What you can do is create clusters of instances that are better. If you wanted to do this in an organised way then you’d bring together a bunch of instance leaders, draw up some sort of charter and guidelines, and all collectively agree to enforce them.

hi, yes, it’s me, the person who suggested the idea of leftynet :3

holy shit it’s Cthulhu lovecraft in liberal form

Deeply feel this. Marx hated me specifically and wrote just to fuck me over.

Your dreams would probably be possible in a more fair society as long as it isn’t anything unhinged like building a skyscraper out of human corpses

I always dislike the “hedonic treadmill” framing because it implies there’s something wrong with our brain seeking pleasurable things, and I don’t think an ideal society would be structured to meet our bare minimum needs and have no art, entertainment, or luxury

I think the main distinction is that we need a sustainably improved lifestyle to be happier, rather than just big individual hits of pleasure

And I do think I’ve seen examples of people pursuing dreams and being happier for it- Indie game devs are a prime example. It’s just rare because it takes a certain level of privilege to get started with it

I am sort of confused what you consider to be “proper” dreaming. I agree that the way we’re taught now is wrong, but what would be correct? The way you phrase all this makes me thing the “proper” way to dream would be to give up all dreams beyond base subsistence, albeit gradually, which seems contrary of the actual function of a dream or main goal in the first place: something that’s enjoyable and feels important and fulfilling to do. Sure, it’s a goal, but a goal that makes you give up all other goals just feels like a replacement for capitalism.

I am not attempting to le epically own you, btw. I’m just spitballing. I think I agree with you here

Their love of games is a blacklist, not a whitelist. Duh

i don’t think asking for clarification for things like that counts as nerd activity that needs to be bullied out of people

like not everyone can just automatically grasp the weird unspoken stuff nobody every explicitly tells them

Is it a rude/offensive question to ask if your gender is somewhat related to the trope/kink of “drones”/“dronification”? I’m not trying to sexualize your gender, it just hit me like a ton of bricks that that could be what it’s referring to and not like bombing drones

What happened to all the people on Reddit who seemed to have loved peace? Why is every single Redditor a war hungry monster? Did I hallucinate those people?

The United States (and most of the world) seems to consist of oppressive, dominant neurotypical fucks in power, neurotypical people who are aware of it but go along with it for brownie points, neurotypical people who are aware of it but delude themselves into thinking they don’t, neurotypical people who are not aware of it at all, neurotypical people who are aware of it and want to do something about it (based), neurodivergent people who are shit on and bullied without having any real idea why, and neurodivergent people who understand why and are super pissed about it (based)

You can probably tell how a person or group or people are going to act based on which or these groups they fall in

Most good communities are a mix of based #1 and based #2

I actually did mean “reactionary programmer” and not programmers in general. I also don’t think this is inherent, it’s definitely a result of how programming has been put into sort of a faux-means-ownership position for a while now, and the veil is only just now starting to slip.

And at no point did I mean to imply that they were assholes just because they were neurotypical- I just meant that avoiding human interaction would make more sense if you’re neurodivergent and it’s actively unpleasant because of other’s ableism

I’m sorry for the confusion. Lefty programmers rock

Most programmers are completely dedicated towards hating everyone else. Other programmers, laymen, whatever. If they HAVE to interact with another person it’s even worse.

And it’s not a case of them legitimately just disliking human interaction- That would make sense, be somewhat understandable, and even be outright valid in the case of neurodivergent people dealing with neurotypical bullshit. No, they hate interacting with other people simply because they think they’re smarter and better than everyone else.

uhhh what counts as optimizing the workflow

does eating healthy count

exercise?

Sounds like an industry full of shitty people in management and workers who don’t have the magical neurotypical social senses to figure out they’re being fucked over