PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@anarchist.nexus
Alt account of PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org for when SDF Lemmy is doing it’s monthly dive 😆.
- Comment on meirl 3 hours ago:
Hell yeah! Glad to hear you’re doing better.
- Comment on meirl 3 hours ago:
Welcome back 😁
- Comment on Lawful evil 1 week ago:
Nah I don’t have any respect for business owners either lol, petty capitalists are still capitalists and therefore need to be smashed like capitalists. I’m AmeriKKKan and I worked in food service for seven years. Tipping culture is ingrained enough here, and legally enshrined, that even petty capitalists tip as a social expectation.
- Comment on Lawful evil 1 week ago:
If it was my employer then would I even be allowed to give a tip?
I mean it depends on your employer. But anecdotally, yes, business and corporate purchasers usually did tip us, although nowhere near the usual 10-20% of the price expected of smaller purchases. Actually, they would often tip in advance with a credit card payment. (Cash tips were quietly preferred but I was always thankful for any tips.)
Which then leaves an interesting idea. Why 20% tip instead of 20% more food?
Reputation. Makes your company look bad if you don’t tip at all.
If they are paying I would probably spend what ever I can to max out the limit.
I mean if you’re trying to “max out” some limit, then simply max out (limit)/(100% + (tip)%) with (tip) > 0 and give the driver (limit), and your employer should understand what you’re doing. I would fix (tip) with my employer before I set up the order. Or, tip out of your own pocket.
- Comment on Lawful evil 1 week ago:
Let’s finish what I said:
don’t point your frustration at the proletarians who rely on your tips to survive.
I’m not saying to never ever point your frustration at proletarians. Sometimes we are assholes. I am absolutely frustrated at proletarians who deliberately make both of two choices: (1) get food from restaurants, which is an unnecessary luxury one can choose to live without, and (2) choose not to subsidize the delivery driver’s wage, which is unfortunately the social contract which has been imposed upon us. If you did only one of these things, I wouldn’t care.
The fact that is composes most of your wages is not the fault of the Patreons coming to the establishment who are also required to pay ridiculously high prices on low quality food, and then also tip for the right to do so.
No, patrons literally do not have to go to restaurants.
Tip is meant as extra on a job done well behind expectations.
Not trying to be contentious but I have to say it: this is capitalist brainworms. This is how capitalists want us to think. This is their narrative, but it’s not what is enshrined in law. What’s enshrined in law is that you can legally refuse to pay a driver for a portion of their services.
One last thing, what’s so special about the driver, waiter and bartender that puts them in the tip-getting status? What about the cooks, busboys, cleaning, host/hostess etcetc
Yeah I do not agree with the existence of tipping culture. It should be abolished. Unfortunately, tipping culture is legally enshrined in AmeriKKKa, so ignoring it is tantamount to withholding a driver’s pay. Where I worked, drivers were paid less than inside staff to account for the fact that we got tips. This is an unacceptable practice, but it is enshrined in law. Everyone on this godforsaken planet deserves equal access to the fruits of labor.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
the models themselves are trained on something
Yeah I’m not claiming that the models were trained ethically. Like they basically scraped the entire Internet, definitely including some data it’s unethical to include. Thus, “stealing” isn’t really the right framework. It’s violations of privacy or other rights.
What you get when you download an AI model is basically a big set of numbers. IMO the question is: what are the consequences of using these numbers?
In my view, the best, but ultimately unconvincing argument against using these numbers is that they were generated by an unethical process, so using these specific numbers constitutes an endorsement of the process that created them. As an anti-capitalist, I fundamentally oppose almost every process that created almost every product I have ever used, simply by virtue of the fact that everything I have ever owned has been produced by private firms stealing proletarian labor. If I applied this principle consistently, I would simply starve to death and be completely marginalized and forgotten by capitalist society. Thus, I am willing, to some extent, to live in contradiction of the heuristic that we shouldn’t use products derived from unethical processes. In particular, I believe that local LLMs, despite their ethically sketchy training, have sufficient technical utility for users to offset the harm already incurred. So I think there is absolutely an argument to slow down training of LLM models, especially since I suspect that the system you build a model into is just as important as the LLM “black box” itself (e.g. Claude uses a Linux container and SymPy in the background)…but for users, I don’t believe the argument to stop inference, i.e. using the numbers, is as strong.
I myself will still not like generative AI, simply because of all the shit and more, but also how damaging it has been for the creative space
Honestly, yeah I really am not interested in using LLMs for creative purposes. I only ever use LLMs for technical work, and I really only want to listen to music and consume art arranged by sentient beings.
- Comment on Lawful evil 1 week ago:
I mean okay, but don’t point your frustration at the proletarians who rely on your tips to survive. Like yeah tipping culture is bullshit, but it’s not imposed by your servers and delivery drivers; it’s imposed by capitalists and their demonic governments. We’d rather just get a living wage right out the gate, but that’s literally not an option.
Then you get more crying about how much the hospitality sector is struggling
Not our fault. Not your fault either. It’s the fault of the capitalists who are ruining our world and pitting us against each other.
- Comment on Lawful evil 1 week ago:
I mean I guess not but like I think it is absolutely possible that at some point in your life, you might spend $300, or perhaps someone else’s $300 (e.g. your employer) to get catering.
- Comment on Lawful evil 1 week ago:
Also, you know, I won’t spend 300 quid on 1 meal.
Parties tho
- Comment on Lawful evil 1 week ago:
Fuck that, I would rather not participate at all.
Like this is literally what I wanted when I worked in pizza delivery for seven years, literally just do pickup if you can’t afford to tip. And tbh I don’t order delivery anymore for that exact reason.
- Comment on Lawful evil 1 week ago:
I mean maybe if you tipped us we wouldn’t have to be so vindictive 🤷
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Dont use the big tech’s stealing machine.
Would you oppose this being done with locally run LLMs whose models are open weight (preferably open source) driven by clean energy? (You don’t need a data center to do inference.) Because I don’t oppose “stealing” information when its proletarians doing the “stealing”. E.g., I’ve “stolen” literally thousands of textbooks and papers with LibGen and Anna’s Archive and SciHub, and I will never ever ever feel guilty about that.
Because if your opposition is to increased corporate control, then I get your frustration. I’m absolutely against the corpos controlling… literally fucking anything, but unfortunately they do control the compute these days, so in the short term these are the conditions we have to plan around. So this seems like using the capitalists’ tools against them. It’s obviously not as good as taking the capitalists’ tools away from them, but it’s something.
If you want to use this AI generated alternative of adobe because adobe is horrible, then I understand you…
Actually I don’t plan on using this particular tool. I typically just use GIMP or Krita since I’m not a professional, and I still want to see those ecosystems succeed. If anything, I hope it will convince GIMP to give users choices for GIMP to work like Adobe. I’m speaking up because in some circumstances, I absolutely do not oppose using or creating vibe-coded software from a technical perspective.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Stealing Adobe’s work is good, actually. Let’s steal Adobe’s everything!
- Comment on Meow 🐈 1 week ago:
I refuse to pet your cat because I’m autistic and I have a texture issue with fur 😅. Your cat will get my love in other ways ❤️. All cats are beautiful.
- Comment on They never even notice 1 week ago:
I always notice, but if I told you to remake it correctly that would probably be seen as super rude, so 🤷
- Comment on What if? WHAT IF?! 1 week ago:
Seriously I absolutely do not understand putting your child’s safety into someone else’s hands for shits and giggles. Like I’m honored you trust me that much, but…maybe don’t trust my feeble body lol 😆
- Comment on 103°F in Los Angeles all week 2 weeks ago:
wintern’t
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, nah. None of us have houses and most are in the same position I’m in: I will have to work until I die. There’s no retirement in my future.
Me too lol, I’m a Zillenial.
As I have said to others: just because we suffer doesn’t mean we learn anything from our suffering. Give us a few years to turn 35 and you will see capitalists our age pulling up the ladder just like our parents did, although we’ll probably do it using pseudo-inclusive language and pseudo-therapy speak.
If anything I’ll just be moving further left as I get older.
Yeah me too, and I absolutely believe you, but we’re leftists in a leftist space. The rest of our cohort are not like us yet. In particular, we need to teach our cohort a class conscious analysis of the world, and make this proletarian class conscious position unignorable by the capitalist class.
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks ago:
I think you stopped reading where you quoted me. I am absolutely not denying that things are bad for Zoomers or even that the vast majority of us are fucked…but the ones who survive are less likely to consider themselves victims of capitalism.
Like if we don’t learn to turn our criticism inwards, and we don’t fight against the system so at least more anti-capitalists and victims of capitalism survive into old age…we’re just gonna end up reproducing “Boomer” abuses. Yes things are worse for us, but we’re so fucking callous, just as callous as the people who raised us, just as uncritical and ignorant as the people who raised us, that we’re on track to reproduce all their bullshit as a group.
Just because you suffer doesn’t mean you learn. As a corollary, just because you suffer more doesn’t mean you learn more. Zoomers are suffering without learning. Lots of Boomers also suffered, and many were killed by capitalism in silence. You’re dealing with a subset of Boomers who is increasingly likely not to feel like victims of capitalism.
I guarantee you, wait for Zoomers to turn 35 and you’ll see our true colors. We’re not fucking special. Look at our non-reaction (as a collective!) to Epstein; look at how we still work for these monsters, still pay taxes to these monsters, still door-knock for these monsters’ politicians, still fight in these monsters’ wars, still join these monsters’ police departments. We’re just as capable of being monsters as our parents, and just like in the past, the system will reward the most abusive among us.
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks ago:
I mean it probably would be more productive to add “MAGA Boomers” (or more accurately “Capitalist Boomers") in an effort to make it clearer whom your ire is with.
- Comment on My people need me 2 weeks ago:
To the Boomers who are chill and hate capitalism as much as we do: I’m sorry you’re getting blamed for the politicians’ actions.
To the Zoomers and other young people: I don’t see any reason why we’re not gonna end up in the same boat as the Boomers when we grow old. You are not unlearning the capitalist distortions passed onto you by your elders; you take defense contractor, finance, police, and military work with just as much ignorance as prior generations; you still do not oppose imperialism; and you know about climate change and Epstein and you still refuse to take up arms against capitalists and the State. (Like the Boomers, if you do not fit this description, my ire is not with you!)
Frankly, it’s gonna be just like the Boomers: the good ones are being crushed by capitalism in silence and forgotten. If you’re wondering where most of the good Boomers are, check the cemeteries. Same with Zoomers. I see it happen every day. And when we do grow old, the vast majority of us are gonna mostly be conservative weirdos with rich backgrounds who abused their way to the top in a system designed to reward only abuse, because the rest of us will have been killed off.
And for everyone: your generation is not special. Every generation has their own unique challenges, some are harder than others, but you are not somehow magically exempted from developing the same oppressive behaviors of previous generations unless and until you spend the time unlearning capitalist distortions and obliterating the systems that instill capitalist distortions.
Give Zoomers a few more years and I guaran-fucking-tee you our politicians are gonna be milquetoast neoliberals just like the rest because we haven’t actually learned a goddamn thing from our suffering, because suffering doesn’t teach you shit, and because Zoomer capitalists are still capitalists and therefore exert bourgeois class solidarity over any solidarity they might have with their generation or any other subset of the proletariat.
- Comment on Fight! Fight! Fight! 2 weeks ago:
This meme must be targeted at USians, where the Democrats, the left wing of liberal capitalism, are referred to as “the Left” as part of liberal capitalists’ war against anarchism, Marxism, and other class-conscious perspectives. Because elsewhere in the world, the Left (where they exist) are generally the ones who are fighting the people distracting and dividing us (the capitalists).
- Comment on Lmao 3 weeks ago:
L fat-shaming. We don’t need to fat-shame people to say Death to AmeriKKKa.
- Comment on "I don't read my replies" 4 weeks ago:
I care about your stupid fucking bio ❤️
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 5 weeks ago:
Laws protect the rich and bind the poor. The law is operating exactly as intended.
- Comment on That'll be $100k per credit hour, please. 5 weeks ago:
Is the issue the “varieity” misspelling? Because otherwise this kind of email is normal and you probably should take those modules seriously.
- Comment on SBA #228 Sins and Virtues 1 month ago:
Because in the original scene, Squidward is kinda being a dick.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Nah they’re really not. I don’t give a single shit about someone’s age. There are awesome people and monsters and all in between of all ages. In particular, my age group (Zillenials) is full of fucking monsters who refused to learn the lessons of previous generations of anti-capitalists and anti-imperialists, and like previous generations, the good people are more likely to be destroyed by the system.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That’s a bit much 😕
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Image fuck off
