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  • if people can’t say “fuck” or “lick the outlet” anymore.

    People can say fuck though, I’m not sure why people claim Internet is politically correct now just because we outgrew SomethingAwful & 4chan (both sites that still exist).

    show the code or go fuck yourself

    Except that’s not really true, you can look at the Linux kernel for example multiple out of tree forks existed for years because of personal beefs not coding skills (it doesn’t matter how good your tail-packing filesystem or scheduler is, if you’re an asshole it won’t get merged).










  • Honestly I don’t think they have much infrastructure, what they have online is more time, while the rest of us are out supporting our neighbors or trying to have a meaningful impact on the state of the world, they’re busy glazing Al-Sharaa.

    But even on Lemmy their takes are unpopular, they’re just visible because we don’t filter them, and they get an initial boost because we (normies) are busy living life, while they are busy on their discords (🤔 weird how they use the same tools as right wingers to “organize”) telling eachother where to post their way to the “revolution”.








  • One point of tension is that under a system where you still need to get paid to get things needed to survive/enjoy life, any organization outside of the state will be incentized to only do what they have to do and have the workers have more freetime (either for leisure or other work), whereas salaried state employees would use that time for improvements.

    My gut tells me this is a trade-off worth making but it might not be, perhaps it makes more sense to have state monopolies, maintained by the state as then additional capacity gets put towards improvements.

    I’ve just not seen state enterprises turnout that well, wether it’s the NHS or the Soviet economy outside of wartime, I don’t agree with the capitalist critique that workers have no incentive to perform well at their jobs, because the USSR/NHS didn’t/doesn’t have a flat pay structure, so my best theory is the alienation of people from their labor is a huge factor. And this is also supported by my personal experiences as well as those of people I know who work in the NHS.

    TL;DR it’s a good question that hopefully one day we will have the opportunity to figure out.