There is a massive functional difference to anyone with two braincells to rub together.
There’s a massive cognitive dissonance, certainly. And your brains are practically smoking, trying to juggle the contractions.
The only reminder of the triad’s existence is infiltrator trolls who make alts on other instances to post bad-faith arguments glazing the core devs.
IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS
Write me a better ending the Game of Thrones in five sentences
A special irony in it, because the “no we won’t help” crowd is calling the dev base Russian shills.
But they’re still using the “Russian” service? Even though they poo-poo Yandex for also being a “Russian” service?
Lemmyites are just as baby brained as the Reddit community they fell out of. Absolutely embarrassing.
I love to mock people who use the library by shouting “If you’re not the payer then you’re the product!”
Westerners are so baby-brained on this shit. Kagi can take your money and still spy on you. Yandex can not take your money and still not bother caching your search history, because there’s no good way for them to monetize it. Nevermind GitHub or Wikipedia or literally any other public good being hosted on any website anywhere.
The delusion that you’re safe using a free service is matched only by the delusion that you’re protected because you paid someone money.
It is funny to see people relentlessness stanning a paid service that’s built on a notoriously fraud prone crypto stack, then getting paranoid about something about as sophisticated as Lexus Nexus because it’s hosted out of Evil Country.
I hope nobody here bothers to interogate where their torrents are being hosted from too closely.
most people don’t like right wingers
Most people don’t like retail politics, generally speaking. It’s alienating and inaccessible. It feels like you’re getting in on the ground floor of an MLM with no practical way to rise through the ranks. And it forces you to support people far better at talking rich people out of their donor dollars than votes out of the neighborhood. They’re folks you’ll find smug, shitty, and morally repulsive if you ever have to share a room with them.
The degree of cynicism people feel blunts any kind of revolutionary rhetoric. Meanwhile, their fear of things getting worse leaves them suspicious of any kind of advertised sweeping change. So you end up with bland, toothless centrism as a default position that meets the low expectations voters have cultivated.
“Hello, I’m a Republican Consultant/Former-Politician and I’m here to offer the Democrats some friendly campaign advise. Have you tried just agreeing with us on everything? Perhaps even going out to the right of us, so you look even more conservative with your rhetoric than you did on paper? And try appealing more to white people - straight middle-aged men in particular? More! More! You’re doing great! You’re going to win in a landslide!”
One Vote Later
Democrats Shed Massive Numbers of Women and Minorities, In Historic Underperformance on Election Day
Does anyone still think their data isn’t being sold even if they pay for a service?
Very possible they’re too small to have a meaningful contingent of buyers. But I wouldn’t bank on it.
This joke gets funnier every time someone makes it
Cash and Monero being on the same tier is very funny
This is the kind of picture a mathematician expects you to take seriously.
STOP. DOING. UX.
Computers were meant to do math, not make pictures.
Trillions of pixels illuminated, but no real life benefit has been discovered.
GUI. Ray Tracing. Generative Adversarial Networks and Diffusion Models.
Terms dreamed up by the deranged.
They are playing you for fools!
Dear Past Self -
Do not piss off the nice assassin fellow that lives down the lane.
Sincerely
Future Se-
The Roman Aqueducts were largely slave driven like the rest of Roman society
The aqueducts were gravity driven. That was cumulative value add. They were an early form of automation.
Meanwhile, the cotton gin was slave driven. It still set off a rapid economic expansion in the southern US which mapped neatly to Marxist presumption of capital accumulation.
Capitalism as an encompassing system is only a few hundred years old
Industrialization as a global economic enterprise kicked off a few hundred years ago. The human propensity to accumulate wealth and the methods of compounding returns have always been with us.
The M-C-M’ circuit wasn’t always here.
Periodically, some community would find an opportunity for capital improvements that afforded a rapid growth cycle. Capital projects like the Roman Aquaducts and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, for instance, dramatically increased the surplus yielded by labor. The number of people who could live within a community rose and economic output rose with it. But it was still dwarfed by industrialization and geographic constraints limited the rate of expansion (you can’t build aquaducts and hanging gardens everywhere and expect to yield equivalent surplus). So you hit that classic Marxist diminishing return on profit and the rate of economic expansion fell back down into the low-single digits.
The circuit did exist though. The fundamental economic benefit of cyclical growth had a soft ceiling that primitive societies hit.
Now we’re in an industrial era that doesn’t feel like it has a ceiling. But it does. There really are ecological and resource limits, even to a post-industrial world. One day, we’re also going to hit that ceiling (assuming we haven’t already). I don’t think it would be fair to say - a few centuries after peak production / climate apocalypse sends us into a perpetual global depression - that Real Capitalism Has Never Been Tried.
Neither would I benchmark “When capitalism starts” the day after we construct a Dyson Sphere and master superluminal travel, because we’re kicking off a bigger wave of economic expansion than we enjoyed while earthbound.
What I might argue the ancient world lacked more than the M-C-M’ circuit was the degree of fictitious capital (which requires a big surplus-laden economically literate middle class). But that’s not capitalism et al, just a facet of modern speculative investment.
Apartheidist regimes make a special point of inventing more racial and ethnic cohorts within the law, so that there is this broad spectrum of oppression - everyone had an opportunity to benefit from the oppression of someone slightly below them, there’s always another stair you can get pushed down if the government doesn’t like you.
Since your status is derived from the apartheidist regime and you’re always standing on someone else’s shoulders, there’s this prevailing fear that you’ll be targeted by the people behind you if the people at the top ever fail.
Tends to work best during periods of economic expansion, because there’s a surplus to spread around. Even the lower tiers of society can feel like life is improving. But once you start running into a recessionary headwind - because you’ve depleted the soil with industrial farming or you’ve mined out the easily accessible precious minerals or malinvestment in education and technology leaves you trailing the rest of the world - the bottom falls out, crime skyrockets, and plutocrats start turning on one another to stay ahead.
Good thing we’re not in a country that’s cracked its head on a glass ceiling.
Aeon Flux
Oh man, that was Heavy Metal tier crazy nonsense.
pulls out a list of Adult Swim cartoons
slaps them on the table
I also went to college in the '00s.
The mechanism of capitalism - deriving revenue from capital to further develop and accumulate capital and thereby expand streams of revenue - were always here. The rates were lower, limiting the accessibility and the appeal to individuals who were already cash flush and very forward looking. But capitalism, as a productive force, has always been with us.
I’m reminded of this mindset from the crypto scam surge.
Points at technical documents
“Well, it says it’s secure so quit arguing that it’s not secure”
Typically followed by
“If someone traced you/robbed you, then you were just doing it wrong”
Like, we’ve got high level white house officials feeding national security secrets to the Israelis because they just blindly implemented a “secure” Signal extension. So I guess I shouldn’t be surprised people don’t look past the cover.
But come on. “You can just buy some tokens and then you’re secure” is painfully naive.