Warl0k3
@Warl0k3@lemmy.world
- Comment on 2 days ago:
(I don’t want to come across like I’m nitpicking because no, to be clear I’m genuinely interested in this.)
That there are many communities hostile to the devs shouldn’t be surprising, because unfortunately the lemmy devs are openly bigoted and most communities don’t like that. And that’s ignoring how Des is also a genocide denier and dismisses the human rights abuses of china while championing authoritarians (ex: their profile banner is currently an image of Mao), things many communities also explicitly do not allow.
Without knowing which user you’re referring to I can’t speak to the scope of what they’re doing, but a single user isn’t exactly evidence of hate groups or hate communities specifically set up to target the lemmy devs. That’s just rehrehensible people being criticized, and then one potentially freak user taking it beyond what is reasonable.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I’m not entirely sure what that means.
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 days ago:
Can you tell me generally big examples of places where this has happened and things have gotten better?
That’s a really specific request, but sure: Vancouver empty home tax California Tenant Rent Cap.
Are you sure this is flat-area and doesn’t need to get multiplied by number of flats per building?
As far as I can tell this number is accurate, again if you can find a better (or more clear) source than what’s given on wikipedia I welcome it since this is a composite number pulled from housing reports in a primary language which I am illiterate in (and can only barely speak).
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 days ago:
What makes you think reformism is a more likely scenario?
The many recent examples of mucipalities and states passing regulatory policies to improve rent under capitalism are the primary one I’m using here.
Maybe you’re not counting Brezhnevki
I’m not, no - nor stalinski (not that those were all that prolific comparably though)
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 days ago:
I think at a certain point this line of reasoning becomes “the US becomes communist” and while yes that would be a solution it’s not exactly a practically achievable one in the short term.
HOWEVER: The US already already sort does this - there were ~6 million subsidized housing units in the US last year, and roughly 7 million Khrushchevka apartments built. The US is behind the soviet statistics here, having a higher population and lower subsidized housing count and should absolutely be doing better, but it’s not like this is a completely neglected concept - there are real, practical barriers to implementing a similar policy (urbanization having already taken place and building codes being the two biggest - look into the state of the foundations for a Khrushchevka if you ever want to see why site prep steps like soil surcharging and foundation curing are critical - soil hydrodynamics is a shockingly modern discipline in structural engineering).
Things like an unoccupied home tax (as someone else mentioned) are an immediately workable solution, and have had excellent results thus far. Hopefully they can continue to be adopted, though I fear there may be a brief pause on any kind of beneficial social progress while we have a small civil war in the US.
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 days ago:
Oh god yes, my municipality just implemented an unoccupied home tax and the change has been night/day - the tears of AirBNB owners has been absolutely wonderful to watch, too. Though I admit that’s petty of me.
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 days ago:
A more immediate solution than building khrUShchevkas would just be to announce broad rent caps and implement rent assistance programs.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 2 days ago:
It’s a great game imho, but I was gifted my copy - in no world is a game worth €80, it’s completely divorced from reality. Fucking tragic the publisher just killed it on delivery.
- Comment on The sheeet of power 3 days ago:
I know you’re accusing me of taking this too seriously, but I fat-fingered the downvote button and a few minutes later you go thru and downvote everything I’ve said? I don’t even know how you’d notice that since it was only for a moment, but jeeze that’s worryingly petty.
- Comment on The sheeet of power 3 days ago:
Yeah, exactly.
- Comment on The sheeet of power 4 days ago:
I think you’re dismissing my well founded concern over the eager acceptance of misinformation because you don’t want to see it as a problem.
- Comment on The sheeet of power 4 days ago:
A sound is audible, yeah. I can’t believe I’m using this argument but anyone in that room full of people could have farted, and it feels like the people really championing this have never watched another one of his pressers - he ends them like this all the time, the body language of the people behind him is always weird (they’re big enough freaks that they’re willing to be filmed standing behind trump).
If you want to believe trump shit his pants sure, you can do that - but the willingness of people to latch onto this and insist that it’s true (in the face of so many reasons to be skeptical), even presenting red-string-on-board evidence like in that youtube screenshot, should worry you. If you’re willing to accept this with no evidence, what else are you accepting with a similar degree of scrutiny just because it’s something you want to be true?
- Comment on The sheeet of power 4 days ago:
Those seem like… real stretches. When she “Gestures it’s a code 2” she scratches her nose, and the staff hot mic is extremely indistinct, to the point that even listening for “I really can’t do this again” I can only barely hear it. Even the initial “shart” noise is an incredibly minor sound in a room with a whole lot of extremely minor sounds.
I hate when people leap to support this kind of rumor, because it’s just such a waste of time - there’s never going to be any proof, everyone is just putting string on a corkboard and insisting it makes sense.
There’s so so many exhaustively well documented things to hold against trump, why in this case do we need to literally make shit up to feel superior to him? Isn’t the part where we’re not corrupt genocidal narcissistic homophobic hypocritical monsters enough?
- Comment on The sheeet of power 4 days ago:
There was a weird noise in a recent press rvent at the oval office and then reporters were ushered outside - rumors are that the reporters said it smelled like he shit himself, but I haven’t seen any primary source claiming it. Seems most likely that this is a rumor and something else was going on, though it would be amusing if it were true.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Theee are hate comms for the lemmy devs? I’ve failed run across them, huh.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Eeh, it’s a testament to if nothing else the ability of the piefed devs to behave like adults that I know nothing about them personally. Nu/Des are horrible people, both politically and interpersonally, but that’s the beauty of FOSS: Those of us comfortable with separating the software from the cringe creators get to stick with the software we prefer over one that lacks features or broad support (i.e. all the piefed apps I’ve tried have been pretty rough). Same energy as why people still use windows instead of linux.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
A lot of people hesitate to treat lemmy as the premier fediverse reddit alternative because of how transphobic / authoritarian the lead devs are.
- Comment on Is there any Fediverse project aimed at creating a safe space for kids to interact within? 6 days ago:
Right now the moderation tools available appear to be on the level of “thog bang rock on other rock - make smaller rock, easy to eat” and efforts are primarily aimed at introducing Thog to the concept of fire so he can at least cook his rocks.
The few automoderators I’ve seen attempted have been “ban you over a couple downvotes” bad, so AI content moderation seems like it may be a bit ambitious right now. It’s a good idea, but more work needs to be done before we’re at the point it’s feasible to start working on it.
- Comment on Is there any Fediverse project aimed at creating a safe space for kids to interact within? 6 days ago:
I can’t imagine the effort that moderating a project like that would require.
- Comment on Sexting 1 week ago:
- Comment on I will not stand for this information warfare any longer! 1 week ago:
Chemical analysis takes a while even with a cooperative law enforcement system - unless he fesses up or it was something really obvious I doubt at this point that anyone knows what was in the syringe.
- Comment on Growing number of adults avoid booze, NHS survey suggests 1 week ago:
Ah, I should have been more clear - it’s of course a factor to some degree, but I’d be extremely interested to see a study or similar on the impact income is having on alcohol consumption right now.
- Comment on Growing number of adults avoid booze, NHS survey suggests 1 week ago:
I wonder how much of it is concerns about health or social responsibility and how much is just it’s too goddamned expensive to be able to afford it these days.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 1 week ago:
How often do you check the summaries? Real question, I’ve used similar tools and the accuracy to what it’s citing has been hilariously bad.
- Comment on What's the deal with that scary-looking green gas ICE is using in Minneapolis? 1 week ago:
Replying again to point out I appear to have been correct - other people have found the canisters and posted photos of the label side which show they aren’t the HC gas.
So… yeah, seems weird that the initial sources didn’t do this.
- Comment on What's the deal with that scary-looking green gas ICE is using in Minneapolis? 1 week ago:
Yes? Good? Documenting their crimes is important?
- Comment on What's the deal with that scary-looking green gas ICE is using in Minneapolis? 1 week ago:
You just pick them up out of the gutter after it all goes down, ICE doesn’t clean up after themselves.
Burden of proof is on the person making the claims - and in this case I am highly skeptical of anyone providing such poor evidence who are then trying to make the claim that protesters should be afraid of the same green smoke that ICE is walking through unfazed. Even better quality photos would make this more credible, and for something this important it’s weird they’re not trying to appear as credible as possible.
- Comment on What's the deal with that scary-looking green gas ICE is using in Minneapolis? 1 week ago:
… Who’s trusting the government? I’m curious about the basis for the claims, afaik ICE hasn’t said anything about the smoke.
That said there are plenty of videos of ICE standing around in the smoke unmasked, and the MJ article above had found the same casing on a product that isn’t just isn’t green. The substack article that claims this doesn’t provide any more proof than a blurry photo of a spent casing.
- Comment on What's the deal with that scary-looking green gas ICE is using in Minneapolis? 1 week ago:
Kinda weird that the only evidence of it being HC smoke is a photo of the side of the grenade that doesn’t show the model information? Like this should be trivially easy to settle which model this is.
- Comment on What's the deal with that scary-looking green gas ICE is using in Minneapolis? 1 week ago:
TL;DR they’re just regular smoke grenades.
