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Every. fucking. thing. needs to be prefaced 'POV:' for some idiot reason

...then found this den of "arrogant, rude, up themselves shisters." and barely looked back.

LGFSSers deserve huge props and mad love for keeping this place alive through the vast forum extinction event brought on by fucking Facebook and Reddit.

How fucken stupid does everyone who abandoned their bespoke communities look, now all their stuff is buried in FB's shitty hairball of a site, especially if their account has been hacked by Nigerian scammers and subsequently deleted without recourse.

Fuck yeah LGFSS. Making the conformist hordes look like absolute chumps.

Need to candyflip the populace, huh.

Build a religion around hallucinogens.

But important thing is also not to fool ourselves that a revolution can change the situation with any permanency.

I dunno; complex systems often spend a lot of time in equilibrium states - maybe, if the most relevant dimensions can be identified, and a serious effort was made to discover and create an optimal system of organisation for ourselves, we could have a set of sacred precepts with the combined authority of religion and science, subject to modification only by evidence-based consensus.

We have large communities of people collaborating on all kinds of endeavour, with great success. What if there were as many people seriously engaged with generating our optimal system of organisation, as there are currently devoted to, say, speedrunning old Nintendo games?

Currently, there are vast armies of folks devoted to pulling us in the opposite direction, in service to the demented architects of this fascist death cult of neoliberal capitalism. What if we enacted an embodiment of the rejection of the bogus social contract by refusing to accept the options on offer and creating the world we want for ourselves?

I have a vision, and it's punk as fuck.

Fuck me.

Cunts eroding universal healthcare need to be lined up against a wall.

I've always found it easy to like misanthropes; they agree with most of the rest of the animal kingdom, no doubt.

...Adam Savage, speaking about the possibility of using AI to talk to animals, wondered what whales might say to us. Reckoned they'd probably call us genocide monkeys, then said that's a good band name for someone to take and run with

You should move to Australia.

Fuck off, we're full.

At least, we've relied on immigration so long to prop up our economy (so we can continue handing over all our bounty to the corporations of course), that we've vastly outstripped our woeful lack of ability to provide infrastructure to our populace; no time to govern effectively, there's way too much corruption to get done.

The Dems look to me, very much like an audience stooge helping to sell the illusion on the stage.

There's the expectation they're not in cahoots with the comically villainous lot, but somehow they're always standing around with their thumb jammed up their arse, looking the other way, when an opportunity to constrain the insanity presents itself.

For instance, blatant and extended shenanigans to heavily bias the SCOTUS are answered with... crickets. Could've stacked it with folks who'd start repairing the damage, but didn't because insert reason here.

People in the monopoly discussion seem to be failing to consider the possibility (certainty!) that the private sector should be abolished entirely

...what are the most pressing frustrations (or factors that give them anxiety/angst and stop them from enjoying life as much as they could) and come up with an ordered list.

For example:
1) money problems
2) relationships problems
3) inability to buy house
4) work / business issues
5) lack of freedom / independence
6) psychological issues - anxiety
7) loneliness

Huh. For me, it's

1) being far outnumbered by people who don't consider top-down government fundamentally illegitimate
2) daily reminders of the shocking lack of sustainability of such systems (hard to imagine the house of cards lasting much more than another fifteen years)
3) daily reminders of the astronomical, incalculable waste of human potential inherent to such systems
4) what people are shaped into by the powers that be in order to preserve their power; chiefly the widespread blindness to the absolute importance of critical thinking
5) the insane, stupid, horrible, trashy, obvious junk, material and cultural, churned out by capitalism and constantly firehosing everything, turning the natural world into toxic landfill at an ever-increasing rate, with zero indication of stopping before it physically can't continue, because money has been allowed to become the measure of all things on one hand, and on the other, to gather in clumps so dense it behaves like matter forming a black hole
...and so on.

I've spent decades scratching my head over whether there's any way to sidestep the looming consequences of allowing ourselves to be ruled in a system predicated on domination, and if I've figured out one thing, if there's any escape, we need to be so damn clever...

Trying to reform a system, based on domination, to not be based on domination is futile - there are all these supposed avenues to perhaps gain some sliver of agency, by this means or that, but as far as I can see, such possibilities amount to little more than a mirage; huge success in that framework would be orders of magnitude too insufficient.

What would a successful revolution have to look like, I've asked myself over and over and over. Recently, a halfway plausible notion sort of fell into place. I've long suspected that certain sorts of people, who value critical thinking and scoff at egotism, who like to understand as much as they can and employ a detached perspective capable of taking in the long view, would be able to collaborate far more effectively than a representative sample of the populace. Arguments wouldn't be a fruitless waste of time demonstrating only tribal loyalties, but would be interesting discussions synthesising compatible viewpoints.

What makes the viewpoints compatible is an abiding concern with understanding reality, and the certainty that one's own perspective is limited and biased. Stupid bullshit concerning in-groups and out-groups and arbitrary articles of faith as signifiers of such are looked upon with scorn. Because we're open to refining our perspective, we can have a useful conversation, and it turns out we agree on most things, because while there are infinite ways to be wrong about reality, there is a limited number of ways to be right about it.

So how about, as we try to figure out how to be clever enough to sidestep the vast mess created by folks running buggy software, how about we leave them out of it for now, and talk amongst ourselves. Figure out a way to build something we'd like to see as a foundation for a society which could actually persist without obviously dooming itself.

See, there's the constraint which I feel could really restrict the arguments to a manageable scope - can we keep doing this for a hundred years? A thousand? Ten thousand? How do we create a way of life which can actually persist? Not many possibilities to choose from there, so not much to argue about, at least between people familiar enough with reality.

Surely, anyone who's considered all this to any serious extent, must agree that top-down domination is pretty close to the ultimate way to minimise human potential, and if we're to start solving all the incredibly difficult problems we've made for ourselves, we need to look at how the rest of nature organises itself and come up with a bottom-up system.

If you look at Wikipedia, there's a clue. FOSS, another. Android hacking and the ROM scene, another clue. Imagine there was an operating system you could flash onto your phone, which evicted the profiteering corporations from it, and allowed it to communicate with other phones on a peer-to-peer basis without the need for a cell tower. And imagine that all the software on it was geared towards facilitating your sovereign management of our collective destiny, in which every citizen of our world is duty-bound to help everyone climb Maslow's hierarchy, so that we can maximise the number of actualised intellects collaborating to solve our problems.

How do we feed, house and clothe everyone, and stop drowning the world in our shit? How do we pull our heads in and stop the extinctions you can set your watch by, each one a crime orders of magnitude worse than genocide? Not gonna happen while money matters.

The currency of the future must be kudos. The calling of journalism doesn't exist to keep a small number of domineers behaving acceptably; it exists to keep everyone behaving acceptably. We don't need police - we need a system which effectively manages social pressure.

We need nerds to lead us out of the darkness, by putting their heads together and building Humanity Corp, the co-op which seeks to make money irrelevant to its members, where your job is to follow your intrinsic motivation and fulfil your potential, working to create enough synergy to out-compete all the other corporations and swallow them up, and eventually render national governments irrelevant.

How about something like that?

Is there any way that this can be perceived positively as Democrats giving themselves permission to join Trump in ignoring previous political norms to get positive things done?

Such hopefulness is very sweet and endearing. Bless.

Or you could interpret it as a sort of portmanteau meaning fast bike

Okay, that's gotta be enough Greggg fucken Wallace by now

I reckon it's one thing to MGOOF a bike, but if you ditch the mechanical shifting I'd say you're losing a vital part of its point.

With all new gear on it, it's grandad's axe; still the same bike. But I reckon you might eventually agree electronic shifting would get in the way of its character somehow, and the build will be a bodge unless you go hard and make it irreversible.

That's raising the bar

It's even Flite-ier than the standard Flite. Extra long-and-blobby-looking nose...

So it looks nice enough under the padding then? Or is that what the stickers are about?

Very much so. I bet Bernie would have plenty to say about that

in the optics of the reps, it’ll be corruption

Hah, there's a bit to unpack.

On the one hand, will they even look up to notice it, in between confecting fake news to feign outrage over?

On the other, die laughing at those craven, shameless stooges, those high priests of the greed cult, pointing their fingers at any corruption.

Any idea what his attitude was to this guy?

He then got excommunicated from the Soviet party and almost sent to a gulag for believing he was doing the right thing in exposing corruption by the apparatchiks embezzling machinery from the steel processing plant where he was an engineer, and was forced to work as a PR agent for a spiritual healer, and as a smuggler of cars and parts from Europe.

Poor bastard!

What’s this gif meant to convey?

Super interested, no sarcasm intended

Yeah nah, that shit can stay in the 80s

Great story by the way. I'll remember it the next time I'm enjoying a succulent Chinese meal

That's the one