happybadger
@happybadger@hexbear.net
Working class employee of the Sashatown Central News Agency, the official news service of the DPRS Ministry of State Security. Your premier source for patriotic facts.
- Comment on Meta’s AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well 1 day ago:
“Liv,” whose bio claims she is a “proud Black queer momma of 2 & truth-teller”
Bazinga shit is so cynical. They’ve built a digital skinwalker to farm engagement off marginalised communities with autogenerated lies.
- Comment on Joe Biden issues 'full and unconditional' pardon for son 4 weeks ago:
With one of the colours censored by a bar reading “I will follow the law.”
- Comment on Joe Biden issues 'full and unconditional' pardon for son 4 weeks ago:
Liberals scared to admit how evil they are, but also too scared to wear a MAGA hat and be accurately perceived.
- Comment on USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading 5 weeks ago:
www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/…/ch03b.htm
On the other hand, it is completely utopian to want, like Proudhon, to transform present-day bourgeois society while maintaining the peasant as such. Only as uniform a distribution as possible of the population over the whole country, only an integral connection between industrial and agricultural production together with the thereby necessary extension of the means of communication — presupposing the abolition of the capitalist mode of production — would be able to save the rural population from the isolation and stupor in which it has vegetated almost unchanged for thousands of years. It is not utopian to declare that the emancipation of humanity from the chains which its historic past has forged will only be complete when the antithesis between town and country has been abolished; the utopia begins when one undertakes “from existing conditions” to prescribe the form in which this or any other of the antitheses of present-day society is to be solved.
It’s why I’m Team Degrowth and a big believer in art nouveau. We need simplified, localised, non-commodified production and consumption. Craftsmanship and home economy, alternative agriculture systems which support individual families and immediate communities, mutual aid networks, severe regulation of resource extraction and pollution, centralised state control of those industries with a focus on becoming an ecological civilisation, and funding rural communities more to encourage a more even population distribution that’s still in line with the carrying capacity of the land. China has been pretty good about tackling a lot of these problems in recent years but I think a real solution is a more radical reorganisation of supply-side economics and infrastructure to make the countryside more evenly developed at a lower scale than industrial society.
- Comment on USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading 5 weeks ago:
It’s similar to colonialism: www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/…/ch01c.htm
One of Marx’s first big ecological ideas was observing how sheep were transforming England. The growth of textile mills in cities meant that the cities became the economic, social, and cultural hubs. That’s the primary tax base and population centre so that’s where the money from the factories goes and where an individual has opportunities/infrastructure. Meanwhile to feed those mills and their growth you need a larger source of raw materials. That’s cotton from slave plantations and wool from English shepherds. The countryside was transformed as small farmers were displaced and nature was degraded to make more room for sheep, just as the American south became dominated by large slave plantations. The wool sells for a lower price than the shirt so they have less direct revenue coming in, the lower population density and alienation from opportunity/infrastructure both negatively impact its tax benefits, and to top it off they’re poisoned by the work of extraction and the pollution of the cities they build. Cities and markets have to grow to compete with each other, and that growth sucks the life out of rural and natural systems.
- Comment on USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading 5 weeks ago:
Overextraction of raw materials from rural communities drives the overdevelopment of cities at the cost of underdeveloping those rural communities, further alienating them and driving them to reactionary politics. It’s a self-fulfilling prophesy.
- Comment on USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading 5 weeks ago:
love 2 separate town and country with no consequences marx-joker
- Comment on USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading 5 weeks ago:
In Colorado, the big agricultural/ranching areas are the most reactionary. One cattle town, Greeley, even attempted to secede from the state over the barest COVID restrictions. Raw milk is a big culture war thing for them and the hippies who flocked to the most densely populated areas of the state. Luckily we live in the 21st century though and it’s illegal for a commercial dairy to sell unpasteurised milk.
So anyways the dairies are owned by reactionaries who love selling raw milk to other reactionaries. Since it’s legal to drink the raw milk of your family cow, the dairies circumvent food safety laws by selling a “share” of a “cow”. That entitles you to X amount of raw milk per week. The cow is one of hundreds in an industrial dairy being fed chicken shit. The first human case from this current epidemic was a prisoner being used as slave labour to bury all the chickens at an infected farm.
It’s so much filthier than any of the racist shit hogs said about Chinese wet markets. This is a wholly manmade horror perfectly within our comprehension purely being driven for profit. I hope it ends with crucifixions.
- Comment on Frog's Gift 1 month ago:
Those are usually the scary ones to piss on, unless it’s a tree frog in which case you have to factor in the dexterity.
- Comment on Frog's Gift 1 month ago:
I never knew pregnancy tests had frogs in them. The sticks seem so small.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Own AI Chatbot Claims He Spreads 'The Most Disinformation' On X 1 month ago:
He can’t even buy a chatbot’s love with 44 billion dollars.
- Comment on same as it ever was 1 month ago:
They really understate Mozart. My favourite scatalogical composition of his is “Lick My Ass Right Well and Clean” where he compares his ass to nicely buttered roast meat: en.wikipedia.org/…/Leck_mir_den_Arsch_fein_recht_…
Super pretty choir piece: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkNePP0DX1A
- Comment on stacked 3 months ago:
I refuse to believe medieval people could build cathedrals. They lacked modern tools for such precise masonry and glasswork.
- Comment on “Fascists”: Elon Musk responds to proposed fines for disinformation on X 3 months ago:
say-the-line-bart-1 “say the line Sartre”
say-the-line-bart-2 Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
- Comment on OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities 3 months ago:
“The model is definitely better at solving the AP math test than I am, and I was a math minor in college,” OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, tells me. He says OpenAI also tested o1 against a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad, and while GPT-4o only correctly solved only 13 percent of problems, o1 scored 83 percent.
That’s still unreliable enough that I wouldn’t trust it to actually do anything. If it scoured its database for a trigonometry textbook and cited a solution for a problem which was as correct as any web calculator, cool. That’d be as useful as google was in 2010. 83% is the kind of score I get on advanced mathematics tests when I have no idea what I’m doing but half-remember the basic steps to get an answer.
- Comment on Mike Lynch's co-defendant in US trial dies in UK road accident, lawyer says 4 months ago:
Nature is healing wholesome
- Comment on Camera reels 4 months ago:
Now a few of them have photos of flowers, but for a while I could scroll down like 50 of those things and they were all photos of my dog set to terrible autogenerated music. AI is the future.
- Comment on Police station set on fire in Sunderland as unrest rolls on 5 months ago:
I’m so curious to see how far this will go, especially if the police response is overwhelming as Starmer’s indicating. With the cost of living crisis only going to worsen this strikes me as a stupid version of the Freikorps being driven by the post-WW1 German economic collapse. A racist lynching or the police shooting a protester could both really explode this thing.
- Comment on The poll has spoken 5 months ago:
Occupy Mars
:joker-guy-debord:
- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 5 months ago:
I would love to see a Gender Taliban declare war on JKKK Rowling. Like 20 years of protracted insurgency which reduces her to poverty before it wins.
- Comment on Uber and Lyft now required to pay Massachusetts rideshare drivers $32 an hour 5 months ago:
- Comment on USA | Manhattan DA drops charges against most of the Columbia University protesters 6 months ago:
Now sue the school out of existence.
- Comment on Apples to Apples 6 months ago:
rat-salute I can only imagine how many useful genes that saves.
- Comment on Questionable methods. 7 months ago:
- Comment on Symbiotic Shrimp 7 months ago:
My SECRET diet for MASSIVE GAINS doctors DON’T want you to know about. For only $300, I’ll introduce YOU to the Gallon of Shrimp Juice per Day Lifestyle.
- Comment on Ukraine allows some convicts to join armed forces in manpower push 7 months ago:
The new law offers parole to convicts who sign a contract to join the army, a move that some officials have said could generate a maximum of 20,000 soldiers for the Ukrainian war effort.
I wonder if the net results of this, TCC kidnappings, and forced deportations will be enough to even patch the casualties of the summer offensive. Even if they conscript some wildly optimistic number of people- 50k, 100k, whatever- it’s giving the most demoralised citizens a few days of training before permanently disabling whoever survives. There are videos of genuine WW1 shell shock just from being near a FAB and Russia is still flying like 100 sorties a day delivering those.
- Comment on Gaza war: Five Israeli soldiers killed 'by tank fire' in Jabalia 7 months ago:
Finally living up that nickname of most moral army in the world.
- Comment on First human to receive transplanted pig kidney dies 7 months ago:
important sentence:
“We have no indication that it was the result of his recent transplant.”
- Comment on Congress lets broadband funding run out, ending $30 low-income discounts 8 months ago:
The money that’d be putting food on their table is going to those bombs. They’d be extra mad if they had access to that information.
- Comment on Congress lets broadband funding run out, ending $30 low-income discounts 8 months ago:
68 percent of ACP households stated they had inconsistent or zero connectivity prior to ACP.
We gotta prevent people from knowing about the genocide.
