Tiresia

@Tiresia@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the explosion of the ultra-wealthy risks democracy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Israel is a colony of the US. The real “unspeakable truth” is that the US is a world-spanning colonial empire, using corporations and puppet states and charities and drug gangs and international trade organisations to break local autonomy and get US billionaire pedophiles more control over the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trick question⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s when you, the policitian, say “yes” and instantly become a hero of the revolution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ban on Palestine Action was lawful, court of appeal rules⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get it twisted, Israel was a British colony from the start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Direct Action Is Now Terrorism⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Terrorism is often good, and often the least violent form of action that works.

  I don’t think throwing paint at war machines counts as terrorism, but the UK has seen a lot of morally correct car bombs and I do imagine it’ll see plenty more still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palestine Action Activists Will Be Sentenced As Terrorists, Court Confirms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They actually called it a riot? Last I heard it was a bunch of ‘protesters’ that had set stuff on fire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nightmare Scenario⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you take the Nazis to be incompetent rather than malicious, then you’re going to assume their officially published plan to make a Zionist homeland for Jews in Madagascar was made in good faith, and the timing with the British naval blockade because of the invasion of Poland was unfortunate happenstance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nightmare Scenario⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Never attribute to malice what incompetence can explain

  It’s so sad that the Nazis wanted to give Jews a Zionist homeland but had made so many political enemies they couldn’t help them emigrate them anymore… And then those disease outbreaks in the holding camps, whew, that was some bad civil engineering. And when they installed the delousing showers they should really have fired the guy that made the delousing gas release valve dump too much into a closed space, but that’s the for of war for ya.

  Malice exists, and people like making excuses for themselves. That quote, even in its original form, has never been good advice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] Hasan Piker wonders why he is banned from the UK but Elon Musk is not after inciting race-riots in Belfast⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That didn’t happen.

  And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

  And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

  And if it is, that’s not my fault.

  And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

  And if I did, you deserved it.

  - the Narcissist Prayer, written by Dayna Craig

  Welcome to step 3, ye flying monkeys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protesters set fire to bus as disorder flares in Belfast after knife attack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  protesters

  Ah, the attacker was brown, I take it. Otherwise it would have said “rioters”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Neo-Nazi and Far-Right Coalition that Converged on Southampton Over Henry Nowak’s Murder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ethnonationalism is a single ideology, people just happen to be born into different ethnicities. Zionists have always been allied with British antisemites, because “a homeland for the Jews” means Britain can be “a homeland for Anglo-Saxons” and vice versa.

  Violent ethnonationalism was normalized in the western world largely because of mainstream defense of Israel. If Israelis are the good guys when committing genocide to get rid of other ethnic groups where they live, why wouldn’t neo-nazis be?

  And so Labour and every institution to the right of them is promoting neo-nazism. And so you get this.

  Maybe without Israel other ethnonationalists would still be thriving, but governments would have less of an incentive to support them. There are less disruptive ways to keep the working class divided.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no such thing as a safe minority⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The status of model minority is not earned, and it cannot be banked. It is on loan, extended conditionally by people who have always reserved the right to reclassify, and it is withdrawn the moment it stops being useful — usually at the point one of us does something that can be made to stand in for all of us. That moment is visibly approaching. Vikrum Digwa is being used to draw it closer. The only honest response is to refuse the bargain — to stand with Muslims, with refugees, with migrants, with every community in the firing line of this politics, publicly and without qualification. Not as charity but as clarity: their fate and ours are the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hasan Piker, Cenk Uygur Denied Entry to UK Over Palestine Support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hassan and Cenk do paid agitprop for the UK’s adversaries.

  Considering the UK is supporting genocide, maybe the UK’s adversaries are in the right here, and agitprop is good because it might put a stop to genocide?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh what a name⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And kock rhymes with cock

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans people like me are facing segregation now. We need parliament to restore our rights⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t want women’s toilets to be safe, they just want trans people to die. Trans men going to women’s toilets and making people uncomfortable as they are legally required to will inevitably be spun into trans people being dangerous and unavoidably incompatible with the rest of society.

  This will allow them to argue for the necessity of queer ghettoes, as people in general use public toilets can not realistically give informed consent about having scary trans people in their spaces.

  There may be an intermediate/parallel step where they’ll require trans people to give people the opportunity for informed consent. Legally require them announce themselves at the door, to wait for people who don’t consent to leave, and to hang up a sign notifying people that a trans person is using this toilet right now. Trans people that want their privacy back are free to move to a ghetto and use the unisex toilets there.

  I give it until 2028 before trans people have to identify themselves in public spaces, until 2030 before children are forcefully removed from trans parents, and 2032 before life expectancy in trans concentration camps drops to under 10 years. Unless people left of labor take power electorally or otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trans Segregation Is Becoming Law. What Can We Do About It?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the UK, a car bomb is more traditional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another redundant app⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  God forbid a woman doesn’t want to hang out with you.

  (repeat for all women until no woman wants to hang out with you)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's about the *option*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Base rate’s a bitch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the plus side, this isn’t a problem with AI, this is a problem with AI companies having more investment money than they know what to do with. The moment the hype fades and they don’t want to hemmorage money scraping every wiki on the internet thousands of times per day, this traffic will go back to a far more sane amount.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How fast space expands is described by general relativity. For the space between atoms to expand faster than the speed of light, you need a shitload of energy crammed together very densely, like a galaxy worth of stuff in every atom. This is called cosmic inflation, and it’s what happened during (and possibly before) the first part of the big bang.

  We don’t know exactly how there can be this much energy in this little space, or where it all went, but we do know it was there because there are waves imprinted on the density of the universe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg. It was built by the Nazis in the 1930s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immigrants don't take our jobs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine doing useful work because there is work to be done. Now imagine having more people to do that useful work with so more work gets done.

  Capitalism is fucking stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palestine Action Activists to Be Sentenced As Terrorists in Move Kept Secret From Jury and Public⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The system is behaving as intended, and as it always has. The suffragettes were treated just as harshly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British Steel to Be Nationalised, Saving Thousands of Jobs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about instead we force taxpayers to pay the shareholders of a failing company a hundred thousand pounds per worker whose job is being saved?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I belong in tech anymore? - On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Things will get more expensive as the consequences of US foreign and domestic policy pile up. If your family can’t afford you to take a pay cut, understand that your family will be under water within the next few years regardless of what you do, and prepare accordingly. Given you will not be able to get what you need with money, how can you increase your chances of getting it through other means?

  For me, at least, the easiest option is to join solidarity networks. Unionizing, sharing appliances, dumpster diving, learning trades and skills from each other, cooking communally to reduce waste and save time, squatting, etc.

  And if you can’t afford to live given that, you’ll be far from the only one. So maybe join the others that are trying to change the system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google says 75% of the company's new code is AI-generated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not changing phone ecosystems, as I enjoy having some marginal level of control over* the hardware I fucking purchased*.

  Open source android forks exist. Open source operating systems exist. Phones that natively run both exist. Do you mean that you specifically enjoy having maginal control, no more, no less?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be a big deal for someone to only come out as nonbinary when they’re old enough to be an ensign on a starship. How many times in high school did they say “No, I’m not nonbinary, I’m just a girl”? How many times did they insist to their parents on getting a girly thing because they wanted to fit in with a feminine friend group?

  Social anxiety is always a valid emotion, even if you know the society is progressive enough that it isn’t really a big deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar???⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t intepret it as multi-layered so much as generating a new “layer” when the previous one ended. It’s like how false awakening doesn’t actually require multiple layers of dreams, it’s just you dreaming about waking up in the same way you might dream about going to the beach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jewish man among first charged in pro-Palestinian slogan crackdown that reminds some of 1970s Queensland⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For saving him from his antizioni *cough* pardon me, from his internalized antisemitism?

  I mean, he can certainly try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would anyone doordash food from a place that already does delivery?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, they actually get to talk to the people they make food for which is a nice human moment, the restaurant doesn’t lose money to some shitty app company, you might be more likely to give a good tip to somoene you speak to, and the workers get paid by the hour. As long as there’s at least one worker who enjoys taking calls as a way to get a break from the kitchen, everybody benefits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA scientists says astronauts should not masturbate in space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The chlorination of a public swimming pool is deadly to sperm, so I imagine the chances on a spaceship are a lot higher.

  Also “easily seeing and avoiding” is just not realistic. You don’t have eyes on your vulva that are focused on checking for stray sperm globs 24/7.