Wait, there are other reasons to be angry? I thought these were basically the only reasons to actually ever get angry and not just irritated…
(of course, the trivial partial explanation is that men do often feel powerless thus angry but don’t recognize it and assign it on something else instead, because the culturally dominant narrative of masculinity is a prison and acknowledging that one feels powerless is approximately one of the biggest no-nos for it)
(If you don’t want to run a random site’s Javascript, view-source and/or youtube-dl can relatively easily get download links.)
[cw: occasional depiction of effects of police brutality – whenever they pop up Google Images]
The video shows the full hacking, with full explanation of everything – should be enjoyable watching for almost everyone, and I think anyone who knows the definition of “hashing passwords” and “sql database” should be able to understand the video in its entirety. (I’m willing to answer questions, if you have.)
stop doing the dirty work as the foot soldiers of capitalism and begin to be truly serve the people. We do not want more cases like “Dead city” (Ciutat Morta). No more killings like Juan Andres Benitez. We want justice for Esther Quintana and many other cases. We want to end gratuitous violence by the police.
We want to stop the use of the police forces to combat the poor. We do not want to continue evicting families.
(This movie has already gone down from Youtube, RuTube.ru, and LiveLeak, so it might be worth it to download it if you wanna be sure to have access to it later… View-Source and then search for 720…)
Now, let us bet on which one is considered the bigger crime by the State and the mainstream media: PoliceMob doing violence and not being held responsible, or someone trying to hold them responsible in the only way they can…
Be trans. Slay God. Ascend to your rightful throne over all Creation.
If the death penalty is acceptable for any crimes it’s got to be acceptable in this case.
We find you guilty of torturing billions of people for millennia. Your sentence is death by increased acceptance of trans people.
(I suppose there are some jurisdiction issues, and IDK much about international law.)
Anyway, apparently supporting my awesome girlfriend also helps kill bloodthirsty tyrants, so keep that in mind!
Are their jurisdiction issues? Given that they had to declare space to be neutral territory, I think until anyone claims otherwise unexplored territory such as the metaphysical domain of God isn’t under ANY jurisdiction… no? Do we have any space lawyers around?
The rules are that states may not own stuff that they haven’t constructed themselves, but national laws apply to the activities of each nation. So basically if God falls under any specific jurisdiction on Earth, the same would be expected to apply everywhere else as well.
Given that many states’ laws also apply to foreigners who have committed crimes on the state’s soil against the state’s citizens, and that citizens of state A aren’t entitled to any special protections over citizens of state B regarding crimes they have committed under state B’s jurisdiction; I think we can make the case that if we are able to execute God, we’re totally within our rights to do so.
"If you do talk about [Rojava’s] politics, misrepresent them as a Kurdish nationalist movement fighting to establish a Kurdish state. Because of course a neoliberal “democratic” state is what any freedom loving people would want. Ignore the fact that while mostly Kurds, there’s a variety of ethnicities, religions, and languages in Rojava. Absolutely do not mention words like “democratic confederalism,” “direct democracy,” “anticapitalist,” “feminism,” “social ecology,” or “libertarian socialism”. Remember, according to Fukuyama we’ve reached the “end of history.” And according to Thatcher, “there is no alternative.” That depends on you not talking about the alternative."
This is your daily reminder that there is a Problematic oligopoly in governance and attempts to supply alternative products to the Marketplace Of Ideas That Actually Get Implemented Somewhere should be protected at, not all because that would be dangerous, but significantly more costs than they are currently protected at.
Furthermore, this should be an agreeable meta-level policy regardless of what one thinks of any particular implementation; how else are we supposed to figure out which exotic form of more-consensual-than-currently governance would actually work the best? A world with both both seasteaders and Rojava getting to try out their systems without authoritarians fucking with either should be preferable to all varieties of freedom-appreciating people over a world without such experiments. There is a natural coalition waiting to be built is what I’m saying.
Large portions of our economy would grind to a halt [sic] if the government did not grant patents and copyrights. Without this massive intervention into the free market, the drug, music, publishing, and software industries could not exist. [sic] Bill Gates likes to think of himself as a self-made man, but he would not be one of the richest men in the world if the government did not make it illegal for anyone but Microsoft to copy and sell Windows. [implication: this is somehow supposed to be a “good” thing]
We can see this in their findings summarized in Table 1. Both public and private service providers received consistently high scores from people who had recently used their services. On a scale of 0-100, the public agencies averaged a score of 73.5 for customer satisfaction, while the private businesses averaged 73.9 – a negligible difference. Clearly, people’s actual experiences and evaluations of public agencies runs directly contrary [sic] to the negative stereotype that government organizations consistently provide inferior service to that available in the private sector.
Service Ratings by Recent Customers
U.S. Postal Service 76.1
Public health clinics 74.4
(...)
Private mail carriers 84.5
Private doctors' offices 80.6
Government also helps you own your house in more than the legal sense. On a more practical level, the federal government actually gives you money every year to help pay for your house. It’s called a mortgage interest tax deduction and it is one of the larger benefit programs run by the federal government – amounting to over $60 billion dollars a year. You can also deduct any real estate taxes you pay. These largely overlooked subsidy programs have enabled millions of people to buy their first home or to move up to a larger home than they could afford otherwise. [but when the private sector does it, it’s called irresponsible]
How could [anti-poverty programs] possibly be considered a success [sic] when the poverty rate is essentially the same as it was thirty years ago? The answer is that most of the policies aimed at the poor in the U.S. were never intended to get them out of poverty.
One business sector that benefits tremendously from government R&D is the drug industry. Our government conducts fully half of the research and development of new drugs – the economic benefits of which are then largely captured by pharmaceutical companies. [once again, this is supposed to be a “good” thing]
You wouldn’t self-diagnose yourself with cancer. So why are these teens online self-diagnosing themselves with severe psychiatric disorders? And why are we allowing and encouraging it as valid?
this post gave me self-diagnosed cancer
the most epic softball I have ever seen on this site
“Why are we allowing.”
Ah yes, that old canard. I agree with communismkills: Teenagers who self-dx and subsequently post about it online need to be punished by PoliceMob.
Considering:
the size of the tumblr teenager self-dx crowd
the fact that they’re hiding behind false names
the additional anonymity of IP addresses and the fact that any single IP address might belong to a household with several teenagers or possibly even an adult who pretends to be a self-dx teenager online
the difficulty of asserting jurisdiction over possible foreign teenagers
and other issues (margin too small etc.)
I predict that the costs of a thorough purge will run into no more than $50 billion - a steal compared to the War on Drugs - so we should definitely stop allowing teenagers to self-diagnose online.
Adults can continue to do so - they, after all, have rights.
“Noooooooooo…” Carmen whines helplessly. “Look, this is only indirectly my forte. My father is the one with a special interest in economics, and he raised me to respect the power of the field. He made me watch every episode of My Little Factory: Markets Are Magic when I was a kid. He made my brother and I bid on where we’d go on the weekends to clearly signal how much we wanted it, because money is the unit of caring. He devised a game in which I traded a stipend of imaginary currency for goods and services at home, and gradually increased the complexity until there were financial derivatives. So, even if this isn’t my special interest, I still feel comfortable saying this: If someone gave me a loan and a decade, I could own your island. Please: markets. That is all.”
[OOC: Both my parents are econ/finance people and ex-central bankers. The game about trading currency for household goods was an actual thing they did with me from seven to nine years old. I had a unique childhood.]
This was my character’s reaction to being told by a noble woman that her country had a command economy, because using money for important services was undignified.
It’s all fun and games until someone organizes the peasants into an anarcho-syndicalist commune.
Actually…
If the peasants’ lands don’t get forcibly seized by ex-aristocrats, anarcho-syndicalist communes are a very good thing for free markets.
First of all, they reduce the vertical nature of a feudal society by undermining the aristocrats’ power and distributing power horizontally, which in turn is useful for making markets adequately reflect people’s preferences and not just the aristocrats’.
Second, they allow the peasants to pool their capital for more intensive technologies of production and economies of scale, while having an incentive structure that supports value creation as people work for their own benefit instead of some asshole over there. Voluntary collectivization has often been favored over involuntary collectivization or tenant farming for a reason.
Third, the existence of a sufficient amount of anarcho-syndicalist communes effectively sets a reasonable floor for how horrible industrialization can be. Historically the inclosure acts and the poor laws and all that bullshit made the opportunities for the proletariat way lower than they would’ve otherwise been, thus rendering it artificially exploitable in the dark satanic mills. If peasants can anarcho-syndicalist-communize instead of working in horrible factories and mines, the factories and mines will be substantially less horrible or they will simply not exist on a free market.
Forth, land is fundamentally much more zero-sum than other forms of productive capital, and thus a lot of what aristocrats do is inevitably just unproductive rentseeking which anarcho-syndicalist communes would redistribute to the creators of value, disincentivizing unproductive activities such as aristocratizing and other forms of mooching off others’ labor. On the other hand, anarcho-syndicalist peasant communes can’t (unless they totally dominate society and ostracize everyone who wants to use currency and markets so thoroughly that social pressures prevent economic efficiency) destroy the markets’ ability to create value as they would still be incentivized to trade with outsiders where trade is beneficial.
I was more riffing on the “Venture Capitalist” thing, rather then the markets. And it all works very well apart from dealing with the violence inherent in the system, as you alluded to.
…strange women something something something distributin’ loans is no basis for a system of government!
when i don’t have any kids, i’m going to name them after Culture ships.
More reasons why official regulations on names suck: the spoilsports usually require way too much gravitas.
If the kids can rename themselves “Alexandria Unicorn” when 5 and something standard when older and not have problems, then I guess letting parents name infants ridiculous stuff is not a youth rights problem.
Obviously. Once again autonomy reigns supreme over authority.
“Noooooooooo…” Carmen whines helplessly. “Look, this is only indirectly my forte. My father is the one with a special interest in economics, and he raised me to respect the power of the field. He made me watch every episode of My Little Factory: Markets Are Magic when I was a kid. He made my brother and I bid on where we’d go on the weekends to clearly signal how much we wanted it, because money is the unit of caring. He devised a game in which I traded a stipend of imaginary currency for goods and services at home, and gradually increased the complexity until there were financial derivatives. So, even if this isn’t my special interest, I still feel comfortable saying this: If someone gave me a loan and a decade, I could own your island. Please: markets. That is all.”
[OOC: Both my parents are econ/finance people and ex-central bankers. The game about trading currency for household goods was an actual thing they did with me from seven to nine years old. I had a unique childhood.]
This was my character’s reaction to being told by a noble woman that her country had a command economy, because using money for important services was undignified.
It’s all fun and games until someone organizes the peasants into an anarcho-syndicalist commune.
Actually…
If the peasants’ lands don’t get forcibly seized by ex-aristocrats, anarcho-syndicalist communes are a very good thing for free markets.
First of all, they reduce the vertical nature of a feudal society by undermining the aristocrats’ power and distributing power horizontally, which in turn is useful for making markets adequately reflect people’s preferences and not just the aristocrats’.
Second, they allow the peasants to pool their capital for more intensive technologies of production and economies of scale, while having an incentive structure that supports value creation as people work for their own benefit instead of some asshole over there. Voluntary collectivization has often been favored over involuntary collectivization or tenant farming for a reason.
Third, the existence of a sufficient amount of anarcho-syndicalist communes effectively sets a reasonable floor for how horrible industrialization can be. Historically the inclosure acts and the poor laws and all that bullshit made the opportunities for the proletariat way lower than they would’ve otherwise been, thus rendering it artificially exploitable in the dark satanic mills. If peasants can anarcho-syndicalist-communize instead of working in horrible factories and mines, the factories and mines will be substantially less horrible or they will simply not exist on a free market.
Forth, land is fundamentally much more zero-sum than other forms of productive capital, and thus a lot of what aristocrats do is inevitably just unproductive rentseeking which anarcho-syndicalist communes would redistribute to the creators of value, disincentivizing unproductive activities such as aristocratizing and other forms of mooching off others’ labor. On the other hand, anarcho-syndicalist peasant communes can’t (unless they totally dominate society and ostracize everyone who wants to use currency and markets so thoroughly that social pressures prevent economic efficiency) destroy the markets’ ability to create value as they would still be incentivized to trade with outsiders where trade is beneficial.
it is highly amusing to mess around with my i3 window color scheme, only to go afk and see the exact same colorscheme in the bathroom mirror
yes, I empirically seem to be very much about the purple, black, grey and white
im shocked by this. shocked i tell u
…right. I have it there as well.
I didn’t even consciously realize that part.
Now, I probably shouldn’t start thinking of ways to implement a grey background/dark text colorscheme to create the æsthetic because I finally managed to make a black background color scheme that looks good and even matches my language synesthesia reasonably…
