BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 11 hours ago:
Meta, no. Twitter, yes.
Twitter should be banned as well at this point. They have absolutely weaponized it, but not for government purposes, it’s for Daddy Elon’s purposes.
Meta is just allowing the hate content, they aren’t prioritizing it to all users or something. My feed certainly doesn’t contain any of it.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 11 hours ago:
Facebook and You tube haven’t been pushing Maga content, they’re just allowing it to exist. The feed itself isn’t set to give it to everyone or hide left-wing content for a default user.
Twitter is a different story, and should probably also get banned at this point. Elon is absolutely using it to push his own rhetoric.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 21 hours ago:
Companies weaponizing algorithms for profit is different than governments weaponizing algorithms for all sorts of far worse reasons.
If you can’t see that, you’re a bloody idiot.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 22 hours ago:
Please read my reply to the comment, it’s not about data ownership, it’s about weaponizing algorithms.
- Comment on I'm OOTL: Why is TikTok being banned? 22 hours ago:
It’s not about the data harvesting, please stop repeating this falsehood.
It’s about how China is controlling the algorithm for polical goals. From pushing its claim over Taiwan to interfering with global elections by showing(or hiding) speicifc content to sway peoples choices.
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 3 days ago:
Step 1, figure out if any of your parents, grandparents, or in some cases great grandparents came from somewhere else. Many countries allow near descendents to get citizenship.
- Comment on What is going on with Facebook's (Meta) new community guidelines? 6 days ago:
What’s to know?
Facebook makes money by selling ads. Ads for stuff that idiots fall for are the most profitable.
Idiots want to be able to rage at LGBTQ+ people right now, so Facebook is going to allow it so those people spend more time raging on their platform (and therefore generating more money for Facebook)
They only had the restrictions in place before because the government was going to go after them for not tamping down the hate, but the incoming government clearly won’t care in the slightest.
- Comment on If you're not attracted to anyone "in your league", but you cannot choose who you are attracted to, then what are you supposed to do? 1 week ago:
There’s a way to bring those circles together. Focus on improving yourself.
- Comment on How can I use an LLM to generate a 10k word long coherent story? 1 week ago:
We value tons of things produced by rocks we run electricity through, why is this any different than a car that was produced using a robot welder or a house constructed with a crane?
- Comment on How can I use an LLM to generate a 10k word long coherent story? 1 week ago:
You think Humans aren’t pumping out 100% derivative works all the time?
Like every shitty romance novel published. There’s only so many ways a man can woo a woman, they just change the location, randomize the set of actions from a list of things men can do to turn women on, throw in something to harm the relationship, and then come up with a set of names.
- Comment on what unbiased media sources do you use? 2 weeks ago:
Looking at stuff from out of country can help.
CBC in Canada and the BBC in the UK both cover significant US news and aren’t going to be as overtly biased as for-profit US news sources.
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 2 weeks ago:
They couldn’t. The only way this happens is if ownership rates drop well below half the population and renters vote in a political party that can wrest control back from land owners.
- Comment on Should i buy seperatec boxer briefs? 3 weeks ago:
As an adult I have worn briefs, boxers, and boxer briefs, I only wear the latter now. They are superior.
No idea on that brand, I just wear fruit of the loom.
- Comment on Are there people without handedness? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is there another term for crafted, interactive activities besides games/video games? 4 weeks ago:
It depends on what it is.
Role playing games are often such a form of entertainment.
- Comment on Is it worth investing if I can only contribute $50 a month? 4 weeks ago:
It’s honestly probably better putting that amount of money into trying to get a better job over that time period via education, or taking time off to apply for new positions, or something similar.
$6000 total investment over 10 years even with decent interest on top would be made up in less than 2 years with a $5k raise.
- Comment on If a contestant on Jeopardy! gave the correct response "Alexandre Dumas" but pronounced the surname as "dumb ass", would the response be accepted? 4 weeks ago:
Living on the west coast of Canada, where we talk about Tsunamis fairly regularly, I’ve never heard anyone add a T sound to Tsunami at the start. Only Sue-Nah-Me
- Comment on If a contestant on Jeopardy! gave the correct response "Alexandre Dumas" but pronounced the surname as "dumb ass", would the response be accepted? 4 weeks ago:
Strange conceptions?
Tsunami doesn’t start with a T sound, It’s just a strange artifact of the romanization of the Japanese sounds. It’s not exactly a S sound either. The sound it’s supposed to be just doesn’t have an english equivalent at all, so they made up something close-ish but it does a poor job of communicating that.
The one Japanese mis-pronunciation that bothers me is that Tokyo only has two Syllables, To-Kyo, not To-Ky-O like almost all western people pronounce it as. Kyoto has the same problem, It’s Kyo-to, not Ky-O-To.
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 5 weeks ago:
Some governments can do it for some industries.
Public healthcare in most developed countries is generally pretty decent, though obviously not without flaws the allocation is clearly better for society than the US private healthcare system.
For allocation of food, it’s pretty shit. Too many people want too many different things in that scenario and it has never really worked in practice.
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve advocated for LVT in the last couple of weeks even.
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 1 month ago:
Sure, but apartments at 1000 square feet shouldn’t be unaffordable in north American cities, but they are.
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 1 month ago:
Yea, the technique of the government simply owning all the land and doing all the development does work. It just can’t really be applied to any western country without a massive revolt when they confiscate all the land from private owners. The government could never afford to pay for all of it, so it would have to be seized without payment.
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 1 month ago:
Vienna is not as good a situation as it may look. Their public housing stock is only great if you can’t get into it. There are waitlists years long, and you have to live in the city already to be eligible to get on the waitlist. Private housing is still expensive.
- Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis? 1 month ago:
This is both false and true. Japan has a few things happening that are keeping rates lower, but the primary thing keeping costs low in Japan is the fact that the units are tiny. I’m not talking a little on the small side, I’m talking 200 square feet or less per person in a family home. No yards either.
If you compare Japan to the dwelling sizes of other nations, it’s just as bad or worse per square foot.
The end goal for solving housing should not be to make the rooms as small as possible. Especially in countries where land space isn’t the limiting factor.
- Comment on Where do people dance? 1 month ago:
This is actually a great question, but it doesn’t have one answer.
Usually people learn their first “dancing” at home from their parents or siblings, or maybe even at school at dances. Most of these are just simple movement to music, like a slow dance, or just a step back and forth kinda thing.
Usually people then pick up some sort of “moves” by seeing other people do them, often in popular media like tv shows, movies, music videos, etc.
This is where most people stop.
Then there’s the people who want to DANCE. And a lot of those go to dance studios or join a dance club as kids or youth, or even as an adult, and learn both different moves and full choreography for entire songs where there’s intentional patterns of moves in series.
Like most things these days, you can also do that alone with some youtube videos in your bedroom. If they need more space, they may go practice outside. Pick a move, learn it, pick another move, learn it. String them together into your own choreography, or copy the choreography from a video you found.
As you get a bit into the dance scene and are confident enough to do it in front of others, there start to be times and places you can go to show off. I’m not just talking about competitions, but even parties hosted just to cater to dancers. Often with specific music types for a specific type of dancing.
Dancing is awesome. I never got very good at it, but it’s very healthy.
- Comment on My brothers Chuwi laptop had major problems. Now he got a wal-mart gift card for the price he paid for the Chuwi. He is eyeing an HP laptop with 256gb ssd. Is that the same as a regular harddrive? 1 month ago:
How can someone who’s technically aware enough to be using lemmy have no awareness of what a SSD is.
Also, “what is a sad” in Google would have answered the question instantly.
I’m not saying it’s a stupid question, it’s a good question for a lot of people who don’t know much about computers, I’m just confused as to how it was posted here.
- Comment on Has anyone ever come up with what a Palestinian State would look like without wiping Israel of the map? If so have both sides ever been presented the offer? If not why? 1 month ago:
You’re advocating for something that isn’t realistically possible, that neither side even wants, from the comfort of a country where you all but exterminated the locals and stole 99.9% of their land and now all you want is “equal rights”.
- Comment on Has anyone ever come up with what a Palestinian State would look like without wiping Israel of the map? If so have both sides ever been presented the offer? If not why? 1 month ago:
Bare minimum, the American way.
A one state solution is a pipe dream, even Ireland couldn’t figure that shit out and their differences are much smaller.
History is littered with failed one state solutions, from the USSR to the Roman empire.
- Comment on Has anyone ever come up with what a Palestinian State would look like without wiping Israel of the map? If so have both sides ever been presented the offer? If not why? 1 month ago:
America is a settler colonialism project started by British imperialism.
Equal rights and reparations for native Americans? Give me a break, how is that in any way acceptable after slaughtering them to take an entire continent?
If that’s all that’s needed, then maybe Israel should just eject all Palestinians entirely into Egypt, Jordan, etc, then send them a gift basket for a housewarming in their new location. They wouldn’t even need to kill anywhere close to the 95% of native Americans that died during the takeover of North America.
- Comment on Has anyone ever come up with what a Palestinian State would look like without wiping Israel of the map? If so have both sides ever been presented the offer? If not why? 1 month ago:
Yea, that’s what happens when your country chooses to support the wrong side in a world war and get stomped so bad the entire country collapses and is redistributed to the winners. Then Britain suggests using it’s chunk to house a group of people that literally just went through the holocaust and needed a place (and it just so happened they had a historical claim to much of that area anyways)
So yes, pushing people out was part of the plan.
You act like this hasn’t happened before, yet you(probably American based on your posting) live on land that was taken by force in an even more violent way from the native population. You planning on leaving and heading back to Europe anytime soon? Or are we only trying to stop new situations but old ones are allowed to persist?