TankovayaDiviziya
@TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I heard an anecdote of an old white American couple visiting Mexico and the wife remarked “wow, there are so many immigrants.”
- Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 1 day ago:
The Labour under Starmer is closet Tory. I wish that the popular Manchester Labour mayor (whose name I forgot) takes his place as PM, which actual leftist politicians try to make him to be. Although this will be a Sysiphean task under the ruthless politicking in British politics and Labour Party’s own strict rule on who could become PM.
- Comment on The Discord Breach Might Be Worse Than We Thought, As The Hacker Is Said To Have Two Million Age Verification Photos 1 day ago:
Politicians: That’s the point.
Joking aside, now that I think about it, what difference does does it make if companies are stealing infos and spying on you with government mandated age verification checks, and hackers stealing your government mandated age verification info? This just reinforces my view that governments (and companies) are nothing but glorified gangsters.
- Comment on am I cooked chat 2 days ago:
What movie is this? Willem Defoe seems to sign up for movies where he is filmed in extremely close shot.
- Comment on Do you think he knows? He's gotta know. 2 days ago:
If there is one thing Salo and Eyes Wide Shut teach us, is that they are into that shit.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 2 days ago:
And these 1/3 are perfect horde for fascist brainwashing and consolidate the power of techno-fascists. The fascists will tell the jobless that immigrants took their jobs and not robots.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 2 days ago:
Call of Duty predicted they will take Burgertown.
- Comment on And I won't delete them either for nostalgia reasons 3 days ago:
I deleted my original Hotmail after it got hacked. However, I am keeping my Gmail despite Google’s monopoly practices. My Gmail username is from a time when they allow addresses like g_star99@gmail.com or skankymistress@gmail.com.
- Comment on A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now. 3 days ago:
I’m talking about the Star Wars prequels. George Lucas touched upon alienation and loneliness, which is what Anakin was feeling and then exploited by Palpatine. It is starkly prescient and parallel to real life.
- Comment on A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now. 4 days ago:
Sure, Mr or Ms “I knew it all along”. But even most respected analysts thought the first Trump term was “fascist-adjacent”. Even though Slavoj Zizek was correct that voting outsiders is the correct thing to do to shake up the corrupt status quo, he was wrong to say that Trump isn’t fascist until the second term. Hindsight is 20/20.
- Comment on A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now. 4 days ago:
I haven’t read it but I will, eventually. But I must ask, I wonder though if George Lucas read the book and drew inspiration from it? Even some of the themes on how the republic fell and rise of the empire has kinda happened in real life. The toxic masculinity and alienation has real life parallel contributing to the decline of democracy, aside from the more obvious such as institutional corruption, wealth inequality and complacency. I also think Lucas was inspired from Hannah Arendt’s book, Origins of Totalitarianism, where she concluded that loneliness is precursor to totalitarianism. Anakin’s downfall is because he is lonely and alienated, and essentially told to “suck it up”. There is parallel to his experience and those in real life who have turned to the far right/dark side.
- Comment on A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now. 4 days ago:
I did have a counterargument in my head that it always comes from within, although that’s not exactly the case with countries invaded by fascists before and their governments installed with puppet fascist counterparts.
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- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 5 days ago:
Fascism is the natural end stage of capitalism. Plenty of businesses that have no core connection with the military are embedding themselves into the military. For now, most of the US top brass loathe the Trump administration, but eventually they will be replaced by loyalists. We might get a real life Enclave if something isn’t done to rid the fascists.
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 6 days ago:
It’s understandable from law enforcement perspective that it’s important to snoop on actual criminal communications. The EU has pretty reasonable measures and cracking down on continental-wide criminal activities. However, can we trust authorities that they won’t over reach with the chat control and violate privacy and freedom of speech? Like, come on, nothing good ever came from spying on communications. Catching criminals and/or terrorists is a convenient excuse to spy on dissidents.
We’ve seen it happen in America with the the PATRIOT Act. People dismissed the opposition to it with “nothing to hide” thought terminating cliche, or accuse you of pedophile or terrorist for not wanting spying on communications. Then twenty years later, Americans have a fascist government who allowed a corporate asshole to steal information from the federal government. And those information will be used for surveillance capitalism. The same will happen to us in the EU if we don’t push back hard on this Orwellian desires of politicians.
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 1 week ago:
Haha! Do it if the EU does not give up on their Orwellian control!
Wait, I’m in the EU and I use Signal!
- Comment on Labour Party members just defected to Your Party en masse 1 week ago:
I want to take this opportunity to say that Starmer’s face looks like he is put on the spotlight, confused and doesn’t know what to do, his eyes jolting, jerking and looking around listless with his head, until he confides to you and asks sheepishly: “what do you suppose have me do?”
Yeah, that explains a lot; aside from being in the pocket of the rich and copying the American Democrat mindset of “wE hAvE tO cApTuRe tHe MoDeRaTeS” (which is a code for don’t anatagonise their rich donors and NIMBYs). The moderate unicorns that neoliberals are trying chase have galloped away long ago. They were called the middle class of the 1990s and 2000s, and now the term middle class itself is questionable at best since the financial crisis. People want more public investment, not austerity.
- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 week ago:
That is why I am appalled at Neil deGrasse Tyson’s belief that philosophy is obsolete and exalt science as the ultimate foundation of truth and society. Where and how does he think science first came about? It was called natural philosophy before. And the scientific method has its roots from Socratic questioning. But I know that NDT is too egocentric to change his mind if called out on it.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 1 week ago:
Gamepass only ever made sense to people who had time to play or dabble in a sufficiently large amount of games per year
Exactly. I only played two games before unsubscribing. You have to have so many free time to make the gamepass worth your while and money.
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 1 week ago:
I never understood conforming and comparing one’s self to others. That’s like comparing Xbox to PlayStation. They both have strengths and weaknesses which make them unique individuals.
- Comment on Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains. 1 week ago:
Don’t even get me started on ridiculous ones; like Spider man becoming a literally a spider, then felt an instinct to come up to the Spider Queen offering himself to be eaten, then the Spider Queen’s stomach burst open only for a new and shiny Peter Parker/Spiderman come out alive as if he had never become a spider. Then, there is Batman becoming addicted to drugs and telling Alfred to lock him up in the Batcave for weeks to detox.
This is why I generally only read critically acclaimed plot lines and stories than having a general comic interests.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 1 week ago:
I just realized that the GenAI craze is like the modern version of Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars project, but somehow both countries got fooled into pouring money into a colossal folly.
That’s a good point. I was listening to a YouTube podcast on the topic and the hosts did say international competition is the primary reason for developing AI. US rationale is that even if they want to regulate AI, the “bad guy” won’t so it’s better to develop it first before the bad guys. They made the same comparison with the Manhattan Project and the race to beat the Axis from developing nukes.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 1 week ago:
Yahweh was originally a Levant god of war.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 1 week ago:
Good. So when will the bubble burst?
- Comment on This Plastic Mr. Fantastic 1 week ago:
I do wonder, maybe there is similar scheme when it comes to housing affordability. There is too much of a coincidence that much of the Western countries are having the same housing crisis. Most ordinary Westerners are perplexed to find out other countries also have the same issue, or are surprised they can’t find a place to live when they move abroad. There is a deliberate manipulation of the housing market and misinformation. Here in Ireland, after all, foreign vulture funds outbid locals and then either rent or sell properties at extortionate price. And yet, the wrong kind of foreigners are getting blamed.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 week ago:
It’s mainly the kids and low information adults who are on Tiktok, that’s why it’s popular.
- Comment on What's your favourite menu music in a game? 2 weeks ago:
Metal Gear Solid 2 menu theme. The digital sound fits with the main menu motif, and evokes a sense of mystery and foreboding of what is to come.
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 2 weeks ago:
Not if you’re from Bahstahn.
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 2 weeks ago:
youtube forced ai into video monitoring and it keeps killing videos it shouldn’t
That explains why sometimes the video stops and I get error message. I thought it may have to do with switching the script blockers on or off.
- Comment on Nice try 2 weeks ago:
By nature, fascism is anti-intellectual.