my description made it look better than it actually was - that whole scene was incredibly toxic and hypocrite. It wasn’t a serious discussion on how to self-organize and create a sustainable community or just spread knowledge - it was mostly about “ain’t Nestor Makhno was a cool guy, huh? I think Bakunin was gangsta bro” - that kind of depth - shit like this is kindergarten. that is why i called it funny. It was posturing.

none of the folks who studied political theory and economy ever showed up in that place. It barely had anything to do with actual anarchism as much as it had everything to do with bunch of people just supporting each other in being childish and naive in their perception of the world. Nothing wrong with that in itself but it is very counterproductive in actually understanding anarchism as practical theory you can use in your life.

back in the day our university had anarchist intellectual club. it consisted solely of tenured left-leaning professors who talked shit about their place of work while staying at work after hours to massage their egos and also first-year edgelords saying inspirational quotes from social media. it was funny as fuck to sit at their meet-ups and listen to their empty posturing. if you wanted to decompress and take it easy - that was the place.

But there’s a catch - those buses are self-driving Tesla’s workshopping roadrage simulation.

Remember when Square Enix thought their Ming Na avatar was going to be a real movie star and even had Maxim “photoshoot”?

same shit with Poland and when it got exposed they played dumb

it is not even the first generation of russian opposition that failed at that. They played dumb when Transnistria situation happened, they didn’t gave a shit when russia started a proxy war with Georgia by fueling the separatist movements, they couldn’t be bothered with Karabakh thing, lots of them openly supported military invasion of Ichkeria that tried to secede according to international law only to be laughed at, they played the “it’s very ambiguous” during the August 8 invasion even there was nothing ambiguous. russian opposition was politically irrelevant long before that and their fate as absolutely inadequate play-pretend clownshow was cemented when most of them decided to feign ignorance and sit on the fence over Crimea annexation and then their leaders started speculating over that with sandwich rhetoric which was deeply idiotic and counterproductive.

just to clarify - taking ground with immense personnel and hardware losses over what it is rendered into a literal moonscape with no infrastructure or housings intact. good luck holding onto that.

Nothing to see here. It’s fake news. russia strong. Resistance is futile… ROFL

Ellison got extra big on government contracts back when digital transformation started to take over after 9/11. He was already gigantic by then due to being an early on and capitalizing on dot com bubble but the government juice made him megarich.

fuck, that’s some Venom Snake shit.

That Larry Ellison guy seems like mirror universe John McAfee who chose to be a Bond villain instead of Werner Herzog character.

That fucking anarchy, man! Calm down and buy something on Temu.

sounds like sound consumer strategy

and if you want to add some old scanner - you might also embrace Satanism because fuck this shit.

I’ve got this creeping suspicion that Microsoft really wants everyone to embrace Mint but is too shy to just say it like it is.

Satya enters chat: “Thrust da phrosess!”

also - for whatever reason File Explorer occasionally decides to think about life and stuff for a minute or two upon opening random folders - it just keeps loading even if there’s like two files inside 2mb total.

Win11 is 4,5 years old and still feels like 10 builds away from going gold. It feels thrown together.

Thank you! I will try out both on my personal computer.

thanks. gotta check it out.