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zea_64 ,

It’s called a tower PC for a reason

zea_64 ,

If it’s nutritionally, flavorfully, and textured identically, why do you care?

zea_64 ,

Effects on the natural world can be scienced.

zea_64 ,

I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I am stupid enough to occasionally get close to falling for a scam. Rather than test my luck, I’d rather they didn’t exist.

zea_64 ,

True, but we’re not talking about clear and up front rules

zea_64 ,

👋

zea_64 ,

Asahi Estrogen™

zea_64 ,

Indentation implies there’s some control structure causing it. Too many control structures nested gets hard to mentally keep track of. 3 is arbitrary, but in general more indentation => harder to understand, which is bad.

zea_64 ,

Pick something and change it when inspiration strikes. Sometimes you need a big picture view of something to get the right abstractions or even just name things.

zea_64 ,

Neither of my parents are or were religious, yet I have a scar there (not hyperbole, actually hurts if touched too much). I don’t know if foreskin is useful for anything in GRS, but if it is I’m gonna be pissed I don’t have any.

zea_64 ,

I already have less to work with than average 😭

zea_64 ,

I just said “I’m on Lexapro”

zea_64 ,

All human strings are finite…

zea_64 ,

Did you just suggest selling the means of production to the bourgeoisie to fund a commune? I… what?

zea_64 ,

Ah, see, that’s a different question than how you get funding under communism under capitalism.

zea_64 ,

I’m not well read enough on communism to know smart people’s ideas there, but the way I see it it gives room for any system of experimentation the people want. Maybe you pitch your idea to the government instead of investors, and they give you resources. In a system with small markets, you can start in the market and, if it does well, get upgraded to governments operated. “Communism” doesn’t mean one thing, and there’s a lot of room for variety, do we could we decide to try one of these systems but then switch to another, allowing better adaptation than capitalism where profit is the only way.

I take hormone therapy for transgender people (hi, I am transgender people) and I’m already at the whims of the government. Perhaps a communist government might not make it free for me if the political climate said no, but as long as it’s not outright banned and there is some alternate system to the government’s plan, I could still get it. That’s not far off where I am now, actually (Florida). Perhaps we could write this sort of going around other government to some degree (perhaps by small market) into the constitution as a layer of safety.

I’ve been saying “let the government do [x]” a lot, and if you’re from a neoliberal country you might have heard “excessive bureaucracy”, but that’s a result of capitalism ruining your government. Government doesn’t have to be bad, nor even a monolith. Most forms of communism I’ve heard of have multiple levels, from committees covering broad country-level goals to committees on local-level details, each level getting a fair degree of autonomy. But also, you can talk to or even get on the committees! They’re made of citizens like you, and with no corporate interests or lobbying!

zea_64 ,

Seizing the means of production and putting it in the ownership of the workers will, realistically, require revolution or damn well near it. But, workers owning their work doesn’t require an end to our current markets. We can keep them mostly as is, besides, of course, the rich and powerful people who currently do no work and just “own” things. From that state, it can be a more gradual transition.

zea_64 ,

Plenty of people die daily in first-world countries that could have been saved in a different economic system, because saving them was not profitable. Even more die elsewhere, where the first-world countries have outsourced a lot of their miserable jobs. Cobalt mines in the Congo, used for certain lithium-ion battery chemistries for instance, have terrible working conditions and child labor. Another example is climate change: how many people will die this century from famine and water scarcity caused by a changing climate? Externalities don’t factor into capitalist profits, and the governments are usually under their control so they’ll just pay lip service to action or very slowly and reluctantly enact regulation.

Revolution is a one-time cost. It’ll suck, I hate it, but it seems to me like it’d be worth it in the long run. I’d also love to avoid revolution entirely, but that threatens capitalist profit so I really doubt governments (again, controlled by the interests of capitalists) will make it easy.

Another thing worth noting: revolution doesn’t mean financial markets have to immediately change. Companies can still act capitalist (at the start), they’d just be controlled by the workers now. Once workers own everything, and government infrastructure is set up to facilitate the sort of democracy and management communism would need, we can phase in changes. With control of the government, there could also be subsidies set up to help stabilize the market during transitions; for the US at least, there’s about ~$700 billion/year for the military as it stands, that seems like a sizeable fund to pinch from for such subsidies in the short term.

zea_64 ,

The capitalist system really limits the kinds of things people can imagine. We’re not confined to regulating the market from the outside, the government can be the “landlord” without the profit incentive.

zea_64 ,

I literally said the word in my reply. Also, you seem to have completely missed the point: we can have them charge rent, or provide it for free, or rent but subsidized, or any other scheme because it’s detached from market logic. It’s not about the word “landlord”, it’s about the effects of actions. Call it whatever you want, I don’t care.

And admin roles really don’t need a wage equivalent to mortgage payments and ownership of the properties they administer, so your comparison is dishonest. I’d prefer you spent your thinking on reason rather than formulating your troll response.

zea_64 ,

You’re thinking within the confines of the capitalist market, but why limit yourself? We can have systems where you can easily switch homes with people, or keep rent but keep it reasonable and without the huge extractive element, or so many other potential systems.

The problems you mention are problems created by capitalism, we have the power to fix them by playing by different rules, because the rules are made up.

zea_64 ,

If your government is controlled by neoliberal capitalists, that is what might happen yes, and that is why we should do as much as we can to get a government that actually acts in the interest of the people.

Government isn’t inherently bad at doing things, you’ve just been conditioned to think that by this system that forces the government to self-sabotage. Of course, the self-sabotage only applies to social programs, they’re actually very good and efficient at subsidizing and lowering taxes for the wealthy, for instance.

zea_64 ,

You really should be doing your IO async. Do you specifically mean callback hell?

zea_64 ,

IEEE-754

zea_64 ,

Green threads are functionally the same, especially in languages that can preempt.

zea_64 ,

Not a weird enough projection, try harder

zea_64 ,

consider an orchiectomy, no balls

zea_64 ,

Suck her dick as well!

zea_64 ,

Have you tried not existing? Solves all your problems!

zea_64 ,

Fallout is highly variable, you absolutely can live. The blast wave is a bigger threat.

zea_64 ,

Steam OS is completely open source except for the Steam client.

zea_64 ,

nce.

zea_64 ,

Wayland compositors might implement it this century

zea_64 ,

They do, I was joking. It’s not as funny to say the ecosystem is slowly trudging along.

zea_64 ,

It makes more sense if you think of const as “read-only”. Volatile just means the compiler can’t make the assumption that the compiler is the only thing that can modify the variable. A const volatile variable can return different results when read different times.

zea_64 ,

Maybe there’s a signal handler or some other outside force that knows where that variable lives on the stack (maybe through DWARF) and can pause your program to modify it asynchronously. Very niche. More practical is purely to inhibit certain compiler optimizations.

zea_64 ,

I believe POSIX mandates grep and a shell that should be able to handle everything this code uses, but sudo is a problem

zea_64 ,

Can a EULA ban fair use? Google v Oracle might have something to say about this.

zea_64 ,

The whole world was counting on you, PizzaFacia, you let us all down!

zea_64 ,

Also, a lot of editors won’t unindent on backspace of spaces indentation, so I end up messing up the indentation with a 3/4 indent

zea_64 ,

I do so much work for future me, knowing I won’t see it. Er, until I do. Time’s weird. I want to change who I am so badly, but it’s an eternity away.

zea_64 ,

compiz-sexual

zea_64 ,

:P

zea_64 ,

Depression and gender dysphoria. It’s not very dramatic nor fast-acting, it just ate away at me for a decade until I was sure I wasn’t gonna survive the next few years.

The fear of death doesn’t go away, it just starts to seem like the least terrible option. And it’s one thing when you get those impulses to do it, but it’s even scarier when you feel calm and levelheaded and still feel you should do it.

zea_64 ,

I started HRT recently and it feels life changing.

zea_64 ,

Sure, some of them were evil, but I bet most were just stupid and tribal. I’m sure plenty were helpful neighbors, good friends, average parents, a part of some community that now misses them. Many were good people whipped up into stupidity by a team that doesn’t care about them, we should remember their humanity.

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