• Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    7·
    3 hours ago

    I like the motto,

    but… the image…

    Better if it didn’t have a huge blade and an angry malevolent facial expression.

    Y’know, maybe something that speaks more to the likes of mutual aid, rather than to agent-provocateurism.

  • alekwithak@lemmy.world
    1201·
    1 day ago

    I don’t mind being governed. I mind being governed by shareholders. Regulation isn’t oppression. Exploitation is.

    • cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      18 hours ago

      I agree that things would be better without shareholders, but wouldn’t government corruption still be a problem? For example, shareholders aren’t profiting from mass deportation or tariffs. These sort of abuses would still happen without shareholders because they aren’t motivated by profit, they’re motivated by racism and nationalism. The way I see it, we need to get rid of all coercive hierarchies, government included.

      • lefaucet@slrpnk.net
        14·
        15 hours ago

        Good news! You’re about to learn about for-profit prisons and how racism is very profitable for shareholders, especially in how it suppresses wages and keeps poor people fighting other poor people instead of forming unions…

        Maybe not right now tho. I’m done poo… Uhm I’m about to do something other than googling “prison industrial complex” and “how racism effects unionizing”

      • alekwithak@lemmy.world
        2·
        15 hours ago

        Government doesn’t have to be a hierarchy. Direct democracy would have been impossible in the past, but is very much doable in this day and age. But otherwise yeah, I agree.

        • sorghum@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          3 hours ago

          You don’t think that regulation won’t be exploited? It’s how the safety and environmental regulations drove all car manufacturing into 3 companies here in the USA. Bigger companies pushed for the regulations because they could withstand the change to force their competition out of the market.

          One OS monopoly in my lifetime was already bad enough, I’ll pass on having another.

          • alekwithak@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 hour ago

            That again sounds like exploitation rather than regulation. That is exactly what I’m referring to when I say governed by shareholders.

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
    5·
    23 hours ago

    He should really be using a machete with a fully molded handle. And a forged blade rather than that stamped nonsense.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      61·
      22 hours ago

      How can you tell the blade is stamped rather than forged from an embroidery?

        • grue@lemmy.world
          41·
          22 hours ago

          It has a full tang. You can tell by the rivet at the bottom of the handle.

          • Deacon@lemmy.world
            7·
            21 hours ago

            I don’t understand any of this but it’s wonderful.

            Actually I understand a fair bit from context clues but please go on.

            • grue@lemmy.world
              15·
              21 hours ago

              A full tang blade is one where the metal of the blade extends all the way through the handle. Often, full-tang knives have “scales” instead of one-piece handles, where the two sides of the handle are riveted on and you can see the metal of the knife tang all the way around. Full tang knives are usually stronger than partial tang knives because the steel of the blade is stronger than the material used for the rest of the handle. A partial tang knife shouldn’t have a rivet at the back of the handle (because it wouldn’t actually be attaching anything); if it does, it’s because it’s trying to imitate a full tang to fool you.

              Also, the difference between a stamped knife and a forged one is that a stamped blade is of uniform thickness except where the cutting edge is ground down to a point, whereas a forged knife is more of a wedge through its entire width and can have a thicker (stronger) spine, as well as a bolster to make it more comfortable to handle. (Some better-made stamped knives are stamped from a tapered sheet of steel so that they’ve got some of the “thicker spine” benefit, but they definitely never have a bolster integral with the blade.)

              • Deacon@lemmy.world
                9·
                21 hours ago

                Genuinely, thank you. It confirms what I basically suspected based on context clues and gives me a deeper understanding, and appreciation, of what’s in my knife block.