jtzl
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- Comment on What’s the endgame? 6 days ago:
I think your summary of the objective is just about right, and then a few more things seem pertinent:
- When has it ever worked, to get people all having aligned goals?
- If “the rich” ever like enslave/eliminate all working people, there will be a new group of “not rich enough” to condemn.
Tbh when I think more about it, it seems like they’re trying to fill a bottomless pit. Daddy issues is right.
- Comment on What should we actually turn our aggression towards? 1 week ago:
I know The Dispossessed!
I’m generally supportive of the idea of feeding people. I’m further supportive of like people helping people. I think the part that makes me apprehensive is that the system you describe fundamentally operates on assumptions that sidestep the matter of beneficiaries knowing the source of the benefits, which seems very dubious. The idea seems to be quite kind and selfless, but I still think this is a scenario where folks will fail to appreciate the kindness involved because they’re simply unaware of the effort made by numerous folks involved
- Comment on What should we actually turn our aggression towards? 1 week ago:
You make several compelling points.
My cynicism is based on my general view that anonymous strangers are often unhelpful, but to be more accurate, I would have to acknowledge my feedback would vary a lot based on region. For instance, I mostly grew up in TX (nearish I-35). However, I lived in Western Washington for years, and I can easily see a community pantry being appreciated there.
So if I were to revise my comment now, I’d seek to emphasize that some regional populations have been propagandized and are destructive. And like some people don’t mind contributing like that, but I see it like trying to fill a jug with a hole in the bottom.
- Comment on What should we actually turn our aggression towards? 1 week ago:
Greetings, I do not seek at all to be rude – let me preface with that.
I think about this quite often, and I particularly bristle at suggestions like “create a free food fridge in a food desert.” I am all for helping people in need, to be sure, but that particular recommendation seems like something that would be ignored, marginalized, or abused/destroyed. The fact is, time is finite, so we gotta think in terms of maximizing usefulness. Trying to fill a bottomless pit does nobody any good. Or, as the expression goes, “give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for his whole life” (or something).
- Comment on Why are public school teachers so underpaid in the US? 1 week ago:
Who’s the president in 1985?!
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 1 week ago:
Lol. Don’t suggest heroin tho!
I admittedly thought something similar when I saw this post (not to suggest heroin tho!). I thought, “write what you know!” I’m all for ppl learning to write better, but in a world/economy of hyper-fictionalized junk, I would like yo see more stories about people’s actual experiences and less like unconnected fiction. To me, miscellaneous fiction is like cotton candy – it tastes sweet, but it’s empty.
PS - stay away from opiates. Addiction is a supreme waste of time.
- Comment on What’s the endgame? 1 week ago:
I don’t see it. I won’t dismiss that sort of thing entirely, but I think the logistics are just wayyyyyy too hard. Moreover, the American population can be disappointing, for sure, but they’re not docile. Somewhere along the way, someone would step out of line, and then you’ve got bedlam.
- Comment on PC upgrade woes 1 week ago:
Bless you for saying LLM rather than AI.
- Comment on How many times a year do you wash your jeans? 1 week ago:
I love that you ask “per year.” Tell me your clothes are dirty without saying your clothes are dirty.😜
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 1 month ago:
I thought “Web2.0” was roughly a synonym for 'Sites with AJAX" (XMLHttpRequestObject) which I thought was ~2006.
- Comment on Knowing one's place 2 months ago:
Ah, OK. I didn’t realize Lemmy was designed to be similar to Reddit. That’s a relief.
I feel like Reddit has tried to “own” references to bacon, narwhals, some autumn month where men don’t shave, and various memes. I kinda don’t blame them for monetizing drawings and words, but as I’m sure they know very well by now, wall street wants that and.
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- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 2 months ago:
I agree with you, but something jumped out at me while reading this thread. To a degree, the fear of “breaking something” is completely legitimate, but it’s based on not getting quick feedback from systems. For instance, if you are walking in a direction that you think is east, but the sun is setting ahead of you, you know you’re headed in the wrong direction. Computers often don’t provide such useful feedback, often leading users to “break things.”
- Comment on Self hosting with subdomains 2 months ago:
If you really want to secure your computer, encase that puppy in concrete (after disconnecting it from power),
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 2 months ago:
Agreed 110℅.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 2 months ago:
I am not.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 2 months ago:
They’re really good.*
- you just gotta know the material yourself so you can spot errors, and you gotta be very specific and take it one step at a time.
Personally, I think the term “AI” is an extreme misnomer. I am calling ChatGPT “next-token prediction.” This notion that it’s intelligent is absurd. Like, is a dictionary good at words now???
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 2 months ago:
Lol. “I came to break some necks and chew some bubblegum – and I’m all out of bubblegum.”
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 2 months ago:
In fairness, crumby books can hardly be blamed on AI. To quote my mother, “That train’s left the station.”
Like, the AI slop ones will probably have better writing, sadly.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 2 months ago:
I really don’t have this experience with ChatGPT. Every once in a while, ChatGPT returns an answer that doesn’t seem legitimate, so I ask, “Really?” And then it returns, “No, that is incorrect.” Which… I really hope the robots responsible for eliminating humans are not so hapless. But the stories about AI encouraging kids to kill themselves or mentioning books that don’t exist seem a little made up. And, like, don’t get me wrong: I want to believe ChatGPT listed glue as a good ingredient for making pizza crust thicker… I just require a bit more evidence.