NaevaTheRat [she/her] @ NaevaTheRat @vegantheoryclub.org

Despite all my rage I’m still a rat refreshing this page.

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Really? you think that it's on the whole good and wouldn't be better if replaced by a system of smaller, more topic focused networks where administrators have less access to user data and less ability to control conversation? Where infrastructure was less vulnerable to single point failure?

Do you remember what irc, xmpp, and bbs's were like? Or were they before your time. One angry admin on lemmy.world could compromise ~170k users and they're large enough that they could also distribute malicious files to like half a million computers. That is so obviously not good I feel completely baffled that you don't see the problem.

Yeah, and federates socmed can easily assume responsibility for messages by not having mass sign up and moving to a trusted users, largely self hosted base. Lemmy is designed around replacing reddit with all the massive flaws of that.

I mean tell me you think lemmy.world is contributing to the world haha.

you could easily assume legal responsibility for what you published under a slightly different model where you only hosted your own content/the content of trusted users.

Why do you want more social media companies? Ideally the industry is regulated out of existence, at least in its current form.

What social good is served should not be in the hands of companies mining data and advertising. Forums, self hosted federated systems, and chat rooms were/are all vastly superior in terms of social good:harm ratio.

Making it completely unprofitable and impossible to comply with under current mass signup sell ads models would be the point.

Why do people think Python is ducktyped? The syntax is quite explicit, just because x = 5. is shorthand for x = float(5) doesn't mean it's doing weird mutations. The closest would be maybe that something like:

    
x = 5
y = 2.
z = x * y

  

works (I think) but that's not exactly a wacky behaviour. It's not like it ever does the wrong behaviour of casting a float to an int which can erase meaningful data and cause unpredictable behaviour.

I mean you can (and often should!) give functions/methods type signatures ffs.

Yeah the hair isn't exactly, but the T and HGH is.

I think he might have had maxillofacial surgery too, but it could just be the HGH.

It's a moral panic. When I was a kid sitting close to the TV would make you blind.

I hate this dodgy piece of legislation. I want socmed regulated to hell, like no non-curated recommendations that aren't transparent filters like 'new' or 'top votes', full responsibility as a publisher for the content of messages etc. I just don't see how a slapshod reactionary ban is going to do much useful for society broadly.

I feel like the platforms will remain just as addictive and cruel, kids will just start using them later, kids will get around bans to use unregulated shithole sites, and people will wash their hands of understanding the actually nuanced problem of kids and screen time.

Meanwhile the police state expands. Cool and good.

This person is obviously joking. They are almost certainly vegan

Yeah I fucking hate climate activists for the same reasons.

And human rights activists. Just let me buy my child labour diamonds in peace.

Glad to see another kindred spirit.

If you have any standards for behaviour in yourself then others will attack you for them. It is called do-gooder derrogation.

Eating and using animals is a cruel and selfish thing that almost all of us were raised to believe is necessary and nice. On some level everyone is aware that you can't root for babe and also condem pigs to the gas chamber to die in screaming agony. That is painful, and many people respond to their own pain by lashing out at others.

No matter what you do there will be people who see it as an attack on their values and identity. Just be vegan in whatever way is comfortable to you.

tbh I'm more concerned about kids on cod or battle.net than insta chat (research has found a lot of kids using Instagram for absurd numbers of hours are actually just chatting).

Because we are ugly, mutant fish.

I'm with you. If a world isn't dangerous there's no reason to engage with it critically imho. If you want to grind out tactical combat or explore a power fantasy video games or board games do a better job, what they can't do is appropriately punish or reward you for being clever. Or handle unexpected interactions.

But I'm a minority. I prefer disreputable thieves slinking through an ancient dungeon spinning lies, setting traps, and brokering deals to "I use ability-5, roll my 2 dice, apply bonus modifiers, and kill the challenge appropriate goblin".

they have done a fair bit of spending on infrastructure but unfortunately it's all small target managerial stuff making repairs after LNP ransacking.

The urgent care clinics are great, but they're the only visible structural thing they've done. Core "values" have been abandoned in favour of entrenching a 2 party system and winning the next election. Which presumably will be magically different and they'll be able to properly work?

There are also some independent media articles posted like michaelwest.

Everything else in Australia is owned by Rupert Murdoch. There is no good media, just vomitted hatred and lies.

The guardian at least mostly sticks to the realm of facts.

I distribute gas masks and ear protection

I think I posted something critical of conscripting people to make them fight over who they pay taxes to at the end and got called a tankie and Russian bot.

It is entirely consistent with anarchism to be critical of states using coercive violence to force people to fight for their preservation.

Some of the libs on this protocol are intensely derranged, I think for many it's their first time seeing that people out there disagree with some of their sacred assumptions and it breaks their brains.

lmfao dbzero terms of service is literally to follow the anarchist COC, hosts Lefty memes, and one of the largest anarchist communities.

World is peak neoliberal, has a stupid media bias bot calibrated for neoliberal positions as centrist, and is explicitly aligned with the USA in law and ethos.

Shitjustworks is similar to world but Canadian.

Life is political and people hosting online communities have ideologies. Shock horror I know. An ideology being invisible to you because you are raised in it does not make it any less explicit.

anticlickbaitaktion

Hobart, Darwin and Canberra topped the list, while Sydney, one of Australia's most populous cities, has come in the 150th spot, posing questions about the impacts of air pollution.

But experts have cautioned against taking the data at face value, saying the logic is "fundamentally flawed".

However, Professor Gavin Pereira, an environmental epidemiologist at Curtin University in Perth, said the ranking of cities was "fundamentally flawed, even if the calculations are correct".

"Firstly, air pollution events like bushfires and dust storms are common in Australia even if the air quality appears okay at other times," he said.

"Secondly, it ignores everyone living outside the selected cities, including those in regional rural and remote areas most prone to bushfire smoke."

Defs gonna get mine the moment I can. Mounting evidence of brain and heart damage with infections. Fuck that to hell, I want them in good health so I can use their threshold for damage on things that are fun.

I haven't been able to talk my mum into getting any of her boosters, she's also the one that infected us all by lying :(. Logging onto Facebook to play words with friends is damaging, also I think a somewhat traumatic memory of smallpox vaccine or something.

Highly recommend people take precautions, life is fragile.