naevaTheRat

Better get running, looks like those goalposts have a bit of a head start on you.

Um the sign is literally about safety for all people with genders specifically mentioned. Bathrooms in public are relatively dangerous for trans people, hence the comment. Like if you want safety and respect for people, and then refuse to help them, you actually just want someone else to sort out the world you're making more dangerous.

Also literally yes I do, I live near a bushwalk exit that's popular, and have had a few knocks on the door by people busting or thirsty and I do help them because I'm not a horrible human who wants to watch someone shit themselves or pass out from heatstroke. What else could I do? If I wont who will. Would it be nice if the council put in a tap, bins, and a dunny? sure. In the meantime I will treat people who ask for a trivial bit of assistance with the decency and respect they deserve.

You know that isolated hostility is the end point of trying to protect yourself from harm right?

Being a good person and practicing pro social beliefs means opening yourself up to the possibility of being taken advantage of. It is ludicrous to hurt everyone, or at least an entire class of people, because of the occasional actions of some.

"I support trans people having safe access to bathrooms"

"may I safely access this bathroom?"

"Are you poor?"

I think some people's working conditions are so horrible that they can only imagine doing work in response to coercive violence. Like it's true, nobody in an anarchist society is going to flip burgers for 8 hours straight with 1 30 minute break being shouted at if production slows marginally. That is inhumane bullshit. Nobody is going to destroy their lungs in a mine without protective equipment and on long shifts that compromise safety because that is an insane thing to be forced to do.

Loads of work is meaningful shit, even if a lot of it is tedious and difficult. When a (functional) household or community organisation divides work it somehow manages to get things done without anything threatening each other. Feelings of obligation, love, respect, generosity, shame, guilt, and responsibility are extremely powerful motivators. Mining is hard and dangerous, but some people don't mind that and will do it because it needs doing and commands respect provided they are treated with dignity.

The conditions of many jobs will have to change sure, and many jobs which serve only to elevate one above others will vanish (many freeing up huge amounts of resources. e.g. all the fucking energy and production that goes into stock trading computers) but the fundamental industries humans need to do change surprisingly little when you remove the capital.

If I had the room for it I'd add turbolib to my bio. Lemmy update for longer bio when?

The whole vote/novote thing seems turbocharged in the USA. Over the drink here some uni students write a few essays but mostly nobody cares.

What is it that you think would be a barrier? anarchism isn't when you're not organised. It's when you're not forced.

People can still be organised, everyone needs medicine and sees it's benefit. Would you help? whether that's growing or gathering precursor materials, managing inventories, doing synthesis, maintaining and building machines, hosting educators and specialists, or transporting goods. The work involved isn't different from what everyone already does.

Eh if I'm not gonna do what the gov tells me I'm not gonna listen to a random internet comment repeating dogma ;)

Eh, the essay makes good points about why electoralism is not going to bring about a just society but it paves over all the ways that electoralism can make things worse with "we can just do mutual aid".

For a lot of people in a lot of places casting a vote is low effort, and realistically the only intervention they'll ever actually participate in while the barrier to entry is still so high due to the left being so utterly defeated. You can absolutely limit the power of "moderate" conservatives and liberals who tend to be the actual powerbase that successful facist takeovers of governments use. As well as having their own horrible goals.

It's not really an either-or thing and the jackbooted thugs that are going to black bag you aren't going to be like "well the ballot was down 15% (wildly optimistic) this year so uhhh I don't think these orders are legitimate".

We need numbers, practiced organisers, and institutions before accelerationism is at all advisable, if it even ever is. Even if your wildest pipe dreams about revolution broke out tomorrow we would lose right now, we just don't have the numbers, skills and tactics yet.

Ok, you can dogpile me now.

Yeah it sucks. Between crypto and machine learning hardware is absolutely fucked. I'm hoping it'll settle down a bit when people realise that llm's are not going to make god from a machine but we shall see.

Hadn't considered Singapore, assumed it'd be expensive since land is and they're rich as fuck. I guess power is cheap since their billionaires are taking all the gas here and selling it back haha. Compute seems relatively affordable for a RTT of 110 ms.

Probably rules out like fighting games and other similar frame perfect stuff but that's definitely not too bad. 6 frame delay probably isn't noticeable on anything turn based, or many RPGs and the like.

Tell me more of this frankencomputer.

I'm not broke by any means, but lower end of average household income in an extremely expensive place. Groceries have gone up about 4 fold in the last 5 years (50 bucks used to feed 2 for a week, lol lmao now. Beans went from 3 dollars a kg dry to 11 etc) so certain things are on the chopping block.

I was looking at the cost for a "2k" oled monitor and appropriate computer and haha, hahaha, hahahahahahahaha I have medical bills and shit lmao. Not paying like 3-5k to play the 1 or 2 increasingly bad modern games I want to.

Since Google has infinite money they probably ran local compute.