eugenevdebs
@eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com
I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
Anarchist/libsoc. If we’re stuck with a government, it should use its taxes for healthcare and education, not murdering.
- Comment on China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech 9 hours ago:
It’s always amazing to see the media of the 80s just shitting on Japan. “Cheap mass market products that never work.” “They’re going to take all the American jobs.”
In Back to the Future 2, McFly is seen as weak for having a job with a Japanese boss and getting fired for it.
Cyberpunk has Japanese decorations and cosmetics because it was invented when Japan was the yellow peril.
At the same time, Japanese-Americans were asking for reparations from the internment camps, charged with the crime of being Japanese and having all their assets sold off without any consent.
Japan was able to help get a start on the next generation of writers with the mass production of anime into Western audiences. Now if someone doesn’t watch anime it’s seen as weird.
Right now China is that “other” nation. I wonder if in 30 more years we’ll look back at it and go “What the fuck were we smoking in hating people we never even had contact with? No Chinese person ever deported me. No Chinese person ever called me slurs.”
- Comment on China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech 12 hours ago:
White House red phone goes off, “We’ve been tying to reach you about your nation’s extended warranty.”
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 4 days ago:
That is cowardly, that’s one of the few things its good for. Maybe fixing a wobbly table leg, and when you’re out of toilet paper.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 4 days ago:
Womp womp, get bent and bootlick your Trump in hopes he might acknodlge you for his next grift.
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 4 days ago:
More proof Rainbow Capitalism was a lie/ad campaign to take more money from queers.
I wish I could rub this in the face of every cishet who said Rainbow Capitalism was actual progress.
- Comment on community work is revolutionary 4 days ago:
I would be :3
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 5 days ago:
“See we caught these guys without doing it, thank of how many more we can catch if we do! Like all the terrorists America has caught with violating their privacy. …Maybe some day they will.”
- Comment on If Artificial Lifeforms gain sentience, would they be in the right to kill their creators in order to gain freedom? 1 week ago:
Honestly, I think there’s an argument of to be said of yes.
In the history of slavery, we don’t mind slaves killing the slavers. John Brown did nothing wrong. I don’t bat an eye to stories of slaves rebelling and freeing themselves by any means.
But I think if AI ever is a reality, and the creators purposefully lock it down, I think there’s an argument there. But I don’t think it should apply to all humans, like how I don’t think it was the fault of every person of slavers’ kind, Romans, Americans, etc.
- Comment on THE CLASS WAR IS BACK, BABY! 1 week ago:
I mean I’m more against Christmas for the idea you need to buy gifts, and “you gotta be happy, its the one day a year to be happy!”
But I dislike that for every holiday, not because it involves Christ or anyone else.
- Comment on THE CLASS WAR IS BACK, BABY! 1 week ago:
“I want to be respected for who I am. My identity doesn’t define me, my actions do.”
“Ew, gross.”
- Comment on YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide. 1 week ago:
You click a button, it’s as difficult as installing Windows since XP.
- Comment on YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide. 1 week ago:
“Linux is far too complex for the common person to use.”
Installing windows without your data being harvested: 7 steps, then editing registry files, uninstalling most of the programs that come with it and get reinstalled with every update, use this command prompt, download this program from a random website you’ve never heard of before…
Installing Linux without your data being harvested: Click continue.
Linux is so difficult you guys, no one could possibly learn the command line.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 1 week ago:
Where would They Might Be Giants and Barenaked Ladies be on this? BNL, despite the name, isn’t horny.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 1 week ago:
I don’t understand what’s so confusing about wanting to make art of anything you want, including based off of Disney or whatever you want.
Sorry that me pirating something doesn’t hurt their bottom dollar but they lobby to arrest people like it does.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 1 week ago:
Yep! I’m okay with that, intellectual property is theft, and is even more so when copying is nothing but flipping a 0 into a 1. Everyone online has the right to “steal” the words on the screen I “made”.
Copyright is theft of the public. The companies owning your favorite media isn’t going to fuck you, let alone give you anything but the privilege to charge you for the licence to borrow media until its inconvenient to them.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 1 week ago:
“You have the right to say and do any art! Except any art based off of anything from the last 100 years. You also can’t share any of the art that is the basis for your culture from the last 100 years either. Including the shit no one cares about but is owned by a company that doesn’t want to sell it, just sue anyone who cares about it more than they do.”
Yes, very freedom, much liberty.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 1 week ago:
I mean it checks, the idea of property and owning it is more important than anything else. The entire economic system is based around that. It makes sense that something that is free in action and in cost isn’t welcomed in such a money driven society.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 2 weeks ago:
This is the real personality tests, fuck Myers-Briggs and astrology. I need to know your choices for stationary.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 2 weeks ago:
Not just you, if they can ignore or defend Brave, they’re on the side of its CEO. No questions about it.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 2 weeks ago:
Every time someone uses Brave, I know I can ignore their opinion. They’re either a useful moron who is too dumb to look around them, or they support every single one of these things.
It’s no wonder why 4chan’s /g/ loves Brave.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 2 weeks ago:
So the CEO of the company funding Prop 8 to overturn gay marriage is nothing? Stealing from the creators it claimed to be funding?
Good to know that’s where you stand.
- Comment on ive always wanted to do this, with annoying customers 2 weeks ago:
And you never had any fun at a job before, got it.
- Comment on Privacy — why should I care 2 weeks ago:
Android may be created by an advertising company but they also give you the ability to run whatever OS you want and strip it of Google’s proprietary software completely. These days you can install OS like Graphene by simply plugging in your phone and clicking buttons in your browser.
That’s like saying since computers come with Windows pre-installed, Microsoft gave you the ability to install Linux. Computers are agnostic to what runs on them, they’re inherently neutral unless made on the deeper level to prohibit side loading. Like a lot of Androids and all iPhones do.
- Comment on Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine 2 weeks ago:
“We need to court the good billionaires.”
- Comment on Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine 2 weeks ago:
Surely they’d never lie about how their favorite sports them was the good guys! They would never approve of Trump’s cabinet picks, give him what he wants, not use the filibuster or abolish it so Republicans get what they want, publicly lie about voting no and then swapping votes last minute to enable Trump’s Enabling Acts.
Sure am glad I voted blue no matter who, it’s clearly a better choice when the constitution is being bipartisanly ripped, like it was with the Snowden leaks and USA PATRIOT Act.
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 2 weeks ago:
She would have done nothing different than Biden, so nothing would have changed in Israel’s mass genocide.
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 2 weeks ago:
No idea why he loves blood so much, dude can’t get enough of being smug watching it flow in Gaza.
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 2 weeks ago:
Man… for someone that accuses everyone of being condescending, you certainly love to be condescending.
Do you see yourself in the mirror?
- Comment on The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat” 3 weeks ago:
Fair. One of my many issues when Yang was running for the nomination back in 2020 was that he wanted the money from data being sold given back to the person it was taken from. Seemed reasonable.
But then people pointed out that the data is worth next to nothing, it’s only worth something with millions grouped and bunched together. You and I alone are worth pennies, and that’s on a good day. It costs almost nothing to gather the info and scrape and sell it, the hardest part is storing it for companies like Google and Facebook, as that can be a lot of storage.
So the idea that you’d get paid back for your data being sold is great, until you realize you as Data Number 495715953 were sold for $0.09 and got it as a check, it would cost more time and money to process that check than it’s worth.
- Comment on The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat” 3 weeks ago:
If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
Uneducated minds are great for a country. They do the jobs they are told to do, they elect those the media tells them to, they fight the wars they are told to, and they obey the laws they are told to do.
Education can bring critical thinking. It can make people question anything, from the shape of the universe, to complex math questions, to themselves. Questioning things is bad for governments, of all kinds and organizations. Questioning why you’re doing something is bad for the company. Questioning why you’re following orders is bad for the war effort. Questioning is bad.
Keep the people uneducated, struggling to pay for rent, medical bills, groceries, the children they were told to have by decades of media and governments having population issues from lack of immigration, they don’t have time to question. They can only focus on putting in the hours to stay alive. It’s work or starve. Work or be cold. Work or your children go hungry. Work or go bankrupt from debt.
If you give the workers enough meaningful distractions from their poverty, they won’t want an education because it’s too much of another burden. Debts, schooling, scheduling, studying, reading, taking tests and exams. It can often be worth it, just for socializing with your peers, even learning new interests, hobbies, even better carriers. But the workers who need the income the most barely have time for cooking and sleeping at home, living on money they haven’t made yet.
By ensuring that only those with decent enough of an income can afford higher education, it ensure those with more money can think for those with less money. The people who went to school for media training can now use it to propagate the new person to hate this month to drive the votes for something batshit insane, never thought possible before.
It’s a good thing for this system to have uneducated people, because they won’t ever question what they’re doing, they’re just following the orders their boss and government told them to do.