beliquititious

@beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about how “normal” that might be but you’re feelings are valid. You also can’t stop progress. People are hardwired to make crazy new stuff and we’re really good at it.

  But just because it exists doesn’t mean you have to use it. You can live a rich, full life even living like the Amish or other in low tech environments. The Mininites (like the amish but with phones and cars and computers) only adopt technology that benefits them and thier community. They live more primitively than most of the global north mostly for religious reasons, but there is wisdom in focusing on gizmos, gadgets, and software that improve your life in some way and ignoring what doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might as well go cyberpunk, I guess.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get everyone’s obsession with cybernetic implants. If I needed a replacement, sure. But could you imagine today’s enshittified corporate structure making a cyberlimb? 100% a massive up front purchase and a hefty subscription, especially if it’s not a functional replacement.

  Personally I want a functional metaverse. Full dive computing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Twitter-like app where you are the only actual user and every other "user" is an AI bot.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SocialAI comes across as sort of a joke, or maybe some kind of meta-commentary on the concept of social media and cheap engagement, particularly after creator Michael Sayman helpfully explained: “now we can all know what Elon Musk feels like after acquiring Twitter for $44 billion, but without having to spend $44 billion.” He also says it’s “designed to help people feel heard,” though, and is ostensibly a way to help people avoid feeling isolated.

  Mike gets it. This is only the next logical step in social media. Why risk losing the ad revenue of users who feel more isolated using social media if they stop using the platform? Solution: ai sycophants that tell you you’re pretty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have police finally overstepped enough that reform could happen?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  News headlines won’t change national culture or policy. The pro-policing subset of America is large and has a lot of dark money supporting. Private prisons and the handful of companies that support them, weapons companies who have seen record profits because we militarized our police after 9/11, and fascist sympathizers and supports all want things like that to happen.

  Unless you, me, and everyone else who cares about the issue called our representatives daily to demand action, nothing will change. Even if every single person who wanted police reform in the US called their federal and local representatives demanding change, there is still a good chance the pro-police-brutality club would still have more influence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alabama is farming out incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why we have police in the first place. After the civil war the South, in order to covertly recapture as many recently freed slaves as possible, created vagrancy laws, sundown towns, and armed police. In Alabama, where the video is set, the state made it illegal for black people to leave a job, once they took it. The police in the south, especially in Alabama and Louisiana, arrested thousands of former slaves and leased them out to local businesses, in some cases victims of that system would be put to work at the same place, for the same people where they were enslaved prior to the emancipation declaration.

  It’s one of the most fucked up and evil things America has done. It’s made even worse because the practice has been in use for over 200 years and no one, outside a small percentage of Americans even care.

  Private prisons and work-release programs need to be ended now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we ever move past Trump I don't think I'll ever be able to put up with any political bullshit again.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I mean project 2025 is not his thing, it’s the heritage foundation’s thing they’ve been scheming for years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I’d recommend focusing your time and energy on the things you can control. As an individual, there is nothing you can do alone about it. If you feel strongly enough about it you could join or start an advocacy organization about the part of the problem you find most galling. But the truth is unless enough people both want change and are motivated to take action to get it the world will continue its decline unchecked.

  Volunteer if you can, but try not to let it get to you. The impersonal brutality of our world sucks butts. Some horny french guy would tell you that life is absurd. If everyone agreed we shouldn’t burn fossil fuels, we wouldn’t. But we can’t ever all agree about anything. Most landlords aren’t malicious, they just don’t understand how their greed affects others and don’t care enough to try. The horny french guy’s drinking buddy and metamore would say you can only laugh at the absurdity of existing at all. If you look hard enough the entire universe seems in on how fucked we all. Do what you can, but find something else that makes it bother you less (like a hobby, not a meth habit). I like writing weird stuff and being the model maliciously compliant tenant.

  You totally have a move with the landlord. Follow the rules of your lease chapter and verse. I bet there is a specific clause in there about you being responsible for any unreported maintenance issues. And there is also a clause saying something about the landlord’s responsibility to perform maintenance. There is usually some wiggle room, but there is probably like a two week window in which the landlord is required to fix any issues with their building.

  Report everything. Get on a first name basis with the maintenance folks and whoever answers the phone for your landlord. I had a roach problem because my next door neighbor was a hoarder and left my landlord voicemails every night updating them on all the new locations I have found roaches and my efforts to eradicate them myself. Once the roaches were dealt with my landlord was very willing to overlook those maintenance fees because it’s cheaper than court.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus could have been an antique meme à la Chuck Norris that got waaaay out of hand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always thought of prophets as particularly charismatic mentally ill people. Jesus may not have set out to start a cult, but like, delusions of grandeur and distorted self-image in someone charismatic and intelligent usually ends in a cult. In his lifetime they were basically anarchist hippies (at least as recorded by the bible), but like all cults, today the center has rotted and it’s just toxic brainwashing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesus could have been an antique meme à la Chuck Norris that got waaaay out of hand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pfft you might be, that just makes it funnier to me. Chuck Norris is an actor and a white guy who knows karate. That’s already like the height of unseriousness, add poo-brained conservatism and it’s comedy gold. Like have you ever watched an interview with him. He is 100% that guy who talks about his hands being registered weapons but has never been in a fight as an adult. The point of those memes was that he was a washed up joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we ever move past Trump I don't think I'll ever be able to put up with any political bullshit again.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s feeling very, “worst so far” these days. You might need to prepare for reality calling your bluff.