I haven’t found a Raymond in Cascadia
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VerbFlow@lemmy.worldto memes@lemmy.world•You leave once the ride is over! And not a moment before!English2·10 days agoIt was word salad a bit, but I was concerned about people either wanting to die or trying to make clever quips about it.
The term Capitalist Realism I took from Mark Fisher’s book, Capitalist Realism, in which he describes people believing (at the time the book was written) that Capitalism is “human nature”, applies to everything, and that all attempts to the contrary are fruitless. And when someone is buried in debt, and believes in Capitalist Realism, they’d probably commit suicide out of hopelessness. This is why it’s so important to understand how socialism works, and work for its establishment.
TL;DR I understand that the problems are caused by Capitalism. They are fixable, there is still hope, and I worry about so many people considering and glorifying suicide.
VerbFlow@lemmy.worldto memes@lemmy.world•You leave once the ride is over! And not a moment before!English1·10 days agoThis isn’t a place to make clever quips. This is a person being pushed to suicide.
VerbFlow@lemmy.worldMto Fuck AI@lemmy.world•What have you seen that proves the dumbing down of society that AI fosters?English4·12 days agoAI is not a development in technology. It’s like Flexplay, asbestos filters for cigarettes, and leaded gasoline.
- Clip art from the 90’s was made with passion
- It didn’t threaten the environment as much
- There wasn’t any attempt to outdo real artists
- You don’t have it as a business model
- There isn’t an uproar about it
- Nothing was stolen to make the clip art
This is very confusing. AI also isn’t technological progress, just like how leaded gasoline and Flexplay wasn’t technological progress.
This “art” costs far more environmentally than any other. It uses mass amounts of electricity and water. It’s nothing like, say, eating steak instead of salad, or driving a pickup truck to work. The “miracle” of AI has to come from somewhere, after all.
Disabled people can make great art. They can also hire someone else to help them; people who work succeed more together than apart.
I also think that having someone make a nice image is not worth the sheer amount of electrical energy and water cooling needed to power the datacenters.
VerbFlow@lemmy.worldto memes@lemmy.world•You leave once the ride is over! And not a moment before!English7·12 days agoWe should make dying in battle a good thing again. The wrong kind of peace is a blight upon society.
VerbFlow@lemmy.worldto memes@lemmy.world•You leave once the ride is over! And not a moment before!English14·12 days agoI’m very worried about everyone here. Really, I know that there is a way out that isn’t suicide–it’s revolution–but it seems like you’ve all submitted to Capitalist Realism. I’ve thought about risking my life in an attempt to overthrow the state, but unlike you all, I am legitimately afraid of losing my life. It’d be such a sad note to end my life on. I wouldn’t be there to see any surprising good things happen. I wouldn’t get to see a socialist system established before me, and I wouldn’t be able to do anything to help anyone. How come you all feel fine about death? There’s nothing afterwards. There were the Viet Cong who couldn’t live to see their country establish socialism, there were the Leninists who died fighting the Tsar who couldn’t see the Soviet Union come to be, there were the slaves who died in Southern plantations who couldn’t see Juneteenth. If you were really willing to die, you’d die in battle.
VerbFlow@lemmy.worldto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Newsmax guest calls bike lanes "communist garbage"English5·14 days agoWell, you ain’t been doin’ nothin’ if you ain’t been called a Red~♪
Here’s my complaint about a machine producing it:
- Water Cost 1
- Water Cost 2, it has a nice Frutiger Aero image
- Water Cost 3
- Water Cost 4
- Systemic Risk to the Tech Industry
- Bad Business
You can also take a look at the articles of c/FuckAI if you want.
VerbFlow@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movementEnglish1·1 month agoIf you’re talking about YouTube, that place is already hell for video creators. Many organizations, like PragerU, were already funded by fracking companies to make their videos, and they’d have an easier time covering the costs, or convincing people or the government that something else caused the cancer. The internet needs a socialist overhaul, really, and I can’t find anything else that doesn’t spawn new problems.
VerbFlow@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish governmentEnglish11·1 month agoI should’ve been on here instead. I legitimately thought that Anarchists, Communists, &c could make a difference being on there. Now I get people deliberately blocking accounts that aren’t even fascist, and being concerned with “bullying” instead of actually solving real problems. BSky has upper-class liberals talking about D&D, whining about how laws aren’t being followed correctly, cheerleading American imperialism, making unfunny jokes, and claiming that radical politics came from 4chan rather than legitimate political grieviances. All sorts of suburban slime. I really should’ve been elsewhere.
VerbFlow@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movementEnglish8·1 month agoBack when asbestos was banned, everyone trusted the government. Nobody trusts the government anymore because of its constant foreign wars, corrupt candidates, and human rights abuses. We cannot do things like mandate vaccines and ban cars if the very government that would enforce that ban is this tyrannical and shitty.
Here’s another good read: https://www.wheresyoured.at/wheres-the-money/
VerbFlow@lemmy.worldto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Climate-denying conservatives after every year for the last decade has been in the hottest 10 on record [Day 105]4·2 months agoTrick her into giving you all her money. This seems like prime scam real estate. Get some olive oil, jack up the price, and tell her you’re selling “essential oils”. Or scare her by making her believe you’re God incarnate. Or kill her and take her wallet lmao
I mean, this is incredibly tame for imperialist propaganda. You wouldn’t believe the shit I see in America. Take Enemy At The Gates for example.
You should check out Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. It’s pretty old by now, but it still works as reflections of imperialist propaganda, imported and spread through U.S. troops with names like Derek and Brad.
The worst kind of person isn’t someone who will defend free speech, it’s someone who does so at first, and then stops defending it when they’re in power.
I think hate speech should have repercussions, but there are lots of thoughts that are hard to explain. A big problem is the upsurge in these types of comics. I think they are not only unhelpful, but detrimental to the cause at hand when pro-Palestine protesters are being labeled “Nazis” and then detained. The problem right now clearly is the state, not the people living under the state, and someone saying a few offensive things, while evil, isn’t as bad as the government being turned into a police state before our eyes, who will gladly shut us up for protesting against them. Stop worrying about the Nazis in universities and start worrying about Nazis about to run the U.S. military.