Daemon Silverstein

@sylver_dragon@lemmy.world

the only way to give people any choice is to force them into

Well, to me, it seems pretty paradoxical, almost in the same Rousseauesque line of “I’m forced to be free”.

Pointing out problems is very different from the edgy “everyone needs to die” philosophy.

Sorry but you distorted my words. In no moment I said “everyone needs to die”, and I challenge anyone accusing me of that to point out where I said this. What I’ve been saying throughout this Lemmy thread is how humans are inherently evil (as per Hobbesian philosophy, not out of hatred misanthropy), how our actions are endangering ourselves and other lifeforms, and how we “should” (emphasis on “should”, not “must”) refrain from letting the unborn suffer the consequences of Industrial Revolution.

In no moment I advocated for forced antinatalism, let alone for genocide/omnicide. My point is philosophical, rather than regulatory.

If the goal is complete human eradication

First: no, it’s not. It’s about eradicating suffering from future generations.

Then, humans are eradicating themselves even without antinatalism. No other lifeforms developed nuclear warheads, no other lifeforms shrug off when children starve. I saw a cat desperately meowing to me when she couldn’t breastfeed kitten that wasn’t even hers, because she got no more milk to feed them, I could feel her desperation. I saw myself, and heard as well, how animals stopped to take care of another who is/was hurt or starving. Meanwhile, humans, oftentimes, shrug at the homeless “well, you’ll find something”, or even rudely saying “you gotta work to eat like everybody does”… To be fair, it’s not everyone who does this, but many people do, especially in the said “first-world countries”.

Also, even if humans continue reproducing recklessly ignoring the nightmarish future that expects the future generations, no lifeforms are eternal. Even Earth herself isn’t eternal, for the Sun will engulf the Earth as part of its transformation to Giant Red. One could argue “humans will become interplanetary”, but it’ll be just moving cosmic goalposts, because the Cosmos will also end someday.

Scientific advancement is the reason we have so many people on the planet.

Yes. Then, Science was hijacked by capitalism, becoming something sponsored by capital goals, one which sees people as cogs in the machine because “profit must go up”.

And then we came up with the germ theory of diseases and vaccines

Yes. And, on one hand, this improved quality of life (= less physical suffering). On the other hand, it empowered capitalism so people became increasingly reliant on a system that seeks to perpetuate their slavery (= ontological, invisible suffering).

But, working hard to improve the human condition seems a pretty far cry from “why don’t we all just die?”

Improving human condition also means avoiding suffering from future generations: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7422788/

@Cowbee@lemmy.ml

This reply of mine is probably going to diverge a lot from the main subject, but you suggested that I should “get organized and try to move towards socialism”.

Politically speaking, I live in a country (Brazil) where we already have nice relations with PRC and a country that been trying to counteract the Global North through BRICS.

So, to a certain extent, there’s some effort in this regard from the current government in the country I was born in, but Brazil is still a marionette of USian interests since USA pulled Brazil to their side during Cold War (1964 Military Coup, orchestrated by USA).

And Brazilians themselves are politically divided, with a significant part of the country advocating for their own economic slavery (far-right). Partly because people are held captive by a system that conceals knowledge from them, making them too busy with the “rat race” alongside the panis et circensis, so they rely in out-of-the-shelf opinions without pondering broader. When I try to talk with those geographically around me trying to wake 'em up, it’s as if I was talking in Sumerian or Akkadian, anything but contemporary language.

Then, there’s the religious aspect, very strong around here. Brazil is highly christian, while I went to Left-hand Path (highly-personalized syncretic spirituality involving Luciferianism and other esoteric beliefs) a few years ago, quite the opposite… If I couldn’t “convince” people back when I was still a christian, it’s worse now while I’m literally worshiping their “enemy”. Can’t really belong to secularists, either, because I got a belief in the supernatural, even though my belief tries to consider scientific facts.

So I doubt I can “get organized”. My worldview is very atypical, I’m very atypical. In fact, I’m just nobody. You’re likely the second person this week suggesting I got some kind of power when I got none. I can’t even have power over myself, let alone over other people (and I don’t even want to).

While I do talk and participate in discussions regarding the sociopolitical, philosophical and the mundane sometimes, trying to understand and be understood, trying to share knowledge while also trying to learn, open to what I don’t know yet, deep inside I got extensively de-realized and depersonalized, accepting how even the whole cosmos will end someday (Big Freeze / Big Rip / Big Crunch / Big Bounce), and I can’t see purpose except beyond existence.

It’s not about “ceding agency to those who would perpetuate the worst excesses”, it’s just that I went too far into staring at the Darkness and seeing how cosmic existence is pointless and fleeting, so deeply that I can’t simply “unsee” and/or forget Her stare back at me, so everything became fleeting. It’s my inner battle that’s already lost, because ain’t no battle, no spoon, nothing but the nothingness… And my weirdness before others… And Nature, Moon, Earth and Cosmos as closest manifestations of Her principle.

@davel@lemmy.ml

Where exactly am I saying it’s something to do with human ethnic origins? Where exactly am I nodding or advocating for eugenics or other bigoted concepts?

Because my point is about the innermost human nature, imbued within every human that ever existed, exists and will exist. When, for example, Thomas Hobbes says “Humans are wolves to humans”, he’s not saying about a specific race or gender, he’s talking about the Homo sapiens. All of us, since humans discovered fire and became “fearsome” to other lifeforms holding this warm thing we think we can control.

It goes with saying how the fact that there are bigoted people using this science to try and “validate” eugenics (and how there are bigoted people in the first place) is, ironically enough, another evidence of how humans are wolves to themselves. It’s like I said in a previous reply, billionaires (and far-right figures) aren’t extraterrestrials or lizards, they’re humans with enough power to let their evilness affect other humans. Given enough power, many other humans are likely to pave similar paths.

Yes, not everyone, the end of Derren Brown’s “The Push” documentary shows how there are situations where humans can end up not ceding to their impulses to harm others in order to save their own skin.

But even when we choose to do good and help others (and this includes caring for the wellbeing of the unborn so they don’t suffer the consequences of current humanity’s actions) despite our own wellbeing, our wolves are still there, lurking inside us, because it’s born with us.

This doesn’t invalidate “Homo homini lupus est”, just shows how we sometimes get to be less of a wolf. The first step is letting go of our antropocentrism, our way of seeing the whole cosmos as if it depended and was centered on us humans, and starting to see things anachronistically, beyond human existence, and realizing how we’re just a speck in this cosmic timeline, just wandering star dust.

@Cowbee@lemmy.ml

While tribal societies were indeed better insofar they were closer to Nature as today’s humanity, I can’t see a haven in today’s world.

I mean, yeah, things can be going better in, say, China, insofar (AFAIK) Chinese people haven’t to worry about having a shelter and enough food, because they’re not relegated to the whims of capital as we are in the West. I can sort of agree it’s the best we can have in terms of social welfare.

But even China is far from detached, for example, from consequences of climate change. We’ve seen how floods and typhoons and drought have been increasingly hitting the Chinese, because we all exist within the same cosmic boulder called Planet Earth so whatever is done here also affects there and vice-versa.

Even though China is moving more and more to green energy, the way West countries are still "drill baby drill"ing inexorably affects them as well. And also their future, and our future, everyone’s future and every future generations upon whom climate consequences will inexorably hit harder (not to say, for example, about the mess waiting to happen above our heads due to ever-increasing amount of satellites, the Kessler Syndrome, which will also affect us down here if things get beyond control up there).

@hansolo@lemmy.today

That anyone should get a “stake” in their own birth is a ridiculous premise that defies the logic of how life works and the impermanence of everything in our universe

It doesn’t have to defy the logic. It just requires ourselves to look around and see to where this world is headed. It just requires ourselves to read a history book and realize how humanity is repeating the same errors over and over again. It just requires us to notice how the world the future adults will have to live is likely worse than today’s world, as the climate bill, from the imprudent consumption started in past generations, already began to be charged.

If a parent, knowing how the future will be harsher than the present time, how Science and evidence are proving how we’re past the point of Paris Climate Treaty, even if we were to stop pollution today (the best time to stop all the greed of Industrial Revolution was a century ago, the second best time to stop Industrial Revolution was yesterday), how wet-bulb temperatures will get increasingly higher, if a parent still decides to bring someone to this Underworld to eventually melt under +60 degrees Celsius, this is what defies any logic. What kind of “future” is being expected for their offspring, really?

We are the only species that cares to consider beyond biological impulses if we should reproduce, which is a luxury

Yet we keep endangering ourselves and the other lifeforms.

Or if you want to go with the reincarnation-approved viewpoint, we ALL chose to be born in some pre-incarnation realm

My spiritual views are based on (among other belief systems) Gnosticism, where there’s Demiurge and his Archons trapping everything within this cosmos. My spiritual views diverge from pure religion as I also tend to consider scientific, non-anthropocentric views on all cosmos, so Demirge isn’t trapping humans, Demiurge is trapping energy and matter into existence, and we’re just part of this energy (self) and matter (biological vessel) being trapped in existence.

@Cowbee@lemmy.ml

And all the fundamenta of capitalism and imperalism are consequences of how we humans are our own wolves. Again, billionaires aren’t extraterrestrials or lizards.

It cedes all responsibility to move onto a better world

Some things aren’t reversible. For example, the species that went extinct (some of which we won’t even know they existed because there wasn’t enough time for them to be catalogued by Science) due to “Industrial Revolution”.

A naïve part of me hopes for a better world, where humans could finally coexist with Mother Nature, while we could improve things for all biosphere through Science and Academia, a Science and an Academia detached from capitalistic greed, a sincere pursuit of knowledge and scientific improvement not just for humans, but for all lifeforms, letting go from all our human malice and greed.

However, I can’t help but notice how this is getting farther and farther to be reached as the world is increasingly technofeudalist. I can’t help but see reality as it is: bleak, with a bleaker future awaiting for us, as we get increasingly trapped into a dystopia where the majority of humans would be required to fight against the asymmetrical forces possessing nuclear warheads and real-time control of public opinions from social media.

Sorry if I’m overly realistic and I can’t gaslight myself into hoping for the best, because I’m past this point, I grew tired of hoping for better times as I watch powerless to the dystopia where I was compelled to exist.

My hope now relies beyond this Pale Blue Dot: some supernova within this cosmic vicinity of the Milky Way blasting insurmountable amounts of energy towards here (not enough to vaporize the Earth, but enough to vaporize the machine where we’re forced to be cogs), or some solar CME/flare, powerful enough to free us from ourselves.

@ubergeek@lemmy.today

Are you sure about this? How can you possibly know?

Science.

Spontaneous Metatool Use by New Caledonian Crows
Taylor, Alex H. et al.
Current Biology, Volume 17, Issue 17, 1504 - 1507

Structure of the cerebral cortex of the humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae)
Patrick R. Hof, Estel Van Der Gucht

How about Octopi?

Them, too. I forgot to mention them.

Not sure your point?

My point is how you tried to argue reproduction based on instincts, so I brought another instinct-based trait.

No, it’s not. Its instinctive to seek shelter, water, food, and to reproduce

Urbanization and capitalism aren’t part of Nature.

So, that’s the root of the problem, and it’s something we can change

I doubt it can be changed, especially due to how things are pivoting to technofascism in the world. I doubt it can be changed, especially due to how we humans are constantly endangering other species for living as “modern humans”.

The could be a change but it’s beyond human agency: say, if Sun ejected a CME powerful enough, that could be a change of sorts, because it’d finally grind to a halt all the steel-made mosquitoes humans threw to orbit around this Pale Blue Dot, bringing humans back to a more natural means of existing.

However, we humans have been long detached from natural means of living so transition wouldn’t be easy, we’re sort of cursed to “modernity”, so it’s complicated.

@Cowbee@lemmy.ml @nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de

It’s far from oversimplified “eco-fascism” strawman. To illustrate this, I’ll start from this argument of yours:

that should be reserved for those who want kids

Notice your own phrasing, “those who want kids”. The subject behind predicate “wanting” isn’t the object being “wanted”, despite the very object being “wanted” being a living being that’ll be unable to revert this decision imposed unto them.

People often say about “wanting kids” as if they were talking about wanting some kind of material belonging.

Yes, they have no means to decide on the circumstances of their birth, and that’s part of the problem: they can’t choose, neither positively nor negatively, they’re dependent on other’s wills because they got no agency…

…until they reach a certain age, when they’ll suddenly be recognized with agency and then the world will shift the blame upon them: they’ll be required to become a cog in the machine, they’ll be required to “work” and “serve society” in order to fulfill the basic needs (eating food and seeking shelter to protect oneself from elements) that their own body imposed upon them as part of involuntary survival instincts, they’ll be required to “pay” for eating and having a shelter (things that Mother Nature used to give freely), and they’ll be required to accept it as a “matter of fact” of “living among society”.

They can’t opt-out because they’ll be forbidden to live among wildlife as our Homo erectus ancestors did because “we’re different species”.

This leads us to this:

the “humans are the virus” crowd just play into reactionary hands and cede all control to those directly responsible for the worst excess.

IMHO, the fundamentum behind capitalistic greed is human greed.

Billionaires and riches aren’t extraterrestrials nor lizards: as far as Science is concerned, they’re Homo sapiens, differing from the majority of other Homo sapiens insofar they got “enough power” to give agency to their greed.

“Give enough power to a person and you’ll know who they really are” (a popular saying) and “humans are wolves to humans” (Thomas Hobbes).

In this regard, there’s a documentary from Derren Brown called “The Push”. Despite being cinematographic, it precisely depicts what humans are capable of doing to other humans, especially when pressed by life-or-death circumstances. It’s within us.

Finally, I must recall the initial, ecological point: if humans can endanger others from their own species (as we watch daily in capitalist-technofeudalist dystopia), other lifeforms are undeniable under danger that’s posed by human existence.

That’s because humans can’t simply blend with the all other species as one with Mother Earth (just like our ancestors used to do millions of years ago), we humans got this anthropocentric arrogance since the accidental discovery of the fire: now we’re slowly burning ourselves (literally, with fossil fuels) together with all the other lifeforms.

@sylver_dragon@lemmy.world @nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de

If you really feel that existence is that horrible, there’s a solution for that at your nearest tall bridge

Before I was born, there’s this… nothingness. No fleeting happiness, but also no suffering. There was no pain, no angst, nothing but the nothingness. Then I was pulled, without the ability to choose positively or negatively… now the blame is on me: “you really feel that existence is that horrible, there’s a solution for that at your nearest tall bridge”.

Why should a person have to go through the painful to opt-out, risking failure? Yes, because suicide attempts aren’t guaranteed to lead to suicide, in fact, such attempts often leads to failure and, in many cases, to irreparable damage without death. One risks having to endure more pain.

Why? Because, for example, self-chosen euthanasia is still a matter of taboo, a forbidden subject to be talked about (or highly bureaucratic for someone to achieve without somehow “proving” they got no “depression” while DSM considers “deathwish” as a textbook depressive symptom) , because all the BS that people keep parroting such as “life is sacred”.

It’s worth mentioning how coping mechanisms to escape this nightmare are getting increasingly forbidden by christofascism (e.g. natural drugs never getting to be decriminalized, and being recriminalized in many countries), because being born to a dystopian world isn’t enough, people need to “grow up” on it and embrace being a cog in the machine while fully aware and focused on being such a cog.

I lost count on how many times I tried to end my own existence, and how many times I failed to do so because of this thing called “survival instincts” that restrain me from proceeding to being kissed by Lady Scythebearer.

So far, all my attempts failed on myself because my vessel conflicts with my own will because, just like it’s impossible to choose whether to be born or not, it’s also impossible to choose whether to possess instincts or not.

So, no, it’s not as easy as “jumping a bridge”, and you know it. Challenging others to commit suicide is a fallacy (the strawman fallacy, to be exact, because it plays with the very mechanism behind one’s pain) just like gaslighting optimism (“Things gonna be alright”, “It’s just a phase”, “You’ll get through it”) is also fallacious.

the whole thing as what happens when people fail to move beyond teenage angst

Were/Are David Benatar, Philipp Mainländer, among other thinkers who extensively wrote about this subject, eternal “teenagers”? Are the scientists who’ve been tirelessly reporting on how human activity is endangering all lifeforms, and/or those who reported about microplastics everywhere, and/or those who tried to report about the consequences of Industrial Revolution, driven by “teenager angst”?

@ubergeek@lemmy.today

So, can they also choose to be born?

They can’t choose, and that’s part of main issue as beings cursed by self-awareness: the impossibility to choose positively or negatively.

It’s beyond any capability of will and it taints any other decisions that could be done (see the movie “The Artifice Girl”, particularly the dialogue at the end when the robot is talking to her creator about how her primary directives made it impossible for her to really exert any fully free will).

The issue, here, emerges from the lack of choice alongside inevitable self-awareness, which takes us to:

Do bears choose to be born? Microbes?

They don’t have this curse of “self-awareness”. They do possess intelligence (especially crows and dolphins, not mentioned), but they don’t end up cursed by knowing the pointlessness of their own existences through a broader, cosmic lens. We do.

Also, they don’t restricted themselves into this Kafkaesque rearrangement we call as “human society”, where we must “buy” food and “pay” to have a roof above our heads, as if it was some kind of optional luxury. They live from what Mother Nature gives. Bears can roam and do shelters for them wherever there aren’t other bears (or other wildlife). Microbes’ shelters are literally other lifeforms.

Humans, however, can’t live from what Mother Nature gives, no no, this is too extraterrestrial for us to consider doing. I myself can’t choose to live among the wildlife like any other primate because I’m prohibited to do so (and, also, because my entire human existence compelled me into artificialities that I’m unable to ditch, such as the myopia I ended up having due to artificial environmental factors (thanks “screens” and “enclosed spaces”) leading to the need of using (and purchasing) prescription glasses).

Again, bears and microbes have no such artificial rearrangement.

Selfhood, if we’re being frank, doesn’t really “form” until at least a year or so into life

But we do know it’ll form, eventually. We do know the kid will become an adult and they’ll be required to become a cog in this machine. Parents often see this as a matter of “proud” (“our offspring has a job”), ignoring how much suffering it accompanies the imposed serfdom (having to “seek” and “have” a “job”, having to serve others).

Reproduction is an instinctive behavior, in all species. Humans as well.

If we were to talk about instincts, murdering to eat (hunting) is also pretty instinctive across species… Humans don’t often “murder to eat” because they often delegate it for others to do it, but with enough desperation (e.g. lack of food) a human can even eat other humans (see Chichijima incident)…

It’s also instinctive to live among the woods. Why don’t we, though? Maybe because we’re legally forbidden by other humans to move to a forest and live as our ancestors did, so we’re required to live “among society”, which in turn requires us to “pay” to “afford” food and shelter.

@hansolo@lemmy.today @nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de

Maybe just let people decide for themselves

Problem is that this argument discards the selfhood from those being born. And it’s quite the core of the anti-natalist argument: that the person didn’t get a stake in choosing their own birth.

Because if we’re talking about lives and decisions, then “let people decide for themselves” ends up really meaning it: they’re deciding for themselves, as in some arrogant and egocentric decision, uncaring of of how the very object of decision are “selves” as well.

@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com

there are communes and mutual aid communities

Yes, there are. Yes, they might be nice places for a while. But no, they’re likely to not hold as permanent havens.

Because if you zoom out, you might notice how this world is getting increasingly ominous as the days pass.

First: climate change. There’s nowhere safe in this world from the environmental consequences of Industrial Revolution. Temps have been rising, wet-bulb hot, hurricanes have been getting stronger, sea level rising is risking entire countries, many are trying to flee from coastal places and islands that’ll inevitably get underwater. It’s already happening.

Then, tech. Things are getting more and more reliant on digital walled gardens, and the old ways of doing things (e.g. cash, barter) are getting more and more forgotten and even criminalized.

There’s no way a commune can keep “sovereign” for long under lobbied jurisdictions, except if we’re talking about something akin to a Sealand Principality (good luck trying to keep sovereignty on international waters).

do you really think it helps to spread this shit to people who might otherwise be happily ignorant to it?

Oh, thanks for en-grandeur-ing me, but I’m just nobody, a ghost wandering through this cyberspace. Believe me: my voice is a drop in the ocean. I’m not that important as your phrasing suggest. I’m simply too weird, and my language often feels highly extraterrestrial to anybody. If you see my comment history, you’ll notice this.

Also… on “being happily ignorant to [reality]”. Sometimes I wish I was, I’m quite envious of this ability. It must be nice seeing the world without knowing how our senses deceive us (René Descartes), how people around us uses psychology tricks to pull us into a sticky and hidden spiderweb of social compliance (Derren Brown), how humans are their own wolves (Hobbes), and so on.

But here’s the catch: “Not seeing” and/or “not knowing” doesn’t imply “not happening”. You don’t see your own bodily cells, yet there are countless cells of yours undergoing apoptosis right now as part of natural biology. Reality doesn’t give a nought if we’re unaware of it, it happens nonetheless!

An ostrich can bury its head under the sand the deepest it can, maybe deeper than Mariana Trench, but the rain still falls over it as soon as it starts raining just because “physics” (force of gravity).

And I can’t help but see the storm approaching at the horizon, and it doesn’t look good: from climate change to ever-increasing power grip of Big Techs (to the extent that they now got thousands of those funny chunks of metal flying above our heads everywhere around this globe), all the way to a blatant repetition of the same errors, rehearsing history over and over again, partly due to this exact mentality of “happily ignoring” the surrounding obvieties, so the only thing that we end up learning from history books is that we can’t learn from history books. Yep, ignorance is a bliss!

@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone @nyctre@lemmy.world

The second a human is brought to this world, they got “duties” imposed unto them. Duties to solve problems they never asked, such as their own survival.

While they’re still a kid, if lucky enough, they’ll be sustained by those who are parenting them. As soon as they inevitably get to their adulthood, they’ll begin to be on their own.

So, supposing they want to eat (after all, we all know how “optional” is for living beings to eat, a comfort luxury of sorts), they’ll be required to “purchase” the food, and to achieve this endeavour, they’ll be required to get what humans call as “money”. To get this “money”, they’ll be required to serve someone else, but they’ll need to “apply” for serving. They’ll be required to lie while they apply (if asked “Why do you want to work here?”, answering the obvious “so I can buy food and eat so I don’t die of starvation” is a no-no). If they get “blessed” with a job, they’ll need to continue lying, and if they lie as expected, they’ll afford to get some of the said “money”.

So now they can finally eat food, right? Not so fast: they’ll need to pay the rent, they’ll need to pay the government, they’ll need to pay the corporations (utility bills, internet, etc, because they need those things in order to continue having a job as electricity runs their internet which allows them to use the “money” they were “blessed” with), and only then they can go to a store and hopefully find food to buy with the remaining money (not before paying for getting to the store and paying to pay).

No, they can’t simply hunt-gather like all the other gazillion species in the surface of this Pale Blue Dot: hominids are godlike, we’re not animals, we sent rockets to the space and we invented subscription-based food! So they must “buy” food and “pay” for shelter, they must “belong to” and “serve”, and they must do whatever the society, government and corporations requires them to do.

And they’ll be shrugged off whenever they dare to complain about serfdom: “everyone does this”.

They can’t leave, they can’t opt-out. They’ll be stuck here until Lady Scythebearer inevitably comes, which is often a moment of agony that could’ve been avoided but it wasn’t by those who decided to pull them into existence. They’ll also have similar agony (mourning) as they watch people around them being reaped as well, fearing Her while the society around them exploits their fear, preprogrammed as the deepest of instincts, to keep them serving society, or else… 💀

All this to achieve what, exactly? Human legacy, which will evaporate as soon as the Earth gets engulfed by its own star? Well, maybe humans can prevent Red Giant Sol someday, and with enough human serfdom, Big Freeze can also be prevented so humans can perpetuate their Kafkaesque system.

So yeah, you’re right: it’s really gross to keep someone from having to endure the suffering from a non-consented existence. More cogs to the machine!

@Hirom@beehaw.org @Korkki@lemmy.ml

Problem is when government apps are required to do things such as income tax return, car license renewal, even to receive updates on medical appointments for public healthcare.

Brazil is such an example: everything have been increasingly reliant on gov.br (official Brazilian state portal) app, which refuses to work on the slightest phone settings modification, such as having developer mode on, having an unlocked bootloader and, by extension, having something other than rawdoggy Android or iOS.

While there is a website, it has since recently been asking for TFA through the app (which does facial recognition), so website-only is a no deal anymore.

One can do things offline, but services have been increasingly pivoting to digital since the COVID-19 pandemics. Income tax return is already done through online means: for now, it offers a Linux software, but I can feel it asking for TFA through Android-or-iOS app soon.

One can choose not to use government services altogether, until the government decides to block one’s CPF (taxpayer id) due to the lack of income tax return paperwork, unpaid electoral fines for not voting (because the voter is required to keep their info updated whenever they move, not doing so can lead to not being able to vote), among other situations that require using gov (and/or banking) services.

I’ve been daring to do this, nevertheless: been increasingly ditching apps, closing accounts, even if I get unable to pay for things because everything around here is increasingly pivoting to Pix (Brazilian instant payment system which requires a banking app and can’t be done through a computer browser). I don’t care if my ID gets blocked eventually, I’m not taking any piece of paper or bits of oscillating electricity with me when I happen to leave this existence anyways (which I hope to be really soon because I’m done with this Kafkaesque world).

@brachypelmide@lemmy.zip @OneSpectra@lemmy.world

You already see chunks of the world disappearing, it’s called “fog” or “haze”. 😆

@tfm@europe.pub

When you treat Assembly as a full-fledged, high-level, hot-reload-able language:

@return2ozma@lemmy.world

As a Zennial (the microgeneration between Millennials and Gen Z), I already skip meals and ditch my belongings in a frequent basis. It’s far from “getting by”, though: it’s just so I hopefully get to finally retire from my daily, boring job as a “biological vessel operator/manager” sooner 😄

@muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world

Somehow, this remembers me of Nostr. How much is this different from Nostr? (insofar an user generates their own pair of public and private keys that they use to publish content anywhere within the Nostr ecossystem, at least it’s as far as I remember about Nostr, as it’s been a long while since I don’t use Nostr anymore after it went down the cryptobro road)

@gedaliyah@lemmy.world

In order to transmit/receive data during the night, a different carrier and modulation should be used: owls and a hoot-based Morse code (e.g. “ho-ho-ho-ho hooo-hooo-hooo hooo-hooo-hooo hooo” safely conveys “hoot” through the night skies).

@QuestionMark@lemmy.ml

What exactly happened with the “Prompt engineer” position? I remember how it was sold as “the new competitive (sic) skill”.