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keepcarrot,

Also PIMDAS (we had this conversation in my class this semester as we had a very wide range of ages and regions present in the class) (I is for indices) (I don’t remember what the Colombian students said, for some reason we had a group of 3 Colombians in our class of 12 nowhere near Colombia)

That said, the question is ambiguously written. Maybe the popularity of this will result in calculators being more consistent with how they interpret implicit multiplication signs.

(my preference is to show two lines, one with the numerator and one with the divisor)

keepcarrot,

So’s BOMDAS etc.? Just different words for things

keepcarrot,

Reminds be of the conversations about transferring hard drives using the public transport system in my city. Good bandwidth, terrible latency. Then everyone got faster internet and stopped pirating

keepcarrot,

My dad had tapes, but I never got to see data go from a tape to ram. They had 8 GB of space, I remember

keepcarrot,

I hate my smell but also overheat very easily, so uh… I just kinda have to live with it. I apologise a lot.

keepcarrot,

Definitely when I open my phones camera app and the face side camera displays

keepcarrot,

I always feel a world apart from horny PCs, my characters are very sexless even if there’s no reason for them to be

Younger users of Lemmy: Did you ever love a game that you just really sucked at?

So I was watching a few youtubes and remembered how the vast majority (of like the ten) nes games me and my sister had were hard as all hell. I loved to play Little Nemo and Street Fighter 2010 but I am pretty sure I never made it past the third level of either. Let alone infamously hard games like The Lion King....

keepcarrot,

Sort of relevant, I had a friend who was really into super smash brothers (brawl, I think). Talked a lot about the competitive scene, different moves and tactics etc. He didn’t have a Wii or Switch though, we were all pretty broke.

Anyway, some money came buy and he was able to grab a Switch and SSB finally. Super keen.

And then he just kinda sucked at. It was pretty sad, he almost immediately stopped being excited about it and the Switch, which he had bought new, was barely used a couple of months later. I was kinda worried about him because he wasn’t mentally in a good place before that and talking about SSB seemed like an outlet for him (none of us in the mutual group played or cared about the game).

This was a while ago, he’s doing much better now

keepcarrot,

I feel like I had this experience repeatedly in RTSes. I don’t think I quite had the same dive as my friend did, but still

keepcarrot,

Use it to have low risk conversations to trick your brain into getting extroverted energy

keepcarrot,

I wonder what set off the wearing caps too high. It made kids at my school look like they had enormous heads

keepcarrot,

“It” and also probably a few anti Asian slurs

keepcarrot,

Almost zero. Sometimes I try to make a conscious effort to, but that goes up and down with energy

keepcarrot,

I think some people wanted “dronies” to be this, but personally I find the counter insult thing a bit weak.

keepcarrot,

I miss mine. Good battery life. Big hard disk. Chugged a bit on google docs with large documents. Hot processor. Liero

keepcarrot,

It sounds like what happens in a manual if you bottom out your RPMs in gear. Maybe your car isn’t shifting down or disconnecting the gear properly, especially if it happened while stopped.

keepcarrot,

Cutting down on alcohol. Due to Australian tax, it’s actually pretty expensive (except cheap wine). Beers at lunch add up.

Pirating media

Buying a large set of 500 mL plastic takeaway boxes with lids (Chinese takeout boxes). They’re more useful than just poverty Tupperware, you can use them for storing lots of things, as small mixing bowls, etc.

Buying spices in bulk. There’s a store here where you bring your own jars and stuff, all the cumin is loose and you just pay for product weight (which is way cheaper than mainstream supermarkets).

Asian grocers. Everything is generally cheaper, and they sell these large jars of minced garlic with big chunks of garlic (rather than the puree from woolworths).

Generally, the more interesting yet low effort you can make your cooking, the less you’ll feel the need to eat out or splurge on “reward” meals. Asian food can be very good for that (east asian, south asian, middle east), and you’ll impress your white friends.

Canned and frozen versions of vegetables, instead of fresh. If you’re making a stew or curry, it doesn’t really matter. Also, frozen broccoli is more floret (the tree bits you pretend to be a dinosaur at) by weight.

Just steal stuff. Do it irregularly, and always be a polite smiling face to service staff. Bring your own bags and hide your stolen produce under the bags. Leave the bags in the trolley and fill up stuff you buy on top of them.

Service what debts you can.

Really, the biggest costs tend to be emergency vehicle servicing, hospitalisations, and rent. Any way to reduce those (sharehousing, having friends that can do those sorts of work, spreading the work out amongst the community) will go way further than a lot of things I’ve just listed. Community is hard to find though

keepcarrot,

I used to host bad movie nights, and of them Birdemic was probably the least competent thing that arrived to our screen. It did have a plot. And, um…

Compared to the other classic bad movies, it was the worst.

Death Bed: The Bed That Eats was surprisingly arthouse given the ridiculous premise

keepcarrot,

I feel like everything is a green flag until a red flag pops up. Like how an open road is functionally a permission to cintinue driving.

There are things where I get excited about a person, but even then red flags are more important. “Never admits to wrongdoing” and “Thinks kicking down a door and screaming at your partner is an appropriate response to leaving a mug in the wrong cupboard” is going to flatly be more important in a relationship than “does activism” or “is house trained”.

That said, I don’t like arguing all the time and do organising stuff irl, so it would be nice to agree politically on a bunch of things. Responds to texts/messages and seems excited to build conversation with me.

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A Lagrange point or whatever?

keepcarrot,

I mostly just switched away from competitive games (as in, games where you’re playing against other players). It is supposed to be a leisure activity, after all. I found I felt bad if I won (because I made my opponent feel bad) and felt bad if I lost.

There’s also the idea that the best board game experience is where all players had a good time. Paying attention to other players’ needs might help reduce your own attention to your investment in the game.

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“Liberal Israel supporters” lol

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I remember one Dark Heresy campaign where the majority of damage caused to the players was dropped grenades and Molotov cocktails.

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Download copyrighted books. It’s a civil case, not a felony!

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I’m going to a protest

keepcarrot,

I remember here our nurses strike got shut down by the union higher ups or something :( Massive fines doled out and stuff.

keepcarrot,

Sucker play, it’s trivial to get a bible for free. For instance, one could find it on libgen or something idk

keepcarrot,

Yeah, haha I was hoping the joke would land

keepcarrot,

The art of war is actually quite short though

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A Brief History of Time was the classic one amongst self-described sapiosexuals

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Tbf far from the worst book they haven’t read

keepcarrot,

Does this work back in time? Does France’s open borders with the US support the US’s invasion of Iraq, despite their lack of direct military support (and verbal condemnation)? Like, maybe, but I don’t remember that discourse at the time. Does anyone buying Saudi Arabia’s oil support its war on the Yemenis? idk

keepcarrot,

I am curious as to what this means materially. Like, if you have one sanction that encompasses 80% of your economy, that’s more than 5 sanctions that each encompass 1% of your economy.

Is current Russia more excluded from the global economy than Iran or North Korea? What is this graph saying?

keepcarrot,

Here in Australia it can be used for post-high school vocational education, but it can also be used for residential premises attached to a university (but not the university itself). Of course, there’s some American language import here.

keepcarrot,

It’s been a while for me. I remember school covered a bunch of basics. What is this text trying to say outside of its explicit wording? I don’t remember it going into sources or framing much, but I also did pretty badly at it in school. A lot of students are checked out most of the time. I don’t really remember anything to do with the preponderance of media (e.g. If NYT, CNN, MSNBC, and FOX all agree on something, how will this be perceived by the public, how small will your voice be if you say “But the UN sent investigators and found no evidence of chemical attacks” etc). We certainly didn’t explore, say, Chomsky’s reading of how the media industry is structured, even though I think most students at my school would be capable of absorbing the information.

The thing is, I think people often have the skills for media literacy if it’s a message they disagree with. They can question sources and motivations, peel apart euphemisms etc. But most of the time they are insufficiently motivated, especially with messaging they agree with. Or they want to agree with.

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Dang, it’s like around 10-15 AUD here. Best eating out calories to dollars is probably domino’s cheap line of pizzas

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Free large fries eh? 🤔

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Dusting, apparently

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Never seen a picture of him, I think I could wrestle a can of soup off him

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I mean, advertising exists and is pretty pervasive.

keepcarrot,

There’s a couple of mildly funny interactions in here. Question in the reverse, does that mean you’re often showering without a full scrub (a rinse, we’d call it) regularly?

Once a day until it gets into sweaty season, then whatever i need to maintaindecorum.

I had a bath bath last year, I think?

keepcarrot,

Kind of interesting. I wonder if I’ve helped keep any odd torrents alive

keepcarrot,

Probably being on welfare for an extended period of time. It kinda beat the techno-libertarian out of me.

Most of my big internal changes were done through years of struggling in communities and therapy though

Where do you fall politically?

I’m hoping this doesn’t start a fight, I’m just curious what the political orientation is of this community. I grew up in a liberal (in the American sense) family, and I identify now as a socialist, though a lot of the liberalism I grew up in has stuck with me, like interest in LGBTQ and women’s rights, environmentalism,...

keepcarrot,

I guess, though I have extensive critiques of both. I’m probably closest to Cuba, given my Carribean heritage and actually helping the local community outreach program.

keepcarrot,

Come from a shitposting background, so fairly used to couching everything in ironic terms :P

keepcarrot,

So, I’m not an anarchist any more, but just to throw in a few odds and ends:

In the socialist conception of things, the state is the network of social forces that separates classes. Things like cops, or parliament are big obvious parts of “the state”, but things like CNN or Microsoft are too, despite being in private hands. In your hypothetical, the apparatus you use to accumulate wealth is “the state”.

A part of this reading is that it requires active effort to maintain the state. To take an example, let’s say your method of wealth accumulation was by becoming a landlord. You own the land and dwellings that people shelter in. Cool.

What makes this “yours” and not the tenants? Well, you paid for it, yes, but unless you spend all your time debating your tenants about the philosophy of ownership, you’re going to need enforcers. Enforcers who take your claims of ownership seriously. And this gets more and more necessary as you get more land and more tenants. You’re not going to fight ten tenants yourself to extract rent, let alone 10,000. After all, one would expect a slave to try to escape even if you rightfully paid for them, why not housing or food or anything else people need to live.

In most strains of anarchism, hoarding property so you can exploit your fellow man is violence, just as in liberalism walking across an empty bit of lawn that someone owns is violent.

But then, this isn’t really my beliefs any more, so um… idk, I hope it helps

keepcarrot,

How are Microsoft and CNN part of the state? Aren’t they just providing a service in exchange for money, in the same way a farmer, an actor or a mechanic does?

Obviously we’re talking about different ideas here. Microsoft, for instance, pays for enforcement of copyright (a relatively modern invention) and gets profits from that enforcement (e.g. through corporate deals, sponsorships, software ecosystems etc), which maintains class character. The owners of Microsoft sit around and do nothing (hypothetically), and the systems surrounding them (“the state”) funnel money up to them, that money being a representation of the power and labour of people buying and using Microsoft products (often without choice; I don’t get to choose which OS my workplace uses, for instance, but I also play video games which can be jank with various linux OSes etc etc). It is in Microsoft’s best interests to maintain this class character of society, thus they will lobby the government to defend their interests, fund op-eds to say “tech workers unionising is bad, actually”, pay for private security, bankroll candidates in local sherriffs elections etc etc. The fact that they are privately owned and the money and power are “private” only really explains where the money/power goes, it doesn’t explain Microsoft’s behaviour. The same with CNN except with different specifics.

I do know a couple of leftists that complain about using the word “state” for this, since it has a different definition in common parlance (usually equivalent to the government or nation-state), so it could just be semantics. But if you’re talking to a left anarchist about states, that’s what they mean. I also realise that this means that your local fish and chips shop owner is a part of “the state”, but the municipal work guy who fills in potholes for the city council isn’t, at least in that conception. I’m not really going to argue these points, just hopefully building some understanding to what anarchists (except ancaps) mean when they talk about the state.

Most people aren’t washing windows for the love of washing windows. Perhaps it would be true if all their needs were met (say, food security, housing etc etc), then your window washing friend taking money to wash windows so he can buy warhammer miniatures or something. Erm… What follows isn’t an argument, but more just a scenario to explain the view. Again, I’m not super interested in arguing the point.

Imagine there is a village where everyone is hungry except one person. That one person owns all the grain. How he acquired the grain is irrelevant, what matters now is he has all the grain in a legal sense. Maybe he inherited from its previous owner. “Give me everything you own, and I will feed you”, he says. The villagers balk. It is a long journey to the nearest town, too long for many of them for they have been hungry for a while. Some of them give up their homes in exchange for grain. They continue living there, but agree to pay future rent. For the others, the situation becomes more dire as the days pass. People are rapidly losing weight, trying to fill their stomachs with a mixture of sawdust and water. The grain lord ups the ante “Give me everything you produce in the future, as well as everything you own right now.” Again the villagers balk, but some people sell themselves into more explicit serfdom than the people from before. and so on and so on until the villagers are selling their firstborns to the grain lord who haven’t even been born yet. I got bored of writing this. At some point or another, the villagers just take the grain and fight off the lord if he tries to stop them. His property hoarding requires violence to maintain regardless of how he acquired that property, unless you consider violence against property to be worse than violence against people (which, uh… idk). Ergo, it is violent.

The point being that in this scenario, everything is “freely” given, in a legalistic sense, but is extremely exploitative in any other sense. The right libertarian viewing this as just is… Well, most people don’t act like this in their personal lives. If a friend or member of their community is hungry and they have lots of food to share, they will share it quite freely. It is the state (in the anarchist’s view) that obfuscates our local community relationships where we see ourselves as so separate that would not give spare food someone in our communities if they were hungry (that said, our cities are very large, something about urbanist critique here). Like, my loser brother who fucks up everything is still welcome to share my pot roast tonight, though I’m probably not going to invest in any of his ventures per se.

I think, also, that while anarchists view the hoarding as violent, they also view the source of all capital as violent as well. For instance, would Standard Oil or US Steel have been as profitable or even have existed if the United States’ land had never been violently appropriated from the native societies that already existed there? A lot of the initial wealth even before the colonial era was squatted on by descendants of warlords who ran what we’d call “protection rackets” (feudalism). How much of any of the wealth that exists is “legitimate”?

Again, I don’t really follow this political view anymore, so I’m not going to get into the nitty gritty of arguing any of these points. These scenarios are just for helping get into the mindset of anarchism. If you want a decent primer to the different forms property and ownership can take, you could read Debt: The First 5000 Years which has very accessible anthropological discussion of many different societies throughout history (including free market arguments in the first Islamic Empire).

keepcarrot,

Yeah, I feel like Florida and Queensland have a lot in common. We don’t have as many states though, so there’s bound to be some blending.

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