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.

Not for you. And certainly not for the staff working in the shop.

Currently, you’re bartering with copious amounts of copium.

… And if the systems you actually interact with go down, you can get fucked as well.

If you want to buy food with Monero and the payment processor for the local shop doesn’t work, even if it’s a local machine sitting in the back office, you still can’t buy anything.

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.

Repairability doesn’t really matter if you only get two years of software updates.

Yes, there’s lineage OS, but whether their support will be better, is doubtful.

We shouldn’t support a company that openly says they don’t give a crap about their users’safety.

I can’t, he died 8 years ago…

I mean, Trump can’t help it, but think about the audacity of Obama just being born slightly darker than acceptable!

I earn more than Donald Tusk. That’s interesting.

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.

Unfortunately, the current finance minister is really that stupid.

Absolute braindead wannabe neoliberal.

Prudes…

Java’s Duke just stands there, fully nude and is giving NullPointerException fucks.

Naja, doch.

Die Schule vermittelt halt - nichts.

De facto werden die Schüler weder zu mündigen Bürgern, noch zu “guten Arbeitern” erzogen. Also was genau machen die da?

Es ist ja so, dass das Wissen theoretisch vermittelt wird, aber offensichtlich so schlecht, dass es nicht hängen bleibt. Egal, was du von der Schule erwartest, du wirst enttäuscht.

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.

Gibt’s in der 10. auch in Deutschland. Aber seien wir ehrlich: in drei Wochen lern ich doch nicht, was in einem Betrieb abgeht.

Mein Punkt ist auch eher der, dass die Schule Fächer so lehrt, dass man vollständig das Interesse daran verliert bzw. nie entdeckt. Und das ist unglaublich schade. Ich will nicht wissen, wie viele Mathematiker, Biologen, Philosophen, etc. wir an Verlegenheitsstudiengänge oder -ausbildungen verloren haben, weil die Schule sie vollständig desinteressiert ausgespuckt hat.

Es hat schon seine Gründe, warum in Deutschland tendenziell die nicht gerade die besten Abiturienten Lehramt studieren. Die wenigsten gucken mit Freude auf Schule zurück. Und die, die es tun, sind (zumindest in meiner anekdotischen Evidenz) nicht gerade das beste Lehrermaterial.

Teilweise mit Sicherheit.

Aber grundsätzlich hatte ich nicht den Eindruck, dass die Schule sich als Ort des Verstehens gesehen hat. Es wurde immer von “Transferleistung” gefaselt, aber letztlich war da nichts hinter.

Die ganzen von dir angesprochenen Gruppen hatten wir (oder zumindest ein paar davon), aber das hat halt weder was mit Verstehen der Welt noch mit Beruf zu tun. Wenn ich so meinen Lehrerfreunden zuhöre, sind diese Gruppen aber auch heute nur deswegen aktiv, weil es einzelne engagierte Lehrer gibt. Und bei der heutigen Belastung sind das nicht viele.

Nee, ist es nicht.

Denn das Wissen verpufft offensichtlich einfach und ist damit auch für den Beruf nicht nutzbar.

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?

The idea was probably rather that the right would spin this as some sort of attack on their existence and go full on Reichstagsbrand.

Playing the victim is the entire Spiel of the far right, it’s not implausible that actually being a victim would create a boost from undecided voters.