Initiateofthevoid
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- Comment on Lies of P: Overture devs actually rewarded for making a solid DLC in rare industry W: Getting a bonus, 2 weeks vacation, and a free Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
The entire point is this:
- the company is doing well
- the company is rewarding its employees because the company is doing well
In a world where companies boast record profits in the same breathe as announce mass layoffs, this is good news.
- Comment on Thank you for your attention to this matter. 3 weeks ago:
they’re just absolutely awful people working their way down their terrible agenda.
- Tariffs - destabilize foreign relations, isolate the US even more than it already is, reinforce American exceptionalism and xenophobia, personally profit off of market fluctuations
- Elon / DOGE - solidify authoritarian and oligarchic control by ripping apart internal buearacratic barriers, placing spies and saboteurs in critical positions, dismantling key federal agencies, and preventing enforcement of any regulations against corporate interests.
- ICE - reinforce xenophobia, incite civil unrest as justification for military oppression, use vulnerable populations as scapegoats for all of our economic problems
- Universities - inhibit progress by destabilizing and occupying their greatest political threat. Youth without major responsibilities or jobs, and old retirees, are literally the two most powerful and vulnerable political forces in the world.
- Gaza and Iran are literally the same thing - support Israel and the Military Industrial Complex. Spread hatred and fear as a means of reinforcing authoritarian control.
The budget bill, too. It’s all fascism, all the time. These aren’t distractions. These are all the same threat, and we need to band together and put an end to it.
- Comment on If you were to launch a rocketship parallel to the earth, on wheels, how big would the ramp have to be to get it into space? 3 weeks ago:
Love the write up!
Another great example is how insanely hard it actually is to hurl something into the sun. Intuitively, people think gravity does the work. Like the escape pod, you should be able to just point at the sun and go.
But the moment you escape Earth’s gravity well, you’re still going almost (or more than) the speed of Earth. You’re now orbitting the sun by yourself. The only way to reach the sun is to slow down and lose all of that orbital velocity. It’s significantly easier to escape the sun than it is to actually touch it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s called Dark Matter. C’mon, what’s more likely, 85% of the universe is completely unobservable by chance? Or by design?
Any post-scarcity civilization that advances past Prime Directive territory just quantum-shifts half a dimension to the left so they can all hang out together without bothering anyone else.
Aliens don’t judge you, though. No judgemental species can collaborate long enough to go Dark, you either evolve past those primitive instincts or self-destruct.
- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 4 weeks ago:
You don’t. That’s not even a dogwhistle, it’s outright racism and transphobia, and isn’t worth responding to any more than the normal flavors of racist. Report, block, and (for mods) ban.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, too many people keep acting like “hold up a sign” and “start shooting” are the only two political actions possible. There is a vast array of disruptions and threats to the status quo that do not require violence.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely. Wealth isn’t competence, and too much of it fundamentally leads to an emotional and psychological disconnect with other humans. Generational wealth creates sheltered, twisted perspectives in youth who have enough money and influence to just fail upward their entire lives.
“New” wealth creates egocentric narcissists who believe they “earned” their position. “If everyone else just does what I did, they’d be wealthy like me. If they don’t do what I did, they must not be as smart or hard-working as me.”
Really all of meritocracy is just survivorship bias, and countless people are smarter and more hard-working, just significantly less lucky. Once someone has enough capital that it starts generating more wealth on its own - in excess of their living expenses even without a salary - life just becomes a game to them, and they start trying to figure out how to “earn” more points.
- Comment on Make it stop 4 weeks ago:
I’ll do you one further - their pay is no more than 3x the minimum unemployment benefit. This means maximum 3x the minimum wage, minus whatever unemployment doesn’t normally pay out.
(Federal for federal congress and executives, state for state congress and governors, etc.).
Their healthcare plan must be basic medicare (or their district’s minimum socially provided healthcare plan, if it covers more)
They must divulge past 5 years of tax returns to be on the ballot, and divest all stocks and blind-trust all assets to take office. Failure to do so defaults ownership of the asset(s) to the Treasury.
Merge medicaid into medicare and provide it universally for free, and wow, a whole lot of problems disappear like magic. It’s a pipe dream, and still nowhere near enough to fix everything, but the transformation would be dramatic.
- Comment on Basically 4 weeks ago:
That’s some incredible history. I hope your family has (carefully) taken scans and such!
That was an incredibly prescient move by the Reverend. And also an insane amount of money!? That’s somewhere around a quarter of a billion pounds today?
- Comment on Basically 4 weeks ago:
They wouldn’t even remotely be surprised. They knew this type of shit was inevitable, and that any generation under any system would have to face the ever-present threat of tyrants.
Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force and not of right.
-Thomas Jefferson
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissention, which in different ages & countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
-George Washington
[The Constitution founded a] Republic, if you can keep it.
Benjamin Franklin
- Comment on Basically 4 weeks ago:
Six years passed between the Boston Massacre and the Declaration of Independence. Six years. And Boston was not the first issue, just the worst. They were working on the opposition movement for a long time.
If anything, the idea that protests in Chicago and DC could appear within two days of the federal LA invasion would be astounding to them. Some guy on a horse would still be riding through the Rocky Mountains to bring the news.
The only issue is, the news has gone from :
hear ye, hear ye, the king said this 3 months ago!
And everyone physically gathering in squares and pubs for weeks to say “hey what the fuck?”
To:
did you hear what <insert random dickhead> said 5 seconds ago?
And everyone clicking like, subscribe, and next!
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 4 weeks ago:
I came to the comments really hoping more people would be talking about the fact that it took 14 minutes, I thought that was the joke
- Comment on Hong Kong warns downloading game could be national security crime 4 weeks ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 4 weeks ago:
I can’t unlock my phone with my thumbprint anymore.
There’s a different tip here, but I can’t quite put my finger on it.
- Comment on I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought.... 5 weeks ago:
Oh now it’s about flag burning?
Fuck the optics. Wave the flag of our allies who are under attack in this nation, and refuse any suggestion that they are our enemies. Freedom of speech is patriotic as fuck.
- Comment on Mission impossible 5 weeks ago:
nothing happened because I was reasonable and took everything slow.
That’s fair! It does all come down to taking things slow
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 5 weeks ago:
Could just be their local internet quality. Which, still, not a VPN problem.
- Comment on Mission impossible 5 weeks ago:
If nothing else lift heavy things off the ground like with deadlifts.
You got the spirit, but everyone - do NOT do this if you’re extremely out shape or don’t know proper form. Lift with your legs first and only.
Of all the possible exercises to start with, deadlifting is by far the most likely to permanently damage your back. If you need to start small, start with core and trunk exercises like crunches and squats.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 5 weeks ago:
it’s annoying that […] the largest most powerful companies are […] built on stolen [wealth], destroying communities […] and consuming more natural resources than [everyone else combined]
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 weeks ago:
No, we should regain control of our nation from fascists (this does not mean just replace the President), then nationalize SpaceX and Starlink, and make telecoms public utilities.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Recall feature is still threat to privacy despite recent tweaks 5 weeks ago:
They used the invasion of privacy to destroy the invasion of privacy?
- Comment on Companies are using Ribbon AI, an AI interviewer to screen candidates. 5 weeks ago:
Before shoes? Amish? My goodness. I didn’t realize I was a savage Luddite. I’m on the most pro-AI instance in the fediverse, I literally think it has incredible potential, and I personally use the technology.
It’s not ready to evaluate humans on any level, it’s dehumanizing to force humans to talk to it for money, and it’s definitely going to filter out skilled professionals who don’t want to do that. As opposed to RNG, which is just as likely to filter out good as bad, and so has a net neutral impact on your hiring pool.
I’m not saying “stick to the past” I’m saying “hey maybe take it easy over there, we don’t need to rush into a cyberpunk dystopia. We can take our time.”
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 5 weeks ago:
Like… a horn?
- Comment on Four NYPD officers converged on one woman on a bike because she smiled at them, then detained her because she wasn't carrying ID. 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter if they can prove it or not. ID, documents, birth certificate, none of it matters without due process.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was specifically prohibited from being deported to El Salvador. He literally had an order from a US immigration judge that said he cannot be legally sent there in particular, because of the risk to his life.
- Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible. 5 weeks ago:
No, it’s not, and that still isn’t what you said, which was “start to finish” manufacturing.
Car dealerships financing a loan is literally just selling you a car on credit. You still have full choice there, and can mix and match your source of car and your source of finance at will. You can get a loan from any bank to buy a car from any dealership.
A vision insurance company limits the manufacturers you can buy from, and is almost exclusively sold as a bundle with employer provided health insurance. You don’t have nearly the same ability to choose the source of your insurance or the manufacturer of your glasses, and they literally decide what price you’re allowed to pay, there is no negotiation.
- Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible. 5 weeks ago:
The same company manufacturing eyeglasses and providing vision insurance isn’t “start to finish” manufacturing.
- Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible. 5 weeks ago:
“You don’t need a formal conspriacy when their interests converge.” "It’s a big club, and you’re not in it"
- George Carlin
That being said, very likely that - like Xitter - they intentionally amplify activity that benefits their interests. We know for a fact that Reddit was founded on astroturf.
- Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible. 5 weeks ago:
(And as we’ve seen under Trump), those ties can be abused.
You mean because the holder of the highest position in government is upset about the exercise of free speech by PBS and NPR?
Those ties that we have seen where the government is trying - and so far failing - to crush those outlets for dissent, and are actively being sued for it? That abuse?
- Comment on The future of warfare is now 5 weeks ago:
I’m not making light of casualties, I’m making light of the baseless claim that there even could be casualties, because I reiterate:
If they had identified Ukrainians smuggling weapons platforms into the country, the whole operation would have failed.
You think if they found spotters deep in Russian territory near their nuclear bombers the operation would have succeeded?
So, you’re not gonna defend the claim that we should worry about retaliation? Just move the conversation elsewhere? This is so incredibly bad faith.
To quite treating this bloodbath as a fucking football game.
Congratulations, it’s not working. You just sound like a cheerleader yourself.
- Comment on The future of warfare is now 5 weeks ago:
Lol what unreported casualties do you imagine there could even be? The drone operators developing carpal tunnel?
And then nobody wants to talk about retaliation as a consequence.
Right, because Russia hasn’t been trying until now? They haven’t really tried to crush Ukraine, they’ve just been playing around? But now that Ukraine has bloodied their nose, boy are they sure gonna find out what Russia’s capable of. Lol.
“Things will be worse once the bombs stop falling” is pure war propaganda.
No, “things will be worse when a nation is conquered by a hostile dictatorship” is not propaganda. Ukraine knows that for a fact, because they’ve been through this before.