I’m in this picture and I don’t like it…
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Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are the Most Popular Examples of Psionics in Sci-Fi?English
4·2 天前I can’t remember the exact examples, but Farscape had a decent few in it.
I want to be chased
:3
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netto
Flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Right, I'M crazy for not wanting to be trackedEnglish
111·8 天前I am aware
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netto
Flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Right, I'M crazy for not wanting to be trackedEnglish
104·8 天前I really don’t care for the semantics.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netto
Flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Right, I'M crazy for not wanting to be trackedEnglish
272·8 天前Surveillance tech has no place in our society no matter how or why they are used.
Did you ready any of what I said?
Kerbal launch cannon go brrrr
the short answer, is that you just don’t know what you’re talking about
Not in “Anarchy is best”, I mean, in general, about most things, most of the time.
It’s not an insult, it’s true for all of us.
I’m a pretty good programmer but I’d make a real shitty brain surgeon. I’m bad at farming. I don’t know anything about cars, etc…
I understand you’re coming at this from a “it’s impossible to be a jack of all trades” approach, but I’m not saying you need to be. I’m decent at programming as well, and I don’t know shit about medicine.
But that doesn’t stop me from recognizing and saying “Hey, the hospital has had a 50% jump in visitors, and an accompanying series of delays in service. Hey doctors, what do you need to get things improved? Do you need more staff, more supplies, more room, etc?”
I can still understand the material needs of a given field of work even if I don’t understand the mechanics of that field of work.
So collectively, as a group, we can’t vote on these things.
Not only can you not constantly ask a society to collectively vote on every decision (simply because you would just spend your entire day voting on a million things and never actually doing anything), but you can’t vote because you don’t know enough about most of the topics to make any kind of actual decision
This is a strawman. I have not stated that every single decision should be voted on by the entire community. I didn’t even mention voting in the first place, that was a separate user.
But this is why I asked (still unanswered) questions about how society is structured in this question of yours.
In a gift economy, there is no negotiation. If community A asks community B for some resource, and community B can spare it, then community B gives that resource.
In a syndicalist implementation, if you need lumber and there is a logging syndicate in the next town over, you ask that syndicate for lumber. Maybe they say they’re backlogged and you need to wait, maybe they say they need you to add to their manpower.
In mutual aid, somebody asks the community for help with food on their table. If you have food to spare, you give what you can spare.
There is a lot of nuance that can go on within anarchism, nuance that even I don’t have expertise on. But you seem to have little to no understanding of any of it. Hence why I suggested reading that book “Anarchy Works”.
It would also help your understanding if you did some reading on real life implementations from the past, such as Revolutionary Catalonia, the Zapatisas, the Seattle 1919 general strike. “Anarchy Works” goes into more real life implementations that just these three, again making it a worthwhile read.
If you want something more self contained and focused, the science fiction book “The Dispossessed” by Ursula K. Le Guin is a great option. It evaluates these questions you have without getting too bogged down in details about other related concepts.
I can’t vote on which material we use to build a road with because I don’t know anything about building roads. Those that do might not agree. They can try to explain to me which material is best out of their options but I’m still making a very uneducated guess because I can’t learn about road engineering in a single afternoon.
If the community doesn’t feel it has the right level of understanding to make such a decision, then the decision can be postponed until people have had more time to look into it and have a better informed opinion. You don’t necessarily have to learn in a single afternoon.
But building the road requires materials and the economists say no because that material would be better off if we gave it to our neighbors who need it for a bridge because in spring they grow really good apples and we’ll want to ask them for apples and they’ll be more likely to give us more apples in spring if we help them today
What you are describing sounds like a pretty big decision for the community. And that’s the exact type of decision that the community should make as a group.
And you are treating this way too black and white. It is in fact possible for communities to come to compromise. Let’s say our community has 10 tons of gravel on hand. About a third of the community wants to spend it on local roads, another third of the community thinks it best to give it to the next town over for their bridge, a tenth thinks it best to hold onto for the winter, and the remainder is undecided or somewhere in-between.
The community can compromise, such a compromise could for example be:
- 5 tons saved on hand for emergencies
- 2.5 tons given to the next town over so they can make concrete for their bridge
- 2.5 tons for local roads
Going back to the jack of all trades thing, I don’t have a fucking clue pouring and shaping concrete. I understand even less about the chemistry that goes into it. But I can understand that gravel is a component of the recipe, and therefore the wider value of the gravel. I see concrete in my daily life, so I can understand the wider value of concrete. Yet I am not a civil engineer of any kind, I am a programmer.
And the accountants say we shouldn’t waste what little materials we have on building roads or helping our neighbors and that we should save it because winter is harsh and we might need those materials for general repairs
Accountants implies money, and again, most forms of anarchism don’t include anything that looks like money. So the very idea of accountants is rather silly in this context. And you seem to be treating the deciding group as a monolith. If a subset of the group, especially a large subset disagrees they are free to work on their own to collect material for the bridge in the town over.
So in the end your representatives have to make the choice for you and you wake up to find out that they all talked it over and they’re going to tear down these 4 houses and put a road there because it’s good for the city and better for the accountants and also the doctors decided sugary drinks are bad for you so you can’t have them anymore and the safety people think it would be good to put up cameras on every corner
That’s government
I understand that it is hard to see outside of the current system of states and capitalism. Feudalism was just the same. Monarchy was the same.
If the American revolution had failed, and the U.S. were under British rule, you might be here saying “Well how are we going to unite as a country if not for a king? We would just have to appoint some leader and there you go we are back to monarchy”
A different world is possible.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•You've just won a competition and now a major game developer has to make whatever game you want for free. No compromises. Your vision. Period. What game do you make?English
4·12 天前Factorio is almost perfect so idk how you’d made a sequel better.
A game that frees up time for you to play more factorio
It doesn’t matter what it is, or even who you’re trying to get it from, the point is that you need something another group of people has
It very much does matter. Not all anarchist societies are going to work the same way. How you give and receive will therefore change based on the type of society. I encourage you to look into the different types of anarchy, both in practice and theoretical:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works
In this hypothetical question, to what degree does industrialization exist? Is personal property a thing? Surely you understand that private property wouldn’t exist. Do people organize as workers, neighbors, or both? Who owns what? Do states exist, or is this a global revolution?
There is so much that you have left out that is vital to an earnest answer. How are you going to expect an answer when you’ve given so little information?
Everybody in your town is just going to leave their homes and walk to the nearest town together; or are you going to send a representative to that town to negotiate trade for you?
So there is two incorrect assumptions about what you’re saying here.
The first is that trade must be negotiated, the second is that communication must be done in person.
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There is such a thing as mutual aid, a gift economy, and with mutualism/collectivisim, there is no expectation of a return. You do what you can to help out your fellow man. You take what you need, and give what you can. Resources are distributed freely. Most models of anarchism both in practice and theoretical follow this pattern, or something close to it. So there is no “price” to be negotiated, that idea is nonsense in most anarchist schools of thought.
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There has been this recent development called mail, in which we write things down on pieces of paper, and send them off to someone else to read. This is a form of communication that does not require in person communication, or representatives. Additionally, you may have heard of an even more recent development called the internet. With this fantastic invention you can communicate to people anywhere in the world in less than a few seconds, again making the need for in person representation non-existent.
Uh oh, your understanding is thousands of years out of date.
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Who is “we” in this situation? Is it a post revolution United States? Is it a hypothetical island? Is this anarcho-syndicist, mutualist, collectivist, etc? There’s more than one school of thought for anarchism
Why are we negotiating money in a moneyless society?
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Florida police used a fake Flock camera in a sting, then charged a man with three felonies for destroying itEnglish
6·14 天前That’s been on my mind a bit. It’s not a foolproof way to do this though, as you’d likely need to:
- Do a ukrainian style one way mission. The materials used in it could be led back to you through purchases, fingerprints, or DNA.
- Be nearby the drone and control it as it flies in. You could be seen nearby though, and your controller’s signals could be located.
- Use an FPV drone to see from the drone’s perspective. Though this also has the risk of your controller’s signals being located.
- Use a fully autonomous drone that is configured to meet you at a safe location after the mission. This is by far the hardest version to do, and you’d need to do a lot of research + trial and error to ensure edge cases don’t get you caught. What if the drone fails to complete the mission? What if it physically gets captured? What if it is followed?
I think it would definitely be possible to do something like this in theory, but in practice it would be incredibly difficult to do more the once or at scale, and not get caught.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netto
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Menu of the prophetsEnglish
5·14 天前I believe so yes. And given that they frequently eat their food live/raw, I’d bet they have an easier time with salmonella than humans.
But to what extend is the question I suppose.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netto
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Menu of the prophetsEnglish
3·14 天前Probably not. Which makes medium rare chicken theoretically safe despite the horrifying texture I’m sure it would have.
But also I’m pretty sure chickens still exist, and could be processed for food the normal way, leading to klingon salmonella trials.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netto
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Menu of the prophetsEnglish
11·14 天前I wonder how many klingons have gotten food poisoning from trying raw chicken, thinking it is some trial of strength.
Mindustry has an android app. I had a bit of fun with it until it kept breaking on a particular level on my burner/travel phone. Not sure if the bug was because it was an old phone or what though.
Fruity game on F-Droid is good and simple.
Luanti is a great one.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netto
Technology@lemmy.world•Flock Is Quietly Selling Powerful Drones That Scan License Plates From the SkyEnglish
2·17 天前Converting a little microwave oven to a homemade jammer gun never hurt anyone (it has).
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netto
pics@lemmy.world•I built this with my own two hands and it took me a month but holy crap I did it.English
1·17 天前Shit that looks really cool. My father in law has a collection of like +500 hot wheels, I bet he’d be down to give it a go.





I had a red one that I had washed once, and it started bleeding red dye over everything. Did not make me feel comfortable wearing it going forward.