And tonight, when I dream it will be

That the junkies spent all the drug money on

Community gardens and collective housing

And the punk kids who moved in the ghetto

Have started meeting their neighbors besides the angry ones

With the yards

That their friends and their dogs have been puking and shitting on

And the anarchists have started

Filling potholes, collecting garbage

To prove we don’t need governments to do these things

And I’ll wake up, burning Time’s Square as we sing

“Throw your hands in the air 'cause property is robbery!”

Thank you so much. You’re my hero.

Who is this artist? Unless I’m mistaken, I’ve seen their work before.

Yup. My great-grandparents were in English concentration camps during that war. They grew up to vote for the Apartheid government.

Hey, man. I’m sorry to hear about your situation. That really sucks, and I genuinely hope you pull through. Unfortunately, this isn’t really the best community for this sort of post. But if you want people to point you to resources that can help you, you’ll need to give a little more info. What country are you in? If it’s the US, what state? Maybe then, someone can point you to a relevant aid organization.

I get what you’re saying, but I don’t really believe that anyone is inherently less bright. I think we all have the capacity to be incredibly “intelligent” (a nebuluos term that doesn’t mean much, in my estimation). But our abilities get ground down over the years through failure, negative experience and media. We just need to flex our brains and boost our neuroplasticity.

Right? It’s not difficult. It’s just effort. Which is how you learn.

Neo-confucianism is a broad term for a loose collection of philosophical ideas influenced by or based on the writings of Confucius, the Chinese philosopher. It strongly influenced the development of Korean society, and it was the official state ideology at one point. It is still very prevalent, although not always expressed explicitly.

So I live in South Korea. The medical system here is heavily subsidized and socialized. This makes it very cheap and (mostly) accessible, but the downside is the bureaucracy that comes with that. It is also a very litigious culture, which makes it worse. Doctors here are extremely wary to prescribe anything too strong, and they communicate very little with the patients. It’s just, “Trust me, I’m a doctor.” And of course the neo-confucian mindset is also very strong here, with all the rigid hierarchy that comes with it.

The word ‘normie’ is just insulting. It implies a hierarchy of knowledge that I just don’t accept.

Exactly. That second example infuriates me. Just give me something to troubleshoot, for fuck’s sake.

I mean, for gen alpha, that’s an intentional effect. Tech is becoming more and more obfuscated by design.

Fair, yeah. It is pretty grim.

Done.

Good point. I’ll find a link now.

Ah, that tracks. Doy. I spaced on that for a moment. Thank you for clarifying.

Didn’t Overstreet do bcachefs? Or are you referring to switching to Reiser because of this?

It’s funny; I’ve been seeing these posts and comments recently. Pro-AI, similar vocabulary (The term Luddite seems to be quite popular with these folks - what’s next? Decel?), all from fresh accounts. You’re not fooling me, which is impressively incompetent of you.

Yup. I’m pathetic over long distances. Even my family in New Zealand is ashamed of me.

I seem to have met my match. We are both telepathetic, it seems.