Agreed.
But the entire point I'm making is there's nothing wrong with the diamonds, the problem is with the method and the people profiting from it.
You were saying the diamonds were not fine by dint of origin. I'm saying let's right the wrong and then use the diamonds.
I mean yeah: if we went and killed every person who benefits from conflict diamonds and closed all blood diamond mines why wouldn't you be cool with using the resources? Their evil origin has little to do with their practical utility and if the original sin is expiated there's no reason not to?
Like yeah conflict diamonds have basically no purpose because we can make diamonds cheaper and better in labs but in a situation where there are more practical uses (cobalt, LLMs) once we cleanse the land of the sinners why wouldn't we use their ill gotten gains for good?
You'll take my kotlin from my cold dead hands
Nah fuck that complacency.
Go complain about it. Complain that we're failing people. Complain that we don't build enough homes. Complain that our social safety net lets people end up in tents.
Fuck this benign neglect bullshit that has let the homeless rot rather than housing them.
I didn't know Lodge only used American iron - do you have a link to that somewhere? I tried finding it on Google but couldn't. It'd be useful to have handy when talking to the "America doesn't manufacture anything anymore" crowd
Skill issue
"algorithmic domestication"
Do this as an institution you'll get nuked in court.
Do this as an individual nobody will pay to see it.
The more you complain the more it's worth.
People pay money to see it because it's controversial.
That's why it's art.
What they don't grasp is that we'd send our guy to jail: because they won't.
That's the difference.
When a corrupt democrat is exposed they're expelled (bye bye Cuomo)
When a corrupt republican is exposed they're re-elected.
Yes, which also means it's fake
I mean he specifically said prison labor for the "wellness" farms - like prisons don't have inmates do hard labor on farms (I'm looking at you Louisiana with your fucking slave plantation prisons).
The idea of a place where you have to work the fields and aren't allowed access to the outside world is a reeducation camp. He's saying "you go there voluntarily"... Instead of a standard prison, which Republicans have done everything they can to make as harrowing a place as possible.
Go to reeducation gulag or go rot in a hole isn't much of a choice, even if we smear it with the fecal veneer of "wellness culture"