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by bigger_inside 3y ago
I was seconding the comment I replied to, not arguing against a misreading? Though I might be misunderstanding who you mean by GP. I'm confused, sorry
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
don't forget Rimworld. One guy making a huge and sprawling game that ignored the studio sensibilities and became hit (and a couple of memes).
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
the * is the important part. Little to do with the big bang, much more to do with where we export environmentally disastrous mining operations to. The countries the West destroyed by (among many other things) putting the mines there now (a
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
I was about to comment on the obvious projection inherent in the "the Chinese are forcing drugs on the US" narrative. But it's a classic. If you want to know the nefarious things the US is doing, just look at what the claim t
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
this misses the structural analysis. As Zizek says, easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. Critiques like this are thinking deep inside the box. The freezer protection inside the bubble wrap inside the box inside
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
it's really interesting where this comes from, and why this seems to some such an easy "gotcha". first off, that these come up doesn't mean they're wrong, though it does likely mean they're shallow. more deeply
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
this is it! yes, thank you. 15 months, even.
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
always important to remind ourselves that what we consider normal and outrageous is often a quite recent phenomenon (and also vastly different across social groups even in the present). While I can't predict detail, I am 100% with thi
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
I'm not surprised. Lord of the Flies was always a misanthropic fantasy fueled on Western dog eat dog-ideologies, our modern ideologies take this weird contemporary "kids are useless little fragile eggs" approach. Kids are nei
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
interestng that pretty much every US company seems to think that of their bots, ehm, I mean, employees. I don't accept it for any company, and the church is also not entitled to convert all their people into good little bots who are 10
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
only that those two are intimately related. Countries don't hold US treasuries because they're great investments (..... obviously). They hold them BECAUSE they have liabilities in USD BECAUSE their international trade is in USD,
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
old insight though: some of the best anti-police-advice comes from cops, to their families and kids. They know what the police actually have access to, and what they actually do with it, and they have no patience for that happening to THEM
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
I've never used linux. After a hundred frustrations with my new laptop that runs Win11, I'm now looking to install ubuntu. Windows pushed me there.
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
cool site! used it immediately to check if there are interesting places to add to my next trip. "normal" museums bore me. May I suggest two additions? Kassel, Germany has two weird ones: A museum for death culture (Sepulkralkultur
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
Still ironic. Twitter had rolled out the "government-affiliated media" tag as a panic signal to mark -adversary- states' media, on the old chestnut of "other governments do propaganda, Western governments are honest!&quo
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
that's the Western media framing of it. Not what global south countries are saying. China forgave loads of African debt. The West never does that, as it needs that debt in its neocolonial model. https://allafrica.com/st
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by bigger_inside 3y ago
Let's hope so. The "World governance system" he's talking about is the US-led institutional international financial system, majorly the World Bank and IMF. Those are organized as neocolonial extraction institutions: the
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
the wealthy profit-maximizing executives paid for the engineers who trained the AI, and ran it through the legal department designed to protect the wealth and status of the corporation they are executives of. Under present circumstances, I
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
I don't know why this is getting downvoted, all of this is true. Prosecution in Germany is 100% a political decision. Policing (below this level) is supposed to be "automatic by law", but in practice, that of course also is n
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
Lower Decks is hands down my favorite of the new Star Trek shows. As for the episodic collection, Strange New Worlds is somewhat trying to return to it. As was The Orville!
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
the "regional broadcasters getting the rights" was part of the business plan for all the shows of that time: re-runs in syndication. Those would regularly not be in order, and the TV stations would schedule more popular episodes t
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
B5's characters felt real to me when nothing else on TV really did. This is why.
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
to have a working cult of traditions, you have to invent them first. And to invent them, you have to destroy the traditions that were invented before, but are old enough to have evolved, sprawled, and gone out of control. The newly invented
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
Book reviews are, by definition, opinion pieces. And I've written a bunch of them. They're assessments of the book, and thereby assessments of the content, theoretical orientation, and conclusion of the book, and thereby of the su
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
This narrative relies on a media narrative. The media focus is always on the right-wing resistance, because that serves as the narrative to manufacture consent for police and surveillance powers (look at these evil white supremacists!"
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
do you realize that roads are optional? you don't have to leave your house to talk to friends. do you realize that using the mail service is optional? nobody forces you to write post cards. do you realize that electricity is optional?
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
I didn't read this just materially. There's a language, customs, "ways of thinking" you inherit; also, there is an image, there are power structures and positions you're born into. Sociologists speak of different fo
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
the term "coincidence" is weird. I read it as somehow relying on the idea that first, there is a person (like a soul?), and then, that soul is "coincidentally" put somewhere. Correct me if you think that's strange,
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
This is why I block all updates I can block. The security narrative is the piggy on which the control fantasies ride.
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by bigger_inside 4y ago
those 15 year old talking points from "the more you know"-talking points financed by transnational entertainment exploiters just won't die, will they?

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