It keeps crashing and not loading stuff correctly and giving me lots of hang time.
A lot like Reddit around the time I left Digg
/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
It keeps crashing and not loading stuff correctly and giving me lots of hang time.
A lot like Reddit around the time I left Digg
Do they have a choice? By hosting an instance, they open themselves up to liability if someone posts child porn. What else could they do?
There are too many structural problems with the extractive economy for our current society to survive. As resources dwindle and climate change gets worse the smaller countries will start to collapse and entire regions will go to war over resources. Billions of humans will be forced to migrate out of uninhabitable zones around the globe and they’ll do anything to escape. The ones that can’t escape will eat each other (metaphorically and literally).
There won’t be a singularity. There probably won’t even be a global internet in 30 years.
As a hard materialist, I don’t see art as separate from materialism. What art does is materially express immaterial things - a good piece of art isn’t just an image or description of events, it’s an idea or concept that has been made into a material form.
Art isn’t just a description of the world. The point of art is to change it.
Art hadn’t been properly commodified yet because the technology for mass produced art didn’t exist. They still needed artisans and artists, so they had to fund the arts if they wanted to see any created. They didn’t appreciate art more, per se, but they saw it as fundamentally different from other widgets.
This is no longer the case. With the advent of photography, film, digital information, and of course the internet we now see profitable “art” without any need to fund it with philanthropy. Aside from one-off public works projects they can fund by stealing public funds, they can only imagine art through the lens of profitability and have no understanding of the amount of free time and energy that has gone into creating so much of the art that exists today.
There is no Medicis in 2023. Instead you get Marvel.
I hope without karma we can do away with vote fuzzing.
But then what does /c/ mean?
If we’re lemmings, then these are /c/liffs
I think it’s important to remember that these monsters are all too human.
It’s still good to shoot them into the Sun.
Love to “defederate” Nazis
:)
Yeah yeah, Republicans are objectively worse for workers.
Don’t pretend like the other party is pro-worker, though.
If everything is nuanced, then “everything is nuanced” must also be nuanced. As such, not everything is nuanced.
Take your post-modernism and shove it :P
I’d considered it and dismissed the idea before, but I think I was just scared of transitioning.
Then I got to feel what I was missing and knew what I was missing out on :)
When we started wearing masks at work, I started to get called ma’am a lot.
I started hormones the next year.
Which party shut down the rail union strike?
Leninism is good, actually.
Believing that everything is nuanced, though, is absurd.
Well, I was basing my idea off of Engles’s "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State". In it he writes about the role private property played in the emergence of modern gender roles (among many other things), and listening to a Red Menace podcast about the book caused something to twig in my brain to connect declining private property ownership to the erosion of gender roles and seemingly sudden rise in queer identification
tbh this is just a half-baked idea I wanted to share lol
When all you have is a hammer, all your problems look like nails. There were sometimes… excesses.
I’ve wanted to leave since the old shitredditsays days (had the handle /u/outwrangle ), but back then there weren’t any good alternatives (SA cost actual money and Tumblr went to shit after it was acquired by Yahoo) so I stayed on leddit out of a lack of alternatives.
The blackout is just the brd finally coming to free us from the hellsite. I will never return.
As a trans woman who spent a lot of her life as a violent man, I have some perspective on this.
The tendency to blow up and hit things? Those are panic attacks. Men don’t like to think of themselves as having sissy emotional problems and so they just try to stubbornly power through their panic by yelling and hitting things, but like, a good cry really fucking helps you know? Meds too! Take a break, get some fresh air, take some deep breaths, fix your makeup, it’s going to be okay. No need to break shit.