ArcaneSlime

@ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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ArcaneSlime,

Are we entirely sure no women are squatting and also creating this problem? Because I have witnessed exactly that phoenomenon occur in a bathroom before while attending the restroom with previous partners.

ArcaneSlime,

Wait, this can’t be, because the current line is that .ml doesn’t stand for “marxist-leninist” as they claimed 2y ago, instead now in a post by desantis or desalinator (whatever his name is) it says they chose .ml because it was “free” and “buying them [domains] feels like acquiescing to the digital enclosure of the commons.”

So, is it free or paid?

ArcaneSlime,

Eeehhhh there are plenty of Tankies around here that unironically simp for Stalin and Mao, (never Pol Pot for some reason though), and those regimes were frought with corruption and are often called “red fascism,” so I wouldn’t be so quick to say “we” here. “You” maybe, “me” definitely, but “we” is too strong of a word when there are plenty of people doing just that on lemmygrad right now, and lemmy.ml being a marxist instance some there as well (though the refugees mostly drowned them out now).

ArcaneSlime,

“That wasn’t real communism” eh? First time I’ve ever seen this one…

ArcaneSlime,

And that’s why we have barriers to entry stifling competition lobbied for by the big players in said industry? Insulin is only the price it is because the government enforces the patent that says pfizer is allowed to have a monopoly on it, if other people were able to produce and sell affordable generics pfizer would have to drop their price or go out of business, but if you try the government comes, kidnaps you, and if you resist kidnapping, kills you.

Try to sell a product that the government decides you owe them money for: Weed? Jail. Moonshine? Jail. Weed in a legal state but didn’t break off the 50% protection money to the government? Jail. Unlicensed insulin? Jail. Drawing of a mouse too close to a famous one? Jail.

The US has what is called crony capitalism, not free market capitalism. Free market capitalism economy is what the Agorists like SEKIII want (but they refuse to call capitalism arguing that “real capitalism” is crony capitalism and “free market economies” are not “capitalist” at all and is actually leftist in nature.)

ArcaneSlime, (edited )

Mao and Stalin (though to a noticably lesser extent) actually had insightful things to say though. Mao’s essays on epistemology are genuinely really fantastic.

And Hitler was a Vegetarian. Does that mean vegitarians should simp for Hitler because “he had at least one good idea?” I should hope not! Furthermore if they do, even if they only simped for his vegetarianism and not his “political career,” it is gonna come off a bit different than they intend to most people.

By all means, keep those subs dedicated to defending all those atrocities and simping for despots, but people likely won’t be fooled into thinking they only care about epistemology while they say nothing happened in Tienanman Square without a shred of irony.

LOL I see I struck a nerve. Keep downvoting, the salt seasons my post.

ArcaneSlime,

While true, that still falls in the “you” category, not the “we” category. The fact that there are plenty of people here doing that very thing sort of precludes us from being able to use the word “we” in this capacity.

Again, “you” maybe, “me” definitely, “we” becomes no longer true once some of the “other we’s” do the thing.

ArcaneSlime,

Ok so the analogy isn’t the best, but the point still stands that simply because they did a good, that doesn’t mean that simping for them and ignoring the bad is a good idea, nor does it mean that those simping for “the guy” will be taken as simping only for “the good” and not also “the bad” he did. Those subs/instances I mention and the people that populate them are literal genocide denialists, they aren’t posting on “c/epistemology” and they aren’t talking specifically about epistemology, they are denying the holodomor, the armenian genocide, and the tienanman square massacre, among other things they support like China’s current Uyghur genocide because “America did an Iraq, and while we said that was bad, China is good for doing the same thing, because America did the bad” which is among the dumbest circular logic available to be found on lemmygrad.

Yes yes, but the people I’m complaining about aren’t doing that, they’re simply doomposting about late stage capitalism and denying genocides, simping for their preferred cults of personality. In essence to use my bad analogy, it’d be like if an instance of nazis doomposted about communism and denied the holocaust, but it was fine because they could sometimes also discuss his vegetarianism if they so chose, they just happen to not do that very often.

In “marxism,” or on lemmygrad, “internet marxism?” If you suggest these things are different, maybe, but if you’re suggesting that I’m wrong about the specific people I’m talking about, I’ll have to disagree having seen it for myself.

Do dogmatic Marxists who blindly defend bad shit exist? Yes. But they’re commonly denounced and criticized for their garbage analysis.

Again, on lemmygrad or somewhere else? Because I’m complaining about the Tankies on lemmygrad specifically and all who think as they do, and they certainly do not denounce and criticize that garbage analasys, rather they encourage and fester it.

You’re taking a small subset of, mostly online weirdos, and stawmanning my position, and an entire branch of political philosophy.

Again, do you mean a small subset of lemmygrad, or do you mean marxists as a whole? In any case, I’m actually inclined to believe the subset isn’t quite as small as you believe, or would like others to believe. I run into those people all the time and rarely your camp, suggesting either they are more numerous, or they are more loud, in which case I’d suggest your camp attempt to be louder to drown those crazies out, because they’re doing a pretty good job at convincing people they’re the bigger camp.

That’s great that you’re trying to do that, but the people on lemmygrad still exist, and hand waving my complaints about them away as simply nuance saying they’re just discussing epistemology is patently false. You’re basically just saying “not all communists” here, like “not all men.” Well, as the “not all men” camp was told, “it’s enough that it’s a problem, and you need to teach men communists not to rape deny genocides.”

ArcaneSlime,

This I can get behind.

ArcaneSlime,

Fr though, “where?”

I’m seriously looking for ideas, I never got into social media, I will not sign up for them nor dating social medias, and as I age I’ve become disenfranchised with alcohol in general and the alcoholics I used meet in bars which was the last vestige of a local meeting place once school ended. My hobbies are all sort of loner hobbies as well like books and old bad movies, probably a consequence of being an only child in a single parent household, which tbh, I like that I can be mostly self sufficient and don’t seek to find my happiness in others, but I’d like to meet someone if the option is available. But where do I meet people now? It is rather uncouth to ask people out for coffee while they’re working somewhere I am a customer even if I do it super politely, but that is likely the only place I will interact with other humans all day outside of work and lemmy, unless I have to go to two stores. Afaik, the 80s are over and you can’t ask other customers in the grocery store either anymore lest you come off as a creep for just saying “hey I think you look super cool and I was wondering if you weren’t seeing anyone maybe you’d like to get some coffee sometime?” (To be fair, I haven’t tested this theory, I just feel creepy every time I think “I should just fucking ask” and psych myself out, so, maybe? Maybe if I just lead with “hey it’s hard af to meet people these days right? Well anyway I’m ArcaneSlime, what’s your name, wanna get coffee?”) Maybe use Alovoa since it respects privcy, but idk if that is viable just yet, and then I have to put pictures of me on an online acct? I haven’t done that in 10yr because it is antithetical to the concept of privacy in and of itself! Work I can make friends at all day, even on the go it can be done though it is certainly more rare, but I can’t date people from work because if it doesn’t work out it might get weird for one of the two parties, I don’t like that dynamic.

Sometimes I think I should just become an alcoholic again just so that I can fucking meet people. Any ideas on where to meet people other than bars or online are welcome. We need weed bars like cigar bars and hooka lounges, I can still smoke weed without feeling physically ill.

/rant lol.

Oh and to preempt cries of “incel,” I’m not complaining about women, I’m complaining about the lack of meeting places that aren’t “the local bar or tinder,” and looking for ideas on ones I may have missed. If I didn’t like women I wouldn’t be looking for more ways to meet them! Lol

ArcaneSlime,

Lol I have heard the “go to the Phillipines” one before but that unfortunately isn’t an option for me. 90 day fiance is a fun show though.

ArcaneSlime,

I haven’t been to the local food bank in a while, but last time I did it was mostly populated with kids that had community service and retired people that are still spry enough to sort cans and had the time to spend a saturday doing it. There were a few people employed by the state that were about 15yr older than me (now, prob 20-25y older back then), and I’d prefer someone a little closer in age if possible. The local womens shelter would be helpful, but something tells me that’s not a great place to meet women (is joke, is ok), and addiction services would be helpful but you’re not supposed to date people you meet in AA so while I’m not addicted to alcohol and could theoretically sponsor someone, that’s a weird power dynamic and again not supposed to date.

Maybe I’ll take a shift at the food bank and see what’s up, I guess if some woman there my age has community service I can bet she’s probably fun at least and see where it goes. If not at least I sorted some potatoes for 8hr in the deadly heat on my only day off and got to talk to some cool 75yos and make a new weed connect who is 16.

ArcaneSlime,

Thanks, I may try to talk to passers-by more often and see where it goes, even just to excersize social skills my demographic seems to have missed. Honestly it feels these days like people in my age group (I’m 30) feel imposed upon by conversation but I too have seen others complaining about the same issue, so maybe I should “be the change I want to see in the world” lol.

Honestly as for the “creepy,” this may sound batshit insane but I’m not sure how much of it is really just in my own head. It’s not like I’m overtly sexual in my approach or anything (well again I haven’t really tried “my approach” yet either since I quit bars just before the pandemic, that is still so far theoretical), I’m looking for something long term if I can find the right person, I just feel creepy even trying to ask someone if they’d like to get to know eachother over coffee, and have no clue how I would get my proverbial foot in the door (something like your art gallery suggestion which I will likely use, I haven’t been to my city’s art museum in too long.) Once I get to talking to someone I think I can hold my own, I’m no [current male sex symbol] but I have jokes, a job, a house, and I look human enough, the hard part is really “hey.” It isn’t even the rejection that stops me, it’s straight up fear that I’ll be labeled creepy (and have to see this person ever again) or that I’m imposing and I don’t want to be an asshole and ruin some poor woman’s day by asking her out for coffee (which you see women complaining about all the time, but idk those dude’s sales pitch, maybe they’re really creepy about it and my pitch isn’t, or maybe they don’t try to lead with something like the art gallery, idfk, maybe all of that is just me overthinking because of crippling ADHD lol). Maybe you’re right, lead with talking about something in the surroundings, if she seems cool and receptive ask for a number/coffee date.

I know I rambled quite a bit, but tl;dr:

Thank you for the advice, I’m gonna try this for a while and see how it goes!

ArcaneSlime,

Imma get home and my cats are gonna accuse me of cheating!

This isn’t a bad idea though in all seriousness lol, I may give it a whirl.

ArcaneSlime,

LMAO I’m on Fedora and that beard matches mine exactly. What sort of wizardy…

ArcaneSlime,

…but in this show JFK’s dads were gay…

ArcaneSlime,

This isn’t really that huge of a blow, it’s a learning curve sure but just because some people made dumb decisions on what TLD to use based on something they decided it means (and backtracked to say they chose it because it was free, I know) doesn’t mean federated platforms don’t work. Actually imo it points to the strength of federation that we can still be here using lemmy on our instances while they switch.

All this really did was teach instance owners (who this might be their first experience hosting things too btw) that you have to use a TLD that is more stable like a .org, .com, .net, etc over a “free” one, and this is afaik the first instance of something like this happening, so honestly they didn’t have precedent to base this on before.

ArcaneSlime,

They needed the one that stood for “marxist-leninist” is why, in case you were unaware.

ArcaneSlime,

Well 2y ago that’s what the marxist-leninists here claimed anyway.

Btw, that link either leads to the wrong post or jerboa is broken lol, however from the “nope” I can infer that it is meant as a refutation so fuck it.

ArcaneSlime,

I don’t pretend I can make sense of them, I just know what was claimed when I showed up 2y ago. I think the stalinists are mostly the ones that broke off to form lemmygrad iirc, as lemmy.ml was supposed to be a marxist-leninist deal, and it was one until the reddit exodus.

ArcaneSlime,

So then in a sense it is marxist in nature, as this answer hints to marxist values with “buying them feels like acquiescing to the digital enclosure of the commons.”

However when this place was all marxist-leninists 2y ago, they made it very clear that it was a ML instance, by ML, for ML, and they claimed that .ml stood for marxist-leninist. As to when they decided that was no longer the case I have no clue, but that was the claim until redditors came and drowned them out a bit.

ArcaneSlime,

I do appreciate it, the link for some reason leads to a completely unrelated post, but it looks like others can see it, so I think it’s a Jerboa issue.

True, we aren’t the devs so we can’t know their true intentions or thoughts, but I have my suspicions. If I trusted everyone all the time I’d be helping OJ look for Nicole’s killer rn.

(This is what the link loads for me btw)

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/d5a0b781-ce22-4347-9be3-1e7b13ffece2.png

Ever hate the feeling when you spend hours searching for something and get no where?

Yeah, it sucks. Spent the evening trying to find two foreign movies. One I couldn’t find anywhere(DDL, public trackers, and a private tracker) and the other I did find but locked behind a paid account for a ddl that I’m not sure is even legit. Combined with an EP I’ve had set on SS for years and combed everywhere. This is...

ArcaneSlime,

I’ve had to do it before myself, a few times. I always justify it by ripping the movie, cd, tape, etc and posting it up somewhere. Feels more like I’m doing my part that way

Is also an Autism thing, but for a different reason (lemmy.world)

… , because it feels like sentiment clarification must be included and tone tags and emoji can’t cover all possible ways a reader might find to still misinterpret a statement. (or the statement carries a hidden meaning that I never realize existed, or I have made a fool of myself for accidentally quoting something someone...

ArcaneSlime,

Goddammit lmao (I do this a lot.)

Mastodon or Lemmy

So I’ve been starting to look further into the Fediverse and using it a lot more than any other part of the internet at this point. I wanna know the reasons why people might prefer Lemmy or Mastodon, I have both but seem to lean towards Lemmy for some reason, but not sure why maybe it’s the simple design and you can find...

ArcaneSlime,

The only reason I don’t have the same Mastodon experience as you guys tbh is that I’m on a private instance, you have to have a membership (to something else) to get on and it’s all about that shit more or less, and so I stay on my instance and follow a few randoms. The Federated tab is a nightmare, I just avoid it. Here on lemmy it is the exact opposite, I mostly stay on subbed or all (but my instance is great here too).

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