I worked for a woman this morning who had photos of Maggie all over her hallway, and I mentioned it of course. Smith worked with my client in 1970's in Stratford.
She went on about what a kind and thoughtful person she was to her colleagues and everyone in general. Very genuine, I was glad to hear, even after winning an Oscar.
Man to man, you know we can do better than Pierre "never had a real job" Poillievre!
To be fair, the entire issue of blackface and its sordid history is much more nasty and nuanced than this thread would suggest.
If you want to find out more, look into the racist nature of minstrel shows, and their role in maintaining hierarchy.
I wonder if it's because 28 Days Later was shot on a handful of Canon XL-1's, which was a breakthrough as they were one of the first prosumer cameras that could pull off a film like that.
Kind of a nod and a wink at the heritage of the story to shoot on consumer hardware.
Fascism is merely one form of authoritarianism, which is very much on a spectrum. Don't try to make people stupid by breaking basic political categorization.
It does seem like a power vacuum if you are fully convinced that power needs to be centralized.
I am reminding the thread that the absence of distributed power is chaos, not anarchism.
Anarchism is anything BUT a power vacuum. All the power is carefully doled out via negotiation and in no way lacking.
Strong propaganda is devoted to supporting your presumption that power only exists when concentrated, so it does feel natural and common sense to say that.
Anarchism is a lot of work negotiating, setting standards and consequences, balancing forces. Constant politics without an overarching state. Any concentration of capability for violence or resource to be shared must be extremely carefully handled.
What you are describing is warlords filling a political vacuum caused by chaos.
Someone has been misrepresenting anarchism to you.
"The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n."
Milton, Paradise Lost
He's the Star Trek Mirror Universe version of Chauncy Gardener.
It's the Hive Mind Stans phenomenon that fascinates me, meme-activated collective action that is a very modern social body.
Some of the stuff BTS ARMY got up to was fantastic and a bit scary. Also large numbers. Very large.
So the Swifties haven't been weaponized yet. But they could be, soon. Having deepfake A.I. impersonation of fans made by fascist followers of a reality TV star be the thing that raises their state of collective power to Ready is just... well, I am living in a Gibson novel.
Thanks for clarifying, I didn't know that subrule, thought all votes were just for relevance or quality.
So you don't think it's worth talking about, or you don't like how it's stated? Or are you using votes simply to mark agreement? If it's the last method, that cheapens lemmy.
That's funny, I noticed the implied "per person" in that statement because it is kind of obvious.
Because I can dictate instantly into the Reminders app, without even unlocking my phone, it leaps over executive disfunction issues quite often.
Hold the power button for 2 seconds and say "add oatmeal and blueberries and coffee to the Groceries list" then go back to my task.
When I get to the store the list is grouped by type, mostly.
Or I say "remind me to call the doctor's office at 9AM tomorrow" and it goes into the default list and the task notifies me at the right time. For the stuff I inevitably brush off, there's a widget on my home screen that nags me so I can nurture my guilt lol.
So, I am leaning heavily into Apple's built in ecosystem for keeping track of things (more private, in theory, as well). I have a about a dozen lists that I add to verbally. Some of those lists are geographically activated so I get notifications when I drive into town that I need to pick up a package, etc.
'Woman on the Edge of Time' by Marge Piercy is the most solarpunk novel I've read so far. Fiction, that is. And it's early '70s!
If you had a daily driver EV that was smaller and met your regional range requirements, then rented a long range combustion vehicle for occasional excursions, you would still be saving a lot of money and carbon (plus NOx etc.).
It depends on your lifestyle in the end.
So, you mean the proper response to the failure of a shitty business model is to introduce a worse business model?
Automation is so much less fun than institutional cruelty!
I have met some rentier class people (massive wealth from charging for their massive assets), and their kids went to expensive private schools. The scenario is not hypothetical.
Kidnapping is a real fear at that level of remove from the 'Great Unwashed.'