AggressivelyPassive

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  • I see that problem also in a kind of “contact guilt” in certain topics.

    That is, if there’s any polarized issue, there’s always the liberal/left/progressive position with extremely clear boundaries to what is acceptable to even discuss. And then there’s the vast conservative-fascist spectrum. If any problem arises within that issue, even mentioning it is immediately labeled as outside of the acceptable part, simply out of fear that this could be used as a wedge against the liberal position.

    That in turn alienates people, they see an actual problem and the liberal side either ignores the problem or says it’s fascist. And the actual problem never gets solved or even tackled, simply because nobody wants to touch it.

    This leads to a situation where for a whole bunch of people the fascists seem downright reasonable and then the radicalization pipeline kicks in and suddenly they think Hitler might not be such a bad guy after all.

    So essentially, the left feeds the right gullible people out of fear they might legitimize some of their points.

    Just an example from Germany: when the first wave of Syrian refugees came to Germany in 2015, they were greeted with literally open arms. Great thing. But if you let about a million people into the country, you also need about 500k new apartments for them, the bureaucracy has to be capable of processing everything, language courses have to be expanded drastically, job trainings have to be organized, etc etc. A whole bunch of problems.

    Now, what happened? Nothing. There was great fanfare, the local governments did their best, but nothing substantive happened. Nobody talked about it, because that might fuel the existing resentments. Nobody tackled the problems. And within a few months, we had tens of thousands of young men, who had nothing to do, were not allowed to work, were completely alone and had no money or social safety net. Well, of course a bunch of them turned criminal, which then fueled the resentment even more, because suddenly the fascists actually had what they hoped for: criminal foreigners. Even if the actual problem was tiny, it was the spark that ignited the fascist resurgence.


  • The title is a bit reductionist, but labour in the sense of getting paid to perform tasks for a ruthless entity isn’t exactly the only way to organize work.

    There were, for example, quite successful anarcho-syndicalist worker collectives in civil-war Spain. Of course Franco dismantled them and even the communists back then hated them, but for a time they were successful.

    Now, whether this is the best, or even a functioning, approach I don’t know. But if you look at the state of the current system, it’s not exactly working either.

    Just in terms of efficiency, it’s incredibly bad. Look at all the completely wasted work due to the sheer existence of the management class. That can’t be the best system.




  • Bitcoin lightning is absolutely hilarious. Your solution to Bitcoins problems is - not using Bitcoin. Wow, galaxy brain move.

    The energy cost to maintain the base chain is <1% of global energy use, mostly from renewables

    Yeah, that’s bullshit. First of all, 1% of energy use for a network that serves a few million transactions per day is really bad. A single 1kW node in Visa’s datacenter churns through that in an hour.

    Second, it’s not renewables. It’s everything they can get for cheap. And that’s often enough coal, gas, oil. Also, they’re driving up power demand as a whole, which means fossil energy is actually needed longer.






  • That’s decades of legacy for you…

    I bet each step/arrow/decision had a good reason at some point, but most of them probably back when computers lived in caves and hunted their tapes using spears and rocks.

    I feel like we’re slowly reaching a point where the complexity is collapsing in on itself - just look at the absolute chaos a modern web app is.


  • That’s the point.

    In Germany there was a battle between left and right back then. The economy boomed in the 20s and faltered in the 30s. Capitalists saw the threat of socialism looming just behind Poland and so they supported fascism.

    The Nazis funneled billions into large businesses. It was unsustainable and morally multi-level wrong, but they skimmed a lot of profits from these agreements. They got rich, while the economy started to collapse - even before the war.

    Even after the war, most of them got away. They kept much of their wealth.





  • That is absolute nonsense. SUSE mostly serves large enterprise customers.

    And where do you think the people deciding what to buy get their information? Mind share is important.

    I’m pretty sure SUSE is bigger than Canonical.

    That’s actually surprising to me, but I’d argue that Suse offers more products, it seems like Rancher, Longhorn, etc. have no canonical equivalent.





  • Aber auch das schafft die Schule nicht.

    Ich bin jetzt studierter Informatiker, aber hätte ich nur durch die Schule Kontakt zu Informatik gehabt, hätte ich das nie gemacht, weil es einfach grausam war.

    Die Schule bereitet einen auf exakt eines vor: Abitur. Das war’s.

    Kritisches Denken, Verstehen (nicht nur nachplappern) von Wissenschaft, Geschichte, Sprache, überhaupt von Zusammenhängen findet nicht statt. Begeisterung für irgendwas wecken ist nicht relevant und auch nicht gewünscht. Du sollst die Klappe halten und auskotzen, was dir vorgesetzt wird.

    Mach dir mal den Spass und guck nach, was zB in der 9. Klasse in Chemie dran war und frag deine ehemaligen Klassenkameraden was dazu. Sowas wie “wie funktioniert eine Batterie?” Oder “Was unterscheidet Diesel und Benzin?”. Das hattet ihr mit Sicherheit in der Schule und es ist relevant für das echte Leben. Aber erinnert sich da noch jemand dran?