Notices by cy (cy@fedicy.us.to), page 2
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To be fair I wasn't talking to you, or replying to anything you said. It's fine if you don't care about how Nazis slaughtered anarchists, but I kind of don't want to get slaughtered, so I do care about it, just a teeny little bit.
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Damn, thought I was making sense there.
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Yes, voluntary hierarchy is unanarchistic. Classic example is the Nazi Party in Germany, who designed a very effective and efficient machine of screaming madness that slaughtered anarchists and innocents alike. They didn't force the anarchists to obey their hierarchy. They just killed them. Even if every Nazi was wholeheartedly in support of their leader and their obedience, and most of them were, it's still an existential threat to anyone who's not part of the cult.
But even on a purely abstract basis, voluntary hierarchy is unanarchic, because anarchy means "not hierarchy," and unanarchy means "not not hierarchy." Hierarchies can absolutely exist in anarchy, whether they literally gun down anarchists or not, but they are not anarchic. The more hierarchy, the less anarchy, of that specific group. Anarchists could be educating women next door, and they wouldn't cease to exist just because they were in the other room adjacent to the "obey your betters" club.
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Yeah I'm just being me. Will delete if offensive. It is the case that something absolutely everyone does is also something absolutely everyone in a specific group does. It just doesn't distinguish that group from anyone else, and manufacturing conflict is all about distinguishment.
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AND he has ferrets.
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All Mexican people breathe air! Bunch of Mexican airbreathers!
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Looks like just another subscriber whore posting high volume of clickbait videos to WOAH HE OWNS FERRETS??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW1d1p_GFXc
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Just another tragedy... get abortions please, I don't care what the law says. Who's going to take care of you in your old age, if you get sterilized young? No one, that's who.
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Who else is going to be your caretaker? The neighbor's kids? Not taking care of your parents when they need it is also an asshole move.
CC: @TucsonSentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com
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You're a Japanese spacecraft? :o
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People don't have rights to themselves. We live in a society, where our actions have consequences on others. Abortion is right, because it harms nobody, and anti-abortion harms many people, even giving power to those who would cause more harm. The whole nonsense about bodily autonomy is really just ego stroking. What we want is prosperity, not the individual freedom to choose between failures.
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implying property rights matter at all
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I buried my TV long ago.
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Difference is there are a lot more collaborators and they are much more dangerous. Fascists are weak, cowardly, everything they tell you to despise. Thinking themselves puppetmasters, they use the rubes they've fooled to do their dirty work. People held in debt to the fascists, who believe that disaster will fall if they are not obeyed, are the ones breaking down your door, even if the only way to end fascism is to destroy their masters, who are doing seemingly nothing at all.
CC: @trdebunked@tech.lgbt
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Make sure that everybody has the ability to not be the product for some billionaire
We wanted to give everyone the opportunity to join us in helping us build this
and we established a #Discord community
Uh...
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Oh, I can think of a lot of reasons not to implement ActivityPub. That doesn't apply to Bluesky though, they're not doing any of it. I do think a bridge is ultimately doomed, since there's always something lost in translation, but I don't have any particular fucks to give over the people doing it. When I mark something Public it means Public.
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@georgetakei@universeodon.com @ecsd@commons.whatiwanttoknow.org Really, the claim that lead, and uranium-238 emerge from supernovas is itself faith-based. It's different from religion because nobody's threatening us if we don't believe it, but we truly don't know where those elements come from. No model of nuclear fusion that I know of can proceed past iron. Iron doesn't produce a net positive energy when fusing, so there's no more fusion reaction to fight against the crushing gravity. That's as far as it gets. At that point, our mathematical models hit undefinable asymptotes, as the energy density of the collapsing star goes to infinity.
I'm pretty sure that a neutron star can form through simple Newtonian laws of gravity, where the only thing keeping the star from collapsing further is the Pauli exclusion principle. There are also white and brown dwarves, which are basically balls of iron. But a mathematical model for the creation of uranium in the massive chaotic energy blast of a supernova just doesn't exist. As far as I know all they can say is "Uh, 238 protons just randomly happen to smack into each other, and just happen to be ejected away from the explosion, and just happen to drag 238 electrons along with them. Along with every other value of N protons. I guess."
I suppose some people might have a working model for a heavy metal forming in a supernova, but it's faith-based for me. I just don't care where lead or uranium 238 came from. Supernova's my best guess for uranium, but why would I have to know for sure?
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@georgetakei@universeodon.com Really, these people aren't arguing that the earth is 4000 years old. They're saying they have no choice but to believe that it is, because their god commanded it. It's like arguing to that skinny kid in the back of class that he shouldn't give his lunch money to bullies. I don't argue with them, but try to provide compassion, respect and opportunity. Give them a way out, help them figure out for themselves if they've been deceived, and help them figure out what to do if they have.
It uh... doesn't work, because I'm mostly powerless to help, but I'd do whatever I could to ease people's fears that God or their family will punish them for not pretending as hard as they can that the bible is inerrant.
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The Soviet Union was absolutely terrible, an autocratic tyranny disguised as a communist state, that everyone in it hated and no one was allowed to say they did. But it was also subject to decades of economic embargo from every bastard capitalist state out there, doing their absolute best to starve poor people to death to force them to revolt. They sent fanatical capitalist spies in to undermine what little stability the Soviet Union managed to achieve. The gulags were arguably arranged by capitalists who had a full on underground campaign to infiltrate and obscure just how bad the camps were getting. The Soviets had their own spies and fanatics, but they were a much less stable state, so they didn't have near the imbalance of power that capitalists/mafiosos could use to create horrible things. You can find dozens of examples of people in the USA driven to enforce their own oppression out of fear of Soviet spies, and almost no actual infiltration doing any actual harm.
Ironically, now that mafiosos have taken over Russia, and the whole thing has converted to a capitalist state, now they have the power over people to carry on a coordinated campaign of destructive infiltration in the USA, up to and including throwing presidential elections in the favor of maximum chaos and mayhem.
So uh... what I mean is "we" sped things up for a long time before Reagan. He certainly went high octane on the Kill the Evil Empire line of thinking though.
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Mice don't even like cheese!
They don't!
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