Schmoo
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- Comment on Is there any way I can study Marxist theory in a way that wouldn't seem too boring or dry? 4 hours ago:
If you want to explore classical Marxist ideas in an entertaining way, check out Michael Burns on YouTube. He used to run the channel Wisecrack and makes videos about philosophy, and he is a classical Marxist who talks a lot about Marx and Engels. That being said, these days you’re not going to find much discussion of Marx that doesn’t cover Marxism-Leninism in some way.
- Comment on fur sure 6 hours ago:
Not weird at all, they’re eating like many hunter-gatherer societies used to. It was very common to season meat with fruits and honey.
- Comment on Having to work during the apocalypse sucks 1 week ago:
I used to think this way when I was miserable and disillusioned with society in general. When you approach life with the assumption that people are evil by default you tend to only notice things which affirm that belief. I’ve since made a lot of changes in my life and gained a new perspective, and I’ve found that I more frequently notice people doing small acts of kindness when they think no one’s looking. Most people want to do good, it’s just that they don’t often succeed.
- Comment on Having to work during the apocalypse sucks 1 week ago:
Most people are good, it’s a wealthy few who exploit the planet and people for profit who are destroying the planet. The “humans are inherently selfish/evil” line only serves to protect those responsible from accountability by distributing the blame.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 2 weeks ago:
They’re not - or at least no one can reasonably claim ignorance now - and they have already voted for anti-genocide representatives in special elections and primaries thus far. It won’t be a wipeout across the board, but AIPAC will lose their stranglehold on US politics this primary season and they know it. They’ve been doing damage control rather than trying to get pro-Israel candidates elected recently.
- Comment on Former Nippon Ichi Software president says the “salaryman-ification” of Japan’s game industry is why there are fewer “individual creators” like Hideo Kojima and Suda51 - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
Surely there’s an indie scene in Japan, no?
- Comment on po-tay-toes 2 weeks ago:
Does this mean we could genetically engineer them to produce enough for an adult dose?
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 2 weeks ago:
When most of the AIPAC candidates were elected the electorate was largely ignorant of Israel-Palestine.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 2 weeks ago:
I guess it depends on whether they’re referring to elected officials or the electorate, because support for the genocide is only mainstream among elected officials and not the electorate.
- Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me: 2 weeks ago:
Which views would those be?
- Comment on Have a good day <3 3 weeks ago:
When I was in Hawaii I went to a “barbecue” place that served general tso’s chicken with a side of green beans, mac & cheese, and mashed potatoes. There was no pork or barbecue sauce.
- Comment on Reporting an absence 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been oversensitive to AI gen images recently and it’s worse with low-rez. This image just tripped a false positive for me.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s often said that it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism, but it seems vastly more difficult for people to imagine the end of the state, so much so that it’s equated to the end of the world.
- Comment on Reporting an absence 4 weeks ago:
It’s hard to tell with the low resolution, but this looks like AI to me. The guy on the left’s feet look weird, and also the bricks don’t appear to have a consistent pattern. The layout of the house with the two garages separated by what I guess is a hallway also doesn’t make sense to me.
- Comment on Rude 4 weeks ago:
Yeah but they get badass hydraulic locomotion that way. Imagine you had no muscles and you lifted your arms by manipulating your blood pressure.
- Comment on 2022 was a bleak year 😢 1 month ago:
IMO the best vegan substitute for chicken nuggets is breaded and fried lion’s mane mushrooms. They are absolutely perfect in taste and texture for this purpose, and the best part is that they can be grown very easily and cheaply.
- Comment on POV: You walked into a corporate meeting of people who make 10x your salary 1 month 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 1 month ago:
At this point I whitelist rather than blacklist.
- Comment on Website 1 month 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 month 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 2 months 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) 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.
