leftytighty
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- Comment on Canada PM Mark Carney says old relationship with US 'is over' 1 week ago:
damn if yours is a common opinion in the US you’re truly done for.
at least it’ll be quick
- Comment on AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported - The Guardian 1 week ago:
I’ll acknowledge my comment was rude, you are expressing humility now that wasn’t present in your original assertive message. You hopefully have a better understanding now.
This misinformation about national debt that you unintentionally spread is used by conservatives around the world to deny people services
- Comment on AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported - The Guardian 1 week ago:
Some people when faced with an overly simple explanation doubt their own understanding and try to see why experts and academics say otherwise.
Others assume they know better than the experts and everyone is an idiot but them.
Maybe you know a lot about a topic, and see others choose one of those paths when questioning your area of expertise.
Which kind of person do you want to be?
- Comment on Your voice assistant is profiling you, just not in the way you expect, new research finds. 2 weeks ago:
One thing we overlook in ideological debates is that most forms of socialism and communism would have no use for advertising and marketing. Imagine all this effort going to productive endeavors and having an IRL adblock.
May my last online purchase be a beret.
- Comment on Your voice assistant is profiling you, just not in the way you expect, new research finds. 2 weeks ago:
While this is true, it’s not difficult to verify. You can inspect the network traffic through your router from that device and see whether it’s communicating more often or with larger data packets while you’re talking near but not to it.
That could be obfuscated with a powerful enough device that’s able to maintain the user profile locally and by sending the full profile each time, or by trickling the information out bit by bit as part of a regular heartbeat traffic, but that would require more expensive hardware and would eat up a lot more bandwidth.
Not impossible, but not undetectable either. I’m willing to bet that studies have been done.
Skepticism is good but without thinking through it, experimenting, or doing research to back it up it’s just paranoia. Conversely you could say my trust that others would have looked into it is naive.
- Comment on dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US? 4 weeks ago:
but surely we have to go back to the Sassanids to find an analogue for current events
- Comment on Google’s new AI video model Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per second | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
how many iterations until you get a minute of video you’re happy with?
- Comment on Is it a pattern that every time a movie, show or animation that doesn't have a white person as the protagonist is attacked by right-wingers? 5 weeks ago:
I’m sorry I’ve been dragging them into the theater and making them play games they don’t want to play, it’s my fault
- Comment on Low effort title 5 weeks ago:
I dunno! I’ve been avoiding it in my feed for the most part.
- Comment on nature is fucking narly 5 weeks ago:
and “paralyze”
- Comment on Low effort title 5 weeks ago:
I’m very far from conservative, but I’m rooting for you all to hold the line as the Reddit ones continue to arrive
- Comment on Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs 1 month ago:
worth noting though that having more muscle mass does impact your daily energy expenditure
- Comment on We could be going towards Star Trek like earth, but instead we're going for Star Wars like democracies 1 month ago:
You’re standpilling my argument.
Anyway I’ll drop it and move on but the thread is about critiquing our society by way of movie references, which is on topic for what I’m saying and kinda proves my point.
- Comment on We could be going towards Star Trek like earth, but instead we're going for Star Wars like democracies 1 month ago:
You’re reaching deep into your grab bag of labels. Am I gaslighting you now?
I commented my opinion on the original post and then I employed sarcasm when you accused me of gatekeeping.
My reaction to this thread being all about movie references was to wish we didn’t think about our society only in those terms and I shared it.
- Comment on We could be going towards Star Trek like earth, but instead we're going for Star Wars like democracies 1 month ago:
actually I wasn’t able to delete OP’s post after all
- Comment on We could be going towards Star Trek like earth, but instead we're going for Star Wars like democracies 1 month ago:
It’d be pretty dope if we discussed society and politics using political theory and philosophy instead of different kinds of media
- Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid 1 month ago:
yeah at this point I’m not gonna be satisfied with “defeating them at the polls” and Bidening things up for a few years. There need to be real consequences here.
- Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid 1 month ago:
fair enough maybe I passed judgement too quickly or read too deeply into your comments
- Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid 1 month ago:
I deleted it because I’m not interested in picking a fight on his topic but
Our internal politics are probably more important than the entirety whatever country you live in. We spend way too much on our military for you not to pay attention.
Even a “good guy” like you can’t seem to get out of this mindset that Americans are the most important.
When it comes to global politics I care as much about your slide into fascism as I do about any other. It’s closer to home for me, but these are global trends and caused by you.
If you all adopted more of a global worldview instead of this exceptionalism and dominance oriented worldview we’d all be better off.
The main difference in this presidency is just that it’s mask off and former allies are no longer treated like they’re part of the Imperial core. You’ve been doing this to everyone else under both teams.
- Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid 1 month ago:
The only real value is in our resources, labor, and manufacturing capability, and those will still be here.
This is why I’ve always considered “capital flight” an empty threat. Let capital leave… They’ve done more harm by staying and slowly moving all of our production capacity overseas.
These idiots think destroying the systems will hurt us, they’re so bought into their own bullshit. That’s the silver lining in all this, we’ll build back stronger.
- Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid 1 month ago:
Exactly. Americans have been doing the same sorts of things since basically their inception. The only difference was that it was only impacting countries that weren’t in their sphere of influence. The only difference now is they’ve decided to let all the air out of that sphere to the point where former allies are being treated the same way everyone else had been for a hundred years.
It’s gonna damage us all, but the silver lining is that the US will never be dominant again. It was happening slowly, now it’s happening before our eyes.
- Comment on GOP Proposes $4.5 Trillion Tax Giveaway to the Rich While 'Ransacking' Food Stamps and Medicaid 1 month ago:
Hoarding a bunch of US dollars while giving everyone every incentive to disconnect from the US economy.
It’s like they think the economic world order is a law of nature.
We could all stop using money today, and decide on a whole different system, and they’d have nothing again but our hatred.
Keep pushing, morons.
- Comment on What would happen if USA invades Canada? 1 month ago:
It’s the world’s longest border, a military defeat is certain but hundreds or thousands of Canadian partisans will easily get through to commit acts of terrorism and sabotage.
- Comment on Politico swept up in USAID scandal as records show government paid $8.2 million to left-leaning news site 1 month ago:
o hey it’s that “socialist” guy again who posts conservative viewpoints and doesn’t care about being truthful
I guess a block is overdue
- Comment on Reddit Sub Ban Wave 1 month ago:
Anarchist/socialist communities are always pro trans. I joined slrpnk.net because it’s got those as well as a focus on sustainable living. Your choice of instance doesn’t impact your feed too much.
- Comment on HoMM3 is still fun! 1 month ago:
Songs of Conquest is a spiritual successor you might be interested in checking out. I agree HoMM3 is still great to revisit and SoC doesn’t quite scratch the exact same itch but it’s a good way to get more of the same but with some variety keeping it fresh
- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 2 months ago:
A fair point. I hope we do.
- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 2 months ago:
what about if the world had tackled the threat of Hitler sooner? do you think MORE caving in and capitulation was the lesson we should have learned?
- Comment on Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed 2 months ago:
Sadly the problem isn’t going to solve itself like that. We need to channel that anger into action.
- Comment on Trump tariffed Columbia in response to not letting a plane of deported illegals in. 2 months ago:
I’m not advocating for it to continue, it’s just too bad we’ll have to try to survive the collapse of the American empire.
There were ways to end it that won’t result in so much suffering but we’re doing it the hard way. The United States will never recover from this, hopefully its people can