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- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 22 minutes ago:
A group deciding that one member is not welcome anymore is no hierarchy. It doesn’t structurally exploit the person “on the bottom”.
It only becomes a problem where the “anarchist” shared flat meets our current society. Exiling him might not be as easy, because of outside forces (true hierarchy). He has a contract and can enforce it with outside help. Maybe he ends up homeless because he cannot afford rent, or nobody gives him another flat.
In “perfect anarchist utopia” he would go into the “couch pisser flat” and be welcomed with open arms. And why wouldn’t he do it willingly? He is bound to be way happier with other couch pissers than being miserable with us, who don’t want to piss onto couches.
But the example is oc mood, because once again: did that ever happen to you? As I said, people tend to follow the rules of their group. I did never encounter a couch pisser or someone like it in shared flats or other groups organized without hierarchies. And usually, once again, if I heard of those stories, it was because of outside forces. People disagreeing about means of power like money.
The concept of intrinsic shame carries far in circles, where people know each other. I mean, read up on current anthropologic research about hunter-gatherer societies. For all we know “anarchy” is the default organizational form for small groups of humans.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 9 hours ago:
How come that just never happens, lol?
People generally have a harder time to be assholes to people they know. That’s where this “I want to deport every brown person, except that one person I know, he’s fine” mentality comes from.
What would you do if a flatmate starts pissing on the couch? Basically at one point you would decide to kick him out of your “flat society”, yes. And if my flat mates all decide it is better to piss onto the couch I can decide to leave my “flat society” as well, yes.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 16 hours ago:
against anarchy as a large scale societal system
Yep. That’s what I meant before. You cannot take our current world and “swap” a random constitution of a state towards something written by anarchists. That doesn’t work.
That’s why I pointed as an example to groups which, knowingly or unknowingly, implement anarchy in one way or the other. And I fail to see how they always transform to some hierarchical system like you wrote.
I mean, the anarchical experience that a lot of people share is a shared flat. Most wouldn’i consider themselves an “anarchist flat collective”, but that is what they are observed through the lense of political science. In all my shared flats we did not have any “boss”, we talked about problems, found agreeable solutions for everybody by consensus and so on and so forth. That is anarchy, everybody had a say, everybody’s opinion was heard and considered, agreements were formed without a powerful entity which enforced it.
And a lot of larger groups employ the same principles.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 day ago:
What do you think “anarchy” means? It is not “everybody does what they think”, it is about how to organize societies and groups equally, by consensus.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 2 days ago:
Anarchism by its nature cannot work
😅.
Tell that to the millions of collectives, groups and communes around the world which pretty much run on anarchist principles.
Barcelona, a whole city, was organized by anarchist principles during the Spanish Civil War.
I’m with you that “modern” societies (mostly ordered around nation states), as we know them, cannot be organized by anarchist principles. The world would look very different, much slower.
But then again, all seemingly insourmountable problems humanity faces today, stem from the acceleration of the current ruling economic principles, so there’s that.
- Comment on Security lines at JFK airport, NYC 3 days ago:
JFK is shit, yeah. But LAX is worse. They don’t have any designated area for overlay. You have to go through immigration, only to go through security again to get your connecting flight. And immigration is rude, like, I don’t want to enter your shitty country, you make me do it, because you apparently don’t know how to build airports.
And security takes ages, so you wait in line, while you’re called out already to board the flight. Like I DON’T WANT TO BE IN THAT LINE! I did not want to go through immigration or security or anything. I just wanted to get my connecting flight.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 1 week ago:
Ah, and your sources? Like they have on the Wiki page. Cause the usual source for your version is “this blog, where somebody wants to sound smart”
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 1 week ago:
The blood thingy always meant what it means today:
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 2 weeks ago:
A godsd for people without spatial awareness. But apparently I am too shitty to even leverage that. Never recognized anything and will get lost immediately in every game.
When you need to backtrack a house, cave, whatever on a timer that game is over for me 😅
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 3 weeks ago:
I nean Predator seems kinda woke with that rainbow view, so it only makes sense.
- Comment on Forbidden Fruit 3 weeks ago:
Gotta need a time machine for that
sweet neanderthal pussyinteresting anthroplogic research. - Comment on No way!.. 1 month ago:
Well, until my idea is to burn all people called Gene for whatever reason AND I somehow get the means to act upon my flawless idea. Then it’s not so delightfuland exciting anymore, at least not for the Genes.
- Comment on Anyone old enough to have used this before GPS? 1 month ago:
No, it’s routing you along businesses who paid for you to be routed along there. They crank up the monetization of maps.
- Comment on Work smarter, not harder 1 month ago:
I mean, no one is hiring me one way or the othee, but with that method I can look at my CV and feel I accomplished something. So, that’s good.
- Comment on Buttcoin 1 month ago:
Well, I mean, how you tell it, there’s some logic in it. But it feels like the logic of my 5 year old.
“Currency is not backed by gold anymore, so we simulate finite supply and mining work, in order to establish such a currency again.”
Allright. But…did they ever think about why gold is not a currency anymore and an investment vehicle instead?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
That they’ll sell you big trucks only, forever. You can never own a practical, small car 😢
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 2 months ago:
It’s my understanding that NFT technology could be used for things like proving copyright ownership;
Yep. I mean the whole blockchain thing kind of rode on the promise of “trustless contracts” which would be amazing.
All we got was just overpriced bits though, for the price of the health of our planet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Is this true for Germans? 2 months ago:
And “imports” do not happen, because there isn’t enough domestic energy to be had, like right-wing fearmongers want you to believe.
They happen because the European grid is working as intended and it just is the economically viable option to import instead of firing up expensive plants.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 3 months ago:
Kagi is where it’s at. Changed my search experience for the better like crazy.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 3 months ago:
You can change search provider and have the experience back ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Festive Cookies! 3 months ago:
Here’s my strategic assessment: the best option is to large scale infiltrate your enemy before air raids and let the infiltrators put potatos into the air defence systems barrel’s. 🥔 gg, ez.
- Comment on why 3 months ago:
Der Riese Der Junge Der Bote Das Gebirge Das Gelände Das Ende
- Comment on why 3 months ago:
Alles voll logisch, stimmt. Ich geh’ dann nal das Waschmaschine befüllen 👌
- Comment on why 3 months ago:
But there’s no Mäd.
- Comment on why 3 months ago:
Yeah, no, it doesn’t make sense:
Der Mann (the man - male article)
Die Frau (the woman - female article)
Der Junge (the boy - male article)
Das Mädchen (the girl - neutral article)
Like, come on gendered articles, you had one job.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 months ago:
Solar concentration is boiling some other liquid, so there’s some variance 😅
- Comment on Another angle of this modern art installation 3 months ago:
No, it’s clearly the fault of the buses. So defunding public transport it is.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 4 months ago:
Also, nicotine is self-medication for a lot of undiagnosed ADHD folks. So, there are health benefits. Far outweighed by the health drawbacks though. At least for smoking to get the sweet, sweet nicotine.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 5 months ago:
Well, as a kid I thought by the time I’ll do my driver’s license there will be no more manual transmissions around.
Turns out, automatic is just still way more expensive to buy AND, as I recently learned, crazy expensive in maintenance.
- Comment on Banana 5 months ago:
Banana milkshake is where all the dark bananas go for me.