Semjeza
@Semjeza@fedinsfw.app
- Comment on 15 hours ago:
Uncertain, as no one knows about the causes or condition before it.
That’s the nice thing about science, it just says what the evidence shows and is happy to label the rest: TBC.
- Comment on Is the world more volatile now or is it just the abundance of news? 1 day ago:
- Comment on Is the world more volatile now or is it just the abundance of news? 1 day ago:
It’s not that it’s more volatile, but that the volatility is coming closer to home (and 24 hour news amplifies it).
South America is at its most peaceful in about 100 years, South East Asia currently only has 1 war ongoing, while slightly up from 0 in 2010, is still lower than most of the last 100 years.
Africa is more stable overall and developing better for most people, with some exceptions.
Although if you mean volatile as “the US is no longer sure it can curbstomp any likely military opposition”, then yes. That is now true due to other nations’ improvement, and changes to asymmetrical warfare capabilities.
- Comment on Lawyers ‘Scared’ to Do Their Jobs After Charges Against Palestine Action Barrister 4 days ago:
“Shadow” means you had the role for the opposition.
So she was the Attorney General for the opposition party, rather than the incumbent.
Former means she is now no longer an attorney general of any sort.
Yes, it is a great title and apologies if explaining it lessens the magic.
- Comment on Britain ‘Does Not Have Enough Water’ for Planned AI Data Centre Boom 1 week ago:
Unironically yes, I think that’s their plan.
Micro fiefdoms for themselves and their immediate descendents and fuck the rest. A power structure and loyal caste to be their knights/enforcers.
There’s a good reason why many lefty thinking heads are calling this techno-feudalism, and comparing TESCREL ideas to medieval ideologies.
- Comment on Britain ‘Does Not Have Enough Water’ for Planned AI Data Centre Boom 1 week ago:
Or even essentials.
The capitalist class’ll charge for air as soon as they can.
- Comment on Why did/does Oman not raise a stink about Iran also closing their half of the strait? 2 weeks ago:
I think the reporters at House of Saud mentioned that Oman had been consulted by Iran near the start of the conflict, and Iran’s stated goal is Oman and Iran together control shipping through the strait.
Equally though, Oman has been pretty content to sit back and not draw the ire of either side which is sensible enough too. Besides, for a smaller Middle Eastern nation it’s not as if its government openly supporting either side would win it much favour.
- Comment on About what people are talking to each other nowadays 2 weeks ago:
LLMs tend to be synchophantic and can’t judge or give feedback effectively.
Plus they can fail at tasks as simple as telling me how many kids Queen Victoria had.
They never hold their own line, but cave and bow. Which in turn makes the one inputting to it weaker.
- Comment on About what people are talking to each other nowadays 2 weeks ago:
Abiut whatever they like.
It strengthens the psychic net of the world that will protect against the potential TREACL summoned apocalypse.
- Comment on Gary Stevenson: 'Tax wealth or we'll return to the feudal age' 3 weeks ago:
And also bizzarely attached to Labour.
Even his chats with Polanski seem to get ended with a “come and talk to me Labour-daddy and I’ll play with you instead, he’s not my first choice” attitude.
- Comment on Copper 3 weeks ago:
Many folks in higher education in the UK have been bemoaning a generation of genii lost to business and the City who put their talents and creativity to the good of making profit rather than inventing and humanity.
Many more have their funding and direction tilted to capital, too.
- Comment on The de-banking of the Canary is a warning. If they can silence us, they can silence anyone. 3 weeks ago:
The huge difference in how Kanye and Brittany were/are treated needs to be a bigger deal.
- Comment on The de-banking of the Canary is a warning. If they can silence us, they can silence anyone. 3 weeks ago:
Failed to even read the post, let alone the linked article I see.
- Comment on If Sodom and Gomorrah were real. How bad were they that god had to come down and smite them? Are they any comparison to today's society? 3 weeks ago:
If they were real has no implication on the reality of any diety (or deities) let alone the Abrahamic God, Yahweh.
The act that saved Lot was letting two angels rape his daughters, so anywhere that opposes rape by those in power fails the test I guess.
- Comment on Revealed: Farage’s £5m gift reported to UK crime agency over money laundering concerns 3 weeks ago:
Binface can only end up 2nd or 1st in this race unless a lot of new random randomers join.
- Comment on Are atoms, protons, electrons, neutrons, and cells (in a human body) in a constant state of flux? If so what is the measurement we have for them and do they at one point have a certain state of speed? 4 weeks ago:
To add for others, electrons orbiting is a convenient assumption - really they’re more a delocalised cloud of negative charge that exists in various bits of space known as “orbitals”.
Not orbiting in the way we’d understand it from planets.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Capitalists have capital, which they invest in legislative capture to create a more favourable environment for capital.
Its capitalism unrestricted, since there is no restriction on what capital can do once enough has been accumulated.
- Comment on Why are there so many more mtf trans vs ftm trans people?? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it’s true, but I think I heard that in terms of transitions in the last decade, FtM outnumbers MtF.
- Comment on What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe? 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely should.
But the EU would like to continue to benefit from US military power and espionage while getting to pretend it is more moral. If the EU were to more overtly break with the US it would have to dramatically reformulate its neo-colonial economics.
- Comment on What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, they should.
Trumo’s threat to impose new, higher, tariffs on EU for starting to legislate against US tech monopolies and support local startups show how it would go.
But better to put it forwards under the chicken taco and make headway, and then future US leaders (if any) would have to make open moves against environmental measures.
- Comment on Hbd 2 uu 5 weeks ago:
East Asian, China.
So her given name is “Youyou”, pronounced Yoyo (flat high tone).
- Comment on Growth 1 month ago:
- Comment on Growth 1 month ago:
- Comment on Growth 1 month ago:
The “bi” is for both homosexual and heterosexual relations. Not gender itself.
- Comment on Direct Action Is Now Terrorism 1 month ago:
… But the suffragettes were terrorists.
When states murder and wage war to get their way, don’t let them convince you that terrorism is always wrong. Because they’ll never say the state’s violence is wrong.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Imperialism always comes home to roost.
The technologies and techniques used to oppress the other get justified and moralised, and then get deployed in the metropole against the working classes.
- Comment on UK minister defends changes to student loans as criticism mounts 1 month ago:
Could always just do away with loans and make higher education free for the users.
This paid method hasn’t really helped much, has it and now if they’re saying the loans are going to loose too much money… Why not cut out the middle steps and just fund universities?
- Comment on The Russian Neo-Nazi Network Pushing ‘White Lives Matter’ Division in Britain – Promoted by Tommy Robinson 1 month ago:
Really?
Cause I think we have a track record in the UK of not caring, regardless of evidence of foreign backing. The proof of the extent that Farage’s various poor excuses for a piss up party had Trumpist as well as Russian backing was huge, but never seemed to get in their way.
- Comment on The Projected Truth 1 month ago:
Post-modernism denies grand narratives and puts forward that people will deceive themselves for their own benefit.
And indeed that values and ideals are socially contracted, so what is “Good” will vary across space-time.Not that there is no Truth.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
About 20.
More if you include oral, manual, and the like.
