agamemnonymous
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on "In Minecraft" 15 hours ago:
If you’ve never crafted a meme with your soul when you were kinda fucked up, and weren’t that great at editing in the first place, then we can’t be friends.
- Comment on But the Canadien stock market is over 33,000! 15 hours ago:
The more this suffix is normalized, the more it makes it feel like the Nixon scandal was something about water.
- Comment on it's just science 20 hours ago:
Maybe no one came to his party because they knew he was on the list
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 22 hours ago:
Crazy idea:
Start a right wing punk band
Exclusively write songs about how capitalism and that status quo are great
Charge thousands of dollars for albums, tens of thousands for tickets
Make millions of dollars off rich chuds
Use those millions to fight the status quo
- Comment on Is Dungeon Meshi worth it if I'm not into anime? 2 days ago:
If you plan to DM any homebrew, you should definitely watch it. The “lotta hydra meat that’s going to waste” aspect is a driving force, but the major theme is exploring the dungeon as an ecosystem; its flora, fauna, structure, everything.
It’s like Julia Child meets Anthony Bourdain meets Steve Irwin meets David Attenborough meets Brennan Lee Mulligan. If you enjoy thinking about dungeon design at all, you will enjoy this show.
- Comment on Weight 2 days ago:
Today off all days 🫡
- Comment on Cat 4 days ago:
Is this a linear algebra joke?
- Comment on Cat 5 days ago:
Behold, living in Japan
- Comment on So Deep 5 days ago:
Cleanup was too much for me. Didn’t regret the purchase, but I don’t have it anymore.
- Comment on Start-up idea 6 days ago:
Yeah dawg, I think you’re just not very good at researching your appliances. Put a little time in to learn to sniff out bots and find reviews that aren’t advertisements. Look at 4 star reviews. I hate to say it, but look at reddit; it’s a legitimately great research resource for that kind of thing if you can recognize ads.
Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot of touchscreen WiFi bullshit out there to spend stupid money on, but there are a few diamonds in the rough if you’re willing to look.
I can’t speak to outside the US in terms of exact models, but the techniques transfer. Don’t trust brand names, find reviews of specific models.The internet is full of dorks who go on forums to geek out on appliances, you just have to find them.
- Comment on the moon is hollow and rings like a bell 6 days ago:
I like the Doctor Who “The moon is a giant egg” take
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 week ago:
Sure it does, you just have to buy the stuff that’s expensive because it’s quality, not expensive because it has WiFi and touchscreens and stuff.
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 week ago:
There are tons of models out there that cost half that much. Sure, there are fancy ones with wifi and touch screens you can spend $1000+ on, but a basic washer is like $4-600.
- Comment on Hrmmm 1 week ago:
Pretty sure mine are passive with a little speaker that selectively transmits low decibel sounds. If the batteries die, it’s still passive protection, I just don’t get to hear people talking.
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 1 week ago:
Give it another 15,000 years, it’ll get more interesting
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 week ago:
I think I paid around $1200 for my Maytag commercial, not one single problem in the last 5ish years.
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 week ago:
People have mentioned energy use and safety, but adjusting for inflation they were also way more expensive, a washing machine in the 50s was over $1000 in today’s dollars. If you’re willing to spend that much, you can find great reliable appliances with long lives.
- Comment on Gimme an apple 1 week ago:
Bottom up is better, the stem becomes a useful handle for those last few bites
- Comment on halal paintball 1 week ago:
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme
- Comment on I don't care if this is fake, I choose to believe it 1 week ago:
No way, velociraptor was way smaller, you’re thinking of utahraptor
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That’s why I can’t help but scoff when people say “It’s not real artificial intelligence, it’s just a stochastic parrot”. Like my dude, have you ever interacted with the average person?
- Comment on One way to guarantee your paper blows people away 2 weeks ago:
Yeah he makes some solid points, it’s worth a read. The bomb stuff was just a ploy to get it published, it’s not like reading it is going to turn you into a bomber.
- Comment on Womp womp womp womp 3 weeks ago:
“Capitalism breeds innovation”
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 3 weeks ago:
I watch basically everything that isn’t music or advanced mathematics at 2x speed. YouTubers talk so slowly.
- Comment on How do you build revolutionary optimism in these dark times? 4 weeks ago:
I can see that, but you can always focus on meeting in person. Just use tech to vaguely call meetings.
- Comment on How do you build revolutionary optimism in these dark times? 4 weeks ago:
Locally
Civilization is basically just bureaucracy integrated over population. Some people figure out how to game the system via the chasm of abstraction between; that’s a function of any sufficiently complex system, look at the speed running community
But ultimately, civilization is just people. All the bureaucracy placed on top of it is just a collection of systems made by people to coordinate themselves. A lot of the dark theatrics are the result of the population becoming so vast that even at the lowest levels, the bureaucracy is distant and abstract. That abstraction alienates people from one another, so they only really know how to interact through the lens of that bureaucracy
The optimism is that you can engage your community. You can meet your neighbors, learn their trades and share yours, start a group chat. You can organize barter networks, childcare rotations, handyman services, mutual aid.
You can join local political groups. Start local political groups. Go to protests and meet people in neighboring areas. Network.
You can promote candidates for local office, and encourage others in your network to do so. You can run for local office, and encourage others in your network to do so. We’ve seen what the other side is offering so far as administrative competence, you think you’re worse?
Go to local events. Talk to your neighbors. Organize with your neighbors. The big system is very top down in its perspective, but it’s really ultimately dependent on the composite people. You can organize the people from the bottom up, and get your friends in nearby neighborhoods to do the same.
If all the neighborhoods are organized, bloodless revolution slides quite comfortably into the realm of plausible futures.
- Comment on Think about it 5 weeks ago:
So Jesus was canonically into foot stuff and vore. Cool, cool.
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through? 5 weeks ago:
Bookmark the stuff that warrants a bookmark.
Close the stuff I’m not as interested in as I thought I’d be.
Group remaining tabs by subject (books, articles, products, etc. I have a system).
Close redundant tabs in groups.
- Comment on Tankie 5 weeks ago:
Will, the tanks are replaced with ICE vehicles
- Comment on If it fits... 5 weeks ago:
Clearly they meant Non-Alcoholic
