ChicagoCommunist [none/use name]

To be fair, it’s slightly more nuanced than I stated lol. But still incorrect.

Pretty much everything in The Dawn of Everything tbh. The diversity of social organization going back thousands of years, regardless of means of subsistence. The range of conceptions of property, ethics, hierarchy, power, rights, etc.

Particularly interesting in American societies pre-colonization, since it seems the implicit image of them in the popular consciousness is a homogeneous series of small, isolated tribes, consisting of either noble savages or primitive barbarians, entirely ignorant of agriculture. When in reality a good many of them practiced agriculture in various ways, some of which colonizers simply didn’t notice because they weren’t as invasive as European methods.

Also that agriculture isn’t necessary for the development of complex, large social structures, nor does the advent of agriculture necessitate the development of rigid hierarchies and exploitation.

Turns out the agricultural revolution and its consequences weren’t a disaster for the human race. Sorry David Quinn.

Construction workers: I consent

Regular people wanting to not be homeless: I consent

Banks, landlords, real estate agents, investors, governments: isn’t there somebody you forgot to ask???

Human civilization is a lot longer than history and a lot more complex than specific normative behaviors blipping into existence at some defined point in time. Check out The Dawn of Everything for a recent anthropological perspective.

Various cultures approach gender and sex (and thus sexuality) differently. Homophobia as we understand it can’t exist universally because sexuality as a static individual trait isn’t a universal conception. Though that doesn’t mean there aren’t other norms and deviations and whatnot.

Caliban and the Witch is adjacent to this topic and discusses how sex and gender norms developed out of middle age Europe.

I’m not gonna tell people just to bike or run and that it’s nearly free, bc that’s not easy for everyone.

But c’mon, you can get a used dumb exercise bike or treadmill for less than that activation fee.

I suspect “less than 5” is about as precise as can be accurately measured anyway, since people may not be willing to admit reading zero books. But I’d also imagine the simple majority of the 1-5 group is probably 0-1, if the EU is similar to the US in that way.

Think you mean to respond to the other comment fyi

as long as your banks engineers are at least somewhat competent

Let’s be realistic here lol

The best is when it fails to verify, offers no backup option, and you’re simply blocked from accessing your own bank account or government website. Fuck cloudflare

My favorite is “up to x or more”

Mfer you’re telling me nothing, that’s literally all real numbers lmao

AI companies are working on that

There’s a degree to which this is a supply that creates demand, I feel. Maybe there’s a better way to put it.

When I had a 720p laptop, it was perfectly fine. I played games and watched movies and never felt like I was viewing things in low quality. Once I got 1080p, I could tell things were better, but they weren’t like shockingly, orgasmicly better. 720p, though, felt borderline unusable once I got used to 1080p.

The same thing happened prior to this with old box tvs/monitors, and with older video games. I played the shit out of FNV and the graphics and gameplay seemed fine. Having played modern games, though, FNV feels janky and LQ (despite having better than average writing).

I’m consciously avoiding 4K for this reason.

I’m coming around on audio to some degree, but still prefer to hit the “80% of perfect” before diminished returns start curving up, wrt earphones and such