Quill7513
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Alt account of @Cube6392@beehaw.org for looking at stuff Beehaw defederated
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 3 hours ago:
the superbowl is the great american holiday of spectacle. the people who watch it for the game are frustrated the best games happened in the playoffs, not the superbowl and that it’s bloated with ads. the people who watch for the commercials are frustrated that they’re less inventive and that they get pre-released before the super bowl. the people who watch for the halftime show are stuck for 2+ hours waiting for the part they like. the people who watch for the bloodsport don’t like that the rules have been adjusted to reduce the harm players experience for their entertainment. the only thing that’s holding all these groups together are a mutual desire to eat tortilla chips, dips, and sausages.
and nearly 50% of all americans watch. more people watch than vote. and none of them are happy with it. and we don’t even get a day off for it. it’s our most bizarre national ritual.
- Comment on 'No One Should Have a Copyright on Vance Being Booed': Video From Olympics Blocked on X 1 day ago:
brb, gotta deal with some tidying on our streets before we’re ready to have company over
- Comment on Borderlands 4 for Nintendo Switch 2 likely axed, as Take-Two says it’s ‘paused’ development | VGC 4 days ago:
and given nintendo’s history, the RoW market is a fun side project for them
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 6 days ago:
it’s getting hard to differentiate his ideas that are intentionally scams and his ideas that are just ketamine fueled insanity
- Comment on 1 week ago:
fascists are also opportunistic backbiting bitches always looking for the moment to turn on eachother
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 1 week ago:
trump will say anything. he doesn’t support mamdani, at least not in action. but trump wants to be popular and for people to like him, so he will attach himself to anything successful. he loved the new england patriots until the kansas city chiefs became the dynasty to beat. suddenly he was talking about patrick mahomes constantly.
the criticism for that meeting should purely go on mamdani allowing his brand to be attached to a fascist. but that gets into that electoralism will never save us because politicians who play political games to curry favor are inherently compromised. however, the value of electoralism is that it can help us put people who will allow us to organize on the margins in office as we grow our movement
- Comment on The Truth Is Out There 1 week ago:
nah lefties love bigfoot. the “believing in bigfoot” community is very split on trump. i think there should be a sociological/anthropological investigation into bigfoot beliefs as well as how our media environment promotes far right cryptozoologists (cryptofascist cryptozoologists) more than far left cryptozoologists
- Comment on The Truth Is Out There 1 week ago:
there are many species of bigfoot. there’s Yeti, Yowai, Sasquatch, and Woodbooger just off the top of my head. to treat them all as the same species ignores how different their local environments are, and therefor that they would surely required different physiologies to survive.
unless of course we assume that bigfoot is some manner of hetero sapien with similar skills in tool use and adaptation to homo sapien
- Comment on Guitar technology 1 week ago:
i think the incompetence comes into play from knowing the risk but proceeding for the memes. and like. look. respect to doing luthery as a form of stunt work. but all amateur stuntwork is ultimately a form of incompetence. it’s cool, and respectworthy. but it’s also not… the competent thing to do to see a magnet break a slat, realize it can break your finger, and then press on to do it.
- Comment on ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice 2 weeks ago:
you name a way to divide a people in a harmful way, they’re doing it
- racism
- Islamophobia
- homophobia
- sexism
- transphobia
- ablism
- shit you ain’t never even thought of hating on
they’re hating on it
- Comment on ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice 2 weeks ago:
i beg of everyone to keep an open mind and to try to remember that while this might seem like racist bullshit upon first glance, that upon further inspection you will find that the reasons for these things are also racist bullshit
- Comment on FYI: Reddit trademarked some community names (Digg link) 3 weeks ago:
i can’t help but be pleased that you associate 3 of my favorite instances with eachother! it makes me feel like i’m acting in a group who’s putting good things into the world
in addition to those, and anarchist.nexus (which @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com mentioned), i think quokk.au also belongs (i think they even had a vote to join the flotilla db0 was mentioning, but that they voted no). while these instances are not formally allied via the governance pact of said flotilla, i do find them, and the users on them, to generally have complementary views and stances on the world, how it works, and how it should work.
it’s less like a flotilla and more like ships at sea who all hate the royal french armada together. we party at the same ports together, but we’re all on different adventures
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 3 weeks ago:
the key is, from microsoft’s perspective, you don’t own your computer
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 3 weeks ago:
Tolkein’s idyllic structure for a society, the shire, is frequently analyzed through a lens of “is this anarchism?” and it’s not all that uncommon to conclude “yes”
all these fuckers read Tolkien and adopted the imagery of the villains. none of them realize that the message is that all the top level people are addicted to power. the people who actually get shit done, the hobbits, they are tempted by power because it’s tempting, but ultimately value singing songs, making tea, and eating potatoes too much to want to possess the ultimate power in the universe. almost everyone who comes into contact with the one ring wants to possess it forever. Bilbo’s first desire for it is to use it to help him escape a dangerous situation. Frodo is indifferent to it at first. Sam immediately hates it, feels guilt for letting Frodo carry it alone, and commits himself to destroying it.
You’re not supposed to read Tolkien and implement fascism. you’re supposed to read Tolkien and learn to value pacifism
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 3 weeks ago:
it’s incredible how many people just need to hold onto the ball and run out the clock and they still can’t fucking do it. I guess on the bright side it shines a light on that no one should be a billionaire. But from their perspective the thing to do once hitting a billion is to sit on your fucking hands, avoid interacting with normal people so they can’t realize how fuckin’ weird you are, and await death
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
okay. there’s been research out about the disorienting nature of of grocery stores since the 1970s when piggly wiggly was first normalizing a certain sales area experience.
and yes. i am talking about the sales area. i wae never trying to claim otherwise. the context this entire time was the experience of being a customer inside a building whose only purpose is to extract value from you as you try to acquire basic living necessities.
and impulse buys in that context are a desired outcome of the overwhelming experience.
is your objection just my use of the word bombard? i can use a different word. overstimulate you. better?
like i can find more articles this was just literally the first thing i found and i hoped it would point you in the right direction and help you understand. but reading your comment here it almost feels like you’ve taken such great offense to how i’ve worded this that you can’t be bothered to engage with what i’ve been saying since the start
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
did you design the store layout?
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
it’s the who does the telling who creates the hostile design. the other things you’re describing, the dehumanization of the employees, are part of that design
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
people lack spacial awareness in the grocery store because a supermarket is an example of hostile design. it is intentionally disorienting and overloads you with information
- Comment on we need more users 4 weeks ago:
i don’t understand how that negates the utility of a mobile app that presents this information. also i’m not saying to get rid of the server-client paradigm, not sure what you’re talking about
- Comment on we need more users 4 weeks ago:
status. part of the impetus of the development of piefed was a frustration with how the lemmy devs treated people who tried to get onboarded to help with the development of lemmy. i can go into more depth about how this is a reflection of how the lemmy devs see the world, but i don’t necessarily feel like hashing all that out when i have bigger fascists to fry
- Comment on we need more users 4 weeks ago:
phone apps can’t use activity pub as that’s a server protocol so if you want a good mobile interface you generally speaking need a rest-y api that an application can query. yes, lemmy and piefed both feature PWA frontends that can be installed to your homescreen, however on older phones this can be an extremely suboptimal experience as PWAs tend to require more RAM than native apps.
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 4 weeks ago:
this is the problem rooting a system of ethics in an authoritative morality. morality is socially assigned where as ethics are derived based on reaching consensus. whether or not something is morally right or wrong is nearly indistinguishable from whether or not something is legally allowed or disallowed. the Israelis have been programmed for 80 years to believe that theirs is the most moral army because their interpretation of the torah tells them it must be so. the nazis believed they were right, and so did the americans and british they were drawing inspiration from.
much better to focus on ethics derived on features of what it means to be human and what dignities we must all have respected as we navigate the world
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 4 weeks ago:
this has also been the case for prior genocidal projects
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 5 weeks ago:
i think often about that GM and Volvo paid Virginia Tech a lot of money to help them design a safe touchscreen infotainment center and after years of research the researchers basically reached the conclusion “there’s no safe way to put a touchscreen in a car” and now we all have touchscreens in our cars
- Comment on Honestly how????? 1 month ago:
i had a frustrating conversation recently about the ethnic cleansing of Königsburg to create kaliningrad. the person i was talking to kept saying that all the Germans had to be removed because they were nazis. the problem there is that this simply isn’t true. the red army and the Free Deutschland movement cooperated on the liberation of the city from nazi control. after the collapse of nazi germany, the red army largely turned on their former Free Deutschland allies, only keeping the most staunchly authcomm officers around and relocating them to what would become East Germany.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 month ago:
like when you looked into it you didn’t find much you were interested in, or like the people you were interested in have left that way of interacting with the fediverse? between the threadiverse and the microblog portion of the fediverse, we are by far engaging with the less popular and populous way of interacting with the fediverse
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 month ago:
then why restore the posts and accounts? why did you say the mandate would exist soon instead of already? and yes. the absolutely have the money to hire a lawyer and put forward the legal deposits to challenge this in court. any company with more than 50 employees not approaching bankruptcy filings does
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 month ago:
i wanted to take some time to review and reflect, and i cannot bring myself to the same conclusion. as you said, the mandate does not exist yet. plus, this fascist regime has invented new ways of losing in the courts because they simply don’t have total control yet. bluesky has the resources to fight for their users right in court. by choosing not to wait for a court order or even put up a minimal legal resistance, they complied in advance. to me, their decision to remove these posts or ban these accounts reflects not a requirement to comply, but instead company values. they thought it would be easier and cheaper to roll over. i think this is ultimately the underlying flaw of for-profit media companies so i’m not surprised, and the conclusion i reach is that with a for profit media company, i am the product. as the product, i can refuse to have my attention sold to the highest bidder as an “impression.” if i don’t like fascism, i don’t use bluesky. so i don’t