Any reasoning that is mainly centered around giving people specific labels, and then making sweeping generalizations about what everyone with that label does and why it’s therefore okay to hate anyone you have chosen to apply that label to because of things some other people have done, is almost always some bullshit.

Also, yes, it’s ironic that you’re posting this under their specific meme.

It’s not clear why Grok decided to answer every question with information about “white genocide,”

Maybe not to you.

I used to come in to work every morning at a restaurant and eat a bagel with cream cheese out of the pantry, because I didn’t know any better / didn’t give a shit. One of the food prep ladies noticed and gave me grief about it and I said “but I’m hungry.”

I was just being a smartass about it, kind of like “but that is what I want to do and I DGAF about the profit margin,” but she backed off within milliseconds and didn’t say another goddamned word. It actually made me feel bad how seriously she took it. Like “Oh, gotcha, didn’t realize, take as much as you want and I’ll rig the inventory if you want so it doesn’t show.” I felt too bad about it to clarify to her and just stopped stealing food after that.

You might be right. I feel like I saw it on Lemmy a couple of days ago and just absorbed it uncritically, and I cannot find it any other place now.

Some of the most authoritarian people I come into contact with on any kind of regular basis are “leftists” on Lemmy.

The ones in real life are not like that. I feel like Reddit’s moderation model really encourages it, and some of them started really taking it to heart when they came to Lemmy which copied that same model.

The kids are usually more hip to cynicism about the zeitgeist than the adults are. Anti-Vietnam War, “Life in Hell,” anti-Iraq War and Ron Paul, Teen Vogue is just following in the proud tradition.

I mean it is surprising and cool that a fashion centered magazine is doing real talk about politics, but the part that makes it surprising is the “Vogue,” not the “Teen.”

A check in which the airplane and engines are taken apart, typically carried out every six to 12 years, can take months to complete and cost millions of dollars

This is for a normal plane. Every Air Force 1 (there are a couple) gets fully taken apart and rebuilt about every 6 months. And, the process of vetting and rebuilding this new dingus to become capable to be Air Force 1 will probably cost around a billion dollars. “Millions of dollars” is just the tip suggestion they’ll see on the screen when they go to pay for the absolutely monstrous amount of money this will cost the United States.

Is there a substantial difference between different distros in terms of their performance level? I feel like this is going to be zooming in to the point where an 0.21% difference is going to be significant somehow when there will almost always be some other reasons for choosing some distro over another.

My money’s on wooosh but it could be either one tbh.

How to Tell a Lie with the Truth

The selective curation of anecdote is an essential mechanism of copaganda. … By cherry-picking anecdotes—indeed, even by using isolated individual pieces of data as misleading anecdotes—news reports can distort our interpretation of the world.

I feel like this is a truly vital thing to understand about propaganda in general. Very often, everything that’s being said is true. The art is in what to focus on, how much emphasis to give to small pieces of the picture, and how to give them emotional weight so that the artificially inflated singular piece you’re presenting will become a lasting and resonant part of people’s image of the picture as a whole.

Kek

I like how the first person came in with some nonsense and you turned it up to TURBO nonsense.

Lemmy needs a better moderation model. When gibberish starts to be a significant part of the conversation, having volunteers apply “the rules of the community” just doesn’t accomplish the purpose of keeping it productive. Idk what the answer is, but this is not what success looks like.

Is that what it is? I have been generally baffled by the dishonest accounts that tend to say both “yay Russia” and “yay China” sort of with equal fervor, alongside a random little rogue’s gallery of other bizarre takes of which this is an example. I genuinely considered whether the strategy was just to be wrong about everything for some reason I can’t understand.

@surph_ninja@lemmy.world where do you get this stuff? Like what news do you read / who do you listen to that tells you that this all is how it works? I want to read more.

https://ponder.cat/u/surph_ninja@lemmy.world?page=1&sort=Controversial&view=Overview

Just gonna leave that there. Search for “2014 Maidan coup” for example, or “Bernie” or “blue MAGA.” Or “Taiwan.”

No idea what this guy’s talking about in this instance, it makes about as much sense as the very notable coincidental confluence of other stuff he likes to talk about. But as pertains to this case, all the leaked operations where people found out what the feds were up to were roughly 0% “let’s promote anarchism and infiltrate the ranks because that will discredit the left” and roughly 100% “let’s keep tabs on the left indiscriminately, in case we have to shoot them or throw them in prison.”

Periodically, they would try to promote infighting or discredit some notable leader, but it was mostly that second thing. They don’t have to be all 5d chess about it, they have guns and prisons.

Yeah, that one line needs fixing:

If his haircut’s tight and high
And it fits a suit and tie

I don’t know about the fed level, but in my limited experience the haircut thing is not really accurate. I feel like looking at haircut and shoes comes from another and much more primitive era of law enforcement. A lot of undercover people work long-term as undercover people, and they have deliberately sort of “fellow kids” hair and facial hair.

Vibes and how well you know the person are more reliable than any specific checklist. If you wanted the checklist though, this is not a bad one.

One additional thing I’ve noticed as a tell is that everything is polished. Whatever type of “street” clothes they want to put on, the shirt tends to be neat and spotless, everything is clean, the facial hair is groomed. I imagine it varies by the skill level of the person, but in general cops don’t like to be sloppy. Even their “sloppiness” costume will still be neat and presentable.

It’s just melon charging ridiculous prices to his own companies?

I suspect that it is exactly that, yes. That and a bunch of investment money which they are planning on flushing down any toilet they can find.

I don’t really know but they certainly have no other revenue stream that I think is realistic.

Yeah. Mans was exempt from the orphan crushing machine so he thought it wasn’t real.

It is. It’s coming for all of us unless we do something to stop it.

I honestly don’t even think it’s all that relevant if his skills aren’t super pro-level or he’s looking in the wrong market. Yes, it is true that a lot of people who just had the ability to put together a functional web UI or run SQL commands have been able to command six figure salaries for a while. That is fine. We have technology enough at this point that we can support everyone in comfortable life, as long as they’re willing to show up and do a full-time job. We broke the whole economy to where it turns into this special thing if you want a house, vacations, not want to have to worry. Like you have to be some kind of Good Will Hunting person to expect that. Fuck that. This guy should still get $150k. Everyone who works full time and has some training should make $125k a year and the shareholders should get less. Picking on this guy’s supposed lack of pro-talent misses the point, I think.

We don’t have a shortage of problems to solve. The planet is burning and all our tech is murdering our brains. If we could somehow get the people who want a full-time job and don’t have one to start making money by working on those things 40 hours a week I feel like those things would be in better shape.

MAHA - Make America Horrifyingly Sick All The Time Again And There’s Nothing You Can Do

I added some letters

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