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- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 days ago:
yes a lot of cultures went extinct but not because they didn’t have writing. it’s because there was no one left to pass on the knowledge.
if we think about it from the perspective of contemporary indigenous people, they know how to read and write but that’s a side effect of boarding schools. and it’s led to more intensive cultural extinction because of forced assimilation
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 days ago:
so all those genocides weren’t enough, you want a repeat with you at the helm?
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 days ago:
there’s no evidence or even claim of there having been any kind of writing or system for making information durable
sigh it’s called oral history and it was working just fine before the settlers showed up
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 1 week ago:
reminder that Microsoft is on the BDS boycott list. the devs won’t be seeing any money from a 2016 game so you might as well sail the seas
- Comment on There's a global pandemic somewhere just waiting for someone to do a dare 2 weeks ago:
you seem like the type of dipshit that assumes airborne viruses go away with handwashing
- Comment on There's a global pandemic somewhere just waiting for someone to do a dare 2 weeks ago:
fuck you and your eugenicist bullshit. “masks didn’t work” because most people wore surgicals instead of fit-tested N95s.
also people assuming they’re diligent maskers while dining indoors where covid somehow hits the pause button and waits for you to finish eating until you put your mask back on.
- Comment on There's a global pandemic somewhere just waiting for someone to do a dare 2 weeks ago:
you only think masks aren’t needed anymore because your privilege prevents you from experiencing the full consequences of your violence.
the long covid community has been clear that you shouldn’t go outside unmasked for years now. if you decide to continue ignoring us, that’s on you. and no, linking science that doesn’t consult disabled people doesn’t absolve you from your dangerous views
- Comment on There's a global pandemic somewhere just waiting for someone to do a dare 2 weeks ago:
On a final note, whilst we may speak of a time beyond the pandemic, we are still very much in the midst of one. We are not out of it yet. At the present time, the world continues to grapple with the Omicron variant
good job linking a source that disproves your own claim lol
- Comment on There's a global pandemic somewhere just waiting for someone to do a dare 2 weeks ago:
endemic according to who? eugenicists?
vaccines don’t prevent long covid or infection. there is still no sterilizing vaccine on the market. going in public unmasked while vaccinated doesn’t absolve you from the disabling or deadly consequences of you infecting vulnerable people
- Comment on There's a global pandemic somewhere just waiting for someone to do a dare 2 weeks ago:
ah yes, progressive eugenics
- Comment on Change the Rainbow 2 weeks ago:
ah yes, let’s defeat the Nazis by dressing like Nazis!
- Comment on There's a global pandemic somewhere just waiting for someone to do a dare 2 weeks ago:
the covid pandemic never ended, people are doing a dare every day by going outside unmasked
- Comment on There's a global pandemic somewhere just waiting for someone to do a dare 2 weeks ago:
except that’s how pandemics get more deadly
- Comment on Will US Tariffs Make World Leaders Value the Stability of Renewables? 2 weeks ago:
the resources in Ukraine are definitely part of the reason why he invaded but not the only one. the Russian population is in decline, so he needs to steal Ukrainian children to bring young people in. There’s also the fact that Russia can only exist as an invading empire and Putin would otherwise be deposed if he stopped the war
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 2 weeks ago:
believe it or not, it’s possible for 2 things to be true at the same time. ACS is cool even though Ubisoft is evil. what you call virtue signaling is just people having interests
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 3 weeks ago:
I personally disagree with giving more rights to immigrants and don’t like the idea of negotiations with terrorist organizations to divide the country
if you disagree with immigrants having human rights, that’s just fascism my friend.
also you calling Kurds terrorists says a lot about how you’re actually just a genocide denier cosplaying as “just an average person without a political position”
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 3 weeks ago:
CHP are Kemalists. idk how anyone worshipping that genocider could be called left-wing (maybe if you’re an ethno-nationalist?). I’d say the real left wing in Turkey would be the Kurdish people fighting for autonomy, the feminists and queers fighting the cops in the streets and the union movements.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 3 weeks ago:
there are 3 major right-wing instances: lemmy.ml(ran by the Lemmy developers), lemmygrad.ml(the openly fascist version of lemmy.ml) and hexbear.net.
if anyone wants to argue, I don’t. Anyone supporting Russia is right-wing.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 3 weeks ago:
wrong, no other cloud provider offers the same military services that Microsoft does
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 3 weeks ago:
a question to parents/guardians of kids playing Minecraft or other Microsoft games:
if they uninstall the Microsoft version of Minecraft and switch to a pirated launcher, does that respect the BDS demands?
I’m aware of similar media boycotts such as SAG/AFTRA telling people not to promote targeted media projects publicly. Ofc, BDS is a different organization but I’m hoping someone could clarify if not promoting Minecraft while still playing is sufficient? I’m not personally invested in continuing to play, but would like to find ways to inspire my young relative to consume consciously.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 3 weeks ago:
they answer your question in detail on their own website
- Comment on Syria president says new authorities can't satisfy everyone 4 weeks ago:
that’s if you assume that Syrians are in charge of the government. actually, that’s a wrong assumption to make about any state.
I recommend reading Omar Aziz’s works on neighborhood councils and the Syrian revolution. that’s where the real democracy is taking place.
- Comment on Syria president says new authorities can't satisfy everyone 4 weeks ago:
what’s the chance you speak of?
- Comment on SuperTuxKart switches to open source Godot engine 4 weeks ago:
better rename it SuperTusksKart
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure Hitler would agree. after all, genocide is natural according to him
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 4 weeks ago:
an autistic person supporting eugenics, how ironic
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 4 weeks ago:
you need it if you apply for citizenship in some countries. they’ll ask for full criminal records in all the countries you’ve lived.
- Comment on Is dns a good application for the blockchain? 5 weeks ago:
hence the inherent problem with crypto. you’re always gonna end up with fascist billionaires at the helm when you essentially implement a vote determined by how much bro-tokens you own. I’m not aware of any blockchain implementation that isn’t just a reskin of late stage capitalism.
- Comment on Is dns a good application for the blockchain? 5 weeks ago:
I agree that DNS is horribly centralized and outdated, but tech isn’t gonna solve this problem which is political. I think every TLD should be ran by a federation of independent worker co-ops managing each TLD autonomously. who then convene at a federation council to replace the functions of ICANN
- Comment on Is dns a good application for the blockchain? 5 weeks ago:
letting people like Elon Musk control the blockchain should make it obvious why this is a horrible idea. most of those people are fascists and/or “anarcho-capitalists”