rambling_lunatic
@rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 20 hours ago:
Confusing the bear with 'grad
- Comment on Stay Mad 23 hours ago:
Aye. The timestamp I linked specifically talks about something talked about in this thread, which is that the DNC would rather have the far right win than move left.
- Comment on Stay Mad 1 day ago:
Sorry, Piped and other frontends isn’t working right now, so you’ll have to use normal YouTube or go through VLC.
- Comment on That's one smart serial killer 3 days ago:
What do you think the dish is made of? Rabbits?
- Comment on Starter Guide 5 days ago:
I hear Poles like putting Popes in boats
- Comment on Hello lovelies!!! 1 week ago:
Olivie is delicious and no one will tell me otherwise
- Comment on Tech Firms Prey on Poor Under Guise of Expanding Access to Financial Services 1 week ago:
This is an insult to punks
- Comment on *Eurythmics starts playing* 1 week ago:
Everybody’s looking for something
- Comment on They're everywhere!!! 2 weeks ago:
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first person to observe microbes. Semmelweis deserves immense credit for trying to convince people to wash their hands, but he didn’t observe microbes and believed in corpse particles. (⌐■_■)
- Comment on Not happening, dude 1 month ago:
On the other hand, the policing system encourages screwing over minorities and doing various other scummy things (through a quota system among other things). This does not absolve cops of guilt if they target minorities, lie, or plant drugs.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 1 month ago:
Why not blame both?
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 2 months ago:
Fair
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 2 months ago:
Mutual aid but worse
- Comment on Progress! 2 months ago:
The orphan-crushing machine tweet
- Comment on Hollywood writers went on strike to protect their livelihoods from generative AI. Their remarkable victory matters for all workers. 2 months ago:
This is the sort of thing that industrial unionism was meant to combat. Craft unionism divides the workers.
- Comment on My body, my choice. 2 months ago:
And oftentimes OD if it’s a drug like coke or heroin.
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 2 months ago:
Completely tangential, but imma be real with you: libsocs are fringe too.
Indeed, socialism of any sort is pretty fringe in most of the West.
- Comment on AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey 2 months ago:
Capitalism isn’t just flawed, it’s broken. For every prosperous nation like the UK or Germany, there’s half a dozen Haitis and Panamas.
By “communism”, I presume you mean Marxist-Leninist state socialism, which indeed fails miserably. However, it isn’t the only alternative to capitalism. Historically, there have been several communes during the Spanish and Russian civil wars that worked fine and didn’t have a central leader, let alone a dictatorship. Although they died because of military blunders, this model is currently being followed more or less in Chiapas by the Zapatistas.
In these places, workers’ councils ruled. Direct face-to-face democracy by neighbours were how most things were done. I recon that this is a fairly nice arrangement.
Democracy’s flaws come from subversion by the wealthy and the fact that republics don’t let people really participate, but rather choose people who participate in their place.
- Comment on AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey 2 months ago:
You and I know damn well that a revolution is the only way that’s gonna happen, and there aren’t any on the horizon.
- Comment on Hunger 3 months ago:
Counterpoint: I can bite my tongue even when I am full.
- Comment on Peak technology 3 months ago:
Same with me. I had trouble getting that anti-pale-yellow-dot program to work with it though. Still can’t do it :(
- Comment on Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit 3 months ago:
This is pure evil! You’re, like, evil incarnate!
- Comment on Peak technology 3 months ago:
Is Canon half-decent?
- Comment on Clean energy could be 'closer than ever' after a nuclear fusion machine smashed a record 4 months ago:
The most English measurement.
- Comment on Moaned 4 months ago:
Doom Crossing
- Comment on BitLocker encryption broken in less than 43 seconds with sub-$10 Raspberry Pi Pico — key can be sniffed when using an external TPM 4 months ago:
Protection against tampering, maybe?
Bad excuse, but that is the logic I’ve heard.
- Comment on Disney+ Drops 1.3 Million Subscribers Amid Price Hike, Streaming Loss Shrinks by $300 Million 4 months ago:
Less people are using Disney+.
- Comment on The FTC isn’t too happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffs 4 months ago:
The Onion always tells factual stories. They’re just stories from the future.
- Comment on Kool-Aid 4 months ago:
They prefer Flavor Aid.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 5 months ago:
Good link, though not the one I used. I’ve already begun taking measures archiving various chats. Even if Discord lives, my account might not.