[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Anything in the ballpark of "working class ownership of the means of production".

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

Athenian democracies solve a lot of our current issues. It’s a bit like jury duty. You put your own name down and can be picked for roles in government.

Sortition?

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I see a lot of people on Lemmy recently claiming to be left but also trying to tell me how democracies are bad. -_-

Probably the case, although it's important not to dismiss people for criticizing liberal democracy - the system that has repeatedly put us in the mess we're in now. There are plenty of issues which are wildly popular regardless of political alignment but which liberal democracy fails to deliver, so to consider it a democracy at all, simply because most people get voting rights to pick representatives, is very debatable.

There are plenty of other forms of democracy, many which have been successfully run in communities of hundreds of thousands of people (consider Zapatistas, Cheran, and more).

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Any more examples of socialist democracies?

Since you mentioned India, Kerala is does not currently have a socialist mode of production (that's a specific way of saying, their economy isn't socialism) but they have been led by socialist parties (parties which are trying to implement a socialist mode of production), and it shows.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Socialism is defined by “the ownership of the means of production by the working class, in a transition to communism”.

This is a definition specific to certain communist ideologies. Valid, but not general.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Is there a way I can upload the entire steak scene in The Matrix in this reply?

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Despite my disagreements with local anarchists, they are objectively helping people and are lightyears above the Online Left. I will take comrades of almost (almost!) all tendencies over the Online Left.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

Why not Debian directly instead of MX?

Debian requires more config out-of-the-box to get a nice desktop/laptop experience. This is ready to go.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

I'm only used it as installed onto a USB, and in fact I chose it for that reason, so my experience isn't ideal because of that USB drive speed but it's a great lightweight OS that looks nice out of the box. Lightweight doesn't have to look clunky or feel strange or unfeatured. I recommend it if there are reasons that lightweight is important (old hardware, low-end hardware, portable OS, ... )

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It’s not my instance. it’s our instance, our FAF. I don’t have any more power than any other admin

I've been involved in a (non-anarchist) online group which tried to figure out how to minimize hierarchy for their website, so that no rogue or absent member could ruin it, so I'd like to know how the db0 instance approaches the issue without simply being a benevolent dictatorship by whichever members effectively own the servers and domains, and therefore can seize the site at will. They ended up simply settling for open source code and good will, which worked for them but didn't truly remove power hierarchy.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 days ago

Not in context. Take a single look at that Clive Palmer guy.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

You could also use something like Tampermonkey (?) to make your own minimal CSS style for Lemmy, making it minimal, lean and blocky for you.

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Let's say, I sit down in a mall, open my laptop and connect to a secured mobile hotspot. Then I do it again next week after a reboot. What information would a nearby shop or a passive malicious hacker be able to find about my device? Does my device send out identifying information before joining, like a MAC address? Is this persistent, or randomized?

I intentionally haven't specified a distro, so if something only applies to some network managers, give some details.

Bonus points: what about Android phones?

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by comfy@lemmy.ml to c/slop@hexbear.net

I'm not pointing at the post this links to, or the reply I've linked to, but the surrounding context, including replies from the moderators telling them they're not welcome.

But seriously, I haven't seen this problem (since Wolfballs died), and it's probably because I rarely look at All instances or scroll to the bottom of huge threads. Or maybe .ml has blocked where these bigots hang out? I really don't know, just guessing here.-

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submitted 4 weeks ago by comfy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I recently discovered the Banana Ball exhibition baseball games, and their custom ruleset, featuring limitations, crowd participation mechanics and special roles among other things.

This reminded me of (and it's an derivative game rather than an alternate ruleset) Three-Sided Football, which, among other things, is a Situationist, philosophical and sociological rabbit-hole.

I also recall dark chess, a chess variant with line-of-sight mechanics, to emulate the fog of war. There are thousands of chess variants stretching back a thousand years, this is just one of the first I learned of which really interested me.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by comfy@lemmy.ml to c/videos@hexbear.net

Even the patches of liberalism are below standard background radiation levels.

I believe that videos like this could be a valuable tool as they'd be more acceptable to the Americans who need to hear it, compared to videos made by those they might dismiss as progressives.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by comfy@lemmy.ml to c/videos@lemmy.ml

Full 30 min film: A Welcome to Britain, 1943

After being reminded of incidents where US soldiers started riots in allied countries due to racism (UK, Aus, NZ), I wondered if there were any surviving videos briefing soldiers on race relations outside the US.

This pub clip is not about race at all, but I found it interesting, and as someone who has seen many a stereotypical "loud American" tourist, relatable.

(For an example of a racial diversity training, see that full film link, starting from 25:19

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submitted 1 month ago by comfy@lemmy.ml to c/slop@hexbear.net

This post already has more views than that entire page.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by comfy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Most of us are familiar with what (your local equivalent of) $10 USD is worth, or $100 or perhaps even $1,000,000.

But larger amounts soon become unrelatable. And with the huge wealth inequality at play, it's easy to come across stories where something worth hundreds of millions was wasted.


  • How much money would it take, under our current systems, to solve various societal problems? (e.g. food shortages, infrastructure fixes, public health efforts, new transport)
  • How much did the achievements of various organizations cost?
  • What could individuals spend such money on? (luxuries, marketing)

And make sure to give evidence for your answers!

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submitted 2 months ago by comfy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Yes, this instance is definitely the wrong place to ask, but maybe I'll be surprised.

I hate commercial ads. I consider them intolerable and violating. I'm far from alone in this perspective (see: famous Banksy quote, and subvertising + related cultures). It's one of the rawest forms of exploitative manipulation.

So surely you can understand my confusion whenever I see people just watching ads on their phone until they finish, or even watching ads on television until their show starts again. Come on, just do something else for 4 minutes (most channels run two 4 minute segments per half hour, that why your downloaded TV episodes are 22 minutes each instead of 30)

Is there a more meaningful answer than "laziness"?

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I have a new note-taking system and I want to add some deboonks in there that I can quickdraw on a lib, any day, any time.

I don't want some self-satisfying /r/breadtube rot, I want the links you've actually sent to people when they say something silly.

Shoutout to the copypastas that Davel, Dessalines and Cowbee have developed.

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