WaxedWookie
@WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 3 weeks ago:
Cancel culture strikes again… From the right as usual.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 3 weeks ago:
Palestinians killed in Gaza aren’t terrorists - they’re the victims of a genocide.
Since October 7th, 44,000 Palestinians have been killed compared to 1,706 Israelis. The stats over the past few decades don’t deviate much from this ratio. Israel is killing many times more Palestinians, and a higher ratio of children, they’re seizing land, holding many times more hostages, and committing and proudly documenting countless warcrimes.
Does Palestine have the right to defend itself like Israel? What would that look like to you? I ask mostly because you’re actively supporting an ongoing genocide while blaming the victims of that genocide while applying inconsistent, nonsensical standards across the two groups.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
Nor does capitalism to be fair…
It’s certainly… something.
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 3 weeks ago:
How about we save the money by not giving the police literal attack dogs to maul people with… Maybe just start ripping budget away from the police that insist on buying up surplus military equipment, ensuring that the only tool they have to solve any problem is a gun. Nah - the people that relentlessly bleat about freedom just loooove that shiny new boot leather taste.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
Ain’t capitalism grand.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
Owning shit isn’t working. Why is this controversial?
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 5 weeks ago:
We genetically engineered mosquitoes to have gender dysmorphia - weird times.
- Comment on Ring just doubled the price of its alarm monitoring service for legacy customers 1 month ago:
Because capitalism. The shareholders thirst - they will have their returns. Common sense, decency, legality and morality are all roughly shoved aside in service of “line go up”.
- Comment on US couple blocked from suing Uber after crash say daughter agreed to Uber Eats terms 1 month ago:
Thanks for taking the time to write that up!
That all makes sense - though unless there’s info in missing, I’d argue the woman should have been responsible for managing her own allergies rather than her husband, but that’s beside the point, and I understand your position on speaking ill of the dead.
Whatever the case, it does certainly seem like the truth was steamrolled by a good story - though I do think the waiver arguments underpinning that side of the case will wind up getting pressure tested in pretty short order.
Thanks again.
- Comment on US couple blocked from suing Uber after crash say daughter agreed to Uber Eats terms 1 month ago:
For sure benefit of those that haven’t seen the LegalEagle video, why was Disney likely to be released from the suit?
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 1 month ago:
Yeah - that’d be my guess for an over-complicated code with minimal info.
- Comment on I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences 1 month ago:
The complexity is likely a product of redundancy and error correction in the QR code rather than making it unique. You begin to run into issues with camera resolution and whatnot, but in theory those codes are likely more reliable.
- Comment on Your stupid decal finally makes sense! 1 month ago:
Not with that attitude, it doesn’t.
- Comment on Follow this daily workout for huge gains 1 month ago:
I was thinking he’d wind up with a braniac-style nemesis.
- Comment on Donald Trump Vows 200% Tariff on John Deere if It Moves Manufacturing to Mexico 1 month ago:
The old tax and spend Republicans are at it again…
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 1 month ago:
I’m not going to steal your dog, but refunds are unavailable in the event that the rapture or your participation in it is cancelled - sorry.
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 2 months ago:
No worries, friend - doggos to the left, wallets to the right - peace be with you and whatnot!
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 2 months ago:
I’m only a new startup, so I’m looking to take on my first clients.
I figure things will work out - people that believe in the rapture tend not to pay attention to all the “love thy neighbour”, golden rule, feed the hungry, bathe the lepers Jesus teachings…
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 2 months ago:
It’s your lucky day - I happen to run a post-rapture plant watering and pet sitting business - I’m sure as shit not getting raptured.
- Comment on South Australia is proposing a law to ban kids under 14 from social media. How would it work? 2 months ago:
Probably a lot like the $80m porn filter that was cracked by a 13 year old within 20 minutes of being released - poorly.
- Comment on Nature is blunt. 2 months ago:
What did science and medicine ever do for me?
If you paywall publication and peer-review, you suppress a huge amount of science that doesn’t have the kinds of checks that corporate sponsorship and review introduce. This means studies of things like the dangers of CFCs, smoking, microplastics, thalidomide, and countless other things that’ll kill you will never see the light of day.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
There’s self-hosted LLMs, (e.g. Ollama), but for the purposes of this conversation, yeah - they’re centrally hosted, compute intensive software services.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
Unlike regular piracy, accessing “their” product hosted on their servers using their power and compute is pretty clearly theft. Morally correct theft that I wholeheartedly support, but theft nonetheless.
- Comment on Palestinian girl killed by Israeli sniper in West Bank was looking out the window, father says 2 months ago:
Biden knows perfectly well… As does Netanyahu and the IDF. All should be in the Hague, but instead, we’ll make a mockery of the UN and the concept of international law - all in service of a range of cocktails of political expediency and hate.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
Yeah - that’s all part of the “unless enough people leave” point.
It really depends on the market though - if it’s not an essential good, it doesn’t need to be replaced (online games). If there’s adequate competition, there’s largely undifferentiated alternatives (utilities around me)… and if not, you probably don’t have a choice (your local government services, monopolies, and shallow markets for essential goods).
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
Unless they hate it enough to ditch a business or service in great enough numbers that it costs the business more money than they save by outsourcing to a computer, people had better get used to it.
- Comment on Germans: what genocide? 7 months ago:
Ah - You must be referring to the ones that funded and backed Hamas’s rise to power over the secular moderates with predictable results…
Israel.
- Comment on Pupil behaviour 'getting worse' at schools in England, say teachers 7 months ago:
…before attending the definitely voluntary after work drinks and trundling home to your shoebox out in the inaka.
- Comment on Pupil behaviour 'getting worse' at schools in England, say teachers 7 months ago:
Better/worse depends on your frame of reference…
The UK is generally worse than it was 50 years ago, and better than it was 150 years ago. It’s generally better than Japan today.
Not being an arsehole is a pretty decent start whatever the case is.
- Comment on Pupil behaviour 'getting worse' at schools in England, say teachers 7 months ago:
The Japanese work culture is an absolute dumpster fire - the reason all their media is focused on highschoolers is that high school was the last time anyone had a shred of freedom.
But broadly, yeah - there’s not much incentive to respect the norms of a system that’s completely fucked you, then demands compliance.