LadyAutumn

@LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rent is theft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a nice long response typed up, but I genuinely do not have the energy to pick through what a thoroughly ridiculous comment this is. You’re not actually here to have a meaningful conversation on this subject either, you are only here to propagandize for capitalists. So I’ll save myself the time and energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rent is theft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not live in the USA. Housing is a human right and should be free everywhere. It should not be a market. No one should have to pay anything for housing. You have been fed a lifetime of propaganda to make you believe this is fair. It is not. It is one of the major things that contributes to lifelong stress and shortens lifespans. It is one of the major things that keeps people in poverty, having to pay half their income in rent that they never get back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rent is theft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Housing is a human right. We already have gigantic amounts of housing that sits empty, new building projects are not the priority.

  The government should be in charge of constructing new housing developments to meet the needs of the community. People can also pool resources together to build those things, in the absence of rent and mortgages people would have substantially higher incomes. Over time this would balance out, but would still be doable in the long term.

  No one should be homeless. Even if you are able bodied and refuse to work. The amount of people who are able bodied and refuse to work is microscopic. You have been misled by conservative propaganda to believe that welfare recipients are lazy. Welfare recipients are people who for one reason or another are unable to work. This is almost exclusively people with disabilities.

  But yes, I think even if you decide to do literally nothing just cause you dont want to, you should still have shelter. Shelter is a human right; housing is a human right. It is a crime against humanity to deny people housing. And if youre that contrarian, to literally be like har har I wanna make a point about how dumb free housing is so ill do literally nothing, you probably have some problems you should sort through in therapy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rent is theft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This comment illustrates very clearly that you are not a renter 😊 we do not have a choice! I cant just decide whether or not to own my own shelter. I am literally not given the choice. That is not how the system is designed. If youre disabled, youre screwed. If you cant afford a higher education, youre screwed. If you have debts, mental health issues, if youre a minority, youre absolutely screwed. You will rent for the rest of your life and it will almost entirely be spent paycheck to paycheck, certainly nowhere even close to daydreaming about owning any kind of home.

  All the benefits youre ascribing to renting count for just owning the apartment or condo you live in. Bam. Done. Couldn’t give less of a fuck about grass. I can barely afford food! Think about how insane it is for you to complain about having to cut the grass when renters have to pick between fucking eating and having a place to sleep. Youre not a leftist, youre a bog standard liberal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rent is theft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you prefer a landlord to just you save that money yourself? Like at best its probably a third of your income if youre working class? At worst its probably 60% or more. If you’re on any kind of social assistance rent is probably almost all of your income. Hurray! No food for you mister, the poor landlord needs that pittance you receive.

  You would have effectively 133%-180% of the income you do now. For me that’s an increase of over a thousand dollars a month. I could afford all the appliances and roof repairs in the world with that kind of money. I would still walk away with so much extra money its a joke. You have been entirely misled about how much rent takes out of your income. They will steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from you over your life time, maybe even more depending on what you pay.

  Renting exists because renters cannot advocate for themselves. It exists because people who become land owners escape the renting class and pretty much immediately turn their backs on it. No longer their problem. Because propaganda has taught them to not have solidarity with their fellow workers. Homelessness is an entirely preventable issue and is inseparable from the problem of landlords.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rent is theft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bugger off liberal swine. There’s other boots to be licked, hop to it.

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

  You said “I feel like China wouldn’t give out free food.” in the context of food banks. I made no claims about America. I made no claims about anything other than your statement “I feel like China wouldnt give out free food.” I was frustrated because you are making a feelings based statement about verifiable factual information that is accessible online.

  You go to great lengths in this comment to say that China has had issues with citizens not having enough food, which makes sense, why else would they make food banks if no one needed the food???

  I also stated exactly how recent these developments are in my previous comment. These are ongoing changes based on the literature I found and read on the subject. Nowhere in my comment did I suggest that no one in China is dealing with nutritional problems and nowhere did I suggest that China was doing everything in its power to solve those problems.

  I only responded to your feelings based statement with verifiable information I was easily able to find online. You said something that suggested that there are no food relief programs in China, that suggestion was wrong. I clarified it for you when you refused to clarify it yourself. I am entirely uninterested in engaging with you on any other point here. Frankly a lot of your language betrays a very strong emotional bias in this discussion and I do not think you are interested in a legitimate discussion about food relief problems and existing programs in China.

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

  I don’t understand why it’s on everyone else to research baseless claims you are making, but sure, whatever lmao.

  So to even answer the question you have to specify what exactly you mean by food bank. Providing food for people who are impoverished takes many different forms. From individual meal based facilities like soup kitchens, to dry and preserved goods providers, to international warehousing of emergency food relief supplies.

  So assuming the question at hand is, does the government of China provide its citizens with any kind of nutritional assistance? Yes, they do. The available facilities vary by region, city, and even district levels. Most of the development of large organized food relief organizations has been relatively recent, with the first to adopt a “food bank” label starting in Shanghai in 2015. Between 2015 and 2023 the Oasis public food bank setup facilities across China formalized as a national network of food relief facilities.

  At the same time the government of China has worked with public enterprises in China including restaurant chains and grocery stores to implement “Surplus food programs” to reduce food waste and redistribute food to relief programs and facilities.

  This was all information I found on my own with pretty basic cursory searches in about 20 minutes. There is far more public information out there and I would encourage you to use free resources to research subjects yourself before making foundationless statements like that.

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

  If you read the comment I just sent, I point out that I think I know what you mean but that the word you are using is not the correct word for that and in fact refers to something entirely different.

  Meaning can be conveyed its just in this case you’re actually diluting a term used specifically to talk about a obfuscation tactic used by the Chinese government to interfere with political discourse on their social media platforms.

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

  I genuinely did not know that, I had not checked what instance they were from.

  You’re essentially saying theyre a paid disinformation disseminator? But thats not what wumao means. It also doesnt describe a phenomenon in western online spaces, but rather one on China’s social media networks. I’m not making a statement of agreement or disagreement with the idea that theyre a paid bad actor. I am calling out your usage of the term wumao.

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

  This comment is so frustrating 😅 one of the only concrete statements you make about Chinese policy is “i cant imagine them handing out free food to anybody”. Literally political criticism based on vibes.

  By all means there’s lots to criticize about the Chinese government but at least actually make criticisms, not just “I know China to be evil and therefore they must not do good things” 😅 also that last paragraph is such an insane over generalization. As though the entire world experiences a uniformly lower standard of living than the US. There are people in the US who live in absolute near starvation squalor with literally no rights whatsoever. Not to their health, their freedoms, nor their labor.

  China is also not a uniform state. There are parts of China with higher overall quality of life and lower overall quality of life. China as a nation has improved their overall quality of life at one of the fastest rates over the past 5 decades by pretty much every metric. They have cheap electric vehicles, they have much better housing options than they used to, they have some of the largest and most technically modern public transportation systems in the world.

  They aren’t doing every single thing wrong. They have done a lot of things right. Again, not that I support or endorse a lot of their politics, but dismissing it all as backwards starving impoverished who cannot fathom American opulence is both very stupidly elevating the miserable reality of being poor in America, and erasing any progress the country has made. The end goal should be a better world for all workers. This includes those in China and those in America. Dismissing progress is completely counter to that goal.

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

  Is Lemmy a chinese social media platform? :o

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

  Wumao refers to posters who post unrelated content to disengage conversations around subjects that are critical of China. The term also referred to a phenomenon on chinese social media platforms, and alleged that the community party was paying people to make the posts. The majority of people engaging in that pattern of content are members of the communist party, party officials in any capacity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drug dealers hate this one weird trick!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Judging by the ingredients list I think you’d be at risk of vitamin A poisoning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The 2026 global financial crisis will be really interesting to live through I’m sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deuterostomes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a fucking nightmare. Twitter has effectively become a sexual exploitation generator.

  I have argued extensively with people on lemmy about why having AI porn generated of you without your consent is deeply traumatizing and a violation of your rights and privacy. Actual entire threads of people telling me that AI deep fake porn was perfectly fine and that we’re being too sensitive to not want our male peers and random strangers making AI deep fake porn of us. Wonder where those people are now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its just that in doing so you are legitimizing what they say to begin with. By pointing out the contradictions over and over you aren’t actually swaying them or any of their followers. Because they’re bigots. They’re white supremacists. It was never about anything else. They want to deport minorities. They want a white ethnostate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just wish we would stop letting fascist dictate the language thats used. We should stop playing into the performance of what they’re doing. Don’t afford it ant legitimacy. There’s no contradiction in their behavior, because nothing they say is real. What is real is their hatred for minorities. What is real is their fascist takeover of the country. And the mass targeting of people of color.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont know why they even mention the bit about criminal history. It would be no less heinous if she did have a criminal record.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are white supremacists. What is happening is exactly what they want to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree for the most part. It depends a lot on what distro youre using, what DE, so on. But you can easily get by on gnome without having to use the terminal much if at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You dont have to. But honestly its worth the time to get over the fear of the terminal. Understanding how they work and being comfortable using them has many advantages. So many things do not require a bloated GUI application. Like again its not necessary but its a bandaid that I think is worth it to rip off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Genuine question. How does all of this useless nonsense make them money? Is it all just from loans? Are they just saying “look at all the AI we’re doing” and the investors are just desperate to give them more money?

  I just cannot fathom how they profit from all of this. They’re spending so much time doing this. For what? What is the business motive for doing this, if not to get bigger loans from their investors?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing this will lead to more things being locked behind their subscription model. Ransoming core features for cash is the standard template of this process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda. But like, a compression algorithm that isnt all that good at exact decompression. It’s really good at outputting text that makes you think “wow that sounds pretty similar to what a person might write”. So even if it’s entirely wrong about something thats fine, as long as youd look at it and be satisfied its answer sounded right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The majority of influencers are not in the same geographical regions as their fans. Content is not as regional as it once was. The TikTok algorithm is based on time spent viewing something, and things like search terms and engagement, more than it is about where you are geographically.

  The same can be said for Instagram. How you connect with other users on instagram is by following them. It will recommend you new users based on who the people you follow also follow. Where you are does not have really anything to do with how you would engage with your fellow peers. They’ll mostly be asking you directly what your handle is and then following you. Your geography would mostly impact what kinds of new content the algorithm will feed you without any prior data, drawing instead from content that is popular with where you are from and what age you said you are and what gender you said you are.

  I think a lot of people in this thread are misunderstanding how people use social media in general. Activating a VPN and creating an account somewhere else will not fundamentally alter how you use the platform. It just adds a very simple very easily accessible bypass measure to using it.

  I personally expect that the platforms will make whatever concessions the government is asking for so they dont have to do this. Because teenagers make up such a large part of their userbase that it would be a massive hit financially to lose out on it. But the ban itself would be ineffective in ultimately preventing teenagers from accessing those platforms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This added context is extremely helpful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Porn is comparable because of its implementation and circumvention strategy, not because of its substance.

  Drinking rates are decreasing, yes, but i disagree that it has anything to do with carding. It has been illegal for minors to drink since… at least the 60s? Earlier? Lol

  Free VPNs are abundant and teenagers using instagram are almost certainly entirely unconcerned with their data being stolen. A market gap will come to exist for better free VPNs, advertising revenue being the driving factor.

  I dont think that the majority of teenagers on Instagram / Facebook / TikTok are using discord or even aware of what it is. Some of them are definitely but I dont see those platforms as being interchangeable or serving the same functions whatsoever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You could present literally the same arguments for why teenagers would never drink alcohol. Its against the law for them to purchase right, so its an inconvenience to access, so clearly they would all abandon it as all their friends become unable to access it as well. You could make the same argument for most kinds of bans. There are actually very few things for which imposing barriers to access has ever eliminated its use. Porn is an obvious example as well. Porn bans are essentially meaningless to consumers. They are so trivial to bypass as to be functionally non-existent. The only thing that imposed bans have done is make it difficult for companies to profit off of it. I am essentially ambivalent about that, but it’s a literal direct parallel in this case.

  What is likely is that tools for circumventing in simpler faster ways will develop. Installing a VPN is already a single click operation. You dont have to do anything else. Teenagers are not going to abandon social media. Maybe you havent encountered many in the past 2 decades, but social media use is and has been near universal among them since social media came to exist. Like you’re nuts if you think they’re actually going to stop using it haha I dont know what else to say. But yeah maybe youre right. Making stuff against the law totally eliminates it because everyone is so lazy and incompetent they won’t expend any effort to overcome trivial barriers to access things they have built their entire lives around lol