Tinidril
@Tinidril@midwest.social
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 2 weeks ago:
Those aren’t mutually exclusive.
- Comment on Is it a pattern that most of Zendaya's haters are right-wing or is it just a coincidence? 3 weeks ago:
It always has been.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 4 weeks ago:
That’s just it. The laws of physics, at least as far as we understand them, absolutely preclude changing our position in any way that would reveal anything outside our observable universe. Lifespans don’t come into it at all. If you lived forever traveling at the speed of light, you would never achieve that change of position.
The cosmic background is the leftover “noise” of the big bang, and we observe it roughly uniformly in every single direction. So where did the big bang occur? Everywhere. Everything that exists is precisely at the center of the universe, right where the big bang happened.
It’s all about the concept of spacetime. Spacetime isn’t space and time considered together, it’s a singular thing that operates by rules that we are ill equiped to comprehend intuitively.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 4 weeks ago:
As I just explained, it’s not really about observation, it’s about causation. If two objects can never possibly interact, then are they really in the same universe?
Looking out in space is also looking back in time. Anything (roughly) that is further than we can observe in the microwave background would be further back in time than the beginning of time, and therefore doesn’t exist at all in our universe. It a bit brain bending.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 4 weeks ago:
Thus the term “observable universe”. Everything beyond our observable universe is being expanded away from us at faster than the speed of light, so nothing outside will ever reach us. Causality is completely and irrevocably severed at those distances so, arguably, anything outside the observable universe is not part of “our” universe.
- Comment on why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles? 5 weeks ago:
Anyone can be a pedophile, regardless of other characteristics. The major champions of actual sexual abuse of minors today are politically right wing. Compare age-of-consent laws in red states to blue, or advocacy/performance of child marriages, and a pattern appears.
The conflation of evidence-based methods of sexual education with “sexualizing children” is a bald faced attempt to make kids more vulnerable. Kids trained in the importance of consent are far less likely to keep quiet when dealing with an abuser.
I would not concede, as you have here, that there was ever any appreciable link between trans advocacy and sexual abuse advocacy. The fact that some people somewhere advocated for both is true of any movement of sufficient size.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
People irl have personal agendas that often make stark truthfulness difficult. They will call a leader fascist, but not acquaintances.
Fascism isn’t all jack booted thugs. It’s actually mundane and boring as fuck. It’s the most common political ideology in history, especially for morons.
- Comment on Over 20M 'people' listed as 100+ years old in the SS database? 5 weeks ago:
So you’re smarter than Elon’s clowns?
In all likelihood I am. I’m certainly more experienced. That hardly matters though. They have an agenda that’s not compatible with reality, so they aren’t even trying to get it right.
Why are you here anyway. Lemmy is full of Marxist freaks you can share your ideology with.
How would you even know that if you stay in your lane? I’ll go where I want.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I guess you get that a lot.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Properly documenting a claim is excessive bureaucracy? Empty rhetoric in place of explanation is transparency? That’s some Orwellian bullshit there. Double plusgood fascist.
- Comment on Over 20M 'people' listed as 100+ years old in the SS database? 5 weeks ago:
Who gives a shit about the “smell test”? You are just talking out of your ass, that’s the smell. You keep asserting that it needs to be fixed, but there is nothing to support that. If it’s not the system of record, then it’s irrelevant.
A null record is nothing but a lack of data. The front end systems typically handle that by showing no information or N/A. Elon’s clowns were not going through the front end systems. Depending how you query COBOL based systems, which these likely are, an empty record will come back as a 0, which COBOL interprets as the begining of it’s date system, which is in 1875.
With that, I’m done talking to you like you are a genuine human making the best interpretation you can. You are a partisan hack with an agenda who will glom on to any interpretation of realty that can be bent to your purposes.
- Comment on Over 20M 'people' listed as 100+ years old in the SS database? 5 weeks ago:
Did I say 140 is proper data? We don’t know what the fuck it is. We don’t know if the field is even subject to audit - or should be. Assuming these people paid taxes (which they must have to get SS) the IRS would have the birthday. Maybe the field was added at some point as a workflow thing, but the IRS or some other database is the system of record for those dates. Again, we have no fucking idea.
I worked information security at a top five bank, and there were thousands of examples of data fields like this that could be distorted into “red flags” but really didn’t matter at all. Knowing what the system of record is for particular information is critical to proper audits, but proper audits take more time than would serve Elon’s political purposes. That’s a recipe for a trash “audit”.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The comment was talking about the article. Even so, this list doesn’t contain a single credible claim. A credible claim should include, at a minimum, a full explanation for how the money was actually spent, what congressional authorization was claimed to support that spending, and how that claim was invalid. That’s even assuming these claims are real at all. A partisan hack writing their own summaries next to dollar amounts is bullshit.
- Comment on Over 20M 'people' listed as 100+ years old in the SS database? 5 weeks ago:
Just because the field exists doesn’t mean it’s critical that it be filled in. We have no idea whether this is even a problem that needs fixing. Maybe a project was underway to fix it until Obama killed it as unnecessary bureaucracy. Bottom line, you don’t have the slightest idea what you’re bitching about.
- Comment on State Department Revises Plan to Buy Armored Teslas 1 month ago:
Trump is a disaster, but Democrats using that to somehow whitewash what does appear to be clear corruption on the part of Democrats is pathetic and, frankly, not an adequate response to the moment.
Also, the Democratic party putting a thumb on the primary scale to favor a candidate with baggage like that borders on criminal negligence. Fuck the Democrats for getting us here.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
We could get a lot more benefit if we spent that money on building infrastructure instead of blowing shit up, but I still agree. Doing the right thing and US interests aligning doesn’t seem to happen very often. I think we have to act when they do.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Most Ukraine funding is actually in the form of weapons, most of which have been sitting in warehouses in case of war with Russia. Now they get used before going obsolete and the US’s #1 rival is quickly becoming irrelevant without putting US soldiers at risk. We provide the weapons and Ukraine supplies the soldiers. I think we got the better side of that bargain.
This whole idea that the US is spending money abroad out of some kind of altruism or that we just let other countries take advantage is preposterous. It’s always money spent in furtherance of US interests. We are the wealthiest country in the world in large part because we exploit the labor and resources of the rest of the planet.
- Comment on Greens are far-right? Bitch I'm Far-ting. 2 months ago:
Just read the whole thread again. No guilt trips, or anything that could be interpreted as guilt trips. Nothing even close really. Persecution complex much?
- Comment on Greens are far-right? Bitch I'm Far-ting. 2 months ago:
LOL
- Comment on Greens are far-right? Bitch I'm Far-ting. 2 months ago:
If you say so. My strategy has gotten a hell of a lot closer to hurting the establishment than any of yours though.
- Comment on Greens are far-right? Bitch I'm Far-ting. 2 months ago:
Did you see me guilt trip anyone? I’m just mocking your unbelievably self-unaware rant attacking people who did vote for a candidate that had a chance. I don’t do guilt trips, but stupid is as stupid does.
- Comment on Greens are far-right? Bitch I'm Far-ting. 2 months ago:
Than other third parties… Exactly what percentage of elected offices in the US are held by third parties?
Keep working on that third party strategy. It sure worked for you guys this past election… And in 2016… and in every other damn year.
- Comment on If investing in the S&P 500 is such a surefire way to make money, then why isn't everyone doing it? 2 months ago:
If you are currently in the process of saving instead of withdrawing in retirement, then falling stock prices are just buying opportunities. If the grocery store puts eggs on sale, you wouldn’t fret that the eggs currently in your fridge aren’t worth as much.
When you think of it that way, it gets a lot easier to hang on after a crash, and you might start looking for ways to buy even more at bargain prices.
- Comment on Do linux users have wives? 3 months ago:
Nah bro
- Comment on Do linux users have wives? 3 months ago:
Um sure? As long as she is up for it. I love her, I don’t own her. Keep it safe, sane, and consensual, then who am I to argue.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg's Meta donates $1m to U.S. President-elect Trump fund 3 months ago:
Down payment on a bribe.
- Comment on Will Republicans try another Federal Right to Work attempt? 3 months ago:
It’s an orwellian term for a package of anti-worker and anti-union laws. The centerpiece where the name comes from is making it illegal for a union shop to require workers to pay union dues.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
If not for the fact that a felon is about to become President again, I would want some form of justice in the law for the assassin.
Maybe we should run him in 2028. I think it would be a landslide.
“Deny, Defend, Depose 2028!”
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
Making exceptions is never a good idea.
Why not? The whole reason we have judicial discretion is that every crime departs from the platonic ideal in one way or another.
The working class has been losing a class war for decades without ever properly noticing that it was happening. Working Americans have been dying in that war, and now someone struck back.
I’ll be sold on the “no exceptions” ideal when we haul in the corporate murderers alongside the people who fought back.
Jury nullification is the other acceptable option.
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 3 months ago:
Where should he have been gunned down then? The footage was pretty good, but better lighting and sound would be nice.
Getting gunned down is exactly what should happen to mass murderers. That is exactly what this guy was. When the system fails as consistently as ours has, people are going to take care of justice themselves. The fact that it hasn’t happened at scale is the result of remarkable restraint on the part of the working class.
This isn’t a Lemmy thing. This response has been nearly universal in every space where public comments can be found.