Schmoo

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Except all the liberals insisted they would vote for Biden’s corpse before letting Trump win. What does it say about them if an actual progressive is the real dealbreaker?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not colorblind friendly at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Thread] Mental Math⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder that as well, I have a false front incisor and haven’t noticed any difference in durability, but as far as sensation goes it’s practically identical, if a bit less sensitive to cold. Then again, the part that actually gets replaced doesn’t exactly have nerve endings, I still have those underneath it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do the ultra-rich consume popular media?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  He just had to know what the true hero of the story, Jules-Pierre Mao, would get up to next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Thread] Mental Math⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, until prosthetics can achieve full parity of both function and sensation then they are only good as replacements for parts that are already missing. No sane person is swapping their hand for one that lacks a sense of touch just as good or better than what they have already, even if it’s mechanically superior. In such a scenario that mechanical superiority is desired they would opt for an augmentation over a prosthetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where the magic happens owo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, I know some of those words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatcha gonna watch?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The fantasy is the competent opposition to all of those things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Leftist fascism is called fascism, because the term leftist doesn’t actually mean anything but fascism and communism do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pee posting?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you just supposed to carry that around with you everywhere? Do you wash it in the sink after every use? If I were a trans man I think I would just use a stall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Disco Elysium successor studio has been announced for the second time today, meaning there are now 4 companies battling for the title of ZA/UM's true inheritor⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like ZA/UM exploded and left behind little fragments that are still alive somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For those curious, this account on Xitter claimed responsibility. Their stated reasons are indeed ridiculous, but I don’t at all have a hard time believing that people can be that misguided.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're not you when you're dooming.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is basically the text version of the Kendall Jenner Pepsi commercial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks, Logan.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you’re rich you gets lots of extra chances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The real estate tycoons who lease out the office buildings are the reason for the return to office push by the media. They must continue to justify their existence at all costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Whose propaganda did you suck down blindly?

  Chill out a bit, my comment could not have possibly given you the impression that I’m a supporter of capitalism if you had read it carefully. I began my comment by putting forward the capitalist argument for copyright - a steel-man argument - and ended it by debunking it.

  Copyright is meant to foster and improve the commons and public domain

  You said yourself that copyright establishes art as private property (or “intellectual property” if we’re being more precise). That does the opposite of fostering and improving the commons and public domain.

  If copyright was not tradeable or transferable

  Then it wouldn’t be copyright. Copyright is a capitalist construct, not a public good corrupted by capital.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That explains it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And, after enough time, I’ve come to know Harris enough to trust her.

  Keep your guard up, pal. Election years are mentally exhausting and when the dust clears you might start seeing things more clearly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At the root of this cognitive dissonance is who benefits and who doesn’t. Copyright law is selectively applied in a way that protects the powerful and exploits the powerless. In a capitalist economy copyright is meant to protect people’s livelihoods by ensuring they are compensated for their labor, but due to the power imbalance inherent to capitalism it is instead used only to protect the interests of capital. The fact that AI companies are granted full impunity to violate the copyright of millions is evidence that copyright law is ineffective at the task for which it was purportedly created.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Decentralized infrastructure can be physical as well, such as microgrids that enable peer-to-peer solar energy sharing.

  And sidenote: software engineers are exploited workers like the rest of us, and it’s a respectable profession. The “tech bros” you have to worry about are the wealthy CEOs masquerading as inventors and engineers like Elon Musk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re using an example right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t need to present a perfect alternative for my critique of Western Democracy to be valid. Critique is the means by which we can improve upon what already exists. Some short-term solutions could be to overturn citizens united and end legalized corporate lobbying, introduce voting reforms such as abolishing the electoral college and switching from first past the post to ranked choice or star voting, or expanding direct democratic programs like ballot initiatives. All of these have the effect of minimizing the influence of capital and maximizing the influence of people on the political process.

  Longer term solutions involve bottom-up organization of things like mutual aid, unions of various types, decentralized infrastructure, community-run libraries (and not just for books), community gardens, etc. These kinds of dual-power structures always start small but have outsized positive effects on the communities they form in. If they were allowed to grow unhindered they would eventually grow together and easily supercede the top-down power structures that pervade our lives today, which is why they end up being suppressed or co-opted by the same.

  A good example of how this occurs is how despite the internet providing a way to collect and distribute all the knowledge on earth for free to everyone on earth (the greatest library in all of human history), powerful corporations - with the help of governments around the world - unnecessarily spend vast amounts of wealth and resources to restrict the free exchange of ideas along socioeconomic lines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe there are a lot of government orgs that could be forces for good if they weren’t completely at the mercy of powerful corporations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It points out the contradiction of being in a supposedly free Western Democracy but still being totally at the mercy of others. It isn’t necessarily that Western Democracy is the cause, but that it fails to address these problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My paychecks from the CCP must be getting lost in the mail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s some pretty wild conspiratorial thinking, do you actually have proof or just some anecdotes about people disagreeing with you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨arachnids⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oops, wrong arachnid. You are indeed correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish for once I could just have a civil conversation about my views without people immediately jumping down my throat and accusing me of being a CCP or Russian shill, or a dirty liberal, or a filthy communist. This is what I’m talking about when I say I just end up getting shit on from all sides. Every unsavory label in the book gets stuck to me before I even get a chance to clarify my views.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem I see here is that you perceive this as being anti-democracy when it really isn’t. Criticism of western democracy isn’t equivalent to a total rejection of democracy in general. Capitalism renders democracies ineffectual, which is what I perceived this meme to be pointing out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching ml and world argue in every thread be like.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Care to elaborate on that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t reject relationships with other people, but I think they should be between independent individuals who associate with each other only because they both want to. (Violating this principle is sometimes necessary but always undesirable.) You appear to think otherwise, and I suppose that’s a fundamental value difference that can’t be resolved through debate

  I also believe in autonomy, but everyone has relationships with people they did not choose to associate with due entirely to unavoidable circumstance. This doesn’t just apply to family, but to everyone on earth to varying degrees. You are just as dependent on community as you are dependent on nature, a complex web of relationships of which you are a small part. Refusing to acknowledge that these relationships exist because you did not choose to enter them is childish, and it enables you to behave selfishly because you do not take responsibility for your externalities. This is the same pitfall that capitalists dive into to justify pollution and all manner of horrible things.