Tiresia

@Tiresia@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom really love NBC Good News tonight. How come there isn't a show where they report on the good news of the day instead of all the bad crap all the time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If advertisers loved a good news channel, all corporate news would be good news channels. But scared and tired people make far less informed decisions, making advertising far more effective.

  The countless horror movies you can watch online are far more upsetting than a streamer saying “fuck”. Censorship isn’t about avoiding people getting upset but about having infrastructure for silencing speech that they and their corporate partners don’t like.

  Imagine if cops couldn’t give out fines, then they would miss out on being able to choose to let white people off with a warning while fining black people for the smallest infractions. This means cops would be less effective at maintaining white supremacy. And so cops have to be tough on crime despite all evidence showing that it makes crime worse. Because cops exist to maintain and expand white supremacy, and more specifically the supremacy of rich white Christian men.

  Likewise, an advertiser who has a well-established policy of punishing “advertiser-unfriendly” phrases like swear words can then use that policy to suppress certain voices while letting other voices gain fame by boldly defying the rules with only a slap on the wrist. This infrastructure has allowed them to very quickly start censoring Palestine, Minnesota, and discussion of productive forms of activism and resistance in general. Whether this is a service they sell to rich white men or if it’s them choosing to do this because of their rich white owners, the buck stops with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subtitling a video, what is this sound called?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “[tinny distorted noise]”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad we live in the 21st century then, where the rest of my comment applies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should've been the point or points for society to throw up their hands and stop supporting the government?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  1776. Saying that it is self-evident that all men are created equal but enslaving blacks and genociding natives and denying voting rights to 90% of the population.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Please actually read my comment, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically if the US got accidentally bomb by a war that is happening between Mexico and Canada what would the US response between knowing the US does it all the time by "accident"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What happens when the US gets accidentally bombed by Israel and 34 people are killed? [They talk it out and remain good friends].

  The US government and the elite they represent do not care about the American people beyond them being the tools by which they can force the world into as steep a hierarchy as possible with the US elite on top. If the US gets bombed, the US government will do what serves the interests of the US elite.

  So it really depends on what’s convenient. It’s hard to speak generally about an alternate universe in which Canada and Mexico are at war, but if I squint my eyes I can say that if Mexico hit the US, the US would invade Mexico and install new leadership while conveniently using it as a reason to ramp up to a full-blown genocide of Latinos in the US; while if Canada hit the US, they would be made to pay a trillion dollars in reparations or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The late 19th century USAmerican colonization of Native American land shows that you don’t need cars to make an industrial rural society. Trains will work just fine. This means you build towns to be walkable and centered around a train station, with agriculture surrounding each town. Modern heavily mechanized agriculture might make population densities so low that even this is not viable, but the products still need to be transported, so you can have trains that stop at each megafarm which can also carry passengers if necessary. When I was in Queensland a few years ago, I saw mechanized agriculture use a bespoke railway network to supply a factory, so clearly even now despite all the fossil fuel and car subsidies it’s economically viable.

  Though as you may know, industrial agriculture is dumb and unsustainable. Desertification due to requiring too much water, climate change due to fertilizer consumption, industrial pollution that kills millions of people per year and destroys ecosystems, lack of genetic diversity causing crop blights that risk famines or global shortages, insecticides that cause cancer and destroy ecosystems, most of it being wasted on the meat industry and on maintaining massive surpluses and exports to ensure western global domination, etc.

  If we want to do agriculture right, we want to do food forests. It’s more labor per calorie, but it’s resilient, local, and it doesn’t make the planet uninhabitable by the next century. Food forests are more compact too, which means that a rural population tending food forests can have a much higher population density, or can consist of large villages separated by rewilded natural landscape (and/or low density food forests for migratory communties). This makes trains even more convenient to get around because they can run more frequently.

  Meanwhile if you want to live in the wilderness away from these towns, then an absence of car roads means you can live far away while only being a couple kilometers away. So you still don’t need a car because you can just hike along a trail to get to town in under an hour. Need to carry a lot of stuff? Use a Chinese wheelbarrow. Maybe a battery-powered one with stability and steering assistance if you don’t feel like getting exercise. They carry more than a modern American SUV and they don’t murder children either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rude⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  …

  fuck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rude⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m ADHD with a couple other neurospicy crap and I struggle with a lot of things. One of them is misinterpreting language on top of being dyslexic.

  Ah, maybe that’s what happened then. Or maybe I suck at writing. What I tried to say was:

  1. I now understand that you love them as a person.

  2. I am happy that you love them as a person.

  3. Your first comment made it sound like you wouldn’t love them as a person.

  4. Your first comment made it sound like you would love them thanks to their disability.

  5. Loving someone thanks to their disability is gross.

  6. I was right to write my first comment the way I did because your first comment made you sound gross.

  I’m glad to agree wholeheartedly with you, and I apologise for the confusion and distress. I am also autistic, but that’s no excuse for me writing unclearly or misgendering. Thank you for being patient with me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rude⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry for the misgendering, I don’t know how I messed that up.

  I thought I was paraphrasing what you said. So if you still have the patience to help me out, could you explain how the things I said were wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rude⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s nice. I’m happy for you both.

  Your comment made it sound like you love her thanks to her disabilities, rather than because of who she is which includes her disabilities. That the disability positively affects your rating of her rather than it being an integral part of her when she is always good enough. I’m glad that isn’t the case, though I stand by my reaction being appropriate to what you wrote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yay, milkshakes!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You wouldn’t just need the fish food, you would have an aquarium large enough to keep them all alive and meet the legislative standards for wellbeing. That aquarium needs space, cleaners, inspectors, etc, which would drive up the cost considerably.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rude⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s really hot when someone distrusts you no matter how many ways you help them find to get out safely if things were to go wrong. It’s so beautiful when someone can’t shower for a month because there was a spider in there once and the shower still isn’t clean and they smell worse than rotten milk.

  Please don’t fetishize mental disability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rude⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s really hot when someone distrusts you no matter how many ways you help them find to get out safely if things were to go wrong. It’s so beautiful when someone can’t shower for a month because there was a spider in there once and the shower still isn’t clean and they smell worse than rotten milk.

  Please don’t fetishize mental disability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Michelle Obama once said when they go low we go high. Meaning the republicans go low. What would be the equivalent of the Democrats going low instead of high ground?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Expanding the number of supreme court seats to ensure a DNC-aligned majority. Fillibusters. Executive orders. Gerrymandering. Giving state rights to left-leaning territories and split states to create extra DNC-aligned senate seats. Attack ads. Restrict campaign funding for major donors so Republicans have less propaganda funding than Democrats do. Give migrants citizenship so they vote Democrat.

  Basically, use every trick they can get away with to push the Democrat agenda through and to increase the chances of Democrats winning future elections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, the moment science would show an interaction between physical entities and something else, that something else would immediately be classified as a physical entity. In a very real sense, the discovery of radioactivity involved physical entities being found to interact with an as-yet unknown, invisible, intangible force.

  If ghosts existed, the same would happen as with radioactivity. They would be researched, hypotheses on their nature would be tested, and a scientific theory would arise, and then they would be a part of the “physical world” too. And then all the mystics would be bored with ghosts because they are just incorporeal noospheric echoes of old people, as boring as neurology or biochemistry or stellar fusion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨send pics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With things like rain, deserts and humidity existing, any phone should be IP64 at least, so it’s paranoid to expect it to fail near a bath. Meanwhile many modern phones are IP67, meaning you can literally put them under water.

  So who’s the idiot here, the person using a device within its specifications so they can have more fun, or someone still stuck in the 00s ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HD 137010 b⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The main advantage of keeping accelerating when you’re at >90% of the speed of light is that it means you arrive faster in subjective time. You could take 160 years to get there and use ten times less fuel (or thereabouts), but the subjective travel time would go up by decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've wondered since I was a youngin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you being sarcastic? Because we’re still reaping the benefits of all of those. Violently gained interracial marriage got legalized at 25% public support while peacefully gained gay marriage only got legalized at 65% popular support. Peacefully won trans right are more fragile than violently won labor rights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't like the 'left liberal bias' of cited and sourced Wikipedia articles? Not a problem, our lord and savior Elon is introducing Grokipedia.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, the reality of the genocide in Gaza has a liberal bias. That sounds accurate…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Conservatives are perfectly capable of understanding positive-sum games when they expect the privileged in-group to be the benefactor. What is a labor contract, if not a positive-sum game where the corporation sucks up all the positive gain?

  Game theory as a cental tenet of the human condition is a liberal concept, which conservatives will happily discard if it doesn’t suit them. Conservatives may cloak their disapproval in the guise of liberal concerns so that they’re in a stronger debate position in liberal-dominated social circles, but what they’re really upset by is the negation of the conservative world order - a strict hierarchy with narcissistic men at the top of clearly delineated nations, struggling for dominance through pettiness and violence.

  They will accept any negative sum game, they will ruin their own livelihoods and their own lives, if only it helps sad little kings of sad little hills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon makes friends at the kinoplex⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be cool if you could get tickets for showings with either yelling or no yelling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People'⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides, better working conditions for the team means more mentally healthy workers means a better and more creative product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry for not engaging with the content, but please add paragraph breaks. kthx

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The program has the information, but that doesn’t mean the people that wrote the code felt it was worth their time to make the “upgrade” text inclusive to Linux, if they even considered the possibility of Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Full Circle⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell that to the 10% of the German population that didn’t survive WW2.