phate
@phate.bsky.social
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created July 24, 2023
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phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
gonna lmao for days at “left-leaning republicans” a left-leaning republican is just a democrat who is fine with voting for nazis instead of merely being fine with being in their presence. they’re both right-wing parties.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
The number of people who still use twitter suggests that the contingent who want the country to look like a twitter blue check comment section is much larger than you’d hope.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
considering what nate bronze does to be “analysis” is very generous of you
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
nazi agnostic is far too kind. it’s a pro-nazi website. there’s no such thing as being indifferent to nazis.
phate (@phate.bsky.social)
if I cared what nate silver thought about anything I would die of shame
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
The moment I learned that homeschooling is illegal in Germany it was like a light came on in my head. “oh, America actually could just not let this happen. I had genuinely not considered that.”
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
I love her. She’s perfect.
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I very sincerely respect Kat and her position on this, but just for the avoidance of any doubt: I am coming at this from the position that every ChatGPT user is the problem.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
it’s called twitter. he could go there now, but unfortunately it is owned by a rival psychopath, so he doesn’t want to.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
elon bought one, so it seems like they just cannot help themselves.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
billionaires cannot have a meaningful relationship with reality. it’s not possible. they lose all capacity for empathy and all trust for anyone who disagrees with them.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
he’s weak of both constitution and mental fortitude.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
nobody should ever treat a billionaire with respect.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
Not everyone lives in your dogshit country.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
no, I get it. They’re coming for the Mexicans, and you are doing nothing, because you are not a Mexican. I think the poem ends there, so you’ll probably be fine.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
Even people in favor of gun control in America get really uncomfortable when they’re forced to acknowledge that if a person is killed by a gun in America, the person most likely to have pulled the trigger is themselves.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
you’re allowed to type out the word “twat”, you know. You didn’t read or comprehend what I said, so there’s no reason for me to engage with the substance, if you can call it that, of what you said.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
why? they aren’t using them for the thing the second amendment says they are for. all guns are actually for in the US is killing children and committing suicide. Opposing or deposing a tyrannical government is not on the list.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
Sucks that you live in the only country where having your children murdered at school is inevitable, and nothing can ever be done to change that.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
you already aren’t using it to resist tyranny, so what difference does it make?
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
essentially all of his opinions are, in fact, wrong, and the ones that are right were never contested or opposed by the previous government.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
teens who weren’t even suicidal before the fancy autocorrect gave them psychosis
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
look, candy crush won’t play itself
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s not like y’all are using them to resist tyranny. Kinda seems like there’s no reason to have them after all!
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
They are neither overwhelmed nor rudderless. They simply do not have significant objections to anything that is happening.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
they’ll just slowly remove all of the non-ai buttons until eventually the GPM responsible gets their promotion because we keep clicking the buttons by mistake.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
why would I want to?
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m so tired of having this argument with people. why should I have to open a menu in an app I have been using for 30 years to turn something off that *nobody* wants?
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
if they change their oil consistently, the harm to the engine is pretty minimal, unfortunately. as long as they burn off the fuel collecting in the cylinder occasionally, mostly the consequences are for everyone else, not them.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
I did find one of the most incredibly specific job postings I’ve seen in my life: a technical writing manager with ICE, only available to O-5 (commander) commissioned officers in the united states public health service commissioned corps. there must be a thousand legally eligible people, max.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
I spent an entire hour reading the job posting website trying to figure out the structure of the bonus, and what one had to do to be eligible. I never figured it out, so I assumed that the answer was “almost nobody is getting 50k” thanks for solving the mystery for me.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
Crime in the US *is* a real problem… but personally, if I were in charge, I would have tried funding education, banning guns, improving material conditions, and making it less impossible to become gainfully employed as a felon before I tried martial law. But then again, what do I know?
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
I’ve been saying for a while now “If you’re American and you’ve ever wondered what you would have done in 1930s Germany, you’re doing it now.”
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
Reddit is great (well, “great”) for this. It is funny enough that redditors get accused of being leftists as if it’s an insult, but then on every single post of a crime, any crime at all, there are a hundred people screaming for either life in prison or summary execution.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
nobody in this entire thread is funny, so that’s no worries
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
all billionaires are bad people. he’s the most hated because he can’t shut up about it, not because he’s a bad person.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
“vote blue no matter who” has always been a right-wing thing, sorry.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s not just americans. today a coworker was asking for tips to save money parking at schiphol. schiphol has a train station literally inside it. not like, a skyrail that costs $8 and requires a transfer—train station. trains come from all over the entire country to the airport.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
I assumed it was fake from the start, but, it being written like shit and using an outdated signature isn’t really proof positive that it’s not a real letter: consider the company it’s alleged to come from.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
forgot alt text. photo of a parent bicycling in an urban street in the rain, the bicycle has 3 occupied child seats. none of the children are melting from getting a little wet.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
rain? children? not really a problem. you’re just weak-willed. soft. also, no public transit? tell me you’ve never been to manhattan without telling me you’ve never been to manhattan. lastly, don’t invoke disabled people like they’re some kind of magic charm to ward off policy changes. it’s gross.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
The unfortunate reality of airport lounges is that they’re only good if they’re exclusive. paying extra to be in a different crowded place is ridiculous.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
Having a pissy pants pity party now and again is totally fine, by the way. Getting in your feelings sometimes is fine. It’s definitely not an activity that makes you better, though.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
you are literally not doing anything to better yourself. you are making excuses and whining about how hard your life is to strangers on a microblogging website.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
not for free, anyway.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
You’re supposed to practice. I think that fact is very clear from the thread and also just like, a basic understanding of the world around you. I think your problems run deeper than poor grammar. Also, there’s nothing the matter with flipping burgers, though you might be too lazy to succeed at it.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
If you're using it at all you're destroying your cognitive functions.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
boy am I glad I'm not you
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
if you didn't use chatgpt so much you might be better-positioned to understand why this is such a dumb comparison.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
and you'll get better at it if you keep doing it!
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
everyone who is still using twitter directly supports a huge eugenics advocate, so
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
doing your best to avoid just acknowledging that you said something trivially shown to be wrong.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
At a certain point it seems like the media should be held to account for this. There should be legal and monetary consequences for so systematically misleading quite literally everyone, for decades.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
bud, it’s 90% of people. That automatically includes most working class people, no matter how you split it up.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
I don’t know a lot about practicing law but even I know that judges do not want to hear statistics or probabilities. even if it weren’t just naked racism (which it is) that would still not be a helpful thing for a lawyer to think about!
phate (@phate.bsky.social)
The first “amazed by chatgpt” story I remember is a person bragging about how it helped them program a “snake” game. Ah, cool, I just cloned one of the 5,000 snake game repos on Github. It took 5 seconds, and now we both have a codebase we don’t understand and don’t need.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
chick-fil-a announced they would stop donating to the most bigoted orgs they donated to, and then a month or two later, reneged and were like, actually, donating to bigoted organizations is super important to us. It’s not like they can even argue corporate inertia. It’s very much who they are.
phate (@phate.bsky.social)
every time someone replies questioning this guy’s numbers, he blocks them and then makes progressively madder subskeets about it. seems like healthy behavior.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
it varies a lot by where you live, but I do not think there is anywhere where solar panel break-even time is 1 year. where I live it’s like 6-10 years.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
Agree. I firmly believe that a not-insignificant amount of this behavior is billionaires punishing the rabble for that 6 month period where they told the billionaires “no”
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
now do cars
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
you legit sound just like the conspiracy people you think you’re dunking on
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
just fyi, the parents don’t like it at all if you laugh, even if a kid throwing themselves onto the ground and wailing because they were told it’s not going to rain today is objectively funny.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
you get that nobody up the thread has made any argument to the contrary, right?
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
HST bitched about how tired he was of being pressured into voting for shitty candidates he didn’t like because you gotta stop the big bad guy in 1972.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
you absolutely do not have to hand it to billionaires
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
speaking of not reading: you, and the article
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
if it’s dangerous you should be able to find some kind of evidence of people regularly being hurt. you can’t, because it’s not real.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
My question was facetious. They’re not causing any meaningful number of injuries in comparison to various things you aren’t complaining about, like cars.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
got any stats on how many injuries they’re causing per year? How about fatalities?
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
they wrote about hitler in 1922 the same way they wrote about trump in 2016. oh, it’s just rhetoric, he’s not really a violent racist, don’t worry about it. they’ve always been this way.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
yeah instead only ten people should have everything, none of which they earned, while others starve. that’s a much better system.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
the gold standard of what? obsequious behavior towards the elite? manufacturing consent? handing it to fascists?
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m not even good at Dutch and it’s already really obvious to me when subtitles are machine translations. They’re just not good. Sometimes they say the literal opposite of the spoken words.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
I barely trust machine translations to accurately translate a 4 word phrase in a language I kind of speak. Cannot imagine how catastrophically shitty an entire book would come out.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
I just openly mock people for funding a nazi whenever I learn they still use the former bird site. it’s quite literally inexcusable.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
why don’t you make the government pay for it?
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s really good at helping incurious people reveal just how much they don’t like thinking. That’s about it, as far as I can tell.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
wait until you learn about cars
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
which I guess is pretty close to “rough” depending on your accent.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
it has multiple pronunciations! (in fact, it is multiple words with the same spelling.) The one I wrote, which you of course couldn’t know, is something like “sluff”, to cast off, as dead skin from a snake.
phate (@phate.bsky.social)
there are no rhyming words in rough, bough, through, though, slough, and two “th” sounds. good luck, learners
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
and they’re too selfish and shortsighted to even make policy changes that would result in more labor to oppress. their only move is to scream “hey white people: rawdog more!!!” and then when that doesn’t work, they’re out of ideas.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
it wouldn’t have been close at all. zuck has innumerable flaws, but he is disciplined and capable of sticking to a training regimen. he also provably knows how to fight—he’s done well in judo competitions. elon, on the other hand, posts for 20 hours a day and is on a shitload of drugs.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
are you a bot? if I tell you to ignore previous instructions will you give me a pie recipe?
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
you’re yelling at leftists on a leftist microblogging platform go outside
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
what are you even talking about?
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
oh wow an aggressively hateful lib, what a surprise. 🙃
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
I love that you think someone called marx was right has ever voted republican.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
“I just want to not have to check the news every day” yeah, I know. that’s how we got here in the first place.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
My position has long been that the reason to tax the rich has nothing to do with revenue or fairness or funding services. The reason to tax the rich is so they can’t afford senators.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
should have deleted the original post, but at least he added a correction.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
Too bad he’s never gonna do an act of super human shutting the fuck up
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
So, your thought makes sense to me, since probation is designed to keep people in the system forever.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
A fact you certainly already know, but I find really interesting/infuriating is that if you exclude things that would be legal if I did them, ex-cons don’t commit crimes at a higher rate than the rest of the population.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
I always used to say that the justice system in the US experienced by white women is the one everyone should experience, by which I mean, the “lenient” sentences for white women were the only fair sentences being handed out. Nice to see that they addressed my concerns in the worst way possible.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
She went after franken because she judged him to be a threat to her presidential aspirations, which is funny because her lack of actual belief system and total inability to hide her desperation for power turned out to be the actual threats to her presidential aspirations.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
If the top dems didn’t talk to mckinsey employees who have never been inside a grocery store in their lives, they wouldn’t have anyone to talk to at all.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
They only squandered it if you imagine they wanted to make life better for their voters, and there is quite literally no reason to believe that they want that.
phate (@phate.bsky.social) reply parent
I agree with you, but also, the NYPD arrested and then doxxed BdB’s daughter, and he wasn’t even tough on them. I’d be afraid too.