MyMindIsLikeAnOcean
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- Comment on Meta found liable in child exploitation case 1 week ago:
If social media companies were required to moderate their content…if they were responsible for what’s posted…all problems would go away.
As it stands bad actors use bots to stay one step ahead of automated moderation.
- Comment on Meta found liable in child exploitation case 1 week ago:
Dude…installing Facebook Purity doesn’t protect you from child predators, what are you even talking about?
Want to know how all social media could simply and easily protect minors, and everybody at large? Hire some fucking moderators. Every social media company should be required to use as many humans as it takes to moderate all content posted on their platforms…everybody problem would be reduced to near zero. What’s happening now is nobody works at META…except at the design, legal and coding level. If you’re a bad actor and you want to post…you use a bot to interact with an automated process, and you’re always one step ahead of the automated process.
- Comment on Meta found liable in child exploitation case 1 week ago:
I predict this will be tied up in appeals until the day SCOTUS or the executive sniff these suits out.
- Comment on The artificial gravity generators never seem to get destroyed in space battles. 1 week ago:
What you’re really saying is there aren’t enough big budget sci fi things to watch.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
It will increase the demand, yes.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
Taxis aren’t as safe for women as ride-shares because they’re “anonymous”, from the drivers perspective.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
You can already choose your driver or passenger. All this is is streamlining something that’s common.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
Agreed. Contract work that isn’t actually contract work should be illegal.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 1 week ago:
Uber doesn’t deserve much credit for this…they’re just streamlining a behaviour that’s already present among their drivers and customers. It’s a business decision.
- Comment on Breaking News! 2 weeks ago:
That’s exactly what came to mind when Trump was whining about not getting NATO minesweepers.
It must be a trip having the joint chiefs reverse engineering his Windows 95 understanding of war.
- Comment on Income Tax Is Theft 1 month ago:
I think you’re getting downvoted into oblivion because people are reading your headline and not your post?
There’s nothing to argue with in your message. I don’t know the particulars of your income/tax situation…but, yeah, if the people with all the money paid appropriate taxes…then many actual working people wouldn’t need to, and society would be more healthy. You’d still be paying a ton of excise taxes.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 month ago:
Indeed. The system is currently set up to prevent people who aren’t already earning rent from acquiring property to earn rent.
instead of encouraging citizens to buy one property to rent it out…at a reasonable price, perhaps…and have a relationship with their tenant…our system punishes small owners or people trying to enter the market and rewards those who already have the wealth.
- Comment on The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine. 1 month ago:
That’s basically what AI is tho. It’s a misleading term for the evolution of auto complete.
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 2 months ago:
These guys don’t really deal with who you’re talking about…but here’s a great podcast worth boosting…
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 2 months ago:
Impossible question to answer:
Costs are so out of whack right now because wealth concentrate at the top.
At the end of the day we’d need a lot less money if money was more aligned with how much work we put in, instead of this “trickle up” society we’ve designed.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 2 months ago:
The “transitional phase” definitely isn’t communism, and I would argue the term was co-opted by people as a pretext to execute different ideologies…especially in the examples you’re using. The word communism is used as a weapon by too many. You can’t just say “The USSR was bad because of communism, end of story”, for example. It was never communist, and I would argue it eas never trying to get there.
It’s absolutely wrong to call those countries communist. Each example is different. When authoritarian states use labels…they’re generally meaningless. Is North Korea a republic? Was The Soviet Union?
You’re using all these fraught terms like “socialism” and “liberalism” incorrectly. You’d be far better off by defining your terms, rather than just throwing them around. I mean…you don’t really sound like you know what you’re talking about. The Nazis rose out of National Bolshevism, after all.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 3 months ago:
No, fascism and communism aren’t “opposites”…that’s the fascist framing…and that’s my point. It’s extreme centrism and “both sidesing” to claim they are. They’re only opposites if you preface your argument with good v evil…and you didn’t. Fascism is a dangerous system that’s arguably ever-present and destroys humanity….while communism is a highly ideological philosophy that’s never existed. Don’t be confused when highly socialist and authoritarian countries are labelled as communist…they’re no more communist than the DRC was a democracy or a republic.
Tankie is the word you’re looking for: authoritarian communism…and it’s important you use the proper word, because authoritarianism is antithetical to communism. If you didn’t know what the word meant…why did you even comment?
The topic was a conversation about whether or not certain Tankies have an outsized influence on Lemmy, and if that’s bad. The consensus seems to be that they can’t.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 3 months ago:
This is the “radical centrist” position, and it’s serves the fascist power structure.
None of the things you’re comparing to each other are equal or opposite. You’re functionally saying “I consider good and evil to be equal, I tolerate intolerance”.
I’m not sure if you stand behind your examples, because you didn’t really say anything.
For starters…if you wanted to address the topic you would have compared apples to apples ie fascists to tankies. You can’t casually imply fascists and communists are two ends of a spectrum and both have interesting points to make, that’s absurd: the former are evil, and the latter are dreamers. The rest of your examples are similar.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 3 months ago:
The way it was described to me by some academics is that it’s useful…but only as a “research assistant” to bounce ideas off of and bring in arcane or tertiary concepts you might not have considered (after you vet them thoroughly, of course).
The danger, as described by the same academics, is that it can act as a “buddy” who confirms you biases. It can generate truly plausible bullshit to support deeply flawed hypotheses, for example. Their main concern is it “learning” to stroke the egos of the people using it so it creates a feedback loop and it’s own bubbles of bullshit.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 3 months ago:
Let’s be real…the MAGA fascists just saw “transgender” and that was all they needed to hear. The next words could have been “saved a baby from a fire”, and they would have wanted them fired.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 3 months ago:
No shit.
I actually believed somebody when they told me it was great at writing code, and asked it to write me the code for a very simple lua mod. It’s made several errors and ended up wasting my time because I had to rewrite it.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 3 months ago:
In the 30s you can start talking about the 20s. It will be annoying at first because people will try to be funny and/or get intentionally get confused that you’re talking about the 1920s.
I’d imagine talking the way you’re being nostalgic about will be in full swing by the 2040s.
- Comment on Do you ever watch old classic TV shows and realize that they are all dead 3 months ago:
Why not use a picture from a show where the actors are all actually dead?
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 3 months ago:
Celery is used because it’s cheap…and it’s bitter balancing onions and other cheap stock items that tend to be sweet. A stock shouldn’t be sweet or bitter because it’s something you “work up”.
“Everybody” doesn’t use it tho. Some stocks are “garbage can” stocks, using whatever unservable scraps that come from food preparation…others are from ingredients purchased to make the stock like a Mirpoix (the most common stock base that uses celery).
There are lots of people like you that say celery ruins stock…there are many others that say bell peppers ruin stock…but then there are core stocks made from bell peppers.
Just do what tastes good.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 3 months ago:
The year “pixels actually started to look like something I don’t have to imagine”.
- Comment on US offers 'NATO-like' security to Ukraine, expects Russia to accept 3 months ago:
On it’s face it gives Ukraine NATO membership while saving face for Russia because they didn’t officially join…in exchange for legitimizing and getting the land bridge to Crimea…I’d imagine there’s cash in it for Trump somewhere in the fine-print.
Makes you wonder what the point of all of it was. I suppose imperial dick-waving so neither can expand as much as they want to.
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 3 months ago:
I thought “tech crunch” was something silly that Silicon Valley (the TV show) made up!
- Comment on Half of people arrested in London may have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds 3 months ago:
Sounds like a job for Gabor Mate…
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 3 months ago:
Urm. Not sure what you mean. Isn’t that’s the only thing it should do?
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 3 months ago:
It’s really rough when your supposed progressive party just act like 90s conservatives…it’s happening everywhere. All culture war posturing, while we slide into “public private partnership” hell.