Orcocracy

Orcocracy , 13 days ago

Is having lots more green energy not a result?

Orcocracy , 17 days ago

I think we can all broadly sympathize with the complaints about politicking, but this rant also includes a lot of red flags. For example, saying that you have “never had any interest” in things like “being agreeable when you disagree” suggests that this person is just another one of the big ego assholes in the department, a full-of-themselves “rockstar academic” who can’t even be bothered with basic human kindness.

Orcocracy , 5 months ago

That’s ecofascism.

Orcocracy , 5 months ago

It is absolutely not a fact. There is nothing inherent about any human being that causes damage to the environment. It’s what human society as we organize it does, and a very small number of people do an incredibly outsized proportion of the damage. Focusing on things like birth control and overpopulation is a major part of ecofascist rhetoric. It is also very much about punishing a distant other because after all, if you really believed that all human births were inherently damaging to the environment, we wouldn’t be having this conversation as you would have already undone the damage caused by your own parents. But you haven’t, and nor should you for many good reasons! Those reasons also apply to everyone else too.

Orcocracy , 5 months ago

Ok, explain how it is true that every human purely by being born is equally culpable, and that human society isn’t at issue? And then you can explain why this doesn’t apply to you and your family.

Orcocracy , 6 months ago

Yay, happy hail Satan day everyone. I remember when Intel chickened out and rounded up their 666 megahertz pentium 3 processors to report as being 667 megahertz. Absolute cowards, no wonder China is kicking their ass.

Orcocracy , 6 months ago

Data centres and “the cloud” are not great for the environment either. DRM forcing people to have their files constantly deleted and redownloaded makes it even worse.

Also, “support” doesn’t have to mean a direct financial transaction. Libraries operate a bit differently from a McDonalds. Even just going in and sitting in a library reading a book without ever taking it out can help to support your local public library.

Orcocracy , 6 months ago

Perhaps. Or perhaps what uses more over a lifetime is an ebook that is bounced around from device to device which all turn to toxic e-waste after a few years, constantly communicating with always-on servers for account data and DRM authentication hosted in a data centre based in a region powered by fossil fuels. All while a paper book just sits on a shelf causing no further environmental impact - potentially for hundreds of years.

Orcocracy , 7 months ago

Even more than it used to be. Canadian foreign policy regarding Iraq, Vietnam, and Cuba took a very different position to the US and was on the whole quite good (for a western country). But that was all decades ago. Practically speaking, Canada no longer has its own independent foreign policy.

Orcocracy , 7 months ago

i was shocked when I found out that The New York Times wasn’t a clock and watch fan forum for New Yorkers.

Orcocracy , 7 months ago

A train that has a stop somewhere in my neighbourhood.

Orcocracy , 8 months ago

Yeah, and telling people to just pay for a VPN isn’t a great answer either - that’s just another fucking pay-forever subscription with the price rises of Netflix plus the added jank and nonsense that comes with being a copyright infringement hobbyist.

Maybe I’ll just cancel everything and do totally offline ripping of borrowed physical media from the public library, like some kind of pirate hermit.

Orcocracy , 8 months ago

Tidal, hydroelectric dams, and geothermal should all together be able to cover a pretty significant part of the Earth, shouldn’t they?

Orcocracy , 8 months ago

Yeah a dam will wreck a valley. But a nuclear station can irradiate a whole region and coal ruins the planet.

Orcocracy , 8 months ago

I really don’t want to play top trumps over which tragic disaster is worse by measuring bodycounts, as this is all way too grim and I think we can agree that the worst case scenarios for all of these things are awful in their own distinct ways. But that number you put for nuclear is difficult to believe. Where did you find it?

Orcocracy , 8 months ago

Yes coal is indeed very bad and needs go away immediately. But I’m not so sure if coal being bad makes radiation cancers from Chernobyl, Fukushima, Three Mile Island, Sellafield, etc etc etc not worth caring about.

Orcocracy , 8 months ago

jesus-christ I have no idea if that’s bullshit or not, but this is definitely turning into a tragic bodycount measuring contest. I’m outta here. peppino-run

Orcocracy , 8 months ago

Every modern law of economics? marx

Orcocracy , 8 months ago

Yeah, also the TikTok clones on YouTube and Instagram, and Musk’s plan to make Twitter/X a WeChat clone. The Americans have been stealing tech from China for a long time now.

Orcocracy , 9 months ago

Yeah, I remember thinking all of these terms were strange and creepy back when I first learnt them as a kid for goodness’ sake. They’ve always been bad and I’m very glad they’re finally going away.

Orcocracy , 9 months ago

Yeah the consumerist rhetoric in game reviews (and the entire technology press more broadly) dooms all of their attempts at analysis to be extremely shallow. Maybe one day a journalist will pay attention in one of their media studies classes and read the fucking Adorno reading that one of their teachers assigned, but that day has not yet come.

Orcocracy , 9 months ago

Hold on to that leverage over your employer with a union

Orcocracy , 9 months ago

In the sense of “liberal” as used in political philosophy or how the word is applied to party names in most countries around the world, yes Bush was a liberal. Americans tend to use the word differently though, since both major US parties are pro-business liberal parties, of a sort. This maybe applies a bit less to the Republicans today than in did in GHW Bush’s day, although by how much is still up for debate.

Orcocracy , 9 months ago

If you can’t or don’t want to root the phone and install your own de-Googled Android rom then you could get an Android phone designed for mainland China, which will come with all of the Google stuff already removed.

Orcocracy , 9 months ago

Yikes, that’s an ugly looking turn of phrase. I guess I’m blocking another racist.

Orcocracy , 9 months ago

Genuinely good films: 4,6,2,8

Ok but flawed films: 1,3,9,5,7

Derivative and unnecessary, but sometimes charming films: 11,13

Very few redeeming qualities and should never have been made: 10,12

Orcocracy , 10 months ago

Copyright infringement is absolutely the moral thing to do in quite a lot of cases. For example, for the preservation of cultural works. Corporations aren’t exactly spending their money on proper archives and the people to curate them. Quite the opposite! For example, if some or all of the lawsuits against sites like archive.org are successful then the result could be a mass erasure of cultural works on the scale of the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

Orcocracy , 10 months ago

Yes it absolutely does.

Orcocracy , 10 months ago

I’m not sure if you should be arguing against the metric system because it was applied top-down across Europe by Napoleon, considering the history behind how the imperial system was spread to what is now the USA. I mean, it’s literally called the imperial system.

Orcocracy , 10 months ago

These pretzels are making me thirsty.