No need to waste revolutionary potential. We’ll take the men too and give 'em some mandatory orientation.

Prior to intercourse, make 'em do material analysis of the looksmaxxing phenomena as the logical conclusion of the capital system.

Hol’up

The only standard under capitalism is and always has been profit. All else is temporary aberrations usually reflecting some form of labour shortage (of particular skill or general).

Awesome. You know why I’m happy abt it? The lefty (not lib) ideology is popular and salient. Solidarity feels good. The material conditions literally push people into it. The product is good and I know many if not most who try it are getting hooked. This shit builds communities. The angry capitalists are the ones that should be scared.

OMG it’s real.

Don’t tell them what happens when angry lefty women get together with angry lefty men. Manosphere gon turn comrade.

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Must be bad if they took material action.

This plant was supposed to make EV batteries. Then Trump got re-elected.

That’s mostly a problem in capitalist economies. We already support some 3 times more elderly per person today than we did after WWII. How did that happen without the economy scuttling? Productivity growth. We pooduce way more products and services per head than we did back then. The problem is most of that is collected by the owner classes. If the owner class consuped less resources we’d be able to provide more to our elderly. A non-capitalist economy can allocate production and distribution more based on need and not on return on investment on private capital. Part of that would be using productivity gains from mass automation to fulfill these needs with fewer people. Under the capital system automation gains go into more hyperyachts and private space trips.

This is just looking at the material reality of the problem. I can’t effectively threaten someone who I’m heavily dependent on without present alt. Kinda how Trump got slapped when he tried economic coercion on China. If the EU has a domestic alternative to Big Tech’s cloud services that’s in wide use and easy to scale up, the they can legitimately threaten Big Tech. That said even then that would not be enough given the newly developed dependence on US - LNG. Threaten Big Tech and the US threatens cutting off the gas supply. A gas supply shortage topples governments.

It’s like they’re hellbent on living out the antisemitic stereotypes. It’s getting difficult to fight antisemitism outside of Israel.

And I don’t think the war and $5 gas are fully reflected in these opinion surveys quite yet.

The technically lirerate people aren’t exempt from the power dynamics created by the vast market share of Chrome and Google, created and reinforced by Google. Even if they/we have some more freedom to maneuver. We still only test our web app features on Chromium because there’s limited time for testing, if any, and we can’t convince product that making sure the feature works, or fixing bugs on a 2-3% browser is priority. If all the developers in the world used Firefox, it would still not change this power dynamic.

This is of course thanks to all the people shitting on Firefox over the years and saying that Chrome is just better and that there’s nothing wrong with giving Google control over the web. So yeah, thanks.

No it’s not thanks to those people. Blaming individuals for not stopping what a much bigger, infinitely more resourced, organized actor has been/is doing to maximize profit is shifting the material responsibiltiy from the actor with real power to the actors without. It’s like the personal carbon footprint oil&gas came up with to shift responsibility for climate pollution from themselves to individuals. Or plastic and recycling. It feels good to lay blame on those people who did something we did not but it doesn’t help change anything material beyond that. Divides us into camps which prevents us from organizing against the profit-driven culprits.

Probably. If you use the WiFi on it, make sure to check if its WiFi is supported.

Been using OpenWrt on a Pi 4 for many years now. It’s been flawless. I’m using Ubiquiti APs. I’ve now replicated this setup in 4 more households with similar results.

Which males sense. Most people rarely act on indirect impact or moral arguments. I’d translate it to “Hey you know the latest version of Chrome is killing your battery. They made it do some of the AI calculations on your computer instead of their clpud because it’s too expensive so they want you to pay instead.” And I won’t send the original article.

You have to fallocate /deeznuts first.

/swapfile

Yeah, what I said in no way invalidates their thesis, which is well done. Rather I’m highlighting the problem is much bigger and entrenched than what it appears to be in our industry. Arguably change in our indistry could be more impactful for the whole working class since we can stop the whole economy now that critical parts of it run in the cloud. So if the message is targeted at us, it’s probably good targeting.