supersquirrel

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(They got fired for this.)

Kinda seems like everybody ended up shitting in their bed here.

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Aren't people who lived in the past so silly and stupid with how they believed delusions about the world derived from myth, superstition and dogma? So glad I live during the modern day and don't have to deal with that.

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supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 8h ago

Blender uses Peertube as a major platform for videos about Blender and made in Blender. Blender is a perfect example of actually committing to using Peertube and showing it can in general work.

https://video.blender.org/

As far as instances I recommend, Spectra.Video looks good I have been thinking of making an account there

https://spectra.video/signup

gnu linux seems like a decent Peertube instance too!

https://gnulinux.tube/signup

Here is a good gaming focused Peertube instance

https://tube.fediverse.games/

I think people way overthink the difficult of bringing new people into Peertube and the Fediverse. What is sticky are the people, artists and organizations that have people who trust them and seek out what they make, not the platforms. What is sticky about the Fediverse is that people are compelling and interesting to interact with here.

If creators decide to come here themselves, their audience in the end isn't going to care that much where they go to get the videos especially if it doesn't require an account sign up to access.

It will take time, but the inspiring thing is it is already completely possible to do!

supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 8h ago

I love how shit on the fediverse bounces around like crazy from server to server all over the world with messages being duplicated by different communities to make the protocol work.

Here is one of the vanishing few places in the digital realm beyond video games that see messy interweaving and interconnection between people internationally towards more and more wholistic communities as a form of strength against fascism rather than weakness.

In one sense the Fediverse is far easier to obliterate than other online communities given how little money and traditional resources the Fediverse has to defend itself vs. how globally exposed it is, but in another it would be the most massive headache in the world to try to quietly and carefully censor voices on the Fediverse given the constant beehive activity interacting across disparate communities located in different countries with different laws and different motivations and key actors.

I am very passionate about correcting the misinformation and disinformation around this, I wholeheartedly believe the more vulnerable we are in sharing ourselves through digital identities in larger and more interconnected communities the less power authoritarian forces have over us.

It may seem counterintuitive, but you need only to look to history for how ineffective everybody receding from public spaces pre-emptively in response to fears of fascism was or look more closely at the opposing solutions to the Fediverse that attempt to run away from the fragmentation and censorship of Corporate Social Media and the old internet by fragmenting pre-emptively into disconnected and uncommunicative smaller atomized commmunities to see why the Fediverse is absolutely necessary for resistance.

Long live Peertube!!!!

https://joinpeertube.org/

supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 11h ago

Why? Did religion establish and promote genetics as the primary way to understand, categorize and define people?

Answer me

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supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 12h ago

Did religion establish and promote the concept of genetics?

edit here is some homework for you

The majority of works on eugenics concentrate on so-called ‘negative’ eugenics. Indeed, in some investigations, eugenics is definitionally reduced to little more than advocacy of sterilization. When ‘positive’ eugenics is examined, moreover, it is mainly through ‘the social’ aspects of it, such as health and welfare reform.16 This article, by contrast, seeks to explore an important dimension of positive eugenics that pertains to the domain of ‘the biological’.

The intention is to investigate the advance under fascism of bio-medicine and bio-technologies aimed at increasing the reproductive fitness of human beings.

My argument is that, in the pursuit of its pronatalist ambitions, Italian fascism sought to increase and utilize the power of the new biology. Through reproductive medicine and technology, modern biology, unlike the old largely observational biology, claimed mastery over basic life processes and forces, such as fertility.

Because of its fanatical natalism and nativism, Italian fascism transformed the whole political landscape and language and multiplied the points of intersection between biology and politics. In opposition to religious traditionalism, it championed a form of bioprogressivism with a procreative purpose, pioneered a brave new state-directed biopolitics, and charted unknown territory in the scientific manipulation of sex and reproduction. My ultimate aim is to integrate the study of fascism and eugenics more fully by exploring direct linkages between science and the state in the articulation of this distinct Italian eugeni-fascism which was predicated on a notion of biological race and focused determinedly on a desire to preserve, protect, and enhance fertility.

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For Sergi and for many others of his generation, population increase under the direction of science and the state would make this dream of racial utopia a reality. The prewar discourse in Italy which focused on the haunting ‘nightmare’ of depopulation and degeneration was all about sex and death. The decrease in the birthrate symbolized not just the loss for the nation of potential industry and empire, but also, on a very basic and psychic level, it seemed to call into question, for some of the nation’s most distinguished scientists, the masculinity and manhood of Italian men.

The reality of a downturn in the number of births from the 1880s emblematized a barren and infecund Italy, which represented the eternal female, now a land sadly left unfertilized by its native sons. Italy was a ‘dying’ and ‘diseased’ country in which its ‘cribs lay empty’ and its ‘cemeteries are full’, as Mussolini later forcefully argued.30 Fears about rising rates of male sexual inadequacy and dysfunction permeated prewar discussions about the underlying causes of demographic decline and intensified as a result of the war and the disturbing revelations concerning the ‘virility’ of the race which it provoked.

https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.1163/22116257-00201003

edit adding this one just because it dunks on your ignorance so succinctly.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/eugenics

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supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 12h ago

How so?

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supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 13h ago

Sure makes you think, if religion is truly the problem why is eugenics such a natural out growth of beliefs born purely out of science?

Maybe the problem isn't believing or (not believing) in a diety in the sky or that facts don't automatically declaw beliefs but that we are failing to nurture the humanity of ourselves and others.

A significant number of Nazi persecutory policies stemmed from theories of racial hygiene, or eugenics. Such theories were prevalent among the international scientific community in the first decades of the twentieth century. The term “eugenics” (from the Greek for “good birth or stock”) was coined in 1883 by the English naturalist Sir Francis Galton. The term's German counterpart, “racial hygiene” (Rassenhygiene), was first employed by German economist Alfred Ploetz in 1895. At the core of the movement’s belief system was the principle that human heredity was fixed and immutable.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/eugenics

supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 13h ago

You ready to get clogged as, bro?

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supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 13h ago

It is the Bab-El-Mandeb that really worries me about global escalation.

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supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 13h ago

The news is pathologically unable to differentiate clueless, fascist use of US military power at the top with the capability of US forces in general.

Look at how the world was/is still TOTALLY unconvinced of the dominance of US rotary wing forces (and of rotary wing forces in general) after Venezuela, it was maddening seeing the world ignore that power imbalance because cheap drones beat expensive helicopters something something blah blah blah (the fact that the helicopters were carrying and launched their own drones to hunt down active air defenses is of course ignored).

Yeah fuck the US I get it but it is wishful baby thinking, Iran is losing the war over the Strait Of Hormuz in terms of capacity to deny shipping while conducting their own. Time is running out for Iran as it is the US.

I also expect a small amount of oil is being blockade run with unmanned underwater vehicles and Iran has no counter to that against blue water navies.

supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 14h ago

It doesn't have anything to do with being smart or dumb or being fooled by scam artists and everything to do with wanting to burn everything down because you are suffocating.

You are a fool for missing that, just like every other neoliberal "good cop" offering scraps backhandedly that yes while technically better than what the "bad cop" is offering is still existentially not enough and will come far too slowly to matter.

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supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 14h ago

Ok, shut up and buy my vote back again asshole, it is easy.

If you are going to refuse to improve people's lives while condescending them, people are going to vote for the guy that just straight up promises them a check even if they know he is lying.

This isn't rocket science, people don't like being told to "calm down everything will be fine so long as we go back to the status quo" when the status quo is strangling their family to death. Even when the alternative is in all likelihood worse people at their rock bottom don't care about that shit.

This has been proven a million times in history and is precisely why most revolutions fail, they only are allowed to happen by the center once it is already too late for the prevailing sentiment to be anything other than "burn it all down".

Centrists are fine losing over and over again until a collapse into blind, chaotic and pointless revolution/violence which is why leftists and progressives are so adamant about having a bold, progressive but practical vision to improve people's lives NOW before it is too late.

Centrists offer "take this pathetic gesture of help or nothing!" and are shocked and feign bewilderment when people spit in their face and say "I will take nothing".

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous, radical and destabilizing the Centrist belief is that the only two possibilities are either keeping the system largely unchanged except for small tweaks or complete chaos. It ensures we end up collapsing into chaos and it demands nihilistic political radicalization.

supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 15h ago

Judging by the fact that russia attempted a mechanized assault in the Hulyaipole region recently I think Putin is desperate for progress and to show russian strength so I don't think these numbers are going to slow down any time soon.

supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 15h ago

I am aware of my mortality and where things are going, I am aware that the society I am in is trying to kill me, I am not in despair or thinking of hurting myself please don't project that onto my words as others already have in this thread, it diminshes my voice not empowers it.

I become a victim to be pitied not someone to actually listen to the words of.

supersquirrel @lemmy.ca 1d ago

Every mission is a delivery mission for Serious Sam