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by bit-anarchist 7mo ago
I agree that the solution we may find might not necessarily be for the better. In fact, there are a couple solutions I've seen that fall onto that category, like banning GenAI (does nothing to solve the underlying issue while control o
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by bit-anarchist 7mo ago
They aren't the same thing though. They wield different expected results: - Studying the mating habits of endangered iguanas (or other apparently random research) is about describing real-life phenomenon; - Finding cures for Alzheimer&
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by bit-anarchist 7mo ago
My perspective is different: we never could trust videos and images in the past. Our hopes, back then, were that the costs of faking said media (despite us being in the age of information and media) would remain permanently high and would d
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by bit-anarchist 7mo ago
To add to the list of things that they "forget" to tell you, is that the real origin of copyright is fundamentally tied to censorship as well [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright Overall
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by bit-anarchist 7mo ago
The common, orthodixical, sociological/economical meaning of the word "wage slavery" is about being paid, on average, barely enough to make a living, i.e. destitution in the conventional sense. I suppose you are referring to
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by bit-anarchist 7mo ago
None of the sides are occupied, though, neither by UN, "white" people, etc. That's literally just propaganda. At best, by a large stretch too, one could say NK is occupied by Russia and China, the only countries currently vou
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by bit-anarchist 7mo ago
While one could scrutinize the accuracy the of the west being a dictatorship (which will likely devolve into a discussion of semantics), I prefer to call attention to the fact that calling North Korea a dictatorship does not require to spea
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by bit-anarchist 7mo ago
Like they stated above, Vietnam exists. > You are blaming the victim [...] Pray tell, what crime did USA commit that motivated the abduction of 2 innocent citizens? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abduction_of_Shin_San
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by bit-anarchist 7mo ago
I hope you notice I didn't mention chattel slavery. Even prior to it, all forms of slavery were about removing the agency of person and subjugating the will of the slave to the owner. That requires an active action. Not hiring someone
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by bit-anarchist 7mo ago
> Do I have to remind you that a South Korean attempted a fascist coup recently By "fascist", I suppose you mean right-wing. Going by the average RW authoritarian dictatorship, that's still better than the documented NK co
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by bit-anarchist 7mo ago
Okay, let me remind you then. Korea was divided by both United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union organized elections, rigging towards a rather unpopular figure, even within the national socialist circles, for their imperialist p
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by bit-anarchist 7mo ago
But wage slavery, while bad, isn't slavery still. In slavery proper, the option of walking away straight up doesn't exist. In fact, in extreme cases, even the option of dying might not be available.