Orcocracy

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[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

A train that has a stop somewhere in my neighbourhood.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and telling people to just pay for a VPN isn't a great answer either - that's just another fucking pay-forever subscription with the price rises of Netflix plus the added jank and nonsense that comes with being a copyright infringement hobbyist.

Maybe I'll just cancel everything and do totally offline ripping of borrowed physical media from the public library, like some kind of pirate hermit.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

jesus-christ I have no idea if that's bullshit or not, but this is definitely turning into a tragic bodycount measuring contest. I'm outta here. peppino-run

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes coal is indeed very bad and needs go away immediately. But I'm not so sure if coal being bad makes radiation cancers from Chernobyl, Fukushima, Three Mile Island, Sellafield, etc etc etc not worth caring about.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I really don't want to play top trumps over which tragic disaster is worse by measuring bodycounts, as this is all way too grim and I think we can agree that the worst case scenarios for all of these things are awful in their own distinct ways. But that number you put for nuclear is difficult to believe. Where did you find it?

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Yeah a dam will wreck a valley. But a nuclear station can irradiate a whole region and coal ruins the planet.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Every modern law of economics? marx

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Tidal, hydroelectric dams, and geothermal should all together be able to cover a pretty significant part of the Earth, shouldn't they?

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, also the TikTok clones on YouTube and Instagram, and Musk's plan to make Twitter/X a WeChat clone. The Americans have been stealing tech from China for a long time now.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I remember thinking all of these terms were strange and creepy back when I first learnt them as a kid for goodness' sake. They've always been bad and I'm very glad they're finally going away.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah the consumerist rhetoric in game reviews (and the entire technology press more broadly) dooms all of their attempts at analysis to be extremely shallow. Maybe one day a journalist will pay attention in one of their media studies classes and read the fucking Adorno reading that one of their teachers assigned, but that day has not yet come.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hold on to that leverage over your employer with a union

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