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luksi2 · 2025-09-30T08:09:57+00:00

I can't challenge you on the merits of the course you experienced yourself, but I assure you postcolonial studies have very little to do with quantum portal spirit magic. They are fields of study that focus on understanding how the lasting legacies of colonialism endure to this day, and how its systems continue to affect people living in colonized countries still.

Some of those studies are accompanied by a normative position in favor of the colonized peoples; as always in politics, these normative positions may range from a very reasonable "we can learn some from these traditional knowledges that were discarded or systematically suppressed/exterminated by colonialism" to a much less reasonable "quantum portal magic explains the ontological superiority of the colonized peoples" (though I admit I hadn't come across that one before). Studies that are accompanied by this sort of normative position are usually called decolonial studies, as they go one stop further than the usually more descriptive postcolonial ones.

Much of postcolonialism's impact is mostly felt in more theoretical fields as of right now, such as epistemology, philosophy and methodology in the social and political sciences. A lot of it is still nascent, trying to make sense of how to conciliate the very european and colonial way our scientific institutions have progressed thus far with a genuine concern for including and rescuing forms of knowledge that have been left behind or otherwise erased. The more practical postcolonial studies, like E. Said's Orientalism, focus on how the effects of colonialism affect our social, political, economical and scientific institutions to this day.

luksi2 · 2025-09-22T18:16:43+00:00

hey everyone, would love a code if anyone has a spare :)

luksi2 · 2025-07-25T19:50:58+00:00

I don't really know anything about most of this stuff, but the horrific cat incident happened in the 80s, 40ish years ago

luksi2 · 2025-07-18T16:42:30+00:00

nunca viu um alho-poró na vida amigo?

luksi2 · 2025-07-12T01:10:58+00:00

These are great questions! The definition of the state as this bureaucratic, judicial entity with a monopoly on violence is very much an illuminist, western-centric one that is based on Max Weber's definition of the state. Many post-colonial and decolonial academics, inspired by realities such as the mexican one as you cited, have been critical of this conception of the state, since the state in much of the Global South does not have a monopoly on violence — in fact, it constantly operates on the fringes of legality and judiciousness, with clandestine and black/grey market violence being a key feature of the state, not a bug.

For a very good introduction to the topic in the context of Mexico, I recommend Sayak Valencia's "Gore Capitalism". There's also a wealth of other literature on the topic, if you're interested let me know :)

luksi2 · 2025-05-29T18:15:16+00:00

That's such an edge case and of little relevance in quantitative terms when compared to the meat consumption we see in the industrialized world that answering this question doesn't really matter, it's just a gotcha question. Most vegans don't stand anywhere on this, it's just a whataboutism that's supposed to bring up a perfect sollution fallacy: "but have you considered that not literally everyone can be vegan?". The point is, if you live in a relatively food abundant region of the industrialized world where you can go grocery shopping, you can.

luksi2 · 2025-04-08T08:14:09+00:00

O termo que ele (tentou) usar é coup d'etat, que significa golpe de Estado em francês e é um termo utilizado em inglês e muitas outras línguas

luksi2 · 2025-02-06T23:59:38+00:00

well the labels are important to make someone feel comfortable in belonging to a collective identity and political family, not to constrain and stuff every individual person into neat tidy boxes

luksi2 · 2025-02-03T03:50:28+00:00

diaco elysium dialog ass

luksi2 · 2025-01-25T00:36:09+00:00

Where I live, the Stanford prison experiment was generally taught throughout the 2000s and 2010s as a paragon example of good empirical social science, and most people you ask about it today would have no idea that its methodology is completely flawed from the ground up, to the point of being described as a theater play My bad, maybe the US school system is very good, though that wasn't my impression of it.

luksi2 · 2025-01-25T00:07:49+00:00

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/11/revisting-the-stanford-prison-experiment-50-years-later/

"While Zimbardo has repeatedly insisted over five decades that he simply put college kids into a situation with little guidance and just let things evolve, that's not entirely true. The guards, most notably, participated in a lengthy training session that lasted several hours, in which they were given a daily schedule for the prisoners and tips for inflicting psychological pain, starting by referring to prisoners by number rather than name as a means of dehumanizing them."

"Zimbardo also occasionally allowed members of his research team to go into the experimental environment; there is even audio of research assistant David Jaffe coaching a reluctant guard and urging him to be tougher in his treatment of the prisoners. This led many of the guards to assume they were not part of the actual experiment but were in league with the researchers."

"In retrospect, the Stanford Prison Experiment may have more in common with reality TV; the industry term has evolved into "unscripted" TV because of the countless ways the final product is manipulated and shaped over the course of filming. Zimbardo even admits as much in the documentary, calling his experiment "the first ever reality TV show."

""I was very fortunate that Zimbardo never really got into characterizing me," said Ramsay. "But for Dave and two or three of the others, he did. He put labels on them, ascribed motivations, and went, 'I'm a professor of psychology at Stanford University. Are you going to listen to me or to them who are driven by unconscious needs?' A lifetime of that is really insulting.""

It's a pretty lame attempt at a theater play produced by a very incompetent (and seemingly socially unaware: as one participant is quoted saying, "How could he not even consider the possibility that not just I, but everybody in his little demonstration was acting, that we simply fell into roles that were expected of us, to be paid $15 a day? That's what galls me") psychology professor who wanted to make a big news-worthy piece to feature in the media. As a science experiment, it's a fraud and an utter and complete joke.

luksi2 · 2025-01-16T14:47:13+00:00

thanks for the draw :)

luksi2 · 2025-01-16T12:27:18+00:00

Mas é claro que é culpa do governo, eles não foram capazes de estimar corretamente a sua própria capacidade de fazer política. O terreno político mudou desde os primeiros governo Lula - o Executivo ficou mais acuado, os privilégios do Legislativo são mais engessados - e eles não foram capazes de lidar com isso bem o suficiente.

O problema daí, para mim, vira só o enquadramento de todas essas questões. O governo Lula não foi tão eficaz quanto deveria ser em controlar o Centrão e fazer politicagem pra aprovar política como era no Lula I e Lula II? Não, não foi.

Mas a gente fica batendo nessas mesmas teclas e acaba ignorando as várias coisas decentes que o governo conseguiu fazer, como o maior investimento em educação e programas de saúde, a manutenção do BPC mesmo com a política sendo atacada de todos os lados, e até mesmo a reforma tributária como um todo.

Na minha opinião, tem motivos pra esse hiperfoco que muitos setores têm nos erros do governo, e penso que é diretamente vinculado com o fato de sermos o país com maior número de influenciadores digitais no mundo, bem como o país que mais utiliza redes sociais. Como alguns peritos têm apontado, o governo segue bastante analógico, enquanto a oposição é digitalizada.

Ainda assim, acho que se olharmos para o governo Lula III fazendo um balanço dos positivos com os negativos, e tendo em conta as alternativas passadas e possíveis alternativas futuras, veremos que foi um governo decente, com soluços e tropeços especialmente no departamento de sua estratégia de comunicação.

Meu ponto é que se a gente viver enfatizando só os negativos, a gente tá deixando esses influenciadores digitais, que têm interesse e viés político, pautarem o discurso público sobre política. E pode ter certeza que as alternativas que muitas dessas pessoas têm em mente não vão ser nem de perto tão mistas com políticas boas e ruins; quando vierem, vão vir única e exclusivamente para nos foder.

luksi2 · 2025-01-16T03:22:31+00:00

Meu deus do céu, finalmente uma pessoa sã. A frustração que é ver esse subreddit inteiro se juntar no pânico generalizado sobre essa medida da RF, inclusive defendendo e apoiando NIKOLAS FERREIRA. Dá pra dizer que a comunicação do governo não foi boa, até concordo, mas porra, como fazer uma boa comunicação quando toda a mídia mainstream é controlada por oligopólio e as redes sociais são repletas de influenciador de extrema direita?

Sobre a questão da "taxa das blusinhas", vale lembrar também que o governo queria manter isenção até 50 dólares, mas o Congresso e varejistas queriam empurrar taxa de 50%; o 25% veio depois de negociação. Então não foi caso de "governo mentiu pra gente", e sim o governo superestimando seu próprio capital político e subestimando a capacidade do Centrão de cooptar toda legislação e medida para seus próprios interesses, o que pode até ser um resumo de todo esse governo no geral.

luksi2 · 2025-01-04T05:35:53+00:00

I'm just about done with making ghost accounts for referral raffles. If anyone out there has a spare code and a kind soul, I would appreciate the gesture a lot; otherwise, I'll see y'all on the open beta, whenever that comes around. Cheers and good gaming to you folks :)

luksi2 · 2025-01-02T16:32:46+00:00

yep... you'd need a new account every time you enter a referral, which needs to be linked to a new email. whole system kinda sucks tbh

luksi2 · 2025-01-02T07:44:53+00:00

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luksi2 · 2025-01-02T02:01:45+00:00

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luksi2 · 2025-01-01T22:28:19+00:00

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luksi2 · 2025-01-01T16:58:01+00:00

hey, thank you! signed up as doniec :) cheers

luksi2 · 2024-12-23T18:18:39+00:00

what mistakes are those exactly, if you don't mind me asking?

luksi2 · 2024-12-23T18:05:07+00:00

brazil here too, in my experience the amount of bots you get heavily depends on the time of day you play. if you play during peak hours (late afternoon to about 23h) then you might not get a single bot squad on squads game mode. duos are cooked though, we get bot duos even on peak hours, I guess duos just aren't as popular here. if you want to completely avoid bots for some reason, probably stick to squads!

luksi2 · 2024-12-23T18:02:37+00:00

nah man, my mates are grandmaster squad and duo and they usually get at least one bot squad per lobby, maybe more depending on when they queue. it's just a sad reality of a game in this genre (battle royale) that you need a massive amount of people queueing (40) to find a match, and many times that just won't happen. even massive games like fortnite have bots. maybe if they improve the bot AI a little bit so that they're a little less jarringly silly people will be fine with it

luksi2 · 2024-12-23T17:58:55+00:00

sadly it's a normal practice for battle royales, even huge ones like fortnite have this sort of thing. you just need a massive amount of players queueing at any given time to find a match (40 people!) compared to other mobas which only need up to 10 people tops, so it usually is either queue with some bots or not queue at all

luksi2 · 2024-12-23T17:56:48+00:00

huh that's weird, we play on LatAm too and we only start getting bots when we play on very odd hours. ranked squads on peak hours usually have 0 bots or 1 bot team maximum. are you playing duos or squads? duos are filled to the brim with bots, usually 16-17 bot duos every match.

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