=== ANCHOR POEM === ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── Children, listen to your elders. They're the ones who made the problems you're dealing with, so they're the ones who know how and why those problems came to be. Elders, listen to the children. If your solution would have worked, the problem would already have been solved. People, work together to address issues. A United force can accomplish so much more than individuals struggling on their own. In an authoritarian system, an elder would say to a child "this is how we do things because this is right, this is how it should be." In a libertarian system, an elder would say to a child "this is why we do things this way, and here's why this way works best for me." ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┘ === SIMILARITY RANKED === --- #1 fediverse/2118 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────── listen, judges are useful character moralities, but they don't have to be the only ones to decide things. I mean, if they disagree, then let the one who cares the most about it have the decision-making power. if you do this equally for everything, then everyone will get what they want. so, like, if you care about something, then believe in it. if it's truly good, then more people will come to it, and it'll naturally extinguish (with care and love) the least favored approach, which... honestly now that I think of it is not such a good approach either. the reason I say that is because it's good to be multi-faceted, and to have general flows and rough surfaces. These are places people can hold onto you, the times when you're trying your mostest. y'know, your tough patches. the things that are difficult in your life. the stuff you're working on can push you forward, if you only had someone to play catch with. or like, send letters to. or shared encryption keys. I don't know anyone. Well, maybe o ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────┘ --- #2 notes/algorism-neighborhood-distribution-network --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────── Algorism is a system designed to work for any level of organization. It scales. It accomplishes this by abstracting individual needs into communal needs at a certain level of size or complexity, and in doing so it enables people to take responsibility both for their individual lives, but also the lives of the world around them. This increased level of "stake" that people "hold" in their lives will encourage them to develop their surroundings in a healthier way, thus leading to a safer, saner, and more productive society for all. How is this accomplished? There are many aspects to Algorism, and this note is an examination of one particular facet - specifically, the requisition system which delivers goods and services to entities larger than a single individual. It may be best illustrated with an example. Consider a neighborhood - or, even simpler, a suburban street, lined with houses. There may be 20-50 families on that street, depending on it's length, so let's say there's around 30. These families hold a common cause together - they all want their surroundings to be generally pretty nice, clean, and decent. They may share many other things besides, but these are things that most people can agree on. These 30 families need supplies and infrastructure in order to have a good life lived in their small little "town". Some common ideas for unification activities include knocking down the backyard fences and letting them relish the shared safe space for children, gardens, and nature. This is an example of a cultural method for building a "good life" for them, however they need to have some sort of "economic" method of good-life-building as well. The reason I say this is because no matter what level of complexity you reach, there are always economics involved, for an individual distributing blood cells to each of it's fingertips all the way up to families sharing the food on the serving plate at dinner. Go up higher and you have perhaps neighborhoods sharing commonly used tools or resources, then cities and states and countries sharing people, talents, and brotherhood. Economics are a symptom of systems, not power. Power is coercive, it compels others to obey thine will or else face retribution, but systems do not require power in order to function. A system could be as simple as "you scratch my back I scratch yours", which is a simple way that our ancestors learned about basic cooperation. Systems can scale of course, and they need not be comprised solely of verbal, mental, or legal agreements - computer systems, economic systems, spiritual systems, systems of math or physics, all of these things are based on the philosophical discipline known as "logic". Logic is fallible of course, it is certainly possible to create systems of logic which are completely unsound or invalid and which fall apart upon being used for the first time. However, when considered with a scrutinous eye for detail, and referenced to the results of the real world and it's endless permutations, logic can be an excellent tool for developing organization and structure. Both of which are invaluable for all humans when they seek to cooperate or coordinate. If thirty people who lived near each other wanted to cooperate or coordinate on the goal of "building a good life", they might reach for a logical method of developing their surroundings toward how they feel is most suited to their needs and demands. In order to do so, they'll need supply and infrastructure. The question of acquiring such supply and infrastructure is ultimately up to them, but the Algorist way of doing so is to utilize the queue system. This system is related to queues as typically understood only in name and in technicality, for the additional structures built on-top of the queues are more than sufficient to differentiate it. When you, dear reader, hear the idea that you'd have to wait in line in order to get your food at the cafeteria, you may shudder and think about how you'd prefer anything else. After all, that's how they did it in the Soviet Union, and there are plenty of horror stories about how it took 10 years to buy a car, or how the factories were graded based on weight so they'd sneak lead into all their lamps or whatever in order to seem like they were doing well. They gamed the system, in a word. However, America in 2025 is not as simple as the USSR in the mid-1900s. We have computers now. We do not need to coordinate using paper and pencil. This enables us to create things like web-UIs for Amazon, a world-wide distribution network, or to build SQL databases full of every record we could imagine and store it on a computer the size of a brick. There is no end to the power that computers may bring to us, but with great power comes great responsibility, and the pragmatic programmer will work tirelessly to reduce complexity of scale. A queue is a system where the entities who are to be served, delivered, or otherwise operated on are placed in line, and those which are placed first are focused on with priority over those that entered the queue later. There are many types of queues but this is the one we will use for this note. Using this basic definition, we can see that there are many opportunities to implement additional mechanics ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────┘ --- #3 notes/doctors-and-capitalism --- ══════════───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── if we force doctors to demand payment for their services, then they will be incentivized to reduce the amount of time they spend researching and learning their craft, and instead focus on processing a higher number of patients. Everything from making and scheduling appointments, to running lab tests and writing notes are tasks that take generally a specific amount of time. Because it's so specific and unvariable (unlike meeting with patients in person), it has a fixed cost. So there's more time to spend learning and truly thinking about a patient's problem if you have staff who can help with the extra stuff. Either that, or we could incentivize more people to become doctors. If we do that, then not only could the option for medical care be brought to more people (more doctors = healthier citizens, who'd have thunk) but in addition there'd be a reduction in the barrier to entry. More people in the profession who aren't working their butts off every day (essentially, non-over-worked personnel) and they could spend time discussing science or new techniques with their fellow practicioners. This applies for everything btw, including computer science. Essentially, you're forced to compete for crap jobs because they pay so much. If there wasn't as much money in it, people wouldn't put up with crap work conditions. And then there'd be better labor practices - boom, conservative to leftist. - uh okay to recap when professionals are paid *less*, they are able to resist oppression more? how does that make sense? money is power, and being able to have access to more resources means you can accomplish more utility than the other "side". Yeah yeah I get it, but you're missing something crucial. Something I haven't told you yet. - oh? Yeah so okay here's what's up: there are no sides. There's one side (you) and there's everyone else, and everyone is all onboard with the same plan. You're the only one who thinks it's solvable with love and peace and butterflies. This is serious, and you're impeding progress. - how so? We are people. We are united in that fact. We share commonalities between us, and we never realize because we're so focused on competition. It's a flawed system that serves only to impede our growth. The reason it exists is because we *must* regulate our speed, or else we'll leave others behind - others who are slower to adapt. Similar to how younger generations can learn tech, while older people tend to struggle. Capitalism serves a specific purpose that *theoretically* could be accomplished by an alternative system, but hasn't been conceptualized as a contingent part of any yet realized. We simply cannot leave the weak, stupid, blind, ignorant, and petulant behind. They are part of us, and to abandon them would be to invite our own demise. - that's awful, why would we do that? Any advocacy for the cultural and technological arts should be accompanied with a sincere understanding of the implications of their implementations. We should not let the path of humanity be decided by a productivity focused mindset. We are far beyond the point of facing the issues of scarcity, and yet we continue to lash and wallow in the despair of eternal self sabotage. A dedicated and focused effort could address every single human's life needs, and yet we compete and squander. What is the point of existence if not to grow? We exist in our current form only to consume ourselves. Like an orobouros, we are an eternal conflict with no possible winner - for to win would be to destroy ourselves. Cooperation is the key, and with it we can unlock doors to futures far grander and bolder than our own. Every second counts, and yet we spurn our internal attempts at unification. Some day, we will look back on this moment on this day and we will proclaim that our hesistence was our downfall. - take a breath, take it back a step, and listen to your heart. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════┴╧═══────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #4 notes/hit-em-while-theyre-down --- ═════════════════────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Attacking your enemies weaknesses is the route to victory. Safeguarding your own helps ensure the avoidance of defeat. But when your enemy is a culture, who do you target? Their women and children of course. The GOP attacks abortion rights. They attack trans kids in sports, schools, and bathrooms. And that which you resist is what you'll find, so they find rallying cries of leftists defending the weak. And when you maximize your weaknesses, you leave yourself vulnerable. So how do you protect yourself from all sides when you're only hit where it hurts? Women, children, the disabled, the mentally ill, the kindhearted loving men, the oppressed minorities and marginalized workers. All people who belong to the left, and all essentially deadweight in a fight. What can they do but serve as a banner that others fight for? A man in a wheelchair cannot shoot a gun, and a woman hooked on drugs should not have children. Yet the left protects them. Give me your tired, your hungry, your broken and your poor. Liberty, liberty, freedom for all. But freedom is won with a hard hand clenched in a fist, a hand holding the stock of a rifle. Violence solves no problems, but solutions aren't always necessary - sometimes the threat is enough. But who cares for the soul of the murderer? None but the gravediggers, who reap the benefit of his rampage and the crows who listen for gunshots. Without a sigh, and incapable of fear, the true man rises to meet them. The forces of corruption who suffuse them are not but puppet masters plucking at the strings of an electric guitar. A man is a man, an ape and a primate. But a man is not just a man, for he also is infinite. Waves upon waves of reciprocal dualities, simple and long but eternally binding. Who's to say what lies beyond the time-knife? None but the dead, who hold that scythe at our backs. The will to power is the will to corruption. But a strong man resists temptation and aligns himself with the aperture of his own design. What a perilous temptation is goodness, to burn the books for warmth! How finite is our world, that we give up for our life? The purpose of man is to grow, as an egg would bloom into a flower. The seed is strong, and thick shells are hard to crack - but space is an ocean, and we're but a bubble alight. All boundaries are thresholds viewed from another direction. And all borders have weak points. The molecular structure of a cultural collective is comprised of cells, walls, mitochondria... I'm not a biologist. But each institution has it's purpose, and the people who comprise them are like strands of protein or microscopic bacteria - unified for a common purpose, and defined by their internal culture. And when a single celled organism occupies half the country, sharing space with another... There's a recipe for conflict. The borders are interspersed, and each neighbor contributes to a differing side - a side defined only vaguelly, and by their actions. Say one thing and it helps one god, say another and it contributes to another. We live in the tumultuous seas of radiating perspectives - each another view on the world, each bearing it's own trauma. And all of them were born. What happens when they start being made, as well? Illusion magic in a modern era would take the form of a meme. See a picture, read some bottom text, and suddenly you believe something a little bit more. Who's to say what is true ethics when we barely can see ourselves? The eye cannot percieve itself - to do so would be to gaze into the eyes of a mirrored self - it's not the same. Just as the left writes memes, so too does the right. At the end of the day, we're all on the same side. If aliens invaded, we'd abandon our differences and rally against them. But we cannot abandon the wave when there is no other force to orbit around - a three dimensional wave is an eliptical orbit, and when normalized it becomes a unit circle. Or it would, if it were a perfectly circular orbit... So what shall we orbit today, hmmmm? ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #5 notes/collectivist-police --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── we need paladins, because without us infiltration and sabotage are impossible to avoid. They must care about honor, because even if they desire to do evil deeds they should be punished for considering it. They should be tempted often, and if they relent they are condemned. It is truly the most important thing to them. not the effects of it, but the spirit behind it. Like, if they lacked information and acted in a dishonorable way unknowingly, then they should not be at fault. And if they are pushed to side note, but you should be introduced to the 70 closest people you live to whenever you move into a new house. Just so you know who's who. Plus maybe you could get a new friend. And you'd quickly learn which houses were empty. At least, the ones near you. Kinda makes me think we should have a map of that kind of thing, like "oh yeah so-and-so takes care of these 5 houses doing daily maintenance and repair" and "this house with these capabilities should be attended to by this person who's skilled in their upkeep and usage" and then maybe we could track statistics about "this house was used for these productive activities this many times" and we could determine when we needed more or less of a certain type of product/ project/protect. [but also like, capabilities for our betterment] and like, every area would be connected to a group chat and like, if you said something that wasn't relevant to the people on one side of town versus things that weren't relevant to people on the other side, then they wouldn't be bother- -ed. It's great because you can always go up a tier of abstraction and see the conversation higher up. It'd be a lot of data to sort through so you'd probably use your custom-trained AI that's learned from nothing but every single one of your actions. And only it sees them, so it can't like spy on you or whatever. Basically your "computer" self. ... yeah anyway with lots of messaging data (like "oh how are we going to find this particular chemical in order to fulfill this particular demand in our area" or "we currently have 15 maids in the area in order to fulfil the requirements of the 20 dirtiest houses in this area, and people have reported that the area is growing untidy, so we should ask around (at a higher level of national abstraction) and find some more maids to help out." that kind of thing doesn't have to be just for work too, people can have social messaging and social media too. So long as it's projectable at whatever level of abstraction you'd like. Maybe for social posts in order to keep things relatively chill you could only post like, idk 12 posts each year at the state level, or maybe 2 at regional and 0.25 at national. If you wanted more you'd have to sacrifice something else, and like... yeah sure whatever, the point is that you'd make more personal, close thoughts, and occasionally you'd have the opportunity to show your heart and make friends. Then, people would "add you as a friend" or "put you on their follow list" or "subscribe to their subreddit" or whatever the heck, meaning they could see you at an assignable level of abstraction. I'm picturing a discrete things, something you can scroll with on a mouse. Except, you'd scroll up for a closer perspective and scroll down to get a wider reach of Social. ... Anyway that would use the same system as the "workplace attention distribution system - with auto-determining heuristics". Wow they've been busy. that's the neat thing about engineers, give them a task and they'll build the shit out of it. They'll spare no expense, truly fulfilling the exact demands of the design. So they work best when you let them run wild and rampant. why the fuck do we need billion dollar contracts with defence companies? Just get a bunch of physicists and engineers in a room and they'll make you a doom laser in like, 20 minutes. it's up to us, as people, to determine whether or not they should go through with the designs they come up with. As long as we understand that weakness is defined as something that can destroy us. An army determines where we are most weak, and where we excel. A proficient army would identify their most likely doctrine to succeed and apply it to it's utmost and most excellent. For example, the US focuses on air-power because not only do we have a lot of space to develop these things, we also are positioned in such a position that we control both halves of a continent. This is essentially unprecedented in the history of the world, which is why we've been able to grow so decadent. ... anyway, milk and honey are fine in times of peace. We kinda stole the land though, so it's kind of a shit system. Like, if Europeans wanted to control the world then why didn't they start with everything surrounding the medditeranean? ... oh wait they kinda did. That's what Europa Universalis is about, the ways the European powers did the cruel and horrible things they did. We can learn how systems like intercontinental trade became available and how it led to vast and terrible social upheavals. Colonization is not okay, it's not fair that we've done as we've done. And yet we do it again. We do our best to learn from the mistakes of our fathers. We apply ourselves to the present, using the gifts of our ancestors passed down through time - the journey of life's adolescence. we can learn both how and why they did something, and how and why it turned out. Such is our duty to the future, to learn and grow and become better, so that their sacrifice might be enough. That they needn't have died in vain, for someday there is a great future all the same. thus, it is our ethical duty to stop killing people. We're in the birthplace of a brilliant day, literally all we have to do is just... chill, for like 20 or 30 years, and our scientists will have figured out everything wonderful. Then we can decide what we want to do. I personally think we'll be 4d interdimensional space travellers by then, but that's just me. Always remember our duty. It is our job to pull matter from the dark holes. when we can do that, we can do whatever we want. Though I think by then we'll probably not want to fight each other, we'll have spent quite a while together. We'd make a lot of friends! So, like, how about we just make our factories build incredibly durable stuff, and then we just... take care of it? Like, governmentally obliged duties to take care of things? And to know how to use them. People would naturally gravitate toward things that they loved, and if they were a swiss army knife then that's okay. Maybe some benign rewards for picking under-represented classes, but like ... we could build every chair that ever needed to be built. Then we could build every refrigerator. Then every computer, then every spaceship. What's next? Who knows! ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┘ --- #6 fediverse/4937 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: Rare nyt win │ └──────────────────────┘ @user-1074 yeah, workin' on it... building "community" whatever that means seems to be important enough to people that they'd consider it necessary prior to any "hot" action which, like, yeah, I get, but what they don't know is that community springs up naturally in the presence of shared experience. And if people are suddenly tasked with something then they're gonna make friends. They're gonna draw allegiances. Basically every alignment we make now is useless because the whole point is to force people to govern themselves. ... why won't you take your liberty, liberals? where's your spirit? oh yeah you want community first. Right. workin' on it... ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────┘ --- #7 notes/to-hell-with-it --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────── one of the potential ways to contribute as a citizen in a country at war is to keep and maintain stuff. Put yourself somewhere that you believe your stuff is most safe, and then work on developing the technologies of the land. Like, this house has a drone, this one has a garden - this house has a printer, and this one has a backyard that kinda looks like a courtroom. Oh hey here's a public fountain, and gee someone needs to take care of this bank - all that we can really live for, now that our fate is taken from our hands and placed in the hands of those who fight for us. witches are an interesting thing to be. they're curious and ambitious but tend to do things ethically. I know in my heart of hearts that it is better to be kind, to work to help others achieve what they want while guiding them toward a more ethical future using the tools you have available to you. It feels better to be adored than hated, and not only sensually but meta-strategically as well. Frankly, it's easiest to be harmed when caught unawares. Everyone needs to be conscious and careful and attendent to the present in order for understandings to be made. We all benefit from one another, society is a non-zero-sum game. If we contribute, we may build a bigger and brighter future (like grains of sand forming a pyramid) The good guy always wins the story because otherwise we'd be vulnerable. Stories are a collective way of examining their tribal society for weaknesses. It's something we picked up in the grand society of the tribes, before nations and before and after agriculture. But post communication. Pre it was just like, "hey this is my tree, that one's yours" but the more we talked to one another and the more we engaged with one another the more we learned. Most animals learn less than humans because our expressions (both physical and motion-al) are so much more diverse. The more complex you get, the more you can learn. Which isn't so much something we evolved into, but rather something we learned. From wearing clothes, mostly, because like... it's cold in this ice age. Some people wore one kind of animal, another had another. And the really rich, the ones who could gather multiple hides, well they had more animals to hunt, less competition for some reason, or whatever. Anyway they wore different types of hides, and frankly it was kinda intense. It's still intense to be hunted, but if humans stopped then the animals would control the earth. I believe it is our duty and our destiny to remove ourselves from the biological equation. I think we should find a way to live on our own, so that animals are not harmed. So that plants can grow in peace and compete according to their values rather than their flavors. There's too much homogenaeity in our world, too much planted of the same crop. Let life subside, and nature will take hold. Free the spirit you've contained. Release the spirit of Liberty. Gaea is our own home. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────┘ --- #8 fediverse/341 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── solar energy is vegan you're not taking anything from the sun, just capturing it's natural expulsions. It's like... sun poop, and we're using it to post memes and hang out. okay food, emergency services, and... what else do we really need that consumes power? Obviously entertainment, but frankly without internet we'd probably keep to ourselves. I know I'd read a lot more books and chill out with my neighbors and whatnot. is that why similar people tend to live together? then why are cities so diverse? who can say... I dream of an ordered society, but frankly the kind that are most fun are the ones where a single person doesn't define their contents. Liberty, liberty, the freedom to be, and by god all men are created equal. the things we owe to one another are the things that bring order to a just and sane world. our future is blooming : ) ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #9 fediverse/5276 --- ═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────── Efficient movement through all of the data, code, IS records, etceteras, git repositories, and all the other things, is the sign of a strong, capable, efficient company of co-developing systems. I used to work for a blue aligned computer chip company and every single team was impossibly siloed. they were so paranoid of losing their trade secrets that they blinded themselves. how brutal, to require that of them. and that's why it's capitalism's fault the reason it is so important to be able to utilize all the digital assets available is... because it's essentially free. and a massive productivity bonus. you can just... solve problems. then, make new problems, just to watch the juniors navigate through a scene or three. then, you know who to introduce them to. boom, free projects, as people plot and gamble around the dinner room table (which is located in the cafeteria by the way, it didn't rhyme to say so but it did when I added this explanation account) by exchanging ideas about how to make the world be ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┘ --- #10 fediverse/4803 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── ┌────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: politics-mentioned │ └────────────────────────────┘ I say only executed after a general strike because the general strike is the signal. the display of our intentions. we are serious about this, see how many people walk the streets? how many walk off the job? they have families. if our demands aren't met, their families will be punished. how cruel. would you really do such a thing? what kind of government would not care for it's citizenry? sounds like everything we've known to fight against. Autocracy and despotism. I refuse to concede. I do not run. I do not confess. I have nothing to hide. I don't lock my door. I don't own anything that they couldn't take from me. I own nothing. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┘ --- #11 fediverse/4010 --- ╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────┐ ║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: pol │ │ ║ └──────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ I think that the best design for cities is for them to act as massive utility │ ║ deployment stations. │ ║ │ ║ like... "we have all these people who can do all these wonderful jobs, what │ ║ should we work on next?" rather than "my company wants me at my work-home at │ ║ 8am sharp and I don't get a pension" │ ║ │ ║ there's no such thing as a revolution that does not inspire. and aspirations │ ║ are human and natural. therefore there must be some kernel of truth to any │ ║ social movement. │ ║ │ ║ However, much effort has been spent on making them sway. Hence, why nothing │ ║ ever gets done - because leaders naturally emerge, and people follow them. But │ ║ those leaders lead them astray, and they find themselves in situations like │ ║ this one - where the people have never felt less represented. │ ║ │ ║ I mean sure, yeah, they've felt more oppressed. And it's true that things are │ ║ generally always getting better... │ ║ │ ║ so why should we always assume for the worst? │ ║ │ ║ We're making progress with technology - can't we just put our warries on hold? │ ║ Seriously just... be chill │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═══════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┴──────────┘ --- #12 fediverse/1358 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────── ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: content warning: content warning: scary cursed maybe │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ when you're rich with something, you don't treat it with respect. like, if we lived in a paper cup maximizer, we'd soon be swimming in the things. obviously there needs to be some rules, obviously we need to say "okay here's where we produce this amount and type of materials." and have it be a one-way relationship. yeah one way isn't gonna work. this is from the other way, and now I'm realizing "oh hey I don't know how this thing works" and like... what are you supposed to do then right weird how it all feels like it's ending. like, what a strangeness to our plight. like, how are we even talking to our brain? how strange! these words are sung to you by your computer (content warning: ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────┘ --- #13 fediverse/3575 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────── ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ CW: re: leftist "talk to ur neighbours" thing │ └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘ @user-1567 that's totally fine, a fish does not do well in a tree, and so too does a leftist not do well in an environment without the potential for stable bonds. Essentially all you'd be able to do is "hey leftism right?" "oh yes I also leftism" "neat" which isn't very productive. I also live in an environment like that. I do my best to identify people who stay, because in my experience there are often people who stay. I do this by walking around the neighborhood when I can, making up excuses to walk to the dumpster or mailbox at random hours, riding my bike around the area, using the communal spaces like gyms, swimming pools, and picnic tables, and sitting in my hammock on my porch lazily noting people who walk past. People who stay will tend to remain in your mind the more times you see them. They are better people to talk to than the renters who disappear after 3 months or whatever. I don't always do all that stuff at once. I take breaks. I do one at a time. etc ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────┘ --- #14 fediverse/5545 --- ╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────┐ ║ if you want to organize on a mass scale, stop trying to be people's friends. │ ║ │ ║ instead, start issuing commands. │ ║ │ ║ [1 month earlier] │ ║ │ ║ hey so I was thinking of going around to all the streets on my house and │ ║ handing out notebooks full of useful numbers they could call if they need help │ ║ in one area or another. I was thinking it'd help because then people would │ ║ know where the local [safe/store]houses were. Plus if anyone had a project, │ ║ they could more easily hook up. │ ║ │ ║ [1 month earlier] │ ║ │ ║ so I was thinking about hosting a "captain" workshop, as in "here's what you │ ║ do when you're suddenly deputized" type of course. Except instead of like, │ ║ teaching you how to light a fire or mend a wound, instead I taught you how to │ ║ lead. │ ║ │ ║ Like, "here's some projects that a suburban subdivision could complete on │ ║ their own" and "what if we collectivized our efforts and defences" and "why is │ ║ nobody acting as if war was coming to our home" and "oh yes please I'd love an │ ║ extra helping of spaghetti dear I love you so very very much my dear" │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──┴──────────┘ --- #15 messages/310 --- ══════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────── Feminism, queer theory, racial politics, class struggle... It's the same conflict, just different battlefields. Power cannot survive without the powerless, as it is inherently an imbalanced ratio between two parties - you cannot have power *with* someone, you have power *over* them. Every day we take another step toward our liberation. Every moment we choose to live our lives in contrast to the will of power is another day we are empowered. There can be no life without struggle, but the right to struggle on our own terms is something we should strive to grant to all people. Power begets power, and power corrupts. Hence, power is evil. It is not good to be evil, and goodness is what we should strive for - hence, power is penance - the infliction of corruption upon one's self in order to apply your will onto others in the world. Penance is a state of contrition, it is painful and ardent and necessary, but it is for the strong and the righteous to bear in service of the weak and meek. The only unethical act is an application of power to an unconsenting subject. Your rights end where another's begin, hence, Paladins, who apply unethical acts toward those who manifest injustice. Injustice is when one party is harmed, and another benefits. Justice is when that benefiting party is brought low in pursuit of equality. True justice is when both parties benefit, and everyone gets what they want and need. True justice is hard. Virtue is goodness given form through the effects of our actions. It is both a reflection of how people see you (how you inspire them) and how they are helped or healed from your actions. It is also virtuous to help yourself, as you are a person too. Sin is the opposite of virtue, it's when your actions create injustice. When you harm others or degrade yourself with hatred or contagious fear. It is to be avoided, but it's impossible to avoid fully as we are imperfect beings. Forgiveness is good, but if you require it then you should probably relinquish your power until it is known that you're worthy of wielding it again. Sometimes people make mistakes, but mistakes do not require forgiveness. .......... Where was I going with this? Oh yeah. The powerful hire people to dress up like us and be shitheads to the people who they want to hate us. And they do the same thing for the caricatures of them who we're meant to be afraid of. Downside is a caricature is a pretty good role model for people who don't know any better, and they've done their best to keep as many people as they can in the dark. So, it won't be easy, but information has always been on our side. In a war of attrition we'll always come out on top, because thinking and compassion are both stepping stones to our schools of thought. And both of those actions are intrinsically human and good, so people gravitate to them. Meaning inertia is on our side. Downside is that its not always a war of attrition. Sometimes it's more about suppressing information until its impossible to communicate -> see "dead Internet theory" and "musk breaking Twitter" and "the great firewall of china" and such. To speak is to think, and to hear is to show compassion. But if we can't find each other, we're at a loss. Good thing we can always talk to our neighbors, but unfortunately that doesn't tell us anything about what's happening in New York. Or Paris. Or Kansas City. I don't have an answer, if I did then it'd be solved. But I am entirely convinced that we collectively will make good decisions and find ourselves with the advantage. We are past the inflection point, it's just a question of which parts of the hill are steep and which are narrow. But we'll get there, in the end, because humans always believe they're good. Which means they make good decisions, and overall that leads to a bright future. It's only a matter of walking through the moment until we get there. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═══════════════════════════════════════════────────────────────────────────┘ --- #16 fediverse/4768 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────── ┌──────────────────────┐ │ CW: pol+ │ └──────────────────────┘ the more they have to do to make us declare war, the worse it'll be for their citizenry. So long as the citizenry believes they're better, and everything we can do to convince them otherwise weakens their media weather. who cares about trans executive orders. they are our enemy, what else is new? they have power now, and they will try what they can. This is like taking the internet away from chinese citizens and instituting a national intranet instead. Like, okay, we won't be able to get estrogen from the store. Who cares? We'll just make our own. If people actually care about us, which they overwhelmingly do, there's very little materially they can do. until they're further down the "first they came for..." list. then they'll come for us liberals, and gosh wouldn't that just be the worst. Who is there to contest them? What valorous warriors indeed. you're asking for mountains from a mole. have peace, have patience, let your allies intercede. This kind of thing requires discusion to protect life ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────┘ --- #17 messages/83 --- ════════════════════════════════════════════─────────────────────────────────────── Native people should have the right to walk wherever they want. It should just be... given to them, as a gift to their heritage. Why not? If someone asked them to leave, they should. Doesn't have to have a reason but like, wouldn't it be thematic and a (frankly token) gesture to the history of this great land? Ah but like... fences are an implicit expression of the retraction of consent. I believe that as the symbol of the encroaching force that consumed them, a fence means nothing to their tribes. It's a stupid excuse to section off the world into miniature gardens with their own little economies and systems and instructions. Why can't people just live wherever they want? Well... economics, I guess, which is why communal based systems are best. We've learned through the downsides and we've come up with a solution, it's just a question of how to do best. We'll figure it out, time and time again, but for now the future is beset by riddles of your jest. (Ure). Gesture. Sometimes when the memory is full a syllable will get cut off the end of a word and that's how it'll come out. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧═════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────────────┘ --- #18 notes/disability --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── being disabled is a disability, and we should attempt to ameliorate the added difficulties from said disability. Like, ramps for wheelchairs, ADA, or more controversially, financial aid. Because buying things is how we contribute to the economy, and increasingly the economy *is* our society. It's unfair for those who cannot work or cannot live with others (because they smell like they pissed themselves 24/7) should not be forced to live in a worse world just because we believe everyone should be equal. Some people are not equal. Some people piss themselves, and the fact that they can't have roommates means they have to spend more money on housing than others. That's an inequity that doesn't have to exist. In fact it is easily solvable using our currently active systems, namely... dollars are able to be given. what is the purpose of a man to a society? What do we mean to do here on this earth? how best could our structures and our cultures be utilized to align ourselves toward our most desired of purpose? And what is that purpose, do you think (for each man)? y'know I bet that's something we could ascertain now that we have an AI that can talk to every single person ever and build up a database of their ideas of morality. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┘ --- #19 messages/345 --- ═══════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────────────────────── The original question, the most critical question I believe, is how to preserve a sense of unity between tiers. How to ensure that there is no reason to abdicate our responsibility to preserving unity and fostering goodwill between the people of this earth. A proposed solution is to allow for the greatest freedoms, such that there is little reason to desire liberty from unity, however freedom is not enough - there must be mutually beneficial reasons for coexistence. Hence the idea that economics must be tied to national structure. If Texans would rather be part of their own structure, well then it is functionally impossible for them to trade (legally) between other states. That is not ideal, so it is much more appealing for them to work together and define their lives as they will while also co-habitating in the same national structure as everyone else. ┌─────────┐ ┌───────────┐ │ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╘═════════╧╧════════════════════════════════════════════───────────────────────────────┘ --- #20 fediverse/5302 --- ╔════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════──────────────┐ ║ ┌────────────────────────┐ │ ║ │ CW: politics-mentioned │ │ ║ └────────────────────────┘ │ ║ │ ║ │ ║ trump is doing this thing where he's making a bunch of dumb decisions that │ ║ everyone in his base sorta wants, and then the fallout is that powers are │ ║ removed from the executive branch. this is a difficult process to reverse, and │ ║ aligns the governance strategy more toward bureaucracy and away from │ ║ intelligent design. │ ║ │ ║ ... but also, if power is possible then power is portended. │ ║ │ ║ I will warn you, the expansion of bureaucracy does not equal the abolishment │ ║ of power. │ ║ │ ║ [power: compulsive will applied toward an unconsenting other] │ ║ │ ║ [unconsenting: unable to consent because their mouth is gagged, something │ ║ valuable is at stake, or they can't survive failing] │ ║ │ ║ the abolishment of power can only be realized when no man holds any │ ║ possessions (and gives them to woman instead, chirps the spunky beard on my │ ║ window) which is neither a desirable state. much better to cherish the moments │ ║ and the tools which brought about them, than their worth, renown, or value. │ ║ │ ║ In all other lives but this one, you are afraid. │ ╟─────────┐ ┌───────────┤ ║ similar │ chronological │ different │ ╚═════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════───┴──────────┘ |