Alaknar
@Alaknar@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 5 days ago:
If you get rid of the capitalist leeches, yes, you have more workers left over because there’s no more demand for yachts and other shit
Yeah, you can’t think like that.
The “demand for yachts” means a lot of employment in very specialised, expensive areas. That means high tax revenue. Yes, the capitalist leeches should be eliminated, but eliminating “the demand for yachts” doesn’t suddenly usher the age of prosperity, it might actually lower the tax revenue.
But yeah, in terms of literally freeing hands to instead do plumbing, that is correct.
Otherwise - fully agree!
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 5 days ago:
There are only three solutions to this problem:
- UBI + UBP, like I mentioned.
- Throw so much work at the young that they literally cannot do anything else but work.
- Completely restructure how the retirement system works on a fundamental level.
1 is impossible because Capitalism.
2 ends in an even bigger disaster than we have now.
3 is inconceivable. Would probably require some form of “communism for old people” where everything is provided without money being required and they get a relatively small amount of cash in case they want to travel. Won’t ever happen because greed exists.
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 6 days ago:
I would agree with you if we went all in on UBI, including Universal Basic Pension. Because without that, population decline means slowly starving out the elderly, or throwing so much work on the younger generations, that they reproduce even less.
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 6 days ago:
We are producing enough food (and clothes, and appliances, etc., etc.) for 10 billion people, and the planet is burning. It is not sustainable long term. And, by “long term”, I don’t mean “the next 20 years”, I mean “the next 100-200 years”.
And the “manufactured crisis” of population decline hits really hard if you’re 12 and have no clue how the retirement system works.
They arrive at the right conclusion (capitalism is currently the cause of all suffering), but through completely stupid reasoning.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Oh damn, I never heard about this! Cheers, I’ll look into it!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
(dude here) Same. My pits smell pretty badly after a whole day in hot weather if they’re sporting bushes.
Also… yuck. I don’t know, I just don’t like hair anywhere other than the head + eyebrows + eyelashes. If there was a magical procedure that eliminates 100% of all the other body hair forever, I’d go for it without a second thought. We really don’t need it since the invention of clothing.
- Comment on Im a weekly showerer 3 weeks ago:
Right? People are so fucking weird, like they never heard about washing oneself in the sink…?
- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 5 weeks ago:
Who wants to use an increasingly locked down operating system?
What’s the alternative? Keep in mind: we’re talking about a primary phone used for calls, texts, navigation, banking, payments, photography, and social media.
- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 5 weeks ago:
What’s the alternative? Keep in mind: we’re talking about a primary phone used for calls, texts, navigation, banking, payments, photography, and social media.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
OK, there’s a MASSIVE gap between “illegal use of white phosphorus” and “chemical eradication”, like, dude, be real.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
- If that’s your point, why did you write about the Sami people?
- Source on “chemical eradication” in Lebanon, please. I searched for it but couldn’t find anything.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 1 month ago:
It’s the exact same thing as right-wing weirdos associating the term “feminist” strictly with with the most extreme, fundamentalist, fringe elements of the movement, “feminazis” if you will, that went way over the equality hill and ended up in “all men are bad, m’kay” forest.
The fact that public media often reinforces that view does not help.
In short: the game is woke, because it showcases a gay romance with historical accuracy. Vavra thinks it’s not woke, because it doesn’t allow the player character to be a black lesbian with “them” pronouns.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
OK, now I get it.
Of course I heard about it. The “state sponsored Western propaganda” also very specifically mentioned that phrenology studies were shut down only in the 70s in Sweden, in case that would be your further attempt at a “gotcha”.
Why would you think that it’s some sort of secret?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m sorry, could you re-write that? I’m having trouble understanding what you meant.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This article would therefore define ANY war as genocide. (in whole or in part, killing members of the group), and it may even be a “peaceful situation”!
People always focus on the wrong part of the definition.
The important one is the intent.
Wars are waged for various reasons - you need “lebensraum”, you need oil, you intervene on behalf of the UN, you counterattack after being attacked yourself, etc.
The goals in these cases are: expansion of borders, hoarding of wealth, arguably humanitarian intervention, or military defence.
If your goal is to eliminate a people, that’s genocide.
And yes, that’s also the reason why it’s so difficult to actually define a military action as “genocide” - because it’s often almost impossible to unequivocally determine what was the intent behind an attack.
And with that, let’s look at your examples:
This would mean the Nazis were genocided by the Allies.
No, because the goal was the stopping of the genocide of Jews, and defeating an aggressor that terrorised Europe and North Africa for four years.
This would mean Japan’s treatment of Aum Shinrikyo was also a genocide
No, because the death sentences were carried out not because of their religious beliefs, but because they committed acts of terror.
This is why no one takes them seriously
No. No one takes them seriously because most people, like you, don’t understand the definition.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’m not going to engage in this discourse, just as much as I won’t engage in the discourse about whether or not the Earth is flat.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yeah, I think I made a pretty strong refute of his points here.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
So in other words, the moment you read anyone that disagrees with you, you stop thinking immediately and reflexively shut off any and all engagement?
No. The moment someone makes a claim that is utterly ridiculous in its disregard for facts, I disregard their reasoning.
If you said “the Earth isn’t round to begin with”, you’d earn an identical reaction.
Sounds like you’ve holed yourself up in an echo chamber of your own making
Sounds like you’re projecting.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
From your first link:
Among many other potential reasons, cultural genocide may be committed for religious motives (e.g., iconoclasm which is based on aniconism); as part of a campaign of ethnic cleansing
This is covered by “intent to destroy (…) ethnical (…) group”.
From your second link:
The final prohibited act is the only prohibited act that does not lead to physical or biological destruction, but rather to the destruction of the group as a cultural and social unit
There will always be political legalese in play, when imperialist powers want to commit genocide, and so they’ll cling to the fact that “cultural genocide” is not specifically mentioned. But, in the case of Uyghurs, it’s a very clear-cut case of both ethnic cleansing and physical genocide (through forced sterilisation and displacement of children).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The moment you say that “China isn’t imperialist to begin with” you lose all credibility and reading the rest is a waste of time.
Read about the Belt and Road initiative, the militarisation of the South China Sea, the treatment of Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Tibet, or Taiwan, THEN come back and say with a straight face that “China isn’t imperialist to begin with”. :D
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Cultural genocide is not recognized by the UN
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; 3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; 4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; 5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Elements of the crime
The Genocide Convention establishes in Article I that the crime of genocide may take place in the context of an armed conflict, international or non-international, but also in the context of a peaceful situation. (…) The same article establishes the obligation of the contracting parties to prevent and to punish the crime of genocide.
Bold by me.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Unless the media wants to check up on the Uyghurs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
China isn’t imperialist to begin with.
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Excellent shitpost, milord!
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 months ago:
REAL GAMERS DON’T NEED WAMEN IN THERE GAMES!!!1
- Comment on The RAM crisis could completely change how developers make video games 2 months ago:
People, especially those who run games on monitors with hi resolution, sleep on the fact that you can easily turn AA off to get a massive boost in performance for virtually no degradation of graphics.
- Comment on The RAM crisis could completely change how developers make video games 2 months ago:
What in the world are you talking about…? I was using my GTX 970 for five years before I got a used RTX 2060, which I sold to my brother after two years. I’m nor running an RX 9070 XT and it looks like it’ll do its job for at least 5 years.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 2 months ago:
Top rated free games: itch.io/games/top-rated/free.
I personally don’t play on Itch that much, but I just had a looksie today and found something that seems to be the spiritual child of Trackmania: kodub.itch.io/polytrack.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 2 months ago:
Yeah, it’s just unsubstantiated “looking back through rose tinted glasses” kind of thing.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 2 months ago:
Nonsense.
You have RPG games, rogue-likes, VNs, puzzles - literally all the kinds of games in existence are right there on Itch. It’s exactly like back when Flash was popular, only this time it’s more secure and less resource hungry (most of the time).