leftytighty
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- Comment on Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized 3 weeks ago:
I wish worker owned cooperatives were the norm, it’s like this but maxed out
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 3 weeks ago:
The net new total biomass of the forests would all be captured carbon. Yes dead trees may release it again but the total amount of trees would be higher and act as a large buffer.
- Comment on Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized 3 weeks ago:
You see, when you look past the sales figures and hype men you eventually come across dozens or hundreds of talented people who create the actual art and entertainment that we all enjoy.
A good work environment means more talented and artistic people will continue to make the things that we enjoy.
Hope this helps
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 3 weeks ago:
Please Google socialism.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
ok, keep your asshole friends and be associated with them I guess? point proven?
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re not calling out that kind of behavior when you encounter it among your social group then you are definitely complicit. Is it a morally corrupt position? Not necessarily, but you’re complicit and you’re enabling it.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
It’s true that men as a broad group have a duty to confront and correct that behavior within their social groups and families etc. and that might be where that sentiment is coming from, but we live in a world where people can and do live in bubbles.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
100%, liberals won’t let go of the root causes of the problems and will keep patching and reforming and patching and reforming all the while every little crisis brings fascism back from the shadows
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not the original person you were speaking to but this is a good example of systemic issues. You don’t need individuals to be racist or sexist or conspire to do bad things if there’s a systemic trend that people in powerful positions are a homogeneous class with their own relatively aligned interests and social circles.
Billionaires don’t know poor people, billionaires are usually white men, billionaires have similar self interest. Billionaires wield a huge amount of power. BOOM. systemic racism and sexism without requiring everyone to scheme and coordinate.
This is why liberals fixate on gender and race representation in higher positions, and this is why I and other leftists just want to dismantle unbalanced power structures that give billionaires everything and allow them to exist.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
I’d say there’s some unavoidable bias there. If we judge the dominant masculine culture by the degree to which people emphasize masculinity then of course the loud ultra masculine people will seem like the representation.
Lots of men out there just being men
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
The “white people” idea has some merit when you consider that whiteness has usually been an arbitrary group of races and cultures that define the dominant group in that society. The whole “Italians and Irish weren’t once considered white” thing.
Obviously individuals can experience hardship and you might even argue that preferring non-white candidates or affirmative action is harmful (I’m not going to, but you can).
My position on this is that everything is a patch on fundamental inequality and I’d rather just get to anarcho-communism so we don’t have to solve 100 individual problems caused by historical racism and the capitalist machinery that lets that manifest as unjust distribution of wealth.
Regardless of age and gender and familial success in past generations we should all be equal.
(I’m not gonna argue that either)
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It’s not just semantics the idea that the US is leading implies passive influence rather than active influence.
They’re leading not through inspiration and innovation but as they would with a leash.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
yes but the kernel of truth is that is a bit shocking that they were self aware enough to admit not having the information, that’s better than most conservatives
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
The US isn’t a leader in anything they are imperialist and they meddle. It’s not leadership it’s influence. They’ve consolidated political, economic, and military power and they use all of those to varying degrees to meddle in everyone’s affairs
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Very shocking to me that a conservative would barge in with a strong conservative opinion but not know what’s going on and having barely tried to find out.
- Comment on FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester 1 month ago:
ok but that’s paranoia, who’s to say your faked gait won’t get someone else hanged then?
gait isn’t proof of identity, if they’re gonna do that they can just round you up anyway
- Comment on FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester 1 month ago:
Has anyone ever been successfully prosecuted based on gait?
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 1 month ago:
To be fair to the executive order (ugh) many of the examples cited are due to well intentioned system prompts that encourage the LLM to actively be diverse.
The example of a female pope or whatever (read this earlier) is an example of that.
Generally speaking the LLMs have left-bias because they’re trained on information unlike conservatives, but they aren’t necessarily asking the models to be censored
- Comment on The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable 2 months ago:
People still try to do this and insist on absolute emissions numbers rather than per capita to do so.
Yes Canada’s total emissions with 40 million population is doing great compared to China’s, what a feel good statistic, I guess we should build those pipelines and liquify that natural gas
- Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people 2 months ago:
Empathy can absolutely develop over time. This rhetoric is not useful. Even dumb fucking right wing pieces of shit feel empathy when their in-group is affected.
If hate can be learned so can empathy, what you’re suggesting is dehumanizing
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 months ago:
I’m with you that the economic system is the root cause of the problem and I’m fighting that battle too in my own way. I have too much to lose to really fight it, but there’s a lot more direct action and community involvement I could be doing. Ideologically, though, I’m anti-capitalist and believe that the way forward is collectivism in the form of anarcho-communism.
That’s a lot harder to achieve than going vegan, though.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 months ago:
fair enough, no shortage of problems from the wealthy and capitalism at large.
one battle at a time
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 2 months ago:
Maybe they should advocate for better fuel regulations and densification ;)
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 months ago:
ok be the worst version of yourself
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 months ago:
I am not the one making excuses about individual climate action. I take individual climate action. I’m vegan, I am electrifying my house, I have consistently reduced my consumption. I aim for a lifestyle that would scale up to the whole world.
If you think we need to eliminate the wealthy or nothing is worth doing, then do the thing you think is worth doing. I’m doing plenty, I’m not the one making excuses.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 months ago:
thanks for all your climate action 🫡
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 months ago:
Ok go ahead, instead you’ll do nothing.
- Comment on Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote 2 months ago:
Yeah this thread ended up being more hostile to regular Americans than I intended but US culture and US global hegemony are the things that attract and amplify the shitty people from around the world.
USA is the final boss of capitalist imperialism and the people have completely lost control over the reins. It’s now a matter of when they actually say enough is enough, be it now or after Fascism runs its course and hurts millions of others around the world as well.
- Comment on Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote 2 months ago:
Canadians are, generally speaking, taking plenty of action against Trump and the United States. Travel and purchase boycotts for instance.
We’re not the only victims, no, but you have to clean up your own mess. When given the choice to follow you, Canadians recently chose not to.
Instead of getting butthurt at internet comments go out into the streets
- Comment on Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote 2 months ago:
These fascist right wing bastards are being emboldened (and amplified by American conservative funding) everywhere but Canada realizes it’s dependent on immigration enough that even our right wing parties are more hesitant to go full racist so the lowest of the low here don’t have a Trump to get all enthusiastic about.
Plus now that Trump is picking a fight they don’t feel as comfortable speaking up here with their shitty views.