.g. Roman Empire
Just make your IP addresses pronouncable words like feed:deaf:babe:beef:cafe:: problem solved ez (working 2023!)
Didn’t even know there was one. Is it an exiled community, or just happens to be popular here just like everywhere else?