"The starter kit for linux comes with these thigh high socks, cat ears hair band, star trek TNG season 7 uniform, and your choice of corn, beans, or moths for some reason"

"Your preferred linux disto literally invaded palestine"

“voting in elections or organizing revolution? this is a fake choice, neither lead to freedom. the only way to attain freedom is using linux.”

That explains why since joining the fedi my cell phone has been slowly looking weirder

Day 1: signed up for hexbear

Day 2: downloaded duckduckgo browser

Day 3: thought hexbear was maybe a little too friendly towards north korea, left

Day 10: signed up for beehaw using duck duck go browser

Day 11: saw through my first wiki edit to ensure it remains

Day 12-14: got into an argument on the discussion section of a Wikipedia article

Day 17: left Wikipedia, downloaded f-droid to be able to download a new keyboard on my.phone

Day 18: enabled 7 day duckduckgo trial for VPN

Day 25: really started thinking about communism and if pure societal focused decision making was best

Day 26: wondered if capitalism could be defeated by driving property values up by beautifying your own rental

Day 27: deleted dumb apps because duckduckgo said they made lots of requests

Day 28: started looking for best way to share photos without google, settled on service needing end to end encryption, decided against self hosting solution after research (but still researched). Downloaded new keyboard and started looking into expanded version of fediverse, liking that w3 had something to do with it

Same lol

There is one scene in an earlier season that comes to mind where he gets bonked, goes a little bananas, and has an Ace Ventura moment. I rewatch adventure time on an almost monthly basis and thats all that comes to mind for him. As a trans woman, it is still a little jarring everytime, but its just a second

I like this quote from Disco Elysium. Really made me think when the character said it (Joyce Messier):

Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead

I don't think humans will ever truly learn. We might find the set of metagenes in the population that leads to narcissistic apathetic behaviour, and even as it is being villified as a personality disorder, a minority will happily select for it in their offspring to maintain a competitive edge over others.

It's baked in, advertising or not, is what I'm saying -- but also that despite the misinformation campaigns, those of us raised in the neoliberal creches do often wake up to see the better alternatives. People ultimately value peace and comfort, and if capitalism cannot provide that then people will naturally look elsewhere

It’s right there in the title ”50% of the fediverse … be like”

Isn't self-critique a key aspect of Marxism-Leninism?

I breathed Out audiobly

The show is an allegory for being trans and how family may treat you like shit for wanting different things than them. It is made for kids under 13 years old. Telling kids they should kill people after they have changed and agreed to fix what was broken seems like a bad thing.

Also, the creator (Rebecca Sugar) is a queer Jewish person, so I think they are well aware of the history of fascism and its consequences. They chose to make the tone and arc of the show anyways, and maybe you should think about why they made that choice before criticizing a children's show for not encouraging murder as a solution to problems.

Also, shattered gems are shown to still have at least some awareness, meaning that shattering the Diamonds wouldn't be killing them, but subjecting them to eternal torture. While also removing the only hope for fixing the gems that are corrupted. Which is what the Diamonds are tasked with to start making things right, along with giving up their social power over the rest of the gems.

Totally agree but being critical is kinda loaded. Like we really aren't taught to be critical thinkers, we are taught to receive info and accept it on the legitimacy of authority. So if we go to actually be critical there's a bunch of little traps we gotta watch out for.

The way a concept is framed can drastically alter emotional response or bias toward it. If a million people consume a product and 1000 get sick from it, if its framed like "0.1% of users experienced adverse effects" its like oh that's nbd, when actually that's a lot of people, and "adverse effects" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Pro life activists frame their issue as "baby killing" which is effective messaging for people who are outraged by the idea of killing babies. Attempts at trying to inject nuance into the issue can be framed as baby killing apologia, and trying to muddy the water.

Those are pretty easy to understand examples. We say, "ah but those wouldn't work on me, I have an education". But Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in economics for his decades of experiments showing that the people most likely to fall for "framing bias" are actually experts in the fields in which the biased or confusing framing is expressed.

Lots of people think looking at both sides, or opposing views is 1:1 with thinking critically. But structural realities like hegemony, which is like the way that ruling classes exercise soft power to coerce consent from the masses, have drastic effects on the way we think about things. There are absolutely certain philosophical frameworks that we are by default bought into and use to interpret reality that are very difficult to understand that it might even be a bias.

Even if we know about them, the fact that we have thought that way our entire lives, means that it takes sometimes immense effort to disconnect the bias toward "learned" thinking from critical thinking. Some concepts like mind/body dualism, rationalism, categorical impetative, positivist objectivity, etc., actually have drastic influence over the way we understand our experiences of reality. And thats before diving into other ontologies like religious belief, etc.

Its easy to he skeptical of ideas that don't fit our learned framing of concepts. It is extremely difficult to criticize not just our own thinking, but like the framework with which we criticize. Especially since we are basically left to our own devices. Novel criticism of one or the other "camp" is often met with support and encouragement from our own camp, but the moment we criticize our own campist tendencies we become an object of suspicion, if not a total pariah -- at best we might be sort of a tolerated crank. So there's not even any real incentive to think critically. You have to be really committed to something that essentially isolates us.

This isn't to say, "don't think critically" but in my experience the further one ventures into critical thinking, the more isolating it feels. Critical thinkers don't enjoy being criticized by others, and eventually settle into our own uncritical biases.