Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.

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  • Hegar@fedia.iotoLate Stage Capitalism@lemmy.worldNo Kings
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    2 days ago

    This is 100% true, important, but not an argument against no kings.

    We need black block, we need miltant protest camps outside ice facilities, we need people de-arresting ice’s intended victims, we need preprations for a general strike, we need direct action AND we need large scale peaceful marches.

    We need radicals AND we need coddled middle class dems who we disagree with on many points but who also oppose fascism.


  • Messengers of state and embassadors were considered sacred, sacrosanct or had some kind of official immunity in most states throughout history.

    It was a fairly common practise because it’s just really hard to conduct affairs of state if anyone you send fears for their life.

    When you want to provoke someone into war, killing their messengers is a tried and true method. I believe that was the goal of the khwarizmian shah when he killed those mongol messengers.





  • We’re all just organisms responding to factors outside of our control.

    The available responses we have are determined by our environment and thus outside our control and which response our brain determines to use is based on the sum total of things that have happened to us - also beyond our control.

    We watch our determinstic universe unfold before our eyes, the only possible way it could have, and then start blaming or applauding ourselves. As if a falling seed deserves scorn for where the wind took it.


  • This has pretty much been my position too - I’m just yet to see a valid use case for me.

    I enjoy writing and have a recognizable and idiosyncratic style. Plus i’m too ADHD to do work that requires a lot pointless reports.

    My searches are almost always obscure details that i need to be accurate.

    I’ve made a few images for rpgs i run, but i’m usually going for something very specific and off-beat which ai is not good at, plus the overly detailed style of ai art is at odds with the surreal minimalism i like.



  • Cerutti is heavily debated and most serious discussions of humans in the americas ignore it. The supposed association with stone tools fails to convince most archaeologists. A mastadon died there 130kya. That’s all cerutti can prove.

    Last i heard most experts think the bones were broken by modern construction equipment not ancient hominins.