uralsolo [he/him]

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Cake day: August 1st, 2023

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  • I don’t think a guide is really needed to install Linux

    I had a guide and it was still a big learning curve. Linus had a guide and he still bricked his machine trying to install Steam. Imagine your parents or grandparents being told without context to mount an ISO to a USB and set up their BIOS - for 90% of people there is no way in hell unless they can double click an exe and follow an installation wizard all the way there.








  • I think social structures can be thought of in terms of consciousness, and whether or not they are a “higher” level of human consciousness is mostly a question of your definition of what that means.

    From our perspective we are all making individual decisions, but that’s similar to how a given cell is just managing its own individual chemical reactions. What initially made humanity unique in the animal kingdom was how complex our social animal is able to be - human clans were more complex than other mammals’ packs in the same way that a vertebrate is more complex than an invertebrate. Our social animal is the one that reached the tipping point of adding technology into the mix, which allowed us to add phenomenally more complexity that what evolution on its own is able to create.

    In the modern day, in the western world, people principally think of themselves as individual subjects, and as Marxists we recognize that this is one of the most critical self-defense mechanisms of liberalism, since it prevents class consciousness (and allows false consciousness to form). This is akin to how our cells are programmed by dna not to become cancerous - and when this mechanism fails and a cancer/revolutionary group forms the white blood cells/police usually stamp it out to protect the organism/capitalist society.

    The big difference between society and an organism when viewed through this lense is that when an organism dies its cells all die too, but when society “dies” all the people who were part of it will naturally form a new one atop the corpse of the old. Imagine if when you died your cells all hit a reset button and your corpse formed into a new person - that might disqualify society from being thought of as a consciousness, or perhaps it’s evidence that “consciousness” is independent of life and death.




  • I can’t pin it down to just one, but holy shit school shootings and the way we’ve responded to them completely broke whatever part of me thought that our society was still capable of doing things. They keep upping the ante with how horrifying they are too - the high water mark currently is Uvalde, and I think that the next one that shocks the nation will involve the cops (or a “good guy with a gun”) gunning down multiple kids or parents while trying to “help” and our collective response will still be to do nothing.







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    1 year ago

    doing something you love

    I love cooking for family, but I’ve also cooked for Denny’s and a getting through a meal service is something else entirely. There’s a reason cooks in general are one of the most alcoholic professions, and it’s not because they spend most of their day doing something they love.