zbyte64
@zbyte64@awful.systems
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
You actually think there’s no accountability in China? My guy, they hold their politicians to a much higher bar then we do.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
It must look strange to those who conflate authority with power. A state that has power without authority is a state that is in crisis. Calling a government authoritarian is to say it’s authority comes from it’s exercise of power.
- Comment on Wonder why? 5 weeks ago:
They also believe a rock can think like a human so…
- Comment on Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears 5 weeks ago:
Antisocial people develop an antisocial AGI promising it won’t be antisocial towards a select group. Surprised Pikachu when the AGI concludes they are not in the in group
- Comment on I would watch that ngl 1 month ago:
I don’t think it’s important, just like the legality of “illegal humans” is not important to how people are being mistreated. You’re the one bringing up legality in this context.
- Comment on What OSes do Apple's servers run on? 1 month ago:
The OSX laptops was for security, you couldn’t connect to their VPN without it. It would also a way to monitor your usage
- Comment on What OSes do Apple's servers run on? 1 month ago:
When I contracted with them we ran our computation loads on a Linux server and deployed our service to an internal Linux server. Only osx I touched was my laptop, and that was a work requirement they insisted on.
- Comment on Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won't Take Their Job 1 month ago:
Bingo. It can’t be the AI that’s not working, it must be the workers!
- Comment on And it's now time for everyone's favorite game.... 1 month ago:
Like when the DoJ doesn’t release the full video of Epstein’s death we get to make any argument we want
- Comment on And it's now time for everyone's favorite game.... 1 month ago:
New recipe calls to make a stew with the pig still attached to the boot
- Comment on I would watch that ngl 1 month ago:
That’s like me saying what the Nazis did was legal when someone brings up the holocaust. Like what is your point in making this distinction? To show us you understand definitions? Good for you I guess… 🙄
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You don’t have to be a tankie to recognize that they are enforcing international law. In that context of a civil war their actions are uncharacteristically peaceful.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The same cynicism that reinforces that mode of propaganda is used at home to justify supporting genocidal candidates.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
As someone who gets to interact with the unhoused daily, we’re not putting the mentally ill in prison because we care but because they are bad for business.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“Both sides bad” vibes projected onto geopolitics.
If Israel treated Palestine like China treats the Uyghurs then Kamala would be president.
- Comment on I would watch that ngl 1 month ago:
I think it’s rather beside the point when talking about human rights.
- Comment on I would watch that ngl 1 month ago:
And I will argue that is some very dubious context given how people are being treated. Like people are disappearing and you’re out here arguing they did a crime. Great job. Many of them aren’t even undocumented.
- Comment on I would watch that ngl 1 month ago:
Yes and further up the person was talking about how no person is illegal. So why are you even arguing?
- Comment on I would watch that ngl 1 month ago:
Yes, breaking the law is illegal. Do you understand that doesn’t make the person illegal or even a felon?
- Comment on I would watch that ngl 1 month ago:
Yes, exactly like that. The act is illegal. Not the person
- Comment on I would watch that ngl 1 month ago:
“fail to participate in the legal system”
Given my own experience with a brother-in-law being deprorted to a country where he cannot legally work, this sounds like a euphemism. We participated in the legal system, lawyers and all.
- Comment on I would watch that ngl 1 month ago:
It’s like a parking ticket. Is everyone who had a traffic violation now an illegal person?
- Comment on Confirms to Marxist theories regarding the proletariat. 1 month ago:
People saying because it’s a woman but honestly I was thinking it works because you’re creating a small human connection in a system that alienates us from each other, providing “value” we didn’t know we nedded
- Comment on UK flying reaper drones above Lebanon from Cyprus base 1 month ago:
Might be both. Tell Israel it’s to help, but make records to make the case to exit the war.
- Comment on UK flying reaper drones above Lebanon from Cyprus base 1 month ago:
Maybe they’re “Trauma Bonding”
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 1 month ago:
It’s one of those “every accusation is a confession”. People are thinking about themselves when talking about others.
- Comment on holy moley 1 month ago:
It’s what Kirk would have wanted
- Comment on Why don;t more presidents put stuff to a national referendum like Clinton did a couple times? A person would get time off work to vote, show what americans actually want and so on. 1 month ago:
Clinton was notorious for polling people and changing positions, but that was not by referendum. Sometimes our pundits play loose with words and pretend polling is a referendum because we don’t actually have referendums. See also “democratizing” when it just means “commodotizing”
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 month ago:
Indeed. Democracy does not exclude anarchy and in the case of the UN it’s a voluntary union, each member is free to not participate and ignore the decisions made by rest of the union. People often criticize the UN as having little authority - that’s because it’s anarchistic in nature.
If there is a point to my example it is that society is a patchwork of ideologies, there is no “pure capitalist” society just as there is no “pure anarchistic” society. So to say one ideology does not work as totalitarian society is different then saying it does not work at all.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 1 month ago:
I mean we have the UN which doesn’t have any one nation in charge. Geopolitics tends to be anarchistic.