Post #2521247

2026-03-11 17:37 UTC

@nicuveo@tech.lgbt I mean, the path of least aggregate harm just doesn't come with signposts and everyone is just trying to figure things out, and we're all here groping around in the fog on ground that keeps shifting on a weekly basis. So do you deadass abandon the normies around you to the grift? Or do you try to reign them in as you can? The latter means you need some understanding of what they're on about, else they'll just disregard you as clueless the moment you say something completely at odds with their experience. Do you outright surrender the battlefield to a few US megacorps? Or do you try to understand how to make alternatives viable, and at what externality cost? Is the right path political, economical, technical? (...)

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@balinares@furry.engineer 2026-03-11 17:38

@nicuveo@tech.lgbt Just sitting on the side being upset that the world isn't like what we want is valid for self-preservation, but it doesn't help. Shouting at people on our side because their read on the path of least aggregate harm differs from yours or mine helps even less. The anger's good, though. I hope we don't let go of the anger.

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@LionsPhil@plush.city 2026-03-11 19:39

@balinares@furry.engineer @nicuveo@tech.lgbt This only holds if you believe there can be an end which justifies the means. To entertain it at all, you must think there's a possible outcome that makes the harms excusable. That *is* where people are disappointing me. That once they've done this, I can never take them seriously again that they care about the environment, or worker solidarity, or supporting artists, because they've shown they were just waiting for the right bus to throw those ideals under.

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