The Super Printendo deserves a place on the fediverse.
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EUpol
I might flesh these thoughts out a bit more in a blog post in the near future, but only if I have time. I think leftist commentary on what the EU does is in sad short supply in the last decade+
EUpol
The EU has decided on dealing with necropolitics in multiple ways. Doubling down on the old world order and a (popular! Even on the so called "left") devotion to neocolonialism and white supremacy. The popular narrative you must have seen is that the Moloch of the United States army is retreating from the continent, and so we must "pick up arms" and re-arm to become more ready for the threats of tomorrow. But have you considered what that materially means? What this money is being put to and what effects those things tend to have on societies. The EU is basically claiming that it wants to (at least partially) take over the mantle of world police, pump more money into its own military industrial complex, and grow its power projection globally. But it cannot grow its recruitment easily, most armies in the EU are professional volunteer armies, so unless they want to reinstate the draft I don't see how manpower will increase. So techno gadgets it is I suppose, tools of more destruction, devotion to at best blowing up our own resources. A society funded from the top to incentivize people working on machines of death directly or indirectly. And a huge incentive to go down the road the US has already tread, impoverishment to lead people into the pipeline to work for the military.
UPDATE: there is a blender plugin that fully automates this process
extensions.blender.org/add-ons/ikea-browser/
so it's even easier!
thanks to @schrottkatze for making it aware of this
scraping models from ikea is actually easier than this one expected:
1. open the network tab of the web inspector on the ikea site, set it to media (this is in firefox but it assumes chromium-based things have a simiilar tool)
2. open the page for the product and open the 3d view, then save the result of the request for a glb file that happens when opening the 3d view
3. open in blender
it even imports with textures and materials, properly scaled, and everything
The nice thing about using a simple string-based light flickering system from the 90's is that you can share patterns really easily, across completely different engines. Here's one from Kitsune Tails in UE (thanks to @eniko)
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@ryanboswell now I read something a while back about “right wing prepping” (doing it along to save yourself) vs “left wing prepping” (doing it as a community to help out each other). And I guess you could apply that to the self hosting movement as well 🤔
Nog een leuke anecdote: een van de lastigere dingen om kwijt te raken in een weggeefwinkel, is vierkante/rechthoekige borden.
Waarom? Omdat ze nergens anders mee te combineren zijn, en de reden dat ze bij de weggeefwinkel terechtkomen is meestal omdat het dus geen complete set meer is...
Ik ben inmiddels zelf maar begonnen met wat te schrijven over hoe je een weggeefwinkel begint: https://wiki.slightly.tech/books/een-weggeefwinkel-beginnen
(Nog rommelig en ongesorteerd, in aanbouw, enz.)
fascism, racism, sexism, queerphobia, ableism
Reminder that nothing is dumb or stupid. Those words don't even mean anything. Try to think harder about what you actually mean by that. Do you mean it was chaotic? Do you mean that you think it will hurt an objective of yours? Do you think it will also hurt the perceived objectives of your enemies so you don't understand why they would do that?
Keep in mind, if something the alt-right does seems "dumb" it's because they have different objectives than you. They don't want peace on earth, or even like... peace in your small town. They want a race war at all costs, legitimately. They want to exterminate queer people, no hyperbole. They want women silent and in the kitchen, full stop.
Example: If they cut off a state from accessing healthcare, and it will lead to the deaths of white people, particularly poor white women, so you are upset and call it dumb, because it will affect them too (leading to many preventable deaths), you need to realize that it's not dumb to the right.
Poor people not being able the access healthcare, including poor white women, is a worthy price to pay to ensure that Black people and queer people don't access it. They calculated that risk and found it acceptable. They don't think its dumb, and calling it so, doesn't do anything.
Call it what it is: "That's fascist."
At least then, you'll be starting the conversation where it ought to be, "why are fascists running my [city/county/state/country]?" Don't be afraid to use the word fascist. Make the alt-right defend why they're not like Hitler. Move the goal post on them. Don't let them manipulate the conversation by using a useless phrase like "that's stupid".
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.