tearsintherain
@tearsintherain@leminal.space
- Comment on NYT's new TOS binds you to forced arbitration; opt out within 30 days 6 months ago:
Forced Arbitration Skyrockets. Need to ban this shit.
Some irony as NYT did a big investigation back in 2015: [In Arbitration, a ‘Privatization of the Justice System’(nytimes.com/…/in-arbitration-a-privatization-of-t…)
- Comment on Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur 6 months ago:
A ridiculous thing to say about the college protests. Last I checked the US hasn’t been spending US tax dollars to Sudanese paramilitaries. Unlike the regular spending of our tax dollars aiding Israel with weapons and constantly looking away at their actions going back decades. Your statement certainly doesn’t pretend to care about the horrific slaughter of these children in darfur.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 6 months ago:
Reddit/Stack are the latest examples of an economic system where a few people monetize and get wealthy using the output of many.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 6 months ago:
Nope, it’s the establishment is cool, elon rocks type.
- Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows 6 months ago:
How the internet created ever more hucksters. Went from door-to-door to screen-to-screen salespeople. If they’re growing up okay being influenced by a bot, well aren’t we all screwed.
- Comment on Humans share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of ‘dead internet’ 6 months ago:
- Comment on USA: The Minimum Wage Should Be $24 per Hour Not $7.25 6 months ago:
The fact that this number $7.25 exists anywhere regarding wages (local, state, federal) is mind boggling.
- Comment on Counterfeit Cisco gear ended up in US military bases, used in combat operations 6 months ago:
$$$$$ “The 2022 audit, released in November, marked the fifth year the Pentagon had failed its audit (the process started in 2017).”
Jon Stewart blasts ‘corruption’ in Pentagon spending
“Now, I may not understand exactly the ins and outs, and the incredible magic of an audit. But I’m a human being who lives on the Earth and can’t figure out how $850 billion to a department means that the rank and file still have to be on food stamps,” Stewart said. “To me, that’s fucking corruption. And I’m sorry. And, if like, that blows your mind and you think that’s like a crazy agenda for me to have, I really think that that’s institutional thinking, and that it’s not looking at the day-to-day reality of the people that you call the greatest fighting force in the world.”>
- Comment on Biden calls Japan and India xenophobic: ‘They don’t want immigrants’ 6 months ago:
An Immigrant is an individual who leaves one’s country to settle in another, whereas refugees are defined as persons, who move out of one’s country due to restriction or danger to their lives.
So as poster said, “Who’s tryna immigrate to india?” is valid.
In 2021 and 2022 alone, thousands of Rohingya refugees were either jailed and deported by Indian authorities, had to flee the country, or had to go underground so as to remain untraceable within India.
Indian refugee claims in Canada began rising after Prime Minister Modi took power, data shows Experts say trend indicates ‘Canada is recognizing of human rights abuses’
- Comment on Biden calls Japan and India xenophobic: ‘They don’t want immigrants’ 6 months ago:
I see, and hear you. Yeah, the focus tends to be on wealthier nations, the west and immigration.
- Comment on Many universities calling in police today also celebrate campus protests of the past 6 months ago:
its always frightening to cone across people who rationalize the mass killing of women and children. Israelis speak candidly to reporter about Palestinians.
- Comment on Many universities calling in police today also celebrate campus protests of the past 6 months ago:
Israel’s Occupation: 50 Years of Dispossession
For half a century, Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip has resulted in systematic human rights violations against Palestinians living there. amnesty.org/…/israel-occupation-50-years-of-dispo…
- Comment on Biden calls Japan and India xenophobic: ‘They don’t want immigrants’ 6 months ago:
Yes, there are people fleeing largely from neighboring countries. I don’t know how much of that is about choosing India. But religious fanatics have taken power in India. The RSS/BJP analogue in the US might be the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 and conservatives. India is down a very dark path. What’s Wrong With the Indian Government’s Narrative on Refugees? Indian refugee claims in Canada began rising after Prime Minister Modi took power, data shows
- Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites 6 months ago:
It is one of my favorites too:)
- Comment on Biden calls Japan and India xenophobic: ‘They don’t want immigrants’ 6 months ago:
I call BS. Modi’s fundamentalist right wing government is aiming to be a hindu nationalist one. India deports Myanmar refugees who fled 2021 coup
- Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites 6 months ago:
Paging FTC, FTC. It’s gotten near impossible to find honest reviews that aren’t driven by affiliate links anywhere. So many news outlets hocking products outright, I stopped paying attention after nyt bought wirecutter.
Then there’s shit like Forbes writing lifestyle clickbait about pets and dogs all the while advertising pet insurance.
“who do you trust, when everyone’s a crook?” -‘revolution calling’ (queensryche)
- Comment on The Palestine experience 6 months ago:
Sealioning. ‘Both sides’ you say, and when was it that you ever focused on both sides? Tell us, what do you think of the mass slaughter of women and children in Gaza? The total leveling of infrastructure, schools, hospitals? Conditions of famine? Do you want to look up how many times Israel was called out for illegal settlement building going back decades? Did the land grabs ever stop?
- Comment on The Palestine experience 6 months ago:
Thanks for the link! Sealioning more succinctly describes what i was getting at with that poster.
- Comment on The Palestine experience 6 months ago:
The poster knows exactly what they’re doing, and it’s not a quest for any truth. A form of gaslighting and covering up Israel’s well established apartheid now outright genocide.
- Comment on The Palestine experience 6 months ago:
Well played, you seem to always question and needle at posts that show crimes against Palestinians. Never seem to question or confront the mass slaughter of women and children. Never question the constant illegal settlement building, never the well established apartheid. Bravo, you’re not bad at being an apologist for genocide. Except the world can no longer unsee the horrors in Gaza. They are starting to see that Israel is led by religious fanatics, and has become its own worst enemy.
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 6 months ago:
Greed on Capitol Hill is not new and a huge problem. Big tech does need to get broken up. But are you trying to say TikTok and ByteDance and their backers are small corporations and mom and pop shops??
About 60% of ByteDance is owned by global institutional investors such as Carlyle Group, General Atlantic, and Susquehanna International Group,"
Wiki stuff:
Carlyle Group The Carlyle Group Inc. is a multinational private equity, alternative asset management and financial services corporation based in the United States with $376 billion of assets under management.
General Atlantic General Atlantic, legal main entity General Atlantic Service Company, L.P., is an American growth equity firm providing capital and strategic support for global growth companies, headquartered in New York, United States. The firm was founded in 1980 as the captive investment team for Atlantic Philanthropies, a philanthropic organization founded by Charles F. Feeney, the billionaire co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers Ltd.
Susquehanna International Group The firm invested $5 million into ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, in 2012 when ByteDance was founded. As of 2020, its stake in ByteDance represented 15 percent of its fully-diluted capitalization table and was valued over $15 billion on paper.[9]
- Comment on Forget billions of years: Researchers have grown diamonds in just 150 minutes 6 months ago:
How an Ad Campaign Invented the Diamond Engagement Ring In the 1930s, few Americans proposed with the precious stone. Then everything changed. www.theatlantic.com/international/…/385376/
- Comment on Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO 6 months ago:
India is def going to take a hit to their economy.
- Comment on I am the thing that goes *thump* 'Fuck!' in the night 6 months ago:
This is maddening to look at. Motion to install wall railing and leave that light on at all times.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 6 months ago:
Move fast, break shit. Fake it till you sell it, then move the goal posts down. Shift human casualties onto individual responsibility, a core libertarian theme. Profit off the lies because it’s too late, money already in the bank.
- Comment on The University of Texas at Austin has 'delisted' this video so that it's harder to find. 6 months ago:
The video was made by the university as an explanation for the defense of free speech on campus.
It was delisted because of the hypocrisy of the university crackdowns on student protesters and their free speech.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 6 months ago:
Woops, thx. I enjoy the comments people make on AT as much as the news stories.
- Comment on US teacher charged with using AI to frame principal with racist audio 6 months ago:
This is just an example of the AI-shitshow to come, both in and out of politics. You don’t even necessarily have to get away with it, disruptions alone will cause damage.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 6 months ago:
It’s a word that encapsulates our times very well. But I hear ya.
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