[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago

His diaper is actually always empty. All of Donald Trump's shit flies out of his mouth as sound waves.

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Indirectly, it's a strong indictment of Trump's mental health. A politician's strongest weapon (and a conman's, which he also is) is their image, and Trump knows it. If he's letting himself go to the extent that his odor deserves note, then you can be assured that he's let go of everything else that he considers less important than his image (i.e. everything else that exists) at least as much as he's let go of his hygiene, probably more.

The Donald J. Trump that debated Biden was a bad choice for a set of reasons that did not include becoming incapable of caring for the most important thing in his life. The current DJT has added that reason to the list.

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

If it helps me to avoid something even worse later on, maybe it was even worth the 500 bucks! Hopefully I'll never have to find out.

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yes, you did answer my question very well especially with the part about cyclical history. I will watch the resources you linked to in both comments. Again, I am very thankful that you took the time to answer me so thoroughly.

After I've done some studying, would you mind if I maybe DM'd you?

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

Better to play it safe.

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Thank you so much for taking the time to write this comment, and for being so nice about it too. In this polarized political climate, it's quite refreshing to find someone who holds "extreme" views and who is still willing to educate rather than butt heads.

Can I ask a follow-up question? Reading your comment an immediate concern that came up was with complacency. The system you described seems to rely very heavily on nobody being an idiot (in the original Greek sense of the word, someone who isn't interested in matters of the city-state) but in reality, a lot of people are. What if a few generations into an anarcho-syndicalist utopia, a group of people decide to elect a representative in a broad sense, informally of course, because they trust him and it's easier this way and they can focus on other things? And then another group likes the idea, and another, and these representatives end up scheming amongst themselves...

I think where I'm going is that the structure doesn't seem rigid. That can be a very good thing for several reasons, but it can also be bad in that it seems (again, to my uninformed self) to not be very resilient against erosion.

I hope you'll notice that I am absolutely on board with the abolishment of impositional hierarchies. Both concerns I've expressed have to do with how the system would stay alive rather than with what it sets out to accomplish.

Thanks again for taking time out of your Sunday to educate a total stranger.

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 7 points 18 hours ago

Fuck, my condolences.

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago

It becomes its own thing. Like if you hear the word "truther" out of context you wouldn't be blamed for thinking that it refers to someone who takes the truth very seriously. But in the context if a "9/11 truther" it means the opposite: someone who is completely dissociated from reality.

When a movement adopts a word as its name, it's like the word splits in two: one with the original meaning and one which refers to the group and means whatever that group stands for. Which one becomes dominant basically depends on what version the mainstream media uses more often. It's a zeitgeist thing.

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago

I am not the guy you responded to but I am interested.

Because in my ignorant head, the big problem with anarchy (I use the word broadly to mean "a lack of government" mostly because I don't know any better) is: what's stopping an ill-intentioned mob from making itself a de facto government little by little through coercion when people can't resort to a system that concentrates and organizes the otherwise sparse powers of society that want to uphold the state of anarchy? It's like you'd need a government to ensure that there's no government, which is clearly absurd.

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Thank you! I very much have that predisposition. I've noticed that I have addictive behavior towards sugar and caffeine as well (I'm fine as long as I don't have any, but if I have some I'll continue to crave more at shorter and shorter intervals until I go to sleep and it resets), and recently celebrated my third month nicotine free after about four years total smoking and then vaping.

Addictive proclivities are a personal defect normally. But when you exist in a context where there are people whose job it is to get you hooked on things, they become a handicap.

[-] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago

I was thinking more along the lines of "everybody uses more soap than they, specifically, need to". We're taught to completely remove the outer layers, wven exfoliating the skin in some cases. That's too much regardless of where your starting level was.

I was a young idiot making minimum wage and I spent 500 dollars in a gacha game over a three month period. It's been years and I still wake up at night, remember this and feel the strongest remorse.

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Another generation using the text from the I Ching as a prompt. This time it was hexagram 41 - Decreasing, with old lines in the second and sixth positions.

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I made this image by prompting Flux-dev with the Image, Decision and Fifth Yao texts from the 64th hexagram (Wei Ji) in Alfred Huang's translation of the I Ching.

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