daniskarma @ daniskarma @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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This level of insult is bullying.

And it's not a bad life choice. Bad life choice is choosing to go online to insult a lot of innocent people in other to feed that bad human in your heart.

These latest years """"left leaning""" spaces have been feeling more like right wing echo chambers of hate and bigotry towards more and more and more people.

Mark my words, this will have consequences, and some people may ask in a couple of years how is it that no one came for help when they need it. And they shall remember that the blatantly insulted those they will be asking for help and that people just got sick of them.

At least it's what's happening to me. There are many places I won't show up for helping, that I would have helped in the past. But I cannot stand next to people who have show me that they have the heart as full of hate as the alt-right. We will most likely end up forming our own spaces I suppose.

Did he paid studio ghibli for making a draw of their characters? Did he asked the authors of the character for permission for using its image?

Is not that how it's supposed to work for anti-AI folks? Or is it "rules for thee but not for me"?

Bullying people who does no harm to anyone is cool now?

Many people use gen AI for completely innocuous tasks. And for many things that harm nobody. Still you take pleasure insulting and degrading Innocent people.

That's not better than any other bully/oppresor.

Don't act surprised when people stop helping and having solidarity with your fights when you have spent a decade insulting everyone around you.

No judge in Spain is going to do anything against LaLiga they are worse than the Mafia.

I don't know what I'm reading.

Here people mostly use debit cards, and we don't worry about things like credit scores or whatever. Also these cards tend to be free. At the end, they just give you a convenient way of paying with money you actually own.

Why would anyone buy normal stuff using credit? I get it for big purchases as a house or a car. But why go into debt for groceries or a new laptop?

To be fair, scientific publishing has been terrible for years, a deeply flawed system at multiple levels. Maybe this is the push it needs to reevaluate itself into something better.

The thing is that I already have a server and a few Terabytes of unused storage. So that would not be an issue. As long as storage doesn't en up adding that much. I know that the fediverse protocol likes to replicate storage among all servers involved in an interaction. Though I wonder if it would be possible to safely erase old data, specially if I'm just hosting it for myself. I need to investigate on that.

But for the other costs I already have a server running 24/7 on my house and several Tb of Storage. I already pay for that regardless as I use it for other things. Though ideally I would not want to allocate more than 500Gb for a one person instance, idk how reasonable would that be.

And I also need to investigate how are the normal federation politics with one person instances. If it is like trying to host an email server would be hell as you'll get mark as spam by a lot of providers.

And now that I'm wondering things I wonder how feasible would it be to host very small instances on cheap devices like sbc or cheap mini-pc. Maybe aiming for thousands of instances with a few dozen people in each instead of a few dozen of instances with thousand of people in them.

I have always thought of hosting a fediverse instance for myself.

I already have a server for personal usage, the technical knowledge and it would stop being a burden on other people's servers.

Does anyone have experience with this. The federation system works fine with one person instance? Storage goes out to the roof?

Things doesn't usually work like that.

Rent subsidiaries work by your annual income and usually the cost of your rent.

For instance they may pay you 300€ a month for your rent as long as your income is less than 30.000€ a year and your rent is bellow 800€/month. And increasing the thresholds if you have kids or if you are part of a protected collective.

They may be above these thresholds. It's pretty common in Europe for people who struggle to meet ends are above the needed thresholds for getting help. As prices have gone really up and the bar for being lower class have change a lot lately as there is a lot of new extremely poor people to help. So money don't end up being enough for all. And people with normal jobs and who live alone or with their SO usually do not get any help even if they need it.

The welfare state is kind of falling apart in the latest years.

Android seems far more likely cause.

I had a friend who was convinced that we had found extraterrestrial life long ago. Not little green aliens. Se just read all those "organic compounds founds", and assumed it was life. So she was casually living in a reality where humanity had found evidence of extraterrestrial life.

I actually have. And I have read a LOT and I mean a LOT of philosophy.

All the great philosophers of history to begin with. I have read all their most famous works. And I have enjoyed them. I think they are great read. But great LITERATURE read. Not scientific reads.

I still think they are not science, as they do not describe nature. They just give opinions on several matters. And the few who dared to make any predictions about the future failed miserably.

If they are science they should be able to do predictions about nature. To propose experiments that are proven true. They should be falsable if proven untrue.

And just for the record, I have also read the full Bible. It's also a great piece of literature, but it obviously doesn't depict the reality of nature as a product of the scientific method.

And just to make a point, just because some old guy you got impressed by told you something is true, doesn't make it true. Take this last sentence as you wish.

And the bible used to be considered an explanation on the origins of earth and the human being.

Luckily as time goes on humanity have been able to understand nature in better ways than we used to.

I literally wrote "I have a hard time understanding why we should fund philosophy studies with government money.".

If you do a bias interpretation on that in your search for an enemy is on you.

I don't write here trying to achieve any goal. I'm not a partisan not a propagandists.

My only goal, as suggested from the original comment was to know other people's opinion a debate a little on that.

And I'm not even American, so I don't really have much stakes on that the US government does or stop doing with their fundings.

As I have already said, it's not that I don't like humanities being funded. I don't like them being treated as sciences, when they are not. I would support a humanities funding that would consists in a more democratic and spread funding that would allow to any member of the society to work on their humanities if they want. For instance funding for anyone self publishing a book on any matter (philosophy or fiction), building national archives and forums for this humanities to coexist.

But funding a philosophy department with a few elite philosophers who are getting a lot of money to do some philoshophing is just wrong from my pov. I could be convinced otherwise if a good argument is presented, but as far as it goes it has not been presented such argument.

Not really. I'm just presenting arguments I have always had about philosophy not being a science.

Even if rare, not a single philosopher could make an experiment or present me a scientific theory that would prove that abortion is right or wrong. So the opinion of a single philosopher is as good as any other, and as good as mine for this matter.

Most modern philosophers are left wing, so yes, most philosophers would agree that left-wing morals are right, and that would present an opportunity for left-wing people to say that global morality should be decided by philosophers. I'm left wing myself but I'm against tricks and lies, even if they "benefit the cause". And even if considering philosophers the moral light of our society would benefit me (as I mainly agree on most modern philosophers views) I personally consider it to be a false statement.

The not funding thing is on the air, yet. I'm just convinced is not a science, is more like literature and other forms of personal expression. And for me the argument would be founding all equally or none. And of course I don't agree on giving any philosopher a position of authority on morals "just" for being a philosopher in the same way I would give a scientist an authority position in science just for being a scientist (once again, because the whole thing of science is that it's subjected to experiments and falsifiability.

I don't even want to diss philosophers. I enjoy reading philosophy a lot. But just as I enjoy reading any other kind of literature. I have respect for Liu Cixin (for instance) but I wouldn't give him an special position in telling people what to do just because he writes good books that make you think.

I'm pretty sure a lot of professional philosophers would agree on abortion bans, while a schmuck like myself agree on "mothers choice"... So...

I only consider science those fields that can describe nature and assert this depiction of nature vie repeatable experiments. Thus I don't agree on philosophy being a science.

I algo don't agree that a professional would have better morals than me. Due the personal nature of what morality is.

Imagine I say my morals are the best, how is any professional philosopher to prove me wrong? It's not possible. But if I say that "climate change is not real" a lot of climate scientist could show me evidence and offer me a set of experiments to undoubtedly prove me wrong.

I think of philosophy as a form of literature.

Why would a philosophy major would have better ethics than my, for instance?

Ethics are greatly influenced by so many aspects different to whatever career someone chose to study.

And we could cut the middleman just voting and electing people with the same ethical values as me. It would be a piss off democracy if I chose a representantive who campaigned for painting all buses blue because I share that view just for some unelected person coming to say "no that's not ethical you shall not do that".

Ethics of a society emerge from the society, not from a few individuals. Every person have a set of values and in democracies we chose what are the government positions on those values by voting. I think moral lobbing by a few selected individuals would be bad, no matter if priest of philosophy majors.

I have a hard time understanding why we should fund philosophy studies with government money. I would need some convincing.

Feel free to comment here your best arguments for it.

This is a response to a comment that said that a human being would drive better to specify that it's being vastly proven that that is not the truth.

But, once again, we are in Lemmy. So New Technology = bad.