bampop

@bampop@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You even get a free cremation. Saves time and money!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My kind of Doctor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The balls are there so you can act out fun choking scenarios with your 3 year old kid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite recent advances, it's still possible to identify AI slop if you know what to look for.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We don’t talk about the homunculus

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AI my ass, they just don’t want people to bypass the paywall

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8 characters? How about we make it 16?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You have used the safe word correctly. Now please identify all the squares with traffic lights in them so we can email you a six digit code in order to proceed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These particular protests at this time appear to be sparked by the ban on certain slogans. You can’t directly change the policies of Israel by waving signs in Queensland. But if your state government is carrying water for Israel by selectively banning political speech, that is absolutely a local issue and one that needs to be addressed. It’s not just an issue of free speech, but also of corrupt politicians serving zionist lobbies. By addressing that local issue, in Australia and elsewhere, we can weaken the grip that the zionist lobby has had on large swathes of the global political establishment. The benefits of doing so are not just going to be felt by Palestinians. The network of corruption, blackmail and bribery that underpins this worldwide system of control is making us all worse off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll try not to overlap too much with what shads has said, since they really gave a better explained and more complete answer than I would have.

  What interests me here is the disparity between our points of view. In the spirit of finding understanding and common ground, as you have championed, I’d consider digging a little deeper into that. Of course I can only say how it looks from my point of view. It seems that your point of view is that we should all seek to be cogs in the machine, and any concerns we may have about the nature of the machine should be discussed quietly without ruffling anyone’s feathers. The problem I have with that, is that the machine is clearly working to increase corruption and wealth disparity. We are heading for disaster.

  So while there is great social value in work and building a strong economy, it is also extremely important to call out injustice and corruption, and fight for the rights and representation of the people. Otherwise those economic benefits will only expand the financial obesity of a few people, while 99% of us are gradually reduced to serfdom or worse.

  And this, it seems to me, is where you have a blind spot. You’re saying that protesting and wearing banned slogans on clothing is a bad thing. We’re focusing on a particular act of protest which was clearly successful, as it brought publicity to the absurdity and overreach of this ban on speech, while also combating the chilling effect it was intended to have. But you will not acknowledge that it was successful. You say it only serves to polarize opinion against the protestor. I can only suppose that this reflects your personal reaction to it. You’re applying a circular logic that says because you feel negatively about protest, then protest must be a bad thing because it only causes negative feelings.

  But circular logic aside, why else would you feel negatively about this? Is this woman not fighting for your rights? Is she not fighting against corruption and injustice? It seems your principal argument is mainly about the ineffectiveness of that action, which rests on your own perception and the aforementioned circular logic.

  I wonder where those self-reinforcing negative feelings come from. I would guess they are the product of conservative ideology, which even if you disagree with it on principle, seems to have left a tendency to view certain groups of people, such as students or protestors, in an overwhelmingly negative light. Is further education, or taking a stand against corruption, really such a bad thing? Where does the reinforcement of that mindset come from? Who does it serve?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  By “contributing to society” do you mean stuck at work all week, too busy, too exhausted and too tied up by your financial obligations to ever dare to rock the boat in any way? These students and retirees don’t have too much time on their hands. They have ENOUGH time on their hands to get out there and make a difference. I would hate to live in a world where no person is ever free enough to do such a thing, but that is the way things are going. I guess you’ll be very happy to get there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨owo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yellow’s got some potential

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You assume that I assume that you disagree with me.

  Well, I am making a counterpoint to your comments about people having nothing better to do and not having a common goal as a collective. This one woman achieved something extremely worthwhile, and probably wasn’t working in isolation. She brought attention to some absurd bans on free speech, and by calling the government’s bluff on it, helped to reduce the chilling effect on dissent that such restrictions are intended to create. It takes courage, but the most effective way to oppose an unjust law is to break that law, openly and with as much publicity as possible. It draws attention to what is wrong in a way that an open chat simply fails to do.

  I’m not opposed to verbal persuasion, but it has limitations. Sure you might be able to convince one person of something in a face to face conversation. But that’s small fry compared to the influence of internet forums, which have become overrun with bots, paid shills, foreign interference, partisan moderators and hidden algorithms designed to maximize engagement and promote particular viewpoints.

  Sure you can try to change people’s minds and/or maintain a balanced worldview in that arena. But any large scale forum for talk tends to create delusion, division and outrage, by design. It keeps dissent in a form that is limited and manipulated. Keep talking by all means, but people like this woman are doing more to improve the world than mere talk ever could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can get arrested and jailed for wearing a shirt saying “from the river to the sea”, that means your government is suppressing your free speech in service to the genocidal regime of a different country. Even if you don’t care about the genocide, the subversion of your democracy by a foreign power is something that any responsible citizen should be fighting against.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is a special place in hell for these scientists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK but hear me out here, I think I have the beginnings of a business plan:

  1. Create the Torment Nexus

  2. ?

  3. Profit

  Some components of the plan are still under development, but let’s not lose momentum here. We can advance with the initial phase while brainstorming to refine the plan in real time as we progress. It’s an exciting opportunity and we mustn’t forfeit our first-to-market advantage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bold words⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hold the door!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bold words⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Past self: “oh look an old person having a stroke”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No lowballs, please. I know what I have.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m calling bullshit. Why would anyone sell that? It’s like selling a piece of your soul

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Gargamel Research Institute

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liminal Space⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, this could mean the end of the great advertising war! The corporations want to stick their endless adverts in front of our eyeballs, we want to live without that crap. What this gives us is the possibility of a truce. They let us have internet and TV and operating systems and fridges with no adverts in them. In return, each of us provides one eyeball-equipped consciousness which spends its entire existence trapped in the torment nexus. It’s a reasonable compromise!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liminal Space⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This could be exactly the scientific breakthrough we needed. Imagine a future where we all have one of these and it watches ads on your behalf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a pretty huge step to arrest a member of the royal family. They even did it on his birthday, which is just the icing on the cake. In principle he doesn’t deserve to be treated differently from any other pedo rapist, but in practice, I don’t think the police would do a thing like this unless they really, really mean business. It would be too risky for the careers of everyone involved, unless they felt they had a rock solid case and no choice but to proceed with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨between medicine and this, we do not honour rats enough⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do hope it has a little speaker that says “don’t worry human, help is on its way” in a cute high pitched voice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is #FFFFFF white, but mixing red green and blue paint is black?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pigment (or really anything that absorbs/blocks light) is subtractive color. CMY(K) is commonly used in printing, but you could just as easily use RGB pigments instead.

  There’s a reason CMYK is used for printing. How are you going to mix RGB pigments to get yellow? R+G won’t work. That’s because red ink filters out green and blue light, and green ink filters out red and blue light. So mixing the two you get something that filters out a bit of everything but especially blue, ie. brown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s where you’re wrong. The cow is real but you can’t see it because it has 0% opacity. There’s not many “unexplained” events that still don’t make sense when you know there’s a transparent cow out there somewhere

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An oopsie occured⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you like to leave any feedback to your driver? If you purchase a funeral wreath we can print your comments on a card and attach it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An oopsie occured⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably hit a fairground carousel

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well… yes? AFAIK that was Alex Jones talking about endocrine disruption caused by atrazine in herbicides. Frogs turning gay seems a silly thing to focus on, but in principal the health effects of herbicides are a valid concern. By turning it into a joke, intentionally or not, he was doing his bit to invalidate serious concerns on the issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So weird that companies waste so much time trying to find ways to stop me from stopping them from wasting my time.

  Maybe they should do a study in exactly where the ad revenue comes from. I strongly suspect that people who use ad blockers, and people who potentially generate revenue from ads, are two non-intersecting sets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not by accident. Every right wing conspiracy is a ridiculous pastiche of the shit they are really getting up to, or intend to in the near future. No doubt Pizzagate was invented to make people incredulous about claims of secret cabals of kid rapists in elite circles. Every accusation a confession.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with what you’re saying, but also I think that after a crisis like the current one, there is potential to seriously examine general questions of how we got here, what systemic problems have led to this, and what weaknesses in our systems have been exposed by this. It’s a unique opportunity to fix what is broken, because all serious people can find common ground in the understanding that things have gone to shit lately and that it does need fixing. It’s a rare chance for good faith discussion and significant change. Well-informed proponents of positive change might actually be heard and taken seriously.

  The dangers of false propaganda using image manipulation is one important consideration but there are many, many others. You’d probably want to start with the failure of democracy in the USA and how the electoral system needs to be reformed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Previous presidencies have indeed done that, but that’s why this particular situation gives me a glimmer of hope. The rot is at the point where it all needs to be ripped out. All branches of government are loaded with MAGA appointees, the supreme court is politicized and disgraced, the whole Republican party is complicit in crimes against the nation. Business as usual just isn’t an option any more. I’m not saying that things are automatically going to get better, and unless there is a major cleanout of the Democratic party, it’s doubtful that they would. Just saying that there is a chance now that didn’t exist before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I mean, obviously it’s a bad thing in the short term. I’m sure the current administration will continue to lie in more egregious ways. For example, if there were no clear bystander videos, would the DHS be releasing doctored bodycam footage to show Alex Pretti pulling his gun and trying to shoot ICE officers? Does that sound far-fetched? It’s technically feasible. It might seem too big and blatant a lie, but that lie has already been told in words from the DHS and Trump administration. Why not embellish it further?

  And of course it’s enormously dangerous because no matter how blatant the lies are, there are many people who will accept them at face value, because they are too uneducated, or too locked into the “them and us” mentality to ever doubt the story that “their team” is selling them.

  So how could it be a good thing? Well, if the USA manages to rid itself of this cancer, the Trump administration will serve as irrefutable proof that government institutions cannot be considered intrinsically trustworthy, or relied on to act in good faith. There needs to be checks and balances like never before. That was always true, but knowing it and being able to act on it are two different things. The Trump administration’s eagerness to lie, cheat and cause suffering, even in the most clumsy and blatant ways, shines a clear light on dangers that were already there. It is an exemplary model of the abuse of power, and I hope that one day we will be in a position to take lessons from it. Maybe I’m being overoptimistic. It seems like the lessons learned from Nazi Germany were mostly the “how to do this” kind. But there is a chance to make things better here, not just better than they are now but better than they were before.