LibertyLizard
@LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
- Comment on With what's happening in Gaza, what can we as socialists (and non-socialists) do to fix Gaza? 1 day ago:
Cutting off material support for Israel and putting out real arrest warrants for war criminals are two things I can think of we could do.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 1 day ago:
I mean there’s like pictures of the sun out there… how old is this person?
- Comment on Lab anxiety 2 days ago:
Are you telling me I could get paid to hand-crank my centrifuge? I’ve been doing it for free all these years.
- Comment on DIY, Full-Stack Farm Automation 4 days ago:
So it’s basically an automated irrigation system? Kind of neat.
- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism 6 days ago:
Need to teach the youths about erowid.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 1 week ago:
I agree with you but can it be prevented? And if so how?
- Comment on I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work? 1 week ago:
Tough, I just heard about it through word of mouth. You can try web searches but it will be hard because most coops are consumer coops which won’t necessarily have the same democratic rights for workers.
- Comment on I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work? 1 week ago:
Damn that sucks. I bet there is one somewhere though, they may not have all of them listed in once place.
- Comment on I'm about to get fired. How do I make sure my next job is a better place to work? 1 week ago:
Talking to other people who work there and reading reviews can help. But the real issue is hierarchical management style is always going to be vulnerable to abuse by bad actors because your managers have near total power over you.
In the private sector the solution is worker’s coops. I’m not sure what it would be called in the nonprofit world but there are likely more democratically run organizations in a similar vein.
Another alternative is finding somewhere with a strong union. Unions can also be toxic in some ways but usually far less so than normal work power dynamics.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 1 week ago:
First, contact as many people as you can, especially local ICE watch orgs. A lot have hotlines which you may be able to find with a web search. Next start recording. Delay as long as possible. Ask for a warrant, stay calm and maybe try to negotiate as a stall tactic. This will hopefully give community members time to arrive and record or hopefully apply pressure if they are brave and numerous enough. It is possible to intimidate and drive them back with enough numbers.
All else fails at this point I would not fight back and allow yourself to be arrested. Most citizens being arrested right now are being released. The courts are slow but still upholding the law for now. If you are not a citizen then your options might not be as good. Fighting back is likely to get you injured or killed but if you have an escape route it could be worthwhile, especially if you can escape in areas where motor vehicles can’t go. Their level of fitness is generally low so they can’t give chase for long, and as long as you’re not high profile you might be safe once you get away, though you’ll likely need to lie low somewhere.
If you’re asking what to do about the current political situation in a broader sense then I have different answers.
- Comment on Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible ban 2 weeks ago:
True but also fuck off.
- Comment on Why is kissing? 2 weeks ago:
I’ll note that kissing is not culturally universal. Remember that colonialism has made a lot of European ideas and norms seem way more universal than they are.
- Comment on publication maxxing 2 weeks ago:
What about, y’know, doing the actual research you’re supposed to be writing about?
- Comment on it's a bat's life 3 weeks ago:
I wish I could be this cozy when wet.
- Comment on Snitches get switches 3 weeks ago:
In some places it could be. Depends how anal the rangers want to be. They’re basically cops so I’d say chance of a power trip is high.
- Comment on 🐦⬛ Blackbird singing in the dead of night... (人´▽`*)♪ 3 weeks ago:
Hilarious saga. I kinda enjoyed their downfall because they were a crow guy but people asked them about all kinds of nature questions and a lot of what they said outside of their expertise was wrong…
But me with the right answer was sitting with 2 upvotes while Unidan got 1000.
- Comment on Humans rank between meerkats and beavers in monogamy ‘league table’, but sheep are sluts. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think this is true. There is certainly a large degree of individual variation in animal behavior too, it’s just not that well studied.
I had a professor who studied owls, which are usually highly monogamous. But there was one male who always tried to have two nests with two different females. It was hard for him because he had to hunt twice as much food, but for whatever reason that was what he felt like doing.
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 3 weeks ago:
That’s already the way the world works today. But the difference is, the state won’t forbid you from organizing community self-defense as needed.
- Comment on Breed back better, or whatever Biden said 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 3 weeks ago:
I believe I already answered this? There is no ownership without a state to enforce your claim.
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 3 weeks ago:
Same way animals do.
- Comment on PieFed 1.4 is released - emoji, federated stackoverflow and AI content filters 4 weeks ago:
I mean the Lemmy devs are objectively assholes. You don’t gotta be anti-communist to recognize that.
But if there’s more to this story than just vibes I’d be interested to read about it. Did they make some statement or where did you hear this? Because I’ve never heard anything about this.
- Comment on PieFed 1.4 is released - emoji, federated stackoverflow and AI content filters 4 weeks ago:
lol wat
- Comment on Is this the future that transhumanists want? 5 weeks ago:
Sure why not?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Honestly that hasn’t been my experience but either way there’s always room for improvement.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Also, I hope we can all make a concerted effort to be nicer to each other. It’s the internet so that’s not always easy but I do think that’s one of the things holding us back.
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 1 month ago:
They’ve never been for small government. This lie needs to be called out every single time.
- Comment on Assumptions 1 month ago:
Capybara are dangerous?! Do they kill by biting or what?
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 1 month ago:
I would assume insects would be evolutionarily similar to other types or prey.
- Comment on When DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts containing topics the CCP considers politically sensitive, the likelihood of it producing code with severe security vulnerabilities increases by up to 50%. 1 month ago:
It’s pretty clear that deepseek is not open source, or at least shouldn’t be considered within the spirit of open source.
It seems like if we want to have truly open source llms, a new standard for transparency is needed.