Both posts make a good point.
On one hand, as I wrote in The Graysonian Ethic, everyone has urges that are bad, but the key is to recognise that those urges are bad and that while they are of course a part of you, you don't start identifying yourself by them and making them the core part of your identity and start going around forming communities full of people whose commonality is that they have bad urges. I see a beautiful woman walking down the street, not only do I not immediately walk up and molest them, but I don't hit on them either since I'm happily married, and I don't go online and join the molester community or the cheating on my wife community "but don't worry I won't do it I swear" because I'm not a psychopath.
On the other hand, lots of people who are called incels are clearly not incels. Nick Rekieta of Rekieta Law has 6 kids and a gorgeous wife -- he isn't celibate, involuntary or otherwise. He's called that because he fought for a guy he thought was metoo'd falsely and he didn't bend the knee to the woke lynch mob. Same with lots of labels -- People have views that aren't racist but they are called racist because someone goes "What they're really saying is" with no evidence. Remember the recent kerfuffle where people claimed not using spices is racist? Anyone with a cursory knowledge of history would know how absurd that idea is (for much of western history, slathering your food in way too much spice was considered a status symbol since they were rare and expensive), but why learn history when you can just brainstorm whatever bullshit you want?
On one hand, as I wrote in The Graysonian Ethic, everyone has urges that are bad, but the key is to recognise that those urges are bad and that while they are of course a part of you, you don't start identifying yourself by them and making them the core part of your identity and start going around forming communities full of people whose commonality is that they have bad urges. I see a beautiful woman walking down the street, not only do I not immediately walk up and molest them, but I don't hit on them either since I'm happily married, and I don't go online and join the molester community or the cheating on my wife community "but don't worry I won't do it I swear" because I'm not a psychopath.
On the other hand, lots of people who are called incels are clearly not incels. Nick Rekieta of Rekieta Law has 6 kids and a gorgeous wife -- he isn't celibate, involuntary or otherwise. He's called that because he fought for a guy he thought was metoo'd falsely and he didn't bend the knee to the woke lynch mob. Same with lots of labels -- People have views that aren't racist but they are called racist because someone goes "What they're really saying is" with no evidence. Remember the recent kerfuffle where people claimed not using spices is racist? Anyone with a cursory knowledge of history would know how absurd that idea is (for much of western history, slathering your food in way too much spice was considered a status symbol since they were rare and expensive), but why learn history when you can just brainstorm whatever bullshit you want?
Finished my print, but the quality on the overhangs is pretty bad. I think I need to reprint with the fans higher.
Unrelated, I also updated my searx instance to searxng. Nice having a bunch of new search engines including brave search set active by default.
Unrelated, I also updated my searx instance to searxng. Nice having a bunch of new search engines including brave search set active by default.
One thing to keep in mind about the games industry of the past is the character of trying to buy a video game was way different than it is now. Today, you can hop online and upon hearing about a game that's been released have it playing on your computer or game console in maybe an hour. Back then, you would have to go to the store, see if they had anything remotely interesting, and when they didn't because of course they didn't, you have to just wait until they restocked and hope they had something interesting then.
I assume that you could have some luck buying stuff through mail order if you were in the us, but it's a big wide world out there and sometimes the computer store was all you have.
I assume that you could have some luck buying stuff through mail order if you were in the us, but it's a big wide world out there and sometimes the computer store was all you have.
On the other hand, they are advised not to park outside of the garage.
Why?
Because being exposed to the outside world will harm the batteries in the winter and the summer.
Oops
Why?
Because being exposed to the outside world will harm the batteries in the winter and the summer.
Oops
>Describes every president of the United States in history, especially the present one
"you know, it's really inappropriate to keep comparing Trudeau to Hitler"
Not one person has said to me. Not once.
Not one person has said to me. Not once.
If TikTok were real chads they would have gone into their congressional thing on the full attack. "You called us here for bribes and power, so let's do this: how much do you want to stop wasting our time on this?"
"No, don't be silly, concentration camps are just camps you to go in order to help your concentration!" oh ok "also we want a final solution to the JQ" wait what?
The jello looks like that milkshake is being backed by the military industrial complex.
I'm afraid your friends will find that this circumcision station is quite operational...
To be fair, it is highly politically undesirable thanks to previous environmentalism campaigns, but in a lot of ways burning biomass such as trees is a relatively desirable method of getting fuel compared to a lot of the more technologically advanced ways. You have to be very careful about balancing getting the biomass with replacing the biomass or else you don't using everything up, but on the other hand you don't need anything fancy to get energy out of biomass -- you just start a fire and you've got energy.
On the other hand, it definitely leads to some greenwashing. Kraft paper companies that were always going to burn bark and black liquor end up able to call those acts "green" under this definition. Most people who have taken a deep breath next to a paper mill are not going to call burning black liquor particularly environmentally friendly.
Relevant to the uk, the small island ended up with some serious problems because there is a limited amount of energy you can get from biomass and then still have new biomass to burn in the next year. During parts of the feudal period, there just weren't that many trees anywhere to burn anymore except in legally protected Lord's forests. That lack of biomass to burn ended up being one of the reasons that people ended up moving to the less desirable coal. I think that that's an important lesson that we need to keep in mind whenever we're talking about Green energy, the fact that you can't keep your home with doing the right thing. You need to actually produce energy.
On the other hand, it definitely leads to some greenwashing. Kraft paper companies that were always going to burn bark and black liquor end up able to call those acts "green" under this definition. Most people who have taken a deep breath next to a paper mill are not going to call burning black liquor particularly environmentally friendly.
Relevant to the uk, the small island ended up with some serious problems because there is a limited amount of energy you can get from biomass and then still have new biomass to burn in the next year. During parts of the feudal period, there just weren't that many trees anywhere to burn anymore except in legally protected Lord's forests. That lack of biomass to burn ended up being one of the reasons that people ended up moving to the less desirable coal. I think that that's an important lesson that we need to keep in mind whenever we're talking about Green energy, the fact that you can't keep your home with doing the right thing. You need to actually produce energy.
That's true, and even that was ok for a while because there was a diverse enough population that different people with different ideas could vote up or vote down and moderation was pretty minimal. Later on it became more polarized and moderation amped up considerably and it became particularly bad.
I ended up going all-in on the fediverse after I started to realize they were really pushing the censorship angle openly. I was never personally censored (besides some really brutally biased subreddits that were more than happy to downvote all wrongthink into oblivion), but knowing it's out there has a chilling effect on speech. You start looking over your shoulder, and asking if you should really post that idea, and at that point what's the point of a discussion site if you can't discuss anything?
I grew up in a situation where I had to constantly hold my tongue thanks to divorce stuff between my mom and my dad. It wasn't healthy. Later in life I had to work really hard to open back up because there were so many filters I'd put on everything I said that I'd hardly ever speak, nobody knew me, I was all alone.
Once I forced myself to remove the filters, I found that while I wasn't everyone's cup of tea, some people really, really liked the person they discovered. I wasn't alone anymore.
Then our society started pressuring everyone the way I felt pressured back then. They're wrong -- The reason our society feels lonlier than it's ever felt before is that we've gone all-in on an ideology that says you have to watch everything you say, you have to shut out anyone who says anything wrong, you have to distance yourself from anything that isn't exactly what the establishment has told you to be and nothing more and nothing less.
I grew up in a situation where I had to constantly hold my tongue thanks to divorce stuff between my mom and my dad. It wasn't healthy. Later in life I had to work really hard to open back up because there were so many filters I'd put on everything I said that I'd hardly ever speak, nobody knew me, I was all alone.
Once I forced myself to remove the filters, I found that while I wasn't everyone's cup of tea, some people really, really liked the person they discovered. I wasn't alone anymore.
Then our society started pressuring everyone the way I felt pressured back then. They're wrong -- The reason our society feels lonlier than it's ever felt before is that we've gone all-in on an ideology that says you have to watch everything you say, you have to shut out anyone who says anything wrong, you have to distance yourself from anything that isn't exactly what the establishment has told you to be and nothing more and nothing less.
tl;dr: socialism isn't a thing in the way they're talking about here, it's pure capitalism in action.
I have a big problem with the term socialism, especially applied to things like this video tries to, applying it to a guild in a video game.
According to Marx and Engels, Socialism is the era of the dictatorship of the proletariat where an all powerful state takes over everything to try to remove the old power structures, in particular by using violence against the previously powerful. It is a temporary state in between capitalism and communism.
This idea is of course really stupid. You think you're going to hand absolute power to a group of people including the power to claim certain people are evil the power to execute people and the power to distribute resources, and it's magically going to result in a stateless, classless society? That's like a weight loss plan where you eat 4 liters of ice cream every day.
Socialism has been tried a bunch of times, and the obvious outcome always results -- mass murder of dissidents of any kind and mass suffering while the leaders get fat.
Since what is actually socialism is not desirable, we have stuff like people voluntarily working together being called socialism. You can kinda see what they're trying to do, linguistically it seems like "oh, it's social, so it's socialism!" but that's sorta dumb to the point that it seems sinister. It's like "Oh, we're called the Nazis! But don't worry, it's not like being *that* nazi" -- right. So why exactly are you choosing to name your thing after nazis if it isn't nazis? Oh, and then it turns out after you buy into their new nazi thing they sneak in a "Hitler was right!" and you're like "oh shit wait what?"
Capitalism is defined as an economic system characterized by private ownership and control of the means of production.
Under capitalism, individuals are free to acquire capital for themselves and try their best to utilize them for whatever purpose they desire. They can choose to use it to produce a good for profit, or they can choose to use it for public benefit, or they can choose to waste it. As well, human labor is a form of capital, and individuals are free to use their own labor as they see fit. They can choose to use their labor for themselves to produce something, or they can choose to sell it to someone else, or they can choose to spend it on the community, or they can choose to waste it. That's their choice, and they're free to make their own decisions in that regard.
At its best, capitalism has everyone doing what they're best at for mutual benefit. Of course, it can also be exploitative too, because freedom is dangerous; On one hand, freedom means the freedom to do things that aren't good for yourself or others. On the other hand, freedom means the freedom to do things that are good for yourself or others. Thus, freedom is best enjoyed by a moral people who will choose to do the right thing when nobody is watching, and authoritarianism is best enjoyed by immoral people who will always choose to do the wrong thing when nobody is watching so the state must always have somebody watching.
This is where I have a big problem with the thesis of the video. Individuals who control their labor, their money, own the equipment they use, and are free to use those resources however they wish willingly work together towards a common goal, and that's supposed to be socialism?
I don't agree at all. A group of individuals who have the absolute right to private property and private control of their own labor deciding to work together with others is economically capitalism.
You can say "But they're cooperating, and under capitalism you're supposed to be competing!", but this is one of the misunderstandings of the system at its best. The competition isn't necessarily just trying to get everyone else under your boot. A guild is competing for resources. It wants to get people, and it needs to present a case that's better than the other guilds, and also a case that's better than the alternatives, including hiring people as mercenaries (which could be done no matter what but was added as an official feature in 2015 in the group finder), or working alone.
I feel the same about my participation in the fediverse. Yes, I don't charge anyone to use my services and don't run advertising, and I've chosen to participate in an ecosystem where I can cooperate with other server operators to create something better than I could create myself, but I was able to start my services because I am free to have private control and ownership of capital of my own, and I'm a free individual in control of my own labor, so I purchased the capital equipment I run my services on, set up the equipment using my labor as I saw fit, and have the control over those services to run them how I wish including the decision to monetize or not.
I have a big problem with the term socialism, especially applied to things like this video tries to, applying it to a guild in a video game.
According to Marx and Engels, Socialism is the era of the dictatorship of the proletariat where an all powerful state takes over everything to try to remove the old power structures, in particular by using violence against the previously powerful. It is a temporary state in between capitalism and communism.
This idea is of course really stupid. You think you're going to hand absolute power to a group of people including the power to claim certain people are evil the power to execute people and the power to distribute resources, and it's magically going to result in a stateless, classless society? That's like a weight loss plan where you eat 4 liters of ice cream every day.
Socialism has been tried a bunch of times, and the obvious outcome always results -- mass murder of dissidents of any kind and mass suffering while the leaders get fat.
Since what is actually socialism is not desirable, we have stuff like people voluntarily working together being called socialism. You can kinda see what they're trying to do, linguistically it seems like "oh, it's social, so it's socialism!" but that's sorta dumb to the point that it seems sinister. It's like "Oh, we're called the Nazis! But don't worry, it's not like being *that* nazi" -- right. So why exactly are you choosing to name your thing after nazis if it isn't nazis? Oh, and then it turns out after you buy into their new nazi thing they sneak in a "Hitler was right!" and you're like "oh shit wait what?"
Capitalism is defined as an economic system characterized by private ownership and control of the means of production.
Under capitalism, individuals are free to acquire capital for themselves and try their best to utilize them for whatever purpose they desire. They can choose to use it to produce a good for profit, or they can choose to use it for public benefit, or they can choose to waste it. As well, human labor is a form of capital, and individuals are free to use their own labor as they see fit. They can choose to use their labor for themselves to produce something, or they can choose to sell it to someone else, or they can choose to spend it on the community, or they can choose to waste it. That's their choice, and they're free to make their own decisions in that regard.
At its best, capitalism has everyone doing what they're best at for mutual benefit. Of course, it can also be exploitative too, because freedom is dangerous; On one hand, freedom means the freedom to do things that aren't good for yourself or others. On the other hand, freedom means the freedom to do things that are good for yourself or others. Thus, freedom is best enjoyed by a moral people who will choose to do the right thing when nobody is watching, and authoritarianism is best enjoyed by immoral people who will always choose to do the wrong thing when nobody is watching so the state must always have somebody watching.
This is where I have a big problem with the thesis of the video. Individuals who control their labor, their money, own the equipment they use, and are free to use those resources however they wish willingly work together towards a common goal, and that's supposed to be socialism?
I don't agree at all. A group of individuals who have the absolute right to private property and private control of their own labor deciding to work together with others is economically capitalism.
You can say "But they're cooperating, and under capitalism you're supposed to be competing!", but this is one of the misunderstandings of the system at its best. The competition isn't necessarily just trying to get everyone else under your boot. A guild is competing for resources. It wants to get people, and it needs to present a case that's better than the other guilds, and also a case that's better than the alternatives, including hiring people as mercenaries (which could be done no matter what but was added as an official feature in 2015 in the group finder), or working alone.
I feel the same about my participation in the fediverse. Yes, I don't charge anyone to use my services and don't run advertising, and I've chosen to participate in an ecosystem where I can cooperate with other server operators to create something better than I could create myself, but I was able to start my services because I am free to have private control and ownership of capital of my own, and I'm a free individual in control of my own labor, so I purchased the capital equipment I run my services on, set up the equipment using my labor as I saw fit, and have the control over those services to run them how I wish including the decision to monetize or not.