SpookyBogMonster
@SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
A lot of the ultra wealthy espouse a nonsense philosophy called “Effective Altruism”, which asserts a kind of utilitarian “most good for the most people” ethic, but in such a way that one can basically justify any action as being, eventually, for the most good ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 1 week ago:
EVERYONE is getting one? Bruh, that is simply not the case, don’t make stuff up
Hyperbole is a rhetorical device
- Comment on That's how the world works. 1 week ago:
I have a copy of this little pamphlet called Fugitive Gardens, which is all about gardening in small spaces, such as a fire escape.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 2 weeks ago:
OP incorrectly said Trotsky influenced Stalin’s authoritarianism, so I was making a joke about that.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 2 weeks ago:
I can’t believe Trotsky convinced Robespierre to do the Reign of Terror
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 2 weeks ago:
Very briefly during the second world war, but beyond that period, both before and after, the Soviets were considered an enemy of the US and co.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 2 weeks ago:
Hitler was a monster, but we really don’t talk enough about how bad Stalin was
Not only is The Double Genocide Theory a form of soft Holocaust denial, it’s deeply comical to claim “we don’t talk enough about how bad Stalin was”. Yes we fucking do??? American popular code culture has been built on anti-Communism for decades!
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 2 weeks ago:
I can heae the Hexbear slop community furiously masturbating at thought of ripping this post to shreds.
As they should, with factual errors this fucking baby-brained
- Comment on Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record 2 weeks ago:
A decent amount of Geocities sites are backed up on the Wayback machine and/or restored via other projects.
Protoweb is really cool, if you wanna browse the internet like its the late 90s again
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This is just the Samson Option
- Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 3 weeks ago:
Fuck that, being back boolean operators!!!
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 3 weeks ago:
No, that’s Veronica. She explains things. Keep up
- Comment on YSK: Walmart online "Marketplace" store has third party sellers that Walmart does not always vet fully, or set their prices. Some of these sellers can be fraudulent in nature. 3 weeks ago:
Someone should sell plates with Kirby Inflation fetish art on it
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Are these all Japanese products? I find that the Japanese love a little jingle for some reason
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 4 weeks ago:
The difference is, there were no hidden messages in the music.
Meanwhile there are overt messages spat out by the LLM, because it’s a lying yes-man machine that encourages people’s worst impulses, so they keep using it.
Rob Halford just wanted to dress like a Tom of Finland drawing, and make fun music.
The companies making the chatbots want to harvest and sell your data.
- Comment on ..? 4 weeks ago:
You have a child’s understanding of the world
- Comment on 390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives 4 weeks ago:
It’s some real looney tunes shit, and is banking (seemingly correctly, because this has been ongoing for a few years now) on these copyright holders not understanding how the internet works
- Comment on ..? 4 weeks ago:
“Tankie” was originally a British slang term from the 50s.
In 1956, when the Soviet Union invaded Hungary, the British Communist movement was split over whether this action was cool, or sucked.
The people who thought it sucked derided their opponents who thought its cool, as “Tankies”, because the images in the newspapers featured lots of photos of Soviet tanks rolling into Budapest.
After this, it stops being used for the most part, until it started being reclaimed by socialists online as a tongue-in-cheeck insult to throw at each other. Because, let’s be real, it’s a silly sounding word that’s fun to say, and silly words are among the UK’s biggest cultural exports.
Eventually though, Tankie breached containment and started to be used by people who had zero connection to any kind of socialist movement or history, and its meaning began to warp.
I’ve seen Marxists, even those think the Soviet invasion of Hungary was bad, called tankies. I’ve seen Anarchists called Tankies, I’ve seen right wing guys who love trad russian Orthodox Christianity called Tankies.
It’s a word that doesn’t mean much anymore. It’s like when your grandpa calls Joe Biden “Pinko Scum”
- Comment on 390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives 4 weeks ago:
If you go to Vimm’s Lair right now, you’ll see, in the place of download buttons, text that says something to the effect of “This download has been removed at the request of the copyright holder”
The files are still hosted on the site, but they removed the download buttons to appease our bourgeoisie overlords. You can install a browser script that puts them back though
- Comment on bold words 4 weeks ago:
“you’re a girl”
- Comment on 390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives 4 weeks ago:
Vimm’s Lair is still around, you just beef to run a browser script that puts the download buttons back
- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 1 month ago:
Lmao suck my girl dick, you fascist freak. Log off, no one wants you here
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 1 month ago:
Aoc didn’t do the DK64 stream, someone else did she just showed up at one point
- Comment on lightbulbs 1 month ago:
I don’t mind a daylight bid for overhead lights, but they have to be supplemented with warmer lights elsewhere around the room
- Comment on Finally installed my own Firewall 1 month ago:
these get really hot at the slightest hint of some load
Me too
- Comment on 1 month ago:
props to you for running such a niche forum! That kind of thing is rare online nowadays
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Essentially, yes. And maybe that’s part of why people jumping from reddit like it so much, but personally, I don’t think the things like this that Piefied is doing are good for the fediverse ecosystem
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Here’s the writeup about it, going around
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Granted I browse Lemmy via voyager on Mobile, and Alexandrite on desktop, but this has never been an issue. I find it incredibly easy to block stuff, and curate what I want to see
- Comment on 1 month ago:
There’s been some controversy recently about censorship hardcoded into Piefed’s backend. Basically it gives people a “social credit score” based on how they post.