naevaTheRat

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

I am terror! Wheee.

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago

I don’t have many now, just minstrel (it plays music) but previously they’ve always just be sounds. Rawr, groan, whimper, bark, moan, growl etc.

Except minstrel (it plays music) :p

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago

whimper was a dovecot and postfix machine. Email isn’t very fun

naevaTheRat, 24 days ago

Maybe you’ll understand it clearer like this: There are no side effects, their are only effects.

Whatever something does is whatever it does, we have intentions with things but our intentions don’t determine reality. If a system has effects we do not like our only recourse is to change the system, we cannot convince it to be other than what it is.

naevaTheRat, 23 days ago

you understand that there’s a difference between causality and coincidence right?

Chairs cause weakening of core muscles which can lead to injury, chairs are frequently found in buildings that catch fire however they are unrelated to the fires.

naevaTheRat, 24 days ago

Basically every steam game just works, most other stuff just works with lutris, all retroarch emulators I’ve tried just work, there are obviously oodles of native linux games particularly Indies. Nvidia drivers mostly just work if you install proprietary (blurgh).

What doesn’t work?

naevaTheRat, 24 days ago

Which ones don’t? I don’t play many MP games but non of the ones I have played have issues. Easy anticheat works for example, and you can run it in ring 3 and lie which is nice.

naevaTheRat, 24 days ago

Weird, I suppose you could also VM it but it tends to have a performance hit without optimised hardware. I wonder how they check the environment it runs in and if you can just lie to the checks.

naevaTheRat, 25 days ago

Regular carnist W

naevaTheRat, 24 days ago

nope, it’s a shining example of Basque awesomeness.

naevaTheRat, 26 days ago

horseshoe theory deniers in shambles.

naevaTheRat, 26 days ago

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/bae96cbf-374c-4832-8a81-0a2d8a9add13.jpeg

naevaTheRat, 26 days ago

let LAND_PRIVATE_OWNERSHIP = False

Obviously… reactionaries these days aren’t even trying. smh my head.

naevaTheRat, 26 days ago

Right click the society, select open directory, locate the society.config file, right click and edit it. Set the variable there.

Do I have to spell everything out?

naevaTheRat, 26 days ago

Maybe you should read a few books instead of antagonistically demanding to be educated in the comment section of a joke?

naevaTheRat, 26 days ago

what do you want to learn? How revolutions work and their stumbling blocks? How different societies have or might manage land? how we got here?

naevaTheRat, 26 days ago

If there was a step by step plan with 100% certainty people would just do that obviously, but that’s a ridiculous standard to have.

There are many approaches to try and soften things: from political agitation for heavy taxes on multiple properties and inheritance taxes to rent caps and so on. Ultimately though, as is currently the case, the landed class will use violence the moment they feel sufficiently threatened and any movement that wants to succeed will need to be prepared to meet that.

Like you can and will be killed or gaoled forever if you resist being homeless sufficiently hard because a piece of paper says that someone has exclusive rights to land they’re not personally using. All the rights we currently enjoy were won through sacrifice. Unionists were killed for sick leave and holidays, people were killed for voting rights, people were killed to be openly gay etc. Dismantling these tools of oppression and violence will involve violence, it is naive to think otherwise but we don’t need to go there before offering peaceful redistribution.

naevaTheRat, 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago)

So at this stage where I live is very far from any sort of organised resistance to capitalism. Rebuilding foundational institutions of mutual aid and working class organisation such as food coops and unions is more productive than trying to march in the street for abolishing landlords. One activist was recently in the news for organising squatting which I think is rad, and he handled himself masterfully when dropped into a neoliberal shark tank on TV.

There are many laws that favour landlords: such as negative gearing, capital gains tax discounting, and absolutely fucked renters rights. Attacking these politically helps to build a movement and aids real people now. One political party is pushing for major increases in public housing, assisting them undermines the strength landlords have by reducing their power over homelessness.

I don’t have a plan for Australia to ban landlords because that’s far in the future, groundwork needs establishing first and that takes the form of spreading ideas, seeking consensus, aiding political allies, and participating in local coops and so on to build solidarity and class consciousness.

The end goal is imho a society organised around mutual aid, collective ownership of the means of production, and abolishing private ownership (not personal btw, your toothbrush is safe). There are any number of utopian visions for what that might look like but we have so much to do from now till then that overly fixating on a specific codified system is a waste of time. First people need to believe another way is possible and be empowered to build it.

naevaTheRat, 25 days ago

He is not against the concept in its entirety but throughout the wealth of nations he’s quite critical of large and absentee landholders. In another chapter he points out how Tennant made improvements drives up rents which in turns discourages improvements for example.

He thinks of land rents as a monopoly and that monopolies are bad but I believe he imagines lots of small land holders competing to improve their land for their tennants and thus strengthening the nation by increasing how productive land can be.

This uh… did not happen, as I’m sure I don’t have to point out to a comrade :p

naevaTheRat, 25 days ago

Yep. He had a lot to say about social welfare, how horrible poverty was, how shitty monopolies are etc.

I don’t really want to rehab Adam Smith or crapitalism but when even the poster boy for the scholarly justifications for this system would be like “excuse me, what the fuck?” maybe alarm bells should be ringing?

naevaTheRat, 25 days ago

How ewe get pregante?

naevaTheRat, 26 days ago

I am no man

naevaTheRat, 25 days ago

Yeah it’s terrifying. A government agency with a monopoly on violence doing something as ruthlessly as if it was a gang hit.

I really appreciate how the abc broke the story.