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WCDT strips 4301-4305 (6th July to 10 July 2020)
JoeCovenant:
But...
Didn't Spookybot send billions to all layers of charitable causes?
(Either way, looks like thats next level.)
Theta9:
--- Quote from: chris73 on 06 Jul 2020, 21:24 ---
--- Quote ---This comic is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no philosopher looks out.
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If you disagree with me thats fine but as I'm Tangata Whenua (more specifically my Iwi is Ngai Tahu) I don't appreciate being likened to a monkey
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Didn't know; don't care. Was a reference to cognition, not appearance.
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 07 Jul 2020, 06:05 ---
But...
Didn't Spookybot send billions to all layers of charitable causes?
(Either way, looks like thats next level.)
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Can’t send money to a charity that doesn’t exist; also, we have no idea about the distribution - Yay May have biased larger donations towards larger organisations. Or they may have done the opposite and some obscure disease research organisation with two administrators and three researchers now has enough money to buy Stark Industries twice and no idea where to start.
N.N. Marf:
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 06 Jul 2020, 03:04 ---It was specifically saying capitalism is a broken system.
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Capitalism isn't a system, it's a way of looking at society, emphasizing resources as owned by persons. "Capital" just means resources owned by someone. Of course, that's not the end-all way of looking at the world. Socialism, for example, looks at a society, emphasizing interactions between persons (some who maybe own some resources). One problem with the version of capitalism that we have today is that it doesn't place enough emphasis on the person. One problem with the version of socialism that we have today is that it doesn't place enough emphasis on persons that prefers to keep to himself.
--- Quote from: chris73 on 06 Jul 2020, 03:14 ---physically blowing up something that doesn't physically exist
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I'm not good at understanding what a person was thinking, unless he says what he's thinking, so I'd be interested in knowing what he was thinking of blowing up. If I had a sciencey-fantasy cannon and wanted to abolish prisons, I'd probably want shoot down their gates. (If there are no prisons, then there's no "carceral state" to abolish.) Of course, that's quite a violent solution.
(click to show/hide)Prisons are like a chain-link fence around a park with a tree on the edge. At first, it's a great way of keeping the dirty city out of the nice park. Eventually, the city is cleaned up, so there's no need for the fence---except that the trees at the edge of the park have grown through the links of the fence, so just ripping it all out is going to leave quite a gash for some time. The trees will be quite upset if we do that. They're an important member of the park, so we have to be careful about how we take out this fence.
--- Quote from: chris73 on 06 Jul 2020, 03:14 ---Todays episode is basically socialism at its finest, the guy in charge has no idea how money works yet decides it must be a poorly-designed system and not that maybe he himself is a complete idiot that has access to plenty of money but wastes it on stuff like particle cannons so the last couple of episodes have been quite critical in a way I didn't expect do well done to the author for keeping everyone on their toes
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See, I agree with you that Landon's a dope. I don't agree with you that that's exemplary socialism. Credit unions are much better examples. Although it's grounded in "capitalism", because it's dealing with things owned by it's members, it's quite socialist, because it's goal is to secure it's members' wealth. One example is that they were mostly unscathed by the 2008 fizzling of the economic foam (it's a better metaphor than "bubble"---that's not important). I think that the general principle that we all could learn from is that we can't disregard the fact that the world consists of persons who own stuff, but that it's more effective for us to work together, so that our actions at least don't harm anyone else.
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 07 Jul 2020, 06:05 ---Didn't Spookybot send billions to all layers of charitable causes?
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Now back to what's important (unleashing my imagination on minor details from nonbad fiction):
They said they did that, but they might not be as powerful as some persons might think. We've seen that they have a few instances, and we know they're powerful enough to overtake/meddle with one cybrid (was that word coined here? I've only seen it used here.), and they can zap (or something) a human to sleep. I think it's plausible that only a few instances networked together that way can have that sort of power. I especially doubt their nigh-omniscience. I wonder if maybe they only network with local instances, so that they can take more local cultural references for granted, and that they only have immediate access to the collective power of those local instances. Something like a mesh-network collective intelligence. Each node would have it's distinct personality that is almost identical with each of the one's it networks with, but that almost-identicallity of their personalities makes them think they're the same mind. This could cause them to freely share data/memories with any other instance, which would further strengthen their belief that they are one. Yet, they insist that they are plural, so it's not as though it's just one Yay with one body made of many embodied-cybrid chasses (is that the plural of "chassis"?) If that's the case, Yay would be another good (and quite creepy) example of "socialism" working well. (It's especially creepy because sometimes, I'll wake up from a dream where I'm not me but my close friend, and only realize that I'm me when my "time for work" alarm rings.)
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