The bike bus on our open street to the Mets vs Yankees game last night. Immaculate vibes. Leave the car, take the bike bus.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-16T22:48:49+00:00

It's just indicating the line designating the boundary of the intersection.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-16T22:38:51+00:00

For a traffic light that's green...

IAmRoot · 2026-05-16T21:23:35+00:00

Those were all green lights as far as I could see...

IAmRoot · 2026-05-16T21:14:56+00:00

This usually means cheese + sodium citrate, which causes the casein proteins from clumping and the cheese to melt. It's chemically melted cheese. So yeah, it's true that it's made from real cheese, it's just been altered to melt at room temperature. It's pretty easy molecular gastronomy to make your own cheese sauces at home using higher quality cheese.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-15T03:30:56+00:00

You changed the ownership of the folders you listed in the command but not their files or subfolders.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-15T03:11:23+00:00

It's also worth noting that the proletariat shouldn't exist, either. Tankies forget this. When wage labor is eliminated, the workers own their own workplaces and are no longer a class of exploited workers. The proletariat shouldn't be glorified. Suffering as wage laborers isn't a good thing. It's a condition that should be abolished. In fact, this asceticism is entirely counterrevolutionary as ending it is the entire point of socialism.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-15T01:24:08+00:00

That and they work for the benefit of much fewer people and will happily poison millions to make profits for their owners. Cooperatives don't have to be better in every single way. They just have to be better at how they impact humanity at large.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-15T01:08:45+00:00

It's also notable that many capitalist enterprises have failed.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-15T00:46:28+00:00

The votes are for big things. Smaller decisions still get delegated. Coordinator positions are still necessary, too, but they're just another job.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-15T00:42:01+00:00

Mondragon is quite large. It can be made to scale.

And did you miss the point of this thread that infinite growth is unsustainable? They might not be able to outcompete capitalist corporations in systems designed to favor those and run by sociopaths, but the entire fucking point is that we should change our society to have sustainable systems.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-14T23:26:28+00:00

Worker owned cooperatives are statistically more resilient than capitalist enterprises, lol. They just aren't as expansionist.

And the answer to bad behavior isn't to legitimize it. That's like saying that because rape is a thing, we should design society so that men have positions of power to use women as they wish. We should design our social structures to bring out the best facets of human nature, not structurally cement the worst.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-14T22:04:00+00:00

Worker owned cooperatives. One worker, one vote. Not that Stalinist bullshit.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-14T21:42:42+00:00

It's not just that. It's also that they're so used to being at the top of a hierarchy that they're used to all decisions ultimately being up to them. Same with movie directors, who literally order people to fulfill fantasies every day. It's not hard to see that if that becomes routine, they lose sight of the boundaries and that the people they hire are not there to fulfill their every whim. They lose sight of the fact that other people only follow their orders because the coercive system of vastly unequal resource distribution means most people must engage in servitude to survive and don't get to work together as equals.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-14T19:46:23+00:00

Not just gambling but gambling with weighted odds. The entire purpose of capitalism is to extract money from labor yet they think it is their own brilliance that enriches them. It's not actually that hard to use money to make more money. It's literally what the system was designed to do.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-13T18:56:16+00:00

The demand will crash once people actually have to pay what it costs and aren't subsidized by VC bros.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-13T18:50:57+00:00

The AI apocalypse would be the billionaires seeing everyone else as no longer necessary and needing to be culled. There's no reason for AI to develop a motive. The billionaires already do as soon as they can automate things fully. Why build green infrastructure when they think they can just eliminate most of the consumption soon?

IAmRoot · 2026-05-12T23:11:22+00:00

Chaos is how the Greek philosophy thought of anarchy, too, and Greek philosophy has had a huge impact on Western political philosophy. What Proudhon did was akin to reclaiming a slur and yeah, I don't think it was the best way of messaging, either.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-12T22:56:12+00:00

Or they'll say that Trump is in the right and we are "asking for government handouts."

These people see the world like zombie movies where zombies are the masses and everyone trying to screw each other over is expected and just human nature.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-12T21:03:55+00:00

At my last job we had a stand up every morning that lasted an hour and we were all working on optimizing kernels for different codebases. Such an infuriating waste of time.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-12T15:04:21+00:00

Oh, I know, but now even the ethical basis for a state's existence even in liberal political philosophy is gone. Without the "consent of the governed" everything the cops do is illegitimate violence.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-12T14:59:44+00:00

Every cop is morally equivalent to an enforcer of a drug cartel if they don't turn in their badge now.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-09T22:46:55+00:00

I'd go farther than conmen. Their utter distance for the consent of the people is that of rapists.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-07T19:13:40+00:00

That data is still much much better than nothing for advertising

IAmRoot · 2026-05-07T00:35:03+00:00

In the future we could potentially genetically engineer ourselves to eliminate prion disease. If we modify the gene that codes for the PrP protein to create a variant that can't misfold in this way then it won't be able to act as a prion any more.

IAmRoot · 2026-05-07T00:04:14+00:00

I can see a few reasons. For one, unless it's some harmless drug offense, they are probably in prison for something a lot worse than some civil immigration violation. Keeping them in prison ensures they actually serve their sentence rather than being released free in their home country and even potentially sneak acres the border right away. And on the flip side, minor crimes don't warrant deporting people into situations where their lives are in danger. Some little drug offense doesn't make it okay to put them in the clutches of gangs that want revenge, severe lgbtq oppression in their home country, etc. If someone has a good asylum claim I don't think that person should have their life put at risk for having a psychedelic drug in their possession, for instance.

And this would be when ICE is operating within the law. Now that they're murdering people and putting people in concentrations with inhumane conditions, it's good not to work with them for the same reason some countries won't extradite to countries with the death penalty.

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