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- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 6 days ago:
The “bad” ones just float to the top when a government is around long enough. It’s human nature. The ones seeking power and money see others seeking the same, and they look at them as a rung on a ladder. They help each other because it benefits them. They actively work to shut out the “good” ones because they know they’ll lose their spot to them if they aren’t careful. Suddenly the “good” ones are lost in the noise. The incorruptible become powerless.
It’s similar to the police force in the US, for example. People go in with good intentions, but the force has been around long enough that the mad dogs have already permeated all of the top ranks. So the “good” ones either wash out, or they assimilate. One of my relatives washed out, while the one that had been there much longer turned into a massive racist. Which one do you think climbed the ranks quicker?
Power structures automatically attract selfish, self-serving people that just become worse offenders the more wealthy and powerful they become. Power is a vacuum after all, and there are plenty of bad people standing in line to fill it. This is why I don’t trust a single politician. Whether they want to admit it or not, under that facade of wanting to change their city or “do good,” there is some underlying desire for power and attention. That doesn’t mean none of them do anything good in their time though; it just means we should be cautious.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 6 days ago:
As soon as I smell authoritarianism, it’s a no from me. Even as someone that reads communist and socialist theory. I think people take too much of the past and try to apply it as-is to the world of today. But it doesn’t work. Modern times require modernized ideas, and I sometimes wish people had more imagination.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 6 days ago:
I’m against both of them. It’s imprisonment, torture and forced assimilation. It should be an easy decision for anyone that is also against what the Nazis did and Israel is doing.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 1 week ago:
I have a feeling these questions are trying to feel out whether or not I’m a fan of the authoritarian flavor of communism and that’s a nope lol. I’m not on Lemmygrad or Hexbear. I don’t like police regardless of the continent or any other factor. We are seeing power vacuums in 2 very different types of authoritarian structures and none of them pan out to anything good for the working class.
I keep it simple: it’s always the working class vs the ruling class.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 1 week ago:
It didn’t invent it. It just caught on at the right time and amplified that knowledge. It’s also a network. I don’t get TikTok but I’ve seen how popular it is in the new generations. This isn’t new knowledge; it’s just new packaging for a plugged-in-since-birth generation.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 1 week ago:
It’s not about trusting TikTok. It’s about understanding that we have a terrible tech company, vs a terrible government. But at the same time, it has helped radicalize and inform so many in the ranks of Gen Z, amongst other generations. Even if you skip past the 24/7 stream of Gaza coverage ( which we absolutely need since Israel has murdered something like 121 journalists in Gaza), you’ll find videos of Gen Z and other folks making videos that layout documented history, protest methods, agitprop, and their own amateur journalism to others. That has value, even if the source is just in it for the notoriety and money. It’s an awkward position where it becomes a tool to the revolution, because it’s in opposition (for its own gain), but is never trustworthy.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 1 week ago:
Oh shit, I forgot all about Telegram. Bluesky is in the ring now too, but I don’t really know much about it.
- Comment on "X": Far-right conspiracy theorists have returned in droves after Elon Musk took over the former Twitter, new study says 1 week ago:
Musk is a useful idiot. He ruined Twitter and the US government quietly thanks him for it because it no longer serves as a tool to see unfiltered events happening on the ground (like Israel murdering Palestinians). So mission accomplished there, and now the new target is TikTok.
There’s also this quote said in 1981 by the CIA Director at the time, William Casey:
We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false
Meta is already in the government’s pocket—which covers Instagram and Facebook, Elon has basically erased old Twitter, and now TikTok is on the brink of being banned in the US. Pretty fun pattern of events to try and control the narrative.
- Comment on 3 days 🤯 1 month ago:
Poe’s law.
- Comment on What are some games you find yourself frequently coming back to? 1 month ago:
You can get it used pretty cheap. I have it for the Xbox 360 and downloaded it once I finally got an Xbox X.
- Comment on What are some games you find yourself frequently coming back to? 1 month ago:
It’s top tier fun. I come back to it routinely and make a bunch of ridiculous skate videos. Never gets old.
- Comment on What are some games you find yourself frequently coming back to? 1 month ago:
Skate 3 EarthBound Skyrim Oblivion Quake 1/2/3 Mario 64 Super Mario World Battlefield 1943 (RIP 😞) Fallout 76 DayZ
These are just a few. I cycle through games a lot.
- Comment on 😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠 1 month ago:
My instance will most definitely not be federating with this. It’s Meta. Untrustworthy to the core. I didn’t spin up my own Lemmy server and pay out of pocket monthly just to loop bullshit social media companies back into it.
- Comment on What to play at after work? 2 months ago:
Quake 3 if you wanna go old school. Pretty much anything will run it these days and you can easily spin up a local server for it.
- Comment on You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds 3 months ago:
It’s very hit or miss for deeper searches. Sometimes at work I just default back to Google because I need quick results that are more relevant. Ecosia has been decent but I don’t have enough hours into it yet. I’m open to ideas, honestly.
- Comment on OpenAI opens the door for military uses but maintains AI weapons ban 3 months ago:
Everybody wants to get in on that US military money. They probably saw how haphazardly the US sends billions of dollars to Israel for genocide and wondered how they could get an endless faucet of cash for themselves.
- Comment on You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds 3 months ago:
Google search is horrendous now. Instead of showing tin relevant search results, it’s become an advertising race to the top game. If they can find “sponsored” links or shopping results related to your search, those go to the very top space. It’s about to get way worse as the rise of AI continues to rot the brains of board room suits.
I use Ecosia and DDG. Ecosia on my personal laptop, and DDG on my phone browser.
- Comment on Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI 4 months ago:
I use Duolingo for German but I’d happily switch to something else if they’re going to pull this shit. I’ll often times take things from Duolingo and run them through the Translate app on iOS to see if there are differences. It’s not ideal, but I also have no allegiance to companies.
- Comment on HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly 4 months ago:
I can’t explain it either but it happened with 2 different CD-ROM devices until I put in an HP model one. The GPU could’ve just been a random thing, but the CD-ROM was a pretty weird coincidence. Trust me, it made no fucking sense to me either, but it’s only ever happened to me with that HP tower and I’ve built a handful of PCs myself.
- Comment on HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly 4 months ago:
HP has been doing this shit for ages in other spaces. When I tried to put a non-HP burner in one of their desktop computers years ago, the burner spun out of control and refused to open. Same thing happened again when I got a replacement burner. When I finally got a HP burner, it worked fine.
The same tower also refused to acknowledge an aftermarket GPU, despite changing the jumpers like guides suggested.
Don’t buy anything HP. Don’t support them at all.
- Comment on Study: Streamers Now Wasting Record Amounts of Time Finding Something to Watch 8 months ago:
Time to put The Office on for the 150th time!