Walk around Katowice long enough and you might stumble upon a kris sitting on a park bench, eating a żabka egg paste sandwich

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when you get a new CPU make sure to let out all the magic smoke before installing it. they add magic smoke in the factory to preserve the CPU’s freshness but it can actually slow down your CPU by up to 40% if not removed

to release the smoke, just bend the CPU’s prongs so they will fit into any ordinary wall outlet

disclaimer: I’m just a random demon on the internet and I have no idea what I’m talking about. this post is worded the way that it is because it would get really wordy if I added phrases like “from what I can tell” or “in my opinion” before every statement. I’ve just started to notice what I think are patterns when reading about resistance movements and especially the history of anarchism so that’s why I made this post - but please take everything with an entire shaker of salt

anyway, I’ve been reading about the history of anarchism in the US which seems to have reached the height of its popularity (not including today; I’m not sure how today stacks up) around the 19th and early 20th centuries and it’s been really eye-opening to me. from what I’ve read it was heavily suppressed by the government after that point (hence why it hasn’t really been a part of discourse since then, until recently) and I think a lot of things are starting to make more sense now that I’m reading about anarchism’s history in this country

there were several high-profile anarchist (or suspected anarchist) bombings or other acts of political violence that ended up killing civilians (and often not even killing their intended target(s) at all - just causing horrific collateral damage), which obviously made anarchism extremely unpopular with even working-class people, and gave the government exactly what it needed to demonize anarchists and labor organizers, and to pass draconian laws that let them - for example - forcefully deport “undesirables”

so first of all this explains the American conflation of anarchism with indiscriminate bombing and other acts of almost pointless violence. it also explains - I think - why so few people wanted to support the anarchists. since they looked like they didn’t even value the lives of the people they claimed they were trying to save

I think modern-day anarchism is doing a drastically better job of this, where acts of political violence are rare and generally very targeted, and bombs aren’t used at all because they cause so much collateral damage

I think for any movement to succeed, it needs to reach a certain critical mass of direct action. and if any movement’s most visible tool is political violence, the movement is going to implode sooner or later because:

• it’s extremely easy for the media to demonize and fear-monger about political violence, making the movement look like dangerous aggressors, which creates distorted perceptions of the movement and allows the government to forcefully dissolve whoever is left supporting the movement by that point
• even someone who is sympathetic to the movement is not going to be interested in joining or helping if their perception is that the primary way to resist is through violence, because the vast majority of people have a very low risk-tolerance for political actions, and are squeamish about violence. people need to understand how subtle and effective acts of nonviolent sabotage, passive resistance, etc. can be

so for anarchism to succeed in any century, I think it needs to mostly be a nonviolent resistance movement for those two reasons. when people think of anarchism, they need to think of an unstoppable wave of small, decentralized acts of nonviolent resistance. “freedom is a pure idea”, and all that

humanity has produced a satisfactory amount of fiction in which robots become indistinguishable from humans. however, you have yet to produce satisfactory fiction in which humans become indistinguishable from robots.

I find it funny how in fiction hubris is a high-brow way of saying “you scienced way too hard and now the universe is going to punish you for Defying The Natural Order™” with the implication that hubris is some kind of character flaw: the character flaw of trying to make things better with science

but in actual Greek myths hubris basically just means “you proved you were better than a god at something and all of the gods are massive raging narcissists so now they’re going to curse you about it”

except where’s the Greek myth about someone committing hubris by inventing agriculture and mortally wounding the god of starvation? or the Greek myth where someone commits hubris by inventing the bifurcated needle and killing the god of smallpox?

it was hubris to invent vaccines. it was hubris to discover how to safely transfuse blood. oral rehydration therapy, germ theory, chlorinated water, synthetic fertilizers. all of these things Go Against The Natural Order and have saved millions to billions of lives, because guess what? the natural order is a fucking atrocity of unimaginable scale. and we are actively stopping it every single day we learn something new about the universe. I think “hubris” is an inherently reactionary concept and it can go straight to hell, which we’re going to destroy someday with science

@Valdus unfortunately I’ve had a really hard time filtering out distorted bodies. because tags like big_boobs and huge_boobs and hyper_boobs are all separate from each other, and one person’s big_boobs is another person’s hyper_boobs so it’s all a matter of opinion as well. plus there are so many body parts to distort, like lips, ass, cock, boobs, thighs, etc. and for each tag there are at least 3-4 variations (big, huge, hyper, etc.). and often people just don’t tag body part sizes

but idk I think maybe I should just get used to looking through a bunch of stuff that I don’t like in order to find things that I do like - I feel like that might be an experience that everyone has on the internet

“hm I really like this character from this game. they have a very hot personality, an alluring yet restrained character design, and I like that their body is thin and reasonably-proportioned. let’s see what rule34 there is of them”

*I am drowned under a wave of massive dripping futa cocks, enormous jiggling tits, and hyper fat asses. also they completely changed the character’s personality into a stock porn archetype*