Schmoo

@Schmoo@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yale Posting It's Ls⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to reduce the crime rate to 0⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mmm, yummy endosperm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨life hack⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uncharacteristically self-aware of you to post this in the shitpost community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The placebo rage bait effect works even on those who are aware that it’s placebo rage bait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm cooked, chat.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Losing mine at 26. Yay!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They really love me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea is that it’ll make people more cautious drivers around you. It doesn’t work because people generally transform into sociopaths the moment they enter a vehicle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no my harvest is too bountiful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now go further back. Where does the latin word nucula come from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Topology is one of those sciences that is hyper-niche to the point that it seems like it would have very limited scope, but when you take a closer look it’s actually studying something fundamental.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus hates American "Christians"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also the origin of some anti-semitic tropes. After Christianity rose to prominence in the Roman Empire, Christians considered lending money with interest to be a sin, so they were forbidden from working related jobs. This resulted in Jews, who were forbidden from owning land and many other professions, taking up the role of merchants, money lenders, and tax collectors. In the Christian view of the time, they were doing the “dirty work” because they were immoral and sinful, and the nature of the work made them easy scapegoats for many of society’s ills. The reputation has followed Jews into modernity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh god oh fuck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would assume the Liver cancer they mentioned is the terminal disease they’re referring to. It sounds like the guy has multiple chronic health conditions, which isn’t all that uncommon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1919 (correctly)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad’s ringtone is a motorcycle engine revving at max volume, and he never silences it. He also just lets it ring when he doesn’t want to answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨advertisement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am now cursed with the knowledge that this is possible. TIHI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kinesi Protein⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This animation isn’t just sped up, it’s also simplified. In reality they don’t take steady, purposeful steps. They spaz out with random vibrations (Brownian motion) until the “foot” clicks into place by random chance, then the other one releases and the process repeats. It’s like shaking a container filled with legos until they assemble themselves. The proteins are just shaped in such a way that “walking” is the most probable outcome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have some standards⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone with a modded gameboy that I rarely play I feel attacked. The fun part is modding it, actually playing is just a bonus. I only really play it while traveling, which I haven’t been doing often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is sick fuck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not the first time I’ve come across evidence that such an industry exists in Japan, I already knew this was a thing. It’s not my intention to judge Japan unfairly, there’s plenty to judge other nations for and plenty of ways that Japanese culture is better as well, but this is a specific area in which Japanese culture is uniquely messed up. Pedophilia is normalized there to a greater extent than anywhere else I’m aware of.