grrgyle
@grrgyle@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Pow-- 3 days ago:
What do you mean by jail? Are you imagining like some voluntary jail where you check in and out as you please?
Sorry, I’m not trying to be glib, but maybe we just have different understandings on the word “force”. You can’t send someone to jail without force.
- Comment on Pow-- 3 days ago:
Exactly. This will sounds flippant, but it’s the same thing when people debate over “what is art” as if something has to be good in order to be considered art.
Likewise, you don’t need to be good to be considered a person. In fact there is nothing you could do that could rob you of your personhood in my eyes. It’s inalienable. That doesn’t mean every person is good or should be treated the same way.
- Comment on Pow-- 3 days ago:
I don’t want Nazies dead. But they are not people.
I think you’ve got it backwards, friend! They are people, just awful people who need to be stopped.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 3 weeks ago:
Right they hate these straw people. I mean, I;m not going to say my own cognitive projection of “conservative” is 100% accurate, but at least my nightmare scenarios are about actual bad things happening, and not like conservative nightmares of genetically inferior people getting to enjoy the gifts of civilization.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 3 weeks ago:
So… huh, so what’s the alternative then? I guess some other flavour of linux?
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 3 weeks ago:
What?? I was not. I thought it was compatible, or like a fork idk… Guess I’ve got some reading to do.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 3 weeks ago:
I’m checking out Graphene OS next week and pretty pumped about it. This Google ratfucking has been just the push I need to get off Android.
And obviously I haven’t stopped telling people around me haha
- Comment on Does anyone know? 4 weeks ago:
One more year should do it…
- Comment on pick up that chapstick 4 weeks ago:
Feels good but I’m trying to quit. Down to one stick a season
- 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. 4 weeks ago:
This comes up a lot, and the comments for these posts always get mired in the complexities of for whom and forwhence and forwhicontext this is good advice.
Basically, there are people for whom this is really fire advice (like people who are unnecessarily repeating quirky aspects of their otherwise lovely personalities), and people for whom this is really bad advice (like people who need to stay hidden for safety, or jerks).
Broad, overlapping categories with many dimensions. Not really something you can wrap up in a prescriptive axiom.
- 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. 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like the perfect way to meet with yourself though
- Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor 5 weeks ago:
Yeah now it’s like let’s watch how exactly rich people are trying to make the future suck for me and it doesn’t even work, and even if it did it wouldn’t make our lives any better
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 5 weeks ago:
Nice.
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 5 weeks ago:
I demand a reremake
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 5 weeks ago:
Wrapped plastic - not fantastic.
Everything’s got that wet toy sheen. Wow, so realistic. Much specular.
- Comment on advertisement 1 month ago:
Guys always say my water smells great but I’ll never tell my secret ☺️
- Comment on advertisement 1 month ago:
I’d like to see this answered.
- Comment on texting 1 month ago:
That’s sweet
- Comment on proof of wormholes 1 month ago:
Delectable comment. I enjoyed every word.
- Comment on YSK: there's a browser extension called "SingleFile", which allows you to save a page into a single HTML file. 1 month ago:
Hmm but they’re so useful.
- Comment on YSK: there's a browser extension called "SingleFile", which allows you to save a page into a single HTML file. 1 month ago:
Cool. But also, offpunk.net
This is not really for your average super-busy html page, but I love it for checking blogs.
- Comment on Can't argue that. 1 month ago:
Now this should be an xkcd
- Comment on The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity 1 month ago:
Source? I donate both my time and money to Wikipedia, so pretty invested on making sure it’s a force for good.
- Comment on The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity 1 month ago:
How so?
- Comment on We could have had it all 1 month ago:
Pigeons only unclean because they have to stand on our garbage
- Comment on After Bombing 6 Countries This Year, Netanyahu Pins Israeli Isolation on Muslims 1 month ago:
Does nitinyahu look younger…? What is he, bathing in the blood of innocents.
Sorry to focus on such a silly thing
- Comment on Britain’s Biggest Far-Right Protest: More than 100,000 attend Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom Rally 1 month ago:
Prepogrom
- Comment on Britain’s Biggest Far-Right Protest: More than 100,000 attend Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom Rally 1 month ago:
Wow what a wretched collection of individuals. These assholes can’t all possibly be in agreement with each other — don’t you wonder if they aren’t given pause by some of the company they’re stacked next to?
Like if I was giving a speech somewhere and Elon Musk, for example, had just delivered his I’d start to suspect I wasn’t on the right side of things, let alone in the best of company…
- Comment on Farewell to the fediverse 1 month ago:
Farewell from fediverse!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’m sensing a pattern.
No but seriously, the psychopathic allure of leadership (Forbes, sry just the first link I found) is leading to civilization scale decisions which are 1) out of sync with what a reasonable person wants, 2) counter to general human flourishing.
Tech leadership wants us to worry about potential ethical “alignment issues” with a theoretical AGI, but we’re already in crisis if those leading us don’t share our basic human values.
PS. I’m not trying to say psychopaths nonghuman. They’re the same species and probably as conscious as I am. I just don’t think they’re an apt choice to decide matters for humans who do have empathy. Imagine a chef with no sense of taste running a restaurant kind of deal.