I think that’s the right source material to answer the comment’s question, but the wrong answer.

The central idea of that book is that the most necessary labor is devalued under hierarchy in order to inflate the importance of unnecessary roles. Not that unnecessary labor is created to keep people occupied. It is, but the unnecessary labor inventoried in that book by Graeber are mostly decently-paid white collar jobs, used to illustrate the fact that even do-nothing cushy roles are paid better than our most essential workers.

It’s the most popular browser by user base. It’s today’s Internet Explorer.

Brave is Chrome, stop suggesting that people use Chrome as an alternative to Chrome.

I stay away from sites and services that don’t work well on Firefox. Firefox complies with open web standards, if a site doesn’t run well on Firefox it implies that the operator is doing something fucky that you’d probably not be OK with.

What the hell they’re both Chrome!!

I think some people mistake consensus for democracy. Consensus is a a higher threshold of harmony, definitely something we should strive for and could achieve given sufficient organizational foundations. But a hierarchical profit-motivated company or even a hierarchical municipal institution are not that necessary foundation.

In a world of power disparity and ulterior motives, committing to improvements despite marginal criticisms is usually the right thing to do and usually the only way anything ever gets better.

Yeah my experience with community boards are that they’re effectively the municipality saying “No, you cannot do direct democracy. Unless you’re doing it to veto safe streets planned and proposed by the dedicated tax-paid professionals in the transportation department.” And surprise surprise the chairs of these CB committees are always car-owning boomers appointed for life by city council members. So very democratic.

…Is that a computer terminal from one of the 3D Mode 7 sections of the SNES Jurassic Park game? Nice.

it’s exceedingly unrealistic that 500 Zohrans will get elected anywhere in this country

It’s not at all though, that was my point. NYC mayor is by far the most nationally-visible mayoral office in the country. And there are like 50,000 towns and cities in the US. A socialist or progressive / social democratic mayor in 1 out of every 100 is a realistic and quite reasonable goal. Actually, framing it this way sounds to me like a good way to get people motivated.

Most of those 300+ million people had absolutely nothing to do with Zohran becoming mayor. He is the result of a concerted effort from a few hundred local activists over a period of several years, with a large snowballing spike in participation toward the very end. Someone like Zohran, custom-tailored to their district, can happen almost anywhere in the US so long as the local progressives can collaborate and stay focused. NYC just so happens to be a city of nearly 9 million but remember, a mayor is still a hyper local office, local offices are the easiest seats to flip when you’ve got an affinity group with a targeted agenda. We can definitely have 500 mayors like him and most US citizens don’t have to have a thing to do with it.

Maybe yes tho

Yeah I’m not suggesting that was a problem, I prefer it that way and as you said, that’s their intended use.

However maybe…?

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No, in a world where gender expression is straightjacketed and violence meets non-conformity it’s very normal for even the normative to be unsure of where they stand, and we should count it as a blessing that any straight person feels the need to stop to give it thought. Please don’t go pressuring people into accepting your assumptions about their orientation, your experiences and feelings are not theirs.

OK but consider if

People with no critical theory or ideology be like: They both look very vaguely kind of similar. I think I’m on to something here.

And he himself was an NYPD chief.

Took me about 8 hours, I was slow and careful. You can fuck it up, but only if you’re totally reckless and ignore the instructions.

Same, an ex and I were early Cupcake CNC adopters, but then I didn’t touch a 3D printer for a decade. When I got back into it the Prusa MK3S+ was the obvious choice for DIY/FOSS lineage, that thing is not fancy but it sure is a tank.