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  • Its not that extreme when you look into it, but I get it. Anarchism has a lot of negative connotations, but It’s fundamentally an acknowledgement that hierarchy is the common thread that connects all oppressive structures (capitalism, racism, patriarchy, homophobia, transphobia, nationalism, the state, etc). As such, if we want to be free from oppression we should be dismantling hierarchies by whatever means necessary, so long as those means are compatible with our ends. This could look like the anarchist of days past, sabotaging factories, killing union busters, and assassinating kings. But it also looks like starting community gardens, running food shares, setting up free stores, tool libraries, and time banks. There’s a million ways to be an anarchist, and very few of them involve bombs






  • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldCan anyone confirm accuracy?
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    9 months ago

    Gummy bear casserole (healthy version)

    • 1 cup of sugar
    • 2 tubs of cool whip
    • 3 bags gummy bears
    • A can of mandarin oranges in light syrup
    • Brick of low fat philadelphia cream cheese (room temp)
    • teaspoon of vanilla extract

    Directions:

    • Combine the cream cheese and sugar with a mixer until fluffy
    • Add cream cheese mixture, gummy bears, 1 tub of coolwhip, mandarin oranges (drained), and vanilla into a casserole dish, mix until homogenous
    • Top with remaining tub of cool whip
    • Chill in the fridge overnight (optional, you’re gonna throw this together an hour before the party)
    • enjoy

    Source: my family is from Iowa



  • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.worldUnironic Joker Meme
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    10 months ago

    Do “Neurotypical” people exist? Seems to me like the classic example of how the average woman has 2.5 children, but you can’t find anyone who actually gives birth to 2.5 children.

    You’re confusing avreages with normative pressures. Neurodivergence wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t some broadly applicable set of behaviors, pathologies, and cultural standards to compare “abnormal” behaviors against. While true that there is no truly normal person, there is a normative standard applied to social groups that is used appropriately and inappropriately. An appropriate use of this norm allows us to identify groups with similar diversions from the “norm” and find ways to either develop treatment for harmful aspects of these diversions or (ideally) adjust aspects of the normative social standard that are needlessly damaging to the out groups. An inappropriate utilization of social norms excludes outgroups and furthers the already existing harm done to those groups (a part of this is the stereotypes that you mention).

    Or you could just deny the existence of this cultural technology, call it an abstraction with no use or foundation in reality, and use that denial to invalidate the struggles of marginalized groups because you’re so high off your own farts that you’d rather use semantics and “nuance” to be an overly technical weiner and hide your bigotry with a paper thin veneer of “scrutinizing stereotypes”.

    To throw a personal anecdote in, men generally, and white men in particular, have usually been the ones to inflict their unsolicited “advice” on all sorts of things in my life. Especially things they haven’t personally struggled with and don’t really understand. Plenty of white men have “the hustle” and “grindset” mentality too. And they’re usually the ones to be the most adamant about it.


  • The Linux propaganda here got to me about 2 years ago and I switched to Linux mint. Pretty smooth sailing for day-to-day stuff. However, a few days ago I decided that I wanted to try modding fallout new vegas on my computer and that’s been a pain in the ass (still trying to figure it out). The problem is that a lot of the default packages in the mint repositories are outdated and cause a lot of more recently updated programs to malfunction. So I’ve had to figure out how to get updated packages by using the terminal (first time I’ve needed to open terminal this entire time) and update them one by one, figuring out which new thing is breaking one by one until everything is working.

    For that reason, I’d recommend going with a distro that doesn’t have as much of a lag between updates if you’re planning on doing anything like what I described. There’s almost certainly ways to do what I’m trying to do that are less tedious/frustrating in mint, but I don’t know what the fuck I’m doing, dont understand most of what I’m reading, and there just isn’t much out there for my specific issues.

    Despite my gripes, I’m still enjoying Linux more than windows. If something didn’t work on windows, and it couldn’t be solved with updating drivers or something similar, I’d just give up. Since everything is wide open in Linux, I know that the solution to my problems are achievable if I just do it right. Instead of being told no by my OS, I’m given a list of reasons why something isn’t working, and then I can just go and fix it




  • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.ziptomemes@lemmy.world8 bit rule
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    1 year ago

    First, “make it 0!” - * Number *! As a “surprise factorial” (as seen in comments in this very thread making this exact joke) is a common joke in threads like this and that was the only connection I could make for this meme, having no previously knowledge of binary quirks.

    Second, I don’t know if you were trying to be a dick or you’re just some overly wordy ass clown high on your own farts, but how on earth is me explaining what I thought a joke meant, showing why it didn’t work, and then asking for help to understand it vacuous?