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Comment on Linkin Park - The Emptiness Machine (2024) in ~music
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Comment on The rise of DIY, pirated medicine: Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has made DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible to the masses in ~health
oliak LinkHell yeah. Already know someone who built one of the Microlab and that's all I'll say on that. Fuck big pharma and fuck the capitalist model of medicine specifically now and forever.Hell yeah. Already know someone who built one of the Microlab and that's all I'll say on that. Fuck big pharma and fuck the capitalist model of medicine specifically now and forever.
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Comment on Where do you fit in the US political typology? in ~misc
oliak LinkOutsider left. I didn't answer several questions as well since both answers were unacceptable. For the record I'm an anarchist.Outsider left.
I didn't answer several questions as well since both answers were unacceptable. For the record I'm an anarchist.
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Comment on I hate alcohol. Totally hate it. in ~talk
oliak Link ParentNo worries, we all need to vent from time to time. Hell even I was brisk at the very least but we all deal with shit. Glad you're dealing and not just bottling at least. Back to hell, I mean...No worries, we all need to vent from time to time. Hell even I was brisk at the very least but we all deal with shit. Glad you're dealing and not just bottling at least. Back to hell, I mean reality. Good luck friend.
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Comment on I hate alcohol. Totally hate it. in ~talk
oliak LinkMeh. You're speaking from a place of trauma so nuance isn't going to be a thing here. I'm not even a drinker but even I can see through to the pain speaking here. I'd suggest maybe speak to a...Meh.
You're speaking from a place of trauma so nuance isn't going to be a thing here. I'm not even a drinker but even I can see through to the pain speaking here. I'd suggest maybe speak to a professional, get the kids in to therapy as well and maybe consider family therapy as well.
The history of humanity is a history of alcohol, abolition of intoxicating substances never works and in fact does more harm. Moderation and healthy patterns have to be taught and demonstrated, that's all. But that's neither here nor there, that's not what your post is about.
Your post is a cry for help, which no one here can provide. Again, get the kids into therapy if they're not, get yourself in there with them from time to time and heal. Don't blame an inanimate object for the actions of a person. I wish you a good life and better times friend.
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Comment on Let's hear some Tabletop RPG stories! in ~games.tabletop
oliak LinkI run a cyberpunk/precursor artifact accelerated world in Fate. My players decided in this campaign to start pretty low level for the most part and underpowered to "come from the streets" and...I run a cyberpunk/precursor artifact accelerated world in Fate.
My players decided in this campaign to start pretty low level for the most part and underpowered to "come from the streets" and really have potential for a large power arc (it's going to be a multi-year campaign).
So in order to make some extra creds they took a job from an app for criminals (lol) which was to disrupt this gentrifying mid-sized upstart of a corporate corner store in an old part of the city that still had some locals and flavor to it and hadn't be over run by the mega-corps bullshit quite yet. Part of the stated job description was also that they could keep anything they stole from the place as a bonus.
So they stake the place out, place surveillance drones, canvas the area, get a couple people inside, talk to locals, hit the local corner shop, hit the bar, speak to one of the employees who is a netrunner who is one of two people that essentially serve as the mainframe for the store (it's cheaper to use a human as a CPU than a PC...gotta love a dystopia), they trail the owner to his condo, pick his pockets, toss his apartment, map the patterns of the security service patrols, access the email system and inventory controls.
During which they discover that the store is running on the bare minimum of insurance, behind on a couple payments and a bad month could possibly collapse the entire business.
So they've got all these wheels in motion, they've got all this actionable data. What do they decide to do?
You guessed it.
They set off a dirty bomb in the store. -
Comment on Atheists of Tildes, what alive religions do you find fascinating, excluding Abrahamic ones and Buddhism? in ~talk
oliak Link ParentI've actually read up on and been a fan of Taoist philosophies for quite some time now (amongst my friends I'm known to "have a soft spot for them" given my harsh attitude towards many religions....I've actually read up on and been a fan of Taoist philosophies for quite some time now (amongst my friends I'm known to "have a soft spot for them" given my harsh attitude towards many religions.
With that said may I ask you for advice/a question? (I'm now going to assume you said yes, lol). Can you point me in a good direction for learning how to implement Taoist practices? Is there any books/videos/etc that I should look into that can teach me more about how to utilize some of the teachings best? Thank you kindly in advance :)
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Comment on I worked for Mr. Beast, he’s a fraud in ~tech
oliak Link ParentI mean there are other creators who don't manipulate kids to make their money. lol That seems a decently less scummy starting position to work from. shrugI mean there are other creators who don't manipulate kids to make their money. lol That seems a decently less scummy starting position to work from. shrug
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Comment on Are you a hiring manager/recruiter in tech? In this Circus Funhouse Mirror tech economy, how do candidates even get an interview? in ~tech
oliak Link ParentYour suck doesn't make my suck suck any less. The yoke of capitalism is upon us all and the same distinctions would have been made at the same time as well in history. "It's not like you were...Your suck doesn't make my suck suck any less. The yoke of capitalism is upon us all and the same distinctions would have been made at the same time as well in history.
"It's not like you were stolen from your home land. Don't use that term."
This isn't the first time around. People were well aware of working in a covered building versus working in a field when these terms were created. It's just a matter of degrees now.
I for one will continue to use these terms, making the historical case for the continued use of them. I recognize a categorical distinction between types of labor but at the end of the day, it is a person who if they don't comply will be subject to the punishment of the system.
It is also a person who has a multitude of health (both physical and mental) consequences tied to their occupation. Is the bad back from picking vegetables in a field morally different from the bad back garnered from an office worker? Is the carpal tunnel from a flower picker in Colombia morally different from that of a programmer? Is the stress induced hypotension in a warehouse worker different from that of a IT Security Specialist? All of these people have been put upon by the managerial and corporate/capitalistic forces of the world. They all will suffer consequences if they rebel against them.
Some will suffer sooner, faster but all will and do suffer. Stratifying these ails of our world keeps the masses locked into psychological silos that prevent class solidarity at the end of the day. The suffering of the office worker is the same suffer of the field worker and they should see each other as allies in this fight.
Rhetoric that undermines this I will always oppose.
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Comment on Are you a hiring manager/recruiter in tech? In this Circus Funhouse Mirror tech economy, how do candidates even get an interview? in ~tech
oliak Link ParentIn fact the terminology of wage slave dates back to the transition from mercantilism to what we'd now be calling capitalism. The first wave of early protesters saw what was coming, the demands...In fact the terminology of wage slave dates back to the transition from mercantilism to what we'd now be calling capitalism. The first wave of early protesters saw what was coming, the demands that would be placed on the workers, the loss of freedoms that amounted to indentured servitude.
In fact before the party swap the Republican Party of old (circa 1870s) openly opposed "slavery and wage slavery". From their perspective they saw only minor differences between someone using economic forces to sell you versus using economic forces to force you to rent yourself.
This thought process finds it roots even with some of Thomas Jefferson's writings and Lincoln even notably provided minor support for the concept that laborers who spend their lives waging were comparable to slaves. He was of the belief that both methods of work were wrongly subordinating labor to capital.
Here's a kicker for you, in fact some of the pro slavery Southerners actually argued that wage slavery was worse than chattel slavery (George Fitzhugh notably amongst them).
So this isn't to diminish what we recognize as chattel slavery nor the abuses of modern forms of servitude but to maybe help you recontextualize the historical manifestation of wage work as it was and has been seen by people involved in these things since the beginning of it's emergence.
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Comment on Tabletop game forumite achieves posting godhood, emerging from the void after 100,000 hour eleven year ban to continue the same argument from 2013 in ~games.tabletop
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Comment on Disney hack results in leak of over 1 TB of Slack data in ~tech
oliak LinkThanks for the heads up. My crew and I just had a convo about this. Quite the breach...wow.Thanks for the heads up. My crew and I just had a convo about this. Quite the breach...wow.
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Comment on He secretly changed this freeway sign, helped millions of drivers in ~transport
oliak LinkGuerrilla Public Service 2011 published by Ankrom himself if anyone wants to watch it. https://youtu.be/Clgl63CWOkM Thanks for the posting! Fun watch.Guerrilla Public Service 2011 published by Ankrom himself if anyone wants to watch it.
https://youtu.be/Clgl63CWOkMThanks for the posting! Fun watch.
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Comment on Is cycling in the suburbs a lost cause? in ~transport
oliak LinkThe suburbs were always a crime against humanity. They started as racist enclaves for white Americans and through capitalist endeavor devolved even further into the shitshow we see today. They are...The suburbs were always a crime against humanity. They started as racist enclaves for white Americans and through capitalist endeavor devolved even further into the shitshow we see today. They are unlivable to a huge degree, any positive they purport to have is offset with a litany of downsides to the individual, the family, the community, the environment and thus the world as a whole.
I know we can't just tear everything up and go full central planning on this problem but holy shit do we need to rethink the manner in which we are organizing our country. Desperately.
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Comment on Tractor Supply slashes its DEI and climate goals after a right-wing pressure campaign in ~finance
oliak LinkMore right-wing/conservative idiots trying to drag us back to the dark ages. Not surprised at all. Honestly conservativism is going to be the death of us all at this rate.More right-wing/conservative idiots trying to drag us back to the dark ages. Not surprised at all. Honestly conservativism is going to be the death of us all at this rate.
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Comment on Boeing agrees to plead guilty to felony in deal with US Justice Department in ~transport
oliak Link ParentAgreed on the nix the death penalty for humans but also maybe if a company is found guilty we hold the C Suite responsible and start tossing some of these callous motherfuckers in jail for their...Agreed on the nix the death penalty for humans but also maybe if a company is found guilty we hold the C Suite responsible and start tossing some of these callous motherfuckers in jail for their organization's actions.
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Comment on Please convince me to like Fallout 76, I beg you in ~games
oliak LinkOn launch it was...oh yeah, it was so hilariously, laughably, class-action law-suit worthy bad. You are playing the best possible version of it likely and it's still a dog's dinner. Seriously...On launch it was...oh yeah, it was so hilariously, laughably, class-action law-suit worthy bad. You are playing the best possible version of it likely and it's still a dog's dinner. Seriously though, there's no salvaging this experience for you. Just write off the £8 and move on. Go back, install a shit ton of FO4 mods and play that through. Don't fall for some suck cost fallacy shit, cut your losses and go on to the next thing.
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Comment on What's your recommended survival crafting game to play solo? in ~games
oliak LinkI'm going to second giving Zomboid a chance. There's a reason that every run starts with "This is the story of your death." Just accept you're going to be zombie chow over and over for a while....I'm going to second giving Zomboid a chance. There's a reason that every run starts with "This is the story of your death." Just accept you're going to be zombie chow over and over for a while. Use those deaths to figure out the combat mechanics (spin up characters with tanky/bruiser type stats and just go at it).
Yes, the systems can be very deep (and mods can make that depth even crazier) but I think you'll love it if that's your sorta jam in the first place.
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Comment on Has anyone stopped caring about politics? in ~humanities
oliak Link ParentHow do you think I got the ability to have one of our city council members who was opposed to the homeless shelter being set up thrown out of office? It's through the connections made doing the...How do you think I got the ability to have one of our city council members who was opposed to the homeless shelter being set up thrown out of office? It's through the connections made doing the above activities.
Building community, building a network of connections is how power is accumulated and refusal to participate is the active refusal of power, it's rolling over and taking it.
When the homeless encampment in Dallas was threatened by the city, the John Brown Gun Club showed up and defended it. The city apologized and said it was a "misunderstanding".
It's not about "whether capitalism will continue to exist or whatever" it's about mitigating the effects of it for those that exist NOW. I'm reminded of MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail once again and his warning of moderates and how they stand in the way more than the KKK member. It's the complete resigning oneself to "oh well what are you gonna do" that harms people more than the bad actors themselves, it's middle managers, people who just go along to get along and the like that allow the harm to come. Too many inactive people who refuse to engage in their communities and build those power structures that would allow them to have the connections to start to make changes that affect the greater world around them because why? Because they took one too many L's I guess. Get back up and do it again then.
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Comment on Has anyone stopped caring about politics? in ~humanities
oliak Link ParentHi, community organizer, activist and anarchist here. I'm deeply invested in politics and I am doing a shitload more than you, that I can promise. It's not a contest but I do think that if more...Hi, community organizer, activist and anarchist here.
I'm deeply invested in politics and I am doing a shitload more than you, that I can promise. It's not a contest but I do think that if more people invested in their community, helped create dual-power structures that dis-invested the resources of the people from that of the state and corporate infrastructure more we'd be better off.
So what can you be doing? First have the conversation with people who are willing and able to take the next step. Whether it's helping homeless people, organizing a community garden, assisting at a free-clinic, getting a banned-book/free-library going, training for defense of self (and others), setting up or just beginning to stockpile and allocate resources (such as food and water) with your immediate neighbors to better weather downturns in the economy (or whatever else hits us next).
Sitting back and idly expecting voting to be your savior is not how change works. Change comes when people act.
Meet like minded people, organize yourselves, ensure that you can help each other equitably and work from there.
If you have questions beyond that, send me a DM, I can point you to a where you can have a voice chat with me and a community full of people like me who are engaged and doing things from all over the globe.
From her Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/stories/emilyarmstrong/3451527381347257919/):
“Hi, I’m Emily, I’m new to so many of you, and I wanted to clear the air about something that happened a while back.
Several years ago, I was asked to support someone I considered a friend at a court appearance, and went to one early hearing as an observer. Soon after, I realized I shouldn’t have. I always try to see the good in people, and I misjudged him. I have never spoken with him since.
Unimaginable details emerged and he was later found guilty.
To say it as clearly as possible: I do not condone abuse or violence against women, and I empathize with the victims of these crimes.”
So she did get caught up in it but has since distanced herself from it maintaining she was duped. Take that for whatever it may be worth but she was one of the ones called in as a show of support for him in court. Whether she was an unwilling participant who just didn't know her "friend" was a horrible rapist (even though at that point it was sort of just a known quantity) is up to you.