crimsonpoodle

@crimsonpoodle@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with this is that if presumably the government had such power it wouldn’t just be used to silence hateful voices but also those who proclaim liberty and tolerance. The pendulum can only be given so much power when it swings both ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Successful protests have clear policy objectives; also work from home and the lack of large factories that can be shut down by walk outs means that the collective bargaining is slightly weaker in places like USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird I sleep with an old blanket I've had since I was a young girl?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People make connections with objects, same reason why people start hating certain art pieces when they’re told they were made by hitler. It’s perfectly normal— also good for the environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh didn’t know it was an acronym

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One side doing bad things doesn’t make another side doing bad things ok. Democracy isn’t perfect but it is better than the rest of the systems. Money in politics sours the pot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is reportedly training humanoid robots to deliver packages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh I dunno there’s so much infrastructure that is human centric; if you could make a humanoid robot it could easily traverse all the human designed places

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI plans massive UAE data center project⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok this is interesting can I ask how you know that they scaled back their compute? Without looking into it too much it seemed like they were full steam ahead (revamping three mile island).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You should back up your windows 10 pc as an image and use it as a virtual machine on the Mac or some other Linux environment. Once support stops nothing really bad would happen, besides security stuff and maybe perhaps some unexpected hugs. So you could just disconnect it from the internet too but the VM option isn’t reliant on the hardware which could go bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it says 23Hz or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Toronto company is deliberately spreading hyperpartisan lies on Facebook. It owns a page called "Canada Proud" and has bought more than $250,000 in ads targeting voters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A little background on the guy running it: www.desmog.com/canada-proud/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure but not by at least an order of magnitude

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Electoral college, propaganda, tribalism, stupid people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Before currency was invented might be a stretch— back then, which was a long long long, time ago we likely didn’t even have professions in the same sense. Albeit Dave might have had a knack for fishing, Kendra for making canoes etc.

  There was plenty of space in the wilderness you could just go live for free. Now we have a lot of people, we need agriculture to support that population; there isn’t enough land for hunter gatherer societies to exist without a large population collapse first.

  Now to your point I suppose we could have a society without money; yet I think there is some freedom in currency even if everyone gets a UBI. It allows two random strangers to come together and have one person buy something without having to trade an item that the other person wants, then the seller can go buy something they want.

  Without currency we would have to have a somewhat complex trading system, which inevitably would see certain items of rarity never traded, or traded for so much surplus goods that a new ironically materialistic moneyed class would develop. It would make for an interesting book, but I think so long as people have varied interests and desires, and create creative works, money is a useful thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hitler was not left leaning. He was supported by the old guard and the industrialists like Krupp until he out grew them and then turned on them. At the end of the day he was an autocrat, a totalitarian. Think was Gaddafi liberal? How about Suddam? They both had extensive social programs, but they were not left leaning. In the Weimar Republic it was the right wing courts that tried to censor and throw people in jail, and often let the right wing activists off the hook for similar offenses. Left and right wing groups can both censor and throw people in jail, ie USSR, but generally this is in service of totalitarianism, the ideology at that point is just a husk to keep people in line while people vye for control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The poor whale x.x. I throught for sure the cat was going to climb the mountain and see the elk herd circling like in their dream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You should just get the impulse cook top last range you’ll ever need, super cleanable, magnetic knobs— is expensive but will be the last one you’ll need: www.impulselabs.com