Prunebutt

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Prunebutt,

I’d recommend SearXNG instead.

Prunebutt,

Nope. Nor should you, if you’d only use it yourself, since pooling is integral if you don’t want to be profiled.

There are public instances at Searx.space.

Prunebutt,

Even if that’s true: It still is prone to enshittification.

Prunebutt,

If you do that, make it public, or else you can get profiled again.

Prunebutt,

“Libertarian” used to be a synonym for left-wing anarchism until Murray Rothbard purposefully co-opted the term and even bragged about it.

Prunebutt,

In Europe it’s way more ambiguous. Also: you can simply specify “left-wing”, or “right-wing” libertarian.

I usually just say “anarchist”, though ;)

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Prunebutt,

There’s a quite active community of people running linux on surface devices back on reddit.

Prunebutt,

You’re basically describing a coop.

The thing is that these resources could get withdrawn in case that community can’t won’t supply that support anymore.

Prunebutt,

How would they do that?

Prunebutt,

An anarchist society doesn’t mean that the people of that society can’t defend themselves in nonviolent and violent ways.

Furthermore: why would those “dissidents” even start such behavior?

Edit (addendum): Seriously: Do you really think that over 150 years of anarchist theory didn’t think of those scenarios and how to prevent them?

Prunebutt,

By removing the legal means that enable exploiters, e.g. private proterty.

Prunebutt,

Crimes of greed and poverty make up the vast majority of crimes though. And hierarchical systems do a shitty job of preventing those crimes anyway (since they focus on individual punishment rather than communal restoration of justice).

Prunebutt,

More on that note in “The Dawn of Everything” by David Graeber and David Wengrow.

The book is flawed but in some points simply enlightening.

Prunebutt,

Without private property, there isn’t much ingentive to be malicious in the first place.

And as I’ve said: a community can defend itself without the need of command and control hierarchy.

Example solutions for the examples given above:

Since these assholes live in a community, diplomacy to sanction those people until they cut that shit out. But he concept of payment isn’t really a thing in a “fully anarchist” society, since those would for example run on gift economies, rendering the concept of payment a bit useless.

Crafting weapons example: Same thing. But if diplomacy doesn’t work, the weapons would have to be taken by force (i.e. by a voluntary, democratically controlled militia).

The food stuff: I’m again asking “why?”. But in general: let’s say that people can’t stop the “evil” people from being a dick by sanctions or force: People just move away. That’s how humanity did it back in hunter-gatherer times. I think it was this video which explained it quite well (but I might confuse it with another one)

Prunebutt,

These structures can still exist in an anarchist society. The difference is the way decisions are made.

Hierarchical: top down Anarchist: bottom up

So the people choose to delegate the task of e.g. making sure the traffic flows properly to a group of people who carry out the will of the collective.

Currently, these people are chosen by heads of states, ministers, or some other level counted from the top.

Prunebutt,

Why would you need hierarchical command and controleformalized power structures (the thing anarchist oppose) for society?

Rules and common understanding naturally emerge when humans live together. You don’t need a king/chief/boss/god for that.

Prunebutt,

That is simply not true. Anarchism opposes institutionalized hierarchies of command and control. There are anti-organisational cnrrents in anarchy but the vast majority of anarchists don’t oppose organization. Also, thereshave been too many anarchist organisations in history to count.

Prunebutt,

You do realize that you can’t seriosly expect an answer to such a broad question in a lemmy post, when whole books have been written about that topic and there is all but consesus on the specifics of the implementation, right?

First, the whole system is doomed to fail because a small group of “dissidents” could topple it, now The small group of dissidents becomes a whole imperialist nation. I think that’s what you call “moving the goal posts”. I will disengage if you keep showing not one gram of good will.

The militias are organized in a decentralized manner and will be accountable to the community (not a small group of superiors).

assuming my country turns anarchist

That’s a cathegorical error right there. Don’t knoweif you noticed it.

how will we defend against imperialist nations?

Again: quite a broad question. Allow me to point you to an essay with a proposal, if you’re so inclined.

we cant just move a country over because someone else wanted what was in there.

That strategy is one of the strategies to be employed against small groups of tyrants in a nomadic society. Doesn’t apply to all circumstances, but I never claimed it did.

Prunebutt,

I specified private property (absentee ownership), which is distinct from personal property (active usage ownership).

A house that I live in: personal property. A house I rent to someone else so they can live in it: private property.

Prunebutt,
  • The CNT/FAI in 1930s Cathalonia
  • Anarchist Ukraine after the1918 revolution
  • The Zapatistas
  • Many pre-colonial native American tribes, e.g. The Wendat
  • Pretty much any immediate-return hunter gatherer people, e.g. the Hadza or the pygmy

Most of humanity cooperating is non-hierarchical. Any DnD group is non-hierarchical. There is a DM, but they can’t stop me from saying “fuck you, that doesn’t happen! My character kills Gandalf with their hypnotic tits!”

I don’t get your point.

Prunebutt,

The self-defensive mechanisms established by the community I live in.

Anarchism doesn’t mean that humans can’t form societal structures. It just means that decisions are made bottom-up instead of top-down.

Hierarchical society doesn’t stop anyone with “higher rank” from claiming my house e.g. to build a highway or coal mine.

Prunebutt,

I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.

Prunebutt,

Please elaborate how “equality” and “hierarchy” based policies aren’t useful labels for politics anymore.

Prunebutt,

That’s not what makes the terms useful.

US Democrats aren’t left and the term is still useful in European politics.

Prunebutt,

seconded. lemmy.ml has afaik the biggest interesing communities for FOSS, privacy, Memes, etc.

Prunebutt,

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about dot jpeg

Prunebutt,

Not being a tankie doesn’t make you a lib.

Prunebutt,

Can someone give some context? It seems I’m out of the loop.

Is Stallone scabbing?

Prunebutt,

Thank you. What a c*nt.

Prunebutt,

I was afraid that the skelleton warriors theme was gonna play if I do.

Prunebutt,

Do you know what a scab is?

Prunebutt,

Covid denying Doctor spotted.

Prunebutt,

That’s what you call “lunch”.

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Prunebutt,

Why the fuck does that one have the Trademark or whatever symboo in the title? O.o

Prunebutt,

Aren’t all of those Names trademarked? I’m asking why Diablo has the trademark symbol in the name on this list.

Prunebutt,

Probably the latter and in that case: I hate that it gets what it wants.

Prunebutt,

At least I’ve made some observation about the world and expressed it in a creative way (using an established template). That’s five times as much creative effort than AI image posters.

Prunebutt,

It’s funny that you focus so much on the Custer’s Revenge part, since that literally took the least effort.

I agree that using the meme wasn’t too much of an effort. But I consider the creative process I had to be:

  1. Make an observation that the AI Image ideas are lazy.
  2. Think of an appropriate meme format that fits my opinion on the matter.
  3. Create the meme without a watermark (that’s more technical than creative)
  4. Think of an atrocity that’s not too much in bad taste (I don’t want to make fun of the Armenian genocide). That’s literally the last few seconds before I posted.

That’s it. Making the observation and finding an established term to express that in the context of a specific community is IMHO way more creative than being the n-th person to think “wouldn’t it be fucked up if Disney made this?”

Prunebutt,

I don’t want to claim that creating the right image is no effort.

I want to focus on the creative part of the process where the message is expressed. Internet memes are almost by definition low effort to create, since anyone can use a meme-generator or use an image creation tool to use a well established template. That means you can focus on the message/observation that the image should convey.

I can’t paint that well, but I can make jokes about observations I make. That is what I consider to be the creative process that matters in meme communities, since the actual images are ripped from stock images or pop culture.

AI art makes it possible to create images that most people wouldn’t be able to create by hand (or more traditional image creation software). But that part isn’t really important in meme communities, where the form is less important that the message.

It’s kind of the problem with AIs in a nutshell: All form, no context or meaning.

Prunebutt,

I’m glad that you get my point. Yet, I don’t want to be too gatekeep-y with the status of a “meme” (I really like the original concept, since it is a very useful… meme).

I really want to focus on the message to be brought across. And in most AI generated images I perceive a very lazy thought process behind the idea.

Prunebutt,

OP thinks they’re going to hell for this. This is not enough effort for hell to even bother.

Prunebutt, (edited )

Great! Someone with neither creativity nor taste! /s

Prunebutt,

That’s not accurate anymore. Canonical has dropped the ball lately (one word: snaps). Pop OS is way more sensible for gaming.

Prunebutt,

That’s probably because there’s no native linux client. Elden Ring runs great on Steam Deck (Valve even precompiled the shaders for the Steam Deck, because the PC port constantly compiles them on the fly, leading to stuttering)

Prunebutt,

Gabe Newell has been openly critizicing Microsoft for quite some time now and therefore, Valve has been pro Linux for years.

It is not too far fetched that the Steamdeck is their second attempt to make Linux gaming more widespread after the failed “Steamboxes”. This and they took the opportunity to make a PC-Switch knock-off when the market was perfectly ready for it.

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