Seek out and meet a christian anarchist. Those folks are badass and will change your idea of christianity’s potential (I’m agnostic).

Core spirituality vs institutional religious baggage

I actually take a critical eye to the word “work” itself and think that it’s too encompassing a term. In our society it’s a blanket word that covers all labor. From punitive, fruitless toil all the way up to invigorating, actualizing applications of trained skill. Lots of what we call “work” are actually things we could want for ourselves in a utopia and would miss without, while IRL we’re currently on the crest of an economic trend in which the majority of society are trapped in ultimately meaningless and forgettable toil under wage coercion. Literally just being kept occupied and oppressed.

Put very simply I think you can slice our current idea of what work is into two halves, work that removes happiness from ourselves and society and work that adds happiness to ourselves and society. As utopians I think a society that contains only the latter is a reasonable prize to keep our eyes on.

You could literally describe early christianity as the spiritual arm of a revolutionary front.

Yup, but Lemmy is a federated service so if that fact makes you uncomfortable or something you can always spin up a liberal instance with corporations and classism.

Heaven was literally [re]invented to be a description of utopia specifically so that toiling workers wouldn’t get distracted trying to create it on Earth.

“oooh heaven is a place on earth” take that shit literally, fam

What’s crazy is that none of the other P2P apps that came after ever had as nice of an interface as Napster. I guess that’s cause Napster compiled Mac and Windows native apps while most other P2P apps were Java jars.

Yeah but it didn’t feel quite that expensive because we all made more money in terms of true value back then, too.

Not quite yet, not all of us.

If they produced an equivalent of That 70s Show today the “very special episode of” would be the one where 9/11 happens.

Vinyls don’t really offer any fidelity over digital, that’s mostly confirmation bias from vinylheads owning nicer sound systems. But they’re a fun and sort of interactive physical medium much in the same way books are, in that way they offer a unique and enhanced musical experience, and that’s why I keep buying them to this day (It’s 1PM on a Saturday and I’ve already played two LPs on mine today, while my gf and I ate breakfast).

For Playstation games you had to get one of the nicer-quality CD-Rs and burn it at a slower speed than usual. Also I remember I got a replacement disk drive cover for my PS2 that allowed you to pull it open with a hook. I’d boot up the console with a legit disc, then use the hook to open the drive without the console knowing and swap in a pirated disc.