Schmoo

@Schmoo@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POV: You walked into a corporate meeting of people who make 10x your salary⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  God I don’t miss the corpo speak. Quit my software dev job to work part-time at a coffee shop 2 years ago and am so much happier focusing on my hobbies. Luck and privilege have allowed me to do this but I wish everyone the same opportunity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When DinoCon is doing more than the US Gov⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point I whitelist rather than blacklist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Website⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that word. I used a possessive apostrophe like this (its’) for years before somebody finally told me that rule doesn’t apply to its for some unknown reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Casual weeknight unwind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A whippet is a dog breed lol. They look a bit like a cross between a greyhound and a borzoi (slender bodies, long faces).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Casual weeknight unwind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Inhaling nitrous oxide gives a very short-lived euphoric high. Using the little canisters this way is colloquially referred to as whip-its. Prolonged use is known to cause severe and irreversible brain damage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Cooked, Right? (FTL)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, yes, but that would require me to preemptively choose caution over expediency. On a related note, I always fight the giant spiders, and then get very upset at the predictable outcome.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Usually a horrible interaction for all involved⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would find some way to let them know it’s coming and ask them to not let anyone know I told them. Weeks is crazy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One way to guarantee your paper blows people away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It reads to me as a record of a very intelligent person having a total mental breakdown (likely as a result of being drugged and tortured by the CIA as part of MKULTRA). It contains some cogent points about capitalist alienation resulting from the industrial revolution (without identifying it as such), but is also full of homophobic, reactionary, and ecofascist rhetoric. It also completely falls flat with the conclusion being that the only way forward is a complete rejection of technology and modernity, without presenting a compelling alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with "Plex Servers"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am a Jellyfin server guy, and I Iet family and friends use it for free. I also am not shy about telling people that I do this, as I don’t see any moral issue with it and will happily defend piracy as not only completely fine, but a net moral good. I see it as a tiny bit of anarchist calisthenics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This kid gets it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He lived in a very large clay jar, which is actually not that uncommon in the Roman empire during the time that he lived. Almost everyone in the metropolitan areas of the Roman empire owned at least one such jar, and so homeless people would live in them in much the same way homeless people today might live in their cars or a tent. The reason it’s significant that Diogenes lived in one is that he did so by choice, as he had the wealth and social status to live quite comfortably if he wanted to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've wondered since I was a youngin⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the difference between defense and vengeance. In Transformers One they had already defeated the big bad and had the support of the other transformers, so killing him then was an unnecessary act of revenge. It’s different when you’re still fighting and the big bad’s death could make a difference in the outcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m half expecting Peter Thiel to say “maybe we should build a bunch of fallout shelters and then initiate a nuclear holocaust so we can outlast all our enemies, and also run some experiments while we’re at it” in an interview tomorrow, wearing a vault suit and giving a thumbs up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Aside from being reductive, yes, I’m an anarchist. I’m not opposed to writing down some rules, but I am opposed to the coercive use of force to impose them on others. It is possible to organize a system of preventative and restorative justice without the use of a hierarchy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is where we disagree. Because, to me, thinking that every single lawmaker in the history of humanity (we have laws that date back thousands of years and are just copy-pasted between countries) was writing laws with malicious intent is some form of paranoidal insanity on par with “lizard people are controlling the government”.

  It’s not about the intent of each individual cog involved in the creation and application of the law, but the intent for which the system of laws and hierarchies were created. Plenty of reform-minded people or naive pro-establishment folks participate in the legal system with good intentions, and sometimes find success reducing the harm that it causes, but that doesn’t change that the system continues to uphold class society and was created for that purpose. The effect of our system of laws and hierarchical institutions is the preservation of a system of division between distinct classes, and since I have yet to see a legal system that does not do this in some form I have concluded that this is the fundamental nature of laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All of those laws are unequally enforced. Anti money laundering laws are applied only to the subjugated socioeconomic group (drug dealers belonging to the working class, etc.). The dominant socioeconomic group gets their children protected, their rape victims to receive justice, their human rights defended. The subjugated socioeconomic group rarely benefits from these laws, which is why thousands of rape kits sit in warehouses never being investigated, why children born into poverty are more often separated from their parents and institutionalized rather than receiving the help they need, and why human rights are routinely violated without consequence.

  The people making such laws can sometimes intend for them to be universal, but such people fundamentally misunderstand the nature of laws, and it never quite pans out that way in practice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The law is extremely clear in this regard - the ICE dude murdered a person for no reason. The rules on the use of deadly force literally use a moving car as an example of when not to use deadly force - as long as there are “other defence options, such as moving out of the way”.

  When the people tasked with upholding the law consistently disregard it in particular circumstances - as they do when it comes to abuse of power by law enforcement - that law only exists in the circumstances in which it is consistently applied. Things like qualified immunity have effectively nullified any law that ostensibly holds law enforcement accountable. The law does not exist for any other purpose except to protect the dominant socioeconomic group in a given country without binding them, while binding the subjugated socioeconomic group without protecting them. Who is in which group is dynamic and always subject to change, but this rule almost always holds except in cases where very skilled lawyers are able to argue in court that someone in the latter group actually belongs to the former in some specific circumstance. That is the law being used for something that it was not designed to do, a bit like an exploit in a video game soon to be patched.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh you misunderstand, he knows the law well. He just knows how to use it as a tool to protect the elites from accountability and as a bludgeon to punish the people for non-compliance, as well as how to make sure that never gets flipped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yummy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Neck-deep in liquid mercury wearing tungsten shoes is how I do my morning workout. Better gains than the Dragon Ball gravity chamber.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this even a question?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the kind of thing the blazed out of his mind guy sitting next to you at the Waffle House at 3am says to you unprompted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grippy handles too. Luxury.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve never seen those urinals that have complementary delicious cake?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reduce the crime rate to 0⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m familiar enough with right wing misinformation to know that immigrants being responsible for increased crime - and even that crime is increasing at all - is an entirely fabricated narrative in the US. I confess not being familiar with the situation in Sweden, but I can recognize the same false narrative reflected in your previous comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reduce the crime rate to 0⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as you continue to blame all of your country’s problems on Muslims you will never have the understanding needed to actually fix them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We wouldn't listen, anyway.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there are several separate cognitive abilities needed to ask questions. Curiosity (which is very common), complex communication (much less common), and advanced theory of mind (exists on a spectrum, you need not only awareness of your own mental state, or metacognition, but awareness that others have a mental state that is distinct from your own. Humans actually develop this ability surprisingly late in childhood, but every parent will know exactly when it happens). Though there are other species with similar traits, it might well be the case that humans are the only living species in possession of all of them simultaneously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions some decisions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything to avoid accepting responsibility for ourselves, we have to blame “less developed” nations for our own failure to treat addiction at scale. Did you know the opiate crisis was created by the pharmaceutical industry for profit? Or that the CIA is known to have been (and let’s be honest, likely still is) involved in international drug trafficking, including financing the Nicaraguan Contras’ cocaine trafficking into the US, primarily in poor black communities?

  Our for-profit healthcare system, the criminalization of drug addiction, and deliberate support of drug trafficking by our own government to achieve political aims both foreign and domestic created our drug problem. We have only ourselves to blame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions some decisions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascism is imperialism turned inward. The US fears losing its grip on power so it’s begun to cannibalize itself in a desperate bid to restore its dominance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because Dems are capitalists and always have been. Even when they had the support of powerful unions it was only the class collaborationist unions, never radical unions. The Dems were social democrats when there was a strong socialist movement that threatened capital interests, making it necessary for the capital owners to co-opt and redirect it. FDR implemented his reforms in the interest of preserving capitalism, not for the benefit of the working class. He saved the ruling elites from their own hubris, and they hated him for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's basic science⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mmm, yummy endosperm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨life hack⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those who do not have fat baby JD Vance memes in their gallery will be denied admission.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone eating that much THC has been working their way up to that for a long time.