Sauerkraut
@Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco apartment 6 days ago:
If he truly killed himself, I am guessing he was blacklisted from his profession which is a very common retaliation against whistle blowers.
- Comment on oh man 1 week ago:
Yes! I am a leftist now, but I was raised Christian conservative. I truly believe that if you don’t believe that people can learn and grow then can you truly call yourself a leftist?
- Comment on SAVE THE BEES 2 weeks ago:
Exposing CEOs doesn’t do anything because the rich have the government in their pocket. Remember the Panama papers? Yeah, that accomplished nothing.
- Comment on MUSSTTTARRRRRRD 3 weeks ago:
Participation / selection bias. People who have autism or who struggle to fit in socially are more likely to spend more time making content than normal people.
- Comment on Musk and Ramaswamy float ending remote work for federal employees and ‘large-scale firings’ 4 weeks ago:
I admire your optimism, but I am more skeptical. Capitalist oligarchy has left Russia a pale, pathetic shadow of the super power that it once was, but capitalism is not even remotely close to collapsing in Russia.
- Comment on Musk and Ramaswamy float ending remote work for federal employees and ‘large-scale firings’ 4 weeks ago:
They’ll just completely gut the environmental regulations and eliminate all fines.
If we want to see what the future will be like for the US, than look no further than Putin’s oligarchy.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The moment LLM can do your job for you is the moment that you lose your job to boost shareholder value
- Comment on Donald Trump Team Plans to Cancel Biden's $7,500 Tax Incentive On EVs 4 weeks ago:
Jokes on Elon. Conservatives hate electric cars and now Tesla’s core customer base hates Tesla because of Elon
- Comment on Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash 5 weeks ago:
Tesla has faced criticism in the past for the design of its manual release levers, which are considered poorly designed and unintuitively placed
Calling it poorly designed is a massive understatement. The manual release is a wire that is hidden behind a hidden panel. A guy made a video showing how to do it and he struggled to do it despite having practiced a few times in advance. The chance of pulling it off while the car was on fire would be very, very low
- Comment on Four Dead In Fire As Tesla Doors Fail To Open After Crash 5 weeks ago:
The fact that Elon is going to help Trump gut all of our federal agencies makes me sick to my stomach. Trump winning the election is like a terrible nightmare that I can’t wake up from.
- Comment on Discord admin gets 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US history - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
If I were a narcissist like Trump then I would love to be the President: I could set up all my family and friends with 7 figure jobs, I’d buy a hotel and then force the SS to rent out the entire building at 10x the normal rates, I could spend most of my time golfing, I could chat with my buddy Putin on the phone every day, etc.
Are there shitty parts to the job? Sure, but is it better than being a powerless wage slave to a soulless corporation? Absolutely yes.
- Comment on US Orders Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to Halt All AI Chip Shipments to China 5 weeks ago:
Starting wars with allied nations (China) just because they have a semi-socialist economy seems fairly fascist to me.
- Comment on Yes, very much 5 weeks ago:
Quality posts like this are what keep me coming back to Lemmy.
- Comment on Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web 1 month ago:
Either sound great to me. Co-ops are a market socialism which is better than capitalism in every way
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 1 month ago:
He has potential, for sure, but putting the blame on one person was a massive whiff, especially when his own sources had spelled out the real problem multiple times:
"When Gomes pushed back on the multiple requests for growth, Fox added that all three of them were responsible for search, that search was “the revenue engine of the company,” and that bartering with the ads and finance teams was potentially “the new reality of their jobs.”
On February 6th 2019, Gomes said that he believed that search was “getting too close to the money,” and ended his email by saying that he was “concerned that growth is all that Google was thinking about.”
“Growth is all that Google was thinking about”. Companies prioritize quality and customer value when they are worker owned or trying to corner a market, but once they have a monopoly that goes out the window. Profit driven monopolies always end up cutting corners and abusing their customers. That is why anti-trust laws are so important and why it is so frustrating that we allow companies to bribe our politicians into eroding our anti-trust protections
- Comment on Adam Something: Tesla Cybercab: The Self-Driving Disaster Show 1 month ago:
Elon calls himself “Dark-maga” which is pretty dorky. Dork-Maga is more accurate
- Comment on Clever, clever 1 month ago:
Disability accomodation requests are sent to the professor at the beginning of each semester so he would know which students use accessibility tools
- Comment on Radio Station Replaces Journalists With AI 'Presenters' 1 month ago:
Why do we need to get rid of the job of human radio presenter?
Profit motive. When maximizing profit margins are the primary object of the economy, then workers are seen as an unfortunate expense. And so capitalists seek to employee as few workers as possible while also paying them as little as possible.
- Comment on Chatbot that caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids, lawsuit says 1 month ago:
Anyone else think it is super weird how exposing kids to violence is super normalized but parents freak out over nipples?
I feel like if anything should be taboo it should be violence.
- Comment on The Tech Coup: A New Book Shows How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance 1 month ago:
Until we figure out a way to separate political power from wealth, I fear that all forms of wealth disparity will create power disparities that can and will eventually be abused to dismantle democracy.
- Comment on Is American politics really as seemingly satirical of itself as it is portrayed? 2 months ago:
The US only have right wing parties. Neolib dems and fascist Repubs are both right wing parties.
- Comment on Why Google Search is Falling Apart. - YouTube 2 months ago:
Some would counter that 3rd parties have been manipulating google search results, and that is true, but it overlooks the fact that Google is largely responsible for incentivizing that kind of behavior. Google is an advertising company that has a search engine and they pay sites to host their ads because on site traffic so those sites in turn try to manipulate google search results to increase their traffic.
- Comment on Why 'free' proprietary software will always end in tears 2 months ago:
That might be the most jaded take on open source I have ever seen. Yes, sometimes open source devs ignore user feedback and it can be frustrating, but it is 100% volunteer work and they don’t have any power over us because no one is forcing you to engage in digital communism by using open source projects. We have to remember that open source devs are building what they need and want and then sharing that with us for free.
I strongly believe that the truly power hungry individuals go into middle management at a for-profit where they have real power over others. There they hold your career in their hands and they know it. They can fire anyone they dislike and they often do. Destroying careers on a whim is infinitely more tyrannical than any open source dev could ever be.
- Comment on More than a dozen states in the US have sued TikTok, accusing the social media platform of helping to drive a mental health crisis among teenagers 2 months ago:
Car dependency has created a world that forces children to live online since they can’t do anything outside without their parents driving them around. So I just don’t see how banning TikTok does anything to address the root problem. Banning Tiktok does nothing to solve the root issue of lacking 3rd places and community.
- Comment on Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now Obsolete 2 months ago:
US voters are never given the chance to vote for non-capitalist candidates. But this year we actually have a socialist in the running which is why I am voting for Claudia de la Cruz this year.
- Comment on Anon shares his dating preferences 2 months ago:
Instead of saying “good shape” which is a boring / potentially problematic answer, instead say “someone who is into (whatever sport or activity you enjoy)”. If you love to cycle or trail run then wanting someone who shares your interests is legitimate.
- Comment on Anon shares his dating preferences 2 months ago:
But when people ask for your preferences they want to know your actual preferences (the positives), not the dealbreakers.
For example, if I asked someone out to lunch and asked what kind of food do they prefer (their preference) then I don’t want to hear a list off all the foods they dislike.
- Comment on Microsoft’s hypocrisy on AI: can artificial intelligence really enrich fossil-fuel companies and fight climate change at the same time? The tech giant says yes. 2 months ago:
People have already fallen for it.
- Comment on U.S. is cracking down on Shein and Temu by closing a loophole that makes their cheap goods exempt from tariffs 2 months ago:
Didn’t workers make that exact argument when their good manufacturing jobs were being sent to poorer nations? Seems hypocritical that the government allows globalism to hurt the working class as long as it benefits the rich, but suddenly globalism is bad when it hurts the profit margins of our billionaires.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 3 months ago:
Considering how the US’s CIA will infiltrate leftist groups to undermine and break those groups up, would that make the US an authoritarian state? And if someone passively enables authoritarianism through complacency then does that not make them authoritarians by default?
Read up on Operation Gladio if you want a peak at how deeply fascist / authoritarian the US truly is: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio