gAlienLifeform
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- Comment on It's all connected 1 week ago:
And what does some random painter have to do with anything
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 1 week ago:
Kind of off topic, but this just activated one of my trap card rants,
The problem is not that we’re a litigious society, the problem is we make litigation artificially costly and time consuming by restricting the number of lawyers and judges we create and only trying to address the bottleneck that creates by making courts harder to access (e.g. increasing filing fees, giving defendants more ability to force things into arbitration kangaroo courts, etc.).
Especially in light of how our courts have been just making up bullshit to let cops/soldiers/Republicans do whatever the fuck they since circa 1968/2001/2025, you can’t tell me that people need as many years of education to practice law as we require in this country.
Also, private bar associations are fucking weird, feudal era anti-democratic bullshit that ought to get replaced with proper public licensing agencies that are accountable to democratic systems and accessible to the public
/end rant
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 2 weeks ago:
en masse
That sounds wonderful to me, I just want that mass of righteous people to write down all of their ideas so future generations can continue their work even after the fervor has died down. I call those ideas laws and regulations and the ongoing spirit of that mass of righteous people a government, but I’m not too attached to semantics.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 2 weeks ago:
Until they monopolize their industry, which is something they’re always going to be trying to do by their very nature as for profits and which has already essentially happened here
A government can be influenced if it is transparent and democratic, which can be ensured if they’ve got good bylaws that are being scrupulously enforced. Like, if you have decisionmakers a) accountable to free and fair elections (whether they’re elected directly or appointed by elected people) holding b) regular and public meetings where c) outside organizations can raise disputes and get them decided under d) neutral procedures that are published in advance and that every party has equal opportunity to understand and take advantage of, and e) if those decisions and the reasoning behind them are also published and cited as precedent to be reinforced or overturned in subsequent decisions, then I really think the rest takes care of itself.
And I think we had a lot of this figured out when we got done fighting totalitarian regimes in the 1940s and turned around and passed the Administrative Procedure Act, but conservatives keep adding loopholes and trying to drag all of us back to feudalism and monarchies.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 2 weeks ago:
I think it is possible to have a government that functions in this way on a long term basis. I don’t think the same can be said of for profit companies.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, payment processing is among the many many many industries that ought to be nationalized so they can be administered in a transparent and democratic manner (see also, healthcare education housing electricity internet etc.)
There’s just too much opportunity to use it to manipulate markets and oppress minority viewpoints for it to remain in private hands imo
- Comment on Gallium 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, like Andrea Manafort said, they just keep showing up and eating the lobster
- Comment on Gallium 3 weeks ago:
That guy looks like he just had a rush of blood to the head
- Comment on Basically 1 month ago:
Fair enough, but, like, 100 archers against 1000 people ends poorly for the archers if the people are willing to take some casualties, and a keep wall is only good so long as nobody inside decides to unlock a door or people outside can’t get a ladder set up somewhere for a few minutes
Yes, there have been successful revolutions since the 1850s, but they’re definitely a lot harder than they used to be, and I think they now really do require some sort of defection from the ruling classes or military over to the opposition in a way that you didn’t really need for, say, the French revolution, where an angry mob of peasant women could just force their way into the kings castle and tell him how things were gonna be going forward
I’m not saying it’s impossible, and I’m definitely not saying people should give up protesting all the bullshit going on right now, but I do think meta social contract between the rulers and the ruled has changed a lot since the 18th century because of technological progress
- Comment on Basically 1 month ago:
why people aren’t gathering in mobs
Well, it happened about a hundred years after your time, but there’s this thing called the Gatling gun that got invented that really became a hard counter to angry mobs trying to storm things, and once that stopped being an option they just kinda stopped listening to us
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 2 months ago:
“Your screens should be nicer to you than this one. Join Lemmy!”
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 2 months ago:
Sometimes, I’ve started seeing newer ones in some places where there is no mute button
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 2 months ago:
Hmm, maybe someone could make some stickers with anti-advertising/anti-capitalist slogans on them for the next person to see specifically for this purpose
- Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns defends public media during visit to Houstonwww.houstonpublicmedia.org ↗Submitted 2 months ago to movies@lemm.ee | 1 comment
- Comment on Listening to some old albums while reviewing my retirement savings 4 months ago:
I love the concept and these song choices, I’m too lazy to make my own playlist but here are a few things you might dig
open.spotify.com/track/1mCAo03iRVykBr1HObOePI?con…
open.spotify.com/track/56CDeVdoVjGbxfAddAnAPh?con…
- Comment on The other shoe drops, and this time it is covered in dog shit 4 months ago:
- Comment on Forget politics and enjoy your life 4 months ago:
Dang it all, what is with all the intelligent comments here? I have been waiting all day for someone to make some stupid argument so I could go “heh, looks like you just took a side, hypocrite much” and then you go off and write something I can’t even jokingly disagree with
- Comment on Forget politics and enjoy your life 4 months ago:
Life is easier when you don’t take sides
No it isn’t
- Comment on Its so joever 5 months ago:
And, like, is taking good media hosted on shitty sites and rehosting it on a better one supposed to be a bad thing?
- Comment on Andrew Jarecki Is Back with Jaw-Dropping Prison Exposé ‘The Alabama Solution’ Out of Sundance 6 months ago:
- Andrew Jarecki Is Back with Jaw-Dropping Prison Exposé ‘The Alabama Solution’ Out of Sundancewww.indiewire.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago to movies@lemm.ee | 1 comment
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 6 months ago:
Kind of off topic, but I’ve just gotta add that the safety shutters over the positive and negative terminals that only open when the ground pin (which is longer than the others on the plug) is inserted up top is brilliant, it basically makes short circuiting impossible. Electrical outlet design is one of the few things I’ll concede the UK does better than the rest of the world.
- Comment on Retribution would be not pulling out his teeth but his testicles 6 months ago:
Getting people to talk about the headline is going to be really difficult, I wish I had some kind of metaphor or idiom for this situation
- Comment on Dunkin' added achievements to their mobile app 6 months ago:
It gets even worse, the federal government now only accepts applications for asylum through a mobile app
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
You know you can delete your posts, right? You could spare us your idiocy if you were actually sorry for it.
- Comment on Caught in 4K 7 months ago:
I don’t think they really wanted a sequel to that movie, I think they were just saying it teased a bunch of interesting stuff in its trailer but then never actually did any of that stuff in its plot, probably because the producers wanted to make everyone buy a ticket to a sequel that never happened, which is just another facet of how the film industry’s obsession with sequels and fictional universes is leading to the downward spiral they talk about in their other comment
It honestly feels like this post was put together by an LLM that just saw the word “sequel” in two different sentences but didn’t have any ability to read context and figured it must be ironic
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- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
An American security contractor and a Chinese embassy employee are at a bar. The American says, “I gotta say, your propaganda is impressive. You sure know how to keep your people in line.”
“Oh, you’re too gracious,” the embassy worker says. “And besides, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda.”
The contractor chokes on his drink and gives his friend a bewildered look.
“What are you talking about? There’s no propaganda in America.”
- New documentary, "The Strike," shows how a peaceful prison uprising ended torture in Pelican Bay prisonmissionlocal.org ↗Submitted 9 months ago to movies@lemm.ee | 0 comments