The_sleepy_woke_dialectic [he/him]

I went into town today but I couldn’t get anywhere because of this new Vietnamese place and people were lined up for mile. Of course I didn’t know this until I asked a guy what was going on and he said “Pho queue”

Nice guy

T1 is an autoimmune disease that attacks these cells, so what are they doing to protect them from the body’s immune response? The article didn’t mention.

We can’t possibly stop sending them bombs because if we do, so I’m told, they will just use more indiscriminate bombs. I find it hard to believe they could produce/acquire enough of these dumb bombs to do a fraction of the damage they’re already doing but what do I know.

Wait we had a struggle session about gambling of all things?? How are you going to be anti-capitalist and pro-gambling industry?

The keyboard and mouse should both charge by sticking to the rear of the iMac with a big magnet, that would be pretty neat and tidy when you want them out of the way and make it easier to transport too.

Why do you think animals do not have consciousness? Do human animals have consciousness? And are non-human animal brains not remarkably similar to our own? Did we not come out of the same stuff, live on the same earth, and evolve from the same common ancestors? It seems the logical default to assume that non-human animals do experience the world in much the same way you or I do.

Lets say you see a moral wrong that others ignore, often while admitting that they’re wrong to do so, and you alone act against that moral wrong despite it being hard and being mocked for your decision. How else would you feel? If you felt that being vegan was morally equal then you wouldn’t have become a vegan for ethical reasons in the first place. So by definition, you must believe yourself (in this specific area) morally superior, and based on that one data point, it’s probably safe to generalize that you’re morally superior to the majority of non-vegans, just like how you probably consider yourself morally superior to people who litter or hit their kids.

I think you’d still get some big budget projects from publicly funded art grants and crowdfunding. In a society where IP and patents either don’t exist or are much less restrictive, a lot of code and assets will be freed up to reuse when you make your “new” game, lowering the barrier to entry.

I expect we would see more things like doctor who; low budget, thousands and thousands of episodes because it’s beloved by millions of people who keep demanding more.

This is me. Writing gave me so much anxiety in HS and I really should have started keeping a journal or something but I didn’t. I devoured books as a kid but still I struggled with putting ideas on paper. Once got so upset at a boyscout event where I had to write an essay for a merit badge that I threw up.

I can write a comment or even effort-post just fine, and I can type 100 wpm, it’s just something about structured writing that makes me feel Ill.

Continuing slickJujitsu’s line, the reason they want you to install yay is because it’s an “AUR helper” meaning it can pull programs from the Arch User Repository. Arch (and arch based distros like endeavor) have their own repositories with curated programs chosen by the distro maintainers which pacman will pull from, but the AUR has every program you could imagine. yay and octopi will install from both places so once installed you shouldn’t have to worry about the distinction again. A more “beginner friendly” distro would have them preinstalled for you.

Software management does seem to be the biggest hurdle for new users though so you aren’t alone. Unless you’re trying to install some incredibly niche software, downloading a file in your browser is almost certainly going to be 100x harder than using the package manager. The package manager will keep track of all your programs and keep them updated for you, while self-installed programs it doesn’t know about it can’t keep updated for you.

Did you reply to the wrong comment?

They’re giving the vaccine in the neck now? Hardcore.

This may be irredeemably lib but is there a conversation to be had about the “supply side” vs. “demand side” of free speech? I think the argument that I have a right to access information that I want to access is essentially what people who aren’t brainbroken think of when they say and hardly ever “People have the right to harass me in front of an abortion clinic”

I think I lean toward the idea that people would be able to generally make good and right decisions for themselves and others if they weren’t bombarded with malicious disinformation at all times. Look at the example of m4a and adding dental and vision to Medicare. Initially support for both is like 85% then given a few months for multi-million dollar targeted misinformation campaigns it was down to just under half. No one ever said “hey, I’d just love to hear the oil companies’ perspective on this healthcare stuff”

You can even say “Thank you for your perspective (majority/communication-privileged group), but I’ve already heard it and I’m trying to listen to (minority/silenced group) right now and you’re limiting my freedoms by talking over them” which would drive them right up the wall.

Could this framing have any use to us?

Not everyone is so apathetic about it. The billionaires building their apocalypse bunkers in abandoned missile silos certainly aren’t. The people involved in ramping up the dehumanization of immigrants, preparing for the cruelty that will be inflicted upon the influx of those escaping man made “natural” disasters aren’t. This is the sort of game which is won or lost before you start playing. It starts soon. We have to build that will now or else.

You do have to tailor the message for the audience, but in this context I think sticking with words and phrases which invoke the whole revolutionary Marxist tradition are a positive. Tailoring your message too far runs the risk of losing some of it. You have to meet them where they are but the goal is to guide them to where you are. When I hear someone say “Billionaires are attacking the middle class” I just tune it out to be honest, because it sounds identical to the background noise of performative liberals, accidentally based for ten seconds republicans, and dead-end utopians. Ambiguously contrarian. I think a liberal will hear it the same way. I want to say “look, we have dusty tomes and academics and structures and traditions and all of that too. We aren’t just screaming into the void.” I think that works, or at least it worked for me.

Definitely, but if the recent spike we’re seeing keeps going we should be well on our way to 80s and 90s levels by next year!

I think the established socialist terms are best, even if they require further explanation because our definition and understanding of “class” is the distinction between us and your average Republican. It’s the definition from which our entire understanding of politics flows. To a Republican “class” is a series of virtues you signal, self reliance by having a pickup truck, being a hard worker by having working man boots and not being college educated. A petit- or bourgeois man born with a silver spoon in his mouth can still be happily brought into the fold of “working class” so long as they get their hands dirty and don’t talk like “the liberal elite”.

To a Marxist, “class” is based on whether you have an exploitative or exploited relationship to production.

I’m reporting you for woke time theft

from woke import pronouns

It takes 120 hours of developer time for each pronoun, making the game more expensive for everyone 😔