starelfsc2
@starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Brilliant‼️ 1 week ago:
I thought that line was a worm on my screen
- Comment on Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult. 1 week ago:
Yeah we’ve gotten such a force multiplier from technology, people were always like this. Capitalism just adds on to it because people and businesses feel like they can’t stop sprinting towards catastrophe or they’re the ones losing out.
- Comment on Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult. 1 week ago:
True, I put cadmium in my hot dogs to save money and outcompeted everyone, and the effects won’t be felt for 20 years so the consumer is none the wiser! Yet another win for unregulated capitalism!
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 1 week ago:
The sad part is this is literally incentivized to cut every corner you can, because if you don’t the other seller is. The free market will solve it guys we just made the FDA for fun, not after 50 years of this problem not being solved - maga, somehow.
- Comment on Meme check point. 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 weeks ago:
and especially when someone gives you a “simple solution” that would solve everything, that no one else sees.
- Comment on Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism 2 weeks ago:
I remember cnn the “commie news network” giving insanely hard interviews to Kamala, and then they have Mike Johnson on and say “some people have concerns over you saying the election was stolen” and he says “well there was substantial evidence for it and (conspiracy #1 2 and 3).” “interesting, people have been complaining about…”
0 push back, because they fell for the lie that the media is too hard on the right, so even bringing up that he thinks the election is stolen is being harsh somehow.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 weeks ago:
To my original point, she is either minimizing the threat Russia poses, or is just extremely misinformed which I suppose you could argue. Her words imply we didn’t try diplomacy, and if we had it could’ve avoided any conflict. This paints Russia as the invader but still a reasonable one that can be talked down.
Juxtapositing her language next to Bernie’s, “I fully support Ukraine in this immoral and unjustified invasion of Ukraine by a despotic ruler in Putin” compared to “I don’t think this can be called anything but an invasion of Ukraine. Russia violated Ukraine’s sovereignty. We need to pursue diplomacy in these situations.” One is clear cut this is a foreign adversary, the other implies we could talk to Putin (and we haven’t been) and reach peace. If it were just this comment, I would have no inclination to believe she was an ML type, but her comments about “bullying Russia” and with no other negative comments about Russia or Putin push it further towards apologia.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 weeks ago:
Well reddit unpopularopinions is just popularopinions or some milquetoast critique of some piece of media, but lemmy most people aren’t trying to be edgy or get upvotes.
Sometimes it’s some nonsense but I’ve seen a couple good ones, ex: don’t “just let people enjoy things,” some pieces of media make people think less critically and is generally just bad for their brain, even if it’s a fun thing for them. That one is like yeah I almost didn’t want to read that because I don’t want to have that extra layer I have to think about now, but it’s important to keep in mind.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 2 weeks ago:
True we haven’t pursued diplomacy with russia we just sent weapons to Ukraine and didn’t say a word to Russia. It’s just absolutely ludicrous and the interviewer himself points it out, and she just essentially says :3 well not enough diplomacy!
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
My source is the co-chair of the dsa and their own words.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darializa_Avila_Chevalier
Stated that the US had a hand in the Ukraine invasion by “bullying” Russia, a foreign adversary who was likely instrumental in Trump being the president right now. Actual Russian apoligia is legitimately insane. Also supports abolishing prisons, rather than just making them not for-profit and punitive rather than reformist.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
publicseminar.org/…/the-story-behind-dsas-non-end…
The dsa? They explicitly suggested not voting for Biden. I can give you an interview of the current DSA leadership saying as much.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 3 weeks ago:
I heard someone say “money isn’t everything, but not having it is.”
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
The DSA, including AOC and Bernie to a (far) lesser extent, are becoming the caricature that fox news pretended democrats were. They endorsed not voting in 2016, 2020, and 2024. Mamdani is doing some great stuff, but endorsing some almost ML/tankie people who don’t support Ukraine and essentially think the US could never and has never done any good ever.
Then they hide behind “guys we just want healthcare and workers rights” whenever they’re criticized, which is just co-opting democrat messaging so they can shield themselves behind democrats and pretend their positions aren’t so extreme.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
That’s more like hatefulopinion than unpopular I feel like. Unpopular opinions are great to share because hey maybe they’re right and everyone else will learn something.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
That’s the same issue we have right now in America, people feel scared about a lot of stuff and democrats said “you have nothing to be scared of, the economy is doing well.” Republicans accurately identified people’s fears and spoke to the reality of what they felt, i.e. trans/lgbtq stuff feels scary and different, you feel job insecure, and the economy feels bad.
It’s just what they prescribe as the solution that it gets a biiiit not great.
- Comment on Trump implemented tariffs illegally, creating over $100 billion of profit for corporations selling foreign products, at the expense of American consumers. Your refund: $0.00 3 weeks ago:
I would say this is more accurate than their next meal, people say Amazon is evil but refuse to give it up because “it’s too convenient!!” but someone trying not to starve is a bit different
- Comment on Anon meets Jigsaw 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t get it until absolutely everything is going wrong + no sleep, I had this weird urge to just be really mean to people who didn’t deserve it at all. I didn’t act on it but I can see why people would do it now.
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 5 weeks ago:
There are women who aren’t like that, and who would genuinely just be a cool person to have nearby, it’s just 99% of the women using dating apps are cardboard personified for some reason…
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 5 weeks ago:
We need 3rd spaces, online dating is just worse in general. People meet at trading card places and card shops because that’s just where people hang out, but that doesn’t exist anywhere else really besides bars.
People are becoming more isolated and more online, it’s way easier to see if you like someone (and you’ll be exposed to many people) if they happen to be in your vicinity rather than typing in text on a dating app.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The train was stuck so I guess what to do, just wait leave get another train get a cab idk lol
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Adding on to what the other person said, the reason is because we are evolutionarily trained to avoid effort because it uses less energy, same reason people will watch a 30 second youtube short over reading a book.
Alongside that, there are some cases where I’ll be working on something and there’s a task I’m actually working on, and some small aside that I can’t be bothered with at that moment. For instance, I’m processing some data from a file and using it to display differing graphics depending on what’s in the file, but I don’t remember how to open it and read the data. If the llm can give me the code that does that, then I can stay focused on the graphics-creation code (and I most likely revisit the file opening later)
- Comment on 1 month ago:
LLMs literally reduce our problem solving capabilities as we use them more. Even if the problems are “easy,” we still lose that muscle and have to rely on the llm more and more.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 1 month ago:
Yeah usually it’s a question of does this pass the smell test, “every expert and sanitation workers who actually see it firsthand are saying one thing, but we tested it and they’re all wrong!” is like hmmm…
I would be wary of things that purport to be plastics recycling, as the two main issues are 1. It’s still cheaper to make new things rather than recycle 2. The recycled plastic is generally less versatile, which is why you’ll see it in things like Frisbees and knick-knacks.
Not to say it isn’t something we should be doing when it’s feasible, but it’s sort of like going from ICE cars to electric cars, where we’re putting a band-aid on the problem instead of switching to something that isn’t as destructive.
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 1 month ago:
Based fact-checker
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 1 month ago:
Now this is the kind of technically right I can get behind.
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 1 month ago:
“joke candidate” usually implies someone who enters with no chance of winning just to make a joke. The implication doesn’t match in this case because he has a nonzero chance of winning.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 month ago:
Same with being disabled, growing up I thought disabled people just got helped by everyone in society with everything. Turns out most of the time it’s “do what you were doing before except harder.”
