UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on Pirates are just hyperindividualized, privatized navies engaged in a competitive market with one another so how can they be worse than navies according to the logic of capitalism? 25 minutes ago:
Pirates are actually Communists
- Comment on [deleted] 4 hours ago:
This, but unironically.
The problem with dictators is that you need to be an evil shit to climb all the way to the top. Just grabbing some asshole at random would arguably produce a better guy. (Or, at least, a guy who would get thrown out a window faster if they fucked up).
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 17 hours ago:
I would 1000% start making that order.
It’s not a practical order to fill, logistically. You won’t have 18k cups, just for starters.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 17 hours ago:
Anybody today can go to any drivethrough and ask for whatever and then simply drive away.
Most drive thrus take payment before processing the order
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 day ago:
I think if you asked most Americans who Netanyahu is and what he is doing you’d get a blank stare.
Idk about that. His name has been in national news for decades. Like, maybe somewhere behind Vladimir Putin and Kim Jung Un in terms of US visibility.
How any of this gets corrected is beyond me
Say what you will about the Trotskyists, but they looooved making newspapers. I don’t think there’s a shortage of modern Alt-Media, either. Not hard to get an earful of press about the state of the world. What’s much more tricky is coordinating actions, particularly at the local level. There is not, to my knowledge, a Houston-centric news organization that does a good job of organizing and orienting local people on municipal issues. But I’m a white atheist professional worker out in the suburbs, so its very possible I’m just out of touch with what more radical and well-connected folks in churches and labor unions are up to.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 day ago:
There’s going to come a point at which the Feds/States will lean on the ISPs to handle the censorship for them. We’ve had people all over the Nat Sec system staring at the “Great Firewall of China” and asking themselves “Can we get something like this over here?”
- Comment on Mexico | PRI chief physically attacks Morena’s Senate leader on the rostrum 1 day ago:
You’re actually saying that the Morena party is more corrupt that the PRI?
No. I’m saying the PRI party is corrupt and their officials deserve to be shoved into a hole and forgotten.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 1 day ago:
The fuck are they gonna do?
Arrest random teenagers and claim their browser history or installed app list marks out as pedophiles
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 day ago:
Just tune it out people.
I only ever seem to hear about Taylor Swift via memes that tell me not to care about Taylor Swift.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 day ago:
“We should stop indulging in celebrity and start GIVING A FUCK!”
“Okay, what should we give a fuck about?”
<insert list of cataclysmic horrors for which nobody in the audience has any agency>
“Wow, thanks. Now I’m full of helpless anxiety. Anything I can do about any of this?”
“DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING! DO SOMETHING!”
“Well, this has been enervating as fuck. If you don’t mind, I’m going back to hide in my den and watch movies until the world ends.”
- Comment on Mexico | PRI chief physically attacks Morena’s Senate leader on the rostrum 1 day ago:
Gerardo Fernández Noroña, the target of the attack and a member of the ruling Morena party, said on Thursday that he was filing criminal charges against Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) Sen. Alejandro Moreno.
Should have happened ages ago. The whole party is thick with crooks and cartel allies.
- Comment on Portuguese president calls Trump Soviet or Russian agent 1 day ago:
Right as Soviet system was being pulled apart by Western aligned corporations and cartels.
Crazy coincidence.
- Comment on Portuguese president calls Trump Soviet or Russian agent 1 day ago:
- Comment on Do you think he'll respond? 1 day ago:
Just looks like “Hunter2” to me.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 2 days ago:
An attempt to commit a crime is a crime. Planning it is not.
There are so many actions that are crimes. Doing X with intent to Y is a crime. Proving intent can be tricky. But that’s up to the DA to argue.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 2 days ago:
How is talking to a bot a crime now?
Planning to do a crime is criminal misconduct. If you’re talking to a bot with the intent to gather resources to perform a crime, you’re in the process of committing the crime you intended to perform.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 2 days ago:
However, police won’t do anything.
This is the punchline to the joke of mass surveillance. You can have people doing crimes in clear view of the police and they just stand around. The police aren’t for deterring crime, they’re a jobs program and a human shield against harm to private property.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 2 days ago:
I gotta say… imagine being the police department on the receiving end of that firehose.
- Comment on An alien invasion 2 days ago:
“Hey, man. I’m Korg. We’re gonna get outta here on that big spaceship. Wanna come?”
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 days ago:
The biggest issue with zipper merging is humans need to not be selfish for it to work.
The biggest issue is that humans need to be aware of all the cars around them. That means using side and rear mirrors, leaving appropriate space for larger vehicles, keeping track of your place in the line, and - also, yes, not being selfish.
Its very efficient when moving well
If you’ve ever been alongside a semi during a zipper merge, you’d know that’s not true. Their visibility is limited and the vehicle is huge, so they have to move at a glacial pace to complete the merge. Then the people in the leading/trailing positions need to open up a much larger gap than with a traditional car, complicated by the fact that they may not know exactly how big the truck they’re letting in is. And heaven help if there’s something hanging off the back of the vehicle. That’s scary, so it causes nervous drivers to try and get away from the rear of the larger vehicle, which further snarls the traffic.
Like, as a procedure executed by a machine with perfect information of all elements involved, its efficient. As a game theory exercise between individual drivers of different skill and temperament, riding in vehicles of varying sizes, on a road with obstructions and other potential hazards, it is decidedly not efficient.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 days ago:
people not zipper merging correctl
Zipper merging is more complicated than driving straight forward and requires both lanes to slow down significantly relative to the cars in front and behind them.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 days ago:
Idk why they call it a bottleneck, when it’s a straight line through the opening of the bottle.
- Comment on All United Nations Security Council members, except for US, call for ceasefire and aid into Gaza 2 days ago:
The UN is a system designed to fail through obstruction.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 3 days ago:
Fucker, if I own the airport, own the planes in the airport, am the only person using my own planes in my own airport, then nobody is asking for my ID.
Okay, but what if Google owns the airport, the planes, and thinks its entitled to own the people flying on them, to boot?
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 3 days ago:
why wouldn’t I just get an iPhone
Jumping from the frying pan straight into the fire.
- Comment on bmw 4 days ago:
2013 was plenty dire. We had Ted Cruz’s friends in the House trying to dismember social security and medicare while Obama kept explaining away why we needed more troops in Afghanistan and fewer labor organizers in Ohio.
The '08 Housing Crisis was still echoing through the US economy, the economy was stalling in the face of Congressional austerity, and people ringing the big “Climate Change is coming for us” dinner bell were once again getting told to shut up so we wouldn’t scare away moderate republican voters in the 2014 midterms. Israel and Gaza had broken out into a brief shooting war, the recently-debunked Lancet “Vaccination-Autism” study was gaining traction among reactionary politicians, Jeffry Epstein was hanging out with Bill Gates on Palm Beach, and a fresh-faced NYC landlord with political aspirations was all over FOX News saying how he was on the verge of uncovering Obama’s real birth certificate.
The fuse was lit. We were all just in the fucking around phase, rather than the finding out part.
- Comment on France has ‘no lessons to take’ from US on tackling antisemitism, says minister 4 days ago:
English people finding it so difficult to name a country worse than their own that they have to create an entire FanFic about them being the good guys.
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 4 days ago:
If you support Free Tax Filing then you must support the Unconstitutional Anti-American Income Tax.
The Founding Fathers made a blood pact to NEVER do an income tax and ONLY raise money via Tariffs, which is the perfect and Godly way to generate tax revenues. Every president who has ever levied a national income tax has FAILED. And Trump isn’t going to fail this nation by letting people pay that tax for free.
By abolishing the free filing provision, we are going to come one step closure to guaranteeing nobody (earning more than $500k/year) has to pay it again.
- Comment on France has ‘no lessons to take’ from US on tackling antisemitism, says minister 4 days ago:
Tell that to the Algerians, the Vietnamese, and anyone living in West Africa.
- Comment on France has ‘no lessons to take’ from US on tackling antisemitism, says minister 4 days ago:
If the US and the UK didn’t exist, France would be the most hated country on Earth.
