Hastur @ Hastur @sh.itjust.works

The King In Yellow

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Representative Democracies have failed (are failing) like all other political ruling systems have failed so far. Some failed just faster than others that failed more catastrophically while some fail silently (agonizing). In the end all systems failed.

Weak attempt to derail.

What a great episode and also plot point.

I remember that scene, I laugh every time I rewatch the series.

Realistically it seems to be (not my opinion but my observation):

• Shoes and clothes made in Bangladesh
• Car parts (filters, hoses, tin parts) made in India
• Foxconn China
• Rare earth mining
• Servants and immigrant workers in Qatar and Dubai.

Just to name a few examples of slave labour required to run the world "as is."

Hmmm that's an interesting topic, thanks for bringing this upz it's something I never thought about.

So without thinking this through just eyeballing it here's my take;

Prisons are expensive and the inmate needs to still make up for his crimes. Also being imprisoned without any kind of productive activity could have negative impact on mind and body.

Now there need to be sone rules:

• Additional qualification or study that are beneficial for the resocialisation and could lead to higher future income or better chance of getting a job should have priority.
• Pay should be fair and reasonable, the pay should be split in a fair way is the inmate needs to pay for his crimes (restitution etc). There must be a minimum remainder for the inmate so they have money available while imprisoned and the rest should be made available when they are released.
• Working conditions, breaks, OSHA etc needs to be on par with the standards outside of prison.

Now is enforcing labour still considered slavery? Could be but at least in Europe you lose some (not all) human rights when you've been sentenced to prison so it's acceptable.

Now one disclaimer: This is with only theoretical knowledge about prisons on western Europe. The US prison system is something else all together.

Bester was amazing and one of Koenigs most iconic roles, he really enjoyed being the bad guy and he played it out.

Amazing performance!

Boycotts as individual decisions yes. Boycotts as institutional warfare (top to bottom) are not.

I had that impression from your initial response, but I might have misunderstood.

I still disagree that thought and speech lead deterministically to action which is a thing you actually stated. Your argument is the same as the one used against POV shooters and there's no evidence for this claim.

So your conclusion is: "Dear admins, defederate from everything I deem offensive?"

OK but why ask for curated blocking (defederation, censorship) when you can decide what you want to see? Emails as protocol works despite the spam.

To everyone downvoting this because you can't stand your opinion being challenged:

I invite you to a discussion here.

PD: I am here in the Fediverse because I like to challenge other opinions as much as being challenged, this is how we, how humanity grows, learns and evolves. I'm not here to live in a safe space/echo-chamber and being reassured, this would be boring and mind-numbing.

Get out there, learn new things, test your opinions, ideals and biases against others and see how they evolve.

How about you curate your own filters and take care of your own filter-bubble (or echo-chamber for that matter)? The beauty of the Fediverse is that there's no central instance to censor or dictate the course.

Start your own instance if you dislike the open marketplace of opinions.

You have to realize that there is no spoon

Quite hyperbolic. Sorry but I don't see a point for further engagement, I don't see me your you benefitting from continuing this exchange. You don't want to engage nor reason, you like to deflect. Which is a fine strategy to look smart, but it doesn't further the discussion.

On a personal note; Find an instance that doesn't give you grievances.

You might not want to look into most voting mechanisms used in representative democracies...

Voting is voting. Nobody was talking about fair, equal etc votes.

Right now the way votes are cast it imperfect and can be exploited by using sockpuppet accounts, but this can change at any time and switch to a polling service. Is that better? Well maybe, electronic voting is hard.

But as I said: Your issue is a non-issue, the inherent nature of the Fediverse makes it irrelevant, just switch instance, self-host... There's no exclusivity here. You're not the customer or the product here, you're a contributor and you can contribute from anywhere.

Thunder is currently my go-to for reading/scrolling Lemmy.

You see a problem where there is none: Don't like voting, find an anarchist lemmy instance. Don't like this either? Open your own. That's the beauty of the Fediverse, you're not prisoner of a centralised platform, the same service, the same information can get to you via any other instance.

Now let's have a good and narrow definition of corporate instance and we might agree on that.