Fredthefishlord
@Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 1 day ago:
He was streaming an unreleased copy. Good luck owning that.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Sounds like you’re mistaking filters for moderation.
- Comment on Temu and Shein to hike prices 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Not in texas!
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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. 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
This is not about socialization lmfao. different topic.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 2 weeks ago:
It’s necessary. Phones are far worse than prior to phones, and I’ve seen both sides of it.
Boring lessons is a fact of life. People need to realize that not all education can be interesting. Sometimes you gotta suck it up, sit down, and learn. And I say this as someone with crippling adhd
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 2 weeks ago:
Gen alpha is significantly worse than prior generations on tech. Them having their phones on them doesn’t teach them, they consume on the lowest level. They don’t learn the actual Internet skills prior generations had to to survive.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 2 weeks ago:
It is. Phones are the #1 distractor in school
- Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok. 2 weeks ago:
People will move around. There’ll always be a replacement
- Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok. 2 weeks ago:
no. Education doesn’t make a dipshit smart. It can make them better informed. Better able to make good decisions. But it doesn’t magically make smart.
Why are you so set on education makes a person intelligent? It’s derogatory towards those who are plenty intelligent without higher education.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 weeks ago:
I mean I would pay a premium for a made in America phone. Probably about 2 times as much. Iphones just suck ass so I’d never pay for one at all
- Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok. 2 weeks ago:
You can educate and ban. That’s what my school did… Teach you the real issues with drugs, not just the dare shit lol
- Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok. 2 weeks ago:
Of course. Education has not much bearing on intelligence. I know college educated people who are idiots. I know highly intelligent people who haven’t touched a lick of education past college.
- Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok. 2 weeks ago:
Kids aren’t stupid,
Kids aren’t necessarily stupid. But, same as the adults who they grow into, most are.
- Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok. 2 weeks ago:
They already have the drug. Education is going to do nothing. They need rehab;this is much more helpful, making it less accessible to future children. Worst case they get more tech literate finding their way around the bans
- Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok. 2 weeks ago:
There is no shortage of platforms that allow for that. Lemmy, reddit, blue sky, etc. it is not hard to adapt
- Comment on Should visitors to a country (tourist / visa-holders / people staying temporarily) have the right to criticize the government? When should an immigrant have the right to criticize the government? 2 weeks ago:
Green card holders are permanent. They’re not any form of temporary and are absolutely not guests.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 2 weeks ago:
This comes a bit down to utilitarianism vs ethics based on principles
No, it doesn’t. Either one, democracy is still better… Science does best with freedom from suppression.
I’m not making the point that democracy is bad
You are, in fact, making that point
which goes to my previous point, that the propaganda is so internalized and polarized now that you don’t need threats of state violence to keep the population in check
Social suppression is a world apart from state suppression, and downvotes on reddit are not an example of keeping people in check. that’s a terminally online viewpoint.
Of course China has massive problems and corruption and abuses
They are literally a dictatorship. That’s an incredible understatement.
How do YOU know that life in China isn’t actually better and people more happy than in the USA?
They are actively commiting genocide.
Sure you have freedom of speech with the means of communication owned and controlled by the oligarchs
There’s plenty of options for uncontrolled communication. Corp suppression is still wholly different from gov suppression;they can’t toss you in jail.
The rich get richer and the poor get poorer is an aphorism that is leading the west inevitably towards fascism.
That’s your opinion, and does not reflect reality.
Your response to a trend toward fascism(which is happening, but not inevitable), is to say we should embrace it like china does?
They are stealing your future right now and there is nothing you can do because they control the media.
Are you intentionally being obtuse about the fact that china has massive censorship. I’m not here to say the usa is good. You’re ignoring European reality, favoring the usa in your arguments because it’s closer to supporting them.
So all the “posturing” about how superior our principles and freedums are is just… well it’s a delusion
We objectively speaking have more freedom of speech than china does at the present moment.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t work.