Sauerkraut
@Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, docs show 2 days ago:
There is a 3rd type: people desperate for work / experience who are simply taking the best paying job they can find. It is actually the most common type of working in the US.
- Comment on Gave him an offer, then took it away. Thanks PayPal. 1 month ago:
Maybe in Europe, but in the US At-will employment means that you can be fired at any moment without cause, without warning and without severance.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 1 month ago:
It is unusual and I don’t like it, but I wouldn’t say it is bad. If I liked the person I would probably come to like the name.
- Comment on Generational differences 1 month ago:
I never tried that, but if you fill a bottle with water and submerge it in water then you can drill holes in the glass without it shattering
- Comment on Chinese people flood TikTok with videos urging Americans to buy direct amid Trump tariffs 2 months ago:
Basic dignity will always be at odds with profit motive. We need eternal vigilance and working class solidarity to keep capitalism in check
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 2 months ago:
Reminds me of how the damage to roads scales with the weight of the vehicle to the 4th power, so someone driving a 6000lb pickup does 16x more damage to roads than a 3000lb sedan
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 2 months ago:
Sure, but in that case they need to make the server code open source so game owners can run their own servers.
Or they need to include a lan / offline mode
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers 2 months ago:
Ehh, I don’t like the tulip comparison because that situation had nothing to do with hating the working class. The AI craze can only be reasonably explained by a deep contempt and hatred for workers. The capital class is so desperate to replace us that they will jump on any opportunity to do so.
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers 2 months ago:
AI art is a solution searching for a problem that has never existed.
The problem has existed and it is one of the core contradictions inherent to capitalism: that the wealthy see our wages as their lost profits while in reality their profits are unpaid surplus value of our labor… There isn’t a path forward with a capitalist system because the capital class will never stop trying to commodify every aspect of society and they will never stop trying to replace us with machines or cheap foreign slave labor
- Comment on Maybe it's just a human thing. 2 months ago:
The Christian one should be a missionary actually helping people. Christian faith that only exists in church is a false faith
- Comment on Horror 2 months ago:
The rich do have flying cars. They just call them private jets. The rich own mansions (huge houses) all over the world, private islands, mega yachts that contain smaller yachts, their own submarines, and now they even have their own rocket ships
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Lead poisoning. Leaded gasoline started in the 1930s, but in the 50s and 60s we destroyed our public transportation and then destroyed millions of black homes to build highways through our cities. So leaded gasoline peaked in the 70s.
Oh, and boomers, who have the most lead brain damage, hold all the political power because they hold all the wealth.
- Comment on Schumer’s Retreat From a Government Shutdown Has Young Democrats Fuming 3 months ago:
I think this a liberal vs left thing. Most liberals aren’t mad at Schumer. It is the leftists like AOC and Bernie that are passionately fighting against fascism and oligarchy
- Comment on “We are not corporate slaves”: Indian tech workers fight for dignity : Peoples Dispatch 3 months ago:
We’re all slaves to the billionaires under capitalism. It is a slightly more ethical type of slavery, but ultimately we still do the bidding of the wealthy and we sacrifice the best years of our lives to build their financial empires
- Comment on $42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk 3 months ago:
Reminder that this is still capitalism. Capitalism gave Elon Musk the wealth and power to destroy American democracy so the world’s most successful capitalist destroying democracy is capitalism in action.
- Comment on fuck this asshole 3 months ago:
Masks are sort of like condoms. When someone tells you that you don’t need one or that you shouldn’t wear one then you absolutely do need one.
- Comment on no ragrets 3 months ago:
He knew lead was a very dangerous neurotoxin and he just didn’t care. Capitalists destroying the planet for profit is such a boring evil.
- Comment on Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats 3 months ago:
Agreed, but if that were even possible then we wouldn’t be in this mess to begin with and Trump would be in jail for his failed Jan 6th putsch.
- Comment on I'll care when I work for a co-op that is equally owned by all the workers. 4 months ago:
I’m not wasting my mental energy to create more profit for the shareholders if I’m not directly incentivised to do so.
Especially when those very same capitalists use their wealth and power to attack democracy and public institutions! Every dollar of profit I make for a modern day (wage) slaver does harm to my soul.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
She’s a lawyer, so you won’t see her advocating for a violent uprising
Ah, yes, because the Nazis were famously beaten by lawyers…
Historically, fascism cannot be beaten peacefully. We cannot appease or argue our way out of this problem.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Luigi did something. We need more Luigis, but I fear we will get peasant-brain brown shirts instead
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Exactly. Republicans don’t have a filibuster proof super majority in the Senate so Dems could filibuster the Senate to death to block Trump appointments from being voted on like Republicans did to Dems, but no, rich white liberals aren’t hurt by Trump’s fascism so they don’t care
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
History repeats. Conservatives gave Hitler a majority coalition in 1932 and now conservatives have done the same for Trump and nazi Elon
- Comment on Henry Symeonis 4 months ago:
Like Peasant-brains defending oligarch billionaires or attacking socialists who try to help them
- Comment on Henry Symeonis 4 months ago:
Iterate. After some operations, you have five chimps who are ready to punch any chimp who would dare touch the stepladder (or curse Henry Symeonis) – and none of them knows why.
Super interesting. Is this why peasant-brains defend capitalism, our undemocratic two party system, and the oligarchy so intensely?
- Comment on Why Tech Companies Are Joining the GOP-Oil Alliance 4 months ago:
Because of insatiable greed, aka gold sickness aka “profit motive” of capitalism
- Comment on Erasure 4 months ago:
Half the regular people also want it this way
Only 28% of adults voted for this and lots of Trump voters just wanted the cheaper groceries that Trump promised them (he lied).
So please don’t spread the lie that Trump has majority support or any kind of mandate. He doesn’t. Over a 100 million people didn’t bother to vote because they have no faith or hope that voting can improve their lives. They aren’t wrong. At best, electing Democrats is just a stay of execution.
- Comment on Erasure 4 months ago:
If you someone starts a revolution I’d join the fight. “And just because he’s a worker, no class can free him but his own. The emancipation of the working class is the task of the worker alone.”
- Comment on Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics 4 months ago:
Hmm. Well, all I can say is that the US has commited countless atrocities against other nations and even our own citizens. Last I checked, China didn’t infect their ethnic minorities with Syphilis and force the doctors not to treat it under a threat of death, but the US government did that to black Americans.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Yeah, my state capital is a 4 hour drive away. Frankfurt to Berlin is a 3 hour train where you can get work done or read a book. You also can’t get fired in Germany for calling out sick to protest.
The US working class has very little power left. No unions, no solidarity, almost no rights, and no one in government that actually fights for us