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when things get too real for me_irl

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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So Max Cohen from Pi, but with an Unabomber quote?

Hmm

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Forgive me if I'm wrong but wouldn't the u in Unabomber be pronounced with a y sound meaning it should be "A Unabomber quote" not "an Unabomber"?

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh tbh I'm not actually sure, I've always pronounced it with the same "U" as in Uma, but on reflection I've got no idea if that's correct

[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s definitely pronounced like the u in union

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Fair play, cheers for the correction

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

In a lot of other Latin script languages "u" is pronounced like the vowel

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

"Frankly, I'm sick and tired of [idiots] on the internet misattributing quotes to me"

  • Abraham Lincoln, 1814
[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Hard disagree here. I don't like dying from cholera, measles, and smallpox nor would I enjoy working sunrise to sunset on a farm.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 points 11 months ago

It's just too bad the industrial revolution lead to capitalism overdrive. That would have been a great historical inflection point to switch over to socialism. I mean people tried, but they got murdered.

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Not having to have 20 children because 10 die as babies and the other 10 are your only means of retirement is also a big plus

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Oh yeah I'm not an anarcho-primitivist or an outright Kaczynski fan, but I honestly do think he had some really good points about the condition we find ourselves in. Of course he was slightly bonkers, and eg. the whole "I'll fix things by murdering computer scientists" thing maybe wasn't his best idea, and his definition of freedom was pretty strict – I don't think that eg. stopping at a red traffic light robs me of essential freedoms.

I'm big into degrowth though – so while I don't want to totally dismantle all technological development since the wheel, I think it's clear that we humans and the planet can't handle the current mass-scale industrial information society and we need to pretty radically scale down our resource use and a lot of our current comforts if we want to avoid completely fucking our ecosystem.

Here is a pretty good article on degrowth anarchism, in case anybody's interested. Definitely worth reading even if you don't agree with any of it

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] GuyNoIRQ 4 points 11 months ago

Looks like it

[–] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your daily reminder that the Unabomber was a proto-ecofascist.

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

He definitely was. Like I said in another comment it's not like I agree with him 100% or necessarily even 50% for that matter, but I do think he had some good points (no, fixing society by murdering CS researchers etc. wasn't one of them)