luciferofastora
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- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 3 days ago:
You’ll get no argument from me ;-)
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 days ago:
Well, if they wear the flag, display the Swastika, do the salute or go on about white supremacy, that’s a pretty solid hint.
A Nazi is (originally) a particular brand of fascism, but much like champagne, it has become a generic term for the whole family of ideologies. The “ur-fascist” definition by Umberto Eco, who was witness to the fascist regime of Mussolini, highlights a few key traits if fascist ideology like a cult of tradition, emphasis on machismo and action over thought, obedience over independence, contempt for pacifism and weakness and populism that leverages frustrations, conspiracy theories and fears to rally its followers against some perceived enemy.
Not every trait is fascist on its own, but neither does some movement need to tick all boxes to be fascist. There’s sure to be some grey area, but if you have people rushing to inflict violence on anyone looking differently, spurred on by a guy promising to restore some ambiguous past glory by blaming the economic and social troubles on foreigners and beating the war drums… yeah, well, eventually the indicators start piling up.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 6 days ago:
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I think this is one of those cases where I ignore the providence of the image for the entertainment value.
Certainly preferable to some other AI slop people produce.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 6 days ago:
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- Comment on Make me feel like a man 6 days ago:
I also spent two weeks as a live-in cat sitter for a friend on vacation. He’d yell at me, and when I approached him, 1/5 times he’d lead me to his bowl. The other 4, he’d walk to the couch then look at me expectantly. If I laid down, he’d hop on my chest, then flop over into my arm and start purr-snoring within a minute.
Hell Yeah
I miss him. But it’s a good pain.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 6 days ago:
As protests go, I like this. More visible and tangible than sitting somewhere they’ll never go, but not really violent (at least not as violent as other things you could throw). I also liked the shoes that got lobbed at Bush for the symbolism.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 6 days ago:
Cheap shot.
Not saying it doesn’t hit.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 6 days ago:
An elegant meme fot a more civilised age
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 6 days ago:
They’re all the wrong way
Some people just want to watch the world burn
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 2 weeks ago:
It’s highly unusual
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 2 weeks ago:
go outside the environment
Isn’t that where the wrecked oil tanker is?
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 2 weeks ago:
That’s the typical discrepancy between “definition of technical term” and “popular expectations evoked by term”. The textbook example used to be “theory”, but I guess AI is set to replace that job too…
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 3 weeks ago:
Mob justice is how “that evil witch walked across my fields and now my harvest is rotten” turns into lynching innocents. If I can grab someone and accuse them of something and other people jump in on good faith that I’m being truthful, there’s a risk that they’ll end up beating up an innocent if I wasn’t.
What they should do at best is hold the other down for professional truth-finders to come sort out whether the accused actually is an asshole or whether I’m the asshole trying to frame them.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 3 weeks ago:
Have tissues ready, and I’m not talking about wanking. Well, maybe that too, but mostly because they’re really good at hitting emotional beats. It’s one of two games this year that had me in tears.
The other is Goodnight Universe, which is very new and also very good, and it has a neat face tracking gimmick where some things require you to close your eyes or emote. It also works without and is still good (and you can obviously do the accompanied actions even without a cam to observe it).
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 4 weeks ago:
He’s not even in office yet and already knocking it out of the park and halfway across the city.
I just hope that trajectory continues.
- Comment on chicken mcnugget theorem 4 weeks ago:
I also love the way Cox put it:
A few weeks after we met, we realized that we had to write a joint paper because the combination of our last names, in the usual alphabetical order, is remarkably obscene.
That is such a lovely nerd way to put “We found the combo of our last names hilarious”
- Comment on i want to see what is in the stash 4 weeks ago:
The idea of having to dig through a reflog is scary too if you don’t have a confident intuition of how the refs work in the first place
- Comment on ...will continue until... 4 weeks ago:
Except a train needs stronger engines. You’d need a long string of carts with people attached left and right doing the pulling. You’d need less drivers though.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 5 weeks ago:
Plus SponsorBlock, but that’s not a Google issue. I just can’t stand hearing people say “without further ado” before “but first”. Also, skipping the extra bit at the end of music videos where you get treated to five-second-bits of other songs you didn’t ask for.
I currently don’t have the patience and spare energy to degoogle, but I admire anyone who does.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 5 weeks ago:
Google and languages is its own clusterfuck anyway. To this day, I don’t think it properly supports using multiple languages.
First, English YouTube titles were (often badly) auto-translated to German and I found no other option to disable it but to set my entire profile’s first language to English. Then it began translating German stuff into English instead.
Is it so hart to implement an option to say “I speak both English and German perfectly well, please stop trying to accommodate some primary language”?
Bonus: Technical terms being translated one way or the other, usually without awareness of the technical, semantic context that would require a specific translation (or none at all).
Anyway, that’s tangential.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 1 month ago:
I didn’t get along with soy milk either, but oat milk is my jam
- Comment on Please no, just stop 1 month ago:
Well, to be a little charitable, sometimes it’s text with numbers in it. I just need to figure out how best to extract the numbers from unstructured text, which is mostly tedious to validate.
Other times it’s text where there are supposed to be numbers, like the dates on invoices, which leads to really funny mixups when we look at the revenue per supplier and someone asks “Hey, we didn’t bring this supplier on until 2019, why are there revenues for 2012?” And the answer is “Because your invoice date is a manually entered text field and if you’re a quick typer, 2021 and 2012 are really close together.”
And then some times it’s questions like “How many customer service tickets do we get about X”. If X is a specific product name, odds are a simple full text search for the term gets most of them. If X is a general thing like “Office supplies” it becomes a nightmare really quickly.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 1 month ago:
Give it a shot. Asking, I mean. Don’t actually drink any concoction an AI brews up. The rate we’re going, it’ll come up with some combination of ingredients that’ll react, turn into a strong acid and physically change you into a chemical burns patient.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 1 month ago:
A Data Analyst’s reading of your comment:
I am misusing Google Sheets to plan my character builds in Final Fantasy Tactics
Oh?
I have entered all the information in the sheet by hand
Uh-huh
and it is mostly text
Eww
This information cannot be put into a graph of any kind.
Phew
People asking me to turn text into graphs are the bane of my life. Well, one of many banes, really.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 1 month ago:
Sorry, reality has outshitted your posting
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 1 month ago:
I’m happy to jump on the MS hate train, but yeah, this doesn’t read like a genuine email. I’m pretty sure last time I had to deal with their support, I gave myself a black eye facepalming too hard at some “We hope that this could help” default phrase at the end of a mail telling me they couldn’t. If nothing else, they’ve got their corporate-brand professional politeness on point.
- Comment on Pow-- 1 month ago:
I think the nuance is that Nazis ought to be acknowledged as being people, but not afforded any of the respects and graces the Nazis themselves deny others.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 month ago:
So it’s not hard to see how this new definition came about but it is, still, sort of just plucking the word and modifying it to a very different context
I think the difficulty here is the assertion that this “unc” stems from black slang rather than a parallel evolution. After “bro” and “cuz” made it into wider adoption, the pattern of taking the first syllable or so off a term for a relative is familiar.
Unrelatedly, the image of the weird uncle spouting bullshit is a cultural meme in at least those parts of the (presumably mostly white) Internet I’ve been exposed to. The subjectively most common forms I see are holiday season complaints about uncles being racist or conspiracy nuts.
That is a very different image of uncles. Combining it with the aforementioned pattern of taking the first syllable to refer to people of a vaguely similar persuasion will lead to a derogatory meaning of “unc” that may well have developed entirely independently of the more respectful sense you mention.
Hence, I’m inclined to believe it’s more of an unfortunate coincidence than a corruption of an originally benevolent term. Either way, it’s unfortunate to have an otherwise positive term associated with something negative, whether by accident or by ignorant misuse.
more community-destructing than community-building
In some sense, that destruction of community may precede the term. If my reasoning above is correct, the term refers to a type of person one would rather not share a community with.
Also, thanks for asking, rather than downvoting; it’s (obviously) not everything but there’s a non-negligible segment of Lemmy that just seems to have an emotional tantrum every time race comes up.
There’s an odd discussion space around the topic, where even the way you treat it becomes a discussion of its own that I don’t wanna get into right now.
However, one part of it may be that people afford the meaning of words different weights. You comment on how slang becomes trivialised, turning into buzzwords rather than proper language. I’d counter that this seems to be a feature of mainstream communication in general: Words (with some exceptions) are treated more lightly, and as we trust the other to catch the intent of our statement, we also throw them with less care.
That doesn’t mean a word I throw lightly also becomes weightless to others, and I suspect that’s where part of the conflict stems from: When you say “this was taken from black culture”, that feels like an accusation of appropriation and racism. If I adopt a word without any intent of disrespect and then get (or feel) accused of saying something racist, I get defensive because that wasn’t my intent. But the way I said it might still have hurt others, and the fact that I said it carelessly is no help.
I think I first saw that disconnect in the discussion around the N-word: To many white people (including myself), it doesn’t have much weight anymore. We don’t hold the contempt that it used to be an expression of. However, to many black people voicing their thoughts online, it seems to still have the sting of centuries of oppression and disparagement. They don’t – can’t? – separate the intent from the vessel that carried it.
The switch of perspectives isn’t intuitive. But it’s worth learning.
I’m curious to learn and to hear the experiences of others. Whatever thoughts I may have are coloured by my own biases, my upbringing, the social environment I live in. I’d rather ask, converse and risk offending out of ignorance than to assume I know the answer and probably end up offending out of negligence.
Avoiding conflict also avoids the lessons we can learn from it. If we take care to avoid lasting harm, we can “play” conflict and learn to avoid actual conflict in the future.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 month ago:
How so?