CodexArcanum @ codexarcanum @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I was at a swing class last week, it's already back!

I considered it but:

1. I think its safer to leave attribution in general.
2. Is "the joke" the setup, the punchline, or both?

Since that person came up with the setup, i think an editor changing the punchline isnt necessarily making a new joke, they'd just be a third contributor.

Opinions vary though, sure. As a software dev, I dream of a world where everything is version controlled and no one's contributions are undocumented or underplayed.

Fair cop, I didn't check source I just saw it mentioned elsewhere. His company being valued at just over a billlion probably confused people.

I grant that there's a difference of degrees here, but him being "just" an unethical millionaire doesn't substantially change my views on the situation.

Someone in another thread mentioned polyamory which I find a personally interesting angle as well, since I practice relationship anarchy. This situation would just never happen to me because all my paramours know each other and know about the activies we do together. It makes me suspicious of these stories because while I also enjoy laughing at a rich guy getting caught, I don't like that it culturally reinforces this idea of monogamy as a core value and that breaking the trust of such monogamy should have public consequences.

Obviously the last thing I want is society-wide condemnation of the wrong aspect of this situation. It isnt the having a side-piece that's the problem, it's the lying to your primary partner (and everyone else) that actually creates the trouble.

Thanks to THC destroying my ability to REM, I have become Jet Li's the One.

Their reaction is what set it all off too. Even the singer immediately speculates that they're having an affair because of how they acted. So yeah, even if he wasn't a billionaire, somebody probably would have doxxed him anyway because there are tons of people that like drama and know they can make money off it. That he is a billionaire and doing something deeply unethical is what makes the story go viral all over social media. Lots and lots of people there want to make money and clout by exploiting any avenue for drama and engagement.

Perhaps the problems this exposes are not just our grim and omnipresent surveillance apparatus, but the attached system of gig-economy content creators all racing to the lowest common denominator for scraps of engagement and ad revenue? We've created a society of unempathetic monsters.

There's a few actual versions of the pin pulling games now. I liked this one for Android called "How to Loot", pretty fun little time waster.

Too easy to make an exploitable template, the author clearly is doing it for the memes!

When the poles of your political axis are "human rights" <---> "genocide and slavery" then centrists can go stuff themselves. Theres no compromise between freedom and slavery, life and death. I will not meet you on the middle fields of "just against the bad ones."

Ah, one of my favorite genres!

Nah bro just trust me. One more revolutionary vanguard party bro, then we'll allow the workers to have self-determination. Just give us absolute power for a little while, we're totally gonna give it back bro!

Amazing! I'd wear these even having no idea which band is being promoted!

Ah memories. I cannot express how hype it was back when they started releasing tracks for the second album.

Edit: an aside, I went to look up the album in YouTube music and the top search term was for "LinkedIn Park" which is sadly not an amazing parody band. People just actually have no idea what this band's name is anymore.

I can't say I generally agree with you a whole lot as i recall; but you seem a nice enough person and you're an active poster, which like, forums need to stay alive!

Certainly a ridiculous ban reason, you're hardly the most controversial poster out there, but yeah it must feel pretty wild to be internet infamous!

Yep, it's a treasure! I wish there was a slightly more tropical version sometimes, but the advice generally applies well and lots of things grow very easily here.

It's such a funny coincidence that the layout of several elements is the same that I feel like the meme one must have been inspired by the illustration. I did want to highlight a more realistic take on this concept, and since he puts those 3 layouts right by each other in the book, I also wanted to include them. Like you say, the difference is in focusing on practical realities of the space and getting the most out of it.

I love 😬 that we're now at the point where "is this real?" is ambiguous between:

• did the story factually occur in our shared reality?
• was this story actually posted to 4chan?
• did a human even make this image?

And at this juncture with the common addition of "chat, is this real?" we can further add:

• does the audience exist?
• does the person sharing the image exist?
• do I exist?

Can't say I've ever tried it, but it looks like good, kinky fun to me!

Sure, that's kind of my point though. I was discussing with a friend recently what role restaurants would have in the glorious anarchic communist utopia. We hit on the notion that what we call "hot bars" would probably become much more common.

It doesn't make sense for everyone to cook for themselves or be deeply concerned with the logistics of food. It would be efficient for larger kitchens to make regular group meals and you go pick one up when you're ready to eat. Something like Meals on Wheels would still exist for all the reasons you say, probably sourcing from their own kitchen or from one of the larger group ones.

I could even see a case for group meal delivery to save time on everyone having to leave job sites to go get food.

I guess my main point here is that I find it more productive and hopeful to imagine these kinds of futures: where everyone is working together systematically to provide convenience and support for everyone. I also find it much more believable as a possible future than rather some cottage core vision of everyone become subsistence smallhold farmers.

(Happy cake day BTW! I hope that cake wasn't delivered!)