PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au
- Comment on Michigan governor asks to 'lower the temperature' after church attack 9 hours ago:
Yeah, good luck with that
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 2 days ago:
Haha yep. The whole family was involved. I don’t even think it’s necessarily a bad thing, it’s definitely not comfortable but as long as you don’t have bad intent, it’s probably better that everyone has some kind of tabs on what’s going on, and you have to face up to justifying to them why and how you’re hanging out with their daughter.
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 3 days ago:
There are motherfuckers out there now with NO idea what it was like potentially having to talk with a girl’s parents first, any time you wanted to call her
- Comment on Netanyahu addresses empty hall, after most delegations walked out in protest 3 days ago:
Who left: Almost everyone
Who stayed: Oh, I think you know
- Comment on Kremlin bans fuel exports until the end of the year as Russia’s supply is disrupted by Ukrainian drones 3 days ago:
s/bans/is unable to provide/ - Comment on Is there some sort of "underground" net for old computing? 4 days ago:
I was going to say SDF as well.
Want to log into a TOPS-20 system or a PDP-11? Well, you can. Poke around, make some C programs. I haven’t mucked around with anything all that much but they have a 100% real deal old school nerd society going there.
- Comment on EU wants to deport people to countries with which they have no connection 5 days ago:
People work by habits. “The king rules all,” “Whoever wins the election takes office,” free speech, court system, traditions and habits. A big part of how fascism can get traction is by redefining words, so that something horrifying they want to do slides its way into reality under protective coloration pretending it is something else that people already have decided is okay. “FISA warrant,” “prisoner of war.” “Enemy of the state.” “Hate speech.” This new thing that’s happening with the word “deportation,” where it basically is starting to mean “law enforcement snatching some random person and putting them in a turbo-prison outside the country with not even a pretense of due process,” is a shockingly extreme example.
Actual deportation was already horrifying enough, with the lack of having to do anything wrong most of the time and with the flimsiness of the due process involved, but usually the feds had to at least had to show up in court and make some kind of claim, and someone who was a citizen or otherwise had a strong factual counter-claim had a reasonable chance of proving it and fighting their deportation. Also, the punishment you were subjected to was “only” getting separated permanently from your home and a lot of times from your friends and family, and any further punishment was from some unrelated government as an unrelated process if any. This new thing isn’t that. It’s not deportation. It’s “deportation.” In a lot of cases it’s just prison, organized in some other country in coordination with the law enforcement that “deported” you, without a trial or judge being involved, and with no way to fight to get free or prove your case. There’s a massive fucking difference. I don’t know what Germany has in mind, but in the US at least, people in the news should not be calling this new thing “deportation.”
- Comment on Greta Thunberg Steps Down from Gaza Flotilla Steering Group 6 days ago:
Can somebody give this guy a hug or something
I know you’re not supposed to engage with the trolls but I feel like he might legitimately not be ok
- Comment on Greta Thunberg Steps Down from Gaza Flotilla Steering Group 6 days ago:
- Comment on Greta Thunberg Steps Down from Gaza Flotilla Steering Group 6 days ago:
The fact that every one of these messages ends with “mentalhealth/i-need-help-now” is extra entertaining to me
My gentleperson, relax. You can always clarify what you meant about American Democrats, if you want, and we can talk. If you get unhinged every time someone on the internet says something that you take in an unkind way you’re going to spend a lot of time being unhinged.
- Comment on Greta Thunberg Steps Down from Gaza Flotilla Steering Group 6 days ago:
Edit : so mad i calles you for lying about what i said. Cry cry cry
It’s a bold rhetorical strategy Cotton lol, let’s see if it turns the readers around to their point of view
Honestly I couldn’t even really make sense of what you were trying to say, I don’t think I hallucinated anything aside from my own confusion. I do think there is a powerful analogy at work here though. “Gothenberg” as you are calling her (I think? him? what? anyway), when she saw that the organization that was “officially in charge” of forward progress wasn’t really upholding the values, just left them to whatever their bullshit was, and continued fighting directly for change (as part of that organization), because that’s what’s important. Some other people in contrast when they see that the DNC is a bunch of horse manure dressed up in expensive suits, start SCREAMING about how Democrats are the worst and forward progress has to start with attacking them at every turn.
First strategy makes sense to me. Second one not so much. Like I say, be like Greta.
- Comment on YSK the basic techniques for "deprogramming" people who you think are in a cult 6 days ago:
Coincidentally I saw this not long ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJU3AuF3AWs&t=6526s
There is quite a lot of backstory going back through all the extensive extensive video obviously, but basically this woman’s mom consulted with a lot of expert help and sorted out exactly how to strategically break her daughter out of the cult.
“She still believed in Jordan’s mythology, she still loved him and missed him, but she was realizing that the most stressful thing in her life was him, that she dreaded his letters and phone calls. Her month at home eventually passed and it was time for her to return to Virginia to be with Jordan. Don’t worry. It was all part of her mother’s plan, which Abby has since dubbed ’operation catch and release.’”
- Comment on Greta Thunberg Steps Down from Gaza Flotilla Steering Group 6 days ago:
I mean I wasn’t going to say it before at least understanding what they were even trying to say, but yes lol
- Comment on YSK the basic techniques for "deprogramming" people who you think are in a cult 6 days ago:
Ask thought-provoking questions while being warm and curious. Be prepared to listen deeply. You will know if you have listened well if you can repeat back to them what they said. Be humble and open to hearing what they say.
Keep conversations positive, productive, and civil. Never get angry. Stay resourceful. It is better to end the interaction than to say something counter-productive.
I feel like almost all of this post is also just general good advice in general.
- Comment on Greta Thunberg Steps Down from Gaza Flotilla Steering Group 6 days ago:
For someone who creates so much drama all over the world simply by her presence, she has a surprising lack of tolerance for exactly that type of drama.
Almost as if her goal is actual forward progress, instead of drama and wankery. Be like Greta.
American Democrats
No idea what the fuck this part is about
- Comment on Amazon, Google, Microsoft reportedly warn H-1B employees to stay in the US 1 week ago:
“Sure, you may all go to Turbo Gulag. But if you traveled or just peaced out, I’d have to pay 0.001% of my profits to keep you on, and I don’t want that.”
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 1 week ago:
But votes are information that normal users should definitely not be able to see at all.
Votes on Lemmy are public. lemvotes.org exists, and Friendica and mbin both expose votes, and then obviously it’s decently simple (though not super-trivial like those three methods) to set up your own instance and look over all the votes.
You might feel that there should be a special category of “lesser” (you say normal) user that is unable to see votes, even though another category of user is able to. We could talk about that philosophically, but regardless, normal users can see votes. Vote accordingly. The error lies with the Lemmy UI being designed in a way that doesn’t make it clear to people that their votes are not fully private.
- Comment on Mark Zuckererg Demos New Facebook AI And It Couldn’t Have Gone Worse 1 week ago:
Do these guys even know how to do a rigged demo?
Also, in case you'd rather just see:
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p7ffxkcsq2xwt3t2mbk52puc/post/3lz344mxmb22a
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 month ago:
Yeah. There would be a way to do it that I feel like might potentially be useful. The described method (doing clustering instead of just having a similarity threshold to group tabs together, vectorizing the entire tab title through a whole fucking network instead of just tokenizing it and calling two tabs similar if they have uncommon tokens that are within a certain similarity level) really sounds to me like people who have no real idea what they're doing, just being "ML experts" all over the codebase and fucking things up, and probably walking away very proud of themselves while helping themselves to bunches and bunches of the Mozilla Foundation's Google-money.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 month ago:
Like why should including a feature with “AI” in it get them VC money?
Spoken like someone who's never interacted with Silicon Valley VCs... just imagine someone with tons of a money, a moderately competent business background, and very little understanding of even the basics of technology that you and I take for granted. And then make them stupid and greedy.
"AI? Yes please! Here's some money, I've heard of Firefox so I know you're good for it." It's not really any more complicated than that, I don't think.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 1 month ago:
No matter how unjust it’s been, the only imaginable way out is to somehow let him “save face" what ever that means in this situation.
It is literally a cliche of geopolitics for the mighty empire to continue the senseless and horrific war against some small country that's effectively defending itself, year after year, because of this logic. But then in the end to reluctantly agree to the "unimaginable" way out (saving face with some kind of explanation that literally no one believes), because at the end of the day, the simple physics of the situation will allow nothing else.
I more or less agree with you about Putin's logic and mindset actually. My overall point is there is more than one country and leader in the world that can be stubborn. The defenders are often more stubborn, at the end of the day, it turns out (to the shock and confusion of the attackers who thought they had a monopoly.)
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 1 month ago:
So what they've done in Ukraine is completely unjustified? In your opinion?
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 1 month ago:
This is just bait lol
Get a room you two
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 1 month ago:
Sure, it would be nice if Russia simply left Ukraine, but put yourself in Putin’s position - it’s a complete non-solution. You don’t fold after going all in. It’s an incredibly naive thing to say
This is exactly the kind of logic someone would use to justify either of the examples I brought up. Exactly.
The fact that he really doesn't want to stop killing innocent people, and so he would have to pay the "cost" of doing something he doesn't want to do, isn't a justification. I would actually really like for him to be arrested on that ICC warrant and try to explain this exactly logic at the Hague. I think it would be great. I would support him using that defense, I think it would be wonderful to see. People could decide whether to accept the logic, and then whether to hang him or not depending on whether they bought into it as a good reason for continuing to kill innocent people on an industrial scale.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 1 month ago:
Yeah, I get it. You're not wrong.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 1 month ago:
No, it's on par with telling someone "Well, you shouldn't keep driving drunk then" or "You should 100% stop contacting her and move on if she keeps instantly blocking you on every new platform you try on." Certain actions really are under voluntary control. We're not telling Russia they really need to shape up that GDP if they want the world to take them seriously. We're asking them to stop deciding to kill innocent people. Seems legit. The obstacle is that they really want to, and they're reluctant to stop.
(The analogy is flawed because there's no real equivalency between driving drunk and maybe rolling the dice on killing one family, and yourself, versus doing it to members of a million families. But the simplicity of the solution is the same.)
- Comment on YSK that Hasan Piker says that "the rest of the countries around the globe" think Russia is in Ukraine to combat American imperialism 1 month ago:
Holy shit
I'm not watching this entire thing, but it's bad. I watched some sections and holy shit.
The first random thing I happened upon was Hasan talking about trans issues, overtalking someone from the chat who disagreed with him and demanded evidence which was literally open on his screen at the time, called them transphobic (?), then banned a trans person who chimed in to say that yes they agreed and Hasan was doing a bad job arguing for trans issues, and then spent extensive time berating them on stream, wishing bad things on them in the future...
I honestly can't even do it justice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdCFycPw3fI&t=575s
Holy crap man. I generally sort of discount people trying to find reasons to nitpick some leftist voice, because pretty much everyone has some kind of imperfection and whatever, it's fine, we don't need to constantly be shedding allies because fuck anyone who ever did something allegedly etc etc whatever. Anyone can have a bad day if they're on streams a ton of the time... but this is bad. And it makes me not surprised at all if he has the same type of super-confident wrong take on geopolitical issues.
- Comment on YSK that Hasan Piker says that "the rest of the countries around the globe" think Russia is in Ukraine to combat American imperialism 1 month ago:
Not really. The two have nothing to do with each other.
"The Chinese government shouldn't have shot all those people in Tienanmen Square." "Yeah, but you have to remember Western imperialism."
"The Khmer Rouge shouldn't have killed a quarter of their country's population." "Yeah, but you have to remember the Vietnam War."
"Ireland shouldn't have covered up for sex-abusing priests." "Yeah, but you have to remember Protestant oppression of the Catholics..."
The whole premise is nonsense. I do know people from outside the US who took this attitude to Putin, I can think of specific ones of them that I talked with about Putin and they told me I was an ignorant American, more or less, and Ukraine's not innocent and the US intentions in Ukraine are not good either. They thought it was hilarious that I was all heated up about Putin and (in their minds) not heated up about the US government doing more or less the exact same thing in their region of the world for the last several decades.
And then the 2022 invasion happened.
And as soon as it was apartment blocks and hospitals blowing up, power plants, shelling Chernobyl, kidnapping kids and taking them back to Russia, they all of a sudden got real fuckin' quiet about Putin kind of being an admirable guy because, what the hell at least he's trying to stand up to the US instead of getting fucked around by them or else making corrupt deals like everyone else. They weren't stupid or naive about what a war like that meant, who was paying the horrifying price, or how much or how little it was doing to solve American imperialism anywhere else in the world. And so they were shocked and horrified, watching the scale of the suffering. They didn't want to try to do little backflips to connect it to some kind of noble cause somewhere else that it was supposedly in service of.
Any other reaction, honestly to me, means you are at best some kind of sheltered and elitist person, some kind of person who feels like making excuses for innocent people dying because you want to cling to some pet theory. As the person in Hasan's chat very succinctly alluded to, I would never make that kind of excuse on behalf of the US, or for Israel or any other horrifying state-power entity that's doing awful things and spreading around propaganda about it. So why is Hasan doing it? That's fuckin' weird, don't do that.
- Comment on YSK that Hasan Piker says that "the rest of the countries around the globe" think Russia is in Ukraine to combat American imperialism 1 month ago:
I don't really have a problem with someone being a streamer or being successful. I was always kind of on the fence about Hasan (still am actually), I like him because he is a strong leftist voice and maybe I should not be nitpicking him here. This is the first really dumb thing I've heard him say.
I guess I see him, after seeing this, as similar to Joe Rogan for the left: He's actually generally sensible, he has a very loyal audience who mostly lines up with his political leaning, but he talks about complex issues without really understanding them (or apparently even trying to), which makes him vulnerable to saying or promoting total bullshit by accident. Case in point...
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 1 month ago:
I mean it is kind of a dick move to spy on downvotes and then demand that someone respond to you. The dude is wrong as hell, but I do agree with the overall principle that not every vote needs to be subject to someone getting interrogated as to why they voted that way.
Their shock at finding out that it works that way is, of course, why the currently Lemmy UI is badly designed because it creates the illusion for people that their votes are private. They definitely should not do that.
