How are you going to stop the Sudanese Civil War with a petition?
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Submitted 3 weeks ago by SSUPII@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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protist@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Laser@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
How are you going to stop the Sudanese Civil War with a petition?
By removing Character.AI NSFW filters
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
it’s like the Team Fortress coconut.jpg
daggermoon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was about to ask the same question.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Don’t know about this case. Possibly is a petition to some government to take action. If that would work is of course a whole other question.
Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
the war in Sudan doesn’t have NSFW filters, so why does it need to be stopped?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Asking the real questions here.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Ancient Roman satirical poet Juvenal wrote that all people care about are “bread and circuses” over 2,000 years ago and it still applies.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Don’t care.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Notice how massive meltdowns over video games get, versus things that actively harm/kill people.
Not that I don’t agree with Stop Killing Games’s mission, or recognize that micro transactions being shoved into everything is a symptom of how shit late stage capitalism is, but I wish that same kind of “front page on every website, massive signature/phone call campaign” that happened when that Diablo mobile game was bad happened for all the shit that ends up on ProPublica on the daily. Like, can we phone bank to tell Idaho to stop treating disabled kids like shit or something?
A lot of folks lives seem to revolve entirely around video games/gooning, and it’s just kind of sad.
shneancy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i think there are at least two things at play here
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can i do something about this?
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does it affect me?
if the answer is “no” to both then focusing on that just brings misery about some bad thing happening somewhere, not the best idea mental health wise. if the answer is “yes” to both then you’ll see plenty of action.
if we have yes for change, but no for being affected then it’s up for the good heart (and time and money) of any individual to make a choice to help. and if we have no can’t change, but yes it affects me, then we have depression.
NSFW bans affect everyone using the internet, and they’re created purely on moral grounds, so your voice is just as loud as every other voice. if enough people complain, maybe it won’t change anyone’s opinion, but the likelihood that those in charge just give in goes up, it boils down to which side complains louder pretty much
wars, misery, mistreatment, hate, bigotry, clearly have gone well past the “let’s sit down and talk about if this is the best way forward for us, and if you disagree with the majority opinion we will be very annoying”, there’s just– not much even combined voices of millions can do here, as evident by the world around us
so in my conclusion - people are more likely to fight when they have some reasonable chance to win said fight. we have in the past successfully made companies undo things we didn’t like, we complained, and we got what we wanted. but how many wars have we stopped this way?
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TheBat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Notice how massive online meltdowns over video games get
FTFY. This is a visibility bias.
There are protests going in Angola. 5 people are killed, thousands arrested. I think that counts as a meltdown. But you didn’t know that. And I didn’t know that until I looked for something to show as an example.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y20dxkykro
As for gamers and their online meltdowns - the demographic are already online. And global.
Do you think people from UK or Canada will phone a bank in Idaho? The visibility bias applies there as well.
Red_October@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well signatures and phone calls only go so far. When it comes to big, serious, literal life or death issues, petitions just aren’t going to get the job done and it becomes pretty pointless to waste your energy on that particular course of action.
Similarly, it’s pretty shitty to act like action on smaller issues means we’re just ignoring bigger issues. Your concern for Idaho’s treatment of disabled kids isn’t instead of wanting Israel’s genocide to stop or the Ukraine war to end.
Genius@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Your concern for Idaho’s treatment of disabled kids isn’t instead of wanting Israel’s genocide to stop
lemmy.ml hated that
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We can, just give me a petition link I can sign. Or at least a newsletter or something I can subscribe to so I get notified when a petition is out to sign.
Video games or not, SKG is a great success for European civic participation. We should be taking notes on how it was organized, what it did right, and what it did wrong.
…or we can raise our fists towards the clouds and complain.
KombatWombat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We live in a society
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean, kids die everyday.
you can only fap to the right aigen porn at the right time. it’s like Russian Roulette, in one pass you get two boobs and a hoof. In the second pass you get six boobs and a cowbell.
Fontasia@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
I could make a change org post or I could spend 10 seconds on DuckDuckGo, Geez put a little effort into your fap, my God.
Or even better, it takes about 10 minutes to learn how to host a hugging face model yourself, and you can find tiny models, with safeties turned off that can run on a ten year old laptop. If could spend a little time putting effort into your gooning maybe we could save the Sudan as well but you’re so lazy and dumb we all fucked
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
The appeal about Character.AI is that their proprietary language models are actually quite good. I have no idea how they manage to get the funds to handle the servers needed to give good output at a quite good speed, when I am sure nobody is buying the premium membership.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Isn’t that one censored too? I ended up going local because online ones were absurdly expensive or censored.
Fontasia@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
I mean I’m not sure what you’re into, but I can see incest, rape, underage and torture characters so if there is a censorship bar it’s pretty high.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I just use Kobold AI
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Have the gooners gone too far and why is the answer yes?
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Too much access to AI is why. Free internet use + AI = Goonworld.
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Cute
brezel@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
well i mean...you can't stop a war in another country by voting for it on some website.
ObviouslyNotBanana@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Kony 2012
some_random_nick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What a shitshow that turned out to be…
herrvogel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To think an evil African warlord was allowed to get away with it because of some silly laws against public masturbation or indecent exposure or whatever.
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Did he ever get elected after all that?
REDACTED@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Obligatory Internet Historian video
Fontasia@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
At least we got a catchy song
the_q@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
True, but oddly you can contribute to wars by being American and paying taxes.
ssupii@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
I don’t think being a basic working human of certain nationality makes you a war contributor
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Not voluntarily.
sad_detective_man@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
they hated that 🤣
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Russia’s war on Ukraine shows you can’t stop a war in another country even with massive sanctions.
And, various empires’ adventures in Afghanistan show that even sending in troops to stop the “bad guys” will probably not work.
Sometimes people can make a change. The Apartheid governments of South Africa collapsed largely due to boycotts and people pressure. But, that only really works when the targeted country wants to be part of the community of nations, and its people don’t want to be seen as criminals by the rest of the world. IMO, that situation is rare. Most of the time the rest of the world can’t do much of anything when it comes to civil wars and border conflicts.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not really. It is because Russia has nukes.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Just like you will never lose your virginity by talking to a horny chatbot.
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Won’t lose my house either
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Not losing it either way. Even if you do everything right, sometimes you are just cursed.
So it’s fine to have nothing.
oplkill@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can make your government join the war to stop the war