Hey there! Tell us what you like! Share your interests, you might find some other buddies who share interests with you. Either way, think of this as sort of a show and tell. Share as much as you’d like. Feel free to show/link some examples if you’d like. Let’s have fun with it =)!
Audhd here, so way too many interests to list (short list here: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Murdoc). But my biggest long-standing one is called Technocracy. Not how the word gets used most of the time today, but rather the proposed sustainable and post-scarcity economic system devised in the 1920s. Not only is it just interesting from being a novel and well-designed system, but it deals with so many important issues like poverty, environmentalism, sexism, racism, crime, and all in an objective, hard scientific way (i.e. not “political science”). All that science and progressivism (from 100 years ago too!) just delights my autistic brain no end. Here’s my attempt to make the topic more accessible to the modern audience: https://technate.org/tiki-index.php
AU-D-FREAKIN’-H-D!!! Yo!
Top link doesn’t work here =<
I was thinking about this the other day. I kinda wanted to do an askie-poo here but I just said feh! But if we could speak on alternate time lines - how could we have changed the world in order to set it up for the success of the most plausible amount of individuals versus the sort of caste-goop we’ve got going on right now.
GL on building your TIKI by the by, maybe you should ask the question and invite others to participate in building it?
🙂 👋
Weird, the link works for me. :/
Oh, I’ve certainly thought of alternate time-lines. Aspiring writer here. Trying to turn one of them into a novel (well, novel series lol), but you know, ADHD. So I could certainly talk at length about that.
Thanks. I’ve tried getting help. What few have accepted never seemed to have the time, or else they had too much trouble with the wiki paradigm? Idk. It’s been a struggle. Which is too bad since I tend to work better (i.e. more often) when others are involved.
Pro wrestling, specifically AEW, NXT and Mystery Wrestling. I’m a sucker for good comedy wrestling, and Chuck Taylor is my favorite male wrestler (even though he had to mostly retire this year). https://youtu.be/zlAHrHL_FCc?si=kaj76TB8WZP78nSj links to one of Chuck’s best spots, the BOLA grenade!
Rabbits. Rabbits are incredible. They’re not rodents even though their teeth continue growing throughout their lives, and they have no paw pads. They’re basically like having tiny cuddly fuzzy deer or horses in your house without the poop issues.
Pokemon first gen, particularly Jigglypuff and her evolution family including Scream Tail. I found out today that Rachael Lillis, the original anime voice of Jigglypuff (and Misty, and Jessie) passed away this weekend and I’m a little heartbroken.
I’m also crazy about rogue-likes and rogue-lites, and I can’t wait for Hades 2 to officially release 😁
FUCK YEAH BUNNIES
RIGHT?!?!
Idk if you’re into wrestling games but they’ve got some pretty fucking naners ones on Steam. But people like you always keep me alive. Cause legitimately I never had a personal direct interest in wrestling, but growing up my folks who did always kept me in the know. And you guys have so much passion it gives me life. I’ve seen a couple of gigs and it’s always super entertaining. I’ve pretty much got one guy left in the life and his joy is contagious. Only catch is I don’t understand a damn thing about the game anymore. Simple example is I have absolutely no clue who Chuck Taylor is (I was like - shoes?) BUT! You’re so jazzed and I dig that.
Rabbits are incredible! I can’t have them, because my lovelies sustain off of them =_o!! Their paws are wonderful though, I agree. As are the paws of chinchillas. Not the same, but the only other creature I can think of that is int he same boat. Not sure if you’re into camp and absolute goofy horror but they made a horror movie with cutie bunnies called Night of the Lepus.
Hmm, RIP!
Gunna put my favo rl here. Plop.
Idk if you’re into wrestling games but they’ve got some pretty fucking naners ones on Steam. But people like you always keep me alive. Cause legitimately I never had a personal direct interest in wrestling, but growing up my folks who did always kept me in the know. And you guys have so much passion it gives me life. I’ve seen a couple of gigs and it’s always super entertaining. I’ve pretty much got one guy left in the life and his joy is contagious. Only catch is I don’t understand a damn thing about the game anymore. Simple example is I have absolutely no clue who Chuck Taylor is (I was like - shoes?) BUT! You’re so jazzed and I dig that.
I’m not huge on playing the games but I love watching people play through them! Fire Pro is fucking bonkers.
I really appreciate it :) My coworkers mostly think it’s adorable but childish (even the ones who love wrestling), but when I can get really into telling wrestling stories it’s so satisfying and fun~! For example, if you really want to understand one of the current catchphrases in AEW, you literally have to start with a ring name from 20 years ago.
Rabbits are incredible! I can’t have them, because my lovelies sustain off of them =_o!! Their paws are wonderful though, I agree. As are the paws of chinchillas. Not the same, but the only other creature I can think of that is int he same boat. Not sure if you’re into camp and absolute goofy horror but they made a horror movie with cutie bunnies called Night of the Lepus.
What are your ‘lovelies’? I love hearing about pets!!
And thank you for the recommendation! I think I have this on my steam list to play, so I’ll have to check it out!
Do you know shattered pixel dungeon? Its an open source rougelike that you can play on your smartphone or pc.
I hadn’t heard of that one! Can you tell me more about it?
Its a pixelart rougelike that i found somewhere in my linux package list, tried out, and liked. I could tell you about some mechanics, but its probably better to see for yourself at its website http://shatteredpixel.com/shatteredpd/ or the pixeldungeon community [email protected] .
Fermenting everything. I have made beer shout out [email protected] and sourdough bread for years. I just started a ginger bug to make me own sodas and have made jalapeno pickles for the first time. Next on my list is hot sauce.
Tell me more about the pickles, please? I love fresh jalapenos but haven’t found a pickled one I really like, so maybe making my own would help.
My bumalum eats these all day: simple Japanese pickles. You might dig them, because they’re easier than anything to make and can be eaten by the trough-load. They’re ready super fast too.
@ladytaters @cashmaggot Japanese picked vegetables are the best! You can do this with quite a wide range, not just cucumbers
They’re great. Kept their crunch more than store bought ones. No loss in heat. Nice tangy flavor. Any vegetable fermentation guide will work. I did a 3% salt solution and 3 weeks ferment.
- Games (video, board, sports; if it’s a game, I’m into it)
- Comedy
- Writing
And that’s pretty much it.
What board games are you into right now? My partner collects them and we play some fun stuff!
The newest one I have is Survive: Escape from Atlantis.
My interests are mobile phones and airplanes (mainly airliners).
I’m into nail art, Seinfeld and watching my cats destroy my house… and I usually enjoy them all at once.
I dig Dr. Katz so I think we’re in the same ballpark here? Seinfeld was never my jam though, not gunna lie. Nail art is cool…but I swear to god it’s the mortal enemy of dykes. But I could be wrong. Just saying, I don’t want polish in places I don’t want polish =P!
Cats, I love the idea of them but unfortunately am allergic. Which is also incompatible with a certain lifestyle of mine =P! I’ve got weasels, they destroy plenty enough =P! I’m currently patch-working the hey outta the couch for that reason.
My nail art is all gel. It doesn’t chip and does “dry” until I’m ready, which let’s you do really cool stuff like this 3D pizza nail I did.
https://www.instagram.com/p/3ofhSatKlu/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Schtapp! I had no clue, but also that’s freakin’ adorable and I totally dig your work as it’s so clearly your passion =)
Thanks so much!
I’m really into radio tech (licensed amateur operator), tabletop RPGs, video games, and fictional religions.
What RPGs? I’m currently reading through Girl By Moonlight, which is a derivative of the Blades in the Dark system, and it’s fantastic. Also Brindlewood Bay is charming AF
- On Sundays, I play Pathfinder Second Edition, more specifically the Fate walkers campaign.
- On Tuesdays, I play Star Wars Saga Edition, a homebrew dark side campaign.
- On Saturdays, I ordinarily have a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay campaign going on, but my GM is laying the groundwork for the rest of our adventure so we’re on hiatus.
They’re all tons of fun. I also have a solo game which I mentioned in another reply.
I have yet to try Pathfinder 2nd, but I’m glad to hear it’s good! We had a really fun first edition campaign running for awhile.
I’ve heard that 1e and 2e are very different games, but I haven’t played 1e. What I like about 2e is the consistency of mechanics - for example, pretty much every spell and effect with a saving throw has results based on whether you rolled a Critical Success (10+DC or more), Success (>=DC), Failure (<DC), or Critical Failure (DC-10 or less). This applies to attacks as well, any time you roll 10 or higher than the enemy’s AC you get a Critical Hit which doubles the damage you deal. There’s also a standard set of conditions that all spells, special abilities, etc. draw from that are clearly explained.
I don’t have any serious experience GMing 2e, but everyone I’ve talked to online says that the encounter math is extremely well thought-out. Whereas some TTRPGs value simplicity, or the player power fantasy, or any number of things - diversity is the strength of the hobby - PF2e’s focuses are balance and consistency. You can still have a ton of fun in PF2e (I smile when I think of the time my three party members and I held off no fewer than thirteen enemy bandits in one frantic combat), but you can reliably expect two parties at a given level to be about the same power level, building your encounters accordingly. A big part of this is the fact that rolling for stats is a variant rule rather than the default. You get fixed bonuses to certain stats during character creation based on your ancestry, background, and class. Your health starts at a number based on your ancestry, class, and Constitution modifier. Your health goes up a fixed amount every level based on your class and Constitution modifier. And finally, the full multiclassing system that exists in D&D is replaced with the Archetype system by which you can pick a feature of another class, or just favoring a specific playstyle, every time you get a class feat. (A popular variant rule that a lot of tables use is the Free Archetype rule, where you get a free Archetype feat in addition to your class feats. Helps spice up the build variety without letting things get out of control.)
If you’re curious about playing Pathfinder Second Edition, you can read all of the rules text for everything they’ve ever published on Archives of Nethys for free thanks to a special partnership Paizo has with that site and the very permissive license that Paizo uses. Foundry VTT also has legendary support for the system. If you like books, you can buy PDFs for a steep discount on Paizo’s website.
Radio tech is cool, ever knew one person who dug it. My childhood bestie’s dad. He finessed the hey outta his van and just chilled out in his 70s style decked out phat ass van and would listen to his RV.
Right now I have a very solid rotation of TTRPGs:
- On Sundays, I play Pathfinder Second Edition with some people I met online.
- On Tuesdays, I play Star Wars Saga Edition with people I’ve known for years.
- On Saturdays, I ordinarily play Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4e, but the campaign is sorta on hiatus right now while the GM prepares for the next leg of our adventure.
I also have a solo game of Pathfinder 2e using the Mythic Gamemaster Emulator going on that is just… insane, it really went out of control fast. It started with three guys, Dave, Grimgir, and Goru, who wanted to find Dave’s missing father. They went to a place a few days’ journey away from the capital and came back to find that the local wizard academy had started a coup so they could have their own independent government, Dave’s dad is a massive criminal with a rap sheet a mile long, and he got turned in to the government by the revolution he helped start. Where I last left off, Dave and co. ended the siege of the academy by deactivating their defenses from the outside, and then asked dad why he did it. Turns out he had sold his soul to a devil long before Dave was born in exchange for a perfect marriage and a happy family; they found that out moments before justice was carried out on him.
Radio is one of the most complicated fields of electrical engineering. What should work doesn’t, and what shouldn’t work does. It’s amazing that these little gizmos work at all, given that the guy who discovered radio waves for the first time said he thought it was completely pointless. When my class wrote an essay on the most influential technologies of the early 20th century, everyone else wrote about the car. I wrote about the radio, because it paved the way for nearly every wireless technology we have today. If radio didn’t exist, we’d all be stuck on landlines and ethernet forever.
I’m in a space of flux right now. I once could tell you everything on the face of this planet about dogs, I really got into the AKC. Which is funny because I didn’t have a dog myself. I still talk dogs, with my mother. Who really loves them herself (well a certain type) and think maybe my interests might have been influenced by hers? Not sure.
There was a time when I could tell you the price of everything in the store, down to the penny. But prices fluctuate so much nowadays. And there really isn’t much point to this “super power.” I think I picked it up so that I could always budget, and it really helped me fly for a long time. Now I soft-budget instead and guesstimate based off of average prices of things in relation to their worth to my being.
I am super obsessed with mustalids and am pretty sure they are god’s gift to the world. I’ve been known to crack a fact or two at (and yeah, I mean at here sadly) people at random because they jazz me up so hard.
I feel a swing back into my one true love, illustration. I am not sure where this is going right now, but I have been dreaming of hitting up a series. That I have been unraveling as I sleep (literally in my dreams - I can have a think when I sleep) about how I want to go about it. Some cool folk on here showed me a new art program and I wanna give it a go with a series and see how it turns out. I want it to be convoluted, uncomfortable, and in the style/surrounding my interests of some of my favorite illustrators. I have been smooshing and smashings bits together and I am about to move on it. So pretty excited there.
Here’s to hoping you guys share yours =)
I am super obsessed with mustalids and am pretty sure they are god’s gift to the world. I’ve been known to crack a fact or two at (and yeah, I mean at here sadly) people at random because they jazz me up so hard.
I know very little about mustelids except that most of them are SO CUTE. Tell me some cool things, please?
Also, are you a fan of the illustrator Michael Whelan? I just rediscovered some of his works because he started posting on Mastodon and it’s lovely nostalgia.
I love dogs! I don’t have one yet, but I most certainly will. I’m pretty sure it will help me cope with stress.
I’ll try to keep it short. These are the things I love doing, even though I sometimes don’t have the energy for any of it, except lying in my bed. Being autistic can be quite exhausting.
…tinkering with alternative operating systems for notebooks and smarties.
…watching Star Trek - grew up with it and just don’t get tired of (re-)watching. My fav is Voyager.
…playing video games - my favs are Loz - Breath of the Wild and Horizon - Zero Dawn
…reading - mainly SF, fantasy, and non-fic. My fav authors are Stephen Baxter, Robin Hobb, and Henry David Thorau.
…strength training - one of my rooms was turned into a training room.
…cycling - I own an almost 20 years old Specialized Rockhopper and prefer day trips.
…travelling and hiking with my GF - mainly in remote areas such as Lapland for example.
… lying in my bed, since it is the one place with the least sensory triggers.
Yeah, my therapist said unfortunately the thing that neurotypical people don’t get about being neurodivergent (as a whole) is that sometimes even resting can be exhausting. Which sounds bonkers, I know - but when you sit an think about it for two seconds you say…oh yeah - that is right.
Tinkering is always good, because you can help those around you learn to fish if they’re willing. Then in turn…they can help others around them learn to fish…if they’re willing. Or you can just work on open source stuff that helps everyone eat =P!
My gal loves Star Trek. She works with the tv on and I keep going out there and seeing her watching one of the new ones. I think her favorite might be the one with the female captain (Jane…Way? Idk - I probably have that wrong. Red headed woman). She said everyone hates it, but she likes it. It’s probably the one I’ve seen the most of as a whole, and I liked it.
My gals’ fav game is Breath of the Wild. But we both agree Horizon kinda creeps us out. I dig MoCap (I like it in the made by Supermassive) but there was something always off about Horizon to the two of us. Idk if it’s the shadows or something as horror games tend to be dark, and Horizon as far as I remember it was super bright. On my end, it’s Curious Expedition all the way. Hands down, my favorite game ever. It’s on the Switch if you’ve got a vague interest in trying it out. Idk if you can mod it though, which really extends the lifespan of it on the PC.
Strength training is always good =)! Same with cycling, although it’s not really taken on as much out here. Is Lapland where the indigenous folks are? I gave it a look and saw the reindeer. Just making an assumption, feel free to fill in blanks if you’d liek.
Beds are good, and I <3 mine. Well, no actually. I tolerate mine. I like zzzping on the floor more =P!
Cheers buddy!
Linguistics, data hoarding, and when I’m in the mood or have time, gaming and reading.
OMFG, I love LINaskflhasklahsfkhasfkhasf - LOVE! Linguistics. How the fudge popsicles did I forget that!!! I have noticed an awful homogeneous movement in the US when it comes to linguistics. The slang (terminology) might differ, but I think the internet spread a lot of frustrations and shame to the point that many people have opted for SoCal accents over their native spaces and everyone has started to sound like a slurry of shit. Which is really offensive, I know. But I wish we could keep regional dialects going for as long as they can go. I also know that class (and upwards mobility) tends to kill off dialects. And I think that’s because you have to speak a common “white tongue” and “middle class(+)” tongue to get anywhere in business and do relatively financially well. So I guess ultimately shame and capitalism are killing something I love. Which is probably the case across the board so…eh!
But let’s talk linguistics! They’re so freakin’ interesting.
(I also love reading, but it’s been kinda hit or miss lately.)
Two places that are of interest for me recently are Spain and Norway, since both end up being very central for at least understanding somewhat languages nearby. I find it super interesting to understand languages around without studying them specifically, and it also helps drawing an etymological map in my head. =D
Yooo, root languages, that’s a solid thing to trace. All anthropology in general is endlessly interesting. If you’ve got some good scraps online feel free to pass them this way. I love a good read =)!
My study materials, or even the methods, aren’t very consistent, and mostly revolve around trying to interpret posts with languages close to the ones I already know here on the fediverse, checking the etymology of terms I’m curious about (Wiktionary’s usually the first option for that), and watching some channels like youtube’s “Glossonauta” (warning: Brazilian Portuguese channel) and “Living Ironically in Europe” (has some interesting videos on linguistics despite the name).
And after the learning curve I faced thanks to Norwegian (it’s close enough to English that it often trapped me where it diverges), I also developed a habit of, when studying a new language, to think not just how it works, but also why. Like how anything can be shortened into a noun depending if the context allows in Portuguese, or how the politeness of a phrase in Japanese often seems proportional to its length, or how sounds often change in Norwegian to keep a good flow to speech, or how a language is influenced by the history or culture of its people.
Ah, you freakin’ genius! This is some really good brain cheese here. Has me firing on all cylinders thinking about rooting out etymology of terminologies. I love dialects, as I said up there. It’s like staring at the soul of a people. But there’s a huge depth in following the word from it’s current state down through it’s lineage. You’ll surely see a lot of colonization as you head down the rabbit hole. I unfortunately don’t even speak English right, so other languages. Eh. I always figured that’s the terror of the ADHD side coming in. That difficulty of translating something short term -> long term. Best I can say in this camp is when I listen to the dialogue in movies, or the lyrics in songs - I like to break down what I am hearing. It might be hard for me to understand their er…romanticized translations but I do listen to the bits and sit on them. But I’ve listened to a sea of Spanish/Japanese things by this point in my life and I never picked up either. I think the only thing I am going to end up speaking in the end is this bastardized version of Eng and conlangs =P!
Keep on keeping on though <3~!
On breaking down lyrics, reminds me of the English version of Sabaton’s “1648” song. During the song’s bridge, it seems to me that the singing becomes strangely deep for something sang in English, but since the main singer is a half Swede/Czech, a Czech name is used in that bridge, and the singer said he some times confuses the English and Swedish lyrics for that album, maybe that’s why.
And on the matter of colonization, that’s would be, for example, why the main Norwegian dialect, bokmål, is so close to Danish, as Norway, from what I could find, was a Dane colony for a few centuries. And in a similar sense, from what I could find, why the dialects in Spain are so strong, since after dictator Franco’s regime fell, a policy was placed to bring back the dialects he tried to erradicate.
I am having a listen to Sabaton. Oooo, yeah. I hear what you’re saying here. It was the same thing I felt when I was thinking when listening to Gogol Bordello. Well, I meant actually the vocals - the pitch. They sing at a pitch lower than I think most American songs tend to hit. Ah, okay I am seeing now in this lyrics video what you’re talking about. You mean dark as in subject matter, and how it seems to be highlighting some kind of battle (Thirty Years War?) ho-kay do-kay I get you now. I am embarrassed to say but I honestly know so little about European history. I don’t know if we ever touched anything like that growing up. I only even learned a bit about the Thirty Years War recently when looking up facts about a painting I saw. I will say that something we did touch upon in school was the spread of the Normans. Which I thought was more a general expansion yet again but can see it was actually a series of conquests on account of how things were expressed. Hmm.
Thank you my fellow human for poking my brain awake and getting it to bubble and churn.
I always thought perhaps in Europe things spread more by migration than colonization but I suppose it makes sense. When you actually sit and think about that too. You’ve just made me aware of how little I know as a whole, and I’ve got the itch to fill the gap. I will say
Analyzing stuff (especially code) down to the last detail on that layer of abstraction. I can tell you one fact about how bad MCreator generated code is, and a lot more about random code bugs (often minecraft related).
The local train line i use nearly daily during the semester.
A bit less reading manga and watching anime.
I also play a bit of osu.
But generally nearly everything that is some kind of intrinsic relation (not names or model numbers but how something works etc.) is interesting for me.
Ooo, I didn’t know what MCreator is but I looked it up. Oh yeah, for sure - autogen code is pretty awful. I think it’s getting better with ML, but I think in general a part of the reason why they generate “spaghetti code” is so that people can’t just a) copy their idea and create a cloned generator and b) people who use services (I mean MCreator I think is free?) can’t start to analyze code and figure out how things work and then actually just branch of and create simple websites they self-host instead of paying a monthly or annual fee.
Toss me a cool manga? The last one I read was askfhafkhasfkh…let me have a think…Ichi the Killer. Not my typical bag, but I was on this Takashi Miike kick and I wanted to see the manga behind his infamous movie.
I’ve met people who have beautiful minds like yours that take apart electronics and build new things from old items. I really dig people like that. It’s helped me branch out into trying more on my own. It’s also expanded the lifespan of most of my day-to-day devices which I dig. So keep being you, and pass on the inspiration to others =)
Mcreator is so bad, if you do a raycast you do it three times. Once for each coordinate axis.
To recommend you a manga i would like to know what kind of manga you like to read. So for now i just tell you the general recommendation of Dungeon Meshi (aka Delicious in Dungeon). Its about a group of adventurers exploring a Dungeon to rescue the sister of one of them. But since they had no time to prepare for that they eat stuff from the dungeon (monster meat, fungi, plants that grow in there). You can probably read it at your local library.
Yeah, that is kind of sketch. I wonder if it’s done that way because when they compile it each function is written as a single line as to not confuse the compiler? (As in there was some kind of bug found that they found that they chose the simplest route to fix even if it’s the most convoluted/memory intensive manner of fixing it.)
I just asked for whatever you dug and figured I would check it out and if I liked it I would read it and if it wasn’t my cup of tea no harm, no foul =)! Thanks for passing it on. I used to read a lot more manga, but I had the itch for something and I am more apt as a person on the whole to read something suggested than tracked down. So thanks again =)! Esp the cute little summary. I feel like this could be a cute game, or a mod. Which by the by, you should make =P!
I assume it is that way so they don’t let the users deal with the
Positiontype directly. But that is speculation on my side.I could try making a mod out of part of the mechanics described and shown in the manga, but that would take a long time. If i remember it when i’m back at my pc i’m gonna put it into my list of ideas for programming projects (but it will probably take years until i actually start creating the mod)
- Video Games Mostly those that allow me to tinker or engineer or just optimize from a lot of options available to the player. Minecraft, especially with the Create Mod, is a great example. I can engineer to my heart’s content with it. Space Engineers is one that if feels like I should love it but I have a hard time getting into it.
- Leftist Political Ideologies Mostly Marxism and it’s sub-groups but also Anarcho-Communism as well. This includes the history of attempts at those systems and modern examples. Sometimes this gets frustrating when I encounter an unironic use of a wholly, or almost wholly, false point being brought out again. Unfortunately some of the big names have writing styles so dry they could sap the moisture from the Atlantic.
- World History in general Especially early to mid modern history and ancient history. Military history from any point in time is also pretty enjoyable to me. Sometimes it’s frustrating like learning that a major problem of today was almost wholly caused by one person in the past having a particular preference for X over Y (ex Ford preferring internal combustion for his cars over battery power).
- Urban Design I like learning about what is and isn’t effective in terms of how to build places that work for people. What makes places safer or more dangerous, how to reduce stress through little design tricks, and how places can be a net positive for the wider area they’re in. Also trains on both large and small scale.
- Computer Programming/IT Out of all my interests this is the one I’m perusing as something I could have a job doing. Working with computers strikes a nice balance between rules being clear and exact and being open-ended enough to allow for creative solutions. Also learned I have a strong preference for C++ over Javascript. That may be because I learned C++ first and Javascript is a lot more typing intensive to do simple things.
Hey, are you the human that said that you felt uncomfortable with the weird movement? Cause someone here said that and said they were Anarcho-Communist and here ^^ You’re saying that too. I, without reading anything (like a well informed human) have been kicking around what this concept could even be. I didn’t want to read about it yet, because it’s really easy to just tip-tap-type on the internet and *click* bing -> get an answer. But I wanted to kick around what this is. And I am still kind of at a loss. Best I can come to is Anarchism <---- Void order/government | Organized for the people/Equality ----> Communism. So you’re like a…order-less egalitarian? Idk, you can give me the low-low or I can start giving it a lookie loo, but it’s what I came to.
On history, I have been trying to tease this out of my brain as well. But more so this concept that humans are not wholly different than we ever have been. Even if technology has changed us. And I was thinking that perhaps we could use the basin of knowledge of historians to point towards past-follies which might help our current ones. I know someone on here had a fantastic explanation of fascism and how it often uses arguments that contradict themselves. I would love more easily digestible factoids that could be slowly spread en-masse to others to wake the masses from their lulls. I think it’d be pretty great. Also thanks to someone on here I spent about three hours chunking through the 30 Year War earlier. I wish history was one of my fixations, but it is fun to dabble with.
Urban design is interesting, because I think the way American cities are built are pretty bunk and I would love to see a revitalization movement not full of all those weird mod-esq blocky greige apartments. I wish we upped the foot traffic and downed the car traffic. Trains are great too, not sure why America didn’t want to install rails all over the joint. I feel crippled if I don’t have a Metro I can hop on =
If you have a quaint personality and can communicate well you can do well as a dev. I wish you could be a cave troll, living in isolation, rolling out code waterfall style. I want to hunt whoever created Scrum Most Dangerous Game style. But that’s just me. If you dig C++, study C++. It doesn’t really matter what language you learn, just that you understand the concepts behind the act. And then you can translate that to other languages if you need to - and pick up the nuances as you go. And of course, first and foremost just being able to understand what to look up and what to reach out over.
Eh.
But I’m not genius or nothing. Either way feel free to talk back =)
Actually I’m a Marxist. However don’t see much reason in perpetuating the red/black divide. Both groups have the same end-goal in mind, we just want to do the two major steps in reverse order compared to each-other. The end goal is a stateless society without need of currency and without the division of people into different classes. To drastically oversimplify centuries of work to get there we need to do two things:
- Abolish Capitalism
- Abolish Nationalism
Side note: As you may be able to infer from those two steps Anarcho-Capitalism and National Socialism aren’t really from either system, rather they’ve pretty much just stolen the terms for their use rather that denote relatedness to other Anarcho-s or Socialisms.
Communists want to do them in the order I presented, generally by seizing control of the State and using it to destroy capitalism then adopting reforms to slowly make the State pointless. Anarchists want to destroy the State first then get rid of Capitalism.
One big misconception about Anarchism is that it isn’t for chaos and disorder, it’s for the end of unjustified hierarchy. An actual Anarchist experiment would still have social order, rather than be the chaotic social breakdown that is called Anarchism as a means of disinformation. A lot of Anarchist works explain how systems of voluntary cooperation can work and would be helpful to society.
Unfortunately America’s bad urban design is the product of legal corruption, lobbying, on the part of the automotive industry. Good urban design invalidates any need for a car and so the companies that make and sell cars pour billions into ensuring that ours will continue to be horrible. We used to have trains that went everywhere and they were great but again that was all unraveled for the sake of the dead-last worst way to move people in bulk: cars.
I don’t think it’s just in-part due to legal corruption. I mean of course a SLEW of it is racism. Which is fucking bonkers, because white people left the cities to get away from poc only to come back and kick them all out (which is where we’re at right now). I don’t entirely understand this world, let alone this country but I bang my head when I have a solid think about it.
Capitalism is for sure flawed. I am not sure what the equivalent would be that could be replaced large scale that would sit harmoniously with others and in that sense I am also at a loss.
I think the concept behind the chaos of anarchy is that the lack of a social contract is in fact what instills the chaos. Because people do not operate well in a space without them. Which I think…was documented with violence. As in, people used to lean heavily on retaliation murder prior to democracy being instilled. But this is just something I am parroting which is a faint memory from my studies. Personally? I don’t know. I do think though, that people without regulation are chaotic in the sense that no matter how much I want to be a “good boss” I always end up being a “fun boss” instead and people only do as much as they think they can get away with doing instead of doing what seems to be the right amount of work for the greater good. This could be a personal bias thing - or just a personality thing in general. I don’t know much else about it though, and these are just some loose thoughts on the matter. Feel free to toss more this way though.
Capitalism is for sure flawed. I, and most if not all leftists, would argue that it is inherently flawed. Not in small ways either but in the sort of large ways that make it’s continued use unacceptable. Such as essentially every Human need being denied to some people within the system.
Capitalism obsessively distributes by market forces that are fundamentally incapable of caring about universality. So long as any human need is distributed by market forces, especially paired with profit as the driving incentive, it doesn’t matter how large the surplus of it is people will be deprived of it.
I think the concept behind the chaos of anarchy is that the lack of a social contract Well, there’s also the matter that Anarchism and Communism were both relatively recently the targets of the largest and most prolific propaganda machine ever made. US media is incredibly sycophantic toward the government, to the point Russian state media bucks the line more frequently, and has been extremely effective at coloring public opinion on topics the average person knows effectively nothing about, even beyond the USA.
that people without regulation are chaotic in the sense that no matter how much I want to be a “good boss” I always end up being a “fun boss” instead and people only do as much as they think they can get away with doing instead of doing what seems to be the right amount of work for the greater good.
You’re a manager? Part of the issue with motivating workers to work without systemic change is that regardless of your managerial style we live in a system where the primary motivating force is fundamentally a death threat: work or die, likely from exposure or starvation.
Further no matter how good a manager you are they are not receiving the full value of their labor. No company in any capitalist nation employs people at the full value they produce as that would mean net profit for the company from that employee is $0. As the fundamental motivating force for all companies is increasing profit this course of action is effectively impossible as all decision-making at the topmost level is centered around doing the opposite of giving the full value they receive.
Given that workers, from the company’s perspective, are there to do as much as possible for as little as possible in return is it any wonder that so many of them take the inverse perspective? That they are there to do as little as possible for as much as possible in return.
