Man to man, you know we can do better than Pierre “never had a real job” Poillievre!
Man to man, you know we can do better than Pierre “never had a real job” Poillievre!
I wonder if it’s because 28 Days Later was shot on a handful of Canon XL-1’s, which was a breakthrough as they were one of the first prosumer cameras that could pull off a film like that.
Kind of a nod and a wink at the heritage of the story to shoot on consumer hardware.
Fascism is merely one form of authoritarianism, which is very much on a spectrum. Don’t try to make people stupid by breaking basic political categorization.
It does seem like a power vacuum if you are fully convinced that power needs to be centralized.
I am reminding the thread that the absence of distributed power is chaos, not anarchism.
Anarchism is anything BUT a power vacuum. All the power is carefully doled out via negotiation and in no way lacking.
Strong propaganda is devoted to supporting your presumption that power only exists when concentrated, so it does feel natural and common sense to say that.
Anarchism is a lot of work negotiating, setting standards and consequences, balancing forces. Constant politics without an overarching state. Any concentration of capability for violence or resource to be shared must be extremely carefully handled.
What you are describing is warlords filling a political vacuum caused by chaos.
Someone has been misrepresenting anarchism to you.
“The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.”
Milton, Paradise Lost
Cool, and if anyone wanted to dive into the cuttlefish rabbit hole, er, den, 10/10 would recommend any reading or documentary about them. Astonishing visual communication and camouflage, curiosity, problem solving, and more weird biology.
NOT FISH despite the name. Cephalopods are molluscs like snails! They are pretty smart and can have somewhat elaborate mating routines, and most species are somewhat careful about sperm sac delivery AFAIK. Lonely prisoners are not good behaviour models.
He’s the Star Trek Mirror Universe version of Chauncy Gardener.
It’s the Hive Mind Stans phenomenon that fascinates me, meme-activated collective action that is a very modern social body.
Some of the stuff BTS ARMY got up to was fantastic and a bit scary. Also large numbers. Very large.
So the Swifties haven’t been weaponized yet. But they could be, soon. Having deepfake A.I. impersonation of fans made by fascist followers of a reality TV star be the thing that raises their state of collective power to Ready is just… well, I am living in a Gibson novel.
Thanks for clarifying, I didn’t know that subrule, thought all votes were just for relevance or quality.
So you don’t think it’s worth talking about, or you don’t like how it’s stated? Or are you using votes simply to mark agreement? If it’s the last method, that cheapens lemmy.
That’s funny, I noticed the implied “per person” in that statement because it is kind of obvious.
‘Woman on the Edge of Time’ by Marge Piercy is the most solarpunk novel I’ve read so far. Fiction, that is. And it’s early '70s!
Why are you calling a polite irish male voice “she”?
So, you mean the proper response to the failure of a shitty business model is to introduce a worse business model?
Automation is so much less fun than institutional cruelty!
I have met some rentier class people (massive wealth from charging for their massive assets), and their kids went to expensive private schools. The scenario is not hypothetical.
Kidnapping is a real fear at that level of remove from the ‘Great Unwashed.’
Our local high school cafeteria program has been running a sophisticated version of this without the biogas element for years. Fish in very large tanks feed the leafy greens hydroponics growing in ranks of pipes on the walls, it’s very productive. Greens get used in the popular cafeteria (open to the public) and also the salad food truck they run in the summer months. Fish used are tilapia. Power is solar.
The students studying food services get a lesson in energy systems and food sourcing as well as running a business. Superb food, too. All mostly due to one chef-teacher with vision.
I worked for a woman this morning who had photos of Maggie all over her hallway, and I mentioned it of course. Smith worked with my client in 1970’s in Stratford.
She went on about what a kind and thoughtful person she was to her colleagues and everyone in general. Very genuine, I was glad to hear, even after winning an Oscar.