Hegar
@Hegar@fedia.io
- Comment on coleoptera master race 2 days ago:
This was just a top notch meme. Informative and a very clever arrested developement reference.
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 5 days ago:
I was careful to say perminant heirarchies for that reason. Bao Jingyan said that power originates in the contrast between the weak and the strong, and the cunning and the naive. I'm inclined to agree.
But we can have social institutions that break up and flush out these natural channels of inequality, rather than institutions that metastize them into heirarchies.
Aristotle discussed a then-current idea to redistribute all personal wealth above 5x the poorest citizen. We could tax all inheritance above say 500k at 100%. Eliminate all personal debt every 7 years.
There's a lot we can do to make heirarchies more temporary.
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 6 days ago:
There are lots of ways to organize people that aren't heirarchical, or that dilute or limit power rather than concentrating it.
Directly voting for laws, appointing officials by sortition - like being picked for jury duty, pushing decisions down to neighbourhood councils, consensus decision making, a culture that always permits insulting the successful and plenty else has been suggested.
It all comes with drawbacks of it's own, of course. And having grown up in a heirarchical society, it can be very hard to imagine anything else, until you read about all the times and places where people have organized themselves differently.
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 6 days ago:
There's a lot of neuroscience showing that social power suppresses empathy in the brain. Status, privilege, wealth, etc. make almost everyone less able to consider the pain of others.
Most of us can be reasonable with people we know. But the socially powerful are making most of the important higher-scale decisions, and they are neurologically the least capable of making good decisions on behalf of others.
Or that's how i see the problem.
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 6 days ago:
While i too yearn for the downfall of capitalism, pre-capitalist societies were still responsible for environmental distruction, slavery and genocide.
As long as individuals or a small elite have enough power to enforce their needs over the needs of everyone else, we'll always have capital-b Badnesses.
We have to usher in the collapse of perminant heirarchies, whatever form they take.
- Comment on TBH it's a really good deal. 3 weeks ago:
What kind of head leaves you thinking afterwards, "i would pay for that to have not happened. But i'd only pay $4"?
- Comment on TBH it's a really good deal. 3 weeks ago:
What kind of head leaves you thinking afterwards, "i would pay $4 for that to have not happened"?
- Comment on The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard 3 weeks ago:
That house looks sweet! Cool tree right there, plenty of nature, even a ramp. My appartment is less ada compliant than that.
Also this post is some middle class bullshit.
- Comment on Scurvy ain't nothing to fuck with 3 weeks ago:
Always was.
- Comment on Scurvy ain't nothing to fuck with 3 weeks ago:
Wu Tang means "sugar free" in chinese so there are a lot of products labelled as wu tang.
- Comment on A hypothesis 4 weeks ago:
Any correlation would likely be related to socio-economic status ie class. Macs were always more expensive, that's going to skew wealthier, which has way more impact on developement and learning than which OS you used as a kid.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The catholic church would absolutely use sainthood to whitewash the legacy of a rapist, but i'm sure that position has plenty of promising internal candidates.
- Comment on What are the most popular conspiracy theories? 5 weeks ago:
My favourite atm is that kirk's wife had him killed.
- Comment on What are the most popular conspiracy theories? 5 weeks ago:
In reality, an open elite controls world governments and economies.
- Comment on Wrecked 'em 💀 5 weeks ago:
the pink square is the giveaway
Good to know! The last time i read viz was decades ago.
- Comment on Wrecked 'em 💀 5 weeks ago:
This has to be from Viz, right? It reads like a Viz line.
- Comment on New image-generating AIs are being used for fake expense reports 5 weeks ago:
Yes fapiao culture!
The bar i used to drink at in SW china would write fake receipts for business travellers. The one time i was there for it a dutch guy came in, bought an expensive bottle of maotai for everyone to share, then the owners wrote him a receipt for twice that much. The patrons got drunk, the bar got paid and the guy got to steal from his company.
Just your classic win/win/win.
- Comment on Biased source 5 weeks ago:
Dino Grandino? No, that's too obvious. Hmm. I know!
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 1 month ago:
Humans are social mammals. In many important respects, it makes no sense to even think of us as individuals.
I suspect that in the past people with higher levels of social anxiety probably just spoke a little less than average, and noticably less on the much less frequent times they met strangers.
But i think it's its probably very inaccurate to imagine anyone who we'd recognize as an "introvert" in the much more collectivist cultures that dominate history.
- Comment on Woman 1 month ago:
Yes, fart with pride! Always compliment public farts.
- Comment on You never missed anything important 1 month ago:
We're social mammals and we will always spend large amounts of time engaging in social behaviour.
It maintains relationships, strengthens bonds, makes it easier to obtain aid, helps reinforce our positions within our identity groups, etc. etc.
Even when the words being shared are complete nonsense, conversing is never nonsense.
- Comment on Manic Stew 1 month ago:
Lack of coordination baked potatoes.
My favourite actual horse name is pretty close. I think it was from the 1800s: Potoooooooo
- Comment on You never missed anything important 1 month ago:
Narrator: they were not.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It's the I-don't-care-who-started-it injustice.
Often people in authority will see injustice and respond as if the real problem was that everyone else disturbed them, failing to even attempt to actually understand the situation first.
This is because power has been shown to cause changes in the brain that make you less capable of empathy.
- Comment on Discuss 1 month ago:
they hated jeebus
It ok, I forgive them, they know not what they do.
- Comment on Discuss 1 month ago:
It is an objective truth of our reality, not subject to opinion or reasonable discussion, that peanuts are subpar on average and average at best.
- Comment on Discuss 1 month ago:
You sir are worse than hitler.
- Comment on Discuss 1 month ago:
The peanut mania that grips this nation and blinds people to objective fact has you in it's tentacular grasp.
- Comment on Discuss 1 month ago:
This is so undeniably, objectively true.
Peanuts end up in everything because they're very cheap, not because they're that good.
Peanut butter is ... fine. That's all you can honestly say. PB&J is edible at it's best, and then only rarely. Reese's is a testament to how easy it is to sell coagulated sugar and salt. Bougie peanut butter cups are just polished turds.
Thai is the only cuisine that knows what to do with peanuts.
- Comment on Wouldn't mind knowing myself 1 month ago:
Imagine trying to restart agriculture and all you find are some weird preservative-laden disks that are somehow oddly bitter and sickly sweet at the same time.