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Uriel238 [all pronouns]

@ uriel238 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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  • Everyone in the world now has the same values and morals you do; how does the world change?

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  • First, the struggle to make sure everyone has enough food, shelter, clothes, etc.

    Then we have to get people to do the jobs no-one wants to do. Either we automate them or make the job tolerable. Until then, we might rotate workers in and out of duty, spreading the discomfort.

    Then we have to adjust to the increased demand for some resources. Just as plumbing increased the demand for water (but also vastly improved living conditions) so will many other resources follow. Getting it all going while keeping it sustainable will be tricky.

    And then, someday, maybe centuries later, post-scarcity communism. And according to the Fourth International–Posadists, this will be a prerequisite before we colonize space, or other worlds.

    I think, once we regard greed and power consolidation as a treatable illness, human society can do this. But I don't yet comprehend a complete path from here to there.

  • Why the US Is Losing the Iran War

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  • Related: a fun video on why societies collapse.

  • What is the most painful thing someone has told you?

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  • My wife telling me that she can't deal with me anymore in November 2024. We were together for twelve years. TBH, I was also sore that Trump just won the election despite that Project 2025 was public knowledge, so I was super vulnerable already, and her departure pushed me into a long-term psychotic break.

    I had been getting progressively crazier in the years leading to her announcement. My psychotherapist discontinued my service to go on maternity leave some years before and I had then moved to Sacramento. Then the COVID-19 epidemic hit, everyone needed psychotherapy and so they all stopped taking Medicare since their schedules were packed with better payers. And then they all burned out.

    So I went without mental health care for years figuring I could deal better than those who are not used to being crazy. Evidently not so.

    There are more factors. Her job in construction was going south so she changed jobs to a non-profit that helps victims of human trafficking (and is still brutally busy but is far more fulfilled by her work), and the income difference affected our lifestyle.

  • Google is cannibalizing the web to feed AI

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  • More Perfect Union did a video on Google's descent into evil. I think it's this one

    TLDW: Once Google pivoted from being a search service to an advertising agency, it was motivated to keep users from hyperlinking away from Google, and so offered summaries and alternatives controlled by Alphabet that allowed it to keep offering you ads.

    So this AI service is just a natural iteration.

  • Reminds me of certain people and their flock

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  • In Deuteronomy 21:20 and Proverbs 23:21, it is זלל. The Gesenius Entry (lower left word) has indications of "squandering" and "profligacy" (waste). -- Wikipedia

    Christian philosophers seem to insist it's concerning food. I wonder how the sin of gluttony intersects with envy and avarice.

  • Bank boss sorry after describing workers as 'lower value human capital'

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  • I love being the executive assistant who was brought on as the eye-candy personality hire

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  • We learned that a lot of jobs are this thanks to the RTO mandates after COVID-19 pressured companies to let everyone telecommute when possible.

    Two things seemed to mainly motivate people to return to office, even though it cost more in commute time and fuel and workers productivity suffered at the office. One was that companies were still leasing office space that was now mostly empty, and that made upper management sad. And the other is that a lot of clerical jobs are just there as the entourage of executive aristocracy.

    The boss missed forcing his secretary to fetch him coffee on command.

  • Bank boss sorry after describing workers as 'lower value human capital'

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  • Wow. Members of the first estate keep letting slip publicly who they really are and how they really feel.

    Eventually, the third estate might get motivated to do something serious about it. Something terrible.

  • What's a NON-HORROR NON-DOCUMENTARY movie that disturbed you or made you very uncomfortable?

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  • Curiously, when I saw it, I picked up that the guy was crazy and violent, and saw it as a horror film following the monster.

    Years later, I'd learn that it was popularly seen as a white-guy underdog movie set (and produced) during the Rodney King crisis and the police war on gangs.

  • Seeking advice on breaking isolation

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  • I'm in a similar situation. In November 2024, my wife left me. (We were together for twelve years), and with her, all of my local found family were stripped away. I've since tried to get involved in activism against the current regime (in the United States), but most fronts want me to be able to organize and host events and insist I should bring my friends. Well, I don't have any friends.

    (Off topic, I'm getting the sneaking suspicion political organization is essentially salesmanship, but for social causes or candidates for public office rather than products.)

    I'm spectrum AF and suffer from major depression and tend to want to not engage someone if I suspect they're busy or disinterested. I'm also super awkward in activity groups unless I understand the protocol already and know what I'm doing.

    As such, I'm isolated in Midtown, Sacramento and am unbearably lonely much of the time. I've resorted to virtual support groups (via Zoom) but those are not the same.

    Making friends is hard!

  • Boomer comics

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  • One article pointed out it takes $200 for a date, while another points out Zoomers are just not having that much sex, nor are they into romantic relationships.

    Maybe if you work a people too hard and give them no hope for a future; if they can't afford to have a life, they may not want to have kids.

  • People who used to be writers or tried to become but failed, why did you quit writing?

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  • The world started getting really terrible around Trump's first term and I just kept getting more and more depressed. I went from blogging a couple times a week to once a month to not at all.

  • It's Tuesday 05/12/2026. Hey, What's Going On!

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  • I've been trying to get involved in activism in order to stop MAGA from taking the US midterms by force (see Louisiana v. Callais ruling by SCOTUS and then all the southern states redistricting mid-election).

    Election-focused activism is canvassing, and interrupting people's lives by cold-calling people would be soul-crushing work. I could write postcards but my left-handed handwriting scrawl is awful.

    Visibility activism is going out into loud crowds. I'm scared of large crowds generally. Large screaming / chanting crowds are overwhelming.

    Noncooperation activism involves civil disobedience and the willingness to confront law enforcement (or ICE / CBP) and risk brutality from the same. Also they want young people on the front line, and I'm way old.

    All of them would really rather I just give them a lot of money, and I'm low income.

    Then there's the infighting in the Democratic party, since the DNC and DCCC only support center-right establishment candidates, and progressive socialist candidates are the ones that actually inspire the youth to get out and vote, but good luck getting them support by the mainstream party.

    And then there's that daunting feeling that there's nothing for SCOTUS which suffers no consequences when the conservative Federalist-Society supermajority drops rulings that strip away civil rights or kill public protections or destroy democratic features. Reform takes a long time and requires the left to take power first (and then -- since we're talking establishment Democrats -- being willing to pass SCOTUS reforms)

    The organizers who've hosted meetings so far insist we'll campaign harder, but we have to win by unquestionable margins or expect challenges to the election results. And the Democrats campaigned harder in the 2024 general and lost to the trillion-dollar far-right propaganda machine that churns out fear and rage and prejudice.

    So I'm having a hard time not despairing, and other than writing crabby letters to my representatives (which feels like shouting into the void), I can't seem to find a role to play in the resistance.

    So I'm feeling discouraged AF.

  • Is it possible to achieve an egalitarian society with a population of millions/billions?

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  • Is it possible to achieve an egalitarian society with a population of millions/billions?

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  • Unchecked, power consolidates. Marx notes in Das Kapital the Capitalist will always seek to capture regulatory bodies in the name of profit.

    The goal, thus, becomes to distribute political power (including wealth) as diffusely and evenly as possible, and create a system that checks efforts from outside to attack and break its integrity.

    The USSR was beleaguered from the beginning by sanctions by the rest of the western world, as pressured by President Wilson. As problematic as the Leninist model was, we don't know how it would have fared if it were left to engage with the world on its own terms.

  • sleepy fascist

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  • Considering his continuous use of the Sleepy Joe epithet for Biden (who was far, far from this sleepy), it really highlights the notion that every accusation is a confession.

    The cult leader always is excepted to his own rules.

  • What brought you to the Fediverse?

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  • The Reddit API situation brought me here. It's a much nicer crew.

  • Trump has a better understanding of the Bible than Pope Leo, says conservative Christian pastor

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  • That bible experts cannot agree on what the bible means, and which of its doctrine is important, makes for a strong argument that it is a historical document, neither inspired, nor univocal, nor inerrant.

    If it were divine, then its meaning would be clear beyond debate.

    In other words, it's just a bunch of mythology invented by dudes in the bronze age, and nothing more.

  • Which character from a movie, game, series, anime do you associate yourself with?

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  • I don't know who wrote the characters. Some developers in Ubisoft in the early 2010s, I presume. Looking at the extensive credits, I never found a name that I recognized.

    It could all be coincidence, but there's a significant amount of similarity.

  • Which character from a movie, game, series, anime do you associate yourself with?

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  • In Watch Dogs 2 the initial hackerspace is in the basement of a game store in the lower Haight in San Francisco, which smacks smartly of Gamescape on Divisadero Street between Oak and Fell. It's still there according to Google, even though everything around it was gentrified out of existence, including the cheap flat I lived in.

    I'm pretty sure my years as a Gamescape regular inspired the character Josh Sauchak. I lived with the woman who probably inspired Sitara Dhawan, and we are pretty sure of the identity of the guy who inspired Wrench.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    Uriel238 [all pronouns] @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Rule vs. Left

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    rule-woke

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Not Edmund but Ariel

  • Memes @sopuli.xyz
    Uriel238 [all pronouns] @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Not Edmund but Ariel

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
    Uriel238 [all pronouns] @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    Not Edmund but Ariel (OC)

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    A cool metaphor: sometimes I rule gud.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    Uriel238 [all pronouns] @lemmy.blahaj.zone

    When the riot squads come...

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    When the riot squads come...

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Clicked add when I meant to click block

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Is it?

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    You have to agree if you want to live

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Because rulers suck, explainer, OC

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Explainer Meme, OC, WiP or Rule candidate.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Don't help them to bury the rule.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Rule Practice (OC)

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Who will rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Rule of peer pressure

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Get MacDruled (OC)

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I need this right now, and I bet so do rule.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    It is against the law to Rule.