It's pretty great. Unfortunately the city I grew up in was designed after American cities so it was impossible to get anywhere without a car, it's such a breath of fresh air
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It's pretty great. Unfortunately the city I grew up in was designed after American cities so it was impossible to get anywhere without a car, it's such a breath of fresh air
Where's your capital then?
Yeah I don't know the right answer either. And I agree, the last person I'd take my anger and existential angst out on is children, and it is so fucked up that hateful fascist rhetoric would drive someone to do that.
I know detransitioning and conversion therapy are very close together, but I'll still respect someone's chosen gender regardless of how they get there. That only seems fair, even if they aren't in the best state of mind. Dangerous slope to deny someone their gender based on their mental state.
I 100% agree with that too. But just as I respected her right to transition, I also respect his right to transition back. It's just such a fucking mess, an exhausting mess, all of it.
What mechanism other than shame would be suitable to drive socially responsible behaviour? It's pretty easy NOT to use the Nazi site, no?
James what changed your opinion?
If it's gonna die then it can die, and we'll all move on. What are you posting that you feel so unwelcome?
Idk, I say this as queer/trans myself, if we respect the right for people to transition then I think it's only fair we respect the right to detransition? Regardless of their reasons, we should respect what gender they want to be seen as, and especially important when a Nazi does a mass shooting
These are amazing
And three years before you even know if there will be an election or not
And it's not for lack of raw sexual energy, but is in fact because he's a slave trader
Maybe we could try asking nicely that corporations stop killing us for profit? Have we tried that? Maybe we could sign a petition? Maybe we could go for a peaceful march through town? Perhaps we should beg and grovel at their feet, maybe that would work? Who's paying you to be so willingly obtuse?
Agreed, that's why I have no trouble believing the US military capable of bringing their imperialist terror home
Blood must grease the wheels of the US war machine, and it cares not from where that blood flows
MAGA was not a requirement for the atrocities in SEA, Latin America, and the Middle East, why would it be a requirement in the US?
Either that or they'll relish the opportunity to excise their bloodlust on people that can't fight back. This is the US military we are talking about, they have the pedigree for it
I'm not American so that's a bit of a moot point. Either way this is irrelevant? I asked what the difference is whether Trump actually won or not, as he is currently (and hopefully dead) seated in the whitehouse pushing authoritarian policy. Doesn't matter who actually "won"
Small government, and a right to bear arms to protect against government tyranny...
I do hope the American citizens can save themselves
What difference does it make? The authoritarian takeover is complete
Perfect to wash down that unfiltered cigarette taste
Not to mention they'd wake up before the crack of dawn, guzzle down a nourishing breakfast of cigarettes, before heading out for a 20 hour shift of sweeping chimneys
The cult of domestication will not box us in, will not decide convenient labels for us, will not dictate that we should be as miserable as them
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Elon Musk has never been talented. He was born wealthy enough to throw money at his failures until he got lucky enough to buy up some successful ventures. Look what has happened to Twitter and Tesla since he took over and tell me those are the results of talent.
His own baby dinosaur is a great gift for turning 4 weeks old. My kitten used to terrorise a stuffed rat from IKEA that was her size, I've kept the trend going with plushies that match her size as she's grown, though she is less aggressive with them these days
I'd be curious to see studies of how addictive LLM prompting can be, I wouldn't be surprised if it's comparable to gambling
You ask a magic 8 ball if you should kill yourself and you get a generic yes/no/maybe This teen was coached over months on how to kill himself, and was told not to reach out to those around him because only the chatbot truly understood. Who is paying you to be this willfully ignorant?
When you're prompting it really feels like you're getting a lot done but after 4 hours you realise you have 1h worth of buggy code
Best analogy for the fundamental problem with using LLM agents for anything important I have ever seen
But if you don't vote for the party that does genocides but also yass queen be your best gay self (quietly, in the corner) then how can you act smug and self important until the next election inevitably devolves into fascism?
Not that I believe in the concept of marriage beyond the offered legal protections but it's absolutely fucked that we don't get marriage equality
Maybe, maybe not. Remember when every company was trying to shove the metaverse and NFTs down our throats?
Jarritos fucking slaaaaps
You don't want to hear about the world's straightest whitest couple and their ecosystem destroying private jet adventures every hour on the hour?
I like the one where those kids made fun of a bald guy and God killed them with bears
But you must understand, in the context of the time, telling a father how much to charge for selling their daughter into slavery was pretty progressive. We must not forget the context of the time
It's 2025, I'm sure we can come up with some better standards and guidelines for how to live a moral life, new religions, new ways of being. Why cling to a 2000 year old book? You want to talk about context? Show me a religious text that takes vaccines and internet into context.
That's still polygamy, as opposed to monogamy. Just like the bible calling for "ethical" treatment of slaves is still supporting the practice of slavery
But I'm not judging the bible by the standards of its time, I'm judging it by the standards of modern day because people are still quoting it and using it as justification for their actions. I don't care about the context under which it was written, I care about the context it is being used in
Cool. What are you doing about it?
On local soil maybe. In Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa, and SEA the US was funding, arming, and training groups to install dictatorships. Decades of complacency are why it's happening in your own country now. Your government is applying lessons they learnt toppling other nations
Right? Moses freed himself and his people from slavery, but that is very different from the more general "freed slaves". As you say, the Bible is very pro-slavery
When? Fascism was a popular ideology in the US before Pearl Harbour. They wanted to stay out of the war until then. And after that? It's been decades of violent imperialism. All that has changed is that the imperialism has come back to home soil. WW2 ended 80 years ago
Very short leap to "oh my god my invention has killed most of the young men of Europe. I must fund a Peace Prize to ease my guilt"
You argue that because of US meddling in foreign regimes in the past, it should be better at preventing a coup on its own soil I argue that meddling is exactly why this coup is happening now, exactly why it isn't being prevented Am I misunderstanding something?
Your intelligence is currently complicit and aiding the regime. I am saying that the US is not a nation that stops coups, it starts them. The idea that the US comes in guns blazing and ends rebellions and coups is Hollywood propaganda for military recruitment
WW2 was a long time ago and that victory required massive effort from the UK and the Soviets, not to mention all the other allied nations. I think you've drank your own koolaid, the US has been an oppressor state for decades now. The oppression has come home
Wtf are you on about? America is an expert in funding and supporting coups. Looking into the history of many Latin American and Asian nations from the 1950s onwards if you don't believe me
We understand humour, NTs just aren't funny
Wow. Slut.
On the internet???
The result is the same. She tried to appeal to the same voters that voted for Trump, rather than addressing the disenfranchised people without a voice. If she had platformed on abortion rights, free healthcare, rent control, higher minimum wage etc then the elections would have gone differently
In general, if liberals want to win they could try appealing to leftists instead of the right wing. So for example when Kamala threw trans people under the bus and didn't vow to end support to Israel, she could have instead not done that.
I mean in this case for the US at this point, yeah, revolt. You can't peacefully oppose fascism, they'll divide and conquer, and I don't think any external people are coming to help.
Oh 100%. Capitalists will use their capital to crush us. Which is why we should push to restructure how state and politics are funded. You can't change the system when using resources of the system. I can't fight the oil lobbyists with oil money
"We must use the correct channels and make sure we do not disrupt shareholder value"
Leftists want to dismantle the current systems because we understand the systemic nature of oppression and want to bring about real change knowing it will disrupt the status quo and disempower the elites. Leftists dunk on libs because we do not see them as left wing, they are progressive right wing
I'm going to engage with you genuinely on the off chance that maybe you're just naive on the matter. Liberals are the ones that pretend to care about being progressive, and might even try to enact progressive policy, as long as it doesn't disrupt the status quo too much. Think Dems funding genocide
@strangeportent.bsky.social your trap worked
i'm the guy who invented the spike traps that pop out of temple walls. i hate my job. every day my boss says "why haven't we killed any archeologists" and i say "they haven't invented that yet." they pay me in tomb juice. i hate tomb juice. honestly i might just start working on my big boulder idea
Billionaires would sooner launch enough debris up into space to block out the sun than turn to green energy
I will say the same to you as I say to the Europeans that say Africa is fucked and it's not their responsibility: It's been 200 years. The people tired from fighting are dead. The people that benefited from the fighting have had ample time to do the right thing
Mark "I need tax incentives to pay my workers a living wage even though I'm a billionaire" Cuban, the liberal's billionaire. When will you learn that billionaires are never on the side of the people? They gained their wealth by plundering our future, and they ask us to beg and grovel for scraps
I didn't say it would stop it. I said it would lead to infighting and chaos. Who was their figurehead before this? And who are the "y'all" you've lumped me in with?
Who is this "y'all" you're lumping me in with? Yes so you are agreeing with me. Cultists that now have a figurehead and a reason to work together. Now what happens when their figurehead dies and they realise they have opposing goals?
I'm making observations of cult dynamics based on the fracturing and schisms of previous cults when their leaders die. In case it really absolutely needs stating, I hope they find Trump dead on a toilet tomorrow. Explaining that his cult will fracture when that happens isn't an endorsement
Precisely zero leaders of the cult of Trumpism have died because it is a new cult formed from the disparate voices of the right. They hate each other but they are willing to work together under Trump, those shaky alliances will be tested when Trump dies. What future am I imagining for myself?
I'm not saying they won't. But right now he has millions pulling in the same direction, his direction. When the cult leader dies, the cult fractures, and people fight over power. A schism is coming.
He's not pulling the strings, he's not making the plans, he's a figurehead, I do fully understand that. But none of that matters when his cult of millions see him as the Messiah. Doesn't matter who is actually in charge, it matters who the followers believe is in charge.
I am sure the very compassionate guards of a concentration camp will definitely evacuate their prisoners in a timely and orderly manner during a fire, and not leave them in their cages to die. These are compassionate human beings, they'd never do anything wrong to their prisoners.
While that is true, a death cult without a leader is going to descend into chaos the likes of which we haven't seen in decades. Don't get me wrong, it'll come with a lot more pain, suffering, human rights violations etc, but just wait until those ghouls are fighting each other for ultimate power
I think you found him, THE reply guy
"wait wait wait, bros, wait. If I remove expenses from the equation, then it becomes profits = income. Bros. We are going be be so rich!"
I am convinced that receiving a formal education in either politics or finance destroys parts of your brain
Oh god I remember my staunch atheist days too. TBF that was a direct rebellion against my dad getting us involved in a Christian cult... Twice...
They don't respect my fruity little ass so I'm going straight for their fragile little egos. A bigger, straighter, more hetero-acceptable person than me that they might actually listen to can try and educate them
millennials are killing the millennial business
You've got this. And remember, it's ok to fail, it's ok to feel bad, it's ok to be sad or angry, things will get better but sometimes you have to crawl through some pain to get there
It can feel isolating and empty, but hopefully when the pain fades you can see this as a wonderful opportunity to find yourself, get to know yourself, find out where you would want to fit in. It's a hard journey, give yourself grace
Ok hold on but you are very wrong about Musk because he has only been promising full self driving next month for a few years now and I think this month he really means it
@therealmabaker.bsky.social why do you follow this clown? ^
Also @bsky.app wtf, the man's comments are totally fine but the woman's comments are marked as "rude" Fucking neolib hell site...
Starting to wonder if they snuck an LLM into my auto-cortect because boy has it gotten shitty
Just one more data centre and I'll solve AGI, cmon bro just let me be godking just once bro
I meant in more general terms. With wealth and prominence built on hundreds of years of subjugation of the global south I should hope you can take a little bashing. I live in the EU. I criticize it because I expect the people that grew up with every privilege and luxury to demand more from leaders
I'm a queer neurodivergent immigrant so don't worry I'll be dead soon too. Not due to climate but, yknow, all the fascism. I'm sorry I rubbed you the wrong way by calling you stupid, that was rude of me
In the most dismissive way possible. Then I pointed out the WHY behind China's high emissions and you got defensive
The West is allowed to destroy the world with Shell and BP but I must celebrate their shrewd business sense to move their most polluting industries to Asia?
Because mindless western consumerism is what drove that rise in emissions in the first place. The Western world started polluting in the 1800s. China started in the 1960s. What do you want me to say?
"It's not enough" It's more solar panels in a year than Australia or the US have in total. What more can they do that would make it enough? Why don't the US and the rest of the West show them how it is done then?
I don't like that neoliberal globalisation created a World Factory in the first place. But that's what we have. And it's good that they are racing to shift to green energy. I'll criticize the West and China on many things, but how can I criticize this shift to solar?
I agree. We're dead. Capitalism will keep on marching on, creating more and more. But I can't in good conscience try and frame 200+GW solar panel installations in half a year as a bad thing?? I really don't understand.
I said nothing about morality, I was pointing out that the West can't say they create fewer emissions just because they've shifted their emissions to China. I come from the global South, I've watched how the squeaky clean record Western countries treat us and our minerals.
Must I celebrate this decrease in US emissions but shit on the decrease in China's emissions?