komali2

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by komali2 2mo ago
Well, that's what I meant by my European coworker - perhaps his country has found a socialist balancing point that maintains a level of capitalism that somehow doesn't tip into power cascades concentrating power around Capital. IM
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by komali2 2mo ago
Personally I'm thinking the solution will be establishing parallel forms of mutual aid and organization with the goal of making the State and capitalism obsolete and moot. Why would I buy food when my neighbors and I grow and share mor
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by komali2 2mo ago
I wrote it, and I invite you to tell me why I'm wrong - genuinely. I'm here for the conversation. I don't know how else to write on something other than authoritatively. If I'm wrong on the internet, people will definite
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by komali2 3mo ago
How did you identify how businesses are worker-owned? Curious how it compares to other verification methods e.g. what my co-op had to go through to get a .coop domain as determined by these guys: https://identity.coop/polici
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by komali2 3mo ago
> I don’t want a vote on whether or not my bakery puts sesame seeds on the bread. I just want to buy a loaf of bread thanks. You have an illusion of choice right now between sesame or non sesame bread through the low-resolution "vo
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by komali2 3mo ago
I've been thinking about this recently: I think our economy is fake. Restaurants are expensive lately, but still, as a former restaurant owner, even the expensive 10$ takeout burrito I don't think would be possible without the gre
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by komali2 3mo ago
A lot of co-op talk around this thread, if anyone else has worked in / founded co-ops, I would love to chat, email in my profile. I founded one about 5 years ago and have been kinda shooting from the hip, would love to trade ideas.
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by komali2 3mo ago
I founded a software engineering co-op. We're always interested in finding new members. https://508.dev Right now our main revenue is through subcontracting, and admittedly we haven't pulled a fresh gig in a couple mon
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by komali2 3mo ago
You've constructed a strawman of the field of psychiatry and are arguing against it. I assume you mean the DSM5? It's basically a dictionary. Is the entirety of the English language and all things that happen in it represented by
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by komali2 3mo ago
I think the idea is that since the inventers of bopomofo were exposed to other alphabets, it's still considered a descendant alphabet. I usually think of descendant as something that visibly manifests its ancestry, so for example moder
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by komali2 3mo ago
I'm not sure I understand your point, sorry. What do you mean?
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by komali2 3mo ago
> "let's all get together and build some free software collaboratively". G0v hackathons in Taiwan are still this, at the end everyone presents what they worked on and there's no judging or anything. Some of the projec
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by komali2 3mo ago
No, since it's a silent failure, it's not plausible. We have to assume all results we get are the actual model performance, because, it's the actual model performance as we understand it. Someone trying to solve similar probl
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by komali2 3mo ago
What makes you so sure? There's been massively successful government funded and run projects before. Soviets beat the Americans to space, after all.
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by komali2 3mo ago
So, what kind of problems are you having it try to solve? Sorry to belabor this but it's basically pointless saying you have nuts it can't crack without showing us the nuts.
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by komali2 3mo ago
> Okay, okay, that whole idea of 'communism' is just as silly But the communists are smarter than the free world, at least the Americans, which I take it to represent the peak of capitalism and western liberal traditions. The
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by komali2 3mo ago
The things you describe may be problems in your country, but they're not universal. Something or set of things must specifically be going wrong wherever you live. It would probably be interesting to identify what.
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by komali2 3mo ago
> Having to work is less agency than not having to work. Both are working. One is getting money that they get to decide what to do with, the other (the wife) doesn't get paid but gets room and board but very little autonomy - for ex
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by komali2 3mo ago
> I'm not sure you are aware that China has monitoring operations for its citizens outside China. Sure, you and I know that, but most PRC people don't really believe in that or are aware. At least nobody I've met.
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by komali2 3mo ago
It's starting to feel like ethno-nationalism is the answer. See: the PRC. Support for surveillance is allegedly high. Anecdotally, talking to PRC citizens in circumstances where they don't need to worry about said surveillance (e.
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by komali2 3mo ago
Ok, then, to give women as much agency as men have.
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by komali2 3mo ago
Well since we're doing anecdotes, I'm a sober, fully helmeted, geared rider with 8 years and tens of thousands of miles under my tires. I've had two incidents: 1. I fell over at a stop sign on a canted hill while stopped beca
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by komali2 3mo ago
Perhaps we could move away from victim blaming, the same way we've moved away from blaming assaulted women for dressing a certain way.
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by komali2 3mo ago
And thank God for it. If every scooter rider in Taipei had a car, the city traffic would move a meter a day. It's also about convenience, btw, not just cost. It's basically impossible to park a car here. Scooters are also difficul
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by komali2 3mo ago
Valve fascinates me because the devs there occasionally seem to be simply the best on earth in a given field, but despite that, bizarre bugs will persist for a long time. My favorite was how steam in home streaming from a PC to a steam deck
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by komali2 3mo ago
> Israel is just putting their country first Is walking down the street, slugging everyone that gets in your way, "putting yourself first?" Is moving your fence into your neighbor's lawn and then pulling a gun on them when
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by komali2 3mo ago
Made this pseudo black hole visualization graph with the famous gravitational lensing effect from Interstellar yesterday, started at 9am finished at 5pm. I know nothing about GLSL, I don't think I'm even capable of programming my
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by komali2 3mo ago
I pointed Claude at a read only API account for our ERP, where our accounting happens, and it was pretty useful for helping figure out some historical missing data we left off when we were importing pre-ERP stuff. It did start losing the pl
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by komali2 3mo ago
> This has resulted in kids seeing a lot of messaging along the lines of "Girl Power! Girls can do anything!". Which to an adult looks like a shift in the tides of history, but for one of the kids that's all they've e
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by komali2 3mo ago
I don't either - I'm am anarchist. But, ever hear the saying, "against all authority except mommy?" Kids need some level of coercion just to keep them alive. They have to be made to even eat sometimes.

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