@nprofile1q... ça fait à peu près deux décennies que le PS n'a plus de socialiste que le nom, hein

@nprofile1q... You are so going to love Brandon Sanderson's stories if you ever get to reading them. That is basically the structure of The Stormlight Archive, and it makes for such high moments. 🤩

@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: To me, cyberpunk has to have an ancap world, where corporations have all the power, their own private militias, etc.

The world of Brazil isn't ancap, it's a centralized bureaucratic government. The violence is state-inflicted, not corporation-inflicted; it's still a dystopia, but to me it doesn't classify as cyberpunk.

@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: Things weren't that way in 1985, I don't think Gilliam had predicted that exact same situation - Brazil is a governmental dystopia, not a corporate one (otherwise it would be hailed as a staple of cyberpunk!)

But yeah, Tuttle is one of the small guys doing good work despite a stifling, overbearing hierarchy, so there are parallels.

@nprofile1q... The only information you send with money is "I like what you have done before and want more of the same". Which is a single bit of information, and "more of the same" is vague, because most people would like the same style of product but still with innovation; but corporations are free to ignore that.

In particular, it's impossible to say "I support the workers who have made the product, but I do not support you, the corporation extracting profits from it" by sending money. Corporations know that, and they use it.

Ever have had a technician, employed or contracted by a corporation, come to your house to solve a problem? The corporation has abysmal service and abysmal customer support, and provided wrong information to the technician, if any, but the technician was competent and friendly and solved your problem quickly?
Then you get an e-mail by the corporation asking you to rate the technician. And if you don't give 5 stars, the technician will be punished; there is no way to hold the corporation accountable for its overall suck. It's entirely on purpose.

The Hollywood machine functions the same way, it seems. It's late stage capitalism all the way down.

@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: Ah yes, these sissies who roll boulders up mountains by their own sheer muscle strength. Not a single ounce of masculinity in them.

@nprofile1q... The US media landscape (and unfortunately the EU media landscape too) is catastrophic. There are some good journalists out there but they won't be in the mainstream. I'm really impressed by the work of Drop Site News (I wish they weren't on Substack, but it's a pick your battles situation), they have covered the reality of the assault on Gaza and the rest of the Middle East by Israel from day one, and exposed the complicity of the whole US apparatus. It is difficult to know whom to trust, but they have proven to me that they can be trusted.

@:blank: @navi Does that exist? A split unit with an unpluggable hose? That would make it so much more practical. AIUI, no such design is sold, at least in France, because of the risk of leaking coolant fluid.

I'm sure engineers could design an airtight plugging mechanism, but humanity has proven that a large number of idiots can always defeat the best designs.

@:blank: @navi Holy twisted hose Batman. Does the coolant fluid actually flow in that thing?

@nprofile1q... I want more squishy lil beans in the world. It's a shame they either have to toughen up or get destroyed. 💔

@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: assignment is irrevocable, that's the point, and that never sat right with me. What good can the FSF do with my copyright that they cannot do without? Copyright assignment is basically saying "We can ensure freedom of the code better than you can, so we are going to disempower you for the benefit of the code". It is patronizing at best.