I think the rest of the thread has good arguments on the topic, but the main idea is that regulations around sex work mostly impact sex workers and not the client. Even the criminalization of clients results in bad outcomes for the workers, so if youâd like to frame prostitution as a question of workers rights and public health, itâs important to center the debate around the experiences and problems of sex workers themselves.
To paraphrase someone else, as long as money exist there will be sex work. The question is what kind of labor conditions do we want for the sex workers?
Good point, but unfortunately recycling materials is really hard processes. Most IT materials cannot be recycled (at least with current techniques), and to extract the ârecyclableâ materials requires considerable amounts of harmful/polluting chemicals. For example, extracting gold from electronics is a common practice in electronic landfills, but the process isnât eco-friendly.
Iâm not saying extracting new resources is better for the environment, far from it. Iâm just saying the situation is real bad currently.
We can! Thereâs an entire research field of âgreen ITâ dedicated to that. However, there is 0 practical industrial application because the industry is focused on performance, not recyclability. Recyclable computers would probably be bigger and heavier, and we may not have 4k ultra-portable devices, but i personally think the tradeoff is worthwhile.
I believe the state should interfere in economics, protect its citizens from monopolies and ruthless profit oriented tactics and provide support for those in need
Iâm curious how you consider that compatible with private property. Letâs take a practical example: in France thereâs over a million empty dwellings, and thereâs people sleeping on the streets. What do you consider is the most sensible course of action: let people sleep on the streets, or take over empty dwellings to rehouse everyone unconditionally?
If you believe human needs are more important than arbitrary religious beliefs like money/property then iâm afraid you are very much against the principle of private property which says that resources are âownedâ by someone and only that specific person gets to decide how those resources are used.
I donât disagree, but that argument is limited. First, because someone has to be the person asking on the forums: (at least) one person will have to go to great lengths to find the answer for what is not documented in advance. Second, because you donât always have internet access to perform a search. Third, because documenting well-known quirks and patterns helps build a better understanding on how things fit together and what painpoints can be addressed as a project.
I was serious about my question. Apart from FreeBSD, do you know of a distro that comes with a comprehensive manual? I really like the Debian admin handbook but i believe itâs a shame this has to be done by âexternalâ contributor (itâs not a core project to the distro) and certainly does not cover all parts of the system unfortunately.
For example, LGBTQ+ right movements are leftist in some sense
I donât think this is true at all. I believe queer movements could be interpreted to be leftist in some sense, in that they defy current norms and expectations, but thereâs many many LGBT people who are very conservative or outright fascists. Take a look at the top10 trans youtubers for example, or to give an example closer to home, Florian Philippot is a famous gay politician from the fascist party Front National.
I would also argue that women have often been instrumentalized in colonial discourse (âwhite men protecting brown women from brown menâ), and that lately this discourse has shifted to include trans/gay people (pinkwashing). Two examples:
All in all, i would say reproductive rights and views on gender are different axis than left/right. They could be fitted on a top/down authoritarian-libertarian axis (in that they represent personal self-determination vs society-driven roles) but could as well become axis of their own.
As I seem to understand from other comments that you are French, may I ask whether you know (/ what you think about) the Peertube channel !esprit_critique ?
I am french on papers, although proudly anti-french in spirit (being an anarchist). I donât know about this video channel though. Iâll try to think to take a look, donât hesitate to remind me in the future ;)
Thatâs interesting, thanks for sharing! Though personally i donât understand why we need to make so many distros, i think itâs a symptom of some failure at some point in the software supply chain.
It should be fun and trivial to build special packages on a special repository that package useful software and configurations. If itâs not and we have to build an entirely new distro (and rebuild/patch all packages in the long run) for trivial modifications, thereâs a problem.
I mean thereâs hundreds of Debian/Ubuntu forks simply focusing on settings presets or a specific desktop environment. Of course thereâs the official Debian blends and Ubuntu spins, but i feel like theyâre mostly not addressing the issue. It should be trivial for me to take my favorite packages/settings for my favorite distro and turn that into a bootable iso that will apply my favorite settings without having to maintain an entire distro thatâs going to be plagued by unapplied security patches sooner or later.
Sex robots are far more ethical and accessible than prostitution
I strongly disagree, for three major reasons:
sex robots produce new forms of dehumanization: i have nothing against masturbation and/or employing ordinary objects to take pleasure, but giving human characteristics to a robot thatâs supposed to be used as a passive object could (i donât have the science on this topic sorry) make it easier to objectify other people as well ; this question is widely being debated in the topic of personal voice assistants (Siri, CortanaâŚ) and how having a docile human-sounding could encourage verbal/emotional abuse
sex robots are polluting: theyâre electro-mechanical parts assembled from raw human suffering (in mines/factories) that help completely destroy the environment ; in that sense, prostitution (given some protection for sex workers) is an organic and eco-friendly alternative to sex robots
parallel (but not equal) to point 1 is that from what i gather from my friends who do sex work on a regular basis, a lot of clients employ their services not just for sex but for emotional bonding/support, to escape their miserable daily lives or just to have someone to talk to (or practice weird kinks with) without judgement⌠this kind of capacity will never be provided by a robot
âWe donât work with advertisers. We only work with governments and secret police to slaughter their own population or go colonize other countries.â <-- that line of defense reminds me of the Amesys story, in which french television interviewed an Amesys representative who insisted their spyware they sold to north african dictatorships before the arab spring only ever caught terrorists and pedophiles ^^
Maybe we need a dedicated thread, but âmerit-basedâ immigration is a racist scam. When you go travel abroad with your fancy european/american ID, are you asked for the merits youâre gonna bring to the countries youâre visiting?
Why can i with a french passport travel anywhere in the former french colonies without a visa, while Mali/Senegal/etc citizens require a long process to acquire a visa?
What does it mean to judge people based on their âmeritâ? How is that evaluated? As someone born in France, should i be evaluated based on my merits too? Why do immigrants who wish to reside in France get indoctrinated/interrogated about about stories and ideas i disagree with as a french person? Why is it ok for me to disagree with the french Empire but not with immigrants?
I donât in absolute (and in isolation from other questions) disagree with the principle of chosen immigration. If we lived in an autonomous community and could only sustain 200 people, weâd have to be careful who we let in and how they can help the community thrive. But âchosenâ immigration on a country-scale in some of the richest countries on earth where thereâs millions of empty dwellings and tons of wasted food is just a racist scam.
What would attract you about this idea? Why do you feel like itâs even needed in the first place?
PS: See, we can have debates here on lemmy.ml too :P :P
You mean when you have âleftistsâ doing free-labor propaganda for one of the wealthiest imperialist leaders on Earth (Putin)? :D
i donât really like this bubble theory. Itâs important to have a comfort zone where you can express yourself freely, and thatâs incompatible with a fully open-door policy (no moderation). In the global north, people complaining about filter bubbles are really complaining about people escaping from the majority view, which is a feature not a bug.
But i agree with you that some places to meet/debate is very good. Nobody was born anarchist or queer, and only through debate and praxis can we evolve to become better versions of ourselves. Hell, iâve met some right-wingers in my life who were much more left-wing than some communists (i said some)âŚ
I donât mean to be rude, but how is centrism not right-wing? To be fair, in my view of politics i consider most so-called left-wing parties (socialists, communists) to be right-wing as well. To me, the Left stands for abolition of private property and money.
How do you define your centrism? If we start from this, i may be able to elaborate on what i perceive as right or wrong with your views. I personally could consider myself a centrist in a non-traditional sense because as an anarchist iâm opposed to political parties (who divide the people on brand not principles), but i donât think thatâs what you had in mind :)
If youâre into golang, mellium.im looks like a decent library (i played around with it but nothing serious). Itâs evolving rather quickly although itâs still lacking behind in features, but the maintainer is friendly and very welcome to devs using the library to find out the pain points and missing features.