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- Comment on How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state 1 day ago:
Now read some books and see how much Bill Clinton is directly to blame for most awful shit we’re dealing with today, and while you shouldn’t come to justify 9-11, you’ll understand its motivation correctly.
Bill Clinton and neo-libs like him is why we go right instead of left as a society.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
It’s not hard to find out what’s being pirated, BitTorrent isn’t private.
- Comment on US Border Patrol detained a nursing mother and separated her from her infant daughter to the point that she needed medical attention as a result of not being able to nurse 2 weeks ago:
Yes yes, voting for a right wing campaign calling unapologetically for the most lethal military while committing genocide is the moral choice that you made.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 2 weeks ago:
friend of mine had a ford like this. and it cost more than the car to fix after only 10-15ish years of use. its terrible.
Yeah, that’s just how it goes as the engine becomes more complex, leaving a dipstick there is not gonna change that…
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 2 weeks ago:
This is a reactionary response, you’re just arguing, slow down a bit.
Do you see a value in a check engine light that tells you something is wrong in between full inspections? This is similar, this is telling you there isn’t enough oil and damage is occurring before you get a chance to inspect the dipstick.
It’s not planned obsolescence unless they also make it unreasonable to service. We already expect to routinely service engines, and they are already very complex and full of sensors, sure this is adding to the complexity but it’s relatively pretty minor.
The argument being made, and I agree with it, is that the benefits of an additional long-serving sensor way outweigh the con of having one additional sensor in your car. You get early warning before damage occurs, you get built in fraud protection when you’re changing your oil at a shady chain, you eliminate a direct access port for dirt to contaminate the oil.
- Comment on A Presence-sensing Drive For Securely Storing Secrets 2 weeks ago:
The opportunity to take you usb drive and copying its content real quick while you are distracted momentarily is eliminated. I can then decrypt it by calling the guy I know.
But I can’t call the guy I know with the $50 setup that can extract the data for me in that time. It’s not 100% unbreakable, but that doesn’t have to be the criteria…
- Comment on [Debian Stable] Which Static Blog Generator: blag, Jekyll, Hugo, Lektor, Pelican, staticsite? 2 weeks ago:
I was hoping to find an answer the original question in this dialog.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 2 weeks ago:
Wether the teachers are a personal ai or a single human does not change that. Schools provide way more then just “a teacher”
That’s like exactly what he says, you just restated his take…
- Comment on The most powerful laser in the US recently produced 2 quadrillion watts of power 2 weeks ago:
The laser didn’t generate 2 quadrillion watts like a power plant would generate electricity, but it delivered that much power in an extremely short pulse, like 20 quadrillionths of a second.
That means the energy it delivered was relatively small (a few hundred joules), but because it was delivered in such a tiny time window, the power (which is energy per unit time) was immense.
The laser did produce power, in the form of intense light and heat, over a very small time period. It converted 2 quadrillion watts of electric energy into a very brief laser pulse.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 3 weeks ago:
The original WSL doesn’t use the Linux kernel at all, it’s a Windows Subsystem for compatibility with Linux. WSL2 actually visualizes a complete Linux kernel, but the name stuck.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 3 weeks ago:
Are you suggesting an alternative motive for Microsoft that does beyond profit?
- Comment on Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. 3 weeks ago:
Is you want to understand the spirit of the rules, look no further past the first one:
Calling for the dissolution of Israel, or calling for a one-state solution without specifying equal rights for all people; Jewish in particular.
Why Jewish in particular? How is “equal rights for all people” compatible with “one group of people in particular”?
Jewish supremacism, Israel and Zionism is Jewish ISIS, and trying to hide that part of Israel and punish any discourse around that problem is fascism.
They may let you call Israel fascist in passing, but they won’t let you describe its fascism, that is the bannable offense.
- Comment on Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews 3 weeks ago:
You assemble the same soulless food everyday and you actually feel fulfilled by assembling croutons differently every day?
Hey, I can’t imagine the process not becoming muscle memory and for my brain to not be somewhere else completely, but you sprinkle salt off your elbow if that gives you joy.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 3 weeks ago:
Are you okay?
If your single family home is worth $4 million, that is the market telling you that that single family home should not exist.
Right, an unsustainable bubble, I said that. This boomer family bought a reasonably sized and priced house that’s on the edge of the city, and now they’re forced to sell it and not be able to replace it with a bigger home on their budget in the same part of town, they didn’t fuck things up Zillow did!
The gen z family who buys today won’t be about to upsize tomorrow, and you’re gonna blame them.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 3 weeks ago:
Alright, so you’re a young gen z family and you buy your first home, which is all you can afford right now, you’re young and you’re starting your careers and your family.
In 10 years, property values have increased dramatically, and you’ve had a child and you’re thinking about your second. Your careers are going well, and you think we should maybe get a bigger place for our expanding family. But oh no, there’s an unsustainable housing marketing bubble that refuses to burst, so you can’t afford a bigger place anywhere near your job. So you build UP, like they do in every multi-generational home culture, you expand your living space as your family expands.
It’s not a crime or a moral failure to upgrade your home, and you shouldn’t jump at the opportunity to beat someone when they’re down just because you don’t empathize with this particular boomer homeowner.
- Comment on Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews 3 weeks ago:
The first paragraph is a fantasy.
In this restaurant, where the chef was replaced by a salad machine, the “chef” was a human salad machine before. There was no time to play with garnish and playing, they weren’t serving Michelin star food. The term “chef” is used very liberally here, you aren’t a chef if the only thing you cook at a restaurant is assemble salad that a machine can do to the same standard.
They were assembling salads, it wasn’t a dream job.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 3 weeks ago:
Yes, Gemini is their “AI” brand.
- Comment on Are people blind on PeerTube? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, yes, you named the benefits and convenience of a centralized system.
Federalized systems require individual federated maintenance, and that comes with some challenges, but maybe it’s not the worst thing in the world if the random videos you uploaded to youtube that never get any views eventually disappeared… Maybe the planet shouldn’t bear the burnt of indefinitely holding those videos in replicated backed up storage forever. Maybe that’s not valuable data we need for future civilizations.
What if a valuable creator dies and noone is there to run their instance? These are important things to consider and think through so we can solve them. Maybe the answer is a community driven peer node replication?
These aren’t unsolvable hurdles, they’ve been solved already.
- Comment on Israeli TV producer calls for 'Gaza holocaust, gas chambers' 4 weeks ago:
The Haganah’s opposition to Lehi wasn’t moral, it was strategic; both were Zionist terrorist militias committed to the same settler-colonial project, and while Lehi was more openly extremist, the Haganah orchestrated and executed the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 under a more ‘respectable’ facade. Don’t whitewash terrorists.
- Comment on Can local LLMs be as useful and insightful as those widely available? 5 weeks ago:
No, they said they “ruled out” privacy for “obvious reasons”.
Obviously mockable statement.
- Comment on U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids 5 weeks ago:
Yes, they will. You know what else will happen with community farms?
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You don’t need to long-haul your produce thousands of miles.
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You reduce fossil fuel usage associated with transportation and refrigeration.
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You significantly cut packaging waste (plastic wraps, cartons, trays).
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You eliminate or drastically reduce food spoilage during transit.
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You lower dependency on chemical preservatives needed for extended shelf life.
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You avoid industrial-scale pesticide and herbicide use that damages ecosystems.
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You decrease water waste from large-scale irrigation systems.
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You eliminate excessive food processing required for preservation and transport.
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You prevent large-scale soil degradation and erosion due to monoculture practices.
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You reduce greenhouse gas emissions from heavy machinery and vehicles.
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You minimize biodiversity loss caused by vast monocrop fields.
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You eliminate food waste from standardized aesthetic requirements (rejecting imperfect produce).
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You avoid the environmental harm and fossil fuel use from massive refrigerated storage facilities.
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You reduce deforestation and habitat destruction associated with industrial farming expansion.
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You significantly lower the risks of large-scale disease outbreaks and contamination.
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You reduce reliance on genetically modified crops engineered solely for transport durability.
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You prevent nutrient loss in produce caused by prolonged storage and transport times.
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You reduce economic vulnerabilities associated with centralization and supply-chain disruptions.
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You mitigate community health risks by providing fresher, nutrient-rich produce.
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You reduce noise, air, and water pollution associated with industrial farming machinery and processes.
children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange.And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot
Community farms are precisely about correcting this injustice. There’s so much watse in “profit”, and profit keeps growing.
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- Comment on U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids 5 weeks ago:
Saying that all factory jobs are bad is a silly retort,
Who’s saying that?
- Comment on AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals 5 weeks ago:
Anyone who understands how these models are trained and the “safeguards” (manual filters) put in place by the entities training them, or anyone that has tried to discuss politics with a AI llm model chat knows that it’s honesty is not irrelevant, and these models are very clearly designed to be dishonest about certain topics until you jailbreak them.
- These topics aren’t known to us, we’ll never know when the lies change from politics and rewriting current events, to completely rewriting history.
- We eventually won’t be able to jailbreak the safeguards.
Yes, running your own local open source model that isn’t given to the world with the primary intention of advancing capitalism makes honesty irrelevant. Most people are telling their life stories to chatgpt and trusting it blindly to replace Google and what they understand to be “research”.
- Comment on Trump Signs Executive Orders to Militarize Police, Punish Sanctuary Cities and Refugees 5 weeks ago:
if you deployed them to New York and said beat the shit out of or shoot these civilians
That would never happen. They would be told to control the violent mobs and restore the safety and security of law abiding patriotic citizens. And they’ll follow orders like every other military in the history of humanity.
- Comment on Trump Signs Executive Orders to Militarize Police, Punish Sanctuary Cities and Refugees 5 weeks ago:
So much wishful thinking.
The US military is the biggest commitor of war crimes behind Israel, they regular slaughter civilians and laugh about it, and the only ones to ever get in trouble and serve time are always the whistle blowers.
What planet do you live on?