Notices by JW Prince of CPH, Radicalized (jwcph@helvede.net)

@AnarchoNinaWrites If people think they're that lucky, you'd think gambling was more popular than it is...

(I know, lotteries are, in fact, popular - but not "more than half the population base life & death decisions on winning" popular)

@AnarchoNinaWrites I get that, but it's deeply irrational & it takes very little intelligence - and not even that much thinking - to realize it, even if one doesn't know anything about crisis behavior. By its very nature hierarchy is thin at the top & wide at the bottom, so the odds of benefitting from it are *fart noise*. Conversely, collaboration is how we got fucking EVERYTHING.

Nihilism shouldn't appeal this broadly; see also "self-preservation".

@AnarchoNinaWrites We're not going to disagree that the establishment Left™️ is failing everywhere, or that their mistake is being reactive to the Right™️ turn, instead of presenting the ways forward that are so well known re. environment, equality, economy... we still have our work cut out for us, it's just more of a guerilla effort than I previously thought (or wanted to believe, the distinction is immaterial at this point).

@AnarchoNinaWrites Just dawned on me: You're right that mobilizing people to vote against fascism failed because getting people out to vote *against* something is vastly more difficult than getting them to vote *for* something - but at the same time, voting for fascism *is itself voting against something*. More accurately, it's voting against FUCKING EVERYTHING!, because that's the core tenet of fascism: To stand united against. No, I didn't forget a word there. United against.

Headsplosion.

@AnarchoNinaWrites I guess it's just a bit of a harsh awakening that people in general are somehow even worse at thinking about their own existence than I thought they were...

@AnarchoNinaWrites No, I know - but fucking why!? This isn't just a US question, or a this election question; people are poo-poo'ing our worries & even commending TFG all around the world, too, without suffering any consequences, indicating the same mechanism at work everywhere. We can also turn the question around: Why do most people emphatically agree that Nazi Germany was terrible if most people are actually fine with fascism?

@AnarchoNinaWrites I'm with you on this, but it still doesn't explain why the real majority turned out to be "Refuse to vote AGAINST a literal Nazi"...

I made a sticker, because distracting myself by doing doodles is probably healthier than anger-flashes of punching assholes in the face...

https://www.etsy.com/dk-en/listing/1824266625/your-kneecaps-my-choice-sticker-black

Not that I enjoy the noise or have any particular liking for paved streets, but at least these guys outside my apartment are plying a trade, they're good at it & at the end of the day they can stand back & go "we made this".

Today I'll take the slightest bit of constructiveness wherever the fuck I can find it.

@AnarchoNinaWrites That - or 'Murica just will. Not. Elect. A. Woman. Ever, no matter the alternative.

@fraying Exactly. Hope is action oriented 👉 https://aeon.co/essays/true-hope-takes-a-hard-look-at-reality-then-makes-a-plan

"CFPB boss Rohit Chopra is part of a cohort of Biden enforcers who've hit upon a devastatingly effective tactic for fighting corporate power: they read the law and found out what they're allowed to do, and then did it." - @pluralistic

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113407988753227338

Fuck "undecided voters". Makes it sound like they're so deeply mulling things over they haven arrived at a conclusion yet - but two weeks before an #election there's only two kinds of "undecided": Those who know who they're voting for but won't admit it & those who won't be voting & thinks "undecided" sounds better (see above), which is also a decision, namely that of being lazy & leave it to everyone else to take a modicum of responsibility.

#democracy

@StefanThinks Yes - and the thing that's illegal. Somebody should probably do something about that.

@aral Yeah, I did a Zimmerfeld eyebrow raise on that one, too... why do so, so many people feel they voluntarily have to green-, sane-, reputation- & motivation-wash the powerful - are they afraid of lawsuits, or what is it!?

Another platform refusing to implement scam filtering because they make money on it & don't give a shit whose livelihoods & passions are ruined in the process.

Also, it salts the earth for their own future as a business but - per the tenets of #enshittification - they don't care about that either, just so long as they extract maximum wealth in the short term.

Fuck this system right in the neck 🤬

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/113312440116354637

Inspired by this thread by @pluralistic & a conversation I had at a podcast recording earlier today: No company should be allowed to make or sell physical products unless they assume full "end of life" responsibility for both product & the company itself.

When the product breaks/wears out you take it back & if you close down you hand off the duty.

No, I don't know how to do this practically - all I know is we need to take the re- out of recycling.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/10/software-based-car/#based

@bmacDonald94 I still find it weird that an intelligent man like Popper makes tolerance so complicated. We don't need to claim anything - tolerance, by its very nature, not only allows but demands we do not tolerate the intolerant.

Tolerance is a peace treaty, not a suicide pact, and thus only extends to those willing to abide by it, which naturally excludes the intolerant.

Yonathan Zunger explains in more depth: https://medium.com/extra-extra/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d6376

@bmacDonald94 Lindsey Stirling is just delightful 😊 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=VgzTfdzj_Ho

I'm not a "Game of Thrones" person but holy forkin' shirtballs, looking at these props I almost wish I was... 😻

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGZU0rQ2t4s #props #movies #HouseOfDragon #Tested #adamsavage