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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Except we don’t get free healthcare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So if it’s not really an event

  And it’s not really a math problem

  What the hell is it??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, we could nationalize car production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think heart problems could actually make it possible to hold your breath until you die. You wouldn’t suffocate, but the stress on the heart would still kill you.

  A drinker and a smoker? Probably stressed their heart too much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techno feudalism, here we come⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, hire someone who dropped out of school and got a chatbot to lie on their resume.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Many worlds theory gives us an alternative - in one world I left my phone in 1929 and that shaped that world tremendously.

  But that didn’t happen in my world and it can’t, because my world is the world where no one left their phone in 1929.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s my understanding that speed cameras don’t actually make roads safer, they just generate revenue for the city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump is a paper tiger, he was defeated by Ansar Allah in Yemen and China just defeated his stupid trade war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If we compare it to the trade war with China, the US only kept it up for a few weeks and backed down. There are material realities that force the US to bend, it actually can’t just do whatever it wants. So, if there was an international flotilla sent to Cuba to deliver much needed supplies, the US would retaliate at first and then back down when it realized the entire world was against it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it really take a navy?

  If all these countries started sending cargo ships to Cuba loaded with supplies, what would the US actually do? Blow them up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inappropriate Ads on Child-Directed Websites: Weight Loss Pills and Depression Tests for Kids.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no way to enforce that without massive privacy violations.

  You want to be asked to scan your ID every time you use a mature website?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI of some kind will replace parts of our jobs, but LLM chatbots won’t except in some specific cases. This is just a hype bubble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a few years, new smartphones will be as big and heavy as the first cell phones.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a phone case that is also a wallet/billfold, so I’m already in the brick zone lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only way to be⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll go farther - ancaps don’t exist. Actually existing ancap-ism is always either neoliberalism or fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only way to be⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All the Silicon Valley techbro ancaps are just openly fascist now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doctors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the trick!

  They believe everyone is gluttonous and slothful because they’re misanthropic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vitamin technology has advanced so much over the years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Put some sweet pea pods and chopped green onions into your ramen. Doesn’t add much time or effort but adds tons of flavor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but you seem to be under the impression the only bots are the people that disagree with you.

  There’s nothing stopping bots from grooming you by agreeing with everything you say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot, probably from Russia.

  Do you still think you’re going to be allowed to vote for the next president?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The real inflation is on basic human interaction. We use to just be together and no one was trying to make money off of it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty examples of communal matriarchal preindustrial societies, enough that anthropologists suspect that was the norm i prehistory. It’s the invention of property, and thus inheritance and wealth accumulation and lineage, that leads to patriarchy and domination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The rich will throw away their perfectly fine boots after a few years because they aren’t in style anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess? But it’s also morally just to reuse disposables, repair instead of replace, conserve and reduce waste, and delay new purchases as long as possible. I’m doing environmental conservationism just by being poor!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like everyone is so good looking and beautiful nowadays?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I consider my appearance to be armor. I put on makeup and cute clothes and style my hair so I can face the world. Helps my social anxiety.

  Also, totally doesn’t take that much time. 20 minutes max once you get into the habit of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lab-grown teeth might become an alternative to fillings following research breakthrough⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If lab grown teeth give me better reception then I’m all for it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For me, it's going to be Fediverse or nothing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People are being sent to concentration camps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For me, it's going to be Fediverse or nothing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Without revolution, things stay the same. Risk death on your feet or die on your knees.

  Sometimes you can get lucky and avoid revolution, and we should always strive for those peaceful alternatives, but sometimes there’s no other choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For me, it's going to be Fediverse or nothing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called revolutionary optimism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In heat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Any time we use words in a way that’s different from a conversation it requires learning. That ranges from argumentation to story telling to, in this case, search queries. If it’s different from talking to another human, it’s a different skill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For me, it's going to be Fediverse or nothing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m right where I need to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For me, it's going to be Fediverse or nothing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, their decision helps their government stay stable and in control and it puts Western-backed counter-revolutionaries at a disadvantage. They have to do this or, again, they’re going to have to deal with political violence as people get radicalized by Western governments and billionaires.

  I generally agree with China’s firewall, of course I’m not going to criticize it that much. I like it when my enemies are silenced, because I’m not a liberal and I don’t believe my enemies should have a right to speak. 😊

  The world isn’t roses and sunshine, after all.