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- Comment on The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets 1 day ago:
they aren’t killing themselves, the system of exploitation is. please stop shifting the blame to some of the poorest people on earth who can choose between shitty jobs like this and starving
- 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 days ago:
believe it or not, it’s possible for 2 things to be true at the same time. ACS is cool even though Ubisoft is evil. what you call virtue signaling is just people having interests
- Comment on The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets 4 days ago:
these are true hackers living the DIY spirit, much respect to them!
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 4 days ago:
yeah, a bunch of unions have already put out support statements for BDS. list them as an example for your own union to follow
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 5 days ago:
I personally disagree with giving more rights to immigrants and don’t like the idea of negotiations with terrorist organizations to divide the country
if you disagree with immigrants having human rights, that’s just fascism my friend.
also you calling Kurds terrorists says a lot about how you’re actually just a genocide denier cosplaying as “just an average person without a political position”
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 5 days ago:
maybe they could use a donation model like fediverse instances do
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 5 days ago:
CHP are Kemalists. idk how anyone worshipping that genocider could be called left-wing (maybe if you’re an ethno-nationalist?). I’d say the real left wing in Turkey would be the Kurdish people fighting for autonomy, the feminists and queers fighting the cops in the streets and the union movements.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 5 days ago:
there are 3 major right-wing instances: lemmy.ml(ran by the Lemmy developers), lemmygrad.ml(the openly fascist version of lemmy.ml) and hexbear.net.
if anyone wants to argue, I don’t. Anyone supporting Russia is right-wing.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 5 days ago:
wrong, no other cloud provider offers the same military services that Microsoft does
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 6 days ago:
as a bazzite user, it’s kinda ironic that they’re dependent on GitHub cloud to keep their updates going. I wonder if they have a non-apartheid version?
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 6 days ago:
start with the stuff that’s easy to get rid of and the rest will snowball down the line.
as for your workplace using Microsoft, nobody expects you as an individual to force your company to stop using them. the best way to achieve that in my opinion is through unions and collective actions.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 6 days ago:
a question to parents/guardians of kids playing Minecraft or other Microsoft games:
if they uninstall the Microsoft version of Minecraft and switch to a pirated launcher, does that respect the BDS demands?
I’m aware of similar media boycotts such as SAG/AFTRA telling people not to promote targeted media projects publicly. Ofc, BDS is a different organization but I’m hoping someone could clarify if not promoting Minecraft while still playing is sufficient? I’m not personally invested in continuing to play, but would like to find ways to inspire my young relative to consume consciously.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 6 days ago:
they answer your question in detail on their own website
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 1 week ago:
I’m sure Hitler would agree. after all, genocide is natural according to him
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 1 week ago:
an autistic person supporting eugenics, how ironic
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 2 weeks ago:
you need it if you apply for citizenship in some countries. they’ll ask for full criminal records in all the countries you’ve lived.
- Comment on Mexico’s first homegrown EV faces a bumpy road 2 weeks ago:
promoting indigenous linguistics is absolutely good, the nuance is that some of those languages are a closed practice so it would be disrespectful for outsiders to speak them. it all comes down to autonomy which i think you got towards the end of your reply
- Comment on The Phony Comforts of AI Optimism 2 weeks ago:
if you think the articles are too long then make your own that are shorter and appeal to AI bros
- Comment on Is dns a good application for the blockchain? 2 weeks ago:
hence the inherent problem with crypto. you’re always gonna end up with fascist billionaires at the helm when you essentially implement a vote determined by how much bro-tokens you own. I’m not aware of any blockchain implementation that isn’t just a reskin of late stage capitalism.
- Comment on Is dns a good application for the blockchain? 2 weeks ago:
I agree that DNS is horribly centralized and outdated, but tech isn’t gonna solve this problem which is political. I think every TLD should be ran by a federation of independent worker co-ops managing each TLD autonomously. who then convene at a federation council to replace the functions of ICANN
- Comment on Is dns a good application for the blockchain? 2 weeks ago:
letting people like Elon Musk control the blockchain should make it obvious why this is a horrible idea. most of those people are fascists and/or “anarcho-capitalists”
- Comment on Mexico’s first homegrown EV faces a bumpy road 2 weeks ago:
Native and mestizo aren’t the same thing. Mestizos are the people that assimilated and therefore enjoy privilege over indigenous people. identifying as mestizo is kind of the opposite of being indigenous because you’re adopting a colonial identity.
We don’t go asking Italians before we put stuff in Latin.
except Italians aren’t being genocided by any state for being Italian. Latin would be Spanish in this context, not Nahuatl. Latin was imposed through colonization around the world. And before anyone brings up the Aztec empire, it hasn’t existed in centuries.
Mexico forces Spanish upon indigenous groups to bring them closer to the conquistador ideal of a good Mexican citizen. them appropriating Nahuatl words to seem cool is more akin to racist Republicans stealing words from Black American English to market their products or politics.
Mexico is a bit different from America in their approach to assimilation in that they strive for mestizaje (making every Mexican mixed). You can see the ideology behind it in La raza cósmica.
I think it should be obvious why erasing indigenous cultures through state violence isn’t a benign thing.
- Comment on Mexico’s first homegrown EV faces a bumpy road 2 weeks ago:
oh, so it isn’t just America that erases indigenous cultures by slapping random words from that language on their cars
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
if you post through Tor how can I send the Cheka to hug you on your birthday, comrade? 😔
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
it’s called not being a fucking creep
- Comment on What does a week of groceries look like to you? 3 weeks ago:
concern-trolling is boring
- Comment on What was the 'bear vs man' controversy? 3 weeks ago:
you’re silly because you’re getting offended by mean words. we have to worry whether we’ll make it home alive. idk, maybe unshove your own head out of your own ass?
- Comment on What was the 'bear vs man' controversy? 3 weeks ago:
you can’t be sexist against the people who invented sexism, that’s just silly
- Comment on MMO scholar puts a $500 bounty on old versions of RuneScape as part of a community archive project: "You might have ALL of the game's lost versions!" 3 weeks ago:
time for all of us to volunteer at your garbage dump like that dude who offered to buy his local garbage dump because his Bitcoin hard drive might be there
- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 4 weeks ago:
I just made up the genocide Spain committed in the Americas? lol ok buddy