ronigami

@ronigami@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not AI doing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What carrier do you use with a pinephone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And further it ‘should’ help build support for Lemmy et al’s right to exist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe that’s why all their stories suck, completely unfounded in reality

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Got a better word?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The sky is huge. In theory you should be able to avoid most crashes just by separation rules which can be automated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but to fulfill that requirement the company would have to be around to review the code changes and merge and provide QA. For 15 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you can have a company that acquires the original failed company and provides “support” in the form of one bugfix per year.

  All of these solutions are gamable except for requiring that the solution be open source from the get-go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This would almost certainly rule out Linux as an option. What Linux vendor feels comfortable committing to something for 10 years?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Got This Right, Right?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more accurate to think of them as irrational beings with brain disease making them unable to think clearly. They have vague intuitions and a complete inability to think rationally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nazi salutes and brotein supplements

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  to be fair, she probably also wasn’t at that time. money ruins people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  idk, I was a kid and harry potter wasn’t real, so that kind of sucked for me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Put the house in a faraday cage?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news. :)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many people do you think live in Oregon?

  The majority of Oregonians live in Portland metro area.

  A similar stat can be found regarding Seattle metro, and Washington has more blue cities than OR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good example of why the goal should be to find services which are less intrusive and less monitoring heavy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How is that easier? That’s just only very slightly harder, not easier. Most sites will not have such sophisticated logic. And anyway, the purpose is to suss out which websites do this kind of tracking and avoid them entirely, not to thwart the tracking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile I installed the User Agent Switcher extension for firefox to change my user agent every 30 seconds to something random to avoid tracking. A few websites don’t accept it. I just quit those websites and find a non-billionaire-owned alternative like Kagi or Fastmail. So far it’s working out well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspiring. Innovating.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but just because you are spending energy doesn’t mean you are emitting a lot of carbon. Especially if your power comes from nuclear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspiring. Innovating.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So what if it required 1 watt?

  You have to do actual math to determine if it’s worth it, not just write it off because it requires energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So your conception contradicts the other person in this thread’s, because they said it’s not about group dynamics and you just said it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, we agree on most things and that’s nice.

  The solution to male disposability IMO should not be to increase female disposability. It should be to make male life more valuable. Use automation to make jobs safer. There should just be less need for dangerous work in the first place, we have the societal wealth to make that investment. But first we have to… care.

  Title IX issues:

  • saveservices.org/…/im-afraid-to-send-my-son-to-sc…
  • reason.com/…/new-title-ix-rules-erase-campus-due-…
  • reddit.com/…/texas_student_commits_suicide_after_…
  • reddit.com/…/filed_last_thursday_another_case_whe…

  It’s meaningless to talk about how Title IX “works” because it varies from school to school and anyway it seems like it mostly “doesn’t work.”

  You say “women also want this fixed” regarding female rapists being impossible but I have never signed on to a Feminist space and seen them discussing that issue. That’s a large part of why there is more than just feminism.

  There are fewer male applicants in part because of Title IX. Obama even went as far as to say that’s the point.

  …blogspot.com/…/president-obama-proves-how-differ…

  I may have read Brotopia but that doesn’t mean I agreed with it. I used to work in Silicon Valley and didn’t really find the book particularly accurate. Same with SMNTY, the podcast was absolutely infuriating at times and I eventually had to stop listening to it. There are things feminism gets wrong, I don’t know what else to say about that.

  Look, it’s only natural that people generally seek more power for themselves and their friends. They aren’t even thinking about or have any way of knowing the trail of destruction that causes in many cases. I’m not saying the masculism movement is right about everything either, I’d actually prefer we have both movements to balance each other out. Which is why it’s frustrating to hear people say feminism covers everything, if you believe in equality you’re a feminist, and even something as unhinged as that misandry doesn’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To say those people aren’t feminists is a way to avoid accepting that feminists can believe those terrible things. Yes, it’s destructive and yes it discredits the rest of the movement. Feminists rarely if ever disown them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that the boiling is not spontaneous is not obvious especially on account of how it’s not true. So that definition is going to need some tweaking. And anyway I think it’s much more likely that the person just didn’t notice they were replying to an astronaut than that they thought they could elevate their status. They were trying to share their (incorrect) knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, I’m just going to throw it out there that most people consider extreme feminists to be feminists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s extremely unclear what you’re trying to say. When were you defending me?

  Is extreme feminism not considered feminism in your mind?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure thing. Thanks for asking. Well, I would say main ones are:

  • Family court — completely asymmetrical treatment of men, basically for every 7 chances a woman gets in family court, a man gets 1. This is a made up number but it’s to get the essence across.
  • Male disposability is widely accepted and not compensated for at all. A good example of this is mandatory selective service which still exists today.
  • As a result of the accepted disposability, men have a far higher death rate both by accident and by suicide rate (which is 400% that of women)
  • Title IX imposes unjust punishments on men in colleges by favoring “preponderance of the evidence” standard over the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard — basically, if there’s even a slight chance of sexual misconduct, men can be thrown out of college without any kind of trial.
  • Asymmetrical definitions of rape which only apply to men in definition and also in practice are enforced mostly on men.
  • The above denial of female rapists leading to severe mental health issues for men who are raped or sexually abused by their female parters.
  • Generally men’s lagging acceptance rates into university (this would be more of an equity issue on par with the 83 cents to a dollar issue, as opposed to an equality issue like the others)
  • Demonization of fathers — the number of stories of fathers getting dirty looks for taking their kid into a changing room or even just existing in a playground with their kid are unending.
  • Last but not least, “male loneliness epidemic” which I think is a stupid phrase and this is one of the more unaddressable issues by everyone but it’s still a problem.

  I never said the core idea of feminism isn’t egalitarianism. Just that you can be egalitarian without being a feminist, since feminism involves so many other ideas. They don’t all spring from “equality” and equality itself has many different conceptualizations. Feminism’s conceptualization of how to achieve equality is essentially limited to, “women should be given more supports” which is not a good way of thinking about it any more than an elevator’s best way of operating is “just move the person higher and higher.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I’m on my phone so apologies if my replies are shorter generally. I will attempt to answer some of these. Yes, I have engaged in a ton of discussion with hardcore feminists. I have listened to podcasts by them including Stuff Mom Never Told You and unfortunately read Brotopia. This is not my first rodeo. And you don’t need to listen to Tate or Kirk any of those extremely distasteful people to know that feminism claims to speak for men’s interests while completely ignoring them. Feminism 100% claims to be acting in the interest of both men and women, and at least for men, it completely falls short of that. You will try to correct me. That is the problem.

  Any ideology that posits “<ideology> is necessary” is self-serving and borderline cult. The ideas of the ideology are what matter, and the ideology itself is just a name. If the ideas were any good, you should just as easily be able to create a new ideology from those ideas with a different name and have it be just as valid.

  Which is really funny because masculism and feminism both claim to be about equality. But only feminism is the one that is right, apparently.

  A good chunk of the population has been listening to feminism for… decades. What do you mean, when will the grievances be heard? We’ve heard them. Women are oppressed, the second sex. Abortion is a right. Equal access to healthcare. 84 cents to a dollar. Alimony. Some of these are addressable, some of them have been addressed, and some of them are not addressable. It’s complicated.

  Perhaps I should be asking you when will men’s grievances be heard?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can someone just do the needful?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2hot2handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it’s a perfectly well-formed sentence.