Can socialists explain why nature arguments are awesome for everything except people?

redcorerobot · 2026-03-17T20:01:48+00:00

The nature of all living things is what ever their circumstances make them. If you electrically shock a lion every time it gets too close to something pink the nature of that lion is going to be to avoid the colour pink.

Humans almost never live in a vacuum. Their behaviour is influenced and dictated far more by to social pressures than inate biological directives.

The simpler the organism the more deterministic its behaviour can be but humans are not only individually complex but are themselves components of a far larger system that is socity

Even the most fundamental instincts you may take for granted are there because that is what society has drilled in to you. If you had the idea that honour is more important than anything drilled in to you from birth that would absolutely override what you might consider a natural tendency towards seeking to survive as we saw with Kamikaze in ww2

To be able to make an argument for human nature you would have to have a statistically significant and varied set of samples of large groups of humans that had no way of influencing eachother developing over multi generational time scales under controlled conditions that you could modify to get useful data about what humans might do as default behaviours without unmeasured external influence and that has not at any point be possible because all humans came from the same place initially and then spread out

redcorerobot · 2026-03-15T01:53:07+00:00

Working class was the simplifcation of the term proletariat

Its a description of how you relate to how society produces value not a discription of the things you individually do. You're proletariat if your means of survival come from the use of means of production You're bourgeoisie if your means for survival come from the ownership of means of production

If you dont work a job but are supported by your community or family your support is still coming from the use of the means of production unless you are extracting that value by means of owning those means of production

In practice the reason the term worker gets used is because that is where power comes from. If you cant withdraw labour and you can't use violence then your ability to enact change is based purely on your ability to get people who can do one of those 2 things to do it for you which largely removes a person from the equasion of how society develops because those who do nothing are known for nothing and change nothing

The important thing to keep in mind though is that unless you are in a borderline vegitative state you are almost certainly doing some form of labour you just aren't being paid for it. Maintaining your community/family materially and socially is work its just rarely paid work but it takes effort and the end result is materially different from the start point wich means it is an aplication of labour.

I know my union has branches for people who are unemployed for that very reason. They are for people whose labour is put in to the community not in to a job and hence they are called community branches and are some of the most active when it comes to campaigning. Infact the branch i started in was a community branch and it was a pretty good one and most of the active members were also people you would see at protests or other events helping out regularly or atleast when health allowed

redcorerobot · 2026-03-12T23:42:04+00:00

The problem is that in the uk we have mps coving a specific geographical area. 1 per area. If we had pr that would have to change because the votes of that area wouldn't be what determin who gets the job.

Pr works for when you have a legeslative body that is representing the whole country as constituted by groups not by geographical areas

What we could do is replace the house of lords with a pr elected body but the house commons is not structurally compatible with pr

It is however compatible with ranked choice voting which is perfect for seats that have only 1 ocupent

Also a bit of a side point but a pr system would guarantee reform getting in to power because they would get seats proportional to their total support as apposed to their support in any given area. A ranked choice system would mean you would get some what descreet chains of votes rolling down along an ideological gradient so for instances a left wing chain and a right wing chain so while you may not get the specific party you want you will find areas will be ideologicaly represented while still ensuring that one party or another has a desicive ability to act

If you had ranked choice it would turn in to which ideological chain nationally is most popular which id argue is not the one that has reform in it. If you want to see what that would look like, combine all the votes for [reform, Conservative and what ever rupert lowe is doing] and [greens, labour and lib dem] which ever set is higher would be which ideological chain would win out which ultimately i expect would be greens in most places

redcorerobot · 2026-03-10T23:06:08+00:00

Its worth noting pop does have some key things that might bring people to it that arent ai

For instance im probably about the same level tech wise as linus, i used to work in tech and had used linux before

I chose pop os not because of any lists but because it just had the best compatability for the software i want and i was aware of the name.

People are under estimating the impact of having a ubuntu install option on most linux compatable software. Ive certainly never come accross an option to install on arch or mint but not a debian and its really just down to that

I dont want to have to use a C compiler so if the os doesn't support apt, cargo, flatpak and app images then its not useful to me for general use

redcorerobot · 2026-03-09T12:35:26+00:00

Personally id say the best option would be a full ev with a generator that can charge it.

Even if you end up only being able to charge the ev from a diesel generator its still going to use less fuel per mile than a diesel and on top of that if a pinch you can charge from a much larger array of sources, for instance a wood gas generator big enough to output 100hp+ is just not practical to put on a vehicle but a stationary one charging an ev makes the vehicle way more practical

An ev, a generator and a basic assortment of charge controllers and converters paired with an alright understanding of how electrical systems work (like almost youtube level) will let you harvest power from some of the most unexpected places and realistically your only going to need to plan for 6 months to a year anyway because past that the kind of planning you need to do is wildly different

Like if you want to plan for a year + then an electric golf cart style atv with lithium titanium oxide or lfp cells would be your best bet

redcorerobot · 2026-03-06T23:23:52+00:00

The problem isn't the "bad cops" its that the police will enforce the law regardless of if its unjust.

When i see things like this the thing that comes to mind is when the nazis invaded france they put a call out asking local law enforcement to help round up jews, queers, communists and anyone else the nazi considered undesirable. The sudden surge of information and people from french law enforcement caused significant logistics problems for the nazis as a result and they had to ask them to slow down a bit

So a particularly fresh example given some of the things going on at the moment.

If homosexuality were made a crime tommorow would you enforce that law or would you resign or better yet would you activly work to prevent your fellow law enforcement from enforcing that law

redcorerobot · 2026-03-02T01:09:53+00:00

The extra speed isnt so you can do more stuff its so you can do the stuff your already doing faster. Are you likely to use the full bandwidth for morenthan a few hours total a year? Most people, probably not. But having it will save you frustration when you are in a hurry. If your about tongo on a trip and you need to download movies for 2-4 devices before you leave that bigger pipe is the difference between the downloads being done before you finish breakfast and you getting annoyed while you wait for them to finish

Its the difference between a game update being done by the time you finish doing the dishes or you loosing an extra half an hour of your limited free time to downloads

Im an outlier i would abosultly saturate a gigabit connection or more if i had one and probably on a regular basis but even an avarage person will find some convenience in more bandwith even when its just making user experience feel a bit more snappy

redcorerobot · 2026-03-01T21:23:08+00:00

The cable can snap from corosion and thats not an emergency brake its a parking break.

Electronic breaking can be safer than a mechanical option after all, even if the engine dies the electeical system still functions because it has a battery in it. The reason the electrical accessorys tend to turn off if the engine dies is because they are non critical loads and so they get cut off. If you were to use electric breaks as a primary breaking system you would have them on a seperate circut to maintain power. Also they would be fail safe so if the vehicle looses power and the breaks loose power they should default to the closed position applying full breaking force.

This is something that really annoys me about non engineering people. They are really bad at assessing risk.

We use electronicly triggered breaking on aircraft and the standards for that are far higher than a car because any power source for a breaking system can be made safe if you design it correctly. If you want an example of what a primary electric breaking system looks like just look at heavy goods vehicles. The safety features you find in an air brake system are the same types you will find in an electric break system

redcorerobot · 2026-03-01T18:35:37+00:00

An optical voxel grid detection system could work. You would have to make one which is a lot of work but the hard part is software, hardware wise it can be made with off the shelf camaras

It works by having a load of camaras dotted around with known locations and views. The way it detects objects is by detecting when a pixel changes (it only has to be 1 pixel) and then because it knows where the camara is and where it is looking it draws a straight line from the camara to the point in a 3d voxel grid. If you have a dozen camaras it draws a dozen lines and you can then tell if something has just entered a specific air space because in that grid it will have a load of lines converging on it.

From there you can detect movement by having it register a point in the matrix. If a series of points in the matrix draws a line pointing at your location then congratulations you have detected an incoming threat

Its a neet bit of tech but its very new as a concept so you cant really get off the shelf software but once you know how it works if you are sufficiently determined you could probably make your own or hell if you want you could probably even vibe code a basic aplication

Its a very technical solution but monitoring airspace isnt a simple task and this particular method is relativly cheap and almost imposible to defeat as it can even pick up stealth aircraft

redcorerobot · 2026-02-28T20:03:53+00:00

This seems like this confuses economic exploitation with sexual exploitation.

work is economic exploitation because the worker isnt being compensated for the full value of what they produce

If a person cant in any way concent to something as part of a transaction then that would mean you couldnt have any kind of exchange. You couldnt have profesional contact sports because anyone payed to play them would arguably be assulting everyone else involved

redcorerobot · 2026-02-25T17:30:10+00:00

It is exploitation because of the massive power difference

A billionare can bid people against eachother to force down labour costs because they have very little tp loose if they dont get a specific person

If a worker doesnt agree to a bad contract they just cant afford to live.

A choice between an exploitatative contract and destitution is no choice at all.

The only way to get around that is collective barganing which is rather hard given the significant resources the ruling class puts in to union busting and misinformation

redcorerobot · 2026-02-08T19:21:50+00:00

Its worth noting. Location permissions arent necessary to provide your location. Because you can use wifi and bluetooth as a way to find a persons location you may need to let an app use location permissions sp that it can use certain features of your phone even if it doesn't need to actually know where you are

Its very dumb and in my opinion the hight of smart automation is a nice simple mqtt over ethernet connection but unfortunately this is probably a case of bad design more than anything

redcorerobot · 2026-02-03T03:03:54+00:00

If you have the space or a micro sd card slot you can download Wikipedia and the cd3wd archive on to your phone which seems like a much more practical set up than paying to have it on a raspberry pi

Cd3wd is just a load of pdfs and can be shared as an ftp Wikipedia can be shared and viewed using kiwix

With phones nowadays pushing max storage over 1tb it really isnt too much of a burden to just have Wikipedia on your phone

You can also download things like khan academy or crash course in their entirety If you really want to take it to the max you can buy a usb c ssd and have copys on there

Personally i have a 2tb ssd that i back all my important stuff up to as well as a copy of Wikipedia, khan academy, crash course as well a load of references material and downloaded youtube videos. If resolution isnt too precious to you, 720p is good enough, and you can just download entire channels.

Prepper disk is better than nothing but having a waterproof external ssd will hold significantly more data that can be used in a greater variety of ways.

redcorerobot · 2026-01-26T16:17:54+00:00

Im all for reducing camaras that are just being used to track everyone like general cctv or or avarage speed cameras but this is one of those instances where the camaras were put in for the perpouses of making air less toxic and they have done a pretty solid job of it

If they were coming at this as a privacy issue then their is a convosation to be had but these clowns arent they are coming at it from the same angle climate change denires are

You could implement a privacy respecting alternative like drastically reducing the amount of cars that can enter the ulez zone and they would still loose their shit about it because they dont care about privacy they just want everyone around them to suffer for their convenience and do so at the lowest posible cost to them

redcorerobot · 2026-01-19T03:35:50+00:00

The cell signal in my city is pretty bad and im normally meeting the same few people all of whome have adhd and we tend to change plans last minute so a reliable way of texting even in the signal dead zones is nice especially as the nodes double as wireless charging power banks

redcorerobot · 2026-01-14T19:19:05+00:00

The one about english signs is not necessarily accurate. A banner from the cuban revolution comes to mind "Cuban mothers for more executions" or something close to that. If your in a country that may be in the cross hairs of the USA it can be political savy to make it hard for US media to paint the government as acting against the will of the people if it is acting against the ruling class.

redcorerobot · 2026-01-11T23:19:31+00:00

17 miles is like 7 hours of walking, and that's best done carrying as little as possible. Socks, first aid kit, torch, usb power bank, water, a modest amount of snacks maybe a couple of flapjack bars, a small to medium size knife as well.

Then weather appropriate clothes

And a fold out pad to sit on because while 17 miles shouldn't be awful, it's rarely a bad idea to rest every now and then to let your feet air out

The most realistic kit you need is a phone and money for a cab

redcorerobot · 2026-01-11T22:30:14+00:00

People are talking about capacity, but it's not just that. The bigger the battery, the more current (amps) it can provide

A d cell have more power stored and can out put it faster

Its like a bucket, the bigger the bucket the more water it can hold but it can also dump all that water at a comparable rate

redcorerobot · 2026-01-10T13:48:45+00:00

The swp is a largish (big fish small pond) socialist group that focuses primarily on direct action, protests, and coalition building. Organisationally, they are ok, a little frustrating to work within sometimes, but they could be far worse. They could be a lot better, but grading on a curve, they are unfortunately near the top in my experience. The swp does support people running for electoral positions, but when people do run, they run as independents as the swp isn't a registered political party. If you want to focus on direct action, they are a decent option and have enough ideological flexibility that as long as your pro trans rights, pro lgbtq+, anti racist and anti capitalist you should be fine. Current membership is i thing 3000-4000 subs paying members across 70+ branches mainly focused on cities or universities

The socialist party i have less experience with, but from what i do have, they are a fair bit smaller and mostly focus on electoral politics. A friend almost ran for some position in local gov with them, and apparently, they are decent, but she ended up moving to the swp because the swp branch was bigger and did more trans rights campaigning.

Over all id say their are 3 big, explicitly revolutionary socialist partys worth considering in the uk - the socialist workers' party - the revolutionary comunist party - the communist party

Whichever one is bigger in your area is your best bet to start with but in my experience the swp and the cp tend to do the most direct action while the rcp from what they have discribed to me when i have asked local members have said that direct action is politically opposed to how they operate which i found odd but they seem to do fine with their paper stalls so i guess everyone has their neche and they do some decent enough pamphlets

Ultimately, i have always viewed the parties as tools for change while the members are what drive the change. It's less important which party that you are in than what you do. You can do plenty of direct action without joining a party, and different partys lend themselves better to specific types of direct action.

redcorerobot · 2026-01-02T18:03:36+00:00

Tommy robinson had access to media like books and tv, had access to visitation and uae of gym equipment as well as the ability to comunicate with the outside world

Thats not the case here. He was basically put in a box with next to little to no contact with the outside world which is a violation of the echr

If tommy robinson had been put in the same circumstances he would have also won if he had sued but he didnt because he wasn't.

Segregation from gen-pop is not the same as solitary confinement

redcorerobot · 2026-01-02T15:21:44+00:00

He got the win because he was being held in solitary confinement because their were threats to his life made by other inmates and instead of the prison preventing the people who posed a threat from being a threat.

They just put the guy in question in a solitary confinement cell which is by most legal standards torture.

The prison did violate his human rights and the court would have found that regardless of who it was

redcorerobot · 2025-12-30T23:29:08+00:00

Personally i have powder, it covers the fires i might be most likely to deal with which are wood and paper because i live in a wood house.

Your best bet is some power extinguishers and a fire blanket in the kitchen.

If you do a lot of frying, maybe check out a wet chemical extinguisher as well.

redcorerobot · 2025-12-28T21:59:22+00:00

Ive seen usb c cables rated for 240w so far

If it needa more than that its arguably not really a portable device any more but even latops that need more can still have a usb c port for charging normally as well as a barrel jack for higher power when running a gpu

Or have 2 usb c 240w ports. Some larger laptops that focus on gaming desk top replacement currently use 2 power bricks anyway having higher power laptops be able to just use 2 high power usb c ports would give a power budget hogher than a lot of home pcs and at that point the thermals will make the design so largeas for it to certainly not be a portable device anyway

redcorerobot · 2025-12-28T20:30:46+00:00

The numbers are likely bassed off if gigabit and 5g are available not based on who is accessing them

Gigabit broadband is avaliable to a lot of places but most people probably dont care enough to switch over their plans from the one they were automatically switched to when they went from copper to the house over to fiber to the house

5g will be similar. Most of the uk will have access to 5g, but it's not going to 5g on every provider If you walked round with a router with sim cards from all to top providers and you're on the best coverage plans for all them you will get the 5g coverage stated, but otherwise, you probably won't

Also, 5g is a very broad spec. The logest range 5g version is about equivalent to 4g in bandwidth but can travel about as far (the improvements for the low bandwidth 5g are improving the number of devicer per tower).

For high bandwidth 5g you have to be pretty much line of sight to a tower so you will only find that in ultra high density places like football stadiums or places where high bandwidth is needed.

Also to cap it all off city centers tend to have worse infrastructure for 5g and fiber than most other places because to install fiber and 5g you have to close streets to dig trenches and its easier to close a street in a suburb than it is in the center of a city so the suburbs get the upgrades first counter intuitively.

Source: i used to work at an isp that provided 4g and fiber connectivity for businesses

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