KelvarCherry
@KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 2 days ago:
I’ve seen a handful of stories about Apple and Google locking people out of their entire digital lives. I think the reason people seem not to care is that most people don’t have the mental bandwidth to go against the grain and move their entire lives off of Apple and Google services, especially when they bought into these devices with the hope of making their lives easier.
Truly, most people don’t realize how dependent they are on megacorps. I’ve been finding that out repeatedly over the last year. I thought I was good because I don’t pay for streaming services, buy video games, or order Amazon delivery… then I took inventory and realized how much I actually relied on YouTube, Twitch, Google Drive, and GitHub.
- Comment on Ms Rachel forced to hire security over Zionist threats 3 days ago:
I appreciate that most coverage of Ms. Rachel has used her smiling preschool/kindergarten icon. It really adds to the absurdity of this hate. Sure, let’s attack the woman whose free educational YouTube content is parenting Gen Alpha better than their actual parents or public schools.
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 2 weeks ago:
*watch my bitch wife with TV
- Comment on Chasing the Elephant 2 weeks ago:
it’s the faces, the character shapes, but really that yellow hue across the image. Perhaps someone with some color theory knowledge could explain why ChatGPT generates images like that.
- Comment on The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access 2 weeks ago:
only one way to find out!
- Comment on The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access 2 weeks ago:
The ruling could determine whether access to the internet—today’s lifeline for education, work, and civic life—can be taken away as punishment for digital misdeeds
And this is how we get a CCP Digital Firewall. Combine this with the Flock cameras, Ring doorbells, and years of data networks collecting information on us for advertising, and I do not see this going well at all.
- Comment on The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access 2 weeks ago:
“Nothing in the constitution says internet use is a right”
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 weeks ago:
Living in the USA myself, I feel shame at how I normalized and rationalized the horrible aspects of this country. I’d already been a minimalist and was anti-consumerism from before I was an adult; but I had downplayed the severity of our systemic violence until it hit me personally. Above all I wish I was doing more to fight this system, like the people you described.
For as long as I am alive I will stay in the USA. I’m not going to give up on holding out here, as miserable as I’ve felt this last year. I’d like to believe something I do may someday inspire others who are braver and have more resources to do something more concrete.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 weeks ago:
Not the pendulum. The gunfire.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 2 weeks ago:
“Slower” implies you’re projecting the same end results. Do they think the missing numbers are just not using a computer at all? In the digital age? By far your largest numbers of actual Win11 migrators are companies whose tech policy is the CYA “update everything in case we get hacked”.
The common folk are not going to buy a new computer just to get a slower Windows installation. The people who migrate from Windows 10/7 holdouts are going to be migrating to Linux.
- Comment on FACTS 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on FACTS 2 weeks ago:
So plenty of people have pointed out this tweet is satire, but similar sentiment has been shared by Andrew Tate, Nick Fuentes, and other “manosphere”/alt-right grifters.
I just want to put out clearly what these men mean, and what the dog-whistle here is: They are not saying a man with a penis fucking a woman’s pussy is gay. They are saying that a man following all the acts of affection and consideration to the physical and emotional wants and needs of your partner is effeminate, inferior, non-masculine, and therefore “gay”. This is what incels argue when they complain about “modern women” and divorce and “gold diggers”. Being anything less than an egotist, entitle, aggressive prick is “gay”, and they know as well as their critics that few women would take a relationship like that.
The Turning Point USA/Heritage Foundation evangelical-type want women as second-class citizens. The manosphere/incel type want women as property – sold from father to husband property. (Well, that’s the vision they sell. The grifters want men single and alone; shut-in and consuming their content.)
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 3 weeks ago:
I was not expecting Mamdani to meet with Trump, but looking back it makes sense. Butter him up, and he’ll support anyone. If Elon Musk and JD Vance could get Trump’s support by glazing him, anyone can.
Trump has flip-flopped on positions repeatedly. Gun control, LGBTQ+ rights. It’s all ego for him. Always has been. I guess all you need to do is sweet talk him the right way.
- Comment on Is Mamdani introducing Arabic numerals to New York schools? 3 weeks ago:
I saw a meme about this on Lemmy and figured it was satirical. Good to know USAmericans are as stupid as ever.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 4 weeks ago:
“You WILL like my AI. Why don’t you like my AI? mmMOOOOMM!!!”
- Comment on Maybe most of society doesn't have much critical thinking because those who get those "critical thinking" genes go crazy from overthinking things and therefore fail to pass on the genes. 4 weeks ago:
I presume you’re talking about the Flynn effect. Posts like these are usually based in Western Anglo-sphere nations, where the society as a whole is clearly getting dumber. Not shaming OP though - I feel all of this too as a USAmerican.
For the majority of the world, the last several decades have centered on expanding schooling of children, supporting women (half the population) in education, promoting small businesses of women, supporting small businesses in undeserved areas, and reversing the damage of colonialism.
The majority of the world has been steadily growing more intelligent as access to education has increased, and medical access has mitigated the toll of life on people. Undoubtedly, the USA and UK and many EU nations has been growing stupider, and supposedly in 2024 the rate had slowed to 1.2 IQ points per decade. It may also be that Western systems favor dumber people, but coming from the USA, I don’t think that those sociopolitical systems changed recently.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 4 weeks ago:
(to title) I mean, if you’re a woman, yeah :p
- Comment on It's Fun For The Whole Family 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 1 month ago:
Also the USA has nukes. No one’s going to invade us, because doing so would be a destructive act, and the final order of any armed state is to nuke its attackers. This is the same reason North Korea gets to remain its defiant self when their army could be obliterated in a few bombing runs. This isn’t even counting all the non-nuclear weaponry we have. Think of that annual budget of hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending that keeps getting raised every year…
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 1 month ago:
Bigger picture: The whole way people talk about talking about mental health struggles is so weird. Like, I hate this whole generative AI bubble, but there’s a much bigger issue here.
Speaking from the USA, “suicidal ideation” is treated like terrorist ideology in this weird corporate-esque legal-speak with copy-pasted disclaimers and hollow slogans. It’s so absurdly stupid I’ve just mentally blocked off trying to rationalize it and just focus on every other way the world is spiraling into techno-fascist authoritarianism.
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 1 month ago:
1705542 is a prime number. How can I get my proof published?
- Comment on Albania what are you doing? I thought you just made peace with Aberbaijan??? 1 month ago:
Can we talk about the second half where the guy’s proclaiming the benefit that when legislators miss sessions, the AI can tell them what they missed, and how they should respond??? Sounds wonderful. Let’s have our legislators getting orders from miss Edi Rama’s 83 slop-goblins.
- Comment on Albania what are you doing? I thought you just made peace with Aberbaijan??? 1 month ago:
One minute ago I was mourning and feeling lost about the world. I open Lemmy and: 83 AI kids. This has been the entire last year: bouncing between feeling lost in life and feeling baffled by the stupidity of life. Our government AI minister is pregnant with 83 kids.
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 1 month ago:
“Isn’t running America” jfc millions of dollars was spent for a sick slow-rolling display of his delusions of prowess in Kennywood. He got his own prime-time TV show. His fame and existence is a testament to the gullibility of the USA population.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
First two comments are branding this is an over-reaction, but living in the USA I constantly hear terms like “moocher”, “parasite”, and other insults.
- Comment on ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory 1 month ago:
Thank you for sharing this with me. I hadn’t heard of this theory or the documentary. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation#A_Cautio… Donald Trump jumpscare lol
- Comment on ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory 1 month ago:
put on App Store aaaaand it’s gone. And Google’s blocking it on Android.
- Comment on ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory 1 month ago:
Ooh definitely. Everything from childhood is so structured: Structured youth sports; Structured socialization through social media; Structured dating with algorithmic match-ups; Even applying for jobs now is largely done through apps. Every system feels so obfuscated and de-personalized. As Gen Z growing up in the 21st century, the internet was the only place I could actually meet people, but for the last decade those spaces have been restricted by major corporations and inflicted with this “Protect the Kids” surveillance mania.
It feels like independence and social freedom have just been forgotten. I’m genuinely worried that young USAmericans do not understand the value of autonomy and anonymity, because they’ve grown up in a world with everything structured and surveilled – and have grown used to funneled from station-to-station, even outside of school and work. It’s hard to form a revolution movement when the masses have had a mixture of learned helplessness and “hustle culture” ingrained in them.
There’s a dating app, and a social media app, but no “Revolution” app. ChatGPT isn’t designed to suggest violence to you, but it can post a hotline copline that can tell you to go to a hospital. There are social media posts for BetterHelp and “Hims”/“Hers” (mentioned in article), while the posts calling for bricks in windows get suppressed, shadow-banned, or outright blasted. The more I think about this, the more I realize how vital that internet control was.
- Comment on ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory 1 month ago:
I keep coming back to the thought that anti-depressants and the mass-adaptation of therapy – both of which are designed to pacify clients – are the reason that the Western world has gotten so bad with such little push-back.
In the past, Major Revolutions broke out over shortages of food and infringements of freedom (like the French and American Revolutions). And today, just the president of South Korea declaring martial law got the streets flooded on no notice. Hong Kong had massive resistance movements over the CCP censoring their media; Yet the USA has been declining for decades and people mostly let it happen. Yes there were protests – Occupy Wall Street, the Veteran anti-war movements, and yesterday’s No Kings protests – but we are facing state-sanctioned mass-terrorism, and now have Gestapo “secret agents” storming our streets; and people largely let it happen.
Looking at the proponents of targeted violence the USA has seen: Kirk’s killer, Tim Robinson, was a Mormon from Utah ; they’ve got religion and don’t believe in therapy. Trump’s attempted assassins were a young Republican man who realized Trump was a part of the international pedo ring; and two different elderly guys. Luigi Mangione, the alleged shooter of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, supposedly had many grievances with the healthcare system. These are all profiles that make me believe they’d largely reject therapy.
Meanwhile in spaces branded “progressive”, following the script on mental health seems to be the norm. One of the ways spaces are deemed progressive is by “acknowledging mental health”, which mainly means encouraging therapy and copy-pasting a bunch of disclaimers. Of course, the bigger picture of their movements are to improve the system, which would improve our mental health; but it feels like the “ask for help” virtue-signaling around mental health is far more prevalent than argument that “Yeah, you should feel that way. We shouldn’t put up with this shit any longer.”
I’m not making any broad call-to-action here. I’m just trying to dissect the idea that has baffled me for years: How the system could be pushed this far. How fascist politicians and greedy corporations alike could make the system this bad, and people continue to tolerate it. How feminists and the queer community could be this visible, and yet as fascists declare war on them I’ve hardly heard any calls for violence. Yet alt-right teenagers go out and attempt to blow up pretty cheerleaders because they can’t get laid; burn down houses of politicians they don’t like; randomly assault trans women on the street. What empowers them, and why are we so passive?
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 1 month ago:
The way that all this “AI” processing has been trained, it almost always fails for anyone who doesn’t fit the white middle-class aesthetic. Voice-to-text generative AI processing will screw up for people with accents, including non-native speakers; also someone who slurs their words, or talks in African-American Vernacular English. Also, it requires someone to know how to speak and listen in a language. Clicking on icons and inputting commands is the same regardless of what language you speak. This just reeks of out-of touch nepo-baby executives.