Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

(I have nothing against financial mutual aid to be clear, but "sending the same dollar around fifty times among mostly-all-poor folks" is not a sustainable revolutionary strategy, even if in the short term it is certainly helpful)

Is there some kind of mutual aid matchmaking platform, preferably decentralized in some way?

Commercially run platforms do not qualify, nor do "you can technically do mutual aid here" platforms, I'm really looking for something with an ideological basis in mutual aid that actively encourages it.

Note that "mutual aid" here is not a euphemism for just "people asking for / offering money", I mean mutual aid in the broader sense, including doing stuff for people that they need

When someone refuses to add accessibility features because "it's a game of skill" then it's a good idea to wonder what exactly that "skill" is, because very often the "skill" ends up being "not having any impairments"

A truly staggering number of people in tech seem to be entirely unfamiliar with "conflict of interest" as a concept, and unable to recognize that "someone chooses what role they represent depending on what is convenient to them at the time" is like, a textbook signal of a conflict of interest existing

So with the latest shit that Automattic pulled, they are now permanently on my shitlist and will not get a second chance ever. Fuck them.

On a tangential note, I greatly enjoy learning of such "collapsing questions", questions that are pretty much guaranteed to collapse the house of cards that is some asshole's shitty and oppressive ideology because you just *cannot* answer them without gradually realizing how far off the path you are

So here's a question that economists have never been able to give me a satisfactory answer to: if we didn't have money, and were hypothetically just exchanging goods and services for each other, would inflation be a good thing? And why does this answer suddenly change as soon as we have money as a proxy for trade?

Without fail, every economist (self-proclaimed or otherwise) that I've spoken to will launch off into a lengthy maze of abstract concepts and conceptual dependencies that are supposed to show how this makes sense, but crucially at no point in that chain of indirection is an actual answer presented, it just builds assumption on assumption and most of those assumptions are just capitalist ideology rather than anything that holds up to logical scrutiny, usually some unsupported notion of 'good for society'.

I highly recommend asking this question when someone claims to you that "inflation is good actually", and see what answer comes out, if any.

"Modding should be straightforward, I hate how divisive and confusing it's getting. Is it that difficult to just have all mods on one loader? I don't understand the inner workings of everything or care about community drama, whatever is happening here, but this is annoying as someone who just plays mods casually."

This is such an excellent illustration of how some people just don't want to recognize the hard work that goes into the things they enjoy, and expect things to magically materialize at no cost, monetarily or otherwise, to them.

To paraphrase: "I just want to have the free fun thing, without having to think about who made it under what conditions, and without any concern for their well-being, which I'm going to call drama because I cannot be bothered to care, why would I care about the community of people who made it for me?"

If you think that this is an acceptable thing to be saying, you should be thinking very long and hard about the implications of that.