obbeel
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- Comment on Native Americans? 1 week ago:
That’s common culture/knowledge. But I don’t know, seems like rubbish to me. If English colonization has different methods, what can you say about Trinidad & Tobago? And the English Guyana? Let’s not go to Africa and Asia. It doesn’t seem to be their “modus operandi” to me.
I don’t think there is some big extermination plan for America and Australia. I think there’s just something different to those places, but that requires more study. Not of the common knowledge kind. Why would you want some kind of extermination colonization strategy for Australia? It’s weird. It’s more of a “counter-study”, but I believe there are people fighting the good fight out there. I’ll put it on my list and research it.
- Comment on Native Americans? 1 week ago:
That’s good. It’s similar to Brazil in the sense of recognizing and preserving tribal cultures. That’s important, but it doesn’t extend to all native people. There are movements here advocating for the recognition of the urban indigenous—people who live in the cities but aren’t officially recognized as having native ancestry.
Even more, it’s increasingly expected that there were big cities in the Amazon, featuring complex trade routes. However, this topic still needs to be studied more profoundly for various reasons.
It all depends on History, specifically how groups like the Aztecs in Mexico and the Inca in Peru dealt with the Spanish. Their elites were often made kings (or viceroys) in the early post-colonization period. That makes a significant difference in the subsequent social structure.
- Comment on Native Americans? 1 week ago:
Not children. People of any age. They’re dark skinned, sometimes slightly dark skinned. They look like japanese, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they’re hispanic without a spanish surname. They’re not told they’re hispanic, they’re just marked as hispanic by the demographics. They don’t need to be told what they are for people to oppress them.
That’s how it works: you mark someone as something and don’t give a shit about what they think about it. Sometimes, the person just thinks: “This is how I look like, and this is what my family looks like, so I’m correct and don’t know anything about this heritage thing.”.
They don’t need to be told anything, that’s how it works.
- Comment on Native Americans? 1 week ago:
I think the french are more pasty? Any child of a frenchman had lots of rights. That’s how Haiti got to rebel, no?
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- Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture? 1 month ago:
Guess I’ll just pull the Terry A. Davis here and say it’s God.
- Comment on What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture? 1 month ago:
I mean, agentic AIs are getting good at outputting working code. Thousands of lines per minute; talking trash of it won’t work.
However, I agree that losing the human element of writing code is losing a very important element of programming. So, I believe there should exist a strong resistance against this. Don’t feel pressured to answer if you think your plans shouldn’t be revealed, but it would be nice to know if someone is preparing a great resistance out there.
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- Comment on Is the peoples deep interest in chemical experiment viral videos (e.g. liquid nitrogen in a pool) related to being shooed away from understanding real science? 4 months ago:
Liquid nitrogen in a pool is “stimulating” and generates an interesting physical effect. However, the point here in relating it to science is that there is some science behind it that gets the attention from people.
My argument is: people are naturally fascinated by this, but they’re put away by the strict laws, mainly mathematical laws, put forward by this.
Not that mathematics isn’t interesting, but you won’t incentivize people to go to a spitting contest by saying how you spit correctly. People want to see the strongest spit.
I think that’s all there is to it. If you can incentivize people into partaking on this endeavour (understanding chemical effects, in this case), you can bring much more value to science and people that are interested in it. You can, for example, explain interesting effects to people even though they’re looking at a clear liquid (most acids).
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- Comment on Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist 4 months ago:
The progress of OpenAI since february has been pathetic. The other major AI LLMs have surpassed it a lot. I want to see how they will justify the investment.
- Comment on Dual carbon sequestration with photosynthetic living materials 4 months ago:
Engineering with biological material could be the next big thing in Green technology.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Already Knows Your Life. Now He Wants His AI to Run It 4 months ago:
I got nothing to hide. Or so the saying goes.
- Comment on The Decline of Usability: Revisited | datagubbe.se 4 months ago:
I think for the big apps like Whatsapp and Facebook it makes sense that the companies want to hide the features that give users control beyond the “standard” way of using the app in places where they cannot find it.
- Comment on A woman tried to call her mom in Iran. A robotic voice answered the phone 5 months ago:
The article criticized the closing of the Internet by Tehran, but the Internet is clear vulnerability that can be exploited in times of war.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls: Arena remake gets Jolt Physics and big new features 5 months ago:
Looks so good. I hope it’s ready soon. TES Arena has a really good endless exploration idea, where you can wander and find new things to do, it’s its best point in my opinion.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants to Become Its Own Bank 5 months ago:
Imagine using Meta money at your local store or convenience store. It doesn’t stop there, you need a Facebook account to “login” into your wallet.
- Comment on Made a dice box in OpenSCAD 5 months ago:
Very nice achievement, favoring and stimulating FOSS use. OpenSCAD no less.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 5 months ago:
That guy (Rich) got a big piece of shit up his ass. He goes all the way to quote Socrates. It’s funny.
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 6 months ago:
This is just trolling, at this point.
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 6 months ago:
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 6 months ago:
Creating unbiased public, open-source alternatives to corporate-controlled models.
Unbiased? I don’t think that’s possible, sir.
- Comment on College Students Are Sprinkling Typos Into Their AI Papers on Purpose 6 months ago:
In a culture where people just want to make the cut, chatbots are really perfect.
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 6 months ago:
This would fit “A Boring Dystopia” well. I think protecting data isn’t the way to go. The effects of it can already be seen:
All the burocracy for common people, no burocracy at all for Big Tech. No IP, no robots.txt. They are trusted and can do whatever they like, starting on your phone. It honestly looks like another form of aristocracy.
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 6 months ago:
I think many people wouldn’t like to live under a “Nerd Reich”, so it’s only natural that there is a mainstream article against that. I’m assuming people who don’t understand anything about the technology that keeps their attention most of the time are concerned about the possibility. Society losing grip over itself, that is, language (social skills) not being the primary characteristic of the successful anymore. That is a blow conventional people won’t take easily.
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 6 months ago:
Awesome discussion.
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 6 months ago:
People not accepting that other people got a easier time doing certain things than others is certainly a problem, but too much blaming isn’t good as well.