theacharnian
@theacharnian@lemmy.ca
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- Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal 1 week ago:
Meanwhile China is going all in on renewables.
Here is a fact: an authoritarian non-democracy is doing a lot for securing the future of humanity, while the “leader of the free world” are vandalizing the climate and accelerating apocalyptic climate catastrophe.
In 2025, China is a net positive for the future of humanity, while the USA is a net negative.
If that makes you uncomfortable about what our political and economic systems in the West that brought us here, well, you know the meme: “facts don’t care about your feelings”.
If you, like me, care about the future of democracy, we have to do a LOT of digging.
- Comment on Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services 2 weeks ago:
Excellent opportunity to prove the superiority of our localized moderation model!
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 5 weeks ago:
Slut shaming is not OK.
Fuck Trump.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk says gun deaths "unfortunately" worth it to keep 2nd amendment 1 month ago:
Sure whatever man.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
His last word was “violence”.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk says gun deaths "unfortunately" worth it to keep 2nd amendment 1 month ago:
Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment
Other people’s deaths.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk says gun deaths "unfortunately" worth it to keep 2nd amendment 1 month ago:
Leopards ate his face.
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 1 month ago:
Of course I agree that decentralization for social media is hugely important. I’m just pointing out that there can exist use cases where centralization makes sense and/or is not a problem.
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 1 month ago:
Sure but I don’t think that makes it “decentralized” it makes it as you correctly point out, open source. Those are orthogonal categories.There aren’t parts of wikipedia that are hosted in other wikipedia instances that talk to each other the same way mastodon does. There is a unique, central, Wikipedia.
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 1 month ago:
But once you download It, any changes you make are only local. You cannot edit wikipedia using a non-wikipedia account (sure you can edit anonymously but then your IP functions as your account) and the articles are not systematically stored in different wikipedia instances. There is one Wikipedia.
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 1 month ago:
Centralization on its own is not a deal breaker. Wikipedia is centralized.
Corporate/business ownership on it’s own is not a deal breaker. There are many business mastodon instances: mastodonservers.net/servers/business
It’s the combination that is a deal breaker. Corporate AND centralized. We’ve seen this movie before. It’s a predictably boring story that ends with enshittification.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 1 month ago:
Capitalists love interoperability when they can use it to disrupt other capitalists. When they get in a dominant position they hate it.
It’s basic enshittification theory.
- Comment on How To Use PeerTube for Podcasting 1 month ago:
Hello Paige Saunders!
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 1 month ago:
I don’t understand. Does an instance hosted anywhere outside of this US backwater state have anything to fear from this? Why is Eugen being contacted all the way in Germany?
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 month ago:
Streisand effect: the BBC is telling every last kid that VPN is exactly is the way to circumvent the prohibition.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 2 months ago:
CS education is notoriously prone to boom-bust cycles.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 2 months ago:
The most benevolent reading of his idea here is that the rich are shallow and are content with the base material satisfactions afforded them by wealth, as opposed to using their wealth for some kind of greatness.
That’s it. That’s the whole idea.
So this is the wise sage of the dark enlightenment? This is the intellectual colossus shaping the thinking of the new tech elite?
There is nothing there. Any random village priest (or small town pastor for you yanks) has more intellectual depth in their Sunday sermon than this.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 2 months ago:
I don’t know if this analysis is true generally, Japan is pretty fucking capitalist.
I would argue it’s more a matter of what wing of the capitalist oligarchy has the upper hand. In the US and Canada, it’s the extractive fossil capital and that ultimately holds power. In Japan, or the Netherlands it’s more the manufacturing.
Don’t extrapolate from the US to capitalism in general. It’s more nuanced than that.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 2 months ago:
Funny that when it was about protecting profits copyright was such a cornerstone principle but when it’s about protecting profits it can also be set aside.
- Comment on The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable 3 months ago:
I am old enough (i.e., older than 5 years old) to remember the conservative talking point that it wasn’t meaningful for western countries to curb emissions because China.
Eat China’s solar dust now.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 months ago:
An ecosocialist world would not allow wealth inequality to become this bad.
We don’t live in one. The challenge is to make one.
It’s a biological fact when resources are constrained that a population will plateu.
Mice and fleas don’t have medicine, feminism, research centres and agriculture. Look at the world around you. In societies with high degrees of scarcity and high infant mortality, humans have tended to have a lot of babies. This is true now, and it was true historically. On the flipside, in societies with high development indexes, humans tend to not have many kids. From Japan to Sweden to Cuba, you see that fertility rates inversely correlate with human development. These are just observable facts.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 months ago:
I mean, the “I’m sorry if it makes me an ecofascist, but” line was a dead giveaway from the start.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 months ago:
Oh, so you get to decide who gets to have kids and how many? And the “trailer park welfare mom” is your problem? Like, the straw(wo)man you made up with ingredients from classism, sexism and eugenics?
Yea, that makes you a regular fascist. The “eco” is just the excuse.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 months ago:
What a bullshit dilemma.
And you are wrong that wealth inequality causes the drop in birth rates. The birth rate was higher in the Dickensian times of Britain compared to now. If anything, it is wealth equality, universal positive rights, and women’s liberation that tend to make people have fewer kids.
A ecosocialist world is a sustainable one. An ecofascist world is just a death spiral.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 months ago:
You first, buddy.
If not, this is just a slippery slope arguent to “those other people shouldn’t exist/have babies”. That’s just the door to eco-fascism.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 3 months ago:
Oh boy wait till you hear what the suffragettes were willing to do for another righteous cause, a bit over a century ago. I don’t know man, maybe the government should start reexamining its policies if ordinary people among its citizens are willing to start breaking into airbase and damaging their own planes.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 3 months ago:
It the Irish potato famine?
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 3 months ago:
Labour are class traitors.