kossa

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was the stupidest form of US defaultism you've encountered in real life whilst they're abroad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s when you inject Spain directly, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A lot less blue too... Hmmmm....⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it would be double with the ‘duh’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A lot less blue too... Hmmmm....⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because the Apollo mission photos were obviously faked. How would they have known how small Earth really is, duh!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would an anarchist society work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We departed from

  Anarchism by its nature cannot work

  and arrived at

  Anarchism works in small groups

  I like that and we even agree on it 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Erm

  The central issue was whether Microsoft was allowed to bundle its IE web browser software with its Windows operating system

  They even had the same shit going on some 15 years later in the EU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could split Valve Dev from Distribution from Hardware. But that is a shitty split, I’m with you.

  You could also just say: you have three years to split distribution into, idk, 4 subsidaries which are then “released” as own companies.

  You could split geographically, and down the line those companies might compete with each other.

  That’s what I mean with creativity. A lot of shit could be possible. But here we are and are told “it makes no sense”, “there is no alternative”, just crippling our own imagination before even using it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then again…Gaben is the only billionaire I know of who improved my life. Linux rocks so much more these days because of him.

  Probably would still chop his head off, but do it with a sharp blade, not the dull rusty one for the likes of Bezos and Musk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There might be. But back tn the day we just knew that monopolies are shit for everyone (except the owner). So maybe we should sharpen that tool of law once again. But who am I kidding, not gonna happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t seem feasible to break them up into smaller companies, how would that even work?

  It is a shame how uncreative we as a society have becone to deal with monopolies.

  Remember when Microsoft almost got divided over bundling a browser with their OS? 'Cause Pepperidge Farm remembers 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would an anarchist society work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The blood thingy always meant what it means today:

  Blood is thicker than water

• ⁨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'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I nean Predator seems kinda woke with that rainbow view, so it only makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Fruit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta need a time machine for that sweet neanderthal pussy interesting anthroplogic research.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No way!..⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can change search provider and have the experience back ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Festive Cookies!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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.