Fredthefishlord
@Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica 20 hours ago:
Scams are far more prevalent in EU cities, I don’t know where you got that idea
- Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
… That’s an absolute wild and hella nationalistic take. There’s nothing even slightly uniquely Americans about embezzlement and theft-- Europe has been doing that for thousands of years before America even existed
- Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
There’s actually extremely strong logic behind publishing the winner. It’s a whole hell of a lot harder to rig when your name is everywhere when you win.
- Comment on Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads 1 week ago:
Like they are already? Iol
- Comment on Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads 1 week ago:
Some level of advertising is a necessary evil when you’re in a capitalist system because otherwise people have no way to get their products out ti the market. There’s a balance to be struck.
Hell even in other systems advertising is still important for finding out about cool new things even if money no longer exists
- Comment on Generational differences 1 week ago:
Fundraising typically isn’t something they have to do. That’s a wild leap. It’s usually just for an extra field trip or something.
And more importantly, it gives kids real experience
- Comment on Ericsson and Nokia were cutting 20,000 jobs as Huawei grew 1 week ago:
If they use the knowledge to build powerful renewables, I’ll be very happy.
But for global dominance, nukes and military matter more than than general tech anyways
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 1 week ago:
Intelligent people in those countries do realize though…
- Comment on US to end shipping loophole for Chinese goods Friday 1 week ago:
Pretty much every major country agreeing to something is not the strong point you think it is for something being good or bad
- Comment on US to end shipping loophole for Chinese goods Friday 2 weeks ago:
It was used as a loophole. It was ridiculous it was allowed.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and when there’s no downside, that’s fine. There’s plenty of downsides to allowing kids to use smartphones. If the actual and serious concern was for their children, they could give their children dumb phones instead.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 weeks ago:
The same logic used to have nuclear drills where you get under the desks. It’s ineffective, does nothing, and will change nothing. It only serves for helicopter parents to feel better about themselves. As their kids brains rot away
- Comment on Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies 2 weeks ago:
Muted in the English world.
I don’t know think you’ve been to Europe much… Just a guess
- Comment on Philosophy moment 3 weeks ago:
That’s the stupidest logic that I hear repeated.
A.cops don’t do shit B. There’s still a phone in every room anyways not every kid needs one.
You don’t need your kid to have a computer in their pocket everyday just in the unlikely occasion a school shooting is happening in which case they can still just use the school phone…
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 3 weeks ago:
He was streaming an unreleased copy. Good luck owning that.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think your distinction between moderation and filters is correct.
I would say it’s closer to filters are something to curate what you say, and moderation is to curate the community.
Trust based systems are absolutely an amazing idea, but it is a very good idea to make it so once you have a level of ‘trust’ you don’t just apply filters, but actual moderation instead. Having a hybrid system, where you can apply filters from a certain set of users, but also allow purely trolling or immoral(ie cp and gore) to be fully removed so that new users or visitors to the community do not have issues.
It also serves as a stronger prevention measure against racists and nazis.
It also serves to preserve the correction function of communities, without allowing popular will to reject reasonable expectations just because they dislike them. That has happened a lot in redditor communities.
I strongly agree that purely centralized moderation is bad, but some level of centralization of moderation is beneficial.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like you’re mistaking filters for moderation.
- Comment on Temu and Shein to hike prices 4 weeks ago:
Yup. There should be high enough tariffs that it discourages shitty trinket buying… But focused on the crap, not just a blanket
- Comment on The worst part of all this political nonsense is that porn never makes it to my homepage anymore 4 weeks ago:
Not in texas!
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 4 weeks ago:
there but those who use “literally” as every second word in their sentences awaken a primal rage inside of me that is yearning for rock to split skull.
I hard agree. Misuse of literal is a problem many decades old and it hurts still
- Comment on How do I stop having expectations at the workplace? 4 weeks ago:
Can’t get erections if you lose ur dick
- Comment on Chinese chip giants say they don't care about U.S. tariffs — many don't sell to the U.S. anyway due to existing sanctions 4 weeks ago:
China’s desire for unification is not directly a threat.
With important manufacturing that would inevitably get destroyed in a war, it’s a direct threat.
These are 20 year old accusations. China today is innovating on its own.
They’re a whole hell of a lot younger than 20 years old. It’s recent issue.
having a willingness to notice if the problem behaviour has ceased.
Also this, you think it’s just fine to not pay restitution? It’s also not ceased. Same thing, steal the design produce it cheaper with slave labor or borderline slave labor is ongoing.
You’re suggesting that innocent vs guilty of your accusations deserves an enemy status.
It’s enough to establish china has a hostile foreign state, yes.
Is US guilty of worse?
Irrelevant. This is about if they did things to establish themselves as a hostile foreign power. You’re pretending they did no aggression, that’s what I’m referring to.
- Comment on Chinese chip giants say they don't care about U.S. tariffs — many don't sell to the U.S. anyway due to existing sanctions 4 weeks ago:
It’s an actively hostile act, regardless of what your beliefs are on the copyright system.
- Comment on Chinese chip giants say they don't care about U.S. tariffs — many don't sell to the U.S. anyway due to existing sanctions 4 weeks ago:
Enemy is entirely US’s choice
China threatening taiwan is not the usa’s choice.
China’s consistent copyright theft is not the USA’s choice.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 4 weeks ago:
…no, I’m not. They’re very serious, and should be taken as such. But that doesn’t make them an accurate risk assessment in it of an individual incident, you need to look at numbers, for a real risk assessment
- Comment on Chinese chip giants say they don't care about U.S. tariffs — many don't sell to the U.S. anyway due to existing sanctions 4 weeks ago:
Allowing an enemy to produce critical parts was also a non-starter for the usa though
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 4 weeks ago:
Not notifications, but I have to leave my volume on in case there’s an emergency call from work or a friend
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 4 weeks ago:
An actual risk assessment would look at % not single incidents
- Comment on AI slop farms are churning out fake heartwarming videos about Trump figures. 4 weeks ago:
The intersection of people who become fascist and people who don’t want to declare war is small
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 5 weeks ago:
This is not about socialization lmfao. different topic.