picadores's comments

On: The creator economy can't rely on Patreon

[picadores]

There is also a deeply worrying trend to "milk" creators, in "controversial" topics, by banning them and taking the income for the company. It allows for unholy alliances of company revenue, controversial topics, and state driven brigading.

[skybrian → picadores]

I’d normally take a ban as an indicator that the website doesn’t want that content. What’s the evidence that they actually do?

On: Alexei Navalny has died

[picadores]

It fits very well into the narrative that democracy is ineffective and basically a hot-house flower, that some culprits propell.

[eric_cc → picadores]

Democracy is an ideal. There absolutely are bad implementations, democracies that get hijacked and are democracies in-name-only, dumb populaces, etc.

[aerique → picadores]

Yes, as long as said autocrats spent billions to undermine it ;-)

[Agraillo → picadores]

What keeps my hope for democracies in the world is an observation I made after reading The Year 2000 by Joseph Goebbels written on 25 February 1945. He more or less said that Stalin wasn't bound by the rules of democracies then he would succeed after all. I like to analyze such predictions because you know the outcome and you can guess what was wrong when someone wrote this. My version is that democracies have values kept while transitioning from a state to a state (after elections) while dictatorships change in many respects. It was visible in the Soviet Union, every new ruler brought a new system despite the fact that they all claimed to fight for the same goals.

On: Over 50% of the population of Germany does not own...

[picadores]

Bitte Abstand halten und zurückbleiben.

[hef19898 → picadores]

Hier gibt es nichts zu sehen.

On: The Ukraine war is ultimately about Poland

[picadores]

That sounds copied from a pre 2022 invasion speech?

On: An extreme ice-age climate 700M years ago

[picadores]

Eh, wouldn't it be more feasable to just frake the rock and then solarpump atmospheric cases into it, fracture it ever futher?

And use ice water to ever expand the fractures? Basically just a solar farm that pumps air underground, ocassionally pumping and then cooling water?

On: The Ukraine war is ultimately about Poland

[picadores]

There were also significantly counter-culture movements against anti-imperialism similar to the russian anti-woke-culture war (after all it discredits imperialism) and thus dissolves the russian empire if looked at through this lense. They were just discredited after hitler dialed imperialism up to eleven.

On: How Venus ended up with a mini-moon named Zoozve

[picadores]

Because the platforms design is irrelevant - people go where people are, where the content is. Twitter could be irc beneath for all the world cares.

On: How Venus ended up with a mini-moon named Zoozve

[picadores]

Could this mini moon be nudged to first be stable, then to become a dust ring and shadow venus?

[sandworm101 → picadores]

I think it is too small to form a ring. At <1km, it may require an orbit so low that atmospheric drag would take over before tidal forces could pull it into a ring.

On: Social isolation takes a toll on a rising number o...

[picadores]

All things have to be atomic, individual, always. There is no society and no society level discourse allowed, using individuals as samples. Any discussion of societal level problems and solutions is heavily discouraged, by those running societies. You must focus more on the self, the small unit. Always. Change is forbidden, and subverted through the discussion culture that reflects on it.

On: Figure out who's leaving the company: dump, diff, ...

[picadores]

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