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those recipes are by people who don’t know fuck all about chicago pizza, ignore them

the key is, from microsoft’s perspective, you don’t own your computer

what do you mean?

in order to be MAGA you must be able to believe that you are in the majority, that everyone is on your side, and evidence to the contrary is propaganda

Tolkein’s idyllic structure for a society, the shire, is frequently analyzed through a lens of “is this anarchism?” and it’s not all that uncommon to conclude “yes”

all these fuckers read Tolkien and adopted the imagery of the villains. none of them realize that the message is that all the top level people are addicted to power. the people who actually get shit done, the hobbits, they are tempted by power because it’s tempting, but ultimately value singing songs, making tea, and eating potatoes too much to want to possess the ultimate power in the universe. almost everyone who comes into contact with the one ring wants to possess it forever. Bilbo’s first desire for it is to use it to help him escape a dangerous situation. Frodo is indifferent to it at first. Sam immediately hates it, feels guilt for letting Frodo carry it alone, and commits himself to destroying it.

You’re not supposed to read Tolkien and implement fascism. you’re supposed to read Tolkien and learn to value pacifism

it’s incredible how many people just need to hold onto the ball and run out the clock and they still can’t fucking do it. I guess on the bright side it shines a light on that no one should be a billionaire. But from their perspective the thing to do once hitting a billion is to sit on your fucking hands, avoid interacting with normal people so they can’t realize how fuckin’ weird you are, and await death

you ain’t innocent, don’t front. only teams from your division anyone likes are the Jays and the Rays

— Unbiased nats fan (also in danger from these crows, but willing to switch to the alt caps in my profile pic)

MLs. they brandish “read theory” against anarchists who have often read more, not less theory than they

i describe the issues with the January 6 insurrectionists and the peaceful transfer of power within the republican (government structure, not party) state in similar terms to the paradox of tolerance. it’s a paradox of pacifism, or more accurately, a paradox of anti-violence. in a society that values non-violence, violent threats to pacifism cannot be allowed to stand. the reason this is is that pacifism is a social contract, not a virtue. we can have a long conversation somewhere else about that ashlii babbit and her friends did get one thing right: that the american system of structural violence will only ever be ended with a violent uprising that opposes it.

the problem lies in what ashlii babbitt and her friends were using violence to establish. they wanted to end the tradition of the american non-violent transfer of power in order to give more authority to a central autocracy to strengthen the police state. this central autocracy and strengthened police state would later go on to kill Renee Nicole Good via the hands of jonathan ross.

i can empathize with being saddened at the loss of life of a deluded human being. however i cannot sympathize with being saddened at a man defending the non-violent transfer of power killing a woman who wanted to intensify the structural violence of the system she lived under. ashlii babbit was not the victim of police violence. he death was the result of a desperate effort to keep a violent status quo from getting more violent.

i don’t think the cop that shot her understood that the status quo is violence, but i think he understood that ashlii babbitt represented more violence than a non-violent society can be allowed to tolerate.

okay. there’s been research out about the disorienting nature of of grocery stores since the 1970s when piggly wiggly was first normalizing a certain sales area experience.

and yes. i am talking about the sales area. i wae never trying to claim otherwise. the context this entire time was the experience of being a customer inside a building whose only purpose is to extract value from you as you try to acquire basic living necessities.

and impulse buys in that context are a desired outcome of the overwhelming experience.

is your objection just my use of the word bombard? i can use a different word. overstimulate you. better?

like i can find more articles this was just literally the first thing i found and i hoped it would point you in the right direction and help you understand. but reading your comment here it almost feels like you’ve taken such great offense to how i’ve worded this that you can’t be bothered to engage with what i’ve been saying since the start

did you design the store layout?

https://uxdesign.cc/how-grocery-store-layouts-manipulate-your-shopping-behavior-aa3cd59e8fc0

Funny how “theory” means “a specific set of theoretic texts written between 1850 and 1940” and never “And also stuff written by other people in other parts of the world or even in the same parts of the world with more practical evidence of what did and didn’t work when attempting to put that specific set of theoretic texts written between 1850 and 1940”

Just existing in space. Trying to take herself from one location to another. The continued promotion of her existence as a protestor is actually harmful to trying to get people to understand the true nature of American policing and particularly ICE. If you exist in space in America, you can be killed.

That’s it.

That’s all it takes.

Centrism, Dumb, what’s the difference? As far as I can tell centrism is just the political position of saying “I don’t know what the difference between any of you are, and I refuse to learn and develop an opinion”

it’s the who does the telling who creates the hostile design. the other things you’re describing, the dehumanization of the employees, are part of that design

people lack spacial awareness in the grocery store because a supermarket is an example of hostile design. it is intentionally disorienting and overloads you with information

George Lucas tried to warn us

this is my take when you see the most asinine shit imaginable on the fediverse where it’s mostly real flesh and blood humans. people bring their biases from getting gassed in comments sections from other places in the form of influence campaigns and then say that shit with their whole chest. i don’t think this can really be fixed here on lemmy because of a variety of factors, i think the best that can be done is ensure that positive, anti-imperial, propaganda has presence that people can identify with and then get verbal confirmation of at group meetings for mutual aid or whatever