leftytighty

@leftytighty@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Top 3 Apps in my Country (Venezuela) are all VPNs...⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about the sweets and cigarettes it’s just about the wealth acquisition. Same then as it is now. Companies are still using slave and otherwise coerced labor to extract all kinds of wealth from foreign countries.

  If any countries try to take control over their own economy by closing it to Western “investment” they get wrecked by the world bank and invaded or sanctioned by the US and/or its allies.

  Global capitalism is neo-colonialism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon expects more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  DoS is an adjustment after BG3, but I’ve come to prefer the combat and character build mechanics. I bounced off it soon after BG3 and got really into it after trying again later. If you thought you might enjoy it, worth another try.

  I hope their next game is DoS 3 (or a Shadowrun game if I dare to dream).

  For more D&D combat and mechanics I also highly recommend Solasta, and Solasta 2 will be coming out this year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Free" Speech Absolutist™⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is that LLMs are naturally biased but they’re also explicitly biased by the people training them. Knowing what biases are being programmed into these LLMs by their owners is a glimpse into their agenda.

  If you want to read more on the subject these are referred to as “system prompts” and you can read about various “system prompt leaks” that can include such things as explicitly right wing walking points.

  Grok may very well have such nuggets in its system prompt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨italy flag emoji⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  she’s gonna be so relieved

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  how are you posting from prison?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A person’s relationship with their life is an interesting thing philosophically. You can’t consent to it, and most of us feel you can’t easily give it up either.

  I don’t believe this myself but you could rationally argue that having life and being required to keep living is a violation of your agency as a human being.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I still had this in my clipboard from an earlier comment:

  “The son of the worker, on entering life, finds no field which he may till, no machine which he may tend, no mine in which he may dig, without accepting to leave a great part of what he will produce to a master. He must sell his labour for a scant and uncertain wage. His father and his grandfather have toiled to drain this field, to build this mill, to perfect this machine. They gave to the work the full measure of their strength, and what more could they give? But their heir comes into the world poorer than the lowest savage. If he obtains leave to till the fields, it is on condition of surrendering a quarter of the produce to his master, and another quarter to the government and the middlemen. And this tax, levied upon him by the State, the capitalist, the lord of the manor, and the middleman, is always increasing; it rarely leaves him the power to improve his system of culture. If he turns to industry, he is allowed to work–though not always even that --only on condition that he yield a half or two-thirds of the product to him whom the land recognizes as the owner of the machine.

  We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a fourth of his crop. We call those the barbarous times. But if the forms have changed, the relations have remained the same, and the worker is forced, under the name of free contract, to accept feudal obligations. For, turn where he will, he can find no better conditions. Everything has become private property, and he must accept, or die of hunger.”

  The Conquest of Bread

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That betrays a lack of understanding about leftism. Government control over the economy is one way, yes. But your two options aren’t public dictator and private dictator.

  Worker coops, syndicated unions (anarcho-syndicalism), anarcho-communism, gift economy…

  Within the confines of the system you can also balance power quite a bit with UBI, mandated worker councils, worker representation on the company board of directors, etc.

  As long as people are not allowed to fend for themselves because everything is privatized and commodified and you need to work for someone else to stay alive then you will not have freedom, a free market that retains that power dynamic just gives your employer even more ownership over you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The government exists as a check on the power of huge corporations in this model (and is required to enforce private property in the first place). Who stops the richest company from picking winners and losers? Who stops companies from buying up their competition then cranking up prices? You need a framework to keep the market “free” in the first place.

  Anarcho-capitalism is an oxymoron, right-libertarianism is an oxy moron.

  The problem is capitalism, full stop. There’s no good and bad kind, there’s just capitalism. An owning class dictating over a working class isn’t freedom.

  You don’t need private ownership over the means of production to have trade and markets and productivity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  theanarchistlibrary.org/…/peter-gelderloos-anarch…

  theanarchistlibrary.org/…/petr-kropotkin-mutual-a…

  Maybe you can’t think of them but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Free and open markets” work in theory, lol.

  Private ownership over the means of production and allowing people to hoard capital will ALWAYS concentrate wealth and will ALWAYS produce an oligarchy.

  You just unironically made a “capitalism hasn’t actually been tried yet” post in a thread where you’re on the “communism and socialism never work” position.

  The irony is delicious

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8 yr old me after my parents did my woodworking assignment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Man they really need to fix the education system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bro 😭😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Having been forced to make a gesture at gun point a bald cap remained his only option

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not voting for genocide, explained⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anarchists notably are ok with a little genocide if it means the capitalist establishment can keep on limping along

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not voting for genocide, explained⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where are all the Democrats saying that Democrats would be anti-genocide after the election?

  Guess who is still in power, and guess who just backed out of their ultimatum and refused to reduce military aid to Israel even after they failed to let aid in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  what a damaged human being

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If your goal is to achieve realistic looking city streets the best way to do that isn’t an expensive online infrastructure and much more advanced simulation.

  If the developers had the skills and time to do that they could more easily have more dense NPC crowds and richer local simulation.

  The reason the games aren’t already like that is likely just cost, talent, and target performance, which you’d need a lot more of to execute your plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rogue Point is a new tactical shooter from Half-Life remake Black Mesa developer Crowbar Collective⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough, I felt it important to clarify (and check) so these developers and Team 17 aren’t unfairly punished by the general state of the industry.

  It doesn’t seem like you need to worry here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rogue Point is a new tactical shooter from Half-Life remake Black Mesa developer Crowbar Collective⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a coop game and what they’re describing sounds more like “progression” than microtransactions. Unlocking new things is a core gameplay mechanic going back to before the Internet. Did I miss where it implies anything about microtransactions or pay to win (again: coop game)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post-election blues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s nothing neo about this, let’s not even give them the credit of originality. This is exactly what happened 100 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post-election blues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Organize. Sabotage. General strike. Protest. Political action isn’t one day every four years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically... How fucked is the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  white Christian males are also susceptible to measles and pollution and severe storms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically... How fucked is the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That was with moderates and non-partisan civil servants playing interference on his worst ideas.

  You remember everything that came out about how people would ignore his orders until he forgot?

  None of those people will be there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which aspects of immigration are harming you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a conversational AI chat bot that isn't... So horny? Preferably free, but I'll pay a little bit of it's good.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  whatever happened to chatrooms, simple meditation, or therapy? it’d be better if your personal drama didn’t emit as much carbon dioxide as your commute

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tencent collaborated with Snoop Dogg for Fortnite, officially adding the 'C-Walk' as a dance, a notorious gang sign for the Crips.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  hey it’s an American acknowledging “outside of the US” let’s look on the bright side

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  focus on profits rather than human well-being, period, is destroying the world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a fair point. It becomes a matter of which questions we’re asking as a society, though. Of course we are not at a stage where capital is the only driving force for science (thank goodness for public funding) but it’s not far fetched that we might be, and a world where questions are only asked in the context of profit generation (and unsatisfying answers are suppressed) is a dystopian world indeed.

  It’s fair to say capitalism is having a negative impact on science (e.g. journals) but it’s not as dire as what’s suggested

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism isn’t just about “things need funding” the point of the meme is that capitalists determine what gets funding. A socialist state might put economic force behind other scientific endeavors, ones driven by capital are intended to create profit. The profit motive drives innovation instead of the pure ideological pursuit of truth or any other driver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jimmy Carter Casts His Ballot for Harris in Georgia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If a person is alive at the time of voting, it makes sense to me to count it. They might die after the election before inauguration too.

  Plus removing recently deceased people’s already cast votes opens up creative violent ways to help your team which I’m not a fan of either