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  • And yet you participate in society. Curious!

    By the time you get to the general election in the US where it’s guaranteed to be one candidate or the other, that is not where individual efforts have an effect. Those efforts need to happen early in the process.

    We are literally living through the drastic harm INCREASE that happens when people didn’t vote for harm reduction.

    But I’m not totally disagreeing with you here. I don’t really consider myself an accelerationist, and definitely not a democrat/liberal/capitalist, and if they redid the election I would vote against Trump 10 out of 10 times against almost any real democrat or independent or 3rd party. But the accelerationist path may be the only way through this.





  • That first reply highlights a major difference in how people approach the world.

    Speaking very generally, conservatism and right wing politics seen to attract those who see everything as a competition and that dominating other people is what it means to be a good person. Funny that it also leads to frustrated, angry, isolated people.

    So if we want to switch to using a website that doesn’t promote hurting/killing 2% of the population, we are now BOWING DOWN to the minority some of us would not rather murder.

    It’s the same reason they hate DEI so much.



  • You need good characters to make a good show regardless of the setting, and also to help the viewers relate to the “big” stuff going on around them.

    Don’t get me wrong, I think I like the stuff you like. I’d happily watch a documentary about all the made up technology and new science & life they discover, with zero need for conflict or personal growth or “feelings” or whatever. But that wouldn’t be the TV show, which is experienced largely through the eyes of the crew.


  • You do realize the US has the biggest prison population (also used for forced labor) in the entire world?

    Textbook whataboutism. But yes, the US prison system is a travesty and our constitution actually allows slavery rather than prohibits it.

    Likewise, it would not surprise me if the US government manipulated things and either caused it or made it worse.


  • Your first link describes how well they treated their captives. They are practically saints!

    The U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Advisor concluded earlier this year that China’s mass imprisonment and forced labor of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang amounts to crimes against humanity—but there was insufficient evidence to prove genocide



  • This shit in ingrained in our culture in an insidious way in the US. We’re the money > people country, after all.

    The insidious part is that when it’s implied rather then explicitly stated, people seem less likely to question it. I was plenty wrapped up in it myself for many years. Looking around as a young person, especially in a white conservative family, it became clear that earning/saving money and independently keeping your shit together was the indicator of a life well lived.

    And likewise for the next generation, my job as a parent would be judged by my child’s grades, university, career, etc.

    Current day me is thinking a bit more clearly though, and focused on the important quality of life stuff.







  • Most people will choose the side of inaction as long as they’re comfortable enough. That’s something I don’t get with today’s oligarchs. They are just as stupid as they are greedy. If they hoarded just a bit less – if they were willing to live a lavish post-scarcity lifestyle while having as much money as a SMALL country rather than living a lavish post-scarcity lifestyle while having as much money as a midsize country – they could live the exact same day to day existence without the working class being up in arms and in love with CEO assassins.

    In the movie of their life, the only difference would be the “high score” text at the top of the screen.

    But I guess if you value a practical good life over unchecked avarice and ego, you probably aren’t cut out for the oligarch lifestyle.



  • You love to see it. I also switched my home machines cold turkey from win10 to Linux Mint last month!

    I have been using it at work for a long time, but just didn’t do enough on my home desktop PCs for it to be worth fiddling with them and setting servers and stuff back up. But now that I made the switch, I am actually using my PC more at home because it’s smoother and more fun to use now!

    The main one is an i7-9700k (8c/8t) with 32 gigs of ram and a GTX 1080. It has such a long life left ahead of it. Heck the other machine is a 2500k (4c/4t) with 16GB from like 2011 and it’s excellent for desktop use or non-demanding games.

    I see myself sticking with Mint with Debian & Ubuntu upstream for the foreseeable future. But I do wonder several years from now SteamOS will push many of us to use something with Arch upstream if not just SteamOS itself.