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- Comment on Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract 7 hours ago:
Sorry, you don’t get any points for this prediction, because it already exists.
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 7 hours ago:
The one thing I’d dispute is
The modern day “middle class,” which another commenter rightly describes as the “petit bourgeois,”
As you correctly identify in your last paragraph, class is defined by your relationship to labour and the means of production, and not strictly to how much money you have. The petit bourgeois may generally be what we commonly think of as middle class, but it more specifically identifies small business owners. People who make money from the labour of others, but still have to do real work themselves in order to maintain it. A doctor at a hospital is not petit bourgeois, but a doctor running their own clinic and employing a nurse and a secretary is, and would be even if they had less income. Even a sports player who makes tens of millions is not really petit bourgeois or bourgeois if that’s all they do - although they often go in that direction after some time.
Where it gets complicated in our financialised world is that our savings, if we have any, are often invested in corporations, and after a lifetime of working for a decent wage, some of us are fortunate enough to be able to live out our last decades or years from investment income. It feels a bit tough to describe retirees as bourgeois even though by the strict definition that would be the case.
Despite this complication, I think it’s much clearer to think of class distinction in terms of the relationship to work, as this is what mainly incentivises attitudes to political and economic policy. If you get your income from other people working for you, you’re more likely to want to drive wages down and not pay for healthcare. If you get paid for working, you’re more likely to want wages to increase, even if your wage is already high.
- Comment on Is she saying that eating ass is bourgeois decadence? 10 hours ago:
No, it means merchant class. Capitalists and industrialists, as opposed to hereditary nobody. They are the ruling class now and have been for well over a century at least, but it’s true that they were the middle class at the time the term was coined, although rapidly gaining in power.
- Comment on me when lower category theory 1 week ago:
Before checking the comments I was like “wait is this real maths or just ramblings from some mentally ill tech bros” but I guess it’s real?
- Comment on smh 2 weeks ago:
If you’re used to cups and teaspoons of course you’re more likely to use binary divisions. I’m more likely to use steps of 20% for that purpose. And if you want to actually tailor your proportions to match the one egg or whatever the indivisible object in your recipe is, then you end up with 241 mL or 13.57 Tbsp anyways. Anyway, ten isn’t the magic number, it’s just the one we use for almost everything, and already did when we had imperial measurements.
- Comment on smh 2 weeks ago:
Only for data and that’s a quirk of organising binary data in bytes. Factors of whatever your base is are better. Don’t think we’re going to be moving away from base 10 for volume or distance or power.
- Comment on [troll science]: Unruh particle shower on a centrifuge 4 weeks ago:
Routine maybe, I don’t think it’s that boring
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 5 weeks ago:
White supremacy also has nothing to do with white people actually being supreme, it’s about the narratives that shape the worldview of the people subscribing to the ideology.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 5 weeks ago:
So the Wikipedia article claims that Māori control about 30% of fisheries, with many citations, do you have real evidence which contradicts this? This includes things like Sealord which is one of the biggest quota owners, but is only half owned by iwi, so a genuine number would be quite a lot lower than that 30%. That’s not to say that there aren’t problems with the management, we agree about that.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 5 weeks ago:
That documentary is embarrassingly wrong, the overwhelming majority of companies fishing in NZ waters are huge multinationals, not owned by Māori.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 5 weeks ago:
And if he’s just a fascist I don’t think he need to take his justifications seriously by giving him a newly named ideology.
Giving an important branch of fascist ideas a name doesn’t “take his justifications seriously” in any sense of condoning them. It’s also not newly named, but been discussed in academic studies of far right tendencies for decades, at least since the 60s. It’s a useful category for describing a set of ideas which have substantial influence.
But I’ve never met one to my knowledge, not even online.
There are probably lots of ideologies you don’t hear about all the time. Instead of just rejecting their existence with a total lack of curiosity you could instead read about them. At least start with the Wikipedia page…
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 5 weeks ago:
Sure, that’s the overarching category. It is a subtype of that.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 5 weeks ago:
I see you’ve all already had the discussion but my point wasn’t really to say that they were the main source of calories or something. But a small part of the diet can still make an important contribution to nutrition, particularly when it comes to vitamins.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 5 weeks ago:
Something doesn’t have to be correct or honest to be an ideology. It’s a shared doctrine among a significant part of the far right that “protection of the environment” is their purported motivation for exterminating undesirables. That’s absolutely an ideology, even if they’re wrong about it’s effects or even dishonest about it. I don’t believe it’s all said cynically and knowingly either, and I don’t think that Michelle Chan, in that quite accurate quote, is saying that they never believe in the stories they’re telling themselves about it. Just that the deeper cause for their actions is actually white supremacy. It would be like saying a religious ideology wasn’t an ideology just because it’s motivations are not the actual existence of some supernatural entirety but instead cultural forces, bonding, the comfort of rituals etc., and I don’t think that makes much sense.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 5 weeks ago:
Some people have just “never seen” fascism. Shrug.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 5 weeks ago:
What do you mean? It certainly is. It has been, for example, an influence in several right extreme terror attacks (notably the Christchurch, NZ mass shooting in 2019 comes to mind, where the murderer explicitly described himself as such in his manifesto). Not to mention that crunchy, back-to-the land ideas are a really important part of contemporary far right propaganda.
I’d also argue that this doesn’t really sow division amongst environmentalists; just because it has ‘eco’ in the name doesn’t mean these people actually care about the environment, it’s all aesthetics.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
But I don’t want to hurt them :(
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 5 weeks ago:
I doubt it. In winter maybe. But given the extreme abundance of wild berries in the summer I’m pretty sure people ate a lot of them.
- Comment on Radiating 1 month ago:
Here’s the ‘ł’ if you want it for extra authenticity
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 1 month ago:
Not only is vegetable like that, but “fruit” is like that too. Notably, apples and strawberries are not botanical fruits, each little “seed” on the strawberry is the fruit, and the section of core around each apple seed.
- Comment on Two types 2 months ago:
But allowing school children to start writing ‘thru’ instead of ‘through’ might actually work.
Indeed, I think the kinds of simplifications which we already naturally use in casual writing, like ‘thru’ or ‘tho’, might take off if they were allowed, unlike changes imposed from above.
(Great comment btw!)
- Comment on Two types 2 months ago:
In the sense that Alphabet has an ‘a’ in it.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
This you?
If you’re working for a western arms manufacturer you can be pretty certain your products will end up in Israel too.
Yes, that’s me. Maybe the bit you’re missing is that if you work at a company, the company’s products are your products.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
You could’ve just said “yes, I think that’s where the ethical line is”, instead of linking logical fallacies wikipedia like a fourteen year old atheist.
We haven’t moved anywhere. We were at “working for companies profiting from genocide is wrong” and we’ve started right there.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
Why would that matter? You think it’s alright to work for a company supplying the Palestinian genocide as long as you’re not working on that specific product line? British aerospace is pretty directly involved there so I’d set my standards a little higher personally.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 months ago:
If you’re working for a western arms manufacturer you can be pretty certain your products will end up in Israel too.
- Comment on Lying can be so complicated 2 months ago:
If you can’t tell, is it really the most obvious troll?
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 2 months ago:
In principle I agree with you but this really requires faith in the justice system to always work. In this case for sure it’s correct, but I wouldn’t be comfortable taking it as a universal rule in our current actual society.
- Comment on Anon travels overseas 2 months ago:
It’s not that simple, if you are healthier with regular exercise your hunger is also better regulated and your diet will be better.
- Comment on A hypothesis 3 months ago:
they haven’t been made by ibm for years and years