ScoffingLizard
@ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 3 days ago:
The Native Americans recognized a greed sickness in white men. They called it watika, IIRC.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 4 days ago:
I’m definitely below average. But I’m not sure education (or college at least) is the best direction to go at this time. It costs too much, and then people still don’t make much sometimes. Then there is job security. A mechanic will have a job for the foreseeable future. Coders and office workers are so far beyond fucked that I would not recommend someone pursue a career in an office right now.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 4 days ago:
I’m liberal and really enjoyed reading this comment. It might be one of the best ones I’ve seen on here. The part about microaggressions was spot on. This makes me wonder why I’ve never heard this perspective before? I wonder if people say this in mostly conservative forums, and I just don’t see it from my personal fish bowl? I’ve never heard it put quite like this. It’s almost as if it would have been useful for this position to be expressed earlier to educate people before all the frustration occurred.
- Comment on Germany deems DeepSeek as illegal content after it is unable to address data security concerns, and asks Apple and Google to block it from their app stores 5 days ago:
AI by white techbros is okay. Chinese competition is bad. That’s the real story. All the rich people are terrified of Chinese competition in the US, and now Germany has a bunch of Nazi bootlickers too.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 1 week ago:
Why would every American buy one if they can’t afford insurance + medical bills to pay for health care? “Oh look, I’m having a heart attack. Good to know. Guess I’ll just keep working.”
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 1 week ago:
Laws don’t work any longer. Only for poor folks.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 1 week ago:
Laced with fentanyl.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 1 week ago:
He’s basically gutting NASA so it can be reduced to a taxpayer-funded corporate subsidy for greedy billionaires and giant corps. They’re killing everyone’s dreams and inspiration.
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 1 week ago:
This is the real reason for tarrifs. Forcing citizens into paying ridiculous prices so biliionares can circle jerk about how much more power they can get. They’re scourges and bottomless voids of resources and misery.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 1 week ago:
Billions of dollars, and they can’t afford to buy ebooks?
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 week ago:
If this happens, can we please all make a protest or petition with the FCC?
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 week ago:
They need a tech ethics board, and people need a license to operate or work in decision-making capacities. Also, anyone above the person’s head making an unethical decision loses their license, too. License should be cheap to prevent monopoly, but you have to have one to handle data. Don’t have a license. Don’t have a company. Plant shitty surveillance without separate, noticeable, succinctly presented agreements that are clear and understandable, with warnings about currently misunderstood uses, then you lose license. First offense.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 week ago:
I’ve been trying to tell people for 15 years. It hasn’t worked a single bit. It’s frustrating that people think they have nothing to hide when their carelessness and lack of tech knowledge is ruining the future of the next generations. I just can’t try to explain it to everyone. They don’t link the relation at all. I thought maybe eventually, they would just get it, but here we still are…
- Comment on Software is evolving backwards 1 week ago:
I feel like the last on the list is on everything these days. 400 pages of ToS.
- Comment on Software is evolving backwards 1 week ago:
The trick is figuring out what parties do that without constantly sniffing traffic or reading source code. Sometimes I wonder what all on F Droid has malware.
- Comment on Software is evolving backwards 1 week ago:
What do you mean by dark patterns?
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 1 week ago:
So just use one too and blend in. Put on a stupid Trump or racist hat, and if you are not white, put on gloves. Then surround them.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 weeks ago:
What research? There are lots of folks with crippling debts. I know tons of people who will never be rid of their’s. As an engineer, I have never known job security. Who wamts to worry about losing their job every day? But I notice plenty of guys making a lot more than me since trades have a serious shortage of workers. Electricians around here charge whatever they want because there is not enough of them. Hospitals around here are bought up by one entity, so nurses can’t quit and make more money elsewhere. Teachers are quitting in droves such that it’s become a national crisis. But then there are plumbers making 6 figures.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 weeks ago:
If they wanted to address the education gap, wouldn’t they? Why would they want to when trades provide more money, no lost income for 4-5 years, or a crippling debt? Women are at a disadvantage there. I mean, I definitely don’t want to minimize overlooked hardships, but…
- Comment on Dems Demand Answers from Palantir About Plans to Build IRS “Mega-Database” of American Citizens 2 weeks ago:
It’s already happened.
- Comment on Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War 1 month ago:
They accurately recognized my face from a picture that was over ten years old. I no longer look like I did in the picture. This is going to get bad now that our fascist state authoritarians are everywhere jerking off with their riches and superiority. They have this tech and will do terrible things with it. Impending doom…