DandomRude
@DandomRude@piefed.social
- Comment on How should a news article website financially sustain itself? 1 week ago:
Hey, we’ve got social media and all that now. The memes and all the valuable info from whoever will surely take care of it.
- Comment on How should a news article website financially sustain itself? 1 week ago:
I’m afraid there is no business model that can finance quality journalism. We are currently seeing the consequences of this.
- Comment on Finally an explanation that makes sense 2 weeks ago:
Man, I only watched that for thirty seconds and had to stop right away because the orange one is such a moron:
Many, many, many years ago - hundreds of millions of years ago - people were doing business and they traded in rocks and stones and other things…
Nope, I’m out…
- Comment on Full circle. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Beautiful 2 weeks ago:
Another perspective of presumably the same event by Josh Kirby…
- Comment on we're cooked 2 weeks ago:
I couldn’t agree more, especially since, for anyone not from the US, even the most moderate White House posts are so utterly absurd that these days it’s really hard to tell the difference between satire and real-life clown show.
I can assure you that everyone is trying their best to adjust somehow, but it’s really hard given this level of absurdity.
- Comment on Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid? 2 weeks ago:
It’s kind of interesting that most people here seem to assume that attending college is synonymous with education or knowledge. It would be nice if that were the case.
However, there are also quite a few people who went to college but didn’t learn a thing there - especially in countries like the U.S. or England, where a college degree costs an absurd amount of money, this happens all the time. It’s especially common there to find children of wealthy people who are as dumb as a box of rocks, yet still manage to buy their way into high society with a college degree - they’re guaranteed to get it, regardless of whether they learn even the slightest thing at university.
The current U.S. president is a good example…
- Comment on What jobs do people from very upper-class wealthy families get? Or don't they have jobs and live off their families' wealth? 2 weeks ago:
I recently attended the wedding of a friend who married into nobility. Most of the bride’s friends, who all attended Eton, were, in one way or another, property managers.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure they can read. The store is in Germany and the text is in English, but I’m sure they realized that this is complete nonsense. I think they just ordered some cheap wrap material from somewhere and didn’t pay much attention to what was written on it.
They probably just don’t want to throw it away - which is fine. I just found it somewhat amusing and maybe a little infuriating, which is why I posted it here.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yes, that could be the case. My guess was that templates like this were collected by image-generation models, which then turn them into complete nonsense on demand. But OCR could also be a good explanation, of course.
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- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
That could certainly be the case, but it seems like a lot of effort to me to produce something like that.
Either way: Apparently, the people at the kebab shop didn’t notice what was written on it when they placed the order. They may have saved a little money on quality, but it doesn’t strike me as particularly flattering, especially since they actually pride themselves on homemade food, which tastes great.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably because of the “bunec for spreading.”
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
That could very well be the case. I hope that I’ll never find out, though…
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- Comment on This is what ignoring experts looks like. 3 weeks ago:
The US has never recognized the ICC - for precisely this reason: anyone who commits war crimes themselves naturally does not want to be prosecuted for them.
- Comment on whats the political message of Spongebob? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s true: Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of SpongeBob, and his team certainly had some socially critical intent when they created the show and its characters - after all, there are often deliberately exaggerated everyday situations and the like which address social issues in a humorous way.
But also yeah, exactly: I added /s because, while the underlying message is at least somewhat recognizable, I presented it in such a pretentious way. I was just lazing around in bed and thought I’d have a little fun with some kind of pseudo-intellectual silliness.
So /s - mainly so no one here thinks I’m some completely out-of-touch political theorist or something who actually takes this exaggerated view all too seriously :)
- Comment on whats the political message of Spongebob? 4 weeks ago:
Mr. Krabs’s relentless emphasis on profit -expressed through wage suppression, obsessive cost-cutting, and the conversion of social relations into transactions -renders him a concentrated embodiment of profit-driven logic. SpongeBob’s boundless cheerfulness and dutiful labor on the other hand present the idealized worker who performs emotional compliance as part of his job; his behavior makes visible the moral contradiction at the heart of an economy that prizes surplus extraction over workers’ wellbeing. The Krusty Krab’s daily rhythms - timed shifts, commodified leisure, scripted upselling, and constant attention to margins - show how extraction becomes normalized through routine rather than force.
The rivalry between Mr. Krabs and Sheldon J. Plankton further highlights the system’s subtly coercive nature: their ceaseless competition is less about innovation than about maintaining status atop the same extractive order, a ruthless free market theater in which two capitalists conserve and contest power while workers absorb the costs. The comedy works because it literalizes these dynamics - affection as account entry, friendship as transaction - so that the satirical clarity of the show forces viewers, even while amused, to recognize how profit as an organizing principle reshapes everyday life and renders cheerfulness itself a technique of compliance.
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- Comment on COWARDS! 4 weeks ago:
It would be great if that were the case, but unfortunately, I’m afraid it won’t last long. Gun lobbyists are already scrambling to strike deals that will sooner or later sway corrupt politicians. The fact that Western countries have still not imposed any sanctions - neither against the U.S. for its blatant violation of international law, nor against Israel for the same offense and, additionally, genocide - shows that this is a thoroughly realistic assessment.
- Comment on Shit 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, that’s a shame to hear. I’d read about his case some time ago, but now that he’s so openly siding with those responsible for precisely this kind of ridiculous abuse of the legal system, I’ve immediately lost interest - it’s inexcusable to me, because I firmly reject everything this criminal regime stands for. Besides, as I said: calling Afroman a musician would really be an exaggeration - no matter what standard you apply.
- Comment on Shit 4 weeks ago:
Afroman
- Comment on Shit 4 weeks ago:
Has he always been such a spineless traitor, or is he just sucking up to the orange pedo so he can get off the hook?
I know absolutely nothing about this clown - except for the fact that he has remarkably little talent.
Well, he’ll soon realize that the clan is even less interested in his shitty music than everyone else. What a moron…
- Comment on Dumb glasses 5 weeks ago:
It is not the people who make the laws, but their representatives, who, all too often, unfortunately do not make decisions in the people’s best interest. Nevertheless, it is indeed the people themselves who decide whether to use Twitter, speak to a voice assistant, or reveal their personal secrets in an AI chat.
Of course, it’s true that it may be appropriate to protect people from themselves, but I still think it’s also entirely appropriate to hold them accountable for their decisions and the consequences. For example, there are countless alternatives to Amazon, but people still order from there because it’s just so convenient.
In addition, people could also put pressure on their representatives if they allow themselves to be bought off by lobbyists yet again. Unfortunately, that just doesn’t happen very often.
What I’m getting at is this: None of what we’re experiencing today would be possible if people didn’t make it possible by buying products from companies that everyone knows are harmful to society.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 5 weeks ago:
I really wonder how we ended up here.
Why do people use mainstream social media? Why do they buy those stupid glasses? Why do they willingly feed corporations their most personal data?
Unfortunately, one has to conclude that it is, to a very large extent, people’s blatant stupidity that has led us to a point where there is now something like a new monarchy of unscrupulous billionaires - if not their stupidity, then at least their indifference, their apathy, and laziness. It’s just awful…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Thank you very much for the explanation :)
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Can someone explain this to me? I’m out of the loop when it comes to mainstream social media, and I suspect that’s what this is about…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I don’t feel sorry for anyone sitting there.
- Comment on Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns 1 month ago:
I consider it a certainty that Musk, as the owner of Twitter, manipulates what people see and artificially pushes content that is to his liking. There is more than enough evidence of this.
Regarding Shirley’s video, I can only say that none of what he claims to have uncovered is true—none of his assertions stand up to scrutiny, and it is simply wrong to believe that this real problem was not known and addressed long before his video. This has nothing to do with journalism.
What these people are doing is stirring up fears and exaggerating half-truths in order to deliberately give them a completely disproportionate significance that fits their extremist worldview and advances their political agenda - to this end, they also deliberately spread misinformation. In doing so, they are doing society absolutely no favors; on the contrary, they are damaging discourse based on rational arguments, which is essential for any democracy.
- Comment on Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns 1 month ago:
I just think it’s likely. I can’t name a source that would prove that the Trump administration directly commissions videos like this.
However, people like Nick Shirley, who made the “Minnesota child care center fraud video,” work in a highly dubious manner, as described in this article, which also discusses his proximity to Trump’s MAGA a bit. In addition, some MAGA influencer accounts are apparently financed from abroad or even reside outside the US. Equally suspicious is how Trump handles the press pool at the White House, replacing seasoned journalists who ask critical questions with right-wing extremist social media conspiracy theorists.
All of this leads me to conclude that this regime is using every means at its disposal to control the media discourse. In the latest edition of The Tonight Show, John Oliver provides an informative and amusing overview of how the spread of far-right ideas and the associated misinformation works on Twitter.
- Comment on Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns 1 month ago:
I think it’s quite likely that the US regime also commissioned this video and then promoted it with Musk’s help.
They have been doing this for a long time. Another prominent example of such lies, pushed with enormous media power, is the false claim that Trump won the election against Biden, which directly led to the attack on the Capitol by MAGA fanatics on January 6, 2021.
I don’t believe that MAGA strategists are overly influenced by social media in their approach. Rather, I believe that many of the apparent majority opinions presented on mainstream social media platforms are artificially created to suit their tastes with the support of people like Musk, Zuckerberg, and other media moguls, as these influential billionaires are united on their side and are well capable of accomplishing this.
