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- Comment on Anon finds a bot 3 days ago:
The point being made is that the big corps advertising have an exceedingly hard time measuring whether ad buys resulted in sales, and especially which ad buys resulted in sales.
Buyers don’t see that it isn’t worth it, they can only guess.
- Comment on Dude read the rules of woman only community and decided to post anyway 5 days ago:
You could be more supportive. Men have issues specifically hurting them too, and not dismissing that fact won’t make women’s issues less relevant.
Could we just be more supportive to each other?
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
I’m feeling we’ll end up going over it whether we row or not.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
When the USSR came to Hungary, they literally exhausted the syphilis medicine supply of the country for two years with the amount of rape, and the country has had collective PTSD from it for generations.
I’m sure others can bring up other countries, I’m more familiar and am more in touch with the culture of specifically Hungary. It is widely researched and not debated actually that it was so bad, suicides and misogyny spiked in the aftermath, as the people who couldn’t defend their loved ones from often repeated often gang rape either committed suicide, or just internalised that “rape is not so bad” to cope.
600 thousand people were also kidnapped (from a country of less than 10 million) and forced into labour camps for decades, with a third never coming home. This also specifically targeted the local German-Hungarian population (which had nothing to do with Germany, it was a diaspora dating back long into medieval times), so it can also qualify as genocide.
There were also examples of brutal torture, keeping people in cells small enough they couldn’t even sit down, and so on. Had nothing to do with communism, some of the direst things were actually done against communists who wanted to be free from Soviet occupation. It was pure Russian imperialism.
And truth be told, we got off easy compared to some other countries.
And finally, colonialism being “western” in an inherently racist way to view the world. East Asian empires also had colonies, so did most empires around the world.
- Comment on Aeroplane 2 weeks ago:
In case it’s not just a joke, basically if you press the entire pedal, that’s rudder, and if you push with your toes and “rotate” the pedal forwards, that’s the wheel brake. If you apply the wheel brake, your ankle stays in the same spot, but your foot tilts forward.
At least that’s how it is in most planes, I’ve never flown a 737, only small ones and an A321 simulator.
- Comment on Aeroplane 2 weeks ago:
(at foot pedals) “Push both to brake (after you land), push one or the other to turn”
Doesn’t the 737 have toe brakes?
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
I mean in the current dictatorships, where it’s a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie by Marxist terms, it is usually one dictator and the setup is fairly hierarchical.
Why is it called a dictatorship then?
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
without ever having colonies or engaging in imperialism
That’s only because the USSR lobbied hard in the UN so that colonialism is defined as having overseas colonies. The “near abroad” is/was a colonial empire.
The USSR was definitely imperialistic, see Hungary 1956, where it crushed a revolution which was not against communism, the revolutionaries were in fact communists, they just wanted to be free of Soviet occupation.
Not debating the accomplishments of the USSR though, it was definitely and improvement on the Russian Empire.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 2 weeks ago:
Well, in the USSR it was Ukrainians. Every authoritarian system find its outgroups.
- Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 3 weeks ago:
US style open corruption is illegal in the UK and the EU isn’t it?
That said I don’t trust them, I’m just saying if we want to rail against the thing, we should know exactly what the thing is.
- Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 3 weeks ago:
Anecdotally, ProtonVPN’s servers have had a jump in usage percentage since this shit started, particularly in the Netherlands.
- Comment on Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in 3 weeks ago:
I guess the trusted processor would be the state authority that already has all your data.
That said, I think it’s a solution looking for a problem. IDK if 14 year olds jack off to Pornhub, I rather care about 54 year olds being swindled by Meta to destroy our democracy. What did we do after Cambridge Analytica?
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 3 weeks ago:
Protestors stealing a tank and driving it out of a museum into the crowd (nobody got hurt) during the 2006 protests that were the foundation to the Orbán regime.
- Comment on Louvre security vs CVS 4 weeks ago:
Or start stealing more expensive shit.
- Comment on Anon is a movie critic 4 weeks ago:
Both Top Gun and Star Wars battles have more to do with WWII air battles than modern air or plausible sci-fi space battles.
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 1 month ago:
No banking apps or NFC payments.
- Comment on Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 1 month ago:
Great for UTIs, or getting rid of them?
I mean I wouldn’t be surprised if I got an UTI after jamming up my peehole.
- Comment on Happy Thanksgiving everyone! 1 month ago:
Please don’t jam the jam in your ass
- Comment on OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door 1 month ago:
I get you. I feel that way about most news I consume these days.
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 1 month ago:
The revenue is still less than that of Clash of Clans or Candy Crush. And it is mostly coming from the companies involved in the shell game as well.
- Comment on A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley 1 month ago:
Companies, totally.
The only country it might take down is actually the US, as it might be the spark to start some shit in the current tense environment. I mean that I could see the bubble pop be Franz Ferdinand to a 2 Civil 2 War.
- Comment on OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door 1 month ago:
I agree, and the actual real implication in the article sounds just as bad as the headline, so I feel it’s a clickbait machine editor who did this.
The claim BTW is that OpenAI is alleging that random people criticising them are actually in a conspiracy with Elon Musk (the actual person involved in a lawsuit with OpenAI) to discredit them, and the court is humouring this nonsense by subpoenaing random people’s private messages.
- Comment on just one more bro 1 month ago:
Classic case of “history is written by the victors”. You only call it antimatter because it lost, if it won, you’d call it matter.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 releases today and it will not be playable on any Linux / SteamOS system 1 month ago:
Apparently BF6 is a rebound after 2042 being a flop. It’s not like it’s in the “Top 30 franchises ever”, but it’s apparently popular.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 releases today and it will not be playable on any Linux / SteamOS system 1 month ago:
At least we’re in agreement not to do any business then.
Does BF6 have a single player campaign worth pirating?
- Comment on The most stable bubble 1 month ago:
Or read Ed Zitron. What’s the youtube video? I’d like to check it out.
- Comment on I have returned from my travels into deep anon 1 month ago:
For research I assume.
- Comment on Losers 1 month ago:
I have a feeling 1941 is also standing for something? Like the height and best days of the Third Reich?
- Comment on New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs 1 month ago:
And the reason they were actually cut is because monopolists raised prices so that inflation would drive up interest rates, killing competition and labour power, leading to consolidation of the monopolies and fewer jobs and less competition overall.
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