uralsolo

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[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I read the article and my main contention is that it doesn't establish why we must treat the performance of sex as morally different to any other form of service work. As I said in the other comment I believe that the way we are compelled to treat sex as "different" is a manifestation of patriarchal thinking - there is nothing fundamentally different between a woman who is coerced by poverty into prostitution and a man who is coerced by poverty into agricultural work, and the ways to solve the exploitation in both cases is the same: organization of the workers against the bosses, the abolition of bosses altogether and shifting control of that industry to the workers in it, and ultimately the abolition of the capitalist mode of production that incentivizes maximum exploitation of all who participate in it.

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why do you think it is okay to have an uneven allocation of money in a society so that those on the top can do with those on the bottom as they want?

Of course I don't think that's okay, don't put words in my mouth.

My contention is that sex is morally equivalent to any other form of labor, and I believe that the pedestal we put sex on as a society is a manifestation of patriarchy. It's no coincidence that for most of human history, sex work has been one of the few labor markets where women have an advantage over men, and thus controlling sex work has been one of the major tools at the patriarchy's disposal for controlling women's bodies. The impulse to control sex work is the same as the impulse to force them to wear specific clothing, the only difference is that in Western societies one of those forms of control has had a massive philosophical edifice built around it and the other hasn't.

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

Sex work is only inherently built around debasing and dehumanizing yourself if you consider sex itself to be debased and dehumanizing. It's a service profession like literally any other.

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think a guide is really needed to install Linux

I had a guide and it was still a big learning curve. Linus had a guide and he still bricked his machine trying to install Steam. Imagine your parents or grandparents being told without context to mount an ISO to a USB and set up their BIOS - for 90% of people there is no way in hell they're installing Linux without a guide unless they can double click an exe and have an install wizard do it for them.

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Crackle is owned by Sony and ad-supported, I assume that the bot just saw the word "free" all over the website and assumed that made it "relatede enough to piracy to place on the list.

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Twist: a red shirt is watching the video trying to use it as a tutorial, and can't replicate lockpickinglawyer's results.

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe astroturfing, but most likely just people trying to be morally superior to one another.

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

You don't. It's probably got grounds or something settled into the bottom and the cup is shaped like that on purpose to prevent you from drinking them.

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

I mean they could, but they won't.

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

DF is also free and there's fan made installers to run it on Linux, the Steam version just has an enhanced UI and other features.

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I feel like the holodeck probably has a "private browsing" mode. It would be like the first thing they implemented.

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have this idea to buy a .su domain and host my own email addy. I'm sure all the tools to do so exist on Linux but I haven't taken the time to really research it yet.

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