Maya S. Trojan

check this person out they don’t know how to use the three holes!

No I’m isn’t

all hands on the bad one

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I mean, it’s also the take of someone with a smidgen of education who isn’t deeply impressed by the philosophy or ideas that Maynard Keenan put forth in his lyrics. It doesn’t mean they’re bad, but it does mean they’re somewhat simplistic and not all that interesting, especially as you get older. So people who spend an inordinate amount of time praising it and acting like Maynard is like the coolest person alive for first year philosophy takes just seem like they’re overrating it to me. I know that makes me a bit of an elitist, but I mean, I don’t really care. I think stanning over any kind of celebrity whether it’s an artist or a movie star or movie director or fashion designer or whatever is foolish, and leads to a lot of unhealthy behaviors in our society. It’s a behavior that I can tie to actual negative social consequences, such as continuing to support an artist after it’s clear they are terrible (Chris Brown, for example, still has fans) which can lead groups of fans banning together and attacking innocents (Taylor Swift’s online army famously won’t stand for any criticism of her whatsoever without the critique being labeled “misogynist” by the fans). It can lead to genuine victims being dogpiled and abused by legions of fans. It’s just a behavior that I think leads to these negative outcomes when people put so much emphasis on a piece of art and who made it.

Hardware is the means of production and software leverages that. AI is part of that software suite working in tandem with hardware to be productive.

I would argue computers in general are both the means of production, as well as the radio networks like LoRa that can let them communicate without large infrastructure buildouts, intstead relying on truly neutral mesh connections with no central servers. Thus is covers both production and communication in one device.

So much regulation can sadly be boiled down to the idea “Contempt of Business Model.” Because once that business is entrenched and can afford lobbyists, now it’s time to lobby anything other than their business model as illegal.

To an extent it’s understandable. TOOL fans basically ruined TOOL for me, the fanbase is just fucking insufferable, but that doesn’t mean the band themselves make bad music or something. I personally think it just means for whatever reason it appeals to people who are desperate to find meaning in music, and so things that have obvious surface level “meaning” become things that are easy for that subset of fans to latch onto. So especially for classic rock a lot of the interpretation of meaning has already been done so you’re not having to puzzle it out the way you do an entirely new piece of music and that baseline “meaning” is appealing to some people.

It’s a reference to this.

Of all the places I expected this copypasta, it wasn’t in a comic strip referencing They Live.

I’m one of those odd ducks who never cared all that much for Pink Floyd. I can hear the talent, but I found the music somewhat tedious.

Due to not caring for them much, I’ve run across people who actively hate them, and I heard this joke once:

Person A: Hey, did you hear about how they’re setting all those copies of Dark Side of the Moon on fire in the middle east?

Person B: Oh no! Is it a religious protest or something?

Person A: No, it’s just a shitty album.

The workers must seize the means of production and communication.

https://lemmy.ml/post/53619601/28192074

This seems like a pretty good breakdown.

Reminds me of when a friend of mine rented the upper-half of a tuxedo, some tighty whities, and some big baggy boxer short underwear over the tighty whities and went as “That Bad Dream Where You Aren’t Wearing Pants.” It was so well executed.

Yes, exactly, building parallel systems that actually cater to the needs of the local populace. Interconnecting those systems via federation sounds key to making it work!

It’s a little bit funny to see people talking about the benefits of centralization on a website that was built to be part of a larger decentralized network. As if we’re not here because of the problems with control and censorship in centralization. Reddit has a history of silencing leftist voices, yet those voices are more “free” to speak here on the Fediverse.

The entire point of the original structure of the internet was to build resilient communication networks for the military so if one node went down, a new path could be routed around the broken node.

Centralization absolutely leads to fascism because it gives all the controls to a handful of people who aren’t responsive to democracy.

Our representatives do not represent our interests because they are so far removed from us. We honestly need far more representatives representing far fewer people (like maybe a few hundred per representative) because then a rep has to be on a first name basis with their constituents and understand them because there are so few they represent. Either that or we need to bite the bullet and go direct-democracy and just have senators and house representatives just be figureheads who help write bills, with citizens having the final vote on each bill.

So they don’t need as much cooling, and will produce less waste heat due to the temperature coefficient of resistance.

And honestly in areas with colder year-round climates, the increase in ambient temps from running locally might actually reduce heating bills because it’s technically doing double duty of doing a job and heating the place.