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- Comment on EU disease agency considers quitting Elon Musk’s X over disinfo 1 week ago:
I don’t know about others but I’m there for the porn
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s that they don’t listen to anyone. People generally are open to hear different views as long as it’s done in good faith rather that in the form of accusations. Nobody wants to hear from someone who openly treats them as second class citizens. If you treat them with dignity and are open to hear their views as well you’re far more likely to get them to reflect on their own views too. Daryl Davis is a good example of this.
- Comment on AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert 2 weeks ago:
Any vending machine can be hacked. We used to get free sodas from one twenty years ago.
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 2 weeks ago:
Well I mean you can go around calling them fascists all you want. That already got you Trump twice but maybe 3rd time is the charm.
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 2 weeks ago:
No one is more confused about reality than the ones claiming to know “the truth” Some even name their social media platforms like that.
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 2 weeks ago:
Do you think they’re going to accept that he is one when the accusation is coming from someone on the left? I doubt it.
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that calling someone a pedophile is any more convincing than calling them a nazi. If anything, that’ll just make them dig their heels deeper.
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been on both for over a decade longer than on Lemmy.
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 2 weeks ago:
You literally cannot come closer to having your brains blown out and live to tell the tale. To downplay that as if it wasn’t a big deal is ridiculous and unreasonable.
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure space mining is what causes asteroids. Dinosaurs didn’t have a space program to my knowledge.
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 2 weeks ago:
Idk one side wants to enslave, murder, and rape. The other does not.
Seeing people hold this kind of views is fucking depressing.
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 2 weeks ago:
fanatics
Half of Lemmy users included in that group
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 2 weeks ago:
He did literally get shot though.
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 2 weeks ago:
When Q-Anon speads baseless pedophile ring accusations it’s ridiculed but apparently doing the exact same thing for their side is fair game. Great display of double standards yet again.
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 2 weeks ago:
One side has empathy. The other does not.
You generalized as if everyone on the left has empathy and no one on the right does. That’s simply not true. Group differences like this are often larger within the group than between them. While it might be true that, on average, people on the right are less empathetic than those on the left, it’s neither fair nor accurate to imply that one side has empathy and the other doesn’t.
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 2 weeks ago:
The world is not binary like that.
- Comment on "Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online 2 weeks ago:
What ever gets a reaction from the opposition I guess
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 2 weeks ago:
Asteroid impact can solve homelesness too.
I still think populating other planets is a worthy cause. We should do that while taxing the billionaires more.
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 2 weeks ago:
Makes no differencr to me.
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 2 weeks ago:
It’s private wealth, not government funding. They’re free to use their wealth how ever they see fit as long as it’s legal.
Ad-hominem is not argument to the contrary either.
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 2 weeks ago:
That’s still not an argument against the need to have a backup of humanity somewhere beyond Earth. Your desire to stick it to the man won’t mean much if we go extinct.
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 2 weeks ago:
We will most likely always have terrorism and wars. That’s not an argument against letting wealthy individuals fund a private space race.
- Comment on Do the ultra-rich consume popular media? 2 weeks ago:
surely they would know they are (edit: seen as) the bad guys?
This is a popular view only on left-wing social media. The vast majority of people just see them as wealthy individuals, without thinking of them as particularly bad. If I didn’t visit Lemmy, I wouldn’t even know how many people dislike them. Everywhere else, I mostly see people looking up to them. Criticism does exist, of course, but it’s usually focused on specific traits - like Elon’s Twitter addiction - rather than condemning them as a whole.
To answer your question, Elon Musk plays a lot of Diablo IV and is actually quite good at it. He claims to be in the global top 20, though that’s debatable and hard to verify. However, he is ranked in the top 20 on the leaderboard at helltides.com.
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 2 weeks ago:
That’s quite cynical view. There’s about 0% chance of that happening during their lifetime. Or you think they’ll just want to go to mars and sit inside some capsule for the rest of their lives? C’moon now…
- Comment on We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth. 2 weeks ago:
Elon’s argument for why we need to spread to other planets holds true even if everything on Earth were going perfectly.
It’s not about getting everyone off Earth - it’s about creating a backup for humanity on other planets. This ensures that the only known flame of consciousness in the universe isn’t extinguished by a nuclear war, pandemic, supervolcano, or asteroid impact.
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 2 weeks ago:
I’ve yet to hear a good argument for why it matters even if they did. I’ve made thousands of comments on Lemmy that are free for anyone to grab and do anything they want with. If I didn’t want people to have access to them I wouldn’t be posting on the first place.
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 2 weeks ago:
ITT: People realising most of the world lives outside their bubble
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 1 month ago:
Lucky? I thought the 12 week limit and need for 2 doctor statements after that was outrageous.
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 1 month ago:
I mean the pro-life stance is clear in the sense that they generally don’t accept abortion unless the mother’s life is in danger. So when someone is ‘pro-life,’ I know what that means. However, when someone says they’re ‘pro-choice,’ I don’t always know what they mean. I’ve assumed most people draw the line somewhere around three months, after which you’d need a medical reason and a doctor’s statement to proceed. But based on the replies I’ve gotten here, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Many seem to suggest that no such lines should be drawn at all and even go as far as calling the baby a parasite, which seems a bit crazy to me to put it lightly.
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 1 month ago:
Then have the child and give it up for adoption? If you don’t want to keep it, you can freely abort it until, say, 12 weeks, after which you’d need a medical reason and a statement from one or two doctors. I don’t see what the issue is here.
I’m not saying this is exactly how it should be, but something along those lines. The idea that someone should be free to abort a 7-month-old fetus if they choose seems quite extreme to me.