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@ frankPodmore @slrpnk.net

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London-based writer. Often climbing.

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  • Doesn't matter as long as they're exactly as knowledgable as I am or, failing that, slightly less so /s

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  • Some sort of libertarian socialism, basically. Markets with co-ops and a strong welfare system provided principally by highly democratic local governments.

  • It's like Sisyphus pushing the boulder up hill

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  • Each to their own! I feel like you're describing what the show wanted to be quite accurately, but for me it didn't manifest much on screen.

    Granted my memories may be a bit on the negative side because I've been doing this rewatch order and the last episode I watched just so happens to be 'These Are the Voyages' which, uh, yeah.

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  • You didn't miss much. A confused and confusing mess.

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  • 'We've had air date order, yes. What about stardate order?'

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  • You mean Enterprise.

  • If you could reroute all the money spent globally on Generative AI right now to another single technological endeavor, what would it be?

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  • Nuclear fusion, right? That's got to be the big one.

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    Is there a community that advises PC builds?

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  • You may already have seen it, but I've found Lemmy Explorer to be much more useful for this kind of search than the native Lemmy search function.

  • Does anyone else have a negative perception of a product/service solely because of spam advertising?

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  • Temu. No idea what scam they're running but I will never buy anything from them.

  • How did the Nazi salute originally become a thing?

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  • As other people have said, it was borrowed from the Italian fascists, who themselves got it from an 18th century painting showing a famous event from Roman history/legend. There's no evidence that it was ever actually used in Ancient or Classical Rome.

    Funny side story is that some Nazis and other German nationalists thought it wasn't 'German' enough, so the leading Nazis felt they had to invent an older 'Germanic' tradition to justify its usage. So, it's a fake German tradition that was in fact borrowed from the Italians, who got it from a fake Roman tradition that was actually made up by a French guy.

  • How do you seriously fight fascism and don't say just vote?

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  • Yes, exactly. There are some things on this list where, if everyone opposed to fascism did one of them, we'd win tomorrow. Realistically, not everyone will, but it's still the right thing to do, to prise every bit of power from their grasp.

  • Fascist App Exodus, where to flock to?

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  • There are lots of Fediverse alternatives to social media, including Lemmy (which I guess you know about?) and the ones people have mentioned here already (Mastodon, Pixelfed, Loops, PeerTube). The advantage of the Fediverse is that it can't be co-opted by a single bad actor, in the way that Musk took over Twitter and made it into a Nazi bar.

  • How do you seriously fight fascism and don't say just vote?

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  • I won't say just vote, but you should do that, too, at every level!

    Depending on how much time and money you have:

    • Join a union (and give time and money to organising the union)
    • Join an antifascist political party (and give time and money to organising the party)
    • Lobby your representatives to demand they oppose fascism
    • Join protests against fascism
    • Join civil society groups that are antifascist (either directly or because they're pro human rights or anti-racist, or what-have-you) (and give time and money etc.)
    • Boycott businesses that are owned by or enable fascists
    • Join co-operatives (and give time and money etc.)
    • Join community groups (these don't even have to be political)
    • Support local, independent media and good freelance journalists
    • Spread the word about all of the above

    I've ordered these roughly by how effective I think they're likely to be (this is of course just one guy's opinion); you should pick the one(s) that are most attractive to you and best fit your current situation.

    Fair warning, none of the above will instantly fix the problem and I grant that some of them probably seem pretty weak sauce in the face of fascism, but the more people do them, the weaker the fascists will get.

  • Like Neo in The Matrix and "I know kung fu", what one ability would you choose to upload directly to your mind?

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  • Musical ability — perfect pitch, great rhythm. I'm an okay musician after years working at it, but I'd love to be better.

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  • I don't think it was terrorism, either, as the rest of my comment - indeed, the rest of that sentence - makes clear!

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  • I'm not saying they never happen (the South Korea thing the other day apparently involved a false flag) but nowhere near as often as some people online like to suggest!

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  • Apologies, I thought this was a reference to conspiracies:

    Fly a plane into another tower? Found “evidence” that Luigi is a pedophile? distract us with a war with china?

    It seemed to suggest various 'false flag' type ideas, which are a hallmark of conspiracy theorising.

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  • There's no need to indulge in conspiratorial thinking, here. Whatever you think of Mangione's motives, it seems overwhelmingly likely that he did it and, if so, he will almost certainly be in jail for the rest of his life. There's no need for them to do anything else to him. It seems as though he acted alone, so a broader anti-terrorist crackdown is possible but unlikely, and even less likely to be effective.

    As for the CEOs, I imagine a lot more money is going to be spent on security and they'll probably demand the businesses they work for pay for that, which actually seems fair, as far as it goes.

    While I don't have any sympathy for the Republicans, they didn't seem to even consider more gun control even after Trump was actually hit by a would-be assassin's bullet, so I doubt they will now. They might pass a law against 3D gun printing, but it's not even slightly enforceable; I believe owning such a weapon is already illegal but, as Mangione has demonstrated, there's not much to stop someone making or using one.

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    Do you think brown haired and blonde haired people can be friends?

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  • No, only lovers or enemies. Very much a binary.