blackbelt352
@blackbelt352@lemmy.world
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 2 days ago:
Nope. I pick and choose which lenses seem most appropriate to any given scenario. Ive got quite a few lenses to choose from. Most of the time my preferred lens is owners vs workers. Unfortunately that lens doesn’t really provide much when you are clearly more vocal about the education standards of brown people in politics than the education standards of white people in politics.
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 2 days ago:
Nothing says “totally not racist and totally not defending Republicans” like bringing up Africana Studies on a post about how Republicans are failing at making the most bland DSA policies sound like “ooh scary communism!”
I’ve seen you uncritically accept the narrative of “parents rights” from right wingers, or continue to obfuscate it behind the “iTs AbOuT eThIcS iN gAmEs JoUrNaLiSm” type obfuscation.
My ears perk up because I have been seeing the same barely concealed strategies for the last 70+ years, the specific words might change but the meanings certainly haven’t and don’t need to be Lee Atwater to understand the dogwhistles and point them out.
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 3 days ago:
Your comment history is public moron. You continuously espouse right-wing talking points, you’ve expressed how you would be fine with most people on Lemmy dying, youre constantly bringing up racist dogwhistles, the reciepts are there, you can’t/didn’t hide them. so as I said before, go recreate the events of Berlin April 30th 1945.
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 3 days ago:
Ive opened up history books, and you’re not denying it. So if you would kindly go recreate the events of Berlin April 30, 1945.
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 3 days ago:
From the guy who’s entire comment history is reactionary right wing shit. If it sounds like a nazi, and goosesteps like a nazi, its a nazi.
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 4 days ago:
Ok fascist.
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 4 days ago:
What opinions did you bring? The only thing you brought to the discussion was Mamdani’s Africana Studies degree, as if that was in any way relevant to the discussion. You’ve brought nothing of substance to the discussion and at this point we’ve completely gotten off topic of the original post.
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 5 days ago:
Bullshit, lemmy is not a monolith. Believe me you can find conservatives on lemmy, they have their own cesspool communities here, go slop it up there if you don’t like conservatives either.
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 6 days ago:
Then what will I find you doing? Because going after brown mayors breaking from the corporate favoring policy seems to be in your wheelhouse.
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 6 days ago:
His policies can’t be any worse than the trickle down bullshit we’ve been attempting and failing with for the 40 years.
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 1 week ago:
But for some reason youre hyperfocused on El-Sayed and Mandani and not the overall irrelevant qualifications. And clearly Mamdani’s policies are actually working, the budget is balanced. And explain to me how the fuck Mandani, a mayor of a city, has any effect on the federal reserve’s monetary printing policy.
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 1 week ago:
Ok and? Most lawyers dont have degrees in economics and yet congress is overwhelmingly made up of lawyers. But you’re not crying about congress being woefully lacking in economics degrees.
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 1 week ago:
Then what was the point of bringing up the Africana studies?
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 1 week ago:
Its working pretty good for Mamdani.
- Comment on There’s a lot of confusion about what democratic socialists want, and that’s fair. Even within our group, there are differences among us. 1 week ago:
They’re trying to fear monger. They have their constituents trained to short circuit and hate anything they label as communist/socialist. Its like that Fox News screenshot with all the barely centrist very normal stuff that “lEfTiStS” want to do.
- Comment on When y'all gonna learn 1 week ago:
I start off with the logic, and when they double down on bullshit and toxicity I just keep spotlighting the terrible rhetoric with no substance. In a “like damn dude, your 3rd grade teacher would be disappointed in your writing” way.
- Comment on When y'all gonna learn 1 week ago:
Its not about converting the crackpots, its about pushing back on insane bullshit so others are less likely to become crackpots.
- Comment on It'll be ok. Nobody's going to judge you. 2 weeks ago:
I’d say Quaternions are necessary purely because they avoid gimbal locking common with 3 axis Euler rotations.
I know in Blender all other rotation options are really just quaterinions under the hood. But an advantage Euler rotations have over quaternions is continuous rotation. I can set 2 key frames with linear extrapolation and have them just continue along each axis forever. Everything quaternion ideally should be bounded to the 4d unit circle.
- Comment on No ChatGPT for sexy time 4 weeks ago:
Right wingers angry at culture war nonsense and make it their entire personality.
- Comment on Just as Nolan intended 4 weeks ago:
UMIN?
- Comment on Could Archie Bunker or Sanford and Son be made today? 5 weeks ago:
There was that one recreation episode they did on live TV with Woody Harleson from a few years ago I think?
- Comment on Could Archie Bunker or Sanford and Son be made today? 5 weeks ago:
Exactly, word for word? No not really but a lot of the politically relevant themes the shows had are disappointingly still relevant today, Archie uses the same gotchas as an excuse to be a racist pos and his son uses the same appeals to humanity and doing the right thing progressives have been using. Its like going back and watching West Wing, we’re still dealing with the same ineffectual liberals who get moral victories while losing the mandates of power and bible thumping conservatives making the lives of everyone who isnt a straight white dude a living hell.
- Comment on Where did the conspiracy theory that America was behind 9/11? Was there any evidence to back up these claims (real evidence)? 5 weeks ago:
So I’ve been on the inside of a small crisis while at work and can easily see how the mixture of hubris and mistakes and events out of our control and rushing to present the most positive picture in the aftermath and take advantage of the events.
I’m working on an internal project, a recognition platform, with a few others at work that hasn’t been put out there yet. We just finished setting it up on the technical side, set up a bunch of programs on the platform, got user data uploads and single sign on set up. We figured since nobody really knows about it yet or can find it anywhere, we didnt have to worry about people signing in and using it before the launch. Well, there was an automated email that went out to all the managers from a platform we haven’t announced yet and a few people start signing in and using it before we’re fully ready for launch. We scramble to shut everything down, and send out a message out to everyone who got the automated email basically doing our best to save face and after the dust settled, we discussed what went wrong, where our mistakes were, and what we learned, we did come out of the other side knowing the new platform did work and was very easy to use.
On the inside it was basically a comedy of errors that we gained some nice insights from. From the outside I can easily see a conspiracy minded person being like “they purposefully leaked the whole thing to test if they could get away with it and preplant the ideas in our heads.”
I really think my minor crisis experience is closer to what happened on 9/11 than some mustache twirling villainous conspiracy with secret cabals micromanaging the entire thing. I think not taking the initial reports seriously enough by 2 separate presidents, led to a major crisis unfolding, and the aftermath being a lot of useful consent manufacturing to pass a ton of draconian legislation.
- Comment on Valid point 1 month ago:
Cards also need to take quite a bit of damage before they stop working too.
- Comment on The end of civilization costs $5 1 month ago:
No. You need to freeze in in an insulated container with only one side exposed so it all freezes in 1 direction. Impurities get pushed to the opposite side and you are left with clear ice.
- Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened? 2 months ago:
Its the same kind of arms race that cybersecurity is going through, one side creates defenses, the attackers (all color hats) figure out bypasses and exploits, the defenders patch out the exploits, attackers find new exploits, defenders keep reacting, attackers keep finding new exploits, and the cycle keeps continuing. In an attempt to break the arms race, the defenders are going to turn to legislation to make engaging in the arms race illegal unless you’re certified.
Side note but I’m not making a value judgement on either side, there are defenders protecting bad people and attackers who are justified in their attacks and have released important information out to the public, but protecting your own information from malicious attackers is also super important, stuff like login info to critical infrastructure systems or your financial details so bad actors dont open up a dozen credit cards in your name and destroy your financial reputation needed to survive in this world (fuck credit scores but they are unfortunately part of our reality.)
Same sort of deal with copyright holders vs pirates, copyright holders are trying to protect what is legally theirs, and pirates are trying to bypass that. (Again no moral arguments here, this is just the nature of the conflict). Pirates gain access, copyright holders create more hurdles to the content, pirates gain access again, copyright does the same thing. Eventually they just keep throwing more legislation at the war to make privacy becomes increasingly expensive through the courts. At the end of the day, unlike cybersecurity, this piracy war wouldn’t exist if every piece of media created was commodified for massive profit. Steam is evidence of that.
- Comment on “You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes” 3 months ago:
Its a narrative consulting company based in Canada that right wing chuds think is ruining games by forcing wokeism into games because Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League was a bad game.
- Comment on “You are the most hated demographic at game events.” A major Japanese indie game showcase is waging war on “unsolicited advice dudes” 3 months ago:
Nah you’re good, I have a feeling there is significant overlap between “unsolicited advice dudes” and chuds who screech about Sweet Baby.
- Comment on Ex-Overwatch Director Says Tracer's Butt Was Never "Nerfed" 4 months ago:
Not really even that, they just changed her from a classic femme fatale pose to a literal pinup pose.
- Comment on I can SHOW you the WORLD 4 months ago:
Not quite. Mickey Mouse is still a trademark of Disney, but the actual animation of Steamboat Willie is in the public domain, so using the mouse in a way that promotes brand confusion is a no go but using Steamboat Willie is perfectly fine.