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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
- Comment on This is a GREAT idea 4 days ago:
What if, instead of hiring a company, we organized together as workers and yelled at the boss collectively? 🤔
- Comment on If it happened, would anybody even question it? 5 days ago:
Legitimate improvement.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 6 days ago:
All of that stuff is great.
Just don’t make me use a touch screen while I’m driving.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 1 week ago:
There’s also longer work days and less work shared between the clan/gens/extended family.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 1 week ago:
That pales in comparison to the massive time investment of having a full time job and taking care of a living space by yourself (cooking, cleaning, shopping, repairs, etc). This is unique to our era, we used to not work as many hours and we used to live in more communal family spaces where work was evenly shared so that everyone had lighter loads.
The fact that I can squeeze in 20 minutes of posting a day isn’t the reason I can’t go on 3 hour walks like I used to.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 1 week ago:
Time isn’t free.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 1 week ago:
This is why I think we need to get organized. There are these spontaneous masses of people who would be very receptive to libreware and federation, but the message isn’t getting out to them. You have to be a turbonerd to even be aware of this stuff, but the outrage is fertile ground if the message could just get out of obscure corners of the internet.
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 1 week ago:
Yeah, but in this case the passengers are committed to not laying a hand on the driver as he drives them off the cliff.
- Comment on Share your poops! 1 week ago:
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 1 week ago:
Yeah I think the focus should be on technological sovereignty, not abstinence. We need control over our data, control over our software, control over our devices, control over our hardware, and through these things we can gain control over our lives while still accessing these extremely useful tools. We need our own search engines, our own operating systems, our own applications, our own email, our own social media, our own video hosting, etc etc. We can never go back, the only way out is through.
This is extremely hard and expensive, though. It’ll require mass organization of millions of people, we can’t do it as individuals.
- Comment on Am I getting this right? The vibe of different lemmy instances 2 weeks ago:
No, you basically just accused other instances of being hysterical.
A more accurate way to describe them is reddit.world
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
The hardware is specialized for chatbots, it’s not just something they can plug-and-play for other use cass. That means using it for other computing tasks is even less efficient per kWh and per litre of water, which will make it hard to justify the resource requirements.
Surely some of this hardware can find new life, but assets will be stranded.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 weeks ago:
The most optimistic take I’ve seen: AI is a drain on the entire economy that sucks up all investment and this is why the rest of the economy is basically in a recession. Once the bubble pops, investors will flood back into the real economy and correct the problem.
I’m not optimistic.
- Comment on Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services 3 weeks ago:
Maybe someone wants you to think that Russian influence campaigns are a problem and so they feed you articles.
- Comment on Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services 3 weeks ago:
No, they have the intent of working for themselves. That’s it. They don’t give a shit about the country and you should never presume the ruling class of your country has your country’s best interests in mind.
- Comment on Being a 22-year-old virgin or being 22 and never having been in a relationship is something to be shameful about. 3 weeks ago:
I was too dysphoric as a teenager to even think about being naked around another person.
- Comment on SPOOPY SEASON HATH ARRIVED 3 weeks ago:
This is the plot of Parasite Eve
- Comment on Cops have now arrested over 2,000 peaceful Defend Our Juries protesters 3 weeks ago:
Israel is the USs unsinkable aircraft carrier in the most oil rich region in the world. It’s the land bridge that connects Africa to Europe, the reason migrants have to die in the Mediterranean instead of walk. It’s the US laboratory for field testing a weapons, surveillance, and border security tech. It’s a modern crusader state that enables Europeans to occupy holy Jerusalem, and the gun pointed at the head of the USs enemies in the region.
There’s so many reasons that it’s hard to even guess which is the most important.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
Reading theory is for tankies.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 3 weeks ago:
Shareholder demands are part of it, but also consider the pressures from competition, inflation, and debt.
If a firm isn’t growing, competition will outgrow them and then gobble up their market share. If you have 100 employees and produce a nice product, you’ll lose out to the firm that has 1000 employees and produces a nicer product. The competition is always growing, so your firm has to grow too. This leads to inflation, so that means a firm needs to bring in more money every year just to stay afloat. And lastly, companies start out in debt and have to pay it off, and then accumulate more debt in order to outgrow the competition and outgrow inflation, which then in turn heats up competition even more and also causes more inflation.
Competition, inflation, and debt are part of a feedback loop that eventually results in overproduction and market collapse, the surviving firms buy each other out, and the process starts all over again. This is why markets go through boom and bust cycles.
It’s a very irrational system that produces a lot of waste.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 3 weeks ago:
This is complicated by the fact that the English speaking world isn’t safe, or won’t be for long. The UK is having its own wave of transphobic reaction which has spread to Ireland, Canada is being threatened with a trade war and being the 51st state, Australia got couped that one time by the CIA, and New Zealand is a hard place to get into since it’s basically the bunker nation for billionaires since COVID.
I might apply for asylum outside the English speaking world but that’s extremely challenging in lots of other ways. I’m cramming language lessons atm to give myself a chance if I am forced to flee, but it’s dire.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 3 weeks ago:
And they use the threat of trans people getting government healthcare as a way to stop socialized medicine. They also use racism this way, and sexism, and homophobia, and xenophobia, and other reactionary ideologies. These things are directly connected, we can’t really ignore one to focus on the other.
Besides, we need to form a mass movement, and you can’t form a mass movement by telling minorities to shut up and wait their turn.
Also I might lose my healthcare in the next few months. It’s kind of fucking urgent?
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 3 weeks ago:
The transphobes are getting ready to take away my healthcare, I think I have to be very worried about that.
If I can’t get my medicine I will die.
- Comment on EA Close To Sale That Would Take The Company Private 4 weeks ago:
No it just gives bombs to Israel so it can murder them.
- Comment on US | White House tries to tamp down corporate panic for high-skill visa holders after last-minute overhaul 5 weeks ago:
That’s not how it works. Restricting the labor supply slows the economy, which means fewer jobs.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV dislikes AI, won’t authorise creation of AI Pope—"If we automate the whole world and only a few people have the means with which to more than just survive"~ there’s a big problem 5 weeks ago:
Can’t wait for US Catholics to make an AI pope and split the church.
- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 5 weeks ago:
Fascinating from a US perspective. When Democrats perform badly we don’t blame the Party, we just scream at the voters for not voting for the Democrats hard enough
- Comment on Contractor Used Classified CIA Systems as ‘His Own Personal Google’ 1 month ago:
This was basically the plot of the new War of the World’s movie.
Do you think he used classified systems to spy on his family too?
- Comment on 2025 Right Wing free speech cancel spree 1 month ago:
You can never win on their platforms. They control the horizontal and the vertical, even if everyone was on Facebook rightwing ideology would still dominate and brainwash our families because that’s what Facebook wants. Your content on Facebook only makes Facebook more valuable. You can’t win there.
Won’t be long before they jut ban anyone to the left of Charlie Kirk anyway. You’re a fool to think you can win on a battlefield where the enemy makes the rules.
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 1 month ago:
Because they’re fascists.
