lmmarsano
@lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 17 hours ago:
Blast them with piss, fling feces in their faces. 🐒
- Comment on YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words 1 day ago:
The art of not giving a fuck, which humanity has known for millennia, is pretty effective.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 1 day ago:
chatGPT is doing humanity a service here
Post needs text alternative.
Images of text break much that text alternatives do not. Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link: - usability - we can’t quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR - text search is unavailable - the system can’t - reflow text to varied screen sizes - vary presentation (size, contrast) - vary modality (audio, braille) - accessibility - lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc) - some users can’t read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description) - users can’t adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments - systems can’t read the text to them or send it to braille devices - web connectivity - we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source - we can’t explore wider context of the original message - authenticity: we don’t know the image hasn’t been tampered - searchability: the “text” isn’t indexable by search engine in a meaningful way - fault tolerance: no text fallback if - image breaks - image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations. Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 2 days ago:
The incredibly short treaty (I’m surprised the comments haven’t linked yet) lacks an expulsion provision. At best, per article 13, every other party may (with 1 year notice) withdraw from the treaty & join a new treaty excluding the party they want to expel. Article 8 prohibits parties of the treaty from entering “into any international engagement in conflict with this Treaty”.
A unanimous agreement to change the treaty to enable expulsion is another possibility.
- Comment on Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS 3 days ago:
Nothing bad ever came from this.
Except everything bad that came from it? That’s some serious selective attention.
- Comment on Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS 3 days ago:
I truly believe things would not have gotten nearly as insane as they are had Google not decided to ban him.
Popular culture became complacent by over-relying on censorship instead of openly educating, criticizing, and discrediting idiots as was effectively done before with deference to free speech values.
- Comment on Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS 3 days ago:
What about censoring neo Nazis?
ineffective, disastrous, & still no bueno
- Comment on Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS 3 days ago:
limits on hate speech
which is bullshit: not being merely offended is not a fundamental liberty, no imminent risk of damage to an interest a person has a basic right to results from merely expressing an opinion.
such laws are readily abused
- German repression of political expression: live police suppressing pro-Palestinian protests as anti-semitic, raids & arrests over calling a politician pimmel, internet patrols penalizing vitriol, insults, & satirical images of politicians showing fake quotes
- UK repression of political expression: designate Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, arrest pro-Palestinian protesters, arrest someone over a social media post backing Palestine Action
& ineffective at preventing the ideas & ideologies they oppose from taking root & gaining power. the advocates of repressive policies are only mildly inconvenienced or continue undeterred underground. the German AfD isn’t struggling. far-right parties like Reform UK keep going. so, they fail to keep anyone in check while also undermining basic freedoms.
ability to justify truth & correctness is far more important than attempting to coerce conformity to correctness through dogma, taboo, & censorship. weak ability to justify makes people incompetent defenders & weak believers of correctness. individuals hone justifications & acquire competence to deliberate effectively through practice of vigorous & open deliberation with adversarial positions. censorship, even of incorrect belief, robs both those whose speech is suppressed and their audience of open deliberation they need to justify their beliefs and actions competently & effectively.
only cowards fear words.
- Comment on Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS 3 days ago:
there’s no such thing as “governmental overreach” in a well working system that is FOR the people and BY the people
Nope: two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.
Coercive power can be turned against the individual democratically. A system that gives government the power necessary to protect individual liberty but also denies it authority to abuse liberties is necessary.
civil disobedience, not by corporatist overreach
“corporatist overreach” can be civil disobedience & legal challenges.
- Comment on X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 4 days ago:
Actual child sexual abuse is equally as bad as fiction? Are you trying to distort truth or diminish the meaning of child sexual abuse until it’s meaningless?
So, pull X-only client, but keep everything client that still accesses X, which results in no effective change: what does that accomplish?
- Comment on X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 4 days ago:
The browser can access X. Isn’t material produced from actual child sexual abuse worse than depictions generated without it?
- Comment on Innocent African-American child George Stinney executed after being falsely accused of murdering two white girls | 1944 4 days ago:
Define NSFW & explain how this qualifies?
- Comment on X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 4 days ago:
Should they pull every web browser, too? They can clearly be used for nefarious purposes.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 4 days ago:
With all the cranks on here, downvotes are a sign of doing something right. Some instances hide downvotes entirely. Others offer settings to not show them.
Not sure blocking them affects the downvote count shown to you.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 5 days ago:
So, your argument is that
explanation = approval
? That pathetically superficial take pretty much amounts to media illiteracy[^media-illiteracy]: see fallacy Confusing an Explanation with an Excuse.
Can anyone factually explain atrocities in your presence without you treating any explanation as a defense even when it’s explicitly stated that the explained subject is immoral?
They answered the question & your not liking the answer doesn’t make it less true. There are better ways to deal with facts than insufferable irrationality.
[^media-illiteracy]: > @JUNlPER
> this is always one that gets me. so many people are unable to realize that you can present characters doing something bad without endorsing it. not sure when this kind of baby brained thing started but its so silly to see so often > >> @ducktales2020
>> more than anything they conflate Presenting Something with Agreeing With Something, but don’t apply it to good guy/bad guy narratives. when everyone’s bad they short circuit - Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 1 week ago:
Trump approves
you, good job - Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
The answers to all those questions may be yes.
People who make those works aren’t necessarily the best authorities on their condition even if they have it: they’re still fallible humans with blind spots who’ve only lived as themselves without another version of themselves to compare. Much like how competent speakers may lack explicit awareness of the subtle nuances of their language, just having a condition doesn’t make someone acutely aware of the distinctions that set it apart.
They may also be flat out wrong about having the condition, since it is the internet after all.
Some of it is a matter of degree where it’s relatable to everybody within manageable limits but a dysfunction beyond those limits.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
Are untrained people as accurate at diagnosing themselves as the professionals with degrees who spend years to train for it?
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 1 week ago:
Your judgement seems baseless and irrational. Be better.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 week ago:
That’s the whole western hemisphere.
I also loathed when they tried to teach me that custom, especially the whole utensils switching hands deal: it’s especially frustrating for a young child who will fumble and drop utensils to the floor trying pointlessly unnecessary maneuvers.
I loathe the European convention just as much: bring pointy, sharp thing to mouth in less coordinated hand? Fuck no.
I don’t follow either convention. Instead
- utensil that approaches mouth (fork or spoon) in dominant hand: least chance of fumbling, dropping food, self-injury
- knife in non-dominant hand: cutting doesn’t require fine coordination (practice makes it 2nd nature) & fumbled knife ends up on plate
- utensils never switch hands: minimizes fumbling.
Basically, the European convention with opposite hands.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 1 week ago:
Exposure therapy: nuke yourself a few times. Your anxiety will vanish.
- Comment on I love science 1 week ago:
It’s saying their face goes 🫤 at the sight of hard math & theory. Does it not?
- Comment on I love science 1 week ago:
And they’re saying that’s you.
- Comment on I WILL yuck your yum if you force-feed me a yum that is dumb 1 week ago:
While I approve the sentiment, your post needs accessibility.
- Comment on Global outrage as X’s Grok morphs photos of women, children into explicit content 1 week ago:
- Comment on 🐦⬛ Blackbird singing in the dead of night... (人´▽`*)♪ 1 week ago:
That’s a whole lot of inaccessible words stuffed in an image where a link would have made sense for everybody.
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 2 weeks ago:
It’s pretty easy: is there conclusive evidence? Corollary: can you successfully eliminate conclusive evidence?
- Comment on How to reduce the crime rate to 0 2 weeks ago:
Annie Lööf
I don’t think the rest of the world knows or cares who that is. They just see a (possibly spoof) caption of someone (off the street?) speaking.
- Comment on w e a k n e s s 2 weeks ago:
Then you’re just being ableist & denying the disabled shit.
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 2 weeks ago:
The common denominator of liberalism is the core liberal philosophy of universal individual rights & liberties, consent of the governed (governments exist for the people who have a right to change & replace them, & authority is legitimate only when it protects those liberties), political & legal equality. US modern liberalism primarily refers to social liberalism. Liberalism elsewhere often refers to classical liberalism which more closely corresponds to US libertarianism.
American versus European usage of liberalism
Colloquially, liberalism is used differently, in its primary use in different countries. In the United States the general term liberalism almost always refers to modern liberalism. There are some parties in Europe which nominally appeal to social liberalism, with the Beveridge Group faction within the Liberal Democrats, the Danish Social Liberal Party, the Democratic Movement, and the Italian Republican Party. One of the greatest contrasts is between the usage in the United States and usage in Europe and Latin America. According to Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (writing in 1956), “[l]iberalism in the American usage has little in common with the word as used in the politics of any European country, save possibly Britain.” In Europe, liberalism usually means what is sometimes called classical liberalism, a commitment to limited government, laissez-faire economics. This classical liberalism sometimes more closely corresponds to the American definition of libertarianism, although some distinguish between classical liberalism and libertarianism.
What constitutes a liberal party is highly debatable. In the list below, it is defined as a political party that adheres to the basic principles of political liberalism. This is a broad political current, including left-wing, centrist and right-wing elements. All liberal parties emphasise individual rights, but they differ in their opinion on an active role for the state. This list includes parties of different character, ranging from classical liberalism to social liberalism, conservative liberalism to national liberalism.
Several conservative and/or Christian-democratic parties, such as the British Conservative Party, Germany’s Christian Democratic Union and Spain’s People’s Party, are also considered to be neoliberal leaning or have strong liberal conservative and/or classical liberal factions, whereas some conservative parties, such as Poland’s Law and Justice and Hungary’s Fidesz, favour more state intervention but also support free-market solutions. Conversely, some social-democratic parties, such as the British Labour Party and the Italian Democratic Party, include liberal elements. Social liberalism and social conservatism are not mutually exclusive, and some parties espouse socially liberal economic policies, while maintaining more socially conservative or traditionalist views on society: examples of this include Finland’s Centre Party (see also Nordic agrarian parties) and Ireland’s Fianna Fáil, both members of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE Party). In the United States, the two major political forces, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, are to some extent, liberal (see Liberalism in the United States and Modern liberalism in the United States).
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Not all the parties using the “Liberal” or “Freedom” labels are actually liberal. Moreover, some parties, such as the Freedom Party of Austria, were originally liberal, but have since tilted toward a populist direction and abandoned most of the tenets of liberalism. Finally, some parties, such as the United States Republican Party, Australia’s Liberal Party or Norway’s Progress Party are liberal mainly from an economic point of view rather than a social point of view (see economic liberalism, libertarianism and right-libertarianism).
