aelwero
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- Comment on No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill 8 months ago:
I’m reasonably certain that once enough governments jump on the “we need to control the internets” bandwagon, there will be a region specific convention adopted similar to country codes for phone numbers so that they can, in fact, apply customs to it…
I suspect it won’t be in the name of righteousness though, more likely it’ll be taxes, copyright, etc, on internet sales that trigger it.
- Comment on No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill 8 months ago:
options include the establishment of a digital ID system or services that can estimate an individual’s age based on a visual scan of their face.
Oh yeah… I’m sure that won’t cause any unintended issues at all…
- Comment on 8 months ago:
Being black isn’t a disqualifier if you can access resources…
How much discrimination do you think obviously wealthy black people face? A much as a poor black person?
It’s not a matter of skin color in reality, that shit’s nothing more than some extra melanin. The difference is the perception that black people are poor… People see a young black guy in a high end Audi and assume he’s a drug dealer, because they have this societally developed perception that a person of his melanin content is incapable of acquiring that kind of money legitimately. The discrimination is centric to the resources, always has been. There are white people who get just as discriminated against as any other poor person, it’s a huge factor in why Trump’s stupid ass has the following he does… He plays that shit up and nobody else will touch it with a ten foot pole…
- Comment on 8 months ago:
Your question would be much better applied to height discrimination, which is something that’s almost never mentioned, but is a lot more indicative of the nature of discrimination itself.
It is instinctual, as others have said, but it has nothing to do with tribalism or war, its about resources. Discrimination is almost always about resources (the notable exception being gender/orientation based discrimination, which I guess is religious?).
The discrimination against small people (and obesity and age as well), is more basic, and likely older (in evolutionary terms), and is oriented towards hunting and fighting. We think less of smaller, fatter, and older people because they’re assumed to be less capable of gathering (and fighting for or defending) basic resources.
Discrimination against races is more recent, and more societal, and is more about monetary resources, and isn’t even entirely a matter of race. Poor white people can be discriminated against in the exact same way for the exact same reasons. Racism is more classist than discrimination against height, weight age, etc. but is essentially still a matter of these classes being seen as less capable of getting resources.
You can see it more easily if you look objectively at the discriminatory tendencies of women (and I mean that in a very generalized way). They tend to be far more discriminatory towards resource based biases… Height, weight, physical condition… They’re often inexplicably attracted to overly aggressive partners, occasionally to their own detriment. The more instinctual a woman is, the more likely to pursue the overly aggressive men. Race isn’t anywhere near as much a factor, and there are notable exceptions in all factors for women if a man obviously has a lot of resources already (no indictment intended ladies, just is what it is, and generally)
And of course it’s more obvious among women for the same reason… The disparity (again, in a very general sense) between male and female in ability to gather and defend resources affects women’s choices of partners more so than men.
- Comment on Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait 8 months ago:
Oh shit… My mother was actually a computer… There was a time when that was an actual job title in certain fields.
Gonna have to register my mom now…
- Comment on Want a 3D printer in New York? Get ready for fingerprinting and a 15 day wait 8 months ago:
“COMPUTER OR COMPUTER-DRIVEN MACHINE OR DEVICE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL OBJECT FROM A DIGITAL MODEL.”
I can print an origami pattern on my inkjet using my cell phone…
- Comment on Tucker Carlson interview with Putin to test EU law regulating tech companies 9 months ago:
Ultimately, what I’m asking you is: why would I be opposed to a law that itself is 100% fine, just because the same legislators might later pass a different law that I don’t like?
Ultimately because the basic premise of the law could (in general) be the basis for the government to remove our entire conversation here…
It is potentially a tool to do this
In 1984, the government rewrites history and uses a multitude of techniques that trick you into accepting things that are not true as being true.
I don’t object for the sake of my my benefit, I object for the sake of yours (everyone).
I see it a one degree increment on the proverbial frog in the proverbial pot, being slowly but surely brought to boil and it’s death, and I don’t really care who it affects in the moment.
- Comment on Tucker Carlson interview with Putin to test EU law regulating tech companies 9 months ago:
No, were just apparently on very different wavelengths here (I’m totally fine with this personally, no animosity intended at all, I like discourse and you don’t seem like you’re being a dick about it, so we’re on friendly terms here from my perspective)
Do you not think that government determination of what is or is not acceptable on “social media” (quotes because generalizing) is eerily similar to thoughtcrime? And an orwellian policy? Making a 1984 reference in its defense a little ironic?
I realize I discounted the bulk of your comment and all the “logical fallacy” buzz phrases you threw in, but I generally consider that pedantry and responding to it would bring in bad vibes on my side, so I skipped it, sorry. I can engage it, but I won’t have anything to say on it worth reading, it’ll just be old guy bullshit…
- Comment on Tucker Carlson interview with Putin to test EU law regulating tech companies 9 months ago:
How you gonna reference 1984 while actively defending an orwellian policy?
- Comment on Tucker Carlson interview with Putin to test EU law regulating tech companies 9 months ago:
Sounds an awful lot like sticking your head in the sand.
“Social media” is going to be whatever they decide they want government oversight on… Not being part of the introductory offer isnt a very good reason to accept it in my opinion.
They’ll come for your forum eventually…
- Comment on Tucker Carlson interview with Putin to test EU law regulating tech companies 9 months ago:
Ok, well it was intended to be an opinion, so your assertion that I’m incorrect is incorrect because its my opinion, but that aside, which part?
I reiterate that question because if your opinion is in direct opposition to mine, it is, in my opinion, the one I would most like to hear. I’m a moderate/centrist/libertarian(non-party) and I’d unironically and unsarcastically love to hear your opinion on it. Unless you’re just being a pedant, then I’ll listen and I respect your right to posit any pedantic objections, but I won’t really care much :)
- Comment on The average American shower 9 months ago:
I vape in the shower every morning. I’ve also dropped it a bajillion times, including dropping it while on a motorcycle doing 60mph or so. Still works just fine :)
- Comment on Tucker Carlson interview with Putin to test EU law regulating tech companies 9 months ago:
content that incites violence or hate speech from social media.
“They need to expeditiously remove content they are aware of if it is illegal.”
If a social media platform does not comply with the new EU law it can be sanctioned with a hefty fine
This essentially adds up to government proctorship of any “public forum” on the internet, including here… So if I randomly throw an “all lives matter” right here mid-comment, which while at face value is a ridiculously benign thing to say, can be and almost always is considered to be hate speech, lemmy is entirely obligated to immediately remove my comment or face heavy sanctions from the EU.
It’s an extreme caricature of an example that I assume won’t go anywhere, but the point is that it could, and the deciding factor on that isn’t anyone here, the deciding factor is a bunch of rando EU officials… If some Karen in Wales in the right position decides she doesn’t like my comment, she could initiate a “hefty” fine against lemmy admins.
It’s an absurd concept, and I don’t say that in the context of tuker Carlson (who I simply don’t give two shits about in any context), I say that in the context of us, as a “social media” community. We are subject to this proctorship, this censorship…
- Comment on Banana for scale 9 months ago:
I believe in that quantity it’s spelled and pronounced “cheddah”…
- Comment on Ketchup alignment 9 months ago:
Is it worse or better that I used someone else’s hand?
- Comment on Ketchup alignment 9 months ago:
I’ve literally done every single one of these, so im thinking that’s true chaotic neutral on my part…
- Comment on Foundation advice 10 months ago:
Well that’s not I typed lol
- Comment on Foundation advice 10 months ago:
- Comment on Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data 10 months ago:
Are they going to pay for anything that ever inspired them? Every time you publish an article, you owe a dollar to every English teacher you ever had? Fill out your taxes and you owe your math teachers?
It’s fucking goofy…
- Comment on Foundation advice 10 months ago:
You need way more details here…
Basement or crawlspace? Do you have piers already? What’s under the wood, and is the wood above or below grade?
- Comment on How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever. 10 months ago:
Can’t read the article (acts like it’s paywalled but the paywall doesn’t even come up,maybe ad blocking is borking it), but let me guess… Every time a show gets big, someone splits it off into a new sub service, and people are getting sick of that shit and pulling the plug on the people they pulled the plug on cable for…
My kids hit me up for yet another subscription last week, because they wanted to watch a show. I was very close to cancelling everything instead, and teaching them some slightly sketchy skills, but I took the “high road” on it. They’re getting close to the age where that ain’t gonna happen anymore though :)
Consolidate yo shit media dudes. You got a finite limit on how many pieces of the pie can exist. When the slices get too small because you cut it into too many slices, nobody buys a slice anymore…
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 10 months ago:
Does it cost the same? Could just be the “no ice” concept… No ice, more actual drink. Maybe they feel like they’re getting more of what they’re paying for with an extra shot added.
- Comment on 23andMe Blames Users for Recent Data Breach as It's Hit With Dozens of Lawsuits 10 months ago:
What is a security system supposed to do when provided with the correct login credentials?
I’m gonna go with not give that user access to millions of other users’ personal information…
I get your point and agree, but having a valid login shouldn’t provide that kind of access.
- Comment on Seriously 10 months ago:
I assumed it to be facetious actually … I thought, and still kinda think, that they forgot their /s
- Comment on Chick-Fil-A staff in the rain. 10 months ago:
Providing jobs is very much in alignment with their professed political beliefs… Spending the kind of money they did on these ridiculous rain suits also is, to a degree. Not speaking for or against it, just sayin that’s the professed beliefs.
Conservatives don’t like anything that threatens entry level jobs. It’s the basis of their approach to immigration (incorrect logic IMHO) and they apply the same to automation (correct logic, but there’s better answers for that problem).
The kiosks in our area rarely work, usually because they aren’t plugged in. The kids working there make well over twice the minimum wage though, because there’s a LOT of competition for jobs since COVID (lots of folks jumped on the work from home train), so it’s a good thing. Walmart didn’t replace anyone at all after COVID, they went full self checkout/kiosk. There’s less than half the pre-covid workforce, and I doubt the ones remaining are seeing any of the money Walmart saves on payroll from it. I’m certainly not getting any of those lost wages when I scan my entire grocery cart for them…
- Comment on Scientist Discover How to Convert CO2 into Powder That Can Be Stored for Decades 10 months ago:
“The resulting powder closely resembles a commercial product that has been safely used for years to melt ice on highways and airports.”
It has not been used as snow melt on highways… I fucking wish…
I have a 50lb bag of sodium formate sitting in my garage… It’s not a common snow melt, it’s a very premium (roughly 4x the price of rock salt at the retail end) snow melt that’s much nicer to your cars, your pets (we use it because our poor dog has sensitive paws), your grass, your concrete… And it works way better.
Dumping mass tonnage at every highway maintenance yard instead of rock salt would be a massive benefit to vehicle longevity and the environment in general.
It’s a really fucking good idea even without the fuel cell part of the deal :)
- Comment on Self-host personal instance and Plex server 10 months ago:
There’s no context to the question?
At face value, no, there’s no technical reason you can’t run a Plex server and a lemmy instance on one computer :)
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
There’s 22 million people receiving a $30 subsidy, that’s a $660 million payout from government to those broadband businesses…
“Helping the poors” is directly helping them buy yachts by adding $660 million dollars to what the market can support. you’re narrative is fucky.
Repubs want to shut it off because it’s welfare, and they think poor people get that way by choice and shouldn’t get any handouts. It’s just simple Intolerance is all
- Comment on Twitch updates attire policy to prohibit implied nudity. 10 months ago:
Whatya mean? You can twitch combat games all day that show every component of the human body flying through the air, appendages, intestines, no problem. Just gotta make sure there’s no nipples rendered on the flying parts…
- Comment on In The Eagles song "Take It Easy" the first verse states he has 7 women on his mind, later he is admiring a girl in Winslow, Arizona...maybe another girl isn't what this guy needs. 10 months ago:
It’s a girl, My lord, In a flatbed Ford…