Yeah cool! This is a bunch of ways that GPS has meaningfully improved the way some things work. I totally agree with that.
I'm really not, but aight, just assume bad faith I guess.
Either you're being obstinate or we're just talking across purposes. I'mma out 'cause this conversation now sucks :(
Instantly knowing where you are on a map has fundamentally changed several aspects of our lives? I really disagree.
I could well be the weirdo but it's fundamentally changed no aspects of my life. I would love to know how it has others.
This statement confuses me somewhat, is it a bit? The "crazy" difference in my life without GPS would be: I'd have spent some more hours of my life looking at maps to work out where I am. That's what we did when I was a child and it really didn't take long.
That's honestly it.
Well sure. But at no point in history did nobody ever have significant others. If you're including that in your assessment then only humans who've lived their whole life in solitary confinement have nothing to lose.
I'm very over the childish tendency to condemn colloquialisms as a lib/redditor thing. I'm using words to communicate a point. You understood that point. So they did their job.
Yeah sorry I don't buy this shit either.
You're basically saying "if you hate your genocidal society then why do you participate in it?" 
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Libs are just under the incorrect belief that by voting for the lesser evil they are "improving things somewhat" 
. Doubly so where in many (though definitely not all) cases, it's a factual error, not a values one. And I really struggle to blame individuals for that.
Newsflash: The minerals in your electronics were partially or entirely mined by child slavery, why are you willing to throw them under the bus??? Turns out participating in society is required, and so you just act within it in a way you think is best to improve things.
I'm not even sure this is true. I would give up all my shit in an instant if I thought it had a 0.001% chance of changing things. I think many people feel similarly.
Israel: Commits war crime that literally explodes a child.
USA: Why would Hezbollah do this 
Trump's out to instantly wither the state and have the ultimate claim that he beat the communists to the finish line
My simplest kick back would be "what other options are there to somewhat improve things?".
Even if all organising labor in the imperial core achieved was giving workers better access to tasty treats (and that really isn't the limits of what it achieves) - That's still deconstructing the power imbalance and giving workers more of a say, politically and economically, and less resources left for bourgeois imperialism and propagandism. That's good progress.
The reality is that workers in the imperial core really aren't doing well, and to call them 'labor aristocrats' is a bit wild to me. Many are in povertous, sub-human conditions. They're mostly eating edible-foodlike-products that aren't food, they're increasingly dosed on medicines to make them better proles, they're having all the mental will to live sapped out of them at every turn, and are increasingly compelled to spend every waking hour (and sleeping hour honestly) working or in other form of service to the capitalist class. Even the goal of most treat consumption is to give any leftover money back to the bourgeois class, instead of actually being a pleasant time or connecting with peers.
Organised labor does more than "me have stuff", I would argue half the point is to build new systems that give people communal alternatives to the capitalist's insisted way of life.
So yes, I'd argue organising labour is a very obviously and powerful force for good anywhere. But even if you didn't accept that, there is no alternative. Other than to sit there and let the bourgeois class have full control - And you truly are confused if you think that is anything but the literal worst option.
A politician deferring to "the law" is just a synonym for "keep the status quo".
I'm actually only legally allowed to live in the country I live in. That means I get to genocide everybody else here in self-defense?
I have had fakenews blocked since forever because it's truly awful to see. If I was a Federal agent I'd argue for directly funding its active posters.
Nah it's cool, I'm only mooostly joking 
As it stands, nothing on Hexbear breaches the letter of the law in western countries.
But, the reality is that they can arbitrarily arrest those they want to, and the consequent charge and punishment will be equally arbitrary and dependent on what made "push come to shove". Any previous examples will be equally arbitrarily charged and sentenced. So the only realistic answer is:
- Crime you'll be charged with: Anything
- Punishment: Anything between no punishment and death.
We had some concerning conversations - they explicitly declared they wouldn't commit theft to save anyone's life, and intimated that fascism is just like socialism, "they're both bad extremes". We've always disagreed on politics and they've always had some common lib views, but they've always (at least 'til now) claimed to be vaguely leftist and understanding of my commie stance.
This has somewhat thrown me, honestly. I'm always open about my disagreements, but don't pursue argument (if anything, they do more than I), but these opinions just came out unprompted.
I fully accept that partners may have different politics (not directly harmful/malicious obviously), the world is complicated. My partner has always been a very kind, intelligent and thoughtful person who has helped me through tough times.
But there are a couple points that really do worry me:
- Either they've taken an unstated swing to the right in their politics or been hiding these scary views a long time.
- I know it's a hypothetical, which are often stupid for relationships, but fucking really? They wouldn't commit petty theft to save my life because the rules are important? They very explicitly clarified that, and this genuinely does make me feel kind of unsafe/uncared for.
I dunno. I dunno what my deal is or what I'm aiming for, I could be overreacting. I'm just venting my concerned thoughts at this stage. Mightily frustrated.
I'll hand in my propagandist license for a start.
I don't know how meaningful the question really is, and fuck YouGov, but still thought the data were interesting and vaguely positive.
An absolute many are neo-fascist libs, but some, I assume, are good people. !a-little-trolling
https://lemmy.world/post/18545268
I thought it was nice to see a couple good takes out in the wild for a change (an anti-dunk tank?). Not all of the comments are perfect, but many are fighting the libs on the posting lines. !posting
>@Rookwood > >The reason capitalism leads to fascism is that inevitably capitalism will lead to untenable inequality. Injustice will be too great to ignore between the rich and the rest. This will lead to populism. > >There are two forms of populism. One will seek to rectify the imbalances caused by capitalism. The other will seek to divert blame to minorities. If there were less <minorities>. then our society would not be in decay. One is much more useful to the Capitalist and so it will ultimately prevail. The capitalist will devote all resources to crushing the leftist populism up to and including directly funding fascism. > >160 upvotes ā¢ 12 downvotes
>Dharma Curious > >Some of the comments in this thread really tell you why it takes a novel laureate to say this. Some of yāall do not have a basic understanding of history, economic systems, or what the term reactionary actually means. > >The correct response to āneo liberal capitalism has contributed to the rise of fascismā should be āno shit, Sherlockā > >Itās truly sad that that isnāt 100% of the comments here. > >Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleed, yāall. That doesnāt mean all liberals are fascist, that means that fascism is an outgrowth of liberalism. > >And just in case yāall also donāt know what that means, āliberalismā in that context isnāt āObama liberal, Bush conservative,ā it means the political ideology of liberalism, of which both Bush and Obama were proponents of. > >ETA: Iām not engaging anymoreā¦ itās not my job to teach yāall the difference between an economic system and authoritarian states. Also, your magic has no power here, I am an anarchist, not a stalinist. Please educate yourselves. If for no other reason, do it to make it easier to pwn the tankies or whatever the fuck > >101 upvotes ā¢ 19 downvotes
>@DancingBear@midwest.social > >i hate it when I hear people making the claim that it is capitalism that has helped so many people in the world with better quality of life and more opportunities and better outcomes, etc. > >Capitalism is a fucking disease that we need to rid ourselves of, it is worse than Ebola the way it infects our minds with the dumbest shit. > >You know what has made lives better for billions of people? The washing machine and the cotton gin and fucking electricity. > >Capitalism has fought against progress every step of the way. > >74 upvotes ā¢ 9 downvotes
>@njm1314 > >Well of course it has, fascism is the end result of capitalism. Some would say itās natural conclusion. > > 63 upvotes ā¢ 13 downvotes >>BlackLaZoR >> >> fascism is the end result of capitalism >> >> I wonder what sort of echo chamber you must live in, in order to believe this >> >> 20 upvotes ā¢ 67 downvotes
This is just a short, easy-to-read paper I keep in my bookmarks and go back to occasionally. It explores, qualitatively, the various outcomes that contact with alien intelligence might have. I think it's a really cool 25-page exploration of possibilities that are fun to think about. Some choice quotes:
>ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence) might attack us not out of selfishness but instead out of a universalist desire to make the galaxy a better place.
>perhaps ETI make contact with Earth to welcome us into the Galactic Club but only after we complete a set of required bureaucratic tasks
>They may be interested in incorporating us into their civilization so they can sell us their products, keep us as pets, or have us mine raw materials for them.
>if ETI place intrinsic value on lives, then perhaps they could bring about more lives by destroying us and using our resources more efficiently for other lives
My favourite section is the "unintentional harm" outcomes, which suggests the possibility that they just might squish us by accident.
>One non-biological physical hazard that we could face from direct contact with ETI is unintentional mechanical harm. For example, ETI might accidentally crush us while attempting an unrelated maneuver.
Can't for the life of me find where I first heard of this, but I just wanted to share it for being fun and fairly silly yet still officially worked on by NASA.
Nah I obviously don't care, r/greenandpleasant are alright. I just thought it was funny to see my own words out there.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/05/queue-new-nhs-dental-practice-bristol-st-pauls
"99% of dentists across the south-west arenāt accepting any new adult patients."
Getting anything but emergency healthcare in the UK is nigh impossible for much of the country now, I've been on the waiting lists of all my local dentists for over 18 months.
This'll get spread around as heavily as that misleading bread line photo from the USSR, right?
You mean mass, indiscriminate air strikes aren't a good way to save hostages and actually just result in dead people???
CarbonScored [any] @hexbear.net Are we having an argument? Most likely I'm not trying to be a meanie, but I'm just struggling to understand / effectively communicate with yah.