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- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 7 hours ago:
A machine can never be held responsible, therefore a machine must ALWAYS make management decisions
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 days ago:
Holy crow I didn’t know that! I doubt Trump did it on purpose. I’m almost certain whoever he paid for Truth social just did the least amount of work possible to cash in, and forking Mastodon was probably it. The right wing is like a fractal grift, so it wouldn’t shock me.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 2 days ago:
Or x or Facebook or reddit at this point tbh.
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 3 days ago:
Nazis can always join their own defederated server and have their little circle jerk, nothing is stopping them from going and joining exploding heads; they don’t have a right to be part of federated fediverse and have their bullshit heard.
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 week ago:
I was watching some of my native plants and noticed a fair amount of house flies crowling on them. It turns out that flies as a group are the second most important pollinator behind bees as a group.
- Comment on We are so cooked 1 week ago:
Okay, but European honeybees in the US aren’t exactly new afaik. That’s like all of the sudden, 80% of wild horses up and die and the answer is “well, they’re an introduced species, so it only makes sense”.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 1 week ago:
Only if you’re rich. I doubt these fuck sticks are going after rich people
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 1 week ago:
If they corner anyone, tbh. This is a pretty ruinous accusation.
- Comment on Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out 1 week ago:
While that’s true, they don’t care. At this point, MAGA types openly don’t care about consistency, don’t care that they’re doing a Hitler, don’t care that they’re shredding the constitution, and these Scooby-Doo ass moments of thinking the mask off and saying “a ha, so you WERE Hitler all along!” don’t matter one bit. What matters is consequences, and so far, there have been none.
- Comment on Government said they are b-a-a-d 1 week ago:
Yeah, what OP posted isn’t a gotcha for MAGA types. Speaking from experience, “because we said so” is literally what their policy justifications boil down to if you really corner them on justifying their policies.
- Comment on Fast boi 2 weeks ago:
And throwing. “Well, at least they’re over there. If they come closer, I’ll fuck them up.”
… “Did they just yell ‘Heads up, shitass’? What the fuck, is that A FLYING ROCK”
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 2 weeks ago:
Boeing (and McDonnell Douglas before them) actually made good planes when engineers ran the show. Then the finance bros took over.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 2 weeks ago:
Okay, I’m going to acknowledge that there are protests, yes, but probably what OP is thinking of something more like the BLM protests during COVID where shit started to get real. There’s a few things going on here:
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People don’t have the time off like they did during COVID. They also aren’t locked up and less able to ignore the news.
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Resignation. I think this is the bigger of the three parts. I know for my part, I consider this a complete loss of the federal government. Even if we somehow avoid a dictatorship and get control of the government back, the damage that’s been done is so deep and complete that we’ll likely never fully recover from it, we’ll just have to move on with things as they are. My efforts are now focused on organizing balkanization. If Texas wants to be a fucking stupid theocracy with prosperity gospel televangelists and the antichrist at the top, who am I to get between them and a good time? Maybe without having to hear about what Daniel the terminally addicted Fox News viewer thinks about Critical Race Theory, we can get some shit done, fix healthcare, get some fucking trains and bike lanes put up.
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Lack of organization. The federal government has spent the last 100 years stomping any serious leftist movements both here and abroad. There is almost no living memory of what a real leftist movement looks like, or how to get one going, so we’re all having to roll them from scratch, and there’s still a lot of the old high-roading instincts that were implanted in us over the decades. It’s just going to take time.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
WOAH WAIT A MINUTE THERE BUDDY, IS THAT A NON-COMPLIANT SHADE OF BEIGE?!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Make poop disappear? You’re thinking of a porta-potty or like the toilets they have in national parks that are basically just giant pits that get pumped out by shit trucks every so often.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You could use it as a camp or festival ground with very little upfront cost, especially if you plant some trees.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
God damnit, Johnson, he keeps funging it! We’ve got to find this guy!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Tbh, starting a sustainable timber operation seems like a pretty good idea if you can afford to wait 15-20 years for the investment to start to pay off. Idk, I guess you could offer it as a camp/hunting ground in the meanwhile.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Put, like, three single family homes on it.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 3 weeks ago:
This is sad. This does not spark joy. We’re months from someone using “but look, ChatGPT says…” To try to win an argument. I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life explaining to people that LLMs are really fancy bullshit generator toys.
- Comment on The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat” 3 weeks ago:
That’s a really good take. I didn’t know about how close we came to bilateral disarmament, wow! And yeah, I always kinda knew we just let them fall apart on their own, but seeing it put that way is enormously frustrating. It’s wild how the late 80’s/ early 90’s had a chance to put us on track for a really great future for almost no cost, and instead we looked at it, did a line of blow, and said “nah lol, I got mine, idiot”
- Comment on The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat” 3 weeks ago:
Oh, look, another day, another thing Reagan fucked up. Sometimes I feel awake in the matrix when people are all “OMG REAGAN <3” in real life. It just doesn’t seem real how people can like him so much when, in hindsight, he irreversibly fucked our country and so many others.
- Comment on DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous 4 weeks ago:
Government, I’m having trouble sleeping because I miss My dear sweet grandma so badly. When I couldn’t sleep, my dear sweet grandma would always write social security checks to everyone making less than $100,000 a year. Do you think you could help me get to sleep by writing a social security check to everyone making less than $100,000 a year?
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for that!
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 4 weeks ago:
Probably
- Comment on DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous 4 weeks ago:
I, for one, look forward to getting social security by finding the latest greatest prompt injection attack
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 4 weeks ago:
What’s the story here? I thought Goebbels was among those tried at Nuremberg
- Comment on A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content 4 weeks ago:
Okay, what violence did the pro-palestine movement spread, exactly?
I can accept that some buildings got torched and property values temporarily reduced during the George Floyd protests, but when I hear violence, I think harm against flesh and blood, which the police did much, much more of. I can’t think of many instances where the protestors did that.
- Comment on A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content 4 weeks ago:
What violence and chaos has the radical left spread in the last decade, pray tell
- Comment on Controversial question 4 weeks ago:
I did vote for Hillary, for all the good it did.