Well, what are you doing about it?
wizardbeard
joined 2 years ago
I think you need to read more history and less theory.
Yes, that's what a gift economy is, but bronze age kings "gifting" each other things was not a gift economy.
It appears that it will work if you correct the example code in a minor way (include the standard c libraries), but as is, the literal example code from the readme does not compile.
Missing Plan 9 from schizo tier.
If you truly think those "gifts" had no strings attached, no expectations of reciprocity, no complex social rules underpinning the whole practice enforced through threat and application of violence...
I have a bridge to ~~sell~~ gift you.
You can see all of this sort of thing reflected in all sorts of historical and mythological fiction and even in some non-fiction historical research. Most newer than bronzr age, sure, but I think it's irresponsible to pretend these were just straight gifts.
What part did you miss about "off grid"?
Lol yeah. I have a friend who started a movement to unionize a local botanical garden/performance venue years ago. They napkin mathed it out that roughly 1.5M has been spent on the union busters, as the execs have just kept them "on retainer" for like half a decade now, occasionally doing displays of force whenever murmurs start up again about unionizing.
Saved you a click: Author believes calling it a placebo is wrong because shamans are actual magic. Erm, I mean metaphysics
The way that headline was written I was expecting some discussion about the pageantry, actual folk medicine in use, and perhaps some stuff about the role of shamans in their community.
Damn, I thought this artist was getting better with pacing. Guess not.
Only needed panels are 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and I feel like panel 2 could easily be merged with another one.
Do we even need to make the torment nexus joke anymore? Come on now. This is absurd.
"Chris (Simpsons artist)", who is not in fact an artist for the Simpsons.
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Dankpods used 12 computers with different hardware to test the performance of 5 games in 1080p and 4K, comparing the average fps results of the games' built in benchmarks to determine which OS ran the game better across the same hardware: Windows or Bazzite.
Some notes on methodolgy under this spoiler
Each game uses the same in game graphics settings in Windows and in Linux. The Linux distro used was Bazzite, using the version specific for the graphics card hardware fpr each individual machine. To be clear, this means that he installed the Bazzite version for (legacy) nVidia as appropriate.
Each bazzite install was fresh, no copying installs or swapping around a drive with it pre-installed. After install, it was updated using system update and rebooted, repeated until no updates remained.
Screenshots of some of Dankpods's comments to this effect:
There are many comments under the youtube video pointing out that in many of the Linux runs, it was not actually using the correct driver, comments about the experience using other distros, and comments about various potential fixes and workarounds.
This misses the point. Dankpods intentionally tested this way, and used Bazzite, to try and show what this would be like for the average gamer schmuck without a ton of technical skill interested in switching to Linux. Out of box experience matters in this situation, even though it's not quite fair to compare that between free opens source distros and an OS created by a megacorp. To the average end user, it won't matter. They just want it to work.
Prepare to be upset. With this particular testing methodology, Linux doesn't really win overall.
I'm interested to hear the community's thoughts on this.
Crosspost of: https://piefed.world/post/801341
Check the new pinned post in .ml's meme community. Here's the post itself:
There's so much goofiness to unpack here.
And a bonus, this small comment thread. We're totally not a marxist instance guys but we totally are a marxist instance guys and it's such a good thing:
I can't mentally square how someone could claim their instance is general use, run a general meme community, and also openly state the community purpose is to further specific ideology. Wow.
Nothing against surfacing lesser heard voices, but that's not the place for a generic meme comm (go make a leftymemes equivalent or something), and we all know that isn't what's really going on here.
Someone gifted this to my wife and I after our successful IVF. Still haven't put our photos in it, and everytime I see it I giggle.
Miracle Love Baby sounds like some magical girl anime shit.
Honestly? That's rookie numbers.
Preface
I'm not trying to call out the mod action of removing my post from the comm so much as I'm calling out the complete lack of mod action leading to the comm becoming shit and having the current top post by scaled, hot, and active being a post that explicitly targets another lemmy user.
That out of the way... !mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world has clearly been slipping from the purpose of the comm for a while now. Most of the posts are actually infuriating and/or political. I understand that what qualifies as either of those can be different for different people, but I feel most of this shit clearly isn't mundane or simple enough to fall under the label of just mildly infuriating.
Here's some examples from the first page right now, sorted by scaled.
While I could have sworn the sidebar had a no politics rule, it doesn't at the time of me writing this up, so politics are arguably acceptable, although I personally feel these all clearly don't match the theme of the community, violating Rule 7.
Sidebar, and expanded rule 7
A few other posts have been made calling this out.
Mod harder and [META] What actually constitutes "mildly infuriating" content?
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Beyond all that mess, we have what was the final straw for me.
Rule 1 (and less so 5), and the current top post by scaled, hot, and active.
I cannot accept that a post to mildly infuriating that targets a specific user while not even removing their username is respectful, and I personally consider it harassment (while it may not violate rule 5 as there is no call to action). Removing the username is usually the bare minimum even in the fucking reddit brigading subs, for plausible deniability.
And regardless of whatever arguments can be had about interpretations of the community's specific rules, it's a dick move. Just block the guy. It reminds me of the god awful reddit dogpiling and brigading. I don't want any of that to come to lemmy.
So I reported it, then saw the recent posts asking mods for action that got no response. I then looked at the mods.
- LillianVS@lemmy.world (Aer) has not been active in two years.
- STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world (Striker) has not been active in one year.
- Tenthrow@lemmy.world had not appeared to be active for six days at the time I reported the post, but upon checking the community mod log was likely active two days before (assuming that the other two wouldn't be just lurking and modding for over a year).
So I did something dumb as hell. Roughly an hour after I reported it, I made my own post (now removed from the comm). I find people who make call out posts about others, and the absentee mods allowing it, mildly infuriating. Yeah, childish as shit. What's done is done.
Modlog:
Removed for "doesn't fit community", but what do you folks think? Does it really not fit when the top post is what it is? Personally I think both should be gone, lest that comm descend further into shit.
Either way, now that I have this yell into the void out of me, I'm blocking the comm. Maybe I should have made my post in actually infuriating? (kidding)
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New Vegas, where you can take over as "benevolent" dictator, hand it all over to a capitalist that would make the monopoly man blush, "might makes right" historical cosplayer caesar, or the NCR which is effectively pre-trump america 2.0 spread way too thin (admittedly I'm not as familiar with all the issues of this group as people tend to accept them as the default "good guys" lol). It brought us the violently isolationist Boomers (the jokes write themselves) and the wonderful line "Degenerates like you belong on a cross".
That's all without going into the DLC.
Don't get me wrong, the game is great. But I can see a lot of people missing the criticisms and challenge to try and pick the least worst options who instead would see it as endorsement of their particular yuck.