Anarchism. It sounds scary and dangerous and insane, because you've been taught to casually believe it is so you shut down your brain about it and back away slowly, but it is the worst enemy of any structure that elevates one person above another. Feudalism certainly included.
It's really about equality, and the abolishment of artificial hierarchy and leadership. But it doesn't sound so scary like that. And the powers that be (which are all on top of said hierarchies) would prefer that you not be too interested in that.
I'm not personally an anarchist per-se, but I do believe it contains some valuable ideas and it deserves a lot more serious consideration and conversation than it gets. (cue: people immediately dogpiling about how bad and stupid it is despite never having studied it at all or been interested in it in any serious way)
Eat the rich, and shit anarchy. It may not solve the world's problems, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't an improvement. Except for the rich, obviously. At this point, fuck them. Crooks, sociopaths, and pedophiles, the lot of them as far as I'm concerned..
Here's the secret. You have to not think it is work. You have to be passionate enough about the topic that it's not work, it's just something you do because you enjoy talking about
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. You like having friends also commenting on and talking about
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. You have to live and breathe
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If you are starting a Lemmy community simply for the sake of creating it, you're probably wasting your time. A community is a passion project, sometimes of only a single person, but more commonly, the combined passion of many different people about a particular topic. If you're the only one who cares about
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you're going to have a difficult time even if you're passionate about it. If you're not passionate about it either, then it becomes an impossible task, and if neither you nor anyone else is passionate enough about
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to build a community around it... does Lemmy really need that community? Probably not.
So basically this problem generally solves itself. If you don't feel passionate about creating a community, don't bother. Either someone else who is passionate enough will, or nobody else will. It's not your job. Unless you want it to be.
This seems like a good thing. I don't know if it will go anywhere, or be practical, but I hope so.
I can immediately tell its not for me though. Scheme/Guile is like trying to read the matrix for me. People have tried to explain it to me. Tutorials have tried to explain it to me. It just doesn't fit my brain. My brain does not fit it. I have similar issues with Nix's syntax. I have tried to immerse myself in it. I ran NixOS for a month. I came out understanding even less than I did before I went in.
Someday, I have to assume, there will be a similarly functional tool that uses some syntax my brain is capable of comprehending. Json, typescript, python, toml, even yaml, I don't care. Those already fit in my brain, at least.
If it helps motivate you to give it a shot, I found gitea's runner very confusing to set up, but I felt like forgejo was better designed, pretty easy and well documented.
Are they going to suffer? That's what we're supposed to believe, but remember that money is a human-made concept that only has value because we collectively give it value, and the economy is built on that very important principle.
That situation you describe is real, it will disrupt their efforts a little and protect us in the short term, but in the long term, the meaning of money and economy is changing. they're doing everything they can to use automation to build a new post-scarcity economy based on ownership, membership, services and control. And beyond that, it frankly doesn't include us or even think about us.
That's what the wealth divide is. It's the way that money, as an economic representation of their values, is telling us that their motivations are not about making all existing humans on this planet more comfortable and productive and independent. In their vision of this future economy, they are instead hoarding humanity's collective efforts for themselves, reinvesting it into their own technology, They focus their efforts on what they personally consider important for "progress", chasing their own utopian ideals for the specific goals and groups they consider the best and most important, while the rest of us that aren't part of those goals or groups are pacified and left behind and, if you really think it out, eventually eliminated. After all, a utopia won't include teeming, growing masses of humanity using up all the available resources, that would be a plague, and they eventually will decide to cure it if they haven't already started. Their vision of the future only needs to have enough room for them and the more utopian they make it the less of us there will be. They want to be the main characters, we're just nameless extras who do chores and fill in the background for now and can be ignored to go wherever extras are supposed to go when they're no longer on the screen.
Their view of humanity is abstract, and they believe what they are doing is right, all the way down to the core of their being. They simply don't value humanity's rich tapestry of lived experiences or the sanctity of every individual human life. They'll never make it a priority. They care more about making sure humanity has become "advanced" or is multi-planetary than they do about making sure every human has a home, or food. That's their vision. It's about humanity as a whole, not about individual humans. We can all be sacrificed so the species becomes safer. Scientifically, I can't even say they're wrong. But philosophically, I hope we can all agree that this is deeply wrong and morally bankrupt. We need to start to reclaim our individual humanity and go back to putting people first. We need to care about people in the present, and always, not just the abstract idea of humanity's future. We need to take our money back and use it for a different kind of progress.
As the wealth divide continues to grow, the richest will continue to care less and less about the rest of us. We believe in our foundational myth that they'll always need us somehow, even as they go out of their way to make it utterly obvious that they won't be happy until they can replace literally everything us dirty poor working class people do. When they no longer need us, they will start to dispose of us. Arguably, they've begun doing that already. War is good for business, and for population control.
There are dozens of us, literally dozens! But yeah I'm with you and OP, celery is foul, deeply offensive stuff. Cilantro too, but my hatred is reserved for celery. I've been told it's genetic or something but frankly none of that matters when one hates celery as much as I do.
I will never regret getting rid of my Ender 3. It's basically a self-imposed challenge mode. People are proud that they can print things on it despite the printer, not because of it.
Kessler syndrome seems increasingly inevitable as we potentially approach some of the great filters that explain why we've never met or detected any other civilizations in the universe. It's been a fun ride, folks, but it seems like we might not have threaded this particular needle, finding it was ultimately narrower and our thread thicker and clumsier than we expected and we might instead be reaching the end of the road on our multiplanetary ambitions. Will we get to Mars? Maybe. Will we survive and thrive there? Doubtful.
Banker Daddy serves corporate elites? You don't say? If anyone thinks this feels a little bit "Conservative" from our "Liberal" premier: the overton window sends its regards. Doesn't matter if you refuse to elect a right-wing conservative when you've only got two parties and they're both right-wing conservatives.
Get ready to ride the orange wave into the future, or next time it will get even worse.
Enjoy all your new Chinese and Russian multimillionaire citizens! I'm sure it won't cause any trouble. These are the kinds of immigrants you want now, right? The ones who have proven themselves hardworking, successful capitalists, idolize your culture and goals, and don't ever do crime, skirt laws, or act against your interests? /s
You mean a bunch of advertising and media companies that control and gatekeep the news are hyping something that's making them trillions of dollars? That seems... so unbelievable!
Anarchism. It sounds scary and dangerous and insane, because you've been taught to casually believe it is so you shut down your brain about it and back away slowly, but it is the worst enemy of any structure that elevates one person above another. Feudalism certainly included.
It's really about equality, and the abolishment of artificial hierarchy and leadership. But it doesn't sound so scary like that. And the powers that be (which are all on top of said hierarchies) would prefer that you not be too interested in that.
I'm not personally an anarchist per-se, but I do believe it contains some valuable ideas and it deserves a lot more serious consideration and conversation than it gets. (cue: people immediately dogpiling about how bad and stupid it is despite never having studied it at all or been interested in it in any serious way)
Eat the rich, and shit anarchy. It may not solve the world's problems, but I'd be surprised if it wasn't an improvement. Except for the rich, obviously. At this point, fuck them. Crooks, sociopaths, and pedophiles, the lot of them as far as I'm concerned..