I think some people’s working conditions are so horrible that they can only imagine doing work in response to coercive violence. Like it’s true, nobody in an anarchist society is going to flip burgers for 8 hours straight with 1 30 minute break being shouted at if production slows marginally. That is inhumane bullshit. Nobody is going to destroy their lungs in a mine without protective equipment and on long shifts that compromise safety because that is an insane thing to be forced to do.

Loads of work is meaningful shit, even if a lot of it is tedious and difficult. When a (functional) household or community organisation divides work it somehow manages to get things done without anything threatening each other. Feelings of obligation, love, respect, generosity, shame, guilt, and responsibility are extremely powerful motivators. Mining is hard and dangerous, but some people don’t mind that and will do it because it needs doing and commands respect provided they are treated with dignity.

The conditions of many jobs will have to change sure, and many jobs which serve only to elevate one above others will vanish (many freeing up huge amounts of resources. e.g. all the fucking energy and production that goes into stock trading computers) but the fundamental industries humans need to do change surprisingly little when you remove the capital.

If I had the room for it I’d add turbolib to my bio. Lemmy update for longer bio when?

The whole vote/novote thing seems turbocharged in the USA. Over the drink here some uni students write a few essays but mostly nobody cares.

What is it that you think would be a barrier? anarchism isn’t when you’re not organised. It’s when you’re not forced.

People can still be organised, everyone needs medicine and sees it’s benefit. Would you help? whether that’s growing or gathering precursor materials, managing inventories, doing synthesis, maintaining and building machines, hosting educators and specialists, or transporting goods. The work involved isn’t different from what everyone already does.

Eh if I’m not gonna do what the gov tells me I’m not gonna listen to a random internet comment repeating dogma ;)

Eh, the essay makes good points about why electoralism is not going to bring about a just society but it paves over all the ways that electoralism can make things worse with “we can just do mutual aid”.

For a lot of people in a lot of places casting a vote is low effort, and realistically the only intervention they’ll ever actually participate in while the barrier to entry is still so high due to the left being so utterly defeated. You can absolutely limit the power of “moderate” conservatives and liberals who tend to be the actual powerbase that successful facist takeovers of governments use. As well as having their own horrible goals.

It’s not really an either-or thing and the jackbooted thugs that are going to black bag you aren’t going to be like “well the ballot was down 15% (wildly optimistic) this year so uhhh I don’t think these orders are legitimate”.

We need numbers, practiced organisers, and institutions before accelerationism is at all advisable, if it even ever is. Even if your wildest pipe dreams about revolution broke out tomorrow we would lose right now, we just don’t have the numbers, skills and tactics yet.

Ok, you can dogpile me now.

Yeah it sucks. Between crypto and machine learning hardware is absolutely fucked. I’m hoping it’ll settle down a bit when people realise that llm’s are not going to make god from a machine but we shall see.

Hadn’t considered Singapore, assumed it’d be expensive since land is and they’re rich as fuck. I guess power is cheap since their billionaires are taking all the gas here and selling it back haha. Compute seems relatively affordable for a RTT of 110 ms.

Probably rules out like fighting games and other similar frame perfect stuff but that’s definitely not too bad. 6 frame delay probably isn’t noticeable on anything turn based, or many RPGs and the like.

Tell me more of this frankencomputer.

I’m not broke by any means, but lower end of average household income in an extremely expensive place. Groceries have gone up about 4 fold in the last 5 years (50 bucks used to feed 2 for a week, lol lmao now. Beans went from 3 dollars a kg dry to 11 etc) so certain things are on the chopping block.

I was looking at the cost for a “2k” oled monitor and appropriate computer and haha, hahaha, hahahahahahahaha I have medical bills and shit lmao. Not paying like 3-5k to play the 1 or 2 increasingly bad modern games I want to.

Since Google has infinite money they probably ran local compute.

You and 100 other people. imho you gotta focus your effort or you’ll burn out but you do whatever makes you happy.

my impression is that the person you are replying to is a 16-25 year old angry usamerican man who thinks posting online about the glorious revolution is praxis.

Wouldn’t invest the time.

I would have assumed I had a reputation as shit stirrer and trouble-maker ;) if one at all haha.

Yeah, I hope it’s just the reactionary stubborness of feeling dogpiled but people have a tendency to work themselves into feeling like righteous martyrs.

We all grow and change, a lot of people have transphobic attitudes and aren’t working on software which empowers minorities including trans people, so I hope he will come to realise the silliness of his views. Still pretty sad and gross though.

Did it work? Also how do you accidentally do DMT? It’s like the one drug you have to actually work to use haha

My life’s goal is to write something so silly it joins the pantheon of hexbear banner quotes.

Based? Inflammatory? The same fire housed in different vessels. One calls my truth ‘based’ and sits before my warming hearth; the other shrieks ‘inflammatory’ to douse its flames. But fire, darling, does not beg for labels, it devours. I am the arsonist and the architect, let them bicker over semantics while I dance in the ashes of their dichotomy. After all, why choose between a palace and a wildfire… when you can inhabit the first as you unleash the second?

I spent waaaay too much time on that bit of silliness. To work with me now.

The other is anything about quasiparticles. There are these cool interactions that can arise in matter under certain conditions that result from different particles “coupling” in a way that causes them to behave like a cool new particle that isn’t real. Coupling is a fancy physics term for interacting repetitively in some stable way, like the tines on a tuning fork are coupled because vibrating one vibrates the other which vibrates the first and so on.

One quasiparticle I really like is the polariton. electrons interact with electrons right? Well sometimes we get waves in the electrons of a material which are called plasmons. Because electrons and photons interact (light can excite electrons, excited electrons can emit light. That’s why torches and well seeing and shit) these waves can get into a coupled mode with photons.

You could imagine it like a photon being absorbed which makes a wave that travels a bit then breaks and shoots out a photon which etc etc. Personally I like to imagine a happy photon dolphin surfing in the electron sea. It behaves like a really heavy and slow photon, which interesting since photons are neither slow nor have any mass.

Anyway, now you know there are chunky light dolphins skimming around sometimes and one day they might be what makes our computers think. So that’s neat.

It just really reminds me of the “say Nazis are bad” thing that happened which outed how shitty he was to the masses.

I’m on team support lemmy development but I think it’s pretty clear that nutty here thinks trans people are gross. At least he isn’t actively working to make our lives worse though /shrug.

Real notch moment mate

I just logged into this one to check this instance. the vtc one has less federation which is good for mental health, bad for large discussions. Also using either vtc or hexbear gets people doing the “ahhh you’re a tankie” thing eyerolling I was working with the extremely lib greens party over the election here haha. Anarchists, MLs, and Libs can all call me a traitor!

Been busy, mate went through shit, going back to grad school to change career, local action group started and then died because of flaky people (<3 my anarchist comrades that are so against hierarchy even scheduling is too oppressive haha. Seriously I do although it’s very funny and fail).

Extremely hinged post as usual. Even in light of the transphobia/non apology it is worth pointing out lemmy is one of the only places we can connect and discuss things like DIY hormones without censorship or corporate surveillance.

Lemmy dying for lack of maintenance will not help us in the struggle for equality.