PolarKraken

.world is known (largely due to the Luigi Mangione stuff) to have moderation that's a bit more heavy handed and more similar to the sort of "corporate Internet".

No real hate for them and they've indicated in the past that some of their actions are just to comply with their local laws. But if you're looking for an older internet experience you'll wanna move to a different instance.

What are you talking about lol. Jeff Bezos is doing the only thing Jeff Bezos does, stuff that's good for Jeff Bezos. This is giant leverage that tells the Trump administration "we have big tools at our disposal if you don't make us happy with whatever economic policies we do end up with". He displayed that leverage, it turned into a news story, and behind closed doors, a shift occurred, likely minor, in the ever-evolving power dynamic between the two pricks.

Don't get it twisted. These dudes and the rest like them will never help us except in the most casually incidental way.

Thanks, Ken. DOLT

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Hey, similar feelings from me in a lotta ways, especially regarding the "churn" we see where continuing tech evolution makes our expected output rise in almost precise equilibrium with the rise in quality of life tooling and general sophistication we get to "enjoy" (and I mean, sincerely, some stuff like IaC has made irritating tasks joyfully painless in comparison to the ~~bad~~ ~~good~~ ??? old days ).

BUT! Something maybe we can all get a little excited about - in some important ways (Linux ecosystem, federation trends, self-hosting capabilities and enthusiasm, urgent global need to diversify cloud reliances) - FOSS is in a strikingly beautiful place today. It's never been more important, and it's never had a stronger, more diverse, and arguably more passionate array of people working hard to make great shit for us all.

Cheers and take heart!

To take that even further, NFT art produced by one of the largest corporations on earth is just so hilariously cynical, it's like life writing poetry.

Let's go, friend - I make and eat a buncha ramen, and likewise for yonder spuds. Someday soon, I'll combine them, and I hope you do, too.

May we be in our bowls - together.

Ramen.

Oh wow, this is going to be really lovely when you're done! Blends two kinds of nostalgia for me, the game of course and just the way cross-stitch looks (probs due to a sprinkle of early memories). Really really perfect combination of aesthetics for my tastes.

Thinking about it, does seem like a painful project probably lol. Seems like a lot of colors in some real random spots to get the details right. Just remember the outcome 😅

Edit: I don't have any connection to cross-stitch whatsoever (though I do hang dope art in my home in general), but I am subbing to this community in hopes I see how it turns out lol, cheers!

grimaces, shudders in frustration on your behalf, bumps up monthly Wikmedia donation by $1

Hell yeah! And another dope thing about the whole shebang, turns out the derivative < - > integral operation is wildly useful for describing...everything.

The simplest example, that I love the most, is just the very pedestrian (pun intended) relationship between a car's position, velocity, and acceleration. It's just enough "levels" (of diff < - > int) to have some instructional "meat", and it's a totally ubiquitous experience.

And then, when peered at more closely, that kind of relationship starts to crop up everywhere, suggests so much more!

Calculus is best maf

The elephant in the room is the huge violence required to bring any "simple fix" to fruition. The fascists are doing some of the violence for their own simple fixes, now, openly. They of course intend the further violence, too.

Some of us see the elephant. Most of us (almost all of us, myself included!) are just tryna get from one day to the next. That's bad, elephant gets bigger...

To reply more in the spirit of my original comment, since I spent a lot of words (probably many more than you wanted to read lol) on your COL angle -

(and actually, I realized after I got a little ways into this, I'm just clarifying my thoughts for my own benefit at this point lol, this is basically me just saying things. I'ma post it, it's Lemmy, why not)

The idea about "versions of life we go through, thinking they're normal" -

That's important to me. Going totally unreasonable here - I really believe that most people, regardless of background - if you actually exposed them to the true suffering of the very poor, and the true excess of the very rich, most people would understand that none of this is really acceptable, it only seems that way, it's actually deeply wrong. I think most people, if they could really get even just a weeklong glimpse of life in those shoes (both extremes, and one in the middle), nearly every single one - rich, poor, or in the middle - would clamor for abrupt change. I think we can care, we just don't see.

The opposite of the above, lacking it, is the "...thinking it's normal" I meant.

One enormous, but strange, barrier to all of us recognizing that truth is just the simple fact of the way our lives work - through none of our doing, we wind up ensconced in the environment in which we grew up, roughly, from a socioeconomic standpoint. We live our lives in that "lane", that "version", and we die in the way the people in our "versions" die, too. This applies across $0 - $Inf.

The barrier I'm describing as strange is that way because it's often very invisible, and - rich or poor - sudden realizations about one's lived "version", and the versions of others - those are jarring, damaging, to whomever experiences them.

We should probably do more of it, though. The jarring forced realizations. Like, a lot more. Luigi Mangione, for instance, I think that dude really understood, and the thing is - most people also understood, they thought what he did was dope. I really wish we'd all focus more on what happened there. Do more of it, even.