theacharnian
@theacharnian@lemmy.ca
- 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 1 week 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. 1 week 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. 1 week ago:
Labour are class traitors.
- Comment on Australian police beat an opposition politician so badly that she might lose an eye -- simply for being at an anti-genocide protest. 2 weeks ago:
The Guardian reported that NSW Police said officers issued a move-on order as the protest was considered “unauthorised”, citing a lack of advanced notice and failure to submit exemption forms required under anti-protest laws.
Oh, fuck off, what is this shit?!
- Comment on Basically 4 weeks ago:
Americans and their Founding Daddy issues.
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 4 weeks ago:
This is useful for dispelling the hype around ChatGPT and for demonstrating the limits of general purpose LLMs.
But that’s about it. This is not a “win” for old school game engines vs new ones. Stockfish uses deep reinforcement learning and is one of the strongest chess engines in the world.
- Comment on TIL my decision to drive a 22' full cab pickup truck and vehemently oppose urban zoning reform makes me a defender of social justice, a warrior for the downtrodden, and more progressive than 99% [cont 5 weeks ago:
Wtf does that even mean?
- Comment on No looky for you! 1 month ago:
This is oddly rhythmical/musical.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 1 month ago:
A culture that obsoletes electronics every couple of years and enshittifies services every couple of other years cannot be seriously talking about MMIs/BCIs.
- Comment on I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats. 4 months ago:
My original comment probably came off as abrasive, it’s not on each individual faculty to figure this out, it’s a collective task. What I meant with “you haven’t figured it out yet” was actually that nobody has figured it out yet.
And yes admin needs to be involved and leading this, with workshops, reflections, etc. It would be extremely short sighted of them not to. Ours thankfully is more enlightened, and that might be due to them having a team involving both philosophers and computer scientists somehow.
One approach I have personally found useful as a step is to actually involve the students in this discussion. Like, acknowledge to them that this thing exists now, have a frank discussion about its opportunities (speed) and perils (slop), and discuss with them how they think it should be integrated in your learning community. Like we’re all adults here, what do you guys want out of this experience?
- Comment on I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats. 4 months ago:
That just means you haven’t figured out how to work with generative AI and not against it.
- Comment on Israeli speaker of parliament calls for bombing food stocks in Gaza now that Israel has cut off their food and water. 4 months ago:
Lol, imagine if a high ranking PA official (not even Hamas) were to say something like this. The UN Security Council would be passing a resolution condemning him.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 4 months ago:
Maybe we should abolish stock markets.
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 4 months ago:
Just because Trump wants it to be America’s war doesn’t mean that it is. Trump wants many things to be true, most of which are not.
- Comment on Ukraine isn’t invited to its own peace talks. History is full of such examples – and the results are devastating 4 months ago:
And Fuck Trumpist USA.
- Comment on Two 26-Year-Olds: One Killed a Homeless Man, Another is Suspected of Killing a Healthcare CEO 6 months ago:
reaches for spatha
- Comment on Two 26-Year-Olds: One Killed a Homeless Man, Another is Suspected of Killing a Healthcare CEO 6 months ago:
Yet the Roman Empire survived and thrived for about a millennium afterwards.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 7 months ago:
Yes, of course. Then face a jury. And hopefully go free via jury nullification.
- Comment on turned them into their final form! 7 months ago:
Also, soutzoukakia.
- Comment on Trump said he’ll end offshore wind “on day one.” Experts say he can’t do that, but his administration could cause plenty of trouble for the nascent industry. 7 months ago:
It’s mind boggling how inept the Democrats have been about shit like this. Where were the sob stories about the people whose jobs are in danger? About the brave entrepreneurs who took risks on technologies, creating jobs for the average joe just for the government to come an pick winners and losers? I mean, I don’t believe in capitalism, but they’re supposed to be proud self proclaimed capitalists??
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 8 months ago:
That’s why Mitbestimmungsgesetz can be goddamn fucking awesome.