flora_explora @ flora_explora @beehaw.org

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Don't think this is necessarily connected to Musk though. Like, I had similar experiences with most institutions and some banks still fuck up my name. Musk probably has zero say in this. But yeah, I avoided for a long time to change my name on PayPal for this exact same reason. When I did update my name this year it did work out great however. PayPal didn't ask me for any proof and it was a smooth experience.

I 100% agree. Ketamine is also in research trials to help with depression.

I wasn't defending chromium or brave, not even commenting on them at all. I was just adding a caveat to what the other commenter said about Firefox.

That's a fair point, yes

Tbf, changing the default search engine probably has the effect that the vast majority of users will stick with it. So, although it is pretty easy for you and me to change the search engine, it still promotes Google quite a lot and thus undermines the independent character of Firefox as a whole.

Same as the two of you. (For me it was science that burnt me out.) I really liked the book, too.

Well, the problem not only lies in synthetics though. Cotton is certainly great and all, but it is hard to get fair trade and actually organic cotton. And wool is hardly ethical as you always have to keep animals and sheer them. Leather? Obviously not ethical. Maybe linen and other natural fibers, but they usually have very specific applications in clothes. But yes, I agree, I would definitely gladly pay for good, ethical, quality clothes, too!

I agree a 100%. It's not about the individuals, we are all replaceable. It's about the system, about capitalism. I think it weird how often people stumble over examples like this or enshitification while this is just how capitalism works. Reforms on a small scale and only for individual problems won't work, we need to collectively decide to change the system that we live in. But people are too deep in their imagination of a system that usually works and just sometimes fails.

Lol ok

Not interested in arguing with you. Try to do some research on the topic and you will see.

Here a random list of sources for you to start with, but the internet is really full if you were just to search for it...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK278977/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41574-019-0176-8

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7047244.stm

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33977636/

https://www.statnews.com/2021/09/13/how-a-fatally-tragically-flawed-paradigm-has-derailed-the-science-of-obesity/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_determinants_of_obesity?wprov=sfla1

ETA: Actually, just read the fucking Wikipedia article on obesity!

Blaiming obesity on caloric intake and overeating alone is a gross oversimplification. Sure, it is part of the cause, but you are not helping anyone by just blaming people for their individual behavior. Actually, you are part of the problem! So please go and educate yourself instead of trying to pump up your low self esteem by narrow-mindedly bashing on others...

That depends totally on the reason you pirate stuff. What are your motivations behind pirating? There are probably a ton of different reasons people do it. I often see people bragging about it so I guess fragile masculinity is a main factor in pirating as well. Or like another commenter said, it could be to experience freedom.

To me, it seems like a political act to pirate stuff from large corporations but pay money for indie media and small creators. Just like I would shoplift in large supermarket chains while I would never shoplift in a small family-run store.

As I understood it, OP is complaining about the semantics of the term 'public company'. While the term would suggest that it is benefitting the general good, it instead is not interested in the public good at all. The term is rather about how a company is making its money, which regardless of being a public or private company is usually having adverse effects on the wellbeing of people. In this sense, coining a company 'public' seems to be quite cynical.

As a German native speaker my brain nearly exploded trying to read the English subs but still understanding everything they say x)

Hm, I see your point. The actual problem of the article is rather the generalization in the title in combination with the very limited scope of the article. No US centrism necessary for criticizing it!

All this might be true for large, privately funded museums in the US, but generalizing for all kinds of museums with this very limited set of examples shows how US-centric the author is. Feels like r/ShitAmericansSay.

I'm really really glad that there are many critical (and unfortunately severely underpaid) people here in Germany that to this day work on showing and explaining the Holocaust. Are there many museums in Germany that still have stolen goods from all over the world and that refuse to give them back? Yeah, sure! But that does not make any thinkable museum unethical!

Ah OK, so mass is important but surface isn't, right?

Weird comment. Lookism isn't cool, even if targeted at horrible and powerful people like Elon Musk. Also, how would more mass/larger surface slow anything down in space where there is no air resistance/drag??

The point is not that it is bad for men to find any real or AI generated women hot. That's totally fine. What's problematic is portraying women as objectified (i.e. stripping them of their position as subjects that also have needs and wants) and utterly absurd hypersexualized alterations of what real people look like. This sends the message to everyone (and heterosexual men in particular) that women don't have any personality, no needs or desires of their own as well as forming a very detached idea of what real women actually look like. I would think that this is why we see things like the incel community because they are very much detached from other human beings, i.e. women. So sure, these "women" who are being ranked aren't actually real women. But that doesn't make the representation of hypersexualized bodies of women less real. The difference is that we don't need to exploit any real people for this. But this website is still participating in shaping our image of what women are. Like porn, where you see a lot of actors doing stuff they would most probably not do if it weren't their job. Still, porn has brainwashed most people into a very different idea of sex, what human bodies look like, how they are supposed to perform and that women have no will, no desire of their own.

Well, in the linked article the wife of this person said that they wouldn't have committed suicide without the AI facilitating it. So yes, I would say it is at least in part the AI's fault. And no, I didn't say it was the intention of the AI to do so. But that doesn't mean it won't do it at all.

You seem to really wanna push AI and lose your empathy over this...