I agree that things would be better without shareholders, but wouldn't government corruption still be a problem? For example, shareholders aren't profiting from mass deportation or tariffs. These sort of abuses would still happen without shareholders because they aren't motivated by profit, they're motivated by racism and nationalism. The way I see it, we need to get rid of all coercive hierarchies, government included.
Good news! You're about to learn about for-profit prisons and how racism is very profitable for shareholders, especially in how it suppresses wages and keeps poor people fighting other poor people instead of forming unions...
Maybe not right now tho. I'm done poo.... Uhm I'm about to do something other than googling "prison industrial complex" and "how racism effects unionizing"
Government doesn't have to be a hierarchy. Direct democracy would have been impossible in the past, but is very much doable in this day and age. But otherwise yeah, I agree.
Direct democracy would be less hierarchical than what we have currently, but it's still a hierarchy of the majority over the minority. So long as government exists, the decisions of the majority will be violently enforced upon the minority.
Unless of course you're referring to direct democracy without law enforcement, but I wouldn't exactly call that a government.
Weighted voting based on how much said proposition affects you personally? Idk man why does perfect always have to be the enemy of a hell of a lot better than we have now?
You don't think that regulation won't be exploited? It's how the safety and environmental regulations drove all car manufacturing into 3 companies here in the USA. Bigger companies pushed for the regulations because they could withstand the change to force their competition out of the market.
One OS monopoly in my lifetime was already bad enough, I'll pass on having another.
And I'm telling you that this is done via regulation and not just naturally and isolated by corporations alone. Regulation is exploitation in practice.
A full tang blade is one where the metal of the blade extends all the way through the handle. Often, full-tang knives have "scales" instead of one-piece handles, where the two sides of the handle are riveted on and you can see the metal of the knife tang all the way around. Full tang knives are usually stronger than partial tang knives because the steel of the blade is stronger than the material used for the rest of the handle. A partial tang knife shouldn't have a rivet at the back of the handle (because it wouldn't actually be attaching anything); if it does, it's because it's trying to imitate a full tang to fool you.
Also, the difference between a stamped knife and a forged one is that a stamped blade is of uniform thickness except where the cutting edge is ground down to a point, whereas a forged knife is more of a wedge through its entire width and can have a thicker (stronger) spine, as well as a bolster to make it more comfortable to handle. (Some better-made stamped knives are stamped from a tapered sheet of steel so that they've got some of the "thicker spine" benefit, but they definitely never have a bolster integral with the blade.)
Genuinely, thank you. It confirms what I basically suspected based on context clues and gives me a deeper understanding, and appreciation, of what’s in my knife block.
62 Comments
alekwithak@lemmy.world · 135 pts · 163d
I don't mind being governed. I mind being governed by shareholders. Regulation isn't oppression. Exploitation is.
cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 163d
I agree that things would be better without shareholders, but wouldn't government corruption still be a problem? For example, shareholders aren't profiting from mass deportation or tariffs. These sort of abuses would still happen without shareholders because they aren't motivated by profit, they're motivated by racism and nationalism. The way I see it, we need to get rid of all coercive hierarchies, government included.
lefaucet@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 162d
Good news! You're about to learn about for-profit prisons and how racism is very profitable for shareholders, especially in how it suppresses wages and keeps poor people fighting other poor people instead of forming unions...
Maybe not right now tho. I'm done poo.... Uhm I'm about to do something other than googling "prison industrial complex" and "how racism effects unionizing"
alekwithak@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 162d
Government doesn't have to be a hierarchy. Direct democracy would have been impossible in the past, but is very much doable in this day and age. But otherwise yeah, I agree.
cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 161d
Direct democracy would be less hierarchical than what we have currently, but it's still a hierarchy of the majority over the minority. So long as government exists, the decisions of the majority will be violently enforced upon the minority.
Unless of course you're referring to direct democracy without law enforcement, but I wouldn't exactly call that a government.
alekwithak@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 161d
Weighted voting based on how much said proposition affects you personally? Idk man why does perfect always have to be the enemy of a hell of a lot better than we have now?
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 163d
Become un"governable by compulsion" ??
sorghum@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 162d
You cool with Colorado's proposed OS level age verification?
TractorDuffy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 162d
Swing and a miss
alekwithak@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
Maybe you should reread what I wrote.
sorghum@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 162d
You don't think that regulation won't be exploited? It's how the safety and environmental regulations drove all car manufacturing into 3 companies here in the USA. Bigger companies pushed for the regulations because they could withstand the change to force their competition out of the market.
One OS monopoly in my lifetime was already bad enough, I'll pass on having another.
alekwithak@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
That again sounds like exploitation rather than regulation. That is exactly what I'm referring to when I say governed by shareholders.
sorghum@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 162d
Doesn't change the fact that exploitation is being done by the hand of regulation.
This story popped up in my feed: https://lemmy.world/post/43568135
alekwithak@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d
My guy. Again this is literally exactly what I'm talking about.
sorghum@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 162d
And I'm telling you that this is done via regulation and not just naturally and isolated by corporations alone. Regulation is exploitation in practice.
kingofras@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 163d
Kowalski, status report!
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 36 pts · 163d
:(
48954246@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 163d
Brb, adding
alias kowalski="systemctl"to my homelabkingofras@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 163d
We seem to be trapped inside a black canvas in a suspicious conflict between white and red lines of letters, Skipper!
HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip · 40 pts · 163d
Hack the planet
Lembot_0006@programming.dev · 15 pts · 163d
GNU the planet!
Valorie12@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 163d
whoisearth@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 162d
"shipped lovingly from our warehouse in LA"^*
^* ^Made ^in ^China
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 162d
Everything is made in China, especially the things that made in the US.
It’s also funny to think that China is making products that are illegal in China.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 162d
Fine. But companies shouldn't try to deceive customers with a bullshit "Designed in the US"
rajano@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d
Designed is different from made.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 162d
Absolutely, but the goal of putting that on the package is to make it seem like it is a local product while it is in fact not made here.
stylusmobilus@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 162d
still throws money
Digit@lemmy.wtf · 19 pts · 162d
I like the motto,
but... the image...
Better if it didn't have a huge blade and an angry malevolent facial expression.
Y'know, maybe something that speaks more to the likes of mutual aid, rather than to agent-provocateurism.
w3ird_sloth@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 162d
That's a machete dude little penguin's just out whackin bushes in the jungle. With attitude.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 163d
This is begging for a distro...
nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 40 pts · 163d
rumba@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 163d
I'm using AnarchLinux
by the wayMotherfucker!Lianodel@ttrpg.network · 4 pts · 162d
yay anarchism
grue@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 163d
This is all the distros.
Just not Android or ChromeOS.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 163d
graphine would be adorable with a legally distinct robot wielding a knife
wait.... I have a idea
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 160d
I'm not crazy! Don't call me crazy! I...I'm just not user friendly!
rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 160d
HEYIIIIICHAAAAHHH HWOOOAHHHAAAA
yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 163d
antiX?
yucandu@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 163d
I live in a democracy. I AM the government.
SacralPlexus@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 163d
Can I get this on a t-shirt?
DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 163d
“If it ain’t black and white kick scratch and bite!” —Bender
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 163d
The Linux Hacker.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 161d
Pound for pound the penguin is the fiercest creature on the planet.
Source: Zoo Tycoon
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 162d
This is why they say, "never turn your back on a penguin".
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 163d
He should really be using a machete with a fully molded handle. And a forged blade rather than that stamped nonsense.
grue@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 163d
How can you tell the blade is stamped rather than forged from an embroidery?
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 163d
No tang.
grue@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 163d
It has a full tang. You can tell by the rivet at the bottom of the handle.
deacon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 163d
I don’t understand any of this but it’s wonderful.
Actually I understand a fair bit from context clues but please go on.
grue@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 163d
A full tang blade is one where the metal of the blade extends all the way through the handle. Often, full-tang knives have "scales" instead of one-piece handles, where the two sides of the handle are riveted on and you can see the metal of the knife tang all the way around. Full tang knives are usually stronger than partial tang knives because the steel of the blade is stronger than the material used for the rest of the handle. A partial tang knife shouldn't have a rivet at the back of the handle (because it wouldn't actually be attaching anything); if it does, it's because it's trying to imitate a full tang to fool you.
Also, the difference between a stamped knife and a forged one is that a stamped blade is of uniform thickness except where the cutting edge is ground down to a point, whereas a forged knife is more of a wedge through its entire width and can have a thicker (stronger) spine, as well as a bolster to make it more comfortable to handle. (Some better-made stamped knives are stamped from a tapered sheet of steel so that they've got some of the "thicker spine" benefit, but they definitely never have a bolster integral with the blade.)
deacon@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 163d
Genuinely, thank you. It confirms what I basically suspected based on context clues and gives me a deeper understanding, and appreciation, of what’s in my knife block.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 163d
Cosmetic rivets exist
grue@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 163d
You say "cosmetic;" I say "fake."
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 163d
It's also flat.
dukatos@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 163d
drop systemd?
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 162d
I approve of this message.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 163d
Have wondered if I should learn to make badges for stuff like this
nieceandtows@programming.dev · 2 pts · 162d
You mean by the user? There's already a king of OS that is ungovernable by the user.
magitian@programming.dev · 1 pts · 162d
https://mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts/116121033861035887
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 163d
My government is neel gompa