surewhynotlem
@surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 hours ago:
Yep. Which means we need to run for government positions in a way we can win
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 3 hours ago:
Yes, but not at the cost of letting fascists win. Harm reduction is real.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 4 hours ago:
They support the alt-right by being overly idealistic and failing to partner with liberals and more moderate leftists to make progress.
Divide and be conquered.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 5 hours ago:
They have one very important thing in common. They both support the alt-right. Fascists because they want to. Leftist because they’re purists.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 1 day ago:
By providing subsidies, you make it cheaper to build things in the US, so people do. It’s the reason we have so much farming, even though it’d be cheaper to outsource that.
By shutting down international trade, we will build things in the US where it’s affordable, and where it’s not we just do without.
Point is, you won’t get an iPhone anymore. You likely won’t get a new car. The value of the dollar goes down and we get less. Maybe you’re ok with that, but I personally like my quality of life.
- Comment on How can you oppose tariffs, while supporting a hardline against China on Taiwan? 1 day ago:
If you don’t support tariffs to bring back manufacturing jobs
I also don’t support prohibition to improve crop output.
Tariffs don’t create manufacturing jobs. Subsidies do.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Do you want microplastics? Because that’s how we get microplastics.
- Comment on Instagram Is Full Of Openly Available AI-Generated Child Abuse Content. 1 day ago:
Hey.
I’ve been in tech for 20 years. I know python, Java, c#. I’ve worked with tensorflow and language models. I understand this stuff.
You absolutely could train an AI on safe material to do what you’re saying.
Stable diffusion and openai have not guaranteed that they trained their AI on safe materials.
It’s like going to buy a burger, and the restaurant says “We can’t guarantee there’s no human meat in here”. At best it’s lazy. At worst it’s abusive.
- Comment on EU may “make an example of X” by issuing $1 billion fine to Musk’s social network 1 day ago:
This. Fines should be percentage of wealth. Otherwise they’re just a sticker price on breaking the law.
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 day ago:
Then you just hate theists
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 1 day ago:
I haven’t seen that. Why would they need to be atheist to hate Muslims? You can do that from anywhere.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 1 day ago:
I didn’t say they shouldn’t fuck, feisty pants. I said they can’t consent. Consent is a legal term.
They can and should fuck as much as they want. They just can’t provide consent.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 1 day ago:
Nothing says “in confident in my position” like calling the other person a child and telling them to go learn stuff.
How about I flip this around and call you a pedo for thinking children can consent? Maybe your whole argument is a justification for your desires?
See how stupid that makes me sound?
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 2 days ago:
The real money is in AWS, azure,GCP. No one cares about your iPad. Tariff the big 3 hosting providers and see how quickly shit hits the fan.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 2 days ago:
Context is important I guess. So two things.
Is something illegal if it’s not prosecuted?
Is it CSA if the kid is 9 but that’s marrying age in that country?
If you answer yes, then no, then we’ll not agree on this topic.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 2 days ago:
That’s a deep reference. Very nice.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 2 days ago:
Maybe from an equity perspective, but not from a lawyer perspective. So you’d probably say “we need more women in law”.
Because the topic is women. If the topic was lawyering, then sex won’t come up.
- Comment on Google it 2 days ago:
Expecto Myscrotum
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 2 days ago:
So… Exactly how it was 20 years ago. Kids Those Days used AIM and Yahoo Messenger instead of slack and discord.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 2 days ago:
They’re just called lawyers, unless they’re lawyering with their genitals and their sex is somehow relevant.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 3 days ago:
universally condemned
There are a few countries that would disagree
- Comment on GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed 3 days ago:
I think that’s exactly what they do. Curation at the quantities that they’re working at would require an army.
- Comment on GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed 3 days ago:
If you’re selling a service, I expect you to know where your parts come from and what’s in it.
- Comment on Just a moment... 3 days ago:
The April fools joke
- Comment on GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed 3 days ago:
AI models are trained on the open Internet. Not curated. Open Internet has horrible things.
- Comment on GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed 3 days ago:
Open AI just scours the Internet. 100% chance it’s come across someone illegal and horrible. They don’t pre-approve its training data.
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 4 days ago:
European
As an American, it’s because there’s nothing out there. We have SO much land. A small town means you have to drive everywhere. It means the local grocery is 30 min away. It also means 300 people in the town, one library (maybe), but at least three churches. Very much not my vibe :-)
Not everywhere, obviously, but it’s a thing.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 4 days ago:
They’re different words. Grey is more of a dark white, while gray is more of a light black.
But for real, to me grey is a name and a feeling, and gray is a color. And I have no idea why.
- Comment on GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed 4 days ago:
If you think that AI is only trained on legal images, I can’t convince you otherwise.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 4 days ago:
I thought he fessed up to that