barsoap @ barsoap @lemm.ee Posts 84Comments 5,148Joined 2 yr. ago
Tariff Europe, coward, I dare you.
Authority is a power imbalance in a social relationship. It does not, in itself, imply domination or monopoly or expertise it happens each time two people are not on eye level regarding something, cannot, for whatever reason, relate to each other as complete equals. If you find yourself having it and are keen on proper praxis then you take on the responsibility to lift the other up as you are capable to do. I think for that reason alone I think it's important to recognise it as authority, so that we are careful when using it, which, in the end, is unavoidable.
We don’t need to be dominated in order to clean up our garbage. And the state is often really bad at collecting garbage, so just teach people that.
Garbage collection is a non-issue over here, it just works. Couple of neighbouring municipalities own the company and it's run on an at-cost basis with decent wages. If, suddenly, an anarchist revolution were to happen I'm quite sure the general arrangement would carry over.
...and I took that as an example precisely because (over here) it just works, it's a baby you wouldn't want to throw out with the bathwater. I'm reasonably sure that wherever you're living, you can think of such an example.
Knowledge is power, thus with a knowledge gap we have a power gap. As a bootmaker's apprentice, my capacity to judge whether or not I'm getting taught proper technique is limited, I can alleviate that disparity by consulting more than one bootmaker, but ultimately that gap won't vanish until I, myself, have mastered the craft.
Authority is the socially-recognised power to dominate.
...unnatural authority. Natural authority aka the bootmaker's does not require social recognition. The bootmaker knows more than the apprentice no matter what society thinks, the imbalance is not socially caused.
If you don't want to call it authority, fine, but saying "as bad as Engels" is going too far IMO. While bootmaker's authority does not rely on (wider) social recognition it is still a thing that happens in a social relationship, and not in the relationship of a worker to their alarm clock or whatnot. Though arguably in the modern world that line is also blurring, see technological paternalism, OTOH it's just a reification of the relationship between the producer and consumer of a technology. It's an unavoidable (unless you're a primitivist) side-effect of increased division of labour in a technologically advancing society.
Heck I'm myself on the page of "the state is a people, a territory, and organisation", simply because the classical anarchist definition drifted miles and miles from the dictionary and the lived experience of people in liberal democracies, when you say "abolish the state" they hear "abolish garbage collection". We can re-do terminology once in a while, it's a good idea.
Bei seiner Festnahme hat sich der Mann mit einer Schreckschusspistole in den Mund geschossen.
Gosh darn I believe it. Shot himself with a bobby pistol.
We actually did. Trouble being you need experts to feed and update the thing, which works when you're watching dams (that doesn't need to be updated) but fails in e.g. medicine. But during the brief time where those systems were up to date they did some astonishing stuff, they were plugged into the diagnosis loop and would suggest additional tests to doctors, countering organisational blindness. Law is an even more complex matter though because applying it requires an unbounded amount of real-world and not just expert knowledge, so forget it.
In Germany, if 14-18yolds make nude selfies then nothing happens, if they share it with their intimate partner(s) then neither, if someone distributes (that's the key word) the pictures on the schoolyard then the law is getting involved. Under 14yolds technically works out similar just that the criminal law won't get involved because under 14yolds can't commit crimes, that's all child protective services jurisdiction which will intervene as necessary. The general advise to kids given by schools is "just don't, it's not worth the possible headache". It's a bullet point in biology (sex ed) and/or social studies (media competency), you'd have to dig into state curricula.
Not sure where that "majority of cases" thing comes from. It might very well be true because when nudes leak on the schoolyard you suddenly have a whole school's worth of suspects many of which (people who deleted) will not be followed up on and another significant portion (didn't send on) might have to write an essay in exchange for terminating proceedings. Yet another reason why you should never rely on police statistics. Ten people in an elevator, one farts, ten suspects.
We do have a general criminal register but it's not public. Employers generally are not allowed to demand certificates of good conduct unless there's very good reason (say, kindergarten teachers) and your neighbours definitely can't.
Good scissors actually work either way. Blade-wise, that is, not when it comes to moulded handles: With proper blade geometry you do not need lateral pressure from the fingers for them to cut instead of passing each other, and even the exact "wrong" type of lateral pressure works fine. Scissor blades should only ever be loose when the scissors are opened impractically far to cut with. Don't need to be expensive, only need to be not cheap.
Those chairs should be outlawed for a whole lot of reasons, not just that they're ignoring lefties.
Note on handwriting, btw: Ball points are a bad habit if you want to develop proper technique, it's very easy to use too much force, cramp up, etc, even without noticing. Over here kids write with pencils until they have the dexterity to move on to fountain pens: Breaking a pencil tip and having to resharpen is just the right amount of annoying to develop good habits.
Apparently 5% of GDP could put us in invade the US and China territory. Simultaneously, that is. The thing with military hardware is that paying twice as much might get you ten times the stuff because economies of scale. Even keeping the current GDP percentage and unifying procurement would do a lot.
“gridlock” happens in non-grid layouts too, the english name is just taken from american road patterns.
I said something about road hierarchies, you ignored it.
“show me…” no. YOU made a claim (that local information suffices, which is a VERY bold claim), so it’s on you to prove that local information suffices.
These systems are in operation. You claimed they lead to gridlock. What I get from the Chinese experiment here is that they collected data, threw an optimisation algo on it, and then adjusted local parameters, "err towards giving more green time in this direction" type of deal. They're still going to use the same type of adaptive, local-control system that's becoming increasingly common in the last decade.
roads are absolutely NOT “like wires”; they are like pipes. which is why civil engineers commonly use fluid dynamics to simulate traffic.
Vehicles travelling on roads constitute information travelling over roads. Are you trying to deliberately misunderstand what I'm saying. You do not need to look at the app of the parcel carrier to know that your parcel arrived, it's right there on your doorstep. That's information. Metaphorically, thus, package delivery trucks are wires.
“all the information is there” is not enough information to verify the claim; it’s a wild guess without evidence to back it up.
if shit where THAT simple, we’d have it figured out 50 years ago… it’s almost like this isn’t the simple problem you desperately want it to be…
50 years ago we neither had the sensors we have now, nor did we have the processing power to use it. Traffic light control was often still done electromechanically. "Adaptive" means a lot more than "pedestrians have a button and there's an induction coil to detect a car". Those systems actually solve the local problem optimally which, in the case of traffic management, means that the global problem is solved optimally because the problem has optimal substructure. Don't ask me for a proof of optimal substructure I just sat on a municipal traffic committee, I don't actually design those systems. Got annoyed at stupid NIMBY questions so I drowned them with smart ones. When you observe those kinds of lights in low traffic situations they're green for everyone because they switch as soon as they see someone arriving and noone else needs to be let through. In higher traffic situations they prioritise throughput, but make sure to not let waiting time for others get exceedingly long, or allow large backups.
Nach meiner Lesart sagt die Linke, dass sie die Abschaffung nur für zivile Hilfe unterstützt und eben nicht, wenn es dabei auch um militärische Hilfe gehen soll.
So wie ich das mitbekommen habe hat die Linke absolut nichts gegen eine Abschaffung der Schuldenbremse. Nur bei dem "Ausnahme nur für militärische Hilfe" stellt sie sich quer, und Schachereien wie "Ausnahme dafür, aber auch für Wohnungsbau" sind unbeliebt, lieber ganz weg.
Da muss die CDU einfach mal über den eigenen Schatten springen. Nur weil die Schuldenbremse weg ist muss sie ja nicht plötzlich Geld für soziales ausgeben, den Haushalt macht ja immer noch die Koalition und nicht die Linke. Nur die billige Ausrede gibt's dann nicht mehr.
Earmarking the war profits for the war, as well as reconstruction, seems to be quite sensible.
this completely ignores larger traffic patterns like arterial roads.
with your idea you are guaranteed to get massive gridlock all along the major roads.
How. Seriously. Show me an adaptive traffic light dumb enough to cause gridlock. Not to mention that gridlock and having arterials, road hierarchies in general, are kinda incompatible with each other and most of the world doesn't use grids in the first place.
And it's not like we don't have central control over here -- it's that all the information necessary to make decisions for a single traffic light is available right there, at the traffic light, because it is impossible to have traffic (or the absence thereof) and that not carrying the necessary information. Roads are wires, so to speak. Central control could make those decisions, but as local information suffices, why would it, regarding traffic lights it's generally only monitoring. Central control can override things, things like ambulances influence traffic lights in a non-local manner (which is a luxury problem because they are allowed to cross on red anyway), but for basic operation central control could vanish and you wouldn't see a difference, when a light loses connection but not power it just keeps on operating. Things like information systems telling people where to park need non-local control because they need non-local information.
one intersection influences others down the line,
And gets data from them, in the form of how and when cars arrive, and that's all you need, at that point it's a simple problem: When an individual traffic light regulates local traffic optimally based on that local information, then it does not cause undue problems for other traffic lights. Evolution does decentralised factory shop-floor planning just fine with just local information (have a look of how the genome assembles itself into bodies), and traffic flow is vastly less complex. "Acting on local information" does not mean "blind to global concerns", that local information includes what's necessary to know about the global situation. You can have every traffic light talk to the one down/upstream ("I'm seeing this many cars from you, I send you this many cars) but that's just another way to do the local sensors.
Traffic routing can make use of global information, but we were talking about deciding the length of light phases, not figuring out where to build a metro line, narrow a street, whatnot.
It's not an extremely large amount of data at all, you can get perfect efficiency by having lights act on completely local, real-time, sensor data, as in "how many cars are in which direction". AI is useful to recognise who wants to use the light but that's the end of it. You don't need to predict traffic patters as you don't need them to see what's the state of the streets right now, worse, such predictions are a source of BS. Lots of patterns happen all the time that have no precedence as construction sites shift, sportsball games get cancelled or not, whatnot.
Isn't that the age old "Is Burzum NSBM" discussion. Vikernes is definitely a Nazi, but his music, as in texts etc, isn't infested with Nazi ideology much unlike much more clear-cut NSBM: It's not National-Socialist Black Metal, but Black Metal than happens to be created by a National Socialist.
IMO in the end I don't mind you listening to, or even liking, Burzum, but please have the moral wherewithal to pirate. If that means you can't have them on the platform because you'd be exposed to lawsuits, then so be it. Fuck Vikernes, he made his own bed.
That's a directive, it's not a regulation, and the directive calling anyone under 18 a child does not mean that everything under 18 is treated the same way in actually applicable law, which directives very much aren't. Germany, for example, splits the whole thing into under 14 and 14-18.
We certainly don't arrest youth for sending each other nudes:
(4) Subsection (1) no. 3, also in conjunction with subsection (5), and subsection (3) do not apply to acts by persons relating to such youth pornographic content which they have produced exclusively for their personal use with the consent of the persons depicted.
...their own nudes, that is. Not that of classmates or whatnot.
I never understood the popularity of libertarian and anarchist beliefs in programming circles.
Because we understand chaos and complexity theory.
Marxism-Leninism: 0%
Phew. Demsoc followed by market anarchist I'll take it. It's not like I'd actually know what proper anarchism will look like so how am I supposed to get it as a result.
Parents have natural bootmaker authority and if you want to be a good parent then you realise that the kids also have it: They, or maybe better put their genome, know how they need to be raised, and try to teach you, as well as (with increasing age) seek out the exact bootmakers that seem sensible. Worst thing you can do as a parent is to think that learning is a one-way street.
Classes, as per Marx, are foremost identified by the economical position of people, and not necessary a hierarchy as such, that's a secondary effect of how classes happen to work towards their own self-interest. If, in an anarchist utopia, one population freely chooses to live in a high-tech skyscraper doing engineering work, and another neighbouring one grows coffee in the rain forest, then their economical position is vastly different and they have different interests, thus they are different classes, but that doesn't mean that they need to be nasty to another.
Most importantly though this is all just arguing semantics and Marx didn't get anarchism anyway, mixing the theoretical bodies is usually more headache than it's worth.
