Thirdborne

Down here, at the bottom of this thread, it's just us. One of us farted and I know it wasn't me. Who you going to convince? It's just us here. You gonna call me a fake person when it's just us? I get you can't rationally disagree with my position and be consistent with you purported values. That's a tough spot. But trying to convince me that I'm not real when it's just between us? That's a lost cause. As big a waste as sharing a dissenting opinion here. So let's shake hands on the fact we both wasted our time.

Jesus Christ... What an absolute godforsaken NSA cesspool Lemmy is. The frustration of not being able to talk to real people who don't assume you yourself are not a genuine actor. This is the darkest forest.

You are not making sense. In what bubble does what you said sound like English? [Edit: it was this bubble all along! Looks like I made a wrong turn on my way out of Reddit And landed on a State Department website. Is my karma still good or did they wipe it?]

We didn't need proof that they're all the same but here we can see Democrats voting to keep a christofascist in power so Israel can continue a genocide. America, your vote really does not matter but maybe you feel good "participating" in this reality show? We all deserve a little something to make us feel good every few years.

Imagine living in India and witnessing American consumption intimately is your job. That's a special kind of cruelty.

More than that. They own the content and relationships and can use them in ways you cannot predict. LLMs gobble up human produced content because we entrusted it to corporations. What hit hardest for me was when Facebook published a study where they found they could influence users attitude by prioritizing certain posts in their feeds.

Imagine it. Corporations owning your relationships and using them to get a profit out of you

If we're just making comparisons to justify murder, do you know what's worse than murdering 7000 people? Murdering 30000 people. But being better by comparison doesn't make you right. There will always be someone worse to compare yourself to.

Remember when Wagner Group accidentally found out they had wide open roads all the way to Moscow from Ukraine? That's what Ukraine is to Putin. Along with natural gas and some other economic factors. None of it inscrutable.

When it comes to misinformation I always remember when I was a kid I'm the early 90s, another kid told me confidently that the USSR had landed on Mars, gathered rocks, filmed it and returned to earth(it now occurs to me that this homeschooled kid was confusing the real moon landing.) I remember knowing it was bullshit but not having a way to check the facts. The Internet solved that problem. Now, by God , the Internet has recreated the same problem.

I still can't wrap my head around the case for genocide in China. Political and religious oppression is evident, but aside from grainy photos of some prisoners, but I haven't seen evidence of genocide. People are saying it though so... I guess it could be true?

Handy for Israel to get to exterminate them within their own borders and everyone else is to blame because they won't take them as refugees. Both those things are bad, but one is at least a bit worse.

I don't get why people still use that platform. It's so hostile to the users. This is an election year and we're just going to give him all this influence? Society is a big dumb animal.