Alsjemenou
@Alsjemenou@lemy.nl
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 3 days ago:
He was never in it for personal growth he was in it for financial gains. He was a mere grifter, his opinions were for sale. There is a lot of money in right wing grifting when you reach his level of notoriety. His personal beliefs conveniently always pointed in the direction of money. Worth about $12m when he was executed. He believed in his bank accounts.
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 1 week ago:
The problem will always be that you have to use an llm to ask questions in natural language. Which means it gets training data from outside whatever database you’re trying to get information from. There isn’t enough training data in an encyclopedia to make an llm.
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 1 week ago:
that’s just circular reasoning, since understanding is needed for communication.
- Comment on Name this minivan 1 week ago:
on the vance
- Comment on So THAT'S where I parked my car! 1 week ago:
and then?
- Comment on Makegg gregg eggain 2 weeks ago:
if it quacks like a duck…
- Comment on Makegg gregg eggain 2 weeks ago:
Ella is a stupid name for a salmon anyway.
- Comment on Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone? 4 weeks ago:
Two things, firstly the one thing that needs to be avoided at all costs is raising taxes. Since this robs working and succesful people from their personal ability to take care of themselves and their families. Secondly that there needs to be a class distinction between the people who take advantage of the system and those who don’t. That is to say that in their mind society is functioning in such a way that anybody can ‘make it’ through some effort. And that those who supposedly don’t put in the effort aren’t supposed to be cuddled and given handouts, as an incentive to put in the effort as well.
There is perfectly fine education, care and protection through private parties. Just hire those. You can’t? Well I guess you aren’t trying hard enough. We can concentrate police presence in criminal neighbourhoods. We can concentrate care and education in the neighbourhoods that do function correctly.
This is their ideology I’m describing, not my own, just to be clear. Im being sarcastic.
Reality is ofcourse more nuanced than what im saying, after all the neocon ideology needs to exist in the real world and adapt to it. Which mostly seems to lead to populism.
- Comment on Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone? 4 weeks ago:
There are several dials that can be tweaked to balance the budget. A (neo)liberal is for low taxes, small government, and selfcare. So their cuts, when the governments expenses are higher then the incomes, are in public services. And they won’t put it back, because that’s against their ideology.
- Comment on 100% vegetarian 4 weeks ago:
Yes, but only if you got it from a civet that is roadkill.
- Comment on Is it everywhere? 4 weeks ago:
Some sounds just become the thing they are supposed to represent. They aren’t used because there are no more sounds to be made. Two reasons.
First. Directors won’t use a schnauzer as a guard dog in a movie, because they don’t portrait the intention of a guard dog on screen. For exactly the same reason you can’t use a gong as a laser sound, it doesn’t portrait a laser.
Second. People have collected sounds and made them available. There are stock sounds, just like there are stock pictures.
And so, certain sounds have become used for certain things. And the more they are used the more iconic they become. The Wilhelm scream, red tailed hawk, and many more.
- Comment on A small art gallery in Japan just happened to have these pictures next to each other. And then it morphed into a popular meme template 5 weeks ago:
I have denied my personal reality and substituted it with yours.
- Comment on Time to pluralize titles. 5 weeks ago:
Supermen
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I got mine after having a stable relationship and a partner without a child wish.
i knew from a very young age i didnt want kids, and have always picked partners that shared my view. I also knew that I would make a great dad if it ever came to it. So i never got the snip until i was 39.
I don’t think I would have mind if I did it earlier, but it’s also not as necessary as you think. If you pick your partners carefully and be open about your wishes. This shouldn’t be a real issue. If you are having fantasies about fucking around a lot, you should wear protection anyway. And as a matter of fact, not being snipped will help to wear that shit.
I want to mention lastly, please don’t get into a deep lasting relationship with a person who has a child wish. It will end badly.
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 month ago:
Finally i can get my jacuzzi!
- Comment on Everybody gets one [choose wisely] 1 month ago:
Ah great, I would like everything i ever would need to buy ever, always be on super sale. Thanks.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 1 month ago:
Okay. Let me give a sane outsider take.
First thing you have to understand is that there is a big disconnect between the conviction of Epstein and the influential connections he had. All the conspiracy talk about the island being a childporn hub for elites is nothing more than that: conspiracy fantasy. His suicide fueled many more ideas about the elite killing him, but again no evidence at all.
However, there is a strong public pressure to research the connections between Epstein and the elites he knew. This has most likely been done in the background, since Epstein did shady finances. But Trump has campaigned heavily on the popular sentiment. And it lives in the minds of people a solution to lock up all the elites/draining the swamp.
So now there is a big problem for the maga populists, there is a ‘list’ of connections to epstein. But there is no further evidence (yet) that those people did anything illegal, or is entirely complicated financial crime. The list probably includes just about the entire political spectrum includes donors and includes Trump. So everybody wants to handle this the correct way, including those donors. Nobody wants their name public because they spoke to a shady financial advisor. And any case against a super wealthy person needs to be watertight, they can afford a legal team.
Is it possible that there was deeper predatory connections? sure. Epstein had easy access and no question that he was willing to share. Is that going to be written down in a list? absolutely not. Epstein did finances the shady way and that’s more likely the reason so many rich people were interested in his business.
So this isnt a political issue. Of course, now it is. But that’s because Trump made it one.
- Comment on Solar powered personal umbrella with battery? 1 month ago:
Why not add a bluetooth speaker and some search lights, maybe a perfume dispenser and a toothpick holder. fucking genius.
- Comment on Do you still remember? 1 month ago:
'99 Renault Megane scenic 1.9D
it was dangerously slow. And I failed my first test because of it. I was supposed to merge in front of a truck, but i simply couldn’t get up to speed in the space i had. The exam lady refused to believe me that it couldn’t.
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 2 months ago:
First of all, there are a lot of people willing to die for their country as it is. As soon as people are willing to give up their lives, you’re not changing shit. These people didn’t grow up like you and me.
Secondly, there is a world of difference between stepping in and stepping in. One of the main reasons that North Korea is so isolated is because of sanctions. That is also a form of stepping in.
Thirdly, we already saw war and foreign meddling in that area. That’s exactly why America is the great evil opponent of North Korea. That’s not a coincidence or just because Kim Il Sung, Kim Jung Il or Kim Jung Un hated “freedom”.
Now you ask, what other solution is there?!
Well, a lot of people are actually working on that. By launching information campaigns and spreading Western/foreign music into the country. Real change comes from within. But please remember that this country is now lead by the third generation of absolute leader.
- Comment on You learn something new everyday 2 months ago:
The numbers for 1993 werent in yet?
- Comment on If you gotta go, you gotta go law. 3 months ago:
Restcloset*
- Comment on If this is you your priorities are all screwed up 6 months ago:
Oh shut, thanks for the wake up call op.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 6 months ago:
In a sense it is done. That sense is being a beacon of progress. All presidents before Trump understood the relationship America had with the world as being a world power. While there always was a conservative voice in America, conservative presidents were always able to mask self interest under the flag of progress, bringing democracy, peace and free markets. Now ultraconservative fascist are no longer masking, Trump and Musk are literally not smart enough to understand. The USA played a very important role in the world order and the current administration is basically giving that up.
Trump and Musk, because they really aren’t smart (i can’t stress this enough, they lack the mental capacity), are not considering the value of that role, the services the US provides. They only think about the value of things and of money. More rockets, tarifs on goods, expenditure… And see these as things along which progress is measured.
While that does, to a small extent, captures progress. It forgets the foundations of progress, peace, education, financial security, social cohesion, to name a few. Sorry, i say forget… But really what i should be saying is dismantling. They are also clueless about the value of services and the service economy. Which is, or has become, another measure of progress.
Anyway the point is, the US can’t maintain their position in the world order. They can’t maintain a government that understands their responsibility in that order. They abandoned their classic role without providing the world with a new/better one.
The US has been degraded to a trade partner.
- Comment on Hurry 8 months ago:
- Comment on That's a good one 8 months ago:
I see AI has achieved humor above human comprehension.
- Comment on how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me? 11 months ago:
Oh God it was such an onslaught on my self image and psychology. I believe humans aren’t equipped to handle the amount of rejection you have to receive during that grind. I certainly wasn’t.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 11 months ago:
That’s exactly how change of meaning happens, tho. Like that’s literally how we do that.
Like i said, there is a point here that’s getting lost in accusations. There indeed is a blindspot for Harris’ faults.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 11 months ago:
They’re questioning whether or not the other side is bogged down in idpol. The other guy accused them of doing idpol. Big difference. My point isn’t that idpol doesn’t exist obviously it does.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 11 months ago:
Sorry but oop is explicitly not doing identity politics. You have a point but it’s getting lost in your accusations.
