draco_aeneus

@draco_aeneus@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Your first post read as doomerism to me, but it sounds like quite the opposite actually. We need to organize hard and build something off the back of this horrible state of affairs, right? Maybe something like a general strike until those identified in the documents are behind bars?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The pitchforks are a metaphor, obviously.

  I’m not sure what point you’re getting at. We shouldn’t try to do anything, because the guilty are too powerful?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure he just needs some more practice. After a few more Nazis are punched, he’ll be an expert, I’m sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Non-human, uncaring machines who amass and hoard wealth beyond human comprehension honestly doesn’t sound any different than what we have now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starting to think affluenza might be a real thing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah ok. That’s not how I understood your comment initially, but that’s reasonable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starting to think affluenza might be a real thing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if we can’t, should we not try? It’s only, as you say, a few thousand. We can spare the resources to keep them locked up/under house arrest/whatever for the rest of their natural lives if we must.

  If we must execute people to heal the wounds inflicted by their sheer callousness, then so be it. But I don’t really accept the argument that anyone is “irredeemable” without even trying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not really “know as 過労死” in Japanese. That’s just the words for “excess”, “work”, and “death”. That’s kinda like saying “it’s known as ‘overworking to death’ in Britain”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨De-Escalating Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite often, I find that leaving a post up has value. It nukes context for the posts below it, which is bad. It’s also not great if only part of a larger post is bad, since you lose all of it. Lastly, with a deleted post, it’s unclear if the creator learned from it, or if they removed it to avoid the backlash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re missing the point.

  China might use your data and hurt you in some far future, whereas the USA will use your data right now in a direct and violent way.

  I can explain how the US government having access to the database of all of TikTok’s data might directly result in a visit from ICE. The path to damage caused by China may exist too, but is much more nebulous, and much more difficult for China to execute on.

  Yes, if you are in a government position, or in the army, you probably shouldn’t use TikTok under China’s management. But Joe Schmoe from California has little to materially fear from them. But he does have reason to fear the USA government who might well come over and arrest him.