Labor is loved whether pool boy, math whiz, engineer or programmer. Do cool stuff. Maybe we can learn to love vibe coders some day.

Handstands are cool. I can’t hold a handstand for very long, but it still gets attention. Short handstands are vibe coding. Cool-ish, but not as cool as holding it longer.

In the US, Obama’s administration was publicly against “boots on the ground” since it was largely unpopular in “liberal” circles after Bush’s “War on Terror”. Instead, Obama’s administration increased drone based missions to do the violent bidding of the owning class.

“Liberals” may talk a great game about immigration reform, ending prisons like Guantanimo, net neutrality and protecting consumers from the owning class. When action is required “liberals” continue to advance the owning classes agenda using means that do not look bad to their base. Japanese internment camps were an executive order by a “liberal” President.

This is US centric, but the issues are inherent to Liberalism. Historical non-fiction is a genre of book.

I have no ethical qualms with those who make weapons. Horizontal communities need the means to defend themselves against external domination. The dilemma is, under capitalism, dominators employ weapons against those unable to defend themselves thereby realizing the idea of Hell on Earth.

Dream of justice. I also dream of winning the lottery.

There are always slogans like: “property is theft”, “no gods, no masters” and “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need”. I like to mention: “if you don’t work, you don’t eat” and apply it to the capitalist class.

Once the dialog gets to labels, I am direct with everyone but police.

I am an anarchist. I want to eliminate the state’s monopoly on violence and the heirarchy thereby imposed by said state. Humans are naturally social and collaborative.

I am a communist. Workers own their labor and the means of production.

Definitions solidify from there if the person cares to have a dialog on politcs and philosophy.

Funny, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_terephthalate

Collectivism is possible without imposition of taxes by rulers. Gift economies exist. I have witnessed neighbors sharing produce or helping each other without need for compensation.

Communities can decide through consensus how to allocate resources. Achieving “From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs” is the ideal. Boo! That’s Anarchism. Happy Halloween!

The narrative was vote Biden and move him left. Biden did not move left. He enabled and contributed to genocide. Kamala actively stated she would continue Biden’s policies. She also said she would be “tough on the border”.

Should anyone in a democracy believe the words and actions of the candidates?

I talk to people about ideas like “keeping the full benefit of their labor power”, “cooperating with other human beings”, “no war but the class war” and “no gods no masters”. I’m awful at parties and fragmenting the left. Infighting is real. Never trust a ML.

As a thought experiment, let’s say we both have a paper route. We are not in direct competition, but I am unable to expand my route because doing so would be treading on your route. I stop being able to do my route. Anyone could pick up my route, but you are in a position to gain more from my route than someone new to the business. Thereby, you pick up an outsized share of the route. This crowds both new and existing potential route owners.

The example is only about capital accumulation and state involvement. There are other problematic issues such as wage labor as addressed by the comic.

Cats are better.

The Venture Brothers

Jehovah’s Witnesses exlude themselves from many holidays. https://www.jw.org/en/library/magazines/g201309/truth-about-halloween/

As a wage laborer, I am chosen by a capitalist or their delegate, to do work for a wage. I can choose from a handful of places offering similar wages. The wage may allow me to pay rent on a place to live, transportation and acquire food.

If I do not take a job from the handful that I compete for with others, I will be homeless, without access to transportation and without food. For the wage laborer, capitalism is get lucky and find a wage contract or starve.

While working I produce enough to cover more than that wage. The capitalist pockets the excess of my labor. I live pay check to pay check. The capitalist buys another home. The extraction is in the exchange of labor for wages.

Are blue collar workers well paid? Here’s some data: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/median-household-income-by-state.

The data suggests that a $75,000 debt on top of rent or a mortgage would strap a families net earnings, but the pre-owned cost should be closer to $40,000.

In conclusion, debt sucks and over 5 years, everyone props up bankers.

The “1977 trinity” shows where personal computers were heading. Mr. Jobs was one salesperson.

I’m not sure where this is going. Spitting on someone is violent. Violence does not go away under anarchy. Maintaining horizontal power requires violence.

The aim is to establish communal horizontal power while living under existing power structures. An example is bringing neighbors the excess fruit from a harvest. The practice is common in rural communities. The magic is cooperation and mutualism. No bosses required.

I still need to provide binaries for Windows, so build and compile for multiple operating systems.

I love Linux. Deploying software to customer sites was historically challenging on Linux due to system dependencies. Containers alleviate most of those problems.

I am impressed by the pacifist responses on Lemmy. I assume country means the USA.

Labor strikes have led to violence. Among the consolations were the eight hour work day for some and an end to some child labor.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act sparked Bleeding Kansas which contributed to the Civil War. The result of the violence was a change in labor relations for slaves. Owners had to get more creative at creating an underclass.

Hilbert’s Paradox of the Grand Hotel seems to be the thought experiment with which you were engaged with your math associate. There are countable and uncountable infinities. Integers and skip counted integers are both countable and infinite. Real numbers are uncountable and infinite. There are sets that are more uncountable than others. That uncountability is denoted by aleph number. Uncountable means can’t be mapped to the natural numbers (1, 2, 3…). Infinite means a list with all the elements can’t be created.