Wickedflickr

6 ms·

1.
by Wickedflickr 1y ago
Machine pistols require far MORE training to use compared to a standard pistol. They are downright dangerous to use without proper training, both for the user and the people around them.
2.
by Wickedflickr 1y ago
I agree. Though unfortunately there have been reports of them slowly centralizing power away from community councils toward the military over time. Even still, it's offering far more freedom and diversity than any of the surrounding co
3.
by Wickedflickr 1y ago
They never collapsed from anything innate, though. They were always destroyed from outside forces. When your society represents actual freedom, you become the enemy of everyone, from capital to stalinism. Centralization of power has so far
4.
by Wickedflickr 1y ago
Society came very close to realizing the beginnings of a decent state in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. George Orwell faught in it, and wrote about what he saw that society achieving in his book, Homage to Catalonia.
5.
by Wickedflickr 1y ago
Labor organizing is the only way for the working class to wield political power, as all political parties, and indeed the entire system, is corporate captured.
6.
by Wickedflickr 1y ago
I think a better solution than a side hustle, is to gather your friends or coworkers to propose to create, collectively, a worker owned co-op (of whatever idea seems profitable). As it's being done collectively, there's more of a
7.
by Wickedflickr 1y ago
Proton (custom WINE by valve) is so good now thanks to Vulkan, you generally only lose about 5% performance compared to Windows, with a 10% difference in rare cases. It's very easy to be a hardcore gamer on Linux now, outside of a hand
8.
by Wickedflickr 2y ago
Linux can play most games now, it's quite viable as a gaming OS.
9.
by Wickedflickr 2y ago
Solarpunk is firmly rooted in the anti-authoritarian camp. It's fundamentally inspired by Murray Bookchin's books on ecological anarchism.
10.
by Wickedflickr 2y ago
The reason solarpunk aren't hopped up on nuclear is that nuclear is an incredibly slow process that requires governments to fund it, corporations only run it if it's profitable (the Vermont Yankee power plant was shut down due to
11.
by Wickedflickr 2y ago
Moon colonization requires billions or even trillions of capital all at once, and can only be done by elite experts in a very specialized field, with no practical gain to society toward solving or global warming. It would be an expense alm
12.
by Wickedflickr 2y ago
You can even skip storage in many cases, which brings the cost of an installation down dramatically. Low-tech magazine has a great article on the concept.
13.
by Wickedflickr 2y ago
Housing co-ops would be incentivized to implement those features. Our society should make it easier for co-op of all types to be created and thrive (such as through taxes), but especially worker owned and housing co-ops.
14.
by Wickedflickr 2y ago
Sustainability for large populations is kind've a cornerstone of solarpunk, alongside decentralization and horizontal power to empower individuals and communities against corporation and government control. There's a lot of discus
15.
by Wickedflickr 2y ago
If you opt for Debian, try out Linux Mint's Debian edition, it's the smoothest option for desktop use.
16.
by Wickedflickr 2y ago
There are more empty homes in the US than there are homeless. Housing is expensive because they have become an investment vehicle. Low income or affordable housing is not being built because the profit margins are not nearly as high as they
17.
by Wickedflickr 2y ago
I truly believe the Fediverse is a viable solution. I've found Lemmy to be an extremely viable alternative to Reddit. The fediverse, more than any other centralized solution, seems equipped to avoid the hellish pitfalls that profit-mot
18.
by Wickedflickr 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by lacking a network effect, unless you mean they don't yet have sufficient users to draw in new ones? I personally switched to Lemmy from Reddit after the API debacle, and I've found it to be an ex