realitista

@realitista@lemmus.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Whos on the right on 9?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  1 easy choice. Those two have stories for days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The artists get essentially none of that money, so when they talk about the “music industry” they are talking about all the parasites feeding off them. Rob them for all they are worth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Even the narrow specialist subreddits I’m on tend to decay almost exclusively to

  • I just bought the thing that the community is about
  • Hey guys, be my free tech support
  • The same 10 memes over and over again
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately not yet, at least last I checked. That and some missing Voyager features for piefed are what’s keeping me from using it as my primary account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Alexandrite and Voyager and lemmus.org and find the UI and experience to be superior than at any point in my 15 years at Reddit, so I have to question what’s going on for you to make it that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not gatekeeping, I’m just suggesting maybe not to actively recruit them. I think the good ones will make their way here without a bunch of begging and pleading and convincing. And maybe the rest just aren’t really worth having.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, I’m not sure that people who find Reddit in it’s current form to still be a useful/enjoyable experience are people I want to share a community with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I wonder if they haven’t moved over by now, do we really want them? The users I see at Reddit these days are not the sharpest tools in the shed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who’s spent half his life on each continent, there are few religious nuts in Europe that can hold a candle to the crazy of American religious nuts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it impolite to crosspost someone else's post to another community on Lemmy without saying anything?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No. At least I wouldn’t give a fuck if someone did it with mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a nice blue and black dress.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m mildly colorblind and it’s just too dark for me to make out. It could be white, blue, etc. But the black part doesn’t look solid enough to be black either. I just think the camera failed to properly get a read at that lighting level .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access in June⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually can’t figure out how to access it. I have some portal in my home environment but I can’t go through it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, total ragebait. Thanks for linking to the actual source xit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anybody else do this today?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a pretty perfect encapsulation of most days at my work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are people in first world countries with only 1 hard drive⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Actual spinning disks, i have 7in active service. SSD’s I have another 9 at a minimum .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fighting evil by moonlight⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You were talking about the CIA overthrows. All violent revolutions. Including the 2 you list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fighting evil by moonlight⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It looks to me like you are listing violent revolutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fighting evil by moonlight⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you are making my point for me. Violent revolutions are often if not usually hijacked and perverted by violent parties to achieve their own ends, which almost never line up with the needs of the actual citizens of the territory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fighting evil by moonlight⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m only arguing based on the real world examples presented on each side of the argument to date.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fighting evil by moonlight⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m comparing what our lives are here under democratic rule here in my country to what they were under the single party communist system. And we have no desire to go back. The communists will never win another election here, and for good reason. If you have to force your system of government on the population at gunpoint, it’s not anything to be proud of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fighting evil by moonlight⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, are you trying to tell me that the government system that oversaw the Holomodor was one with a conscience? As someone who lives in a former Soviet satellite state, I can ensure you they didn’t do this out of the kindness of their hearts, they did it because they collapsed under their own incompetence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fighting evil by moonlight⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My point in the Haiti point is that you ended up with an Emperor for life, as in all the other cases where you ended up with kings or single party systems. And yes, I can accept that from the very poor starting points of many of these countries, maybe the shakeup at least loosened something that could have opened up improvements in the next century or something.

  But the USA is not at that kind of starting point yet. They still have an (admittedly flawed and likely compromised) democracy with a strong economy and still very high living standards, even if they aren’t evenly distributed. They do still have some checks and balances and rule of law that has not yet been subverted. Moving from this to a full autocracy, single party system, theocracy, military state or monarchy would not be a step up by any stretch of the imagination. It would be a disaster that would take decades if not a century or more to recover from.

  So yes, sometimes things get so bad that you really

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe’s ‘tech sovereignty’ ambitions carry security risks, military warns⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. At least make a plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A sudden epiphany.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fighting evil by moonlight⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And they’ll bury you in the despotic regime your violence creates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A fun anti-monopoly law and anti-enshitification measure would be that once you hit 50% of market share you are forced to link to alternatives on your page⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The works of malicious compliance that came from this would be epic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Still rather logistically difficult to convince the host country to nuke their major population centers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Has he ever looked at a map? The only way I could see this happening is by going through the most populated parts of UAE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fighting evil by moonlight⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree . The moment violence happens, the whole movement loses its credibility and high ground and opens the road to despotic overthrow of the movement. This is why it’s so important to guard against the tactic of your enemy installing agitators to discredit your movement and open the door to violent suppression of it.