zbyte64
@zbyte64@awful.systems
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 1 day ago:
It sounds like the state won.
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 1 day ago:
So Caeser can take the money and kill Christians with it instead? I’m not sure you’re making the point you think you’re making.
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 1 day ago:
Jesus literally said to pay your taxes. What is a tax other that forced redistribution?
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 day ago:
I wonder how much of it is vibe coded at this point…
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 1 week ago:
Last century: whistling tones into the phone to get a free call
This century: faking an accent to get the police to respond
Wait, that sounds like the last century as well…
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 1 week ago:
Oh man I have a story about an unhoused lady who has dementia. I walk my dog and sometimes she recognizes me, other times she has no idea. One of the days I was walking the dog and she forgot who I was and asked to pet my dog. She thought I was unhoused as well for some reason and told me about some good spots to sleep. These people know what it means to survive based on the kindness of others.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 1 week ago:
I honestly think how we treat the service industry is how many people end up treating their kids.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 1 week ago:
I think it was David Graeber that pointed out that the poorer you are the more you need to be able to empathize with your boss and clients in order to survive.
But this notion that the middle class are somehow more empathetic is interesting because I think it is based on the (correct) idea that people need to actually own something in order to be generous. However, I find from personal experience, poor people have an easier time giving what they have because they know they can survive having nothing.
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 1 week ago:
Just unlock it using your white voice.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 1 week ago:
Developers destroyed the internet. Or do you think normies built the new advertising surveillance paradigm on their own? Hopefully they were well compensated.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 2 weeks ago:
The oligarchs wouldn’t like that precedent but they might go for purchasing SpaceX since it is owned by a foreigner. Kind of like with TikTok…
- Comment on The D.E.N.N.I.S ship 2 weeks ago:
Description: Elon talks about the implications to JD Vance.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 3 weeks ago:
Communists are just as selfish as anyone else. Their point is that if we want a better life we need to move beyond capitalism, communism is an appeal to our selfish nature as much as it is a call for cooperation.
- Comment on Why does (human) organ trafficking exist? 4 weeks ago:
Well, they ain’t harvesting organs for no poor folk and rich people don’t like to die
- Comment on We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. 5 weeks ago:
Ahh but they’re calling it a protest because they got an NyTimes article written about their leaving.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 1 month ago:
I’m suggesting that the choice between industrialization and skilled labor is a false one because China is industrialized and has a skilled labor force. I agree this is because of American owners seeking profit, but it seems the same won’t happen to China now that they’re industrialized.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 1 month ago:
Deskilling blue collar labor is how America gave China a manufacturing edge. What do you think will be the result of deskilling white collar labor?
- Comment on X.com blocks access to Ekrem Imamoglu, leader of Turkish opposition 1 month ago:
Here’s a question: why don’t you take their advice seriously instead of being so sensitive to their manners?
- 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. 1 month ago:
Enshittification is a paradigm shift, but not one we associate with the birth of the internet.
On to your list. Why does misinformation appear after the birth of the internet? Was yellow journalism just a historical outlier?
What you’re witnessing is the “Red Queen hypothesis”. LLMs have revolutionized the scam industry and step 7 is an AI arms race against and with misinformation.
- 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. 1 month ago:
LLMs are not like the birth of the internet. LLMs are more like what came after when marketing took over the roadmap. We had AI before LLMs, and it delivered high quality search results. Now we have search powered by LLMs and the quality is dramatically lower.
- Comment on Ideal Business Stack? 1 month ago:
Regardless of the team size, I say simplify as much as you can so you can dedicate your resources customizing what makes their business special. You mentioned a PBX system and no infrastructure, this makes me think you talking about Customer Management. It sounds like you’re documenting as you go, fantastic. Maybe loop in a noob time to time to review the documentation or have a Q&A that reifies the docs. Best of luck!
- Comment on Ideal Business Stack? 1 month ago:
I think a concern for the business is whether other people can help maintain the system. As such don’t go too custom and roll your own. Take things like nextcloud and see if you can fit the requirements by bolting on a few docker services.
- Comment on Hype-fueling science fiction or plausible scenarios? 2 months ago:
I can’t take made up curves seriously
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 2 months ago:
I’m surprised it didn’t end as a crypto announcement
- Comment on If the USA and China goes to war, how likely will Chinese-Americans end up in "internment camps" like what happened to Japanese-Americans during WW2? 2 months ago:
It’s not even a question when we’re literally fighting for due process.
- Comment on China launches military drills around Taiwan 2 months ago:
The premise was that there really isn’t a historical equivalent. The analogy being shit is kind of the point.
- Comment on China launches military drills around Taiwan 2 months ago:
Like I said, hard to find a historical equivalent. Like which side would you compare the execution of landlords? The north paid the slavers restitutions instead.
- Comment on China launches military drills around Taiwan 2 months ago:
That is a much better example. I will borrow this for the future. Thank you.
- Comment on China launches military drills around Taiwan 2 months ago:
It’s hard for Americans to think of a historical equivalent. Imagine if Texas managed to splinter off and join the UK common wealth during the Civil war.
- Comment on FediForum Has Been Canceled 2 months ago:
Stop confusing young autistic vulnerable people.
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I’m old and autistic and not confused by the fact trans women are women. Hope that helps.