LarmyOfLone
@LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
- Comment on Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher 5 weeks ago:
Financing.
- Comment on stars & sharks 1 month ago:
Ah those were the good old days, when we still made quarks in this country!
- Comment on stars & sharks 1 month ago:
I mean the protons and neutrons are never new, all of this stuff is just second hand recycled garbage!
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
I’m curious, how is copyleft license supposed to improve the quality of browser development?
- Comment on Meanwhile, in Springfield Ohio 1 month ago:
I never realized until now why they use the “45” so much. Just move one of the black bars and it’s a fucking swastika… And Haitians are really a stand-in for black people.
The real problem is that we allowed the plutocrats to control both the news and social media and the government. Basically the US doesn’t have a free press any more but a quasi-government controlled oligarch media. As long as these neoliberal policies continue the degradation of institutions and politics continues.
- Comment on Let me at 'em!! 1 month ago:
Hmm this made me wonder why something like this wouldn’t melt the rock and then sink into the crust and then into the planet. Probably not hot enough.
And that made me think if we could build something like a big pellet of fissile material, encase it in tungsten or something so that it is hot enough to do so but remains stable, and then let it sink into the earth. Maybe that could be tracked? Then we could learn something about how it moves and where it ends up. But probably can’t be tracked since this isn’t star trek 🖖 - Comment on Square! 1 month ago:
Now make a square out of squiggly yarn
String theorists claim this is the true shape of spacetime!
- Comment on Never ask 2 months ago:
Neither is ok of course. The thing is that Israel had an overwhelming military and economic advantage for decades. The strategy should have been to aid in democratization, education and prosperity of the occupied Palestinian territories and neighboring countries. Propaganda is an incredibly powerful tool and they could have used it to de-radicalize Palestinians and create a peaceful 1 or 2 state solution. They’ve had decades to do this. But they did the opposite.
Part of it is I believe the US geopolitical strategy. The USA does NOT like democracy in countries it wants to exploit. This isn’t ideology it’s just a result of playing imperialist games. Imagine countries with oil and resources were democratic and educated, they’d want to own and control their own resources instead of accepting all this despotism and corruption. See Saudi Arabia.
And of course, see Iran. They had a democratic society and when they wanted to “renegotiate” the oil deals in 1953 the UK and USA created a coup and put a dictator in charge (the shah) to continue to exploit cheap oil. You sometimes see this propaganda of how modern Iran was in the 1960 under the Shah, but there was also repression and torture in prisons. Iran’s theocracy today has a guardian council that is I believe partially structure the way it is to prevent foreign influence or NGOs (the modern tool to create color revolutions). Of course Iran and other groups fight back, and one of their tools is Hezbollah.
Israel serves as a client state of the US to help control the middle east, and partially their strategy is to keep them unstable, to have the right amount of extremism and repression and poverty and suffering so they can be ruled through force alone.
Socialists call the USA fascist long before Trump because they do not see people in other countries as equal or “worthy” of democracy or prosperity. So from that viewpoint Israel’s policy was fascist long before Netanyahu. At some point they killed of most of their Kibbuzihm which was their socialist base.
And all this is the reason why propaganda is presenting this as a pure “good vs evil” conflict instead of the brutal and cruel calculus of power or imperialism using very sophisticated strategies and tools.
- Comment on Anon browses r/AmITheAsshole 2 months ago:
Sorry I was a bit aggressive. I was mocking Trump’s ‘very fine people on both sides’ because it felt like an attempt to say there is a reasonable way to use that term.
- Comment on Lawless society 2 months ago:
Or I can set up my own private server where nobody can join, then I can have anarchy, totalitarianism and socialism all at once!
- Comment on Anon browses r/AmITheAsshole 2 months ago:
No, it’s a term to dehumanize women they don’t agree with. Don’t be stupid and explain how there are good people on the incel side.
- Comment on Never ask 2 months ago:
For communication? Does Lebanon have a right to defend itself?
This is like asking why Biden has a phone line to the fascists in charge of Israel. Does that make Biden a legitimate target?
- Comment on Lawless society 2 months ago:
I actually believe one day we’ll need lawyers and courts for complex virtual reality worlds.
- Comment on Lawless society 2 months ago:
I reject your definition and substitute my own. But I won’t tell you!
- Comment on Lawless society 2 months ago:
No just free association. But having no alternatives to legitimate needs, like participating in our civilization’s free speech discourse through the internet, free association doesn’t help. So before the fediverse you were “forced” to associate with reddit/facebook/twitter or have little association at all.
I’m not sure how anarchism would work for a social media platform. Everyone is a mod? Everyone can post anything and can delete anything? :D
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 months ago:
Fascism.
People have been lied to for decades and we all know it’s going to get worse in the future. The democrats are neoliberals who will continue to exploit people. The news media and social media are all owned by oligarchs. Wealth inequality is getting worse. Climate change won’t be solved and will make all things worse. Why should people vote for the status quo? Work hard, get fucked? No solidarity, no rational action, no plan. And nuclear war when?
Fascism and nationalism is not just something to break this but also has the better story. Something the stupid masses can believe in again. Trump is telling them everything they want to hear.
- Comment on Clueless about Biology 2 months ago:
Because the only rational reason to spell it Artoo-Detoo and See-Threepio is if they got paid by the word and they wanted to bolster their paycheck? The alternative that they somehow thought this was a good idea is even worse.
- Comment on Wolf Man | Official Teaser - Directed by Leigh Whannell, out January 17 2 months ago:
Daddy? What is this garbage daddy?
- Comment on I've got some dank memes ready to go 2 months ago:
I just want to say that I’d absolutely love a dog that is genetically engineered to eat vegan food. Not just be able to survive off it but actually like it. But still retain it’s instinct as a guard dog / social hunter.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Yeah well lol, it’s sort of like a “roast me” sub for liberals.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Your mistake was posting in the dunk tank. That is literally a “vent” sub where they vent their frustrations against stupid US empire propaganda takes.
It’s the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
If you go there expecting reasonable treatment for your opinions, you misunderstood the assignment. That is a shitpost sub where only one side is right.
How do I know this? Because I went there once and got dunked on too! But that does not represent the entirety of hexbear. I think.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
I also haven’t seen this but it seems to make fun of the authoritarian excesses in Mao’s China (struggle session).
The Three Body Problem show features this, leading a character to go mad and wanting to destroy humanity.
The funny thing is that this post is sort of a struggle session, an attempt to build consensus against socialists.
- Comment on MSc Mansplaining 2 months ago:
It’s so funny because he looks so sincere and precious and all the women look so annoyed but polite haha
- Comment on Hello my name is Sacctonsayinlrlyn 2 months ago:
And they name is tragedeih
- Comment on Why is there so much hype around artificial intelligence? 2 months ago:
Look at all the comments on this post. We’re not quite there but imagine half of the comments written by Chat GPT and it’s only going to get better.
Does it matter than 50% of them get it wrong?
- Comment on America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting 2 months ago:
The trouble is that they do need to compete with people who do pursue power (or wealth) relentlessly. So there are hard calculations. Those who don’t play don’t get power and won’t change anything. Those who do want to chance things and want other things than just power are at a (big) disadvantage. Even with the best of intention, the game plays you.
I believe the solution would be something like more rules or systems in place to focus on this kind of pursuit and call it out and dissuade it. Like develop social tools to change the rules of the game. No clue how though. Maybe AGI.
- Comment on America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting 2 months ago:
Yeah true. But like @jj4211@lemmy.world write it’s also that confident behavior is rewarded. And narrow minded focus on profit is more efficient than being focused on other things. And they need to compete with others on this “game” who pursue the calculus of power. So humility is a really hard sell to them. And media is not looking at politics or politicians in that way at all.
I sometimes feel this lack of emotional fortitude when thinking about reading a book, because books often break up your worldview and require you to adjust. There is a kind of intellectual pain of disillusionment.
- Comment on America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting 2 months ago:
No he’s not. But he’s also far from dumb.
‘On Stupidity’ (1937). At its heart was the idea that stupidity was not mere ‘dumbness’, not a brute lack of processing power. Dumbness, for Musil, was ‘straightforward’, indeed almost ‘honourable’. Stupidity was something very different and much more dangerous: dangerous precisely because some of the smartest people, the least dumb, were often the most stupid.
Musk is far from genius level but above average intelligence. He does have knowledge about rockets on a non-engineering level which you can see e.g. in this video talking about his starfactory.
But he and others like him focus their thinking narrow mindedly on the pursuit of profit. Every decision is based on gaining wealth. THAT is by far the bigger problem.
Besides the focus of all education towards profit seeking, technical nerds also seem to “want to” see other fields like sociology or politics or history in a simple and easy to explain way. So they seek principles or the most simplistic social theories that don’t explain anything real. Musk certainly falls into that.
Except now where he seems to go completely off the rails. Possibly a symptom of narcissism ever since he became unpopular, he’s doubling down to find new validation for his fragile ego. So yeah in that sense he is not the best example.
My point was not just about Musk but about the idea of “finding the smartest people to rule”. Because to anybody who is above intelligence that sounds smart except - stupidity can be more dangerous in intelligent people.
- Comment on People warn about culture shock, but nothing prepared ne for this solid toilet paper roll in Vietnam 2 months ago:
But are you a culture warrior in the vegan vs meat industrial complex war?
- Comment on People warn about culture shock, but nothing prepared ne for this solid toilet paper roll in Vietnam 2 months ago:
Hmm. I guess theoretically you could soap up with warmer water before getting in the cold shower. So the shower is mostly just rinse.