We really don’t, there’s the same groups of crazy people who travel will over the county going to these things. It’s the same people, they basically do it professionally

The culture war comes from the billionaire controlled media, they looooove this stuff to distract from the increasingly obvious inequality problem so they push the narrative constantly

Americans are overwhelmingly tired of having it shoved down their throats everywhere… Even the crazy conservatives just want the “far left” to stop (the far left is just a term they gesture at, it’s all made up)

I think there’s two distinct concepts at play, thin skin and thick skin. I do not consider them interchangeable concepts, even if they sound like it

Because the world Bank and IMF fucked them when they resisted selling off their country through outside investments, leading to their currency being debased and ultimately giving them weak footing for international trade

They’ve never really recovered from that, and they’ve also flitted back and forth between wildly different economic interventions desperately trying to fix things

Yes?

A domain is a url, like oaksprout.com. A provider is a server/computer that the domain points at. Many services sell both together at an upcharge, but a domain itself usually costs like ~$15 a year

If an IP address is a mailing address, imagine a domain as a way to pay the post office so people can just address it to oaksprout. You could have them forward your mail to your house, or you could send it to a PO box or business address, and change it whenever you want

The provider is like the mailbox in this metaphor… It receives the mail and holds it for you

It really never did though. People have never stopped buying high end furniture

I said necessity, not luxury… If we enter a global depression, there won’t be cheap IKEA furniture anymore

The market for high quality furniture never went away. And if we enter a global depression, a local furniture maker will again be a necessity

I’m picking up furniture making. Handcrafted furniture will always be needed

A system is what it does and all that

Nvidia won’t recover from this…AMD is going to sweep the market, which will mean games are built to be AMD first

It takes decades to recover from a misplay like this. They just handed over the market on a silver platter, the fuck you to gamers barely even matters

Yes. Everything is monitored, and it sucks. We’ve internalized it even, you can’t so much as have a hobby without dumping money into it to signal you take it seriously

I want to believe you, can you break it down more?

That’s individualistic bullshit.

The collective is what matters! It’s the whole point of all of it!

You can’t do collective action independently. It doesn’t work that way. A million people marching separately is just a million people going for a walk

You have to have a group. It doesn’t need hierarchy or organization, but it does need an immune system. You need bad actors to fall in line or be expelled. You all have to point in the same direction, even if you’d rather be a little more to one side or another

There’s ongoing efforts to reduce renewables and increase fossil fuel use…I wish I shared your confidence

Personally, I refuse to reproduce because we’re not even pretending to avoid 3+C

I won’t have children just to suffer

And you don’t understand what being effective means.

You’re why we’re fucked.

It’s perception. Like I said, hide the praxis. It must not be perceivable

Hell, discard it even. It’s more important to focus on immediate material issues than loudly dream about a better world

Praxis is not useful in this day and age, it’s a liability. If it’s your driving force, learn to pretend it’s not

Yeah… I’m using the word very intentionally

Praxis is academic. It scares people. We must hide the fact our arguments are driven by ideology and focus on the material conditions and how they can be immediately improved

We need to stop with the praxis. It’s a playbook written in another era, further warped by decades of midwits and sabotage

And it just scares off the masses. No one is going to read your pamphlet unless they already mostly agree with you, in which case why are you talking to them?

Every successful political movement is evangelical