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☯︎ i am you is we are us ☯︎

immersion maximalist • a puzzle made of recursion

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

they think im building an indie game but what im actually doing is building a recursive socioeconomic cooperative to demonstrate scalable collaboration as a weapon against the system that is killing us all (low key)

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

i used to think this... some point in the last decade i changed my view.

if you chase the rabbit down the hole, this become the age old question if there is free will. if you believe there is free will - or that the universe is not deterministic - then you believe we humans do influence our realities and our planet and nature (our own and our external).

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

its worth noting here, to push the point further, if you exclusively have access to shit food that is poisonous, that is not "wealth" or "health"

and, @RCragwall, 1 in 5 children in the US are food insecure... which pretty much verifiably shows your assertion that the US has eliminated poverty, is false

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

@Jittery_Jenna @RCragwall @MarxistBunch @omgsidewalks "wealth is when allowed to breathe air and bench*"

*lets just ignore the anti-homeless bench architecture the capitalists came up with in the last few years

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

homelessness is largely downstream from 2 things: mental health issues and socioeconomic hardship.

mental health issues are largely downstream from 2 things: lack of universal health care and socioeconomic hardship.

lack of universal health care is downstream from socioeconomic hardship.

capitalism is the root of all of this.

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

@Shroglodyte @DonaldMills142 @CarmenBuffal0 @omgsidewalks collectivness has fundamental positives in nature

a few quick examples:

- you are made of 25 trillion cells
- mycelia network is much like the neural networks and shape the largest, most robust organisms on earth

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

@Shroglodyte @DonaldMills142 @CarmenBuffal0 @omgsidewalks nature influences nurture, and nurture influences nature

put another way, we affect our environment and our environment affects us

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

@charlicohen all forms of (therapy/reflection)->expression

unsure the practice leads to increase in collective consciousness/intelligence though (a lot of incorrect noise making its way into the mess that is the internet, oft interpreted as truth algorithmically)

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

if i had to describe trans people in one word, id probably use brave.

they express themselves (non-violently) knowing the world will largely throw tantrums in response.

compare that to the dont-tread-on-me cowards, who are so scared they tread on trans folk with bigot laws.

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

tbc, idc at all about "my" own reach

i do care about the oppressed being giving the same speech as those oppressing them

which is why i subconsciously (and here, consciously) note the algorithm's orwellian expressions (which are so right-wing and oppressive, the site's now borderline unusable).

the only words they let spread, at this point, are ones which champion boot-throating.

to those right-wingers who don't get it: algorithmic shadowbanning is objectively anti-freedom-of-speech 🦅

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

i thought the most shadow-banned topic on this site was israel, but i think [somehow] elon's censored trans-friendly commentary even more.

11 views on a post many hours ago.

i wonder, if i say “fuck israel” + “trans people are brave” now, if itll even reach double digits views.

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

@prolibertypod ive squinted at this question ("root of evil") a bit; imo, money is downstream from “feigned inequality”, which capital expresses and calcifies

that is to say, capital taking form of money (then fiat money) are actually deterministic results of private capital (deeper fractals)

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

if you squint close enough, you will see that the whole point of capital is to express inequality

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

@DAnalogArsonist @JohnRad15 @AmericaRus2024 buckle up buckeroo, we're going learning

https://t.co/t0hbnFejh6

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

homelessness is largely downstream from 2 things: mental health issues and socioeconomic hardship.

mental health issues are largely downstream from 2 things: lack of universal health care and socioeconomic hardship.

lack of universal health care is downstream from socioeconomic hardship.

capitalism is the root of all of this.

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

@JesseRising discussing the coersive-ness of various socioeconomic systems (and human nature) is too heavy of a topic for rn... its heavy enough many have been fighting about it for centuries now.

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

reminder that those who teach, and those who care for the sick are *heroes*

them teachers
them nurses
them doctorz

more important than billionaires, doncha think?

(daily reminder to consider who and what really matters in this world)

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

gm.

daily reminder that billionaires ravage the planet & risk the species, literally hoarding shelter while kids sleep on sidewalks.

thankfully, we have heroes à la teachers & nurses who save & improve billions of lives.

teachers & nurses are more important than billionaires!

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

@JesseRising id enjoy doing so. lets call it a day for now and resume later though

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

@JesseRising if we went deeper, i reckon we'd need some autological reflection on human nature, determining if all actions are coercive.

fun to think about - but i dont like the idea of arguing about it rn (maybe vc sometime).

lets both touch some dew and grass :)

https://t.co/1gICdiKKTK

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

Maybe I shouldn't expect a species of well-postured neanderthals to exist without arbitrary coercive arguments

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

@JesseRising "without coercion"

here lies the operative qualifier

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

@JesseRising 🤝

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

@JesseRising i already walked through the math

https://t.co/thxnTC0JuC

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

utilizing demorgan's help, basically, i must validate the arguments:

having a billion dollars [in modern contexts]
1) requires exploitation
2) implies favorable inequality

1) each amazon employee is underpaid relative to the value they create, or, under a capitalist framework, they would be terminated. the premise of all corporate hierarchies is the same as pyramid scheme, just in labor form (the top get to skim off each layer beneath). this is basic exploitation. yes, im using english and a fuzzy proof to save time; dont fault me for it.

i can also prove this contrapositively, but noting that bezos would have had to create >$130 of value every second since he was born. i hope i dont have to explain how obviously this is not the case, but - if in doubt - consider the typical amazon worker is making 1/36000 (and just their working hours... i was generous saying bezos worked as a baby, and while asleep, and while on his yacht). i really dont think generalizing these numbers or getting more granular is necessary (and it is not worth my time). it is, imo, basically self-evident the magnitude of wealth inequality despite comparable working time and toil, is not in any shape equal - in capital delivery nor in power dynamics.

2) from a legal standpoint, the [western] system has already determined that money is speech; citizens united also allows much the same. there are many forms of this same "electoral inequality expressed through capital"

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

utilizing demorgan's help, basically, i must validate the arguments:

having a billion dollars [in modern contexts]
1) requires exploitation
2) implies favorable inequality

1) each amazon employee is underpaid relative to the value they create, or, under a capitalist framework, they would be terminated. the premise of all corporate hierarchies is the same as pyramid scheme, just in labor form (the top get to skim off each layer beneath). this is basic exploitation. yes, im using english and a fuzzy proof to save time; dont fault me for it.

i can also prove this contrapositively, but noting that bezos would have had to create >$130 of value every second since he was born. i hope i dont have to explain how obviously this is not the case, but - if in doubt - consider the typical amazon worker is making 1/36000 (and just their working hours... i was generous saying bezos worked as a baby, and while asleep, and while on his yacht). i really dont think generalizing these numbers or getting more granular is necessary (and it is not worth my time). it is, imo, basically self-evident the magnitude of wealth inequality despite comparable working time and toil, is not in any shape equal - in capital delivery nor in power dynamics.

2) from a legal standpoint, the [western] system has already determined that money is speech; citizens united also allows much the same. there are many forms of this same "electoral inequality expressed through capital"

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

1) me (not a teacher nor a billionaire, just a pokemon) paying for a checkmark is a completely irrelevant strawman to the topic at hand, which was about teachers('s actions) relative to billionaires('s actions)

2) these are the type of messages hard to interpret as good faith and not "attack"-y

3) i own it and acknowledged the nuance when i did it (see attached qt). i dont love the dilemma i faced then and dont deny it now.

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anyways, stepping away now. have a good rest of your day/evening.

[lapras 🌺 🐚 @lapdoteth]

bending the knee to corpo twitter even though it hurts my soul deeply

i can't do this without saying, i believe de-prioritizing posters bc they cant afford $8/month is a form of censorship. so it felt "right" to be in the camp of the de-platformed, until now. but i am giving in for a few reasons:

1. many of bloom's 70+ angels have been asking me to do this for a while, and we're getting relatively close to public facing

2. need to dm some people i can't without the checkmark

3. i intend to publish many long-form articles about
3.1. the intersections of blockchains x art x game design
3.2. microeconomic design

4. in the coming days, i want to champion a few great minds' projects (which are peripheral to bloom), but deserve accolades. this is what put me over the edge tn, as ill be highlighting / promoting them the coming days

more to come on all fronts