kreskin
@kreskin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 2 days ago:
Does blame itself matter though? Can we steer opinions with such a thing and make real change or is that ability an illusion, and blame a …verbal masturbation?
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 2 days ago:
I’m starting to lose hope in the progress of humanity at all. I am pretty sure we wont solve our critical problems. We just arent capable of doing so as a group. And we will keep bombing and burning until the planet cant sustain itself any longer. We are not really progressing in our social infrastructure and philosophies at all-- we might as well be humans from 5000 years ago, only sedentary, holding iphones and bathed in chemicals all day.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 2 days ago:
religions are the absolute bane of human philosophy. Its prepackaged bundles of ideas that no one is allowed to challenge. Most religions are basically ridiculous and easily proved false. They serve to control. All of them were written by flawed people from long ago, and it shows.
The meaning of all writing is based on the time it exists in. Whats in the bible (and Koran, and Talmud) today doesnt mean what it meant two thousand years ago, and even then it was probably sketchy. Now its worse and getting more irrelevant all the time. But say that out loud in any setting except an anonymous internet chatroom, and everyone shuns you, at best.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 2 days ago:
I’ve noticed no one has books anymore though. I used to be able to go to peoples houses, look at their bookcase, and learn lots about them. No one has bookcases full of books on display anymore except really old people. Even our library has been mostly emptied and has maybe a fifth of the number of books it used to have. I have no idea where all those book went.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 2 days ago:
where’s that Kylo Ren MORE! meme at…
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 2 days ago:
you can use archive.today to unpaywall it
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 3 weeks ago:
Spoken like someone who mixes their fabrics and eats shellfish.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 5 weeks ago:
I think you are still allowed to be that. Saying you are against facism (member of antifa) gets you on terrorist watch lists though.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 5 weeks ago:
she’s an absolutely terrible human being. But no one can say she was a prostitute, or you get sued. Definitely not a high priced prostitute.
- Comment on 2 Instances are being used for coordinated vote manipulation, and should be defederated. chinese.lol lemmy.doesnotexist.club 5 weeks ago:
threelonmuskteers whats up with this? lemmy.world/post/35942590?scrollToComments=true
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 5 weeks ago:
kind of the dark side of the reddits/lemmys. Mods just doing whatever they like. btw, fuck Elon musk, that guy sucks. and fuck threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works. What a snowflake douchebag.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Well as long as we still have enough money to buy weapons for that one particular filthy country in the middle east, we’re fine.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
So this is the terminator consciousness so many people are scared will kill us all…
- Comment on He died doing what he loved. 5 weeks ago:
They think the shooter was trans, but I’d bet real money that when the find the shooter its going to be a right winger. It almost always is.
- Comment on Too soon? 5 weeks ago:
Look what you made me do, I’ve opened a bottle of very good pinot to ponder these things.
- Comment on Too soon? 5 weeks ago:
I expect the NRA will stage a gunshow at a nearby site someplace in the next few days, right? Its what they do for school shootings and this was at a school. So Kirk’s fam can stock up on cheap ammo.
- Comment on Too soon? 5 weeks ago:
Have you even sent your thoughts and prayers yet?
- Comment on Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels 1 month ago:
they always did, even back in college.
- Comment on EU Hits Google With $3.5 Billion Antitrust Fine 1 month ago:
googles EMEA division is 29% of profits. So figure about 30k profits.
- Comment on EU Hits Google With $3.5 Billion Antitrust Fine 1 month ago:
googles net profit is 115 billion/year. So while 3.5 is inconvenient, I imagine google feels that its just the cost of doing business in the EU.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 month ago:
2022-2024 were the most normal and stable years of my life.
Maybe stable for you, but the rest of the world wont leave your world alone. Defund and reallocate happened in those years. The genocide of Palestinians under a Dem president using your tax dollars started in 2023. And Ukraine was invaded in 2022.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 month ago:
2017-2021 was Trump, so I think it started earlier. Was it maybe more like US election season 2016 as the start of it? It’s hard to pinpoint. But yes. The old US seems gone now-- Our government went from covertly corrupt to very openly so. We’re becoming Russia, and its hard to imagine ever rolling it back to who we once were.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 1 month ago:
France, Britain, Germany. All as bad as the US.
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 1 month ago:
sure but there are holes in our entire constitutional process that you can drive a truck through. They work in certain cases, but in others they may as well not exist. Like ,impeachment barely works. And god knows a lot of our presidents should have been impeached. And the will of the people is not implemented by our government and hasn’t been for a long time, if ever.
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 1 month ago:
lemme know where and I’ll come join you. I’ll bring a 6 pack and some chips.
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 1 month ago:
yep, I need to polish my rifle before I go out, wouldn’t want it to jam when its hero time. Will be right behind you. Actually I need to buy that rifle then polish it. Actually I need to decide which rifle. AR15 right? I heard they are heavy though? and probably do some mandatory classes and paperwork, license fees. Practice at the range. Etc. The point is, I am right behind you… We all are.
seriously though, why are we all so sedate about fascism and losing our rights? I think its because we dont imagine ourselves to be in imminent danger yet? Its all still very abstract. And yes, I am white and male, and have enough resources to be OK on a day to day basis. the price of eggs being higher and the news sucking every day, and our country’s participating in war crimes are each unbearable, but on a day to day basis, its still mostly just expensive eggs. I can always worry about the rest… later.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 1 month ago:
you’re not wrong, but it also allows more than 99.8% of the bot traffic through too on text challenges. Its like the TSA of website security. Its mostly there to keep the user busy while cloudflare places itself in a man in the middle of your encrypted connection to a third party. The only difference between cloudflare and a malicious attacker is cloudflares stated intention not to be evil. With that and 3 dollars I can buy myself a single hard shell taco from tacobell.
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 2 months ago:
they cant get their ai to check a box that says “I am not a robot”? I’d think thatd be a first year comp sci student level task.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 2 months ago:
and yet we dont.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 2 months ago:
So felony kidnapping and aggravated menace. If they refuse to identify I dont see why we have to assume they are officers.