I mean, you don't become a head of state without a certain degree of approval. Seems a bit oppressive to try prevent people, especially since it's probably combined with mourning the destruction of a country in an illegal war.

This doesn't engage with the point at all. There are places and times to fight particular battles.

fwiw i think slop machines are boardline useless and largely culturally harmful but even if they worked well. Like if extruded images were worth looking at and chatbots were reliable for things other than lie and cause psychosis then promoting them at this stage would be harmful.

Capital controls them, it is intrinsic to the approach that massive amounts of hardware and energy are needed to create them, as well as input data and unpleasant human labour. They will be used to crush labour, making revolutionary action harder, and atrophying skills and becoming dependant on them is placing yourself at the mercy of silicon valley freaks.

Resisting further degration of working conditions and bargaining power through imperfect means is a good tactic. Disney or whatever gets way more power from being able to fire all the writers, animators, and actors than keeping control of some fucking cartoon for another few years.

reddit and its consequences has been a diaster for the minds of young men.

You think fundies are gonna read that and get something out of it?

I better set this up this arvo. Myrient archives so many old games that you literally cannot obtain all in an accessible way.

Losing the files would be a digital book burning.

What is the point of this remark? It seems overly literal. The post isn't saying that some point is carved into the stuff of the universe, nobody thinks if you get a powerful enough microscope you'll see "make art and fornicate" written in little wiggling molecular strands. We're all raised in the same postmodern world lol.

There is subtext to all human communication, in this case the subtext is "Inasmuch as humans find reasons for existing beyond simply a biological aversion to suicide the outlined reasons are not satisfactory. Nonetheless society is hostile to acting out other goals, this is a problem."

So why make the remark? Do you think people don't know that there is no cosmic purpose? Do you want to stand out as having been exposed to ideas from nihilism and absurdism? What do you add?

It's a shame you feel that polluting our cultural heritage with bullshit, and damaging people's brains, is worth being able to sit on your arse.

Using chatgpt carries its own death sentence

That list is divided into "extract rents" and "work a job" It seems kinda weird to call a job passive income just because you're not paid a wage. But no I don't mean people buying a book you wrote.

Where does the money come from lol? It doesn't grow on trees. Stocks are labour appropriation, rent is labour appropriation, interest on investments? Who's paying lol, the bank? No, people in the bank's debt that they credited with your money.

Passive income is just labour appropriation and deserves the death sentence.

This is the shit that gets to me. Like half this thread is people talking about silly people wanting to divide history into goodies and baddies while doing exactly that.

History just is, the good and bad we must analyse with clear eyes if we are to learn from both the triumphs and failures so we can build a free world.

The USSR did wonderful things, terrible things, and banal things. On the whole it vastly improved the lives of people in it, and even outside of it the threat of revolution was used to advance worker's rights massively. Acknowledging this is not excusing or justifying the failures, explaining why the failures occured is not excusing them. To learn we must understand the whys and the hows so we can replicate triumphs and avoid tragedy.

The whole point it to do better. I don't understand why people don't see that.