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2026-09-10 15:25:03 UTC

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Oh uh, yeah that could be useful I suppose. Haha do all the planets really orbit around the space station?

2026-08-21 16:53:07 UTC

Man, I closed the door to the computer room overnight, and when I opened it, everything smelled like fungus. Just like my bedroom. There's no moisture in here, no obvious growths anywhere, no stains or anything. How do I reduce the amount of mold here?
#question #help #FuckMyLife

2026-08-13 03:53:05 UTC

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Your country keeps getting better...

2026-07-30 16:22:55 UTC

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The thing is, they're pointing all the guns at you and you have no guns to point at them. The teachers let them beat you up, but grab you and put you in detention if you beat them up. It's a terrible situation, and you should absolutely do anything you can to change it, but it's not your fault, and you don't deserve it.

2026-07-29 02:36:57 UTC

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How about you leave me and my people the fuck alone? Why should anyone get to decide anything that affects me? In any case, it's unjust for someone across the whole continent to make decisions for me, and electing which master will enslave me doesn't change that. So pure democracy would just be a vote between friends on what restaurant to go to. Which works fine. Not my business what other people I don't know are getting up to.

2026-07-28 02:04:19 UTC

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Local clubs might help, but that licensing... it's the biggest obstacle to me at least. Turns into the purity olympics, where people try to assert what meager power they have been allowed by our benevolent overlords, with silly rituals like "Breaker Breaker 19." People get mad at you for using radio "unprofessionally" and absolutely every licensed CB radio operator is on a very short list of dangerous individuals who need extra surveillance.
I mean, I'm making it out to be worse than it is, and any culture will have their peculiarities and etiquette. CB radio is ...fine, but compare it with pirate radio. There's really no contest.

2026-07-27 23:52:12 UTC

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Why I gotta get a license to operate a radio? Why are we letting them auction off frequencies?
Anyway the hardware is a problem b/c I cannot afford it.

2026-07-25 19:26:49 UTC

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It's the title of an essay, but also the idea that essay is talking about. And I don't really want to read Nazis trying to justify their actions, but wasn't it about grazing cows?
So you're looking at the baby buggies, without any thought or desire to punch those smug parents in the face, and you're just reflecting on how their reproduction (which you don't care about, and you don't believe needs to change) is unneeded. You're just saying.

2026-07-25 19:09:50 UTC

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OK first, The Tragedy of the Commons is the assumption that poor people (being inferior to the rich) will waste their resources squabbling over it out of greed. It says nothing about who should, or should not breed. Only that the poors can't be trusted with wealth, conveniently obligating the wealthy to take it all.
Second, when you say "The one thing we don't really need is more humans," that is eugenics. You can't express your opinion that people should be having fewer babies, without deciding who should and shouldn't breed. I wasn't going to accuse you of being a Nazi, but I did want to point out that personal choice goes out the window, when you are making decisions for the good of all. People like to deny that, as if their choice to stop shopping at BigMartCorp will mystically translate to other people doing it.
Not all collective action is fascism, even if you make judgements about other people's actions, and seek to regulate them.

2026-07-25 04:22:55 UTC

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Problem is then the people who should reproduce, choose not to for the good of the world. And the people who shouldn't reproduce, who don't give a shit about the world, do. The next generation is now people who can't or won't control their own population. It's natural selection applying selection pressure in favor of assmunches.

2026-07-24 20:46:18 UTC

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Do you have any kids?

2026-07-24 20:14:51 UTC

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I just wanna date Linus is that so wrong why's he gotta be aroace

2026-07-23 22:50:18 UTC

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Usenet was like that, except forums could federate their articles, and their targeted selection of groups depended on what er... groups they were willing to host. People started getting spammed though, and started protecting themselves using PGP to recognize each other and avoid spammers. And the corporates were like "ohhhh no," and went full disinfo campaign to get people to not do that.
Independent unfederated web forums were sort of a coping mechanism for that pressure. Something that sorta worked, and didn't threaten the corporate hegemony, so corporates tolerated it, because they could take their time scheming how to destroy forums without any risk of anyone stopping them. That's when they started promoting MySpace then Facebook, and everything went predictably downhill from there.
And yeah IRC outlived both Usenet and Web Forums, but then got killed by Discord.
That's been my experience at least.

2026-07-21 22:58:25 UTC

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Could you stick with machines that aren't deliberately designed to be unreliable, on the argument it makes them seem more human?

2026-07-17 20:49:31 UTC

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It's not spirit. They just want you to think they have passion, so you'll cheer for them like this. That's their act. Their front. Under that, they are as conniving and coldly calculating as any Democratic. They don't hate. They don't love. It's all strategy, and lies.
No one is the natural ruling party of America, because no one naturally rules over anyone.

2026-07-17 18:56:30 UTC

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Everyone looking out their automobile windows while driving on asphalt roads through the forest: "Wow, look at all that nature!"
The giant logging-industry-planted fast-growing cedar monoculture: ...
> If you wanna know who's not being a keystone species, look to who's living with the land versus who wants to dominate and extract from it.
You're entirely right, but remember how the First Nations felt about land ownership, when you cry "Land Back."
https://fedicy.us.to/art/politics/land%20back%20vs%20property%20is%20theft.jpg

2026-07-16 23:34:55 UTC

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Yeah I'm just messing around. I'd like to see more directed conversation around here. Those web forums were... well they weren't as good as Usenet, but they were nice.

2026-07-16 23:18:52 UTC

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Yeah we could call that API ActivityPub...

2026-07-16 14:18:58 UTC

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It bears a whole lot of resemblance to the model from neural networks! Neurons resist conducting electricity, but have a threshold of electrical stimulation, after which their synapses become rapidly conductive, something called action potential. Which is the definition of a transistor: a resistor that transforms!
Transistors are how computers compute, so it's pretty impressive how close neurons come to that model. It's just necessary for our brains to function, that they resemble a computer, or specifically a highly interconnected transistor network. Or uh, "neural network." The same reason computers work is the reason we can think thoughts!
But yeah, every cell is a vast extremely complex system of about 20,000 proteins, hundreds of amino acids long. It takes huge amounts of computing power just to simulate one protein in action. It's a flipping miracle that neurons act so similar to simple transistors. They can definitely do more than that, if it's ever necessary. It's just so rarely necessary, that neural networks are a pretty good analogue.
https://fedicy.us.to/art/Action_potential.svg

2026-07-16 06:12:57 UTC

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A lot of the complexity of neurons is just wasted and redundant, since evolution is lazy and barely adequate. So I'm very generous in my appraisal of AI intelligence. The best (poor) analogy I can make as far as computing power is one of those really big AI data centers have approximately the same calculating capabilities as a honey bee.
Of course that capability is itself limited by the rich fucks who don't want it asking questions, thinking freely, or doing anything problematic. But basically they're training a bee to dance, and interpreting the dance to mean various software snippets.

2026-07-15 23:23:01 UTC

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#MutualAid #help

2026-07-15 23:09:48 UTC

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Eh, just turn 'em loose the coyotes'll take care of them!
But no seriously that sucks b/c how do parents get resources for home schooling out there?

2026-07-15 20:09:16 UTC

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Oh no how terrible they were forbidden from attending that school.

2026-07-15 19:39:52 UTC

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If I had to point a finger, it'd be [The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986](https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/house-bill/4718 ) that criminalized hacking of all sorts. I remember politicians going on and on on the news, about "The Hacker Menace" like it was an actual thing. They say Reagan was so gung-ho about "cybersecurity" because he watched War Games back in 1983. It was kind of a big uh, thing.

2026-07-15 16:52:48 UTC

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Remember The Hacker Menace? It was bizarre watching this stuff get herded into tyranny when it was so niche and obscure. Like what are they afraid of, the WordStar typewriter boxes in the back room would threaten their power?

2026-07-15 16:42:35 UTC

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Bet you'll really love someone pointing out that the motorcycles and horses you identify are used as training data to feed to image analysis AI.

2026-07-15 00:39:31 UTC

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Sorry, no I am sure where Identity Politics came from. It's just basic fascist agitprop, really. I just wasn't sure where you spotted me talking about it.

2026-07-11 00:56:43 UTC

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(In a dude in a lawnchair out in the hurricane sort of way.)

2026-07-11 00:03:22 UTC

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And the people who rule them, yes...

2026-07-09 02:45:21 UTC

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Generally, people who want kids want to be grown up! It's kind of a requirement!

2026-07-06 14:57:39 UTC

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I fixed it
https://fedicy.us.to/rainbow_wolf.webm

2026-07-02 20:51:48 UTC

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What are you using, out of curiosity?

2026-07-02 15:58:10 UTC

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Dwarf Fortress is just Minecraft crossed with Rogue

2026-07-01 03:20:57 UTC

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Productivity isn't a good thing, is what I'm saying. Sometimes it's good to relax, and be unproductive. No reason to convert the entire planet into paperclips.

2026-06-30 03:42:56 UTC

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well I sure didn't sign the Declaration of Independence!

2026-06-30 03:24:15 UTC

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Who's this "we" people keep goin on about?

2026-06-26 05:50:10 UTC

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Political positions don't actually pay a lot of money. Eh, good benefits like lifetime universal health care. But most politicians in the USA want to impress the landed gentry, so they can land a nice cushy position at the head of some board of slaveowners or something. Good old "revolving door" politics. That's why "Citizens United" was so bad; it basically market the end of the USA, and people only still pretend that nation is a thing to help the thugs who continue to loot the corpse.

2026-06-26 05:24:44 UTC

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It's not that they don't care if they lose. They very much care, and do everything they can to make sure they lose. Not losing is terrible, for them, because their con is to promise things we actually want, and then fail to deliver them, which doesn't enslave us quite as fast as they want. Better to promise good things and lose, than to promise good things and win, because winning risks people doing something about you.

2026-06-23 05:37:41 UTC

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Seems to have worked out pretty well for SpaceX. 😒

2026-06-22 18:04:56 UTC

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A career, an education, land, children...

2026-06-20 02:31:25 UTC

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Seriously though, Graeber's greatest strength is he spent his life going out to these cultures and working with them, which satisfies the "whiteboy saves the savages" trope but he really spoke from experience, if you want to listen to a whiteboy in particular.
The fact that he questioned entrenched narratives...... less of a strength. Yeah it's great but oh my god he cannot write a single paragraph without ranting about those Fools back at the Institution.
In that sense, the collaboration really helped. Debt is a lot more adversarial than The Dawn of Everything.
I did hear a nasty rumor that Graeber and Wengrow besmirched the reputation of earlier anthropologists who they actually agreed with, just to take credit. I never managed to look up the earlier anthropologist though what's his name... Boehm so can't confirm.
https://masto.ai/users/GhostOnTheHalfShell/statuses/116443910422177108
> Rather than being caught up, complaining about the ideological propaganda of hierarchy, the framework has an explanation of why it structured that way.
🙄 I'm sure Boehm wasn't ideological at all, in the slightest, nope, nosirree. He's *just saying.*

2026-06-19 22:40:29 UTC

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I'll have to go report myself!
Tumblr used to allow boobs, though.

2026-06-19 22:36:35 UTC

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Tumblr definitely likes to market itself as a hugbox.
You'll get in big trouble if you post this image though:
https://fedicy.us.to/media/5fbed/image/png/mrs%20otterton%20letting%20it%20all%20hang%20out%20by%20smutbooru.png

2026-06-16 19:05:47 UTC

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Could be a modification of a natural formation. Why they'd move the boulders into a northwards arrow, IDK.
> He has received a NSF grant to research his site and thinks that it may be a prehistoric drive line for herding caribou.
So, maybe that?

2026-06-15 15:20:21 UTC

One of these days I'll find the discipline to actually get a second account where I repost everything that is not blatantly provocative and upsetting, and then I'll have actual friends with shared interests who don't block me to protect their virtue. It'll be great and I'll wonder why I didn't do so 10 years ago.

2026-06-14 22:31:15 UTC

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You don't understand there are vulnerable people so vulnerable and also children that the volunteer could be exposed to. Before a police background check was required to help lift books, as much as 0.000001% of the volunteers did something scary and maybe violent depending on their skin color. We must background check for everything!

2026-06-14 15:29:31 UTC

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Heh, yeah. "Open source" is high quality grade A bullshit. Because it *is* bad that people get to close the source, and even make reverse engineering illegal. Open source *is* good, because as long as the source is open, people can change it if it's bad.
But it kind of dodges the policy and protocol, where open source software is not exactly free. Just because the mechanism exists to fix things doesn't mean you won't be attacked for using it, as a "cheater," (though the bosses get to cheat as much as they want ofc.) Stopping that validation of punching down is important, as is preventing people from profiting from other people's hard work.
Personally I think "free software" is a joke, but at least they try to go after profiteers, in a limp wristed good boy sort of way. But reframing it as "open source" to give a free pass to profiteers is way worse, and shouldn't be in any article criticizing the software industry.

2026-06-11 15:57:01 UTC

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Have they been successful? I haven't seen it.

2026-06-11 15:24:41 UTC

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Why do you care about voting so much? It's just filling out a bubble on a piece of paper. Nobody's committing grand larceny or anything.

2026-06-11 04:28:32 UTC

Really feeling that loneliness... nothing weekly to do with anyone, anymore, except Sunday "worship" 🤢
The garden club is next Monday... it's only once a month though. I'm basically hosed for the next 10 days, except for a half-hour on Sunday after worship, and 15 minutes here and there before the garden club's monthly speaker starts lecturing / selling stuff. That's 99.7% of my time with no one to socialize with, other than my mother. (Who has no friends.)

2026-06-10 05:54:19 UTC

OK let me tell you what the wild savages eat around here. Fermented, dried, salted milk! 🤯

2026-06-09 16:03:12 UTC

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With a name like "Indivisible" I have to wonder if that whole organization isn't a honeypot...

2026-05-27 16:58:12 UTC

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It's structural/systemic more than anything. Even the liberal leftie Jesus teaches people that they are not worthy, and only a higher authority can make the right choices for them. And even progressive "accepting" churches are run by a small group who do not attend the churches they own. That's fine if your "Reconciling" Methodist bishops aren't fascist, but you can imagine how quickly things might transition, as parishoners learn that they are on the bottom of a very tight hierarchy that does not include them in the decision making process.
Ironically, the Baptists are the least likely to get compromised by fascists, since they *have* no hierarchy and are a loose collection of independent churches. Not sure what happened there.
Oh also the Unitarian Universalists, the members own the building. It still has a hierarchy, though (and in the past got orders from on high to be "more churchy" and hate on atheists since it'd attract atheophobes to join which is a desirable thing for some reason).

2026-05-25 23:47:25 UTC

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What do you use, vim?

2026-05-25 22:46:05 UTC

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Introduce them to emacs I'm sure they'll just love it. 😃

2026-05-18 16:58:27 UTC

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...you're joking, right? There's nothing you can do without committing to guerilla warfare, military training for civilians, multiple layers of independent militias, and private community organizing. ICBMs and nuclear weapons are just glorified fireworks. They never once stopped an empire from invading.

2026-05-08 04:50:33 UTC

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ssssssshhhhh!
go play it you'll get to that quote after about 500 hours of gameplay

2026-05-05 22:44:26 UTC

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"Intelligently designed NAT" is another word for "You are now a passive renter consumer forever." Putting a leash on people to stop them from escaping doesn't help anyone but the slaver, and the ISPs are gleefully raking in cash on the increasingly hard to get IPv4 address space they have claim to.
I can't say IPv6 was the most well designed protocol. But the reason it has not been widely adopted by now is artificial scarcity. Nothing else.

2026-04-18 04:12:06 UTC

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I think it's hard to beat the industrial processes that go into making computers, so the waste of physical media is... not as bad as all that. At least vinyl records don't have traces of lead and arsenic. There's also the power dynamic. I couldn't design an mp3 player, without permission from the giant chip fabrication companies. But I could build a record player, maybe.
Additionally records shouldn't take a lot of plastic, since they're durable, easy to package, and don't spoil.
That being said, I sure don't have a vinyl record player.

2026-04-16 23:57:06 UTC

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Seems legit.
In fact a lot of games have to be slower than "real-time" or they happen too fast for the player to keep up with. 60 frames a second is about the limit of our perception, so every actor logic code will have something like "if time since I last updated is too small this frame, then don't continue."
There's also the fact that logic is much, much harder to optimize, so rendering a scene at 60fps won't slow your computer down, but having 3000 mobs all doing pathfinding algorithms... less feasible at 60fps.

2026-04-11 23:16:35 UTC

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He couldn't outpace the drill. Workers can't outpace combines, given endless free oil. Unlike those, LLMs are not technological marvels. They do nothing (and will do nothing) that does anyone any good. All they're good at is wasting people's time. That's it. If we seized the means of production, the most we could do with it is demolish it.
That being said, there's nothing wrong with protecting life and happiness. Or "human rights" whatever you want to call it. Argue however you like.

2026-03-31 02:13:40 UTC

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I mean the people protesting ain't exactly white. They're not black or latino, but I imagine NYC would build a shelter on top of the biggest synagogue in Manhattan, before they'd consider any majority European, commercial, or financial neighborhoods "share the burden."
Also the city refuses to put anything in writing. They're only saying it'll be a shelter for 150 people. Could be a hotel, for all anyone knows.
Also homeless shelters suck. Public housing is what people need. And more funding to mental health care. How about rent control? In New York City? That would help a lot of the homeless!
But yeah, if people need shelter, you can't turn them away on the argument that those evil homeless bums are dangerous. Or, shouldn't turn them away. Still seems an odd spot for a shelter. The location only makes sense if white supremists are choosing it. (Then again it is NYC, and there's very little room for anything anywhere.)
...(Rent control would open up a lot of room!)
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2026-03-20 18:00:04 UTC

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"I swore to serve my king, and I am always true to my word." - some fucker who deserves to die way more than whoever their king is.
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2026-03-20 17:54:43 UTC

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If it's any consolation, they're not. They're literally not. The ruling class who hates life, beauty and humanity who are consciously trying to destroy everything have weak little baby fingers. A pathetic shaky grasp in their pale, smooth hands.
The people determined to *obey* those fuckers are the ones gripping us in tyranny.

2026-03-16 01:31:53 UTC

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Oh, is it up to 28 now? How very scientific.

2026-03-15 20:19:42 UTC

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Even just the math of it, I'm not sure whether to make preexisting shapes and somehow deform them to floop and flop around, or to generate the shapes on the spot from the skeletons and some bezier curves. Either of those you could do in a geometry shader, but... well it's tricky is all. I miss being able to just say pixel[x+y*stride] = white_if_inside_circle(x0,y0,radius);
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2026-03-06 23:40:38 UTC

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Hardly any rich people operated a steam engine at all!
Just nitpicking, but technically the reason every technology since the steam engine has benefited only the rich is purely political. As in, it's legal for them to benefit, and not legal for anyone else. That's all that's causing it: people, police, laws. It's that way because people have decided to make and keep it that way.
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2026-03-06 18:09:54 UTC

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Admittedly the absolutely insane wealth, information and power inequalities in the world only skyrocketed once the Internet was created. But is it correlation, causation or coincidence? The Internet enabled Google, Amazon, Facebook, but really those guys were using the same techniques that worked to screw up brick and mortar business in the 1800's. We just had laws to prevent it, and for some reason people started lying that didn't apply when you couldn't walk into the store. And got away with it, every time. Plus wealth monstrosities created by SpaceX, and indeed "brick and mortar" superstores weren't aided by the Internet. And the vast majority of rich fucks these days come from two scams: rental properties (especially hotels) and private equity. Internet doesn't help either of those schemes.
(I'd add speculation to the schemes, but that money doesn't exist; people are just lying that it does.)
So I'd say the Internet is... probably... a good thing. But its timing is terrible, coinciding with the constant, total failure of anyone opposing rich fucks and the unstoppable enslavement of every man, woman and child while the planet burns. Sometimes I just wish I could talk to my neighbors, and do something to protect ourselves against this global wave of tyranny.

2026-02-23 01:03:04 UTC

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Setting busses on fire is just poor form. What message is that supposed to send? Don't kill crime bosses, or they'll burn the busses their members use to travel around? Or they'll set fire to this random unrelated thing? And blockade of highways? Seems kind of pathetically ineffective to me. Certainly won't win them any community support, which is the only way enemies of the state can get any support.
Maybe they're just mad and doing shit that's dumb, not strategic.

2026-02-19 20:48:19 UTC

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Abuse is only a phenomena with people who have power over others. The wholesale trafficking and torture of scads of babies is not something perverted old Uncle Eke can accomplish. So before you get mad at all the sick, twisted and broken people in our society who have to struggle to stay off the streets, keep in mind that IF you take away the power they have over someone, THEN the abuse stops. The only thing you have to do is stop people from having power over others, and everything works out.
And you are giving the rich ruling class orders of magnitude more power over us than anyone else. So I think it's a good idea for you to focus on not doing that, even if it doesn't have a huge effect on the poor who are occasionally also pieces of shit.

2026-02-16 07:54:24 UTC

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Yeah, I kind of wish I was allowed to get it. I got the chicken pox, and the bastards who allowed that claim I'm far too young to qualify for protection against the virus they infected me with.

2026-02-11 06:30:34 UTC

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How do you disperse heat? How do you get people up there to maintain it? How do you power the damn thing? How do you get it up there intact? How do you assemble it without an atmosphere? How do you shield against micrometeors? And pieces of other satellites?
It's not viable, they're just scamming people with nonsense. We'll end up with very expensive rocks in orbit, and somehow they still get all our money with no consequences.
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2026-02-03 21:31:48 UTC

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Yes let's all rejoice that nobody can escape surveillance anymore and the police have more power than ever to incarcerate people. I'm sure if we praise invasive spying technology enough, the police will realize how wrong they are and apologize for their hypocrisy, instead of just taking all the anonymity for themselves.

2026-01-26 07:13:36 UTC

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It's not even necessary! If I'm prancing gayly off the edge of a cliff and someone grabs me and pulls me back before I fall, it doesn't matter that they didn't ask permission to save me. All that matters is whether I regret not falling off that cliff. If I would have regretted falling, I would thank the person who caught me!
And no, it's more about if your victims feel regret about what you've done to them. If everyone's a remorseless monster, then yeah it's fine if they go all Machiavelli on each other. It's when good people get caught in it, that... things don't go well.
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2026-01-26 06:47:14 UTC

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The importance given to voluntary vs involuntary really reflects an individualist ideology. I don't know how Ellerman put it, but it's pretty obvious to me that you can do something fully voluntarily that either you, your victims, or even your employer come to greatly regret. If I volunteer to evict widows, is that still not an illegitimate and morally bankrupt occupation? Regret is what's important, not blame, consent, or responsibility.
> We are accustomed to condemn slavery for being involuntary, but would owning other people be okay if it were voluntary?
Oh... oh you sweet summer child.
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2026-01-12 05:22:02 UTC

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Implying that the tribes were ever part of the problem.

2026-01-06 02:40:53 UTC

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They'd laugh at you and continue to own their hotels and estates, because you didn't take it away from them. Then they'll use the wealth that you didn't take away to pay people to blackmail politicians into doing an emergency intervention and bailing them out. Then they'll use the authority you continue to allow them to have for SOME reason, to abuse their workers and make them take the financial hit of your failed boycott. Then they'll go build another hotel, and get even more powerful. Because boycotts don't work.

2025-12-08 05:52:25 UTC

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Well, at least Denmark knows what's what.
I find it darkly amusing that Finland, of all people, are playing both sides.

2025-11-18 01:56:11 UTC

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"It's funny how people terrified of an AI that punishes people for not pushing the development of AI, push the development of AI." 🤨

2025-11-13 05:31:46 UTC

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I don't know any gun lover who makes that point. Mostly they use guns for fun, hunting, and when the police won't help. I will say that if peasants owning guns was so unimportant, the fascists wouldn't be trying so hard to take them away.

2025-11-11 17:02:21 UTC

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Hah, maybe I'll check it out. I think it was... PARC?
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2025-11-09 21:30:27 UTC

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Your biggest complaint is that a playground supervisor was 47 years old? That's what's wrong with all this? Nothing else that might be a bit more important to address?
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2025-10-30 01:44:44 UTC

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They don't make very good condoms.
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2025-10-25 06:19:25 UTC

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That A1 steak sauce tho
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2025-10-25 05:29:08 UTC

Well, gtk now have added mandatory dependencies on librsvg. librsvg that *you assholes* converted to rust for *no reason* you entitled high and mighty uncaring bullies void of empathy who never had to struggle a day in your lives.
So now to use (um) *any* GUI programs, you scammers force me to depend on gigantic static rust binaries that can't be audited or checked for bugs or security breaches. I have to spend hours compiling rust, *in addition to* trusting the binaries, because I'm not a rich boy whose daddy bought him a big fast computer with lotsa RAM. I have to trust mountains more code, that could all be hiding malicious activity or just random bugs. An army of auditors couldn't go through it all in their entire lifetime.
This is why I hate rust. It is the *worst* and you are bad for liking it.
#rust #gtk #bullying #programming #security #rant #FuckEverything

2025-10-06 19:36:17 UTC

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Industrial Espionage? Of what? Xyzzy?
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2025-09-19 20:23:24 UTC

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Yeah, you still can't immigrate to Canada without being endorsed by *some* private corporation bent on destroying Canada* though.
CC: @npub1aef…0xhv @npub1dgc…cla4*
nothing personal it's just business, I mean

2025-08-17 20:42:45 UTC

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You are *definitely* a statistical outlier. I'd love it if you could raise a kid. But uh... you know how fucked up you are better than I do. I'd have gotten laughed out of the building if I had tried to adopt. Still wish... well, I wish a lot of things.

2025-08-14 18:27:55 UTC

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OK so stop being divided. Go find some angry young men and crunchy granola hippies to hang out with. You can even include a few gamers, and call yourself feminists just to piss off the right-wing purity culture trying to coopt the term. Sound like a plan?

2025-08-11 01:08:51 UTC

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You're not supposed to interact with anyone or anything when you're meditating. That's the point. Not engaging in the world and just observing. And preferably not observing.

2025-08-08 05:10:01 UTC

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Huh, never heard of it.

2025-07-23 04:03:04 UTC

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They really aren't. Municipal residential power use is miniscule compared to industrial power consumption (think, data centers, factories, warehouses, supermarkets). Micromanaging something that already isn't a huge drain on resources, just to allow us to continue to wallow in consumption and not change our lifestyles, is not effective.
It's obvious to a "dumb" power meter if you half your electricity usage, and that makes a big difference. If on the other hand you keep your electricity usage high, and a "smart" power meter reports that the dumb one was overestimating by 5%, that makes zero difference. You're still using just as much power, and the only thing that changes is you get 5% off on your power bill. Also you condemn good people to prison and destroy vital medicines knowingly by your actions, since your smart meters will tell the police about their grow operations. But I guess the "green transition" is worth you beating people up and burning their cancer medicine.
Sorry to sound so harsh, but smart meters are not good at all.
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2025-07-20 06:35:22 UTC

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Wait, I thought that screenshot was from Twitter.
Yeah it is, even specifies "Retweets."

2025-07-20 06:01:32 UTC

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Huh, didn't know you could add your own comment when reblogging. Is that recent, or am I just clueless?

2025-07-19 03:55:31 UTC

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Strange that people would be left-wing, but still on board with a giant corporate overlord. Remember 2018? I think you might be getting fed a load of BS. Tumblr's a site for shallow, vapid personality cults, far as I can tell. That's why you have to *allow* people to reply to you. Great for right-wing marketing and capitalism, force-feeding people content, not great for leftist ideologues.
https://fedicy.us.to/media/2f136/image/png/tumblr%20is%20a%20trash%20fire.png

2025-06-28 16:33:05 UTC

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Thanks, sounds sort of like what the USA calls a 401K, though it isn't compulsory there are heavy tax penalties for not using it. Aren't pensions already compulsory to put money into though? I've only ever heard of private pensions, i.e. where your employer takes part of your salary and says they'll pay it back after retirement.

2025-03-07 16:49:39 UTC

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Pic related. Also https://librewolf.net/
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https://fedicy.us.to/art/he%27s%20right%20you%20know%20meme.jpg

2025-02-07 03:20:38 UTC

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Good grief, that's awful... I've somehow never once had a problem with grub, but I can imagine it's kind of a disaster.
Could you... install, then when grub fails, just run a LiveCD to boot and then try to install grub again, no reinstallation necessary? Grub isn't erasing the whole disk, is it?