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Quality satire is when you describe thing in overly literal terms
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Oh really? Haha. I didn't know that one, awesome.
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I don't think it's that crazy, they're about equal standing in my eyes. Thing is, muting is easy, "/mute all" still works like it did 10 years ago and that's funny and great.
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This is the sad world I refuse to live in since my premades broke up. One day I'll find a team of reasonable people to play with again.
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At the end of the day, I think this is the important thing. Arguments about IP and how AI (or AI "artists") affect artists are understandable, but are missing the forest for the trees.
There's one, singular reason art isn't well recognised nor compensated: Capitalism. And so long as it exists, no attitude or approach to AI, no purity filter, no level of enforcement of IP law, is going to effectively protect artists and meaningfully allow them to pursue their work.
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No need for body shaming, ironic or otherwise.
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Israel unfortunately seems to have little in the way of not pro-genocide protests. I've only ever seen them in the form of "we should be killing even more ruthlessly" or "we should killing slightly less ruthlessly". Both seem to think their government is a dictatorship on the basis that it either a) doesn't care about Israelis because it's not killing Palestinians enough during the genocide or b) doesn't care about Israelis because it's not rescuing hostages enough in the course of the genocide.
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In all honesty, I rarely give link posts the time of day. They're finicky to expand on the feed, I don't want to go to another site to see the content, and even if copied in the post, they're frequently are a lot of reading for likely little payoff.
On looking now, I think your post was good. But at least in my personal case, that's why it would've passed me by.
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Firefox has long been going this way. I started exploring alternatives some years back, when Firefox started serving me ads on desktop, tracking me for marketing purposes on mobile, and talking about the "importance of collaboration with the private sector". This is really just a natural progression from there.
It's still the best browser (rock the LibreWolf branch), but it's, ever more, just the best of a bad bunch.
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Lynx is actually amazing, and makes a lot of sites surprisingly browsable for a CLI interface.
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I liked learning. I hated school. Sometimes you had good teachers who actually wanted to teach you stuff, other times was just hell (frequently as a result of ruddy homework).
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Wha?? I assume it wouldn't be in dunk tank if you agreed it didn't deserve dunking.
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The west has had decades to watch and realise that renewables are the shit. Capitalism has failed to respond to that because oil barons were too strong and the failure of renewables to easily all be owned by one rich guy.
producing 90% of all solar panels, over 70% of all lithium batteries and 65% of all wind turbines.
This will effectively make China the essential lynchpin for world energy generation for decades to come (if it couldn't be classified as such already).
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TBH, I think the sentiment is nice, leveraging a pre-existing community to materially help others is actually cool. I don't think it deserves dunking.
The Cybertruck obsession and common sense that's detached from reality is obviously concerning, but I ain't gonna dunk on someone for being well intentioned and stupid.
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Ah, those types.. definitely wasn't me... 
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No. And that isn't a blanket case, it does affect some with ADHD, but does often work differently.
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I cannot relate, I'm so utterly unaffected by caffeine. Though odd from what I know, does it really help with getting down to writing (in reasonable amounts)?
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Fair enough, I've nowt to say but that I disagree.
I don't know how meaningful the question really is, and fuck YouGov, but still thought the data were interesting and vaguely positive.
 Or  Frogshallah lives on as my headcanon
An absolute many are neo-fascist libs, but some, I assume, are good people.  https://lemmy.world/post/18545268 I thought it was nice to see a couple good takes out in the wild for a change (an anti-dunk tank?). Not all of the comments are perfect, but many are fighting the libs on the posting lines.   >@Rookwood > >The reason capitalism leads to fascism is that inevitably capitalism will lead to untenable inequality. Injustice will be too great to ignore between the rich and the rest. This will lead to populism. > >There are two forms of populism. One will seek to rectify the imbalances caused by capitalism. The other will seek to divert blame to minorities. If there were less <minorities>. then our society would not be in decay. One is much more useful to the Capitalist and so it will ultimately prevail. The capitalist will devote all resources to crushing the leftist populism up to and including directly funding fascism. > >160 upvotes • 12 downvotes   >Dharma Curious > >Some of the comments in this thread really tell you why it takes a novel laureate to say this. Some of y’all do not have a basic understanding of history, economic systems, or what the term reactionary actually means. > >The correct response to “neo liberal capitalism has contributed to the rise of fascism” should be “no shit, Sherlock” > >It’s truly sad that that isn’t 100% of the comments here. > >Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleed, y’all. That doesn’t mean all liberals are fascist, that means that fascism is an outgrowth of liberalism. > >And just in case y’all also don’t know what that means, “liberalism” in that context isn’t “Obama liberal, Bush conservative,” it means the political ideology of liberalism, of which both Bush and Obama were proponents of. > >ETA: I’m not engaging anymore… it’s not my job to teach y’all the difference between an economic system and authoritarian states. Also, your magic has no power here, I am an anarchist, not a stalinist. Please educate yourselves. If for no other reason, do it to make it easier to pwn the tankies or whatever the fuck > >101 upvotes • 19 downvotes  >[@DancingBear@midwest.social](https://midwest.social/u/DancingBear) > >i hate it when I hear people making the claim that it is capitalism that has helped so many people in the world with better quality of life and more opportunities and better outcomes, etc. > >Capitalism is a fucking disease that we need to rid ourselves of, it is worse than Ebola the way it infects our minds with the dumbest shit. > >You know what has made lives better for billions of people? The washing machine and the cotton gin and fucking electricity. > >Capitalism has fought against progress every step of the way. > >74 upvotes • 9 downvotes  >@njm1314 > >Well of course it has, fascism is the end result of capitalism. Some would say it’s natural conclusion. > > 63 upvotes • 13 downvotes >>BlackLaZoR >> >> fascism is the end result of capitalism >> >> I wonder what sort of echo chamber you must live in, in order to believe this >> >> 20 upvotes • 67 downvotes
This is just a short, easy-to-read paper I keep in my bookmarks and go back to occasionally. It explores, qualitatively, the various outcomes that contact with alien intelligence might have. I think it's a really cool 25-page exploration of possibilities that are fun to think about. Some choice quotes: >ETI (extraterrestrial intelligence) might attack us not out of selfishness but instead out of a universalist desire to make the galaxy a better place. >perhaps ETI make contact with Earth to welcome us into the Galactic Club but only after we complete a set of required bureaucratic tasks  >They may be interested in incorporating us into their civilization so they can sell us their products, keep us as pets, or have us mine raw materials for them. >if ETI place intrinsic value on lives, then perhaps they could bring about more lives by destroying us and using our resources more efficiently for other lives My favourite section is the "unintentional harm" outcomes, which suggests the possibility that they just might squish us by accident. >One non-biological physical hazard that we could face from direct contact with ETI is unintentional mechanical harm. For example, ETI might accidentally crush us while attempting an unrelated maneuver.  Can't for the life of me find where I first heard of this, but I just wanted to share it for being fun and fairly silly yet still officially worked on by NASA.
Because it's bad. It's a bad place with honestly bad posts.  That's all.
 Nah I obviously don't care, r/greenandpleasant are alright. I just thought it was funny to see my own words out there.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/05/queue-new-nhs-dental-practice-bristol-st-pauls "99% of dentists across the south-west aren’t accepting any new adult patients." Getting anything but emergency healthcare in the UK is nigh impossible for much of the country now, I've been on the waiting lists of all my local dentists for over 18 months. This'll get spread around as heavily as that misleading bread line photo from the USSR, right?
You mean mass, indiscriminate air strikes aren't a good way to save hostages and actually just result in dead people???
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/52. Lemme kick it off with the still top rated post on hexbear.net, probably worth restating for our federation friends too. > edit: this post has gained a lot of traction over the course of the last three months so I believe some clarification is needed > > this title is indeed a land of contrast, and i think the following statement should do a better job at voicing what I really meant with this post: > > people who think they can own one or several human beings and treat them as their property or capital do indeed deserve to die, preferably sooner than later, and not of natural causes; helping accelerate this process by loading a rifle with ammunition, pointing it at a slave owner and pulling the trigger is a good idea and should be done when possible. hopefully this clarified the stuff > > > > The post that announces the death of Henry Alfred Kissinger better overtake this one as the most upvoted post. > > edit:edit:The killing slavers fandom is dying! Upbear to murder a plantation owner right now!
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