I wonder how long till the middle class, many of whom are unfortunately fine with the least fortunate only being in a desperate situation, riot from facing more and more desperation themselves. You need economic policy exactly to prevent things like riots because they are inevitable once enough people are starving that the state cannot suppress them.

I completely am opposed to the entire system by the way, of the least fortunate and those others who never were fine with these things, those who never intended harm on anyone, being forced into helpless situations. What I mean is, Russia is going to probably feel the brunt of this war for at least a decade and somewhat probably more, since out of the two countries in it they’re the ones who have buried their heads into the ground and are aggressively choosing ignorance about how they’re breaking up the various systems in place which were meant to ensure they can continue to lead their normal lives (which is heavily dependent, because we do not live in a world where the aspiration is to learn to be technically capable of making everything we use; that would also be impossible anyway, at least in the same scope, without a lot of cruel systems in place. Those systems themselves people either look at and acknowledge, or prefer it remains unsaid, or are outright hostile on mention with a variety of accusations of being disruptive put forth). Apparently these systems are unnecessary and Russia will transcend all.

In my opinion though, soon too many will suffer for the state to manage. And many of the rioting will also come from the thoughtless parts of the common population which supported the war fully for glory. It has always happened—they will pretend like they were among the reasonable who never had a stance on the war (if not the reasonable who opposed the war) and will play the victim when shown by random persons around to be one who excitedly cheered on the invasion.

One thing that goes unsaid is the populations who take a side out of ‘helplessness’ though. I live in India, a place which wants to be present day Russia and is inching there, and my own family and just about everyone in the neighborhood and broad community of the middle class have ‘taken a side’ already and go along with things so as to not face the circumstances which ‘unwanted’ rebels face. These are the people who are the ‘good, ordinary, non-violent’ people. The ones who do not go along with it are considered scum, even by ordinary politically natured people who are publicly ‘against’ these things, or are considered problematic and disruptive to peace by those who would have, in better times, been neutral (and bury their heads in the ground at thoughts like what if they were the ones who could not simply make a choice to secure safety for the immediate future; rather had no option but to suffer). The ones who really oppose the controlling powers from the core of their being are usually seen as fools and die soon enough in most cases, because it is easy to lose everything you have if you really do so more than the ‘I publicly oppose but co-operate and obey’ way. There is passive support for the controlling sides usually, when people come across a situation where cruelty is thrown in their face and a decision is demanded by the situation. Choosing to co-operate with the repressors is what is usually chosen. And when directly confronted by ones from that side, passive support becomes active support, as much as is deemed necessary by these people to not face problems themselves. The ones who do not side with the controlling side are guaranteed to suffer.

A few even here on beehaw turn their heads away and justify it on the basis of people feeding their families (literally not a joke), which had gone tolerated for days and probably still is despite me following the guidelines of the broad ‘be(e) nice’ rule, by putting forth the point of how exactly those opinions are harmful to the most helpless. Which is why I have limited my interactions here to a degree; this was supposed to be the nice place😔 I already do not interact on the broader public internet (at all) because it is much worse than this. Coming back to the actual thing I was putting here though, how do people ever expect things to not get messed up to extreme situations then, because this is what is seen among large parts of populations almost everywhere. There is a reason things fall to extreme situations. It is never as simple as ‘bad ones are winning against good ones’ because the ones paying full attention know this—the ‘bad ones’ are not capable of doing a single part of their bad deeds without some or the other form of support. And they crumble in the face of an unyielding ‘no’.

Put him in a position where he obediently, submissively have his dignity taken away with no power for a taste of what he wants🤦

In all seriousness, I hope this person will be fine. It is usually detrimental to self preservation, with either active or passive aggression, to openly state what things are. I hope this person can protect himself from any harm of any nature (even harassment).

Incidental, but the cause of Valery Legasov’s death is accepted to be suicide. Whether that is actually what happened I won’t argue for however, it is something I do not know anything about.

I do not agree with the method of Luigi Mangione, if he was indeed the one who killed Brian Robert Thompson, because it completely put him in the power of others. A better way is to be a pain in the backsides of all such as Brian Robert Thompson (which is not going to be even a tiny fraction affected by the politics of saying what should or should not be done as it is going to be by non co-operation, civil disobedience and boycotts), such that they can no longer do what they do and no one can simply replace them (which is what will probably happen now. I doubt too many are concerned about the deceased very badly, instead their own safety. The chances of a ‘better person’ taking the CEO role are low). That said, what he will face is likely to be anything but ‘justice’. On the surface, yes, but I would heavily doubt any claim made that he was not subjected to illegal treatment, and continues to not be subjected to it, while in custody. This is on the basis of the reaction of the authorities to the killing, mostly from the political and law enforcement. One would think that the most benevolent person was killed by one who is varying degrees of being evil. The authorities who control the process have mostly taken a side, and that is never the feature of a system which seeks to uphold ‘justice’.

This looks like the plot of Chernobyl, which was a TV show creation of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster which tried to portray what happened mostly, re-enacted. I hope this fellow does not face harassment as a result of this article. Though that is unlikely.

People with power behaving like people with power. There used to be concessions to logic, but that I see less and less.

I had been intending to replace my OS with GrapheneOS since last week but have been delayed—need to back up some stuff I haven’t done yet—and this post comes at a good time for me. Thank you for making it.

The problem stated here is an extreme oversimplification of an already extreme oversimplification, but at least it covers some individuals and political entities doing horrible things. As for any actual solution, it is punishable under the law for hurting religious sentiment, is going to attract the hatred of all who are not the most powerless (from every religion and group) for disrupting the economic way of life, and is going to attract the attention of the countless Trump-size trolls in the country (a popular example). In addition to that, it is going to attract the ire of those persons who feel that making India the next China is the solution to countering China. The population is no more than a resource in a classified labour intensive region, however flawed the system may be, and capital intensive is not as simple as it sounds. The whole country depends on the existence of a powerless segment, and parts of the world depend on those in the country who depend on the existence of a powerless segment.

In other words, get ready for many people with a vested interest in the cruel structure of the country to treat you like the most evil person in the world.

Oppressed communities also have a tendency to oppress a segment of their own, so you will have those who believe that every oppressed side is composed of saint-like persons will also be against you—in this world where it is common to choose a ‘lesser evil’. It goes without saying that the oppression itself is unacceptable, of course.

That is on a large scale. On an individual scale, those who does not follow the principle of harming others for personal gain are seen as fools, and as easy targets for harming for personal gain. It doesn’t matter how nice a person is, behind the niceness is usually hidden this acceptance. I would say that such persons who refuse to harm, however indirect the harm may be, are not fools but idiots who refuse to understand such a way of living which is dependent on cruelty. And I will continue to be such an idiot. If anyone is a fool, it is the persons with those acceptances. They mess around so much because they aren’t happy. And the most unfortunate cases are ones who try to co-operate with the ones who would harm them with the hope of reduced hostility, rather than wholly refuse to co-operate with them. Maybe even grouping up to pressurise rebelling forces to not disrupt the plans of the group. That said, the oppression itself does not get the slightest bit of justification. The attitude to harm another for gain is unacceptable to me.

The current problem is a combination of multi-layered vested interest in cruelty, embarrassment even within the country over admitting to the occurrence of such a thing, and naivety which enables the hand which oppresses oneself—rather than denying it the aid it needs to do such a thing. In other words, political reliance mentioned in the article for the starving village was probably part of the problem rather than an improvement. If you are not respected as a human, you do not improve the situation by contributing to the functioning of those who were oppressing you. The situation seems no different from a group which had outlived its usefulness, and I think it is probably what happened. It is a horrible possibility which the vested interest group would have more interest in not knowing than not having it happen. What actually happened will be buried under layers of politics due to the embarrassment I mentioned before. Deducing things is the best one can do to know what happened. However, interested persons can also put in work to solve the problems faced by the village if they desire.

Accepting accusations of being the worst human being around at the moment now…

Not surprising

It hurts everybody you know in different ways, and it hurts people more based on their socioeconomic status. It pokes and prods and twists millions of little parts of your life, and it’s everywhere, so you have to ignore it, because complaining about it feels futile, like complaining about the weather.It isn’t. You’re battered by the Rot Economy, and a tech industry that has become so obsessed with growth that you, the paying customer, are a nuisance to be mitigated far more than a participant in an exchange of value. A death cult has taken over the markets, using software as a mechanism to extract value at scale in the pursuit of growth at the cost of user happiness.

This ‘death cult’ is just ordinary people who take the easy way of forcing others to provide what they cannot do themselves. The commercial system is little more than a convoluted mechanism to fulfill this need. While, of course, not being extremely cruel to the workers because that always has consequences. This rule goes against the very instinct and reason for those radically believing in this system though, and as a result is disregarded in time by people who believe their predecessors who bit more than they could chew were foolish for not merely suffocating the poorer classes even more, in the hope they will work for them out of desperation.

These things have a simple root—it is people being unwilling to bear the burdens and pains for becoming capable of doing what they want to do, and seeing it preferable to push the pains on others instead. The most effective way to deal with it is to disobey and push the burden of pain right back to the cause of problems, rather than take up the pain for either pennies or the promise of easing the pressure, while the majority of the benefit coming from the work you put in goes to others. Push it back, reject it, and push it back again when these persons defiantly cause more problems. They’ll end up toothless and—the horror—with take up some form of technical skill learning to survive.

An organisation without the technically skilled persons to suffer under work for them are just a bunch of persons with many desires but no way to fulfill them. All the while the structure of ‘legitimacy’, which forces people’s hand to work for practically achieving nothing, breaks down. People are forced to work hard again if they ever had the idea of simply making others do the work and benefiting from it. In this happening you do not destroy co-operation and business themselves, but only trim these perverted aspects off them.

There are ways to mitigate this.

• Interact with software which had more to do with people doing technical work rather than being involved in ‘business’ or ‘employment’.
• Reject the trend of legitimacy and embrace practicality.
• Simply do not co-operate with the entities doing these things. This thing in particular works even in the most hopeless seeming situations. Also, casually disobey.
• Move towards being more and more technically skilled yourself. It does not necessarily have to be with computers, if you prefer not to. You will find yourself not dependent on anything in an absolute manner, and these organisations will lose out on one more user they need to survive—because they work that inefficiently with their already less effective methods of operation.

It is one of the things which is very likely to have happened.

It was then he became a believer in the potential benefits that artificial intelligence could offer society, including its ability to cure diseases and stop aging, the Times reported. “I thought we could invent some kind of scientist that could help solve them,” he told the newspaper.

I’m curious if he actually said the stop aging part, since it is not in quote yet attributed to him.

That said,

The medical examiner’s office determined the manner of death to be suicide and police officials this week said there is “currently, no evidence of foul play.”

As a person who had been suicidal since I was younger than 10 years old till a few years ago, I can confidently say that no suicide is without foul play. The foul behaviour is just… normal. And socially acceptable as a result. He was probably harassed, which is what usually happens when you question things.

Edit: spelling

In Greenly’s data table, somehow TikTok is always ordered before Instagram despite TikTok having consistently lower annual data center emission than Instagram while every other platforms are in proper sort order.

This implies the data centres for instagram give off more far emissions, or TikTok has more users, or both. That depends on whether you wish to trust the data though.

How about doing what is good for the people instead of the industry🤦

The comment section on this article is a little bit of hell.

Also, I get that this is part of Microsoft’s duties for its own OS security. But the role it has seems to be a bit too large. Currently it seems, even though it is seemingly working for the benefit of Ukraine in the conflict, that they could choose to aid Russia at any time. I don’t think I like them having such capacity. Being able to interfere in such events in such a drastic degree, if they choose to. Interference in politics in such a direct manner, even if aid with ‘intelligence’ is one of their offerings, cannot really be removed from their capability here. These are basics of state… just what are modern politicians doing. I’d say it is not so much the governments in specific places (like the US) running their regions anymore.

I don’t think China cares. Such places, the powers will sink down their entire region for ‘glory’.

I see

This sounds like the family basically has given an ‘okay’ to the authorities doing whatever to him, however illegal it may be.

Can’t say I’m surprised, my family is similar. Not as well off financially, but similar.

Pretending like you care about the guy… how rotten can these people be.

Technicians (not limited to people working with computers) always have it hard when they work purely in support capacity. This is like draining then fir everything they’ve got and looking for an opportunity to beat them down further so they stay in their abused state.