theacharnian
@theacharnian@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Charlie Kirk says gun deaths "unfortunately" worth it to keep 2nd amendment 3 days ago:
Sure whatever man.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
His last word was “violence”.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk says gun deaths "unfortunately" worth it to keep 2nd amendment 3 days 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 3 days ago:
Leopards ate his face.
- Comment on Can we please stop arguing about whether Bluesky is decentralized? 5 days 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? 5 days 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? 5 days 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? 5 days 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 week 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 week ago:
Hello Paige Saunders!
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
CS education is notoriously prone to boom-bust cycles.
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 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. 2 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. 2 months 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 months 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 2 months ago:
Americans and their Founding Daddy issues.
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 2 months 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 3 months ago:
Wtf does that even mean?
- Comment on No looky for you! 3 months ago:
This is oddly rhythmical/musical.