FlashMob there is exhibiting a common bias that the only reason to keep traditional group display behaviours around is if they’re religious. This means they are probably from a settler state where colonialism relied on suppressing local culture.

Sorry bud, comparing the haka to animal noises is not “tone”, so fuck off with the disingenuous bullshit.

Now that you mention it, the lunatic fringe right wing that calls every social benefit or progress “communism” is a little bit correct.

The state, and private ownership of the means of production, withers away the more we have things like retirement benefits and weekends and universal healthcare and livable welfare payments.

Each increase in public services reduces the profits of the owner class. As we deal with the oligarchic stages of late capitalism there will probably have to be a lot of nationalizing, or monopoly breakups. Eventually, as governments take on more and more ‘essential’ services, including housing, public ownership becomes normalized.

So, assuming continuing “progress” in economics away from capital worship, and that we survive both energy overshoot and rapid A.I. development:

Co-operatives etc. will eventually take over as the most common economic organization, globally. Co-ownership in many variants. Nationalized industries and assets will likely devolve into more local control. Traded and private companies will have to adapt to less opportunity to skim surplus labour, and innovate more. Fewer rentier activities for passive income will likely be a common policy in many regions. Many will do just fine as gig workers with automated administrative systems, and that time freedom will come to be normalized.

U.B.I. in some forms will be a bridge in a lot of regions, I expect.

[note: this scenario does not appear to be the current timeline for much of the world… work to be done]

Your recent comment history is a series of bitter one-liner quips designed to drag people down.

They don’t understand that we mean it like “Yanqui”, as in, imperialists.

Me too, plus I don’t tailgate!

Is it that uniformly bad? I guess the exceptions to the rule stand out starkly then.

You know that this is a global forum, right?

Oh, do your regional school districts let teachers design their own curriculum?

lol it’s all good friend

A teachable moment for some readers who have trouble discerning the difference between the words.

This is one case where misspelling ‘affect’ works.

It’s called Mirror Accusation, aka projection, and it’s a method used by authoritarian regimes to ascribe their motives onto their opponents. Usually it indicates what is coming next.

This is why I am very concerned about what all the ‘white genocide’ talk means… they are teeing up for some very nasty shit.

If the analytics cross over a certain threshold, trigger an ad.

This is extremely simple and does not require an LLM.

Battery would be grand for a household solar install. Seats would be nice on the porch. The frunk can hold a lot of chicken feed, and the cabin would make a fine henhouse for a small flock.

That cadence…

I think you two are missing each other. One is regionally focussed and responding to the immediacy of a regional crisis; the rhetoric is to encourage action that will alleviate the regional crisis, including an appeal to globalism. The other is enforcing a global viewpoint that tries to trump any regional concerns out of principle and the rhetoric is aimed at the global forum that is lemmy.

Horse vs pony. Whatever, people.

The quibbles over the categorization niceties turn into accusations of racism. Which may or may not be active in this situation but the evidence is not established well enough for the accusation, which is simply a rhetorical trump card here.

Sadly, the state of discourse is so poisonous that ethnicity, which is real, is being swapped out for race, which is not real.

It’s not their argument, they are just reporting. Chill out.

Country Grocer

how would you know which places to patrol, and when?

This is an extremely regional problem to solve. Where I am, which is a village and exurban-ruural, you would go to the electronics recycling depot and see if they have any choice items. Also you could call the various independent pc repair people to see if they have anything no longer supported but functional for free or cheap.

Also there’s various thrift stores that sometimes have computers cheap.

The closest big city is Vancouver so to curb cruise there I would pick upper middle class neighbourhoods with alleyways, and drive around on garbage collection days. I wouldn’t really dumpster dive unless I knew of a likely source from hearsay.

Thralls of the Archons serve a feast of suffering.