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 ### Why this obsession with extreme [simplicity](minimalism.md)? Is it because you're too stupid to understand complex stuff?
 
+(May be best to just read articles on [minimalism](minimalism.md), [KISS](kiss.md), [freedom](freedom.md) etc.)
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 On the contrary, LRS is not stupid enough to embrace complexity. I used to be the [mainstream](mainstream.md), complexity embracing programmer. I am in no way saying I'm a genius but I've put a lot of energy into studying computer science full time for many years so I believe I can say I have some understanding of the "complex" stuff. I speak from own experience and also on behalf of others who shared their experience with me that the appreciation of simplicity and realization of its necessity comes after many years of dealing with the complex and deep insight into the field and into the complex connections of that field to society.
 
 You may ask: well then but why it's just you and a few weirdos who see this, why don't most good programmers share your opinions? Because they need to make living or because they simply WANT to make a lot of money and so they do what the system wants them to do. Education in technology (and generally just being exposed to corporate propaganda since birth) is kind of a trap: it teaches you to embrace complexity and when you realize it's not a good thing, it is too late, you already need to pay your student loan, your rent, your mortgage, and the only thing they want you to do is to keep this complexity cult rolling. So people just do what they need to do and many of them just psychologically make themselves believe something they subconsciously know isn't right because that makes their everyday life easier to live. "Everyone does it so it can't be bad, better not even bother thinking about it too much". It's difficult doing something every day that you think is wrong, so you make yourself believe it's right.
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 Do I look like a fucking degenerated [zoomer](zoomer.md)?
 
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 ### I am a furry transsexual gay zoomer and/or capitalist etc., do you hate me?
 
 NO, I do not hate you at all! In fact most of my best online friends normally fall into some of the listed categories, don't let the propaganda convince you we can't be friends. We can be good friends despite liking or being something the other one dislikes, it only means that we are different, but why should we be enemies? Even if we don't end up being besties I will never hate you personally, my life philosophy is based on loving everyone unconditionally, I will possibly only hate and criticize things you do or want to do or trends you follow, but I will never want to have anyone executed or put in prison or punished in any way, it's literally us having different opinions on something and that's that.
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 If you want to contribute to the cause, just create your own website, spread the ideas you liked here -- you may or may not refer to LRS, everything's up to you. Start creating software with LRS philosophy if you can -- together we can help evolve and spread our ideas in a decentralized way, without me or anyone else being an authority, a potential censor. That's the best way forward I think.
 
+### Are you making any money off of this websites and/or your projects? How are you financing this? Are you collecting and selling my precious cookies? Is it from donations? How much do you make on them? Why are you doing this if not for money?
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+This is NOT and NEVER WILL be even partially a commercial project, there will NEVER be a single ad or sponsor or even anything inserted as a favor to someone, that would go completely against my fundamental beliefs and the message carried by this work, all my projects are [selfless](selflessness.md) and they are NOT aimed at making money at all OR extracting any other kind of capital or benefit purely for myself (such as self promotion etc.): things I make are the purpose of my life, not fastfood hamburgers, they must remain absolutely pure and must not in a slightest become affected by any financial interests, plus I also hate money, business, trade and capitalism in general. I make all of this in my spare time and apart from some tiny fees (for a domain etc.), which I minimize and can absolutely manage on my own, I have no other expenses than keeping myself alive, cost of which I also try to minimize.
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+Of course I'm NOT collecting your data lol.
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+Now yes, I have to say that as I am writing this I currently DO have the donation option available on my personal website, but I really try my best to not let this affect what I do in any way, it's just me accepting money from people who want to give them to me. Let me add this:
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+- Donations are not a way to finance my projects or reward me for what I do (and so direct me in what I am doing), my projects or my life are not directed by donations or dependent on donations, they are a way to share money (i.e. food and other resources) with me for the people who can afford it and want to do it.
+- I AM actually sometimes unsure about if it's a good thing for me to do, maybe I'll stop accepting donations in the future. In the past I experimented with taking donations just out of curiosity, I wanted to see if/how much I could make that way, and now (when I have a more refined life philosophy) I decided to just keep the option up for now, it IS useful to me as my income is quite low and I am trying to save up something and buy things that will make me as independent as possible, BUT I am always keeping in mind that I must NEVER aim to become dependent on donations or aim to increase them, I'd rather quit than continue in a commercial way (though I can't see how I could even ever become unable to continue my projects due to financial trouble). I also hate that there only exist unethical ways of taking donations such as paypal or [cryptocurrencies](crypto.md), it's another reason why I'm thinking of canceling the donations.
+- For the above reasons I don't encourage donations too much, I don't go around asking for them, I just left a small info on the bottom of my website, I really don't want to get big sponsors and become a slave to money, it is actually something I rather fear. Whenever I got a bigger donation I've always had a bit of mixed feelings: I felt very grateful but also a kind of burden of responsibility to keep delivering to the people. I do want to be delivering but the pressure I feel (even if the donor says there is no pressure) is something I find hard to deal with (part of my personality is a very elevated sensitivity to the stress of responsibility).
+- I don't make any significant money this way, it's more like an occasional tip from good people who want to share with me. Some people have been very generous and have sent me very significant amounts of money, and I want to leave my most sincere gratitude to them -- the money allowed me for example to occasionally buy a new [cool device](open_console.md) to which I port my games, and I am extremely glad for it, but it's not a stable income, it's nowhere near a fraction of a livable minimum, and I like it that way because of the above reasons.
+- I make it clear that donations don't buy anything from me, money will not affect what I do at all, it's purely for people who want to make me happier. I also clearly state that people should only donate if they can really afford it, I never want to take anything that someone would miss.
+- My justification for accepting donations is this: I think those who have more should share with those who have less (and I try to practice this as well, I give money to the homeless for example), and so I will not refuse to take something I will find useful if someone gives it to me because he won't be missing it too much, it's the same as if someone leaves something by the trash because he doesn't need it and I take it because to me it's useful. This is what I sincerely believe as part of my [life philosophy](less_retarded_society.md) and I try to make extra sure it's not just an excuse I came up with to grab some money, I really do think about this a lot and should it threaten the quality of what I create, I will stop immediately. I do hate money but it's sadly how sharing works under our dystopia: if someone wants to share food with me, he does it by sending money over the Internet. So the conflict I feel about donations is actually more in using the harmful monetary and technological system (and so possibly supporting it) rather than taking something that someone is giving to me. I honestly don't know if I should continue accepting donations or not, it is possible I am doing something that's slightly wrong out of my weakness, please don't assume everything I do is correct, but I can promise I will try to do as little harm I can practically manage.
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 ### Why is it called a wiki when it's written just by one guy? Is it to deceive people into thinking there's a whole movement rather than just one weirdo?
 
 Yes.
 
-No, of course not you dumbo. There is no intention of deception, this project started as a collaborative wiki with multiple contributors, named *Based Wiki*, however I (drummyfish) forked my contributions (most of the original Wiki) into my own Wiki and renamed it to *Less Retarded Wiki* because I didn't like the direction of the original wiki. At that point I was still allowing and looking for more contributors, but somehow none of the original people came to contribute and meanwhile I've expanded my LRS Wiki to the point at which I decided it's simply a snapshot of my own views and so I decided to keep it my own project and kept the name that I established, the *LRS Wiki*. Even though at the moment it's missing the main feature of a wiki, i.e. collaboration of multiple people, it is still a project that most people would likely call a "wiki" naturally (even if only a personal one, also called a *monoproject*) due to having all the other features of wikis (separate, constantly changing articles linked via hypertext, non-linear structure etc.) and simply looking like a wiki -- nowadays there are many wikis that are mostly written by a single man (see e.g. small fandom wikis) and people still call them wikis because culturally the term has simply taken a wider meaning, people don't expect a wiki to absolutely necessarily be collaborative and so there is no deception. If you're still like "NONONONO I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS" then see this as a wiki that's collaboratively edited by many of my alternative personalities. Additionally I am still open to the idea to possibly allowing contributions, so I'm simply keeping this a wiki, the wiki is in a sense waiting for a larger community to come -- anyone may fork it at any time BTW. Finally the ideas I present here are not just mine but really do reflect existing movements/philosophies with significant numbers of supporters (suckless, free software, ...).
+No, of course not you dumbo. There is no intent of deception, this project started as a collaborative wiki with multiple contributors, named *Based Wiki*, however I (drummyfish) forked my contributions (most of the original Wiki) into my own Wiki and renamed it to *Less Retarded Wiki* because I didn't like the direction of the original wiki. At that point I was still allowing and looking for more contributors, but somehow none of the original people came to contribute and meanwhile I've expanded my LRS Wiki to the point at which I decided it's simply a snapshot of my own views and so I decided to keep it my own project and kept the name that I established, the *LRS Wiki*. Even though at the moment it's missing the main feature of a wiki, i.e. collaboration of multiple people, it is still a project that most people would likely call a "wiki" naturally (even if only a personal one, also called a *monoproject*) due to having all the other features of wikis (separate, constantly changing articles linked via hypertext, non-linear structure etc.) and simply looking like a wiki -- nowadays there are many wikis that are mostly written by a single man (see e.g. small fandom wikis) and people still call them wikis because culturally the term has simply taken a wider meaning, people don't expect a wiki to absolutely necessarily be collaborative and so there is no deception. If you're still like "NONONONO I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THIS" then see this as a wiki that's collaboratively edited by many of my alternative personalities. Additionally I am still open to the idea to possibly allowing contributions one day (or maybe when I die people will simply take this and make it to a collaborative wiki or something), so I'm simply keeping this a wiki, the wiki is in a sense waiting for a larger community to come -- anyone may fork it at any time BTW. Finally the ideas I present here are not just mine but really do reflect existing movements/philosophies with significant numbers of supporters (suckless, free software, ...).
 
 ### Why did you make this wiki? What is its purpose?
 
@@ -143,6 +159,14 @@ This is a good point, we talk about [capitalism](capitalism.md) simply because i
 
 Nah, it's all essentially the same, as long as it's based on [competition](competition.md) it's just a different stage of capitalism at best, all these things are based on the fundamentally flawed idea of letting humans compete -- this will always lead to things like trade, money, people forming bigger groups, companies, cartels and eventually corporations etcetc. Only those who believe capitalism can somehow be fixed or made manageable find it important to distinguish different types of it, we just oppose it all, so we don't bother to distinguish between different flavors of shit too much, that would be just unnecessary and distracting.
 
+### Since you are against competition, are you also against games? Humans can't live without competition!
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+LRS only opposes SOCIAL [competition](competition.md): we say competition as a mechanism by which society functions is bad, and that's what we want to remove. Competition as a part of voluntary games is fine and welcome, it is true that humans have the need for competition which games harmlessly satisfy. If you lose in a game, not much happens, but if you lose in competition for food, you die. It's the same as with violence: probably most people accept that violence is bad in real life and we'd like to have a society free of any violence, but we are fine with violence in video games, and in fact these games may help us satisfy our violent instincts and then be less violent in real life. So no need to worry about games, we love them too.
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+### Since you are against anonymity/censorship/privacy/secrecy, are you for example against anonymous imagine boards? Why are you using them if you hate anonymity?
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+Same answer as in previous question: anonymity (i.e. secrecy, censorship etc.) must not be a mechanism on which our society relies, it's a harmful mechanism in this context, good society must be open, uncensored, compatible with truth, with free speech, without fear of talking, without the need for censorship etc., BUT the concept of anonymity is not bad in itself -- once again, it may be fine as a part of a voluntary social game, which image boards are. Many card games are based on hiding one's cards from other players, we do NOT want to reject these games simply because they are based on the mechanism of secrecy, we merely argue that secrecy is a bad pillar of society.
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 ### How is this different from [Wikipedia](wikipedia.md)?
 
 In many ways. Our wiki is better e.g. by being more [free](free_culture.md) (completely [public domain](public_domain.md), no [fair use](fair_use.md) [proprietary](proprietary.md) images etc.), less [bloated](bloat.md), better accessible, not infected by [pseudoleftist](psedoleft.md) [fascism](fascism.md) and censorship (we only censor absolutely necessary things, e.g. copyrighted things or things that would immediately put us in jail, though we still say many things that may get us in jail), we have articles that are better readable etc.
@@ -259,7 +283,7 @@ A simple analogy is this: a law is so fucked up nowadays that it forces us to po
 
 However using legal tools will always be a question of considering the pros and cons -- at the time of writing this using CC0 is very easy and achieves great freedom with almost no negative effects, so we choose to do it. But if in the future situation changes so that achieving legal public domain would have more negative effects, then we might choose to ignore the law -- if for example in the future it is ruled that to release something into legal public domain one has to fill out many sheets of paper and pay some fees, we would probably reconsider accepting this as that burdens creators, discriminates against the poor, supports financial bullying and gives money to the overlords, so in such case we'd probably choose to rather ignore law and just use informal waivers. In the dystopia we are simply always looking for the least bad solution.
 
-### What software is this wiki POWERED BY? Maybe some kind of NPM heroku static generator responsive solution on rails running inside a banana orange virtual machine that I can conjure up by praying to the gods through ten layers of virtualized docker solutions?
+### What software is this wiki POWERED BY? Maybe some kind of orchestrated NPM heroku static generator responsive solution on rails running inside a banana orange virtual machine that I can conjure up by praying to the gods through ten layers of virtualized docker solutions?
 
 None of that bullshit, I use [git](git.md), the articles are written in [markdown](md.md) and converted to [HTML](html.md) with a simple script.