RIotingPacifist

@RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is sort of how putting hits on people actually works or has in certain scenes.

  You don’t sign a contract or put out a bounty (unless you’re the state, that’s illegal), you just let everyone know that you’d hypothetically pay whomever killed the person you want offing.

  As a bonus you can then say you were just joking (ofc that risks you being offed too)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Civil wars require 2 sides capable of taking power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People forget that labor unions were a major factor in Tiananmen Square, US labor unions are not a credible threat to take over so don’t need to be put down as brutally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would you do if you knew your neighbor was an ICE/DHS agent?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not going to directly confront them, but I would be sharing his movements & address as widely as I’m legally allowed to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  if people can’t say “fuck” or “lick the outlet” anymore.

  People can say fuck though, I’m not sure where the idea that the Internet is politically correct now just because we outgrew SomethingAwful & 4chan (both sites that still exist).

  show the code or go fuck yourself

  Except that’s not really true, you can look at the Linux kernel for example multiple out of tree forks existed for years because of personal beefs not coding skills (it doesn’t matter how good your tail-packing filesystem or scheduler is, if you’re an asshole it won’t get merged).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  beautiful place where engineers and geeks lived in harmony.

  The peaceful bliss of usenet forums & the nice decorum of mailing lists, lol. The mythical peaceful Internet has never existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t leave me hanging, what subculture?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  THIS, organize for things you can change.

  And so some pointless but fun things too, I bike marshal at PSL/lib rallies, not really going to change anything but it is fun to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With what's happening in Gaza, what can we as socialists (and non-socialists) do to fix Gaza?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Effect change in your country, start local!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With what's happening in Gaza, what can we as socialists (and non-socialists) do to fix Gaza?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah bro, if we chant “one solution, revolution one more time we’ll totally stop the genocide”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At what point do you consider a person an alcoholic?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who drinks more than me, everyone who drinks less than me is a lightweight though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What value would it add to the game?

  • LLMs are computationally expensive
  • Replacing voice actors with AI means making dialogue worse
  • Replacing writers with AI means making the story worse

  At the end of the day AI is mostly a marketing term for LLMs and LLMs just aren’t that useful in most games, they just average out a dataset to autocomplete a response, that autocompletion is worse than what a human would have written.

  We saw with procedurally generated worlds that it takes a lot of effort to prune what is generated to make the game interesting.

  There are particular subgenres of games and applications where LLMs might be useful though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, can you repeat the question?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  guildofletting.com/…/the-implied-covenant-for-qui…

  The landlord’s duty to adhere to quiet enjoyment means the landlord must:-

  • Ensure the tenant’s actual possession of the property is not interfered with by the landlord or the landlord’s agent

  • Prevent any interference with the tenant’s enjoyment of the property. Interference may arise because of an omission or failure to act.

  The right is usually used to protect against harassment from landlord, but it extends much further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I don’t think they have, what they have online is more time, while the rest of us are out supporting our neighbors or trying to have a meaningful impact on the state of the world, they’re busy glazing Al-Sharaa.

  But even on Lemmy their takes are unpopular, they’re just visible because we don’t filter them, and they get an initial boost because we (normies) are busy living life, while they are busy on their discords (🤔 weird how they use the same tools as right wingers to “organize”) telling eachother where to post their way to the “revolution”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If non ML instances introduced a feature to hide all comments below -3 by default, the tankies would disappear faster than Khamenei disappears protestors.

  I’m all for free speech but if we want Lemmy to achieve widespread usage we need to make the cranks less prominent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d be surprised how many people simp for authoritarian regimes for free because they think sucking off Asad Khamenei is sticking it to the man <insert ML bullshit about imperialism here>

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the law in pretty much anywhere that derived their tenancy agreements from English law.

  Sadly it is not common practice anywhere as you’re landlord violating your lease in such a way, it is difficult to get anything done about it, because ultimately you still need somewhere to live and getting out of your contract isn’t a win, in the way that your landlord getting out of his and rendering you homeless if you don’t agree to his terms is.

  I can’t even imagine how that would scale in a modern apartment.

  You can’t imagine, the guy taking 1/2 your paycheck having to actually earn that money?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In what part of the world?

  Anywhere where housing law is derived from English law, so pretty much anywhere that’s English speaking.

  it would be unreasonable for a landlord to provide that

  For 1/2 my paycheck, dealing with noise complaints is pretty reasonable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Laziness, but if your landlord is failing to provide you with quiet enjoyment of your home, in many jurisdictions that’s a breach of your tenancy agreement, speak to your local tenant union.

  Not sure why landlord simps are out here defending them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • Installing noise dampening
  • Giving other tenants warnings (if it’s something in their contract)
  • Contacting the police
  • Some other way

  Ultimately OPs problem isn’t other tenants, it’s the noise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your landlord has the responsibility to ensure you get quiet enjoyment of the home you live it (by hiring building management they’re delegating that responsible), it’s up to them to sort out noise issues, it’s on the landlord to sort by:

  • Installing noise dampening " Giving other tenants warnings (if it’s something in their contract)
  • Contacting the police
  • Some other way

  Ultimately OPs problem isn’t other tenants, it’s the noise.

  Defaulting to involving cops, waste police time and endangers everyone involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think all monopolies should be split into different companies, and then given to the workers who would collectivize them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One point of tension is that under a system where you still need to get paid to get things needed to survive/enjoy life, any organization outside of the state will be incentized to only do what they have to do and have the workers have more freetime (either for leisure or other work), whereas salaried state employees would use that time for improvements.

  My gut tells me this is a trade-off worth making but it might not be, perhaps it makes more sense to have state monopolies, maintained by the state as then additional capacity gets put towards improvements.

  I’ve just not seen state enterprises turnout that well, wether it’s the NHS or the Soviet economy outside of wartime, I don’t agree with the capitalist critique that workers have no incentive to perform well at their jobs, because the USSR/NHS didn’t/doesn’t have a flat pay structure, so my best theory is the alienation of people from their labor is a huge factor. And this is also supported by my personal experiences as well as those of people I know who work in the NHS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think all monopolies should be split into different companies, and then given to the workers who would collectivize them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So first off anyone who says boring shit like calling you a “revisionist” or “read theory” is a moron unable to defend their position, they’re treating socialist theory like a cultish religion.

  Or to put it another way MLs are dumb, ignore them.

  Generally I think if there are state owned assets, work on them should generally be contracted out to cooperatives, as that puts workers truly in control (as opposed to being cogs in the machine) and allows workers to find a different cooperative to work at, but I don’t think there is any one “correct” answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think all monopolies should be split into different companies, and then given to the workers who would collectivize them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What if companies that offer a superior product are forces by markets to hold back competition. YouTube isn’t the exception, it’s the norm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink Alternative that can't be blocked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Satallites are a really fucking dumb way to deliver internet.

  They are especially dumb for delivering “unstoppable” internet.

  If you want to deliver unstoppable internet the key is to make it impossible to detect, you’re much better running a fiber cable, but that ofc is pretty high risk if they discover it. Alternatively you want a mesh network that can change frequencies to prevent jamming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you build and cultivate revolutionary optimism, given what's happening in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basic pattern recognition from the last administration should teach Dems that a buisness as usual candidate, will be their last.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you build and cultivate revolutionary optimism, given what's happening in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you seen the response from communities? libs and apolitical people are on the streets ready to throwdown against armed thugs, that’s giving me a lot of hope.

  Electorally (sorry anarchists), even Democrats are talking about abolishing ICE, we’ll see what happens in the primaries if such Democrats can win control of the party, but even if they can’t what we’ve seen on the streets should scare them into compliance! Time to remind them that what is “legal” doesn’t matter if the will of the people is at odds with the “law”.