Opinionhaver
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- Comment on How can we make lemmy have more relevance? 7 hours ago:
are failing to appreciate what it is.
A firehose of US politics and bad news?
- Comment on Is it normal to be constantly scared about how your friend will react to anything about you? 2 days ago:
What exactly makes this person a “friend?”
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 3 days ago:
I guess you don’t think much of your parents then if you feel like you’re a better judge of that.
- Comment on US Visa Applications from Japan Now Require Disclosing Social Media History 4 days ago:
…they stated on a social media comment.
- Comment on How do man made hiking trails keep the grass from overgrowing? 5 days ago:
The fact that the trail exists there in the first place means that there’s enough people walking on it that the grass dies and doesn’t grow bag. I’ve started a trail from scratch and I doubt there’s more than a handful of people walking there every week but the trail just keeps getting more carved in.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
The average business in the U.S. employs about four people, and roughly half employ even fewer than that. I run a business that employs one person - me. So I’m not sure whose way I’m supposed to be getting out of, or how exactly I’m making anyone’s life worse.
- Comment on Hamas condemns US air strikes on Yemen, labels them as war crime 1 week ago:
You’re moving the goalposts again.
This discussion isn’t about killing children - it’s about war crimes, specifically Hamas targeting Israeli civilians with indiscriminate rocket fire. That alone meets the definition under international law, and I’ve already explained why. You haven’t addressed it - you’ve just dodged, reframed, and shifted the subject every time.
At this point, it’s clear you’re not engaging with what I’m saying. You’re cycling through bad faith tactics - redefining terms, demanding irrelevant proof, and pretending I haven’t answered you. If you can’t acknowledge even the most blatant example of a war crime, then you’re not here to discuss - you’re here to deny.
- Comment on Hamas condemns US air strikes on Yemen, labels them as war crime 1 week ago:
You’re the one who asked for an example of a war crime, and when I gave one, you shifted the goalposts. Criticizing Hamas doesn’t mean I’m pro-Israel. I can just as easily point to Israeli war crimes like shooting civilians and aid workers. Instead of engaging with the example I gave, you’re dodging the substance and resorting to personal attacks and false binaries.
- Comment on Hamas condemns US air strikes on Yemen, labels them as war crime 1 week ago:
We started with a simple question: has Hamas committed war crimes? I answered with one of the most straightforward examples - targeting civilians inside Israel with unguided rockets. Instead of engaging with that, you’ve dodged into historical grievances, vague accusations, and tried to redefine civilians out of existence. That’s not a discussion - it’s deflection.
Even if you believe Israel was illegitimately founded, that has zero bearing on whether it’s lawful to intentionally attack civilians. Nothing in international law, Marxism, or basic ethics permits that. Squatting on someone’s land doesn’t make it legal to kill their children.
If your position requires denying the civilian status of an entire population and justifying war crimes as resistance, then you’re not debating in good faith - you’re rationalizing atrocities.
The more we are aware of the responsibility that falls on the party of the revolutionary class, the more resolutely must we oppose terrorism.
Lenin, 1906
- Comment on Hamas condemns US air strikes on Yemen, labels them as war crime 1 week ago:
You’re moving the goalposts. I was clearly talking about civilians inside Israel’s 1948 borders - people Hamas has indiscriminately targeted for years, including with rockets and the October 7th massacre. Shifting the focus to “settlers” is a red herring.
Even then, the claim that settlers aren’t civilians is legally false. Under international law, civilians are anyone not directly participating in hostilities. That includes settlers, however one feels about the legality of the settlements. Civilian protections don’t vanish based on where someone lives.
Targeting civilians - whether in Tel Aviv or an outpost - is a war crime. The right to resist doesn’t override the laws of war. Trying to justify indiscriminate violence by redefining who counts as a civilian isn’t just wrong - it’s morally bankrupt.
- Comment on Hamas condemns US air strikes on Yemen, labels them as war crime 1 week ago:
You’re misrepresenting international law pretty severely here. The UN Charter does support the right of peoples to self-determination, and yes, that principle has been reaffirmed in various General Assembly resolutions, especially in the context of decolonization and occupation. But nowhere in the Charter - or in any binding international legal document - does it say it’s lawful to target civilians, including settlers, with indiscriminate weapons.
That claim usually stems from a misreading of UN General Assembly resolutions which acknowledged the right of occupied peoples to resist. But even those non-binding resolutions do not override the Geneva Conventions, which are binding and universally recognized. The Geneva Conventions make it crystal clear: civilians are protected from attack at all times, regardless of their location, nationality, or political status.
Launching unguided rockets into civilian areas is a textbook example of an indiscriminate attack, and it’s a war crime under international humanitarian law. The right to resist occupation doesn’t mean you get to ignore the rules of war.
- Comment on If we are in a simulation, maybe yawning is an animation glitch. 1 week ago:
I agree. I’m getting pretty tired of your condescending tone. I’ve looked past your false accusation about me supposedly downvoting you, ignored the rude “explain or GTFO” remark, and even politely asked you to clarify what you were asking so I could give you a more helpful answer - but you just keep going with the same behavior.
You have a nice day.
- Comment on If we are in a simulation, maybe yawning is an animation glitch. 1 week ago:
I just told you. I’m speaking of the human brain.
Wetware is a term drawn from the computer-related idea of hardware or software, but applied to biological life forms.
The prefix “wet” is a reference to the water found in living creatures. Wetware is used to describe the elements equivalent to hardware and software found in a person, especially the central nervous system (CNS) and the human mind.
- Comment on If we are in a simulation, maybe yawning is an animation glitch. 1 week ago:
I don’t understand what you’re asking.
- Comment on If we are in a simulation, maybe yawning is an animation glitch. 1 week ago:
I’m refering to the meat computer i.e. human brain
- Comment on If we are in a simulation, maybe yawning is an animation glitch. 1 week ago:
You could be a brain in a vat - what you experience in that case would effectively be a simulation running on wetware instead of silica. But that still wouldn’t change the fact that what you’re experiencing is happening right now from your subjective point of view. Even if this were just a pre-recorded memory from someone else, it still feels like the present moment to you.
Everything you perceive could be smoke and mirrors, completely fake - but the one thing that remains undeniably true is that it feels like something, not nothing. Even a psychedelic trip, as bizarre or unreal as it may seem, is still just another appearance in consciousness. And for that to happen, your biological body needs to be alive. If you’re dead, there’s nothing left that could have - or host - that experience.
- Comment on If we are in a simulation, maybe yawning is an animation glitch. 1 week ago:
How could you possibly have an experience if you’re dead? We don’t fully understand what consciousness is - the fact that it feels like something to be - but it seems like a safe bet to claim that it’s an emergent feature of what our biological body does. When the body dies, that process ends, and with it, so does experience. There’s no such thing as “positive non-existence” after death. Not being, by definition, cannot be experienced.
- Comment on Hamas condemns US air strikes on Yemen, labels them as war crime 1 week ago:
A quick glance at your incredibly toxic comment history suggests you might want to take your own advice on that one. My opinions might not always be popular, but at least I’m not just making noise or being rude to complete strangers.
- Comment on Hamas condemns US air strikes on Yemen, labels them as war crime 1 week ago:
Targeting Israeli civilian population with unguided rockets for decades.
- Comment on Hamas condemns US air strikes on Yemen, labels them as war crime 1 week ago:
Why? You want people you disagree with to stay silent?
- Comment on xkcd #3078: Anchor Bolts 1 week ago:
Something like a Tapcon would seem more suitable for the job
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 1 week ago:
I don’t see how even the way Twitter does it is any worse than not having such system at all.
- Comment on ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy' 1 week ago:
There’s nothing wrong with the term itself. Many people just think it means something else than what it actually does.
Definitions for intelligence:
- The ability to acquire, understand, and use knowledge.
- the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations
- the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (such as tests)
- the act of understanding
- the ability to learn, understand, and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason
- It can be described as the ability to perceive or infer information; and to retain it as knowledge to be applied to adaptive behaviors within an environment or context.
Artificial just means were talking about something man made rather than a biological system.
- Comment on Hamas condemns US air strikes on Yemen, labels them as war crime 1 week ago:
Very few organizations stand on shakier moral ground when it comes to accusing others of war crimes.
- Comment on ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy' 1 week ago:
AI is a broad category that includes everything from image upscalers to music generators to chess engines - none of which have anything to do with surveillance. It’s a tool, not a conspiracy.
- Comment on ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it 1 week ago:
People used to talk about slaves in exactly the same way.
Our AI assistants might not be conscious yet, but there’s a good chance they will be someday. Treating them with basic decency from the start just seems like the right thing to do. The way I talk to ChatGPT isn’t all that different from how I talk to people - and I don’t feel the need to switch modes just because I’ve rationalized that something isn’t deserving of respect.
- Comment on YSK: You can browse reddit with a VPN by using RedLib 1 week ago:
I’ve gotten this only a handful of times and simply refreshing my VPN has solved it every time.
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 1 week ago:
It’s the new trendy thing. Kind of like the term “executive dysfunction”
- Comment on Why walk, when you can ride? 1 week ago:
Yeah if you go there to run on a threadmill, not if you go there to lift weights. After a heavy squat day I can barely walk down the stairs to the parking lot.
- Comment on Why walk, when you can ride? 1 week ago:
Why ride when you can drive?