MyMindIsLikeAnOcean
@MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world
- 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? 5 days 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? 1 week 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 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like a job for Gabor Mate…
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 4 weeks ago:
That’s horrible. We have a couple provinces that do that.
The city near where I live was hit bad by outsourcing…it was a manufacturing town back in the 80s. A few years back they brought in a giant Casino with promises of making it a tourist destination. Predictably, nobody wants to come to a town that’s an armpit…so most of the gamblers are locals.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 4 weeks ago:
I’m not even Australian…Canadian. I just like chiming in because somebody down there is at least trying to do things…even if it’s usually shitty things.
Up here in my province in the last decade the flood gates opened on gambling…booze…everything. The government basically says “fuck you if we raise you to be an addict…give us your money until you die so rich people can pay less taxes”.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 weeks ago:
You can definitely make an argument that “proactive” protection is a strategy :)
I needed your stuff so I could have more stuff.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 weeks ago:
Yeap.
Like…depending on the nature of the collapse you might have a bunch of delusional former MAGA people in a region who all have a bunch of gold so they trade it with each other…but for the most part nobody would want it.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 4 weeks ago:
Now I know!
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 4 weeks ago:
Nods. The ban is only going to protect kids that have parents who want them protected/have the technical expertise to do it.
Meanwhile all the fee range kids out there…which, let’s be honest, is most of them…are just going to find a bunch seedy apps and workarounds…and guess who else is going to be lurking in these spaces.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 4 weeks ago:
I can’t believe it didn’t occur to me that what should actually be done is regulation of the algorithms.
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban 4 weeks ago:
Welp…I work with kids and I previously supported the ban….but I’ve done a 180.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 weeks ago:
Bullets should be saved for protecting your community…trap and snare your animals :)
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 weeks ago:
I assume you’re talking about physical gold.
Yes, it’s generally a scam. Some middle man is going to take a cut of what it’s worth before you enter the market - and they’re almost always going to misrepresent it’s value, especially if it’s not in the form of a stamped bar. Then you basically have to store it and shlep it and secure it and keep it secret, which will further diminish profit. Then you have to sell it, presumably as part of your retirement plan…or leave it to somebody who’s going to lose even more of its value when they want to unload it inefficiently.
If you’re not wealthy in the first place it’s only worth investing in as a hobby…because you have to factor in the value of your time and subtract that from its value, as well.
- Comment on FACT FOCUS: Trump says tariffs can eventually replace federal income taxes. Experts disagree 4 weeks ago:
How does incentivizing imports for revenue bring jobs back?
Incoherent. MAGA doesn’t give a shit if he lies, they just care about cruelty and revenge.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 4 weeks ago:
This is key.
If there weren’t bots…Reddit would make its own bots. Reddit dances a fine line of allowing the population to be a certain proportion of bots because they increase real engagement by picking fights with its real users, as well as creating never-ending “content” for people to read and vote on. They only ban bots when real users notice they are bots - which is less and less frequently - even though Reddit has the tools and information to ban them long before that point.
Reddit could easy eliminate almost all of them, but that would be expensive and they’d lose real users as a result.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 4 weeks ago:
We can absolutely blame AI for everything. The reason AI took over Reddit is because Reddit fired their human moderators in favour of AI moderation. It’s basically a vicious circle of bots learning how to avoid being banned, and auto moderation learning how they’re avoiding being banned…repeat.
…the obvious problem being that bots are valuable to Reddit because they increase real engagement…if there weren’t bots, Reddit would make its own bots to do basically the same thing. Reddit only wants to restrict bots to a certain proportion of the population, rather than eliminate them.