Page 1: report supporters of the regime as dissidents. Bog the bureaucracy down by supporting it really hard. It's not malicious compliance... its help.
What are the details? Is it only deposits through the post office or does that apply at the banks own ATMs?
5 days a week with a week off every 8 weeks 👍
Though I cant say I love it... it's a necessary pain.
I go through my follows until I am out of content before heading to Global, #zapathon or not.
I never use the hashtags because I somehow broke search in the app.
What if they were all Hello Kitty, MLP or anime waifus?
Now I'm curious what spicy things you posted.
Having conversations about such expansive topics like economics or philosophy is difficult to have over text. I generally don't like to get too far with them due to time cost and the ease of misinterpretting. 90% of conversation is body language, and sticking to text leaves us with an easy to misinterpret dialogue based on our existing emotions or poorly thought-out wording.
So, with that, my response:
I definitely do not have the experience needed to take my perspective all that seriously. I just enjoy reading, listening to new perspectives, and thinking about everything in my spare time. Take it with a pinch of salt and season your ideas wherever it may help.
Ironically, positive feedback loops can feed negative feedback loops and can put us in a hard position to maneuver. An example was given during an economist debate (I forget which). At the start, the economists asked the audience how many people would support affordable housing policies. The entire audience obviously raised their hands, who wouldn't wish to help people? Roughly 10 minutes later, after the conversation had moved well onto other things, the economists asked the audience if they would support policies that lowered the price of their homes but nobody raised their hands, missing the overall point. The audience wanted to have their cake and eat it too by arguing for more affordable housing without lowering the cost of housing.
"Betterment of the masses" is beyond idealistic: its insidious. The welfare of the people has always been the alibi of tyrants. If they, the ruling classes, could have the power to fundamentally alter humans to behave as their system demands, they would do it and justify the action into total delusion, believing they have saved everyone from themselves. They advertise mind reading earbuds, electroshock scarves, and ectolife baby factories as "betterment" because their idea of "better" is more productive and less self-interested population. This idea of "better" is clearly self-serving, whether they are concious to it or not.
_The square blocks need to fit in the circles, so cut the edges to make it more compliant and less painful to deal with._
"Tyrants are active and ardent and will devote themselves to any god, spiritual or otherwise, to put shackles on sleeping men" - Voltaire
As for feedback loops, I would agree they have been building in our societies for a little while. The consequences have been kicked down the road too long, and we are reaching the point where there are too many cans to keep kicking effectively. Our previous can kicking only made the next part of the feedback loop a little worse.
Some call it late stage capitalism, but I feel it's a few broader, more universal phenomena that no system can circumvent.
All systems are an attempt at creating an unchanging entity within a changing universe, making it quite bad at adapting to new circumstances or the consequences of its own behavior. No problem can be fixed with the ideas that created it.
If we take a somewhat more perspectivist approach, as you seem to allude to, we can say every good or bad depends on the position of observation. These systems only work for their creators and always fail as the next few generations desire different customs. All the good becomes the bad as the system now tries to prevent them from deviating too heavily. Balkanization inevitably occurs with enough people inside the system for a long enough time.
Systems or otherwise, the greatest strength happens to be the greatest weakness when viewed from a different position.
Plastic's most (and least) desirable trait is its ability to withstand structural breakdown. Specific horomones boost our performance while killing us. Like a candle, we burn bright or burn long.
The ability to hide from authorities protects both political dissidents and sociopathic degenerates.
Everything has pros/goods/benefits and cons/evils/detriments, but it's our focus that determines how we take things.
"There is no good or bad, but thinking makes it so" - Shakespeare, Hamlet
On that last part, I see it as a chicken and egg situation for now. Did the wasteful production of 'fluff' and 'junk' come before the desire to live as royalty, or was it the other way around? Maybe this environment came into existence to serve both the producers and consumers equally. The producers want more consistent income (deflationary currencies and maintainable products make consumer purchases inconsistent), and the consumers wanted things to be so cheap they lived in a luxury royalty of the past could only dream of. The producers oversupply with hard to maintain products, and both desires are satisfied.
That's not to say either of these desires is beneficial for the ecosystems around us, it's not yet.
Anyways, thanks for coming to my Ted talk. You are all now a little more stupid for having listened to it.
Thats just awful! At least its only 4 days.
Yesterday somebody told me I looked like Henry Cavill.
Quite flattering but I know the truth.
Imagine scrolling through then just seeing this. I had a chuckle.
Just post random stuff and add the word 'porn' to make it harder and more annoying to find it here. Fill the bot pages with unrelated content. Don't resist the bots, use them 😆
It doesn't even need to be related to porn. I have seen pretty vague stuff unrelated get a boost. They need better sentiment analysis.
Thats not a big achievement though; even I got a porn bot to boost me 😆
Yea, but you would probably be happy when that exists 😆
Specialization is the biggest cause of knowledge outsourcing. It's how we get cryptographers, surgeons, economists, physicists, mechanics, pilots, engineers, and every other position that requires a high time cost to get skilled in.
It is the backbone of efficient economies but it also created a feedback loop that creates further specialization and limitation on how we can perceive things. As we specialize further to better compete we also lose that time that could be used anywhere else, limiting what we can focus on. A mechanic and a doctor are different types of repair but how many people can really learn both? And if someone does learn both would they have time to pay attention to electronics?
This behaviour allowed us to create quite efficient, but wasteful, economies and the success itself has consequences.
It's not a paradox to say actions have equal and opposite reactions; a pretty stable law of physics and an important concept in many religions and philosophies.
Though I agree the actions of the powerful usually seem to boil down to expanding and keeping their power. Electronics rarely improve or innovate now so the two common strategies are planned obsolescence and new "cool" looks, like the fashion and vehicle industries. Planned obsolescence has been one of the older behaviours to bleed people of their well earned wealth faster. It becomes the primary strategy when real improvement becomes prohibitively costly from investments diminishing returns.
I wish they could expand into other countries as I've wanted one for a few years now.
Okay just throwing that in.
EU wants to require smartphone companies to let users replace batteries, instead of buying a new phone.
But the phone companies won’t just accept that and will resist & trying to find backdoors 🤔
Discussed that with nostr:npub1fq8vrf63vsrqjrwqgtwlvauqauc0yme6se8g8dqhcpf6tfs3equqntmzut yesterday, crazy that its more profitable to design a new phone, instead of investing longterm and saving the money instead.
What are your thoughts on this?
A link I quick searched about it:
You know how the EU ruled that Apple needed to conform to industry standards and use usb-c instead of have their own port and their response was to make a special usb-c of their own that would only work well (if at all?) when all parts were from Apple?
It could be like that. The manufacturer could cut out third parties and charge more than necessary for the parts.
That's how it felt reading all the comments 🤣
You just had to say it.