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  • zbyte64@awful.systemstoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas
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    12 days ago

    To be fair the comic said nothing of batteries. Case in point: there are “gas engines” that are basically a generator connected to an electric motor because it’s more efficient than just using an ICE. The generator is optimized for small constant torque and the electric motor delivers as much torque as the system demands.













  • Is that why Hexbear and Lemmygrad were blocked? Hexbear being one of the largest and most active overtly trans-positive instances, and Lemmygrad being the largest explicitly Marxist Instance?

    Blocked for being antisocial? Yes. If it was about being trans then Blahaj would have been blocked a long time ago.

    If anything, I’m complaining about bad communist tropes dominating the media representation, and by that I mean leninists.



  • Sure, but is that how we talk about our institutions? Things I hear that buck anarchism while supporting American democracy:

    • The Constitution should be interpreted with “originalism” or at the very least venerated
    • Police sacrifice X, therefore it’s okay if they do extralegal Y

    I’m not saying there aren’t systems of accountability that legitimize various institutions. It’s that the stories we tell to legitimize an institution comes in many different flavors, and those based on authority from power/position (ie “our founding fathers were smart people”) are not accepted by anarchists. Edit: Imagine how different our legal framework would be if it reflected that mentality?


  • I find it a bit ironic that cars and traffic lights are being used as a metaphor for why anarchy won’t work. Let’s put aside that the example is of poor collective planning to build urban environments. Go to Vietnam and see how people drive without traffic lights, it’s complete madness. But it works, and in some ways it works better than what we have because the accidents are fewer and less severe while also serving more diverse modes of traffic.