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murder is murder
  • Oh no that kind of thing I agree with. As long as it is necessary, then sure. However, a lot of these discussions are plainly theoretical - no one here is gonna do shit, in short. But people get galvanized by the idea of committing these acts and get from these fantasies a certain kind of satisfaction I'm not sure I understand properly. I mean - I do understand. People are fed up and angry with the state of the world. But since this is purely ideological and not practical, it derails all productive discussion.

    What I'm saying is: as long as you can't come up with an actual plan that has better odds of working than any other proposed alternatives, I don't know why you'd be so obsessed with the idea of violence that it ends up being unhealthy; this maladaptive coping mechanism, in turn, might bleed into other aspects of your life and/or activism. Even if the maths check out, a lot of this is inflammatory tribalistic discourse with no point other than to rile up ideological support through emotive means. I think that actually matters quite a lot.

    Apologies if my expression is somewhat unclear at times.

  • murder is murder
  • I don't think you should, but should we derive what is just from how much sympathy capital a given person has? Assuming your objective is to end poverty, etc, and to minimize suffering, then if you are ready to advocate for something like murder even in the hypothetical that you absolutely don't need to, then you're probably just letting your feeling dictate your actions. You can of course dispute that hypothetical, and there is definitely an argument to be made there, but a lot of people don't and still go all in on it. Hence the problem with "wanting" these people to die, as opposed to "doing what is necessary".

  • murder is murder
  • Then isn't it revenge, and not justice? Not that I would feel bad for them, and I understand where the feeling is coming from, but in actuality, I wouldn't ever dream of condoning something like that if there was any viable alternative. I thought we agreed the death penalty was bad, right?

  • murder is murder
  • I wish more people would understand this. If you remove the capitalists, capitalism will just make more. You need to remove capitalism, though obviously the capitalists will fight you on that and you may want to remove them from the system anyway. In either case, a lot of eat the rich discourse sounds like it's out of spite and not in search of actual solutions.

  • How about participating in /r/Place and promoting the fediverse?
  • Hmm. I see it as a failure of his own responsibilities. To each their own, I guess. The power imbalance is certainly going his way. Otherwise, it could be argued that his being shat on in the ama was problematic? It's a short message that encompasses discontentment pretty broadly. I think leaders need to be held accountable. To me, this is the equivalent of saying "fuck macron" or something, which is something me and a lot of other people do on a semi-regular basis. But behind it is solid criticism, and it's a shorthand for protesting being ignored, silenced, or denied democracy.

  • How about participating in /r/Place and promoting the fediverse?
  • I don't know this would work. Right now, I'm using my pixels to add more fuck spez. I suggest you do too. Anything more coordinated than that would require fishing people out from every site they scattered to. We're still pretty small.

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  • Fash scum needs to be treated like the cancer that it is. Can't even imagine living like this. Oh wait, I can. The alt-right: coming to a country near you!

    It's seriously hard not to be cynical at this point. It feels like nowhere in the world is safe. I'm afraid it might only get worse...

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  • Ideally, I think you'd want to use hydro and geothermal first, because they are local resources that can be built with relatively low overhead, and where you can't, just spam nuclear (assuming it is within the country's capabilities), with a massive storage-infrastructure-stabilized (preferentially offshore) wind and solar kickstart. Classical renewables have the advantage that you can build up capacity efficiently, and we are definitely on a timer here.

    However, the real world is a little bit more complicated, so I think really we should just take what we can and not overthink it too much. Functionally, there's no single, clean, silver bullet energy source.

  • What features you may be missing from reddit would you like to see?
  • I don't think that's really granular enough, though. I guess it would be fine right now with the amount of content we're getting, but on reddit, I lose count on the number of posts I upvote and mostly just forget about on a daily basis, so long term it wouldn't work out, I think.

    Also, it's a specific social signal that you think the post is good and so others may want to look at it. I do think it's really interesting how there are separate upvote and downvote counts showing controversiality intsead of a tally which may hide interesting dynamics.

  • What features you may be missing from reddit would you like to see?

    What the title says. I think the site needs to reach critical mass sooner rather than later, and on top of the relatively low activity for now, we want to avoid obstacles to new migration, even if it's small convenience stuff. So, what would make your life easier as a kbin user?

    Personally, I know I use the save button a lot for important resources and future reference. Even twitter has bookmarks! Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it's anywhere to be found. It's also my feeling that a lot of people would prefer the boost feature to be an effect of upvoting instead of a separate button. It makes sense as a kind of "retweet" thing for microblogging, but on the threads side, it doesn't really work with the magazine-centered instead of user-centered feed.

    (not sure this is the right place for this discussion, but this is currently the largest mag about kbin itself, above kbin and kbinmeta)

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