astutemural
@astutemural@midwest.social
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 4 days ago:
ITT: people who haven’t seen the movie, I guess.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 5 days ago:
You’re still streaming music?
- Comment on Or the common cold! 2 weeks ago:
Allergy desensitization therapy was invented in 1911. It’s just that your insurance company doesn’t consider it a ‘necessary procedure’, so they don’t pay for it.
- Comment on Political discourse 2 weeks ago:
Nope. Other countries having bad policy is no excuse for our country to. We’re the fucking wealthiest country on Earth. Oh, and people like you who insist that structural change is impossible is the reason change is impossible. You are a self-fulfilling prophecy that continues our country’s policy of commiting social murder. You are the problem.
- Comment on Political discourse 2 weeks ago:
The idea that we don’t have the resources to help everyone is patently false. We could provide for everyone on Earth with about 40% of total production. The problem is not the very poor, crammed into tiny apartments and eating bad food. The problem is the ultrawealthy controlling orders of magnitude more wealth than they could even remotely need.
Secondly, again: claiming we need to help ‘our own’ before ‘others’ is inherently exclusionary. I count every person on Earth as ‘our own’. You apparently don’t.
- Comment on Political discourse 2 weeks ago:
See, the problem is that you think immigrants don’t deserve basic human dignity, while we do. I don’t care if someone is born in Missouri or Mexico City; they both deserve guaranteed access to basic services, and we as a country are more than wealthy enough to provide it.
- Comment on Political discourse 2 weeks ago:
It’s hard to avoid politics when giving kids lunch at school is fucking political for some reason.
There is a group to blame for politicizing everything, and it is disingenuous to blame ‘people’ in general instead of that group in particular.
- Comment on Political discourse 2 weeks ago:
Bruh there’s like a triple-digit number of tankies in all of North America lmao. Meanwhile half of the USA is MAGA. If you need to visualize this, go look for literally any act of violence motivated by far-left beliefs. There’s what, like two in the last 30 years? Claiming any sort of equivalence between MAGA and the left is just false.
- Comment on Decided to dig a big hole 2 weeks ago:
Crosspost this to Dull Men’s Club
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 4 weeks ago:
I accidentally scheduled a vacation to Chicago during Mexican Independence Day, which apparently is a huge deal in Chicago. When I got there, the entire downtown area was completely shut down as Mexicans had been roaring up and down every street in trucks for the last two days. The Chicago PD had blockaded every exit off the highway within two miles of downtown to try and stop it. It didn’t- it just limited them to doing it on the highway breakdown lanes and the actual fucking grass medians.
The moral of the story? If the above is what the Mexican population of Chicago does for fun, I’d dread to see what they do in the face of an actual threat.
- Comment on Ding ding ditch is punishable by death apparently 4 weeks ago:
Not really, no.
Firearms and cars are the top two causes of death for children in the USA.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 5 weeks ago:
WE WILL DRAIN THE RIVERS DRY TO QUENCH OUR THIRST
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 5 weeks ago:
Inb4 they’re used to deport us all to Ecuador for not being Aryan Christian enough.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
https://lemmy.world/c/fuckcars
70% of US drivers think they’re in the top 20% of drivers. You can see why this is a problem. Get rid of them, they ain’t nothing but trouble.
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 1 month ago:
People: The surveillance state will eliminate privacy!
Rando on the internet: If you wanted your house to be private you shouldn’t have had grass.
- Comment on playlist for one of those days 1 month ago:
We’vehadtosayalotofstuffwethoughtwasfuckingobvious
But yes
It’s O-K to punch Nazis!
- Comment on Watching the news can be dangerous 1 month ago:
So this is obviously saitire, but it gives me a bit of an SCP vibe. Like a Ronald Reagan Cut Up While Talking vibe.
- Comment on Remember to 2FA your kidneys. 1 month ago:
Used to agree to this, until it turned out that SMS basically doesn’t work in rural areas.. Theoretically you can get a voice call with the code, but I’ve personally ran into instances where the 2FA voice call simply doesn’t work on landlines. If we’re going to do 2FA, it has to be something so universal anyone can do it. So far, I don’t think we’ve achieved that. I think people have a right to access banking services, etc, and if 2FA doesn’t work for them, we’re deciding to simply ban them from using those services. Doesn’t sit right with me.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 month ago:
Tip your fellow workers. Agitate for companies to pay their workers a living wage, but in the meantime - tip your comrades.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 month ago:
OH MY GOD! They tried to scam you out of a whole $1.49!!!
Don’t care. Round up to ten, you greedy cardboard cutout of a person.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 1 month ago:
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 month ago:
That sounds like a ‘them’ problem. Veganism is based.
- Comment on It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots 1 month ago:
Well you’re cranky, aintcha.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 1 month ago:
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 1 month ago:
Looks like books are back on the menu, boys.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 month ago:
ITT: people really upset at being called ‘vegan’ for some reason.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 1 month ago:
Just switched to noai.duckduckgo.com. Thanks stranger!
- Comment on Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows 1 month ago:
I mean, would you not want to do this specifically to see it’s effects on marginalized groups? That seems like a pretty good reason to me.
- Comment on It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots 1 month ago:
Yes. We do this literally every day. We pay taxes on what we earn to support those less fortunate. We share with food with coworkers and tools with neighbors. We have EMTs, firemen, and SAR who wilfully run into danger to help people they’ve never met. It’s literally the foundation of society.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 month ago:
Ah yes, because there are only two parties.
This is entirely an emergent property of FPTP voting. Just do PPV or something, smh my head.
