So normal life, except all the non-human things become unchanging?

The economy is sure as hell going to be different in a hurry. Pretty much only service industries will survive, because anything else gets reset tomorrow. In a way this will be great, because people will be just as well supplied anyway, so it will give room to pursue personal development in earnest. Or maybe we’ll find a new way to fuck ourselves.

That’s a big rainbow table. Like, with just precomputed values and random ascii character passwords it’s on the order of 10⁴² entries. You can shave that down a bit probably with all the tricks rainbow tables use, but I think you’re safe.

Sisyphus is the only Greek figure I can think of that’s not cringe to ascribe to yourself. And that’s only because nobody remembers the shit he did to get punished. The other tragic ones are either a humblebrag or concerning. Romulus and Remus are concerning. Enkidu is both, Gilgamesh is a straight up brag, as are the non-tragic Greek figures. All biblical prophets are (humble)brags. Norse gods are all brags, and saga heroes are mostly too obscure for me to know in detail.

I guess you could say Zacchaeus if you’re short, or Goliath if you’re really big. Oh wait, I guess going with physical things you could self-own with any monster.

Ah. Yes, things changed a lot over the next couple decades. The last anti-idpole people were just being purged right as I became aware of goings-on in the community. I’m glad it went that way instead of the other, and people of all sorts were in the room, but in the end the exact extent of acceptance became a new thing to fight over. Is furry stuff a fetish or a type of queer identity? Is vegetarianism anti-indigenous? Are poor, conservative white people potential converts, or something like Marx’s “petty bourgeoisie”? What about, like, Hindu traditionalists? These would all be good things to hash out, but polite debate is not valued.

Man, I wish Lemmy had a follow user feature. It sounds like you went through some of the same stuff I did but in gen X times.

Also, heads up that this instance is run by the Lemmy developers, who happen to be very active members of the far left. They can be ban-happy sometimes.

That’s interesting. It’s also my experience that the far left is saturated with defective personalities (and hearing someone else say it is affirming, thank you). I can’t imagine most of those people giving the quotes supplied, though. How long ago are you remembering back?

Before someone says “what are you doing then”, I’m still doing stuff. I do volunteer work with mainstream parties, and while the pace of improvement is glacial, it actually sticks instead of exploding into terminal infighting drama.

Yeah, that adds up. It’s hard to find a “woke mob” that uniformly angry at someone who doesn’t deserve it. Anyone normal will get vague undirected hostility, at worst.

Woke in the sense that it has come to also mean is basically taking the awareness of social inequities and working to change them. This is typically not a position held by the kind of extremists that would form a mob in the usual sense. You get into people that want to overturn the system entirely, and they tend to be following some specific set of beliefs that are the goal, with any inequities being a side goal or just a part of those beliefs.

Interesting. So the radical left in general wouldn’t be woke by this definition?