when the capitalists die out either thru global warming or revolution will we be able to start homegrown internet
been reading about dual power and how to grow my own tomatoes and i’m wondering how and if we’ll be able to start commie internet lol
like obviously the internet is this huge electric capitalist controlled hardware infrastructure thing so after all that shuts down is there a way to do it ourselves lol
i want to come home from a hard day on the communal allotment, kiss my Wife, crank up my generator, and start sharing meams!
GOOD NEWS: the homegrown commie internet is in the works! Across the world, people fighting against censorship and for a more democratic internet are building mesh networks (meshnets) of long-range wifi (LoRa)
Since wifi is just a standard for sending data through radio waves, and radio waves can go a pretty long way if you use ‘em right, it’s not that difficult to connect two computers by wifi from across town. Then you just keep adding more computers to the network and you’ve got internet!
As for sharing fresh mëmês, the network to go to is Scuttlebutt. Unlike most social media, Scuttlebutt posts are stored on your computer and sent directly to your friends’ computers (rather than being stored on the cloud and sent to a central server). It works just fine over traditional internet, but you can also view and interact with it offline, and it has protocols for connecting over any means that two computers can share information - that includes LoRa, as well as hardwired connections, sneakernet (basically mailing a USB stick back and forth), etc
What that means is you always know that your info is just as safe as the network it’s sent on and the computer that receives it - no one even theoretically has the ability to collect and sell it all. And, since it’s all run on your computer, there’s no servers to go down or companies to go out of business that could destroy the whole thing
You can read more about this kind of stuff here (or here if it’s cloudy in Barcelona)!
there’s also the work being done by the DCPT, left-behind Detroiters meshing together their neighborhoods to share overpriced high-speed connections among the community and producing these good good educational documents, especially this rad resource page. building meshnets to share a global uplink is very similar to building meshnets for the purpose of intracommunication and these resources are useful in both cases
Note to vacationing non-Americans: while it’s true that America doesn’t always have the best food culture, the food in our restaurants is really not representative of what most of us eat at home. The portions at Cheesecake Factory or IHOP are meant to be indulgent, not just “what Americans are used to.”
If you eat at a regular American household, during a regular meal where they’re not going out of their way to impress guests, you probably will not be served twelve pounds of chocolate-covered cream cheese. Please bear this in mind before writing yet another “omg I can’t believe American food” post.
Also, most American restaurant portions are 100% intended as two meals’ worth of food. Some of my older Irish relatives still struggle with the idea that it’s not just not rude to eat half your meal and take the rest home, it’s expected. (Apparently this is somewhat of an American custom.)
Until you’re hitting the “fancy restaurant” tier (the kind of place you go for a celebration or an anniversary date), a dinner out should generally also be lunch for the next day. Leftovers are very much the norm.
From the little time I’ve spent in Canada, this seems to be the case up there as well.
the portions in family restaurants (as opposed to haute cuisine types) are designed so that no one goes away hungry.
volume IS very much a part of the american hospitality tradition, and Nobody Leaves Hungry is important. but you have to recognize that it’s not how we cook for ourselves, it’s how we welcome guests and strengthen community ties.
so in order to give you a celebratory experience and make you feel welcomed, family restaurants make the portions big enough that even if you’re a teenage boy celebrating a hard win on the basketball court, you’re still going to be comfortably full when you leave.
of course, that means that for your average person with a sit-down job, who ate a decent lunch that day, it’s twice as much as they want or more. that’s ok. as mentioned above, taking home leftovers is absolutely encouraged. that, too, is part of american hospitality tradition; it’s meant to invoke fond memories of grandma loading you down with covered dishes so you can have hearty celebration food all week. pot luck church basement get-togethers where the whole town makes sure everybody has enough. that sort of thing. it’s about sharing. it’s about celebrating Plenty.
it’s not about pigging out until you get huge. treating it that way is pretty disrespectful of our culture. and you know, contrary to what the world thinks, we do have one.
I have a theory regarding to the active and passive status of muses and lords. My theory is that Muse is active and Lord is passive.
Yes, im aware callie claims muse is the most passive and lord is the most active and i will address that in a bit but first hear my evidence.
Lord english used manipulation and influence of several characters to create himself. Doc scratch, the felt, the midnight crew, cal and everyone cal influenced were all to ensure his creation in the first place. The alpha timeline is tied to his existence. He didnt do anything himself to create himself, he used everyone from the beforan trolls to the alpha kids to even his younger self. To me it seems like some very passive feats. Even as a brat he was only ever told dirk to do something in regards to his future once and that was to bring cal to the roof. Other than that he just had dirk draw for him and taunt the other kids. nothing involving the game.
Now muse callie, we only ever saw do one thing. destroy the green sun and in turn destabalize the whole of paradox space. And the callie who is currently alive made several attempts at inserting herself into the narrative of the alpha kids. she would regularly reference the game prior to them playing. It feels like active things to do.
Now why callie says muse is passive and lord is active despite this theory claiming its the other way around, theres two possibilities.
1; The book callie has that mentions the active and passive nature of the muse and lord are basing its description off of what she said about the classes. She said what she said because of what the book said. So its misinformation spread through a stable time loop. most likely reason.
2; callie is in denial about her active nature due to prejudices against active players. when she explained the prince role to dirk it seemed like she doesnt trust active classes as much as she trusts passive. shes a cherub and cherubs see everything in black and white so its possible that she feels that active classes are more unstable and she lied because she doesnt want to face the fact that things are often grey. Its not as likely but it would be a valid reason.
Anonymous asked: You know, there may be 8 characters announced this round of SSBU Direct. The last sailing of the SS. BUD was 25 minutes, which averages out to 1 roster character per 5 minutes. This one's 40 minutes!
honestly im not paying attention to anything in regards to upcoming releases and am just piecing together what happens via mematic osmosis
