brandon

I'm curious where this notion comes from:

By voting you are essentially expressing that you submit to the electoral process as the sole means for the exercise of political power.

Do you? Does voting necessarily mean that you can't also express political power in other ways? Sure, it's true that most voters don't really engage with politics outside of the major elections, but that's got nothing to do with them being voters, many Americans don't even engage with the elections at all. Why would it be the case that participating in voting means you submit to the electoral process as the sole means of exercising political power? In fact this seems easily disproven by the fact that most political power in this country is exercised by the capital class, but those people still vote.

Even if you don’t like the results, you’ve agreed to accept it because the rules are more important than the results.

Is this actually a condition of voting? What sets these conditions? Are you talking about the social notions of 'civility politics' or 'decorum' that liberals are so fond of? They'll try to hold you to those standards regardless of whether or not you vote.

For what it's worth, I agree with you broadly that there are serious problems with the electoral system, capitalism, the United States, whatever. I also agree that chastising nonvoters is also counter productive. I also agree that voting is probably not going to get us the broad systemic changes that we need. I just don't really understand the argument that voting somehow precludes one from also doing the actual organizing and activism work we need.

alienation

Careful now, that sounds like one of them there socialism words.

I once got called the f-slur for having the audacity to read a book in public, outdoors in front of the library.

Is that the world's most cursed SEO, or is that repetition something that's significant to the cult?

Nevermind, I see the "for search engines" now. Missed it in all the nonsense.

We don’t blink an eye when told to not stand under something being lifted by a crane, so why balk at being told to be safe around the two ton travelling metal boxes?

Nobody is saying that you shouldn't act safely around cars. People are saying we shouldn't design transportation infrastructure that prioritizes driver convenience over pedestrian safety. Cranes are only allowed to operate in much more tightly controlled situations than drivers.

This is the first beard I've ever seen make someone's chin look weaker.

Edit: is it accessible without knowing much Japanese?

It is, if you look a few things up, but there's also a readily available translated "backup copy" floating around.

Dōþ hīe spēcāþ Englisc on hwæt?

And iirc the next fedora release will finally unify everything under /usr/bin.

On my current Fedora 40 install /bin is already a symlink to /usr/bin

The main difference from the film being that the novel isn't a satire--Heinlein was being sincere.

Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit

RIP Kenny G