I wouldn’t focus too much on the anachronistic technology, that’s more to keep with the vibe of the original trilogy.

The farming audits, IMO, are pretty directly an analog to what ICE is doing in the US.

There’s definitely some WW2 influence and stylistic choices, if anything that’s to keep the execs willing to fund the thing, but later on you’ll see some more blatant comparisons to our modern situation.

PSA on Swamp Ass from your friendly Captain Malcolm Reynolds :)

Arguably it’d be better to use air conditioners as long as that energy is from renewables such as solar (where the southwest is particularly suited) to help save water, which is in critically short supply in those areas.

As a fellow user of Librewolf, I’ve also lamented that I can’t use the dark mint theme due to that setting. The alternative Alexandrite and Photon frontends we host have easy user-editable themes, though it can take some getting used to if you’re used to the standard lemmy-ui.

Your comment prompted me to look into if there’s a workaround, and I found this, which describes how to disable the ResistFingerprinting setting, and instead modify the FingerprintingProtection setting in the about:config settings menu to replicate the functionality of ResistFingerprinting while still letting the user set the default page theme.

When I compared the standard ResistFingerprinting setting vs the workaround with dark theme enabled in the user settings, it showed no difference in fingerprint score over on CoverMyTracks, so that could be a good temporary or permanent solution (extra bonus that it effects all websites)

poVoq is also investigating the possibility of adding a dedicated dark theme option to slrpnk as well.

I was thinking Mon Mothma’s speech, in particular.

Season 1 is, yes. Season 2 is very much targeting today.

Andor.

Glad you enjoyed!

Yeah, Beau’s a fantastic filmmaker.

Excellent documentary full of Incredible imagery and powerful lessons. Some key takeaways for me:

• After the street fighting had been won, the ability for unions across the country to engage in a general strike, and commit to it for 3 months, appeared to be an effective way to further weaken the state at that moment.
• Unfortunately, the reformists in the movement didn’t learn from the Spanish Civil War, and they were duped into working with the government similar to how some members of the CNT-FAI joined the republican government, which as proved here, is a critical mistake.

To win this, it’s clear that every base has to be thoroughly covered before it begins. Seemingly, a more thorough education of anarchist history amongst the populace may have altered the outcome, and from what I recall is why Catalonia’s revolution during the Spanish civil war was successful, as people had been diligently and tirelessly spreading anarchist education for decades before the revolution begun, and thus the population was adequately prepared. Though the weakness of the republican government likely also played a large role there.

A difficult task accomplish, educating a significant portion of the populace, but there’s nothing else for it, it must be tried.

Wanted to come back to this after getting about halfway through the book so far, as well as finishing What Is Politics’ series on the book (which, it turns out, only focus on the first 3 chapters). My conclusion is: they’re kinda both right.

As someone who has never looked into anthropology, Dawn of Everything showcases some incredibly valuable history that I likely wouldn’t have stumbled across by myself. The historic debate with Kandiaronk and his background in particular was exceptionally cool to read about, and the breadth of examples Graeber and Wengrow have to show all in one place is astounding.

What Is Politics’ critique, though, does have merit IMO. There are a fair amount of times Dawn of Everything either misquotes, misleads, or withholds relevant context of the hunter gatherer tribes and cultures they reference. As an example, David & Wengrow suggest that cultures which experience only seasonal hierarchy are proof that these ancient cultures experimented with different forms of structuring society, but they left out the parts of the studies they reference to make those claims that show those seasonal hierarchies are absolutely not a conscious choice, but one that is quite clearly something the people being dominated by the hierarchy tolerate only due to environmental circumstance.

As an example, Marcel Mauss’s study on the Eskimo: The Inuit experience somewhat egalitarian lives during the winter, and a more strict hierarchy during the summer where things become decidedly patriarchal, as the hunting men have full domination over their families. This is not out of choice by the women, but due to the seasonal change forcing their food supply (which concentrates in the winter) to disperse during the summer, leading individual families to venture out alone to continue to hunt game. This isolates women from their families which would normally act as a power equalizing effect against abusive or dominating husbands. The patriarchal domination does not appear to be a willing choice or experiment in any practical sense.

I also think it’s odd that they seem to be suggesting that personal choice is what ultimately caused these egalitarian outcomes, but then also mention materialist reasons for why a culture might’ve stayed egalitarian, such as their reference to one tribe’s use of a constantly shifting fertile river bank for agriculture as not lending itself to laying down territorial claims, which likely aided that culture in not becoming hierarchical.

What is Politics definitely is hyper materialist, but I think he makes a solid case in many of his critiques. His materialism does, however, seem to blind him to the solid argument Dawn of Everything makes that culture and conscious choice does seem capable of playing a large part in shaping society, such as the case of the differences between the Californian and Northwest coast native American tribes.

Without having finished the book, I can’t make a final conclusion. But at least from what I’ve read so far, I’d put forward that environmental conditions do seem to have a not insignificant influence in determining whether an ancient society will lean toward becoming hierarchical or egalitarian, simply due to the conditions being more or less favorable to a group or individual gaining a foothold over others due to resource access. But culture and choice seem capable of playing a large part in that outcome as well.

I think ultimately Dawn of Everything is going to result in more regular folk becoming aware of the facts that our ancestors were fully capable of egalitarian societies and that it was in fact the norm until recent history, which is a terrific boon, and I’ll certainly continue to recommend it for that reason alone. Though I think What is Politics’ series is also enlightening, and a good companion piece to the book to fill out areas that Graeber & Wengrow likely got a bit wrong just due to the sheer size and complexity of the project.

No worries :)

I wasn’t aware that they were particular magnets to drama. Our specific community does not allow Pro-Authoritarian content like the others appear to, and the slrpnk community itself is quite a chill corner of the lemmyverse, which likely contributes to our lack of drama.

Huh?

The first part seems to be for people who are unfamiliar with the games. The political analysis begins at 19 minutes.

The games go into:

• Discussion of monopolies, how they are used to exploit, and how they use state force to maintain their position to prevent competition
• The Carrot character is an anarchist in the first game, who infiltrates the weather factory of the second game to document the exploitation of its workers. He then gives the player a quiz about US economics so that you can infiltrate a board of directors, but when he becomes a member of the board himself, becomes a liberal reformist.
• In the third game, the devs put an easter egg only accessible by editing a config file with an obscure code, which adds police branded riot gear to the marching fascist candy soldiers, in a reference to the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests.

I suppose it’s ambiguous as to what exactly to do, since each situation and area could need a solution unique or catered to it, but I share your desire for a more concrete set of steps.

I’ve been tossing around some ideas in my head, and I suppose if I were to write out an action-plan, it’d be something like:

1. Find enough like-minded individuals to pool resources into creating a worker owned cooperative (with all the planning and market viability that comes with).
2. Convince your fellow worker owners to put aside a portion of the profits to be used to kick-start another cooperative that will eventually replaces a particular need that is currently being fulfilled by an outside private business. As an example; if your cooperative contracts with a shipping/trucking company to distribute your goods, use the money set aside to fund the creation of a worker owned shipping company, which can then ship your goods, or goods from any other worker coop at reduced rates in solidarity, while charging market rates to non-cooperative businesses. This would allow you to better compete against private corporations, as they would not have that ability without completely buying out and owning those other services (In a nutshell, do a spin of what Ford did by eventually creating and owning their entire production chain, but instead it’s made up of mutually beneficial and cooperating worker owned cooperatives). I believe Mondragon has already successfully implemented this step, it just needs to be replicated worldwide.
3. As part of a multi-pronged approach, also implore your fellow worker owners to set aside funds to help unionize the workers of competing private businesses (AFAIK, there’s no laws against this, though please correct me if I’m wrong). This not only helps benefit the lives of those workers, it would (hopefully) make it easier to compete against those corporations, which may choose to raise prices to maintain their shareholder’s profit margin.
4. Continue steps 2 & 3 until revenue increases to the point where you can then seriously fund other useful activities, such as mutual aid organizations (ex. food not bombs, ferrer schools, etc), as well as fund the creation of co-ops completely unrelated to your industry, but will displace an existing exploitative private corporation.

Of course, the first step of actually getting a successful cooperative off the ground that can then focus on the next steps is likely the hardest part.

OP, as someone who has a very similarly specced laptop:

Install Linux Mint, do a one click install of the Nvidia driver with the mint GUI driver installer, and then open the application that’s stuttering from your start menu by right clicking on it, and select ‘run with discrete GPU’, which will force it to use your Nvidia card.

Mint has access to newer nvidia drivers than mint, and Cinnamon let’s you open programs with exclusively the Nvidia GPU instead of integrated graphics from the start menu.

I really like the premise, though if I might suggest, y’all might want to tweak that trailer so the intense movie trailer music doesn’t stop abruptly towards the end.

I’m mostly familiar with him from his series on why all marxist revolutions were dictatorships, where he’s quite scathing towards Marxism and all of its offshoots, and instead points out how Anarchist thinkers predicted all those poor outcomes, and how superior their solutions and methods were.

Overall from what I’ve seen of him, his opinions remind me of Bookchin’s more than anything (though I’m basing that on old interviews and the few things I’ve read of Bookchin’s).