RIotingPacifist
@RIotingPacifist@lemmy.world
- Comment on Mitch McConnel's Wikipedia page has been heavily edited the last few days, with the last ones being 4 hours ago. So around 1PM EST. What could that mean? 1 day ago:
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- Comment on Why is so difficult to organize a strike 2 days ago:
Becuase they are not organized.
Class conciseness isn’t some abstract thing you can rely on you build that conciseness by organizing people.
Instead of complaining, get together with some people in your union that want to fight the boss and take an organizing for power course (or something similar)
- Comment on What is the deal with Caitlan Clarke and pretty much the whole WNBA is against her? She drains 3 pointers like I never seen and they treat her like ruffing up a man. Shouldn't they congratulate her? 1 week ago:
More attention means more sponsors more sponsor mean more money and then high pay.
Honestly depends on how much the cartel that owns basketball can keep from the WNBA, last time the NBA players got organized the cartel got Obama to talk them out of a wildcat strike.
Also there isn’t much solidarity amongst sports players, when England won the Football world cup, it was only possible because in the early rounds, multiple teams basically spent their whole game attacking Pele, without that Brazil would almost certainly have won.
- Comment on If a virtual particle dips or blips out of existence then where do they go? Do they come back at a different point showing movement when the blip occurs? Are they some how different when returning? 1 week ago:
Well except when one is near the event horizon of a blackhole, in that case they can in theory survive: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Specifically the need of capitalists to have workers.
The oft repeatedly lie is the tragedy of the commons, literally a fable made up by aristocrats to justify closing the commons to force people to go work in factories.
The huge levels of debt are part of the system to keep Americans working, if you don’t got to college you need to work non-stop to get healthcare, if you do go to college you can get a stable job but you need to pay off that debt.
It’s a system to keep the wealthy wealthy and the rest of us busy until we are too old to do anything about it.
- Comment on Why do doctors not seem to give a fuck about pain? Is this just an American doctor thing, or is it universal? 2 weeks ago:
True, however the first time they gave me fentanyl before they did a CT scan, they had figured it was stones but only had my pain to go off, so I suspect I got better treatment than if i’d been an equally erratic POC or woman, but hope I’m wrong and they’d give everyone similar treatment.
- Comment on Why do doctors not seem to give a fuck about pain? Is this just an American doctor thing, or is it universal? 2 weeks ago:
Nah even without that, it’s a massive improvement for people: it helps gets people off drugs & stops them ODing.
Yes we should do all of those things, but we have to stop pretending we need to boil the ocean in order to make progress.
- mental/physical healthcare
- affordable housing
- safe consumptiom sites
- stable careers
All independently have a huge impact and while they amplify eachother’s impact we shouldn’t wait on all 4 before making progress on each one individually.
Snidenote: YIMBYs (who ironically enough oppose building affordable housing) often use lack of safe consumption or jobs as an excuse to oppose affordable housing built near them.
- Comment on Why do doctors not seem to give a fuck about pain? Is this just an American doctor thing, or is it universal? 2 weeks ago:
Junkies know everything about getting meds.
Seems like an easy to fix problem: safe consumption sites
- Comment on Why do doctors not seem to give a fuck about pain? Is this just an American doctor thing, or is it universal? 2 weeks ago:
NGL as a white guy I just have to ask nicely for the good drugs and they give me opioides, granted it’s for kidney stones and it’s the most pain I’ve ever experienced, but honestly it sounds better than whatever OP was going through.
I do think I present with classic pain symptoms, I litterally can’t form sentences, which might help.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yes,
No idea it doesn’t seem like the current AI hype is even close though.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I support high inheritance taxes, but practically speaking they hit the middle class the hardest because they are the easiest to avoid once you are rich enough.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Wealth taxes are good for once things are already out of control, I think generally higher income taxes/capital gains taxes (which should be higher than general income taxes) are the most progressive way to tax.
- Comment on Is it possible to install a distro directly from online ? 4 weeks ago:
There were installers that did this in the past, it was generally not worth it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_(software)
Changing OS is not as trivial as installing an app, if people can’t follow the process of burning it to a USB pen and rebooting, they’re not going to be able to adjust.
- Comment on Can energy be associated with/related to spacetime ? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think through is the right term.
Mass distorts spacetime because that’s a thing that mass does, we can’t explain it any better than we can explain WHY apples fall from trees, we just have very detailed models for. HOW it works, and anything that has energy bends spacetime in the same way that mass does.
- 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? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I pirate straight to my TV no VPN, no debrid, nothing.
All I do is require encryption on all connections.
Uninstalled pretty much all the streaming apps because it works well enough my whole family prefer pirating to finding the right app for a given show.
Only problem is the cache builds up fast and it’s a closed source app so I can’t fix that
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 4 weeks ago:
Socialism, traditionally defined, involves some form of collective or public ownership of the means of production.
Weird to complain about people calling social democracy (a path to socialism) socialism, socialism but redefine socialism to include state ownership of the means of production, in the same post.
Like if you’re being strict about what socialism is China and Sweden are equally not-socialist.
- Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year? 1 month ago:
What’s funny is the AI bubble has exposed how bullshit the economy is in general, like GDP is really just a measure of how fast money moves, which Nvidia, Microsoft & AI companies shovelling money through a circular economy counts as growth, even if they lose money doing it.
- Comment on Is it just me or does it seem Google is either AI filled or becoming obsolete? Is there an up and comer that can be what Google used to be? Or are we stuck oogling stuff forever? 1 month ago:
Google has been getting worse since before AI, it’s because it’s advantage stemmed from indexing the public web, but as the web turned into a half a dozen walled gardens it lost that edge.
It’s losing customers to AI so it’s trying to clone their features, pretty, but it’s been trying this with just regurgitating Wikipedia for a while.
I don’t know for sure but I suspect internally the incompetent middle management layer are pushing AI usage as a metric and forcing engineers to ruin their best product because management don’t know the value of Google (because they are by and large morons who use AI).
The AI usage can be avoided with other search engines but the walled garden problem is here to stay, on a closed Internet search is always going to suck.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Main problems with hosting your own mailserver:
- Spam protection is not as good as with hosted options because you just don’t have the same scale of data
- Mail deliverability issues - Generally once you have setup everything (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) on a dedicated IP that is not from a residential ISP, it stays working but sometimes you find out that say live.com/hotmail simply won’t accept your mail and there is nothing you can do.
I do it, it’s not a complicated setup, I don’t even know what mailserver I used whatever Debian recommended (exim or postfix) , dovecot for Server->Recpient. I am a little more paranoid about my server than I would be otherwise (outbound firewall, apparmor profiles for anything that is listening, monit to alert on high CPU usage (anti spam sometimes goes crazy), but not anything that is too much effort (e.g I haven’t gone full hog with SELINUX, etc)
- Comment on Gonna be straight forward, how is Donald Trump not considered a Global/Donestic Terrorist? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Gonna be straight forward, how is Donald Trump not considered a Global/Donestic Terrorist? 1 month ago:
But last president atleast were attacked or provoked by recognized threat
Not to defend Trump but that’s not true. US has been starting illegal wars of aggression for it’s entire existence.
The Iraq war was “justified” largely for the same reason the Iran war is being.
- Comment on Why is the US so into Israel? 2 months ago:
True, I don’t like the term globalist as it’s too often abused, but the fuckers profiting from these arms companies can live anywhere and don’t give fuck about either country beyod their ability to capture the governments and sell them weapons & tech.
There are stronger bonds between arms manufacturers regardless of nationality than those arms manufacturers and the people of the country the company is “based in”.
- Comment on Why is the US so into Israel? 2 months ago:
The US is a global arms manufacturer with a democracy attached, if there wasn’t an Israel to prop up the US would find something similar and arm it to the hilt.
The US Military Industrial Complex gets to remind everyone why it’s a superpower, it gets to make and sell it’s weapons, survialiance tech, etc, it keeps it’s opponents weak and desperate but armed such that there is always fear to keep selling the forever war (both to the US, but also ton Israelis (and to a lesser extent to Jewish people living elsewhere)), by political maneuvering it gets to police feespeach.
liberals/conservatives get to feel like they are not racist because they support a minority led country, who many don’t consider white in that context.
If it wasn’t Israel it could be a different proxy state in the middle East or maybe Africa/Asia.
IMO it has very little to do with Jewishness and a lot more to do with geopolitics, yes they use the Holocaust for propoganda 🤢, but they don’t give a fuck about Holocaust survivors. Also and this is small compared to committing genocide, but they’ve redefined the Holocaust to exclude all of the non-jewish victims which were historically included as recently as a decade ago in common usage of the term (e.g what I learnt in school, what was on Wikipedia, etc)
- Comment on Why is the US so into Israel? 2 months ago:
Highest Percentage by State:
- New York: ~8.5%–8.8%
- Washington D.C.: ~8.4%
- New Jersey: ~6.2%–6.3%
- Massachusetts: ~4.5%
New York, DC & Mass are hardly battleground states, and while I don’t know as much about New Jersey they haven’t voted for a Republican president since Bush Sr
- Comment on Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath? 2 months ago:
Why do you think emotions make you inferior?
That sounds like insane cult shit TBH
- Comment on Is there any way I can study Marxist theory in a way that wouldn't seem too boring or dry? 2 months ago:
For clarity MLism was reverse engineered by Stalin to justify the violent oppression of the working class, it spread to other regimes that wanted to justify the same, but Lenin didn’t have a lot to do with it.
- Comment on is my sister likely to be aroace? we think so but we would like a good starting point to help her on her journey. 2 months ago:
Aromantic+Asexual
- Comment on Is not how a state spends its funding and other money open for citizens of said state request it? If so how do they request it? 2 months ago:
So you mean the state budget?
It’s typically available, e.g ebudget.ca.gov/home
- Comment on How would society look like with no companies at all and every single thing is free? 2 months ago:
Anarchy (good)
- Comment on How would society look like with no companies at all and every single thing is free? 2 months ago:
We already overproduce everything that is necessary for daily life, food, housing, energy, clothes.
The problem with waiting for post-scarcity is it ignores that it’s a few assholes hording essential things especially housing that force us to work and earn those assholes more money and power, as long as that continues, increased production doesn’t matter as they’ll use the extra production to buy even more stuff we need to survive!