Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

it's a crucial component in #marxism (and most "socialist" ideologies in the authoritarian sense) as well as the thesis of capital concentration.

competition would supposedly automatically lead to concentration of wealth (which they see as objective and conflate with power) in the hands of the few, because they assume economies of scale are essentially limitless and centralized control had no significant costs.

it is also quite central to #fascism, of course. it's the whole Carl Schmitt shit. and if you spend some time listening to fascists, you will notice that one of their core beliefs is "everyone else is (secretly) either just as fascist as us, or extremely naive".

this is why they are so obsessed with linking everything to bolshevism, islamism etc. because for them, those reflect their own love of power and violence, giving them justification.

here's an extremely common thought terminating cliché you'll find everywhere: "someone's always gonna rule, so it should be X"

this presupposes the impossibility of freedom, to shoehorn in some supposedly lesser evil.

this obviously reflects how (state) #democracy works: you vote for a candidate to rule, the option of no rulers just is not present, and it would be unclear what such an option existing and winning would even mean.

#authoritarianTrope

It's really amusing to see everyone suddenly hating ASUS. I've been telling people to avoid this company for years and nobody listened to me.

I used to work in repair shop about half a decade ago, ASUS laptops were notorious for poor design and mechanical failures right after warranty period ended.

One notable example was a customer who brought ASUS "Pro" laptop for repair with snapped hinges - literally two weeks after warranty. There were no spare parts, so I called ASUS and asked if I could buy some - they wanted to compete with ThinkPads after all.

ASUS representative literally laughed at me over the phone because he assumed I didn't know what I was talking about (ah yes, good ol' misogyny) and told me to send machine in for repair and prepare to pay up to 2000PLN (450EUR) or f**k off.

When I told the customer I couldn't get parts and ASUS representative laughed at me, he got angry, requested the machine back, thanked me, threw it into our e-waste bin and walked out.

This isn't a new practice by any means. It's been like that for at least a decade at this point.

Just recently Jamie (friend of mine) bricked his NUC and router after installing newest firmware updates. I bricked my NUC 12 Pro with UEFI update from ASUS today. What a shitshow.

So, Iceland's publishing industry has a bit of a dark side that people don't like to talk about with foreigners. It's ingrained in us to pretend that everything is fine to outsiders

But we effectively have a duopoly that puts some effort into safeguarding their unfair market position.

i was genuinely disappointed a little bit that nothing broke @ work on the leap day. i was looking forward to it. especially since we’ve had a lot of timezone bugs. maybe next time

Unpacking the dishwasher and then making my bed with one hand.. because I'm holding a bag of oats in my other hand.

Why? Because I have adhd and got distracted before making breakfast, so I've been carrying oats around the house for the last 20 minutes without noticing.

#audhd #autism #adhd #disability #neurodiverse

“PyCon has all these workshops on how to get into open source, but it doesn’t have any on how to get out”

(Followed by a mix of laughter and knowing groans)

@brainwane #PyConUS

This is pretty brutal https://how-i-experience-web-today.com

Happy agender day! Please dump all your unwanted gender into this bin:

🗑️

I, the gender trash panda, will happily collect and root through them.

Interesting thing i've learned over the years from dealing with server hosting:
Game population rarely grows linearly, the odds for a server to be half full are dramatically smaller than for it to be empty or full.