lets grab lunch sometime, i think we’d be compatible

cute art style 😻

fruit roll-up

that’s one way to do the endless handkerchief clown trick

but in practice it’s the opposite. electric cars have set the precedent that cars being serviceable only by the manufacturer is OK. ICE automobiles are on their way to being banned in a decade or two. that’s a huge opportunity for automakers to bring practices like these to the wider market, and policy makers will defend them because it’s hard to say “yes to electric cars, but only if …”

will 2024 finally be the year of Linux on the car?

saw this one at the arcade last week. this one’s on the more extreme side, but arcades are the most reliable place i know to find this stuff. like 5% of the cars outside a big arcade here will have stickers of some sort.

that’s a very sus nose

do i spy a Dirk Gently reference? i say it’s a bit of a stretch, but that you should choose a video recorder for the metaphor… well, nothing is ever a coincidence.

me when i take too long to put my seatbelt on in the passenger seat so the car beeps at me and i decide “well if you’re going to treat me like that then i’d better not put the belt on” so it beeps LOUDER and i decide “well if that’s how it is i’m just walking away” but it won’t let me unlock the door while the car’s in motion so i have to pull the e-brake to get it to stop but they know doing that without a seatbelt can be fatal so was there ever really a choice to begin with

alright, you’ve made a pretty solid case there. one single nit:

A machine costing a lot of money, only matters when most of the money is hoarded by a few individuals.

“power corrupts”, as it goes. if there’s a single lever that could be pulled to enrich the few, then they will try, and the many have to remain vigilant. better many small levers than a handful of large levers where possible, since that’s just more difficult for any small self-interested group to control. but i’ll take democratic workplaces over the existing.

so: how to get there? like, what do you or i do, aside from just considering these things as we navigate our careers? if someone else has done a good job with the deeper writing here before, i’ll take a book rec. there’s space on my non-fiction shelf.

bleh. arguing over words and definitions is a stupid waste of time. i shouldn’t care what “monopoly” or “libertarian” or any other word means to someone else, i should only care if they embrace the ideas that help us work together.

sure, i’m against private monopolies – whatever word you want to use to describe it. i think it’s accurate that government is that player which is granted the “exclusive use of force considered to be legitimate”, even if that’s a mouthful.

anyway, i yield the floor for as long as the topic is definitional instead of substantial 👋

If technology was used in service of humanity, the majority of humanity would be working very little, and things like starvation and homelessness would only be possible under unexpected circumstances like droughts and after wildfires.

this i agree with, but i don’t take that all shapes of technology are equally susceptible to serving profit instead of people. in our case, the factory systems which allow for 1000:1 production are huge and costly and beyond the reach of the average individual or family or community. but that same technology in a different form could be made to be within reach of smaller communities.

If the dominant forces in society are utilizing technology for profit, rather than to increase human dignity and freedom, then what you get is what we have;

if a machine within the reach of your everday person could have that same 1000:1 production factor, then you don’t need the dominant forces in society to be directed at human dignity. you just need them to be tolerant of benign alternatives, and only 0.1% of society needs to go along with you to allow that alternative to be reality. the bigger thing is that we’ve had 100+ years in which technology has been developed for that factory system with far less development catering to any alternatives, so the alternatives available legitimately do not have that same 1000:1 production. there’s no way to get that outside of factories without playing catchup on the technology front. but catchup is possible without destruction because factorized production does incidentally create generalized tools that make the alternatives easier (your typical hammers and saws and all that).

that seems kinda revisionist. if i think i have a better way in which to provide healthcare, am i allowed to pursue that alongside others who consent? if “no”, then something has monopolized healthcare — be it a private entity, public, or some combination.

the libertarian refrain is “government is the monopoly on violence”, and that seems broadly true, even if the police force is publicly directed… no?

we’re conversing via a communications system where at least the very top portion is free of exploitation and coercion. probably lemmy.tf is hosted on an operating system also free from that coercion. not to be all techbro, but it’s kinda like we’ve achieved this in one specific niche and completely failed to apply it to anything real/useful (i.e. “the stuff that could kill you in its absence”).

i used to contribute a LOT to the 3d printing space ten years ago: at the time it seemed like the way to bridge that (half the parts in my machine were built with a friend using his machine). i still think there’s something “there”, that we can build parallel systems that won’t be captured or killed by the existing powers rather than solely embracing destruction, but it’s just a long game. how long has the capitalist system had to develop? anything else has to endure nearly that same amount of catchup until it can provide for us in any way you would embrace.

how do you build a restaurant under the sea? expert carpenters.
where do you find expert carpenters? Lazy Town.

just think about it, that’s all i’m trying to say here.

i switched all my devices to UTC about a year ago when a surprise DST transition caught me in a pissy mood.

it’s fairly internalized by now. i don’t think it’s that much harder than developing an intuition for both Celcuis and Fahreinheit temperatures. sometimes i’ll glance at the clock while at a friend’s house and it says 09:00 and i do a double-take because “how is it already going-to-bed time?” before i realize it meant 9PM local time, not 09:00 UTC (1AM local).

but it’s the things you don’t think about that make it difficult. set your phone to UTC and 24hr time. first thing you’ll notice is that every weather app blissfully ignores your settings, because they’re showing you weather for a specific place, and assume you care about the time local to that place. second thing you’ll notice is that half your IM apps are going to actually be using AM/PM still. they’ll even mix AM/PM with 24hr within the same app. you read “message received 11:20” and it could mean like 3 different things.

not to mention all the physical stuff: car clocks, oven/microwave clocks, … a lot of these in the US don’t even give an option for 24hr time, and “11:20 PM UTC” is just so cursed.

what if joker kills joker?

oof, yeah that’s me & Spotify rn. each time they send me a marketing email i reply to it asking them not to send me marketing materials and i CC all the addresses which would reach a human (support@, help@, marketing@, abuse@, and if i’m feeling pissy then legal@).

and each time i get a human reply instructing me how to unsubscribe, and sometimes we’ll back-and-forth a bit about how that’s not the point. Spotify’s special: most companies will just unsubscribe you and get it over with if you ask, but not Spotify. i don’t really enjoy doing any of this but like you said: some of us have weird obsessions.

if you’ve found a few legitimately bad actors here, then ban them and move on. don’t burn the place down.

when i see someone from one space advise about how to safely access procedures or drugs that are illegal in some country, and then i tab to 196 to see that same person on the receiving end of the most harshly worded accusations of transphobia, i’m sort of at a loss for how to respond to that.

my favorite is whenever i encounter the phrase “non-permitted protest”. like, the idea that you should ask permission from the authority you’re protesting before doing so: it’s just so laughably missing the point