betwixthewires

@betwixthewires@lemmy.basedcount.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The golden years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Doing nothing productive with your life, everything revolves around social drama, getting permission to take a shit…

  I enjoyed my time at school. But you’ve got to ask yourself, if the best time of your life was at school that means you’ve made bad decisions, so what did it prepare you for really? School failed you.

  The truth is that school fails all of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘America does not deserve me.’ Why Black people are leaving the United States⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how long it’s going to take the locals in these countries to see them as colonizers and commence with hostility. I wonder if it will be worse than the hostility they experienced in the US from the other ethnic groups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why doesn't Egypt open its borders to Gaza?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so wrong it’s absurd, it gives you absolutely no information on the history of this conflict. The current conflict dares back to the early 20th century, well before world war 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mastodon instance which does not send any emails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called Pleroma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No matter what you think of it, someone’s going to try to guilt and browbeat you. Support the Palestinians? You’re antisemitic and support terrorism. Support Israel? You’re supporting an oppressive apartheid state. So who cares whether you’re allowed, this is the world we live in, no matter what you think about anything there’s someone out there who’s going to call you a bad person for it. Just learn about things before you form an opinion, use your judgment and critical thinking and then figure out the truth of whatever it is.

  Personally, I don’t support either side. I can see how they both kind of brought each other’s retaliation on themselves. I just lament innocent people dying and dislike how it affects me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Industry Struggles to Curb Misuse as Users Exploit Generative AI for Chaos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Misuse lol. People need to get their panties out of their butthole. You build a photo generator and get mad when someone uses it to make a picture of Marx with tits. Who cares? Crybabies can cry about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we see the Milky Way if we are inside of it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you see the tip of your nose?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I believe science but I don't understand science. Does that make me religious?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, and that’s OK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toyota Will Adopt Tesla-Style Cast Bodies That Might Be Impossible to Fix⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They want to make everything impossible to fix. They want to turn our land into landfills and fleece us of our income.

  Climate change or no, electric fan or no, anyone with self respect would rather buy a 1990 beater than a new car, they’re user and owner hostile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POLL: Is Censorship a Partisan Issue?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy is a public protocol and open source server software, there’s literally room for everyone on it and there’s nothing you can do about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POLL: Is Censorship a Partisan Issue?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This thread is in a conservative community. I’m talking to conservative people.

  Also your idea that your team is any better is bullshit. There was no attempted coup, you just want to see your political opponents raped in prison, that’s the kind of person you are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to propose a girl who doesn't talk much to boys?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s Indian. He means just talk to her. They talk like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POLL: Is Censorship a Partisan Issue?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Politics is war by other means.

  This is what you need to understand: these organizations seek power. All of them, even the Republican party. You want an environment where you can agree to disagree, where you sell your ideals and ideas to the people and they decide, that’s not how any of this works. Your opponents know what the game is. If they win they plan on never letting you pitch your ideas to the public again. If you intend to value 1A, 2A, 4A then you should seek to dominate and destroy your opponents and then institute your ideals. If you intend to take freedom away I hope you fail along with them and that your movement crumbles and dies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pluralistic: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) (Cory Doctorow)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  VIN locking and any attempt at anything like it should be illegal, full stop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does woke mean to you? Good, bad, good intentions with flawed execution?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re characters from books anthropomorphizing very unscrupulous archetypes.

  My process is to look at outcomes and techniques. If techniques to further an ideological goal involve dishonesty and disingenuousness I then deduce that the purveyors of those ideologies are unscrupulous people. If outcomes are awful and especially if they try to hide those bad outcomes then I presume that they don’t care how what they want affects people. So for example, sex education and birth control among religious conservatives, you have both disingenuous discussion and bad outcomes. Or the countless young women who have ruined their lives by cutting their breasts off as teenage girls convinced they’re boys. Same markers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does woke mean to you? Good, bad, good intentions with flawed execution?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, real discussion!

  I think you’re probably right they aren’t idiots, well most of them anyway, there are idiots in this world and no political ideology has a monopoly on them. But I do think they’re tools; they want to see change in the world, and they’ve been convinced to want a certain set of changes by some smooth talkers. I don’t think the people that formulate and articulate these sets of ideas to their followers are being honest about their end goals. This goes for just about every political ideology out there, but the predominant political force stirring trouble right now is the woke one so that’s the one I focus on.

  I don’t think trans rights is about trans rights, that critical race theory is about equity, that UBI is about opportunity or leveling the playing field. I think the adherent masses to these ideas do, I don’t think the academics that come up with this stuff or the politicians that shill it believe that for a second. They’re Tooheys and Fagins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does woke mean to you? Good, bad, good intentions with flawed execution?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To me it means disingenuous attempts to change the social structure for malicious goals, and useful idiot tools with their minds tied in knots of the people who are doing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents of trans kids urge Senate to oppose online safety bill that could harm LGBTQ+ youth.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm curious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For those with larger phones, how do you handle them without grip accessories?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t. Popsocket all the way. Even big men with big hands can’t one hand these phones anymore.

  I want a small phone with an OLED 1080 display that is supported by lineage OS and has a headphone jack. That’s all I want, I don’t care about processor or ram being mid, mediocre camera is fine, I need decent storage though, or an SD slot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI, Federal Judge Agree Fighting Botnets Means Allowing The FBI To Remotely Install Software On People’s Computers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh, this is overblown.

  They seized the control servers of the malware operation, used that to send an update destroying the bots, after getting a warrant to do so. In the article it makes it seem like they searched everyone’s computer, even though the warrant explicitly forbade them from doing so, saw the bot software and then targeted them. This is not the case.

  The warrant explicitly forbade the FBI from searching the computers they for the warrant for. The article implies that they could violate the warrant if they want to. And they could. But by that logic any warrant can be abused, let’s just get rid of warrants. And the issue at hand, that the court issued the warrant, is being glossed over on this point. The FBI had this capability, they’ll abuse it warrant or no if they’re trying to abuse it. The warrant makes no difference. So why even bring up the warrant?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the asshole?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing wrong with it period, knowing or not.

  Appeasing such an unreasonable person by making excuses is not the way to approach a childish hissyfit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the asshole?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The irony in this comment is uncanny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the asshole?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely not, that person is mentally ill and therefore unstable and unpredictable. You’re just a reasonable person who acknowledges that adults don’t throw hissyfits and slam food all over the place at work unless they want to not have a job. Don’t listen to these clowns, you’re not an asshole, not even close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I just quit urban and social life for a rural and lonely life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not lonely. You might think it is but it isn’t. I did a decade in the cities, bar hopping, out with friends, online dating, all that stuff. It was all surface level and dating was like crawling through a desert wasteland eating bugs for survival.

  I met my wife and we started a family after I moved to the country. I met her organically, at a pool. I courted her the old fashioned, organic way, no conspicuous spending to impress, none of that bullshit, just good old fashioned being myself, being respectful but persistent, that kindnof stuff. She’s an impressive woman in basically any way you can imagine.

  To have a rich social life in the country, you need to 1) not move to a tweaker town, 2) move somewhere rich with the kind of people you like to be around (I don’t mean ideology, I mean age, sex, etc) and 3) go to places where people are and talk to them. Don’t judge. Outside of cities you don’t have to pay someone to go outside to do something, you just go outside and do it. Everything doesn’t cost money.

  So if you are just sick of the materialism, the traffic, the constant expenses, the needless complexity, I’d say a small town is for you, ofc provided you pick one that isn’t full of 100 year old people or tweakers, and just go outside all the time and don’t be afraid to talk to people. If you like looking st the stars you’ll do just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IGN | Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Good god has the world not figured this out already? Or was it a conspiracy theory until now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does one resist getting into protracted arguments while still staying informed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t follow any news at all, hear it from the people around you, let them have their retarded rants and just let it go. Save your opinionated argumentativeness for the internet, where you can engage in it on your own terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does one resist getting into protracted arguments while still staying informed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a way to get in to a protracted or heated argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are smart door locks more or less secure than traditional door locks?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything with added complexity will have a larger attack surface and more failure modes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rivian CEO issues strong statement about people who purchase gas-powered cars: ‘Sort of like building a horse barn in 1910’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The value add for an individual is minimal to nonexistent in electric vs gas. Not so with a horse vs a car. This guy is delusional if this isn’t just hype (it is) and thinks the comparisons are comparable.