I went digging for where this had been posted before but it turns out it was just the mega: https://hexbear.net/comment/4668021

I tend to agree with @the_itsb in being exceedingly skeptical of the takeaways and premise here

Also this guy insists Chunka Luta are nazis on twitter iirc which is also deeply sus behavior without any evidence

maybe revolution is not just around the corner, maybe its another thousand years of worsening barbarism, idk, but being like “hmm yes maybe our best chance is to let the corporations win and devolve into a pure monopoly and then take over that monopoly at some nebulous point in the future” is just counter fucking productive. We do have power to affect the world even if we can’t topple global capitalism in the near term and anyone encouraging longtermism adjacent, or doomer adjacent ideas like this is worse than the most naive “any day now capitalism will fall” baby socialist

his answer is literally “marxism will let me be self righteously satisfied with my understanding of the world and hopeful for the distant future while I do nothing (or maybe participate in an uprising, as long as its rooted in the understanding it will change nothing)”

like come on. if you are that doom brained why are you even a socialist?

He could have written a more persuasive version of this article if he like, advocated for doing anything despite his feeling that the odds are long, but he seems happy to concede that nothing need be done because the conditions aren’t right. when the conditions become right, people like this will be out in the cold because they havent been fighting and organizing in preparation

imagine being able to see downvotes

Couldn’t be me, I only see upbears

*sponsoring a genocide, not just witnessing, not even close

imma be honest I have a hard time giving a shit whether or not some guy I’ve never read misinterpreted marx or not.

What’s obvious to me is that in the near term a lot needs to change about production everywhere and allocation of resources in the global north especially, if we are to slow down/reverse climate change and survive it. Does this imply a permanent limit on production or population? No. But like, it might be a while before we get this shit under control, if we ever do.

In the meantime, reallocating resources does not have to come with a loss of quality of life. If I never flew on a plane again but I had enough time off of work to take a train instead, that would be a net increase in quality of life. If instead of the primary way of getting around for 95% of americans being a car, it was public transit, that would be an improvement, not a decline in QoL. The list goes on. Living slower (in some respects), simpler, less wasteful lives, is not an inherent regression in society, more production isn’t inherently better when the things being produced and the process of production are both fucked and making people’s lives worse.

but then they cant legally tell people it has jalapeno in it, nor do they probably taste the same. Could probably get it pretty close though I admit

Its not so people who can’t handle spice can eat more, it’s so that companies making industrial quantities of salsa, etc. can get a more consistent spice level but the same jalapeno flavor by using a mild pepper and adding capsaicin as needed

Which isn’t to say its good or normal, shit sucks

Ah yes, the classic family business: sex toy shop

The per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) had spread — through groundwater and products like Scotchgard stain repellent, Teflon cookware, food wrapping and fire removedant — and were showing up in the blood of people and animals in every corner of the world. They were in nearly every living thing, from house dust to human blood, in wildlife in the Arctic circle and drinking water, rivers, streams and breast milk.

mostly recovery codes. I have multiple yubikeys but that’s mostly for work

yeah, when sites support it, that’s definitely the best option, but many sites only barely do totp lol so I have to have to put the totp codes somewhere, and the yubikey handles it in a pretty nifty way

Seems like a real mixed bag, leaning towards a negative because it requires a civil lawsuit. On one hand sure, good, you can sue harassers at the source. On the other hand how many nasty things like neo-nazi group membership are brought to light through doxxing and will also become illegal. and since it requires you bring suit, this will protect the people with more money/resources more often than not.

as far as I know upstream lemmy doesn’t want it and is waiting on pictrs proxying support. If I’m wrong though our code is public, I’m sure a dev would be happy to put together a PR,

Hexbear.net stays winning, external embeds are domain whitelist-only until pictrs adds proxying support, and blurred by default.

Good PSA tho, I’d honestly encourage other instances to do the same but it requires dev effort that I know not everyone has, and upstream isn’t quite as paranoid about this stuff.

For reference:

That literally only happened because the USSR and China would not and could not vote on it (respectively) because the UN was insisting that the KMT who only controlled taiwan were the legitimate representatives of china, and the USSR was boycotting the UN votes on principle.

The point isn’t “UN is infallible” the point is “Even anti-communist countries in the UN agreed that PRC is the legitimate government of all of China.”

gravity bong. commonly made out of plastic bottles like a 2L of soda.

Could be very very good shit. Shame I’m not using android anymore

you smoking out of a geeb or something?

even if it doesn’t affect the brain, it will affect your lungs, and I wouldn’t bet on it not affecting the brain too

blame lemmy’s terrible Active algo. It’s a struggle session factory

Not on iOS but I like my yubikeys. Depending on your requirements (if you have less than 32 TOTP accounts per yubikey), they can handle your TOTP directly instead of just using them to unlock Bitwarden.

For security I don’t like to keep my TOTP keys in my password manager, even if it is strongly protected. With a yubikey I can ensure that both access to the key AND a physical touch is necessary to generate any codes. So even if I leave it plugged in on a remotely compromised PC I’m mostly protected, because a touch is required.