PhilipTheBucket
@PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social
- Comment on Sometimes I feel nothing will change for the better and I feel frustrated about it. 2 days ago:
Yeah, because everything was fine and everyone got soft and complacent.
Like it or not, we’re coming to the end of that, we’ve not even scratched the surface of how bad it’s actually going to get. The people and communities that smarten up will (sometimes) survive, and more and more, the ones that do not will not.
- Comment on Experts urge Government to ban supermarket bacon after link to 50,000 cancer cases 5 days ago:
I think it is nitrates. I mean, I am sure there are other preservatives that are harmful but nitrates is the class of chemical that usually is what is killing people in this context. Almost any type of “processed” meat is going to give you significantly elevated risk of cancer if you eat it regularly.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Kirk was kissing black ladies back when that was basically illegal. What the fuck is this? Don’t blame the “they put politics in my Trek” crowd on Trek crowd, man, those dudes were always just idiots.
- Comment on Experts urge Government to ban supermarket bacon after link to 50,000 cancer cases 6 days ago:
You can absolutely make things that both taste good and also don’t cause cancer. This isn’t like “being vegan will extend your lifespan so everyone has to be vegan” type of thing, it is very directly a specific preservative they chose to put in that is straight-up killing people.
- Comment on Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week 1 week ago:
The one thing that this whole analysis is missing is this: There is a ton of work to do. The oceans are dying. The planet is boiling. The garbage is stacking up, endless and endless. There are crimes big and small going undiscovered, or un-processed and dealt with in a trustworthy fashion if they are discovered. There are wars, there are dangerous materials that need to be removed from the soil and the rivers, and the policies need to be set up and enforced to stop their cousins from replacing them within the year. WE’RE NOT FUCKING DONE. This illusion is wholly wrong, that capitalism has created that it is fine to drive the car off the cliff, as long as we keep paying salaries and dividends up until the moment of impact comes
Yes, we’ve gotten more effecient and powerful in our ability to translate a human into an effective change in conditions at the earth’s surface. But the problems have gotten bigger, too, and more urgent to the point that they threaten our entire species. Just because we can now keep growing the food and doing layout for the advertisements with only 15 hours a week, doesn’t mean that’s all we need to fucking do.
- Comment on Bill Gates warns AI will take over most jobs and leave humans working just two days a week 1 week ago:
There is a vital question coming up. When the machines do all the work, does that mean everyone eats? Or no one?
Right now it is “no one” roughly speaking. That must change. There is no future for anyone there, just nightmares unfolding and unfolding.
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 1 week ago:
Also, remember that this is cherry-picking the worst possible way of phrasing the worst possible excerpts they can pick out from over ten years of random shitposting. You have no idea what the context was for any of this stuff. You don’t know if the part he “agreed” with was the same as the part of the whole other person’s message that said white people were racist and stupid. And so on.
- Comment on Why don't police use rubber bullets instead of live rounds? I get if someone is holding a loaded weapon. But wouldn't a rubber bullet have the same effect with out putting holes in another person? 1 week ago:
- “Rubber” bullets are a massive metal ball wrapped in a thin sheet of rubber. They carry about half the kinetic energy of a bullet, they can still crack your skull or destroy a part of your body that they hit. There is a reason people started pushing for the terminology “less lethal” instead of “nonlethal.”
- That said you actually raise kind of a good question I think. I suspect that a lot of the reason is nothing more than that the guns that shoot “rubber” bullets effectively are big and cumbersome. You can’t run fast while holding one, carry one around on your belt and then pull it out in a fraction of a second, et cetera. They actually do try to do what you’re talking about with Tasers, there’s a whole process, except that Tasers are unreliable so they have to have a second cop with a gun drawn most of the time.
- Replacing guns with “rubber” bullets… a lot of the time when they are shooting they are thinking in terms of a gunfight with an armed suspect, so they don’t want to be in a situation where the “rubber” bullets aren’t penetrating a car but the bullets coming back at them are penetrating their car, something like that. If it is deadly force involved they don’t want to be at a disadvantage.
- Replacing Tasers with rubber bullets… IDK, I think “rubber” bullets are probably more lethal than Tasers and you’re definitely going to fuck somebody up any time you hit them with one. The vast majority of the time, the Taser just sucks and then you take the probes out and you’re done, you don’t have any cracked ribs or destroyed eyeballs or anything. Most of the scenarios where they would be using a “rubber” bullet, US cops at least will use a 40mm “beanbag round” which won’t cause nearly the same type of injuries.
I won’t say your suggestion is automatically a bad idea but I think those are some of the reasons you so rarely see them except in “crowd control” type of scenarios where some of the existing nonlethal options aren’t viable, and also where they have some additional desire to cause injuries in the people they’re “control"ing. Basically you can choose a Taser which is unreliable, pepper spray which is short range and will fuck you up too sometimes, or a 40mm or rubber bullet which needs a big cumbersome launcher (and the “rubber” bullet may cause significant injuries anyway).
- Comment on The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible 1 week ago:
I mean yeah lol. That’s why I said “mostly.” But my point was, more or less, that modern power tools can do stuff that you simply can’t do with C, but C is still a venerable tool to me. I like it. The old pros can make fantastic custom cabinets, they do framing almost as fast as someone with a nail gun, it’s just that it’s not practical for most people to try to get skilled enough to be able to make solid stuff (and of course you can never make a skyscraper with just hand tools.)
Once you start finding yourself using malloc() all that much, you’re probably using the wrong tool, and it’s also just objectively less secure than other safer languages. But clean C code has a kind of beauty to me that is hard to replicate in the more powerful languages.
- Comment on The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible 1 week ago:
In my analogy, the tool is the programming language, and the worker is the programmer in that language. Mostly.
- Comment on ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory 1 week ago:
Completely agree. The forces of the medical establishment have been trying to get me to take antidepressants. I have so far resisted. Among other things, I asked one of the doctors what percentage of people he’s dealt with have simply started taking them and it becomes part of their routine basically for the rest of their life (which is what I’ve mostly observed) and what percentage take it for a short time and then are done with it because it fixed their life situation for them (which is the scenario he was describing as what might happen to me).
He didn’t really address the question directly, which to me was plenty illuminating as to the answer.
- Comment on The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible 1 week ago:
C is the old carpenter, who can drive in nails with three strikes of the hammer and never forgets his tools.
C# is his friend who just uses power tools instead. He is fine too. He goes home early whenever he can.
Python is the new guy at work who thinks he’s super smart. He actually can do the job really well, but for some reason nobody likes him all that much.
Javascript is the boss’s son who got the job since he agreed to stay off pills but he does not. He is useful to be friendly with, maybe, but avoid him any day that you can. Typescript is his weird fiancée. She is significantly less stupid but much more rarely useful, and also best avoided.
Go and Rust are tight-knit friends who get shit done. They are extremely capable but also not friendly, they tend not to talk much.
Clojure does mushrooms on weekends, and seems to believe he has key insights the rest of the crew is too dim to understand, but he also makes frequent simple mistakes on the job and forgets things. Also avoid.
Java only has the job because he’s known the boss since they were kids. He was never that good, but now he is old, and frequently drunk. Avoid at all costs.
- Comment on ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory 1 week ago:
We’ll just call it “Not a Revolution” App. Like Elon Musk with the flamethrowers.
- Comment on ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory 1 week ago:
There’s a dating app, and a social media app, but no “Revolution” app.
Hey I just had a great business idea I would like to tell you about
- Comment on ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory 1 week ago:
Honestly it’s a strong contender. I would add to that what Gene Sharp calls the “atomization” of society, the destruction of “third places” and community organizations in favor of producer-to-consumer mass media. A lot of the revolutions of the past started in beerhalls and coffee shops. We don’t have that. We have Facebook. A lot of people are upset, but we don’t feel like it’s too much we can do about it, we just feel bad and helpless.
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah, I would take it seriously. Another alternative would be getting a protective order from a judge, so that he’s not allowed to do anything like this in the future. But it sounds like he has maybe broken the law already, so maybe do both. Bottom line, fuck him up.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Call the cops. Harassment online is illegal, and depending on the nature of the pics that part may be very illegal. Even if he somehow doesn’t have any legal consequences from anything he’s done so far, having police reports in place for stuff now will make it easier for him to potentially face consequences later.
Talk to a lawyer if it’s complicated, a few hundred dollars may get a consultation that can set you up for how to frame things in a way that makes it more likely that the cops will do something. But even just calling the cops and laying it out (read up on the laws, stay focused on stuff that’s specifically banned by statute in a provable way as much as possible, sometimes people want to “give context” too much) may be pretty productive.
- Comment on How should Lemmy sort posts so small communities can compete? 1 week ago:
Hm
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=Scaled
Yeah, maybe so. I think you may have to do it to “Subscribed” only, and then sometimes cut out one specific community or other that it is over-promoting. I mean, it’s doing what it’s supposed to do, promoting small communities, but I think sometimes it maybe gets carried away.
- Comment on How should Lemmy sort posts so small communities can compete? 1 week ago:
Try “Scaled,” it is better.
- Comment on In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views 2 weeks ago:
190 min read
Hoo fuckin’ boy
I do have to say that including Hyprland in the original post is silly. Hyprland had a problem with ignorant users making ignorant speech in their community, and they didn’t police it, and once a shitstorm started, they recognized their error and started trying. It’s fine. Putting them up top, and Omarchy which is literally lead-developed by an open fascist, down below, is weird.
Holy God it’s a shitstorm… reading
I just want to point out there is nothing true in this statement. No such thing as far-right in current government (unless you consider anything right of your beliefs to be far-right, which is just silly), and immigration is completely fine, currently. My wife is an immigrant and non-us citizen and we have many immigrant friends. They are only deporting criminals, illegals, people who have broken the law.
Fuckin’ hell man. (That quote is from nobody in particular, just some random user chiming in… but still fuckin’ hell man.)
nrp’s reaction in the reply chain mostly just reads like he hasn’t picked up what’s going on. He still thinks fascism is “a political view” instead of “an active threat that might come for him and people he cares about right now, into his house and his safety, that needs resistance.” I don’t think DHH needs to be in prison or anything unless he’s done something. I do believe in free speech. But yes, the time has come for boycotts, strikes, marches, strengthening the organizations that we’ll need as things continue to get worse. It sounds like nrp is just privileged enough living his tech life that he doesn’t grasp that, and he can’t understand what people are mad about here.
Nobody remembers Switzerland as unsung heroes of World War 2, because of their commitment to freedom of expression and commerce for any side without prejudice. They’re lucky they got away with it, to be honest.
- Comment on In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure there is a pretty generous window where you can just return the thing for a refund no questions asked. It might be worth looking into.
Depending on the wording of the return policy, you might even be able to request one and tell them the reason is “The far right has taken over the world’s biggest government and they’re snatching people in the streets. The time to hide support for them behind ‘everyone’s welcome to their opinion’ is over. If at this moment in history you’re not willing to exclude far-right people from your circle, then go fuck yourself, fuck your hardware, give me my money back, in hindsight people should have done this to BMW and IG Farben both before and after the war. I hope you wake the fuck up. You will not be safe indefinitely from them coming for you, unless people braver than yourself stop them before they reach you.”
Usually I am against bullying people into saying the political views or taking the political decisions you want them to take. You can think they’re wrong about this (as obviously do, I for the reasons stated above) and say so without needing to try to strong-arm them. But, in this case, fuck ‘em, for the reasons stated above. Read the return policy first of course to make sure you’re on solid ground, I don’t really know what it is.
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- Comment on Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models 3 weeks ago:
Bird flu is still out there, and it seems likely that by the time it figures out humans, the US public health apparatus will be basically destroyed.
Ever lived through a plague in the middle ages? Would you like to?
- Comment on Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models 3 weeks ago:
What’s the worst that could happen
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
!chiptune@lemmy.world
Also, check out this guy sperging out about the music for the Castlevania series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rryDOfG9JF0
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
0:05: IDK what this guy’s on about, this is just normal NES music
0:30: Oh I see
1:08: Okay Led Zeppelin, calm down holy crap lol, this is wonderful
- Comment on America could have avoided all of this with a functional justice system 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, but so maybe it goes dormant for another 5-10 years and people forget. And then, when middle-aged Stephen Miller comes out like Pink Floyd when he shaved all his hair, all with big plans and fire in his eyes… maybe he’s running against Gavin Newsom who’s kind of a POS anyway and nothing the left can get excited about, maybe he wins, and maybe then he gets to work. And he’s got energy, he’s not old or stupid.
I think it’s better that it’s Trump. It’s still awful, but I really think it’s better this way. I don’t think people will forget this once it passes, or get distracted.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Also, for the same spirit but just running on the hardware of a toaster oven:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKmItXc6rgQ&list=PL3091C072C6A398BB&index=2