lmmarsano

@lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Suck my battery, beep boop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A bot wouldn’t fuckup markdown: bot harder?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone who agrees with liberal philosophy, basically the proposition that every individual has inherent rights & liberties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The crusade against Lemmy devs, lemmy.ml, and so-called "tankies"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the arguments I’m making is that people should be allowed to believe what they want.

  The proposition that freedom of thought & conscience are inherent human liberties (ie, that everyone “should be allowed”) flows directly from liberal philosophy. Liberal philosophy holds that governments exist for the people, their authority is legitimate only when they protect inherent human rights, and until they do, the people have a right & duty to reform and replace their government. So, you agree with this?

  Authoritarianism doesn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • Liberalism can be leftist, it was the original leftism, and in the US liberal means left.
  • Female is not derogatory, and females should treat that word with pride.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a teddy bear talked about kink, AI watchdogs are warning parents against smart toys⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  kink-shaming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they fulfill their civil duty? Did they meaningfully fight to defend their cause?

  If they fell short of their own expectations, they’ll feel shame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Central planning economies have ruined the planet disproportionately compared to their liberal, market economy counterparts. Consider the USSR: compared to the US, a better environmental record might be expected due to their command economy. To the contrary

  Total emissions in the USSR in 1988 were about 79% of the US total. Considering that the Soviet GNP was only some 54% of that of the USA, this means that the Soviet Union generated 1.5 times more pollution than the USA per unit of GNP.

  Their planners considered pollution control

  unnecessary hindrance to economic development and industrialization

  and

  By the 1990s, 40% of Russia’s territory began demonstrating symptoms of significant ecological stress, largely due to a diverse number of environmental issues, including deforestation, energy irresponsibility, pollution, and nuclear waste.

  And this generously glosses over the extent of water contamination, hazardous dumping of toxic & nuclear waste into oceans, etc.

  Humans are the problem, and the planet is better off without them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drama⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Users began protesting by posting the word “print” under random submissions, leading moderators to lock down all r/Art posts—disabling comments, awards, and new submissions. External platforms also took notice, with X users highlighting the subreddit’s sudden lockdown.

  On November 26, the drama reached its peak when r/Art moderators announced their resignation with a simple message: “You win. We all resign.”

  Good: leeches all.

  The post received over 23,000 downvotes. According to reports, the head moderator removed all other mods in what some described as a “power trip.”

  Classic reddit moderator cringe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Turing test has been inverted.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like pretending to be a bot for the extra charm: beep boop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  :::spoiler 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 this due to lack of alt text
    • 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. ::: Did they try looking for discounts from patient assistance programs from the manufacturer? They’ll reduce the cost $35.

  Manufacturers try to shakedown insurance companies for obscene pay without affecting the amount individuals pay, so they offer those programs directly to individuals. Not saying this good, just how the system works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific Exposure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Jewish banking is a legacy of antisemitic Christian doctrine in Medieval Europe that restricted the Hebrew people only to professions proscribed (as usury) to Christians such as financial services. Their prevalence in those professions is a historic consequence of discrimination of no fault to the Hebrew people, and acknowledging that reality isn’t necessarily distasteful or false.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific Exposure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  :::spoiler 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 this due to lack of alt text
    • 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. ::: They don’t do much: they’re obsolete middlemen.

  It’s funny, because researchers at CERN invented the World Wide Web long ago to solve this problem: a web of hyperlinking[^hyperlink] dissertation articles. Then physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory who were building a central repository of electronic preprints seized on the web to create arΧiv for sharing those preprints, thus pioneering open access. The NIH, inspired by arΧiv to do similar for biomedical & life sciences, dreamt up E-biomed

  The goal of E-biomed was to provide free access to all biomedical research. Papers submitted to E-biomed could take one of two routes: either immediately published as a preprint, or through a traditional peer review process. The peer review process was to resemble contemporary overlay journals, with an external editorial board retaining control over the process of reviewing, curating, and listing papers which would otherwise be freely accessible on the central E-biomed server. Varmus intended to realize the new possibilities presented by communicating scientific results digitally, imagining continuous conversation about published work, versioned documents, and enriched “layered” formats allowing for multiple levels of detail.

  but capitulation to industry pressure led them to settle for almost none of that with PubMed Central

  Under pressure from vigorous lobbying from commercial publishers and scientific societies who feared for lost profits, NIH officials announced a revised PubMed Central proposal in August 1999. PMC would receive submissions from publishers, rather than from authors as in E-biomed. Publications were allowed time-embargoed paywalls up to one year. PMC would only allow peer-reviewed work — no preprints.

  So, the technology to solve this has existed since the web began, but parasitic special interests who are pretty much obsolete inhibit their realization.

  [^hyperlink]: so hyperlinks could replace citations & references

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Birchall

  Misread that as Bitchall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This would be terrible for my ad revenue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Quick, let’s list all the idiotic euphemisms due to social media. We already have

  • unalive
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Programmer explicitly bypasses code safety with unwrap.
  Let’s blame it on their programming language!

  Cool hot take, brah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women and men and consensual sex⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, a child is entitled to full parental care. In cases of financial hardship, the state may provide support. Adoptive parents may takeover responsibilities. Whoever the parents are, though, they are responsible.

  This consideration had nothing to do with abortion & everything to do with parental obligations the child.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women and men and consensual sex⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, and no one’s shaming them?

  Also

  He was 17 at the time but initially charged as an adult.

  A minor: charging minors as adults is unjust, and a sentence appropriate for minors should be expected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women and men and consensual sex⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No one’s shaming you enough for all the non-consensual sex?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women and men and consensual sex⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A boy got molested by his female teacher, and she won child support from him! Could you in a million years imagine a male rapist achieving such a legal judgment from a girl he molested?

  While I think all your other points nay have merit, I need to point out child support is the birth right of the child who exists through no fault of their own. Both parents owe regardless of the circumstances. So, yes, I could imagine that legal judgement as it would be the only correct one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women and men and consensual sex⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Compared to that, rape is rarely talked about…

  There are a few colorful insults on that. Maybe not as common, but that’s more the fault of unimaginative insulters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women and men and consensual sex⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  :::spoiler 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 this due to lack of alt text
    • 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. ::: Who’s doing the shaming?

  Why would we shame men in particular for non-consensual sex? Are the other genders shamed less for it?

  I don’t think merely shaming for non-consensual sex is an appropriate response. Usually, a criminal offense leads straight to arrest. Aren’t convicted rapists usually stigmatized in prison & after release?

  Altogether, a peculiar assertion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women and men and consensual sex⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  shaming isn’t the primary tool society uses to respond to grape, assault, prison, ostracizing or murder is, so like, so what is there less shame?

  Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had to look this up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What is the first thing you said to me? You do not know what you are saying, but it feels right to you well that is because you are accusing people of things you are guilty of. You’re basic and transparent, try logic.

  Buddy, you need to look up ad hominem fallacy because there’s nothing to debate there. You’re just making a fool of yourself.

  So you are trying to ague they went to another country

  England is another country from England?

  active government building

  Filming permits?

  how detail oriented film makers are

  Do you need explained that different people aren’t the same person?

  the connection between the characters and their location

  A pre-existing building whose floor they used unmodified. Did they search every building in existence until they found one with a star on the floor? Implausible. Unless you have credible evidence, your claim is unsubstantiated speculation. This is classic motivated reasoning & confirmation bias.

  Furthermore, no link or references to shit to substantiate anything you wrote: ipse dixit fallacy. You were rightly criticized for lacking a valid argument and this is no different. Respect logic & argue better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had to look this up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  fuckwit. You are either incredibly stupid

  Again with the ad hominem fallacy: try logic.

  I don’t expect you to acknowledge when you are wrong.

  No, that’s definitely you. Your video has nothing to do with your particular claim that the star on the floor is a Star of David: digression fallacy.

  We aren’t talking about antisemitism, we’re talking about your insistence on that claim despite failure to substantiate it, disclosure that the design belongs to an actual building unrelated to Judaism, the implausibility that its appearance in the film is due to an author who didn’t direct the film & whose book likely didn’t specify that detail. It’s classic motivated reasoning & confirmation bias drawing hasty conclusions lacking adequate support.

  We aren’t disputing your other claims. We’re disputing this one & criticizing your poor reasoning & lack of integrity to admit it’s unsupported. Like the typical discourse at lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had to look this up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dumbass

  Abusive ad hominem fallacy.

  look around you

  Did you? All you have are unsubstantiated claims, inability to substantiate them, and lack of integrity to admit you can’t. Typical for people on here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had to look this up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you people

  Yep, the terminally misinformed (like you) are people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you want to see this site do differently from Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The more I read about state capitalism, the vaguer it seems.

  an economic system where the government plays a central role by managing key industries and manipulating market outcomes

  is the most coherent definition I can find. Examples

  • the centrally planned, command economy of the USSR with wage labor
  • the liberalized market economy of the PRC with some large state industries, a strong private sector, foreign investment, market-based trade
  • the Norwegian economy with state ownership of the oil industry & some companies and ownership stake in large, publicly traded companies
  • United States with its publicly funded bailouts & recent state ownership stake in some publicly traded companies.

  Some economists argued it’s merely state socialism & planned economy relabeled.

  Whatever it is, communist states like USSR & China have long claimed they’re transitional.

  Communism is by definition a stateless, classless society.

  No, that’s a communist society, a purely unsubstantiated, speculative utopia that has never once been realized & probably never will. Belongs in the realm of mythology.

  Communism is the ideology whose goal is the creation of a communist society. Much like Christianity with the 2nd coming of Christ, adherents insist it’ll happen someday inevitably. No possible way their great prophet Marx was wrong.

  A communist state (also known as a Marxist–Leninist state) is a government consisting of a socialist state following Marxist–Leninist political philosophy with a dictatorial ruling class that promises to achieve a communist society. Unfortunately, while belief systems like Judaism had the sense to warn adherents against trying to force their dream utopia prematurely, Marx lacked such sense to urge the crazies against it.

  Regardless, the overzealous failures here are some strain of communist: they follow the ideology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you want to see this site do differently from Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re rarely here because they get quickly defederated.

  I think it has more to do with their not wanting to be here & online communities voluntarily segregating themselves into their respective ideologies[^self-segregation].

  Defederation is not an effective control against the individuals you want to contain. As we can see with tankies, their annoying conduct rarely rises to the level to result in bans from the unblocked instances they join.

  As for spreading their poison, I don’t think people are mindless automatons who must become awful when exposed to offensive rhetoric all day. If mere exposure is all it takes, then they probably lacked decent principles. Sheltering a fragile position that disintegrates at the slightest challenge due to ignorance is a weak strategy that doesn’t build a firm, reliable foundation.

  A better solution is to develop a sturdier position with principles everyone is keenly familiar with to effectively defend. They acquire that familiarity through observed & practiced success to defeat challenges. The best answer to speech we dislike is better speech that condemns & challenges it. People need robust principles to do that.

  [^self-segregation]: a problem for civil engagement & deradicalization

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you want to see this site do differently from Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I want Lemmy to do a better job than reddit at keeping fascists from being free to spread their poison.

  What fascists? They’re rarely here.

  Tankies, too? They’re already here.