zephyrvs @ zephyrvs @lemmy.ml

just another anarchist

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I'm actually fed up with that entire "let's just ignore everything that's bad and pretend everything's fine"/ignorance is bliss/good vibes only approach to using the Internet.

Content warnings for everything nowadays , instead of some trigger warnings for the seriously upsetting shit.

Things aren't getting better if we keep our eyes closed.

Don't want to doomscroll? Block or mute what you don't want to see. We used to call that filter sovereignty when web 2.0 got started and it somehow mutated into "don't show me anything that might stress me out".

I don't like that development and I'm glad Lemmy seems to be rather chill so far.

You're welcome!

You keep on repeating yourself and it's quite obvious you're not acting in good faith and that you're incapable of accepting that people may actually form opinions that aren't your own. I'm out. If you all you see is Russian propagandists, have fun living in that reality.

You’re the one bringing up “Russian talking points”; the views I present are my own.

He said, she said - we're going in circles here. Either we're both able to accept that we have our own views, hopefully based on research of somewhat neutral or at least sources of both sides or we'll keep throwing mud at each other for no reason.

I’ve seen no credible evidence that anyone other than Russia was behind the Nordstream attacks, but feel free to try to convince me otherwise.

Sure thing, see:

After months of accusations by Western states that Russia carried out the attack against itself, the narrative about Russian “ghost ships” began to crumble. On May 21, the Swedish paper, Expressen, wrote that “the Russian ships have been able to be excluded from the investigation” because “their positions have been mapped and the conclusion must be that they have not been in such a place that they could have carried out the deed.” [...] In a June 7 article, the Washington Post cited intelligence gleaned from the Discord Files to assert that the Ukrainian military had secretly orchestrated the Nord Stream sabotage. “All those involved reported directly to Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s highest-ranking military officer,” the Post claimed, “who was put in charge so that the nation’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, wouldn’t know about the operation, the intelligence report said."

Source: The Grayzone

I'm aware TGZ is suspect to many (I can already hear the "tanki tankie!!!11" crowd) and I don't take anything they write at face value either, but seriously, this is solid reporting on the matter, a good summary of the various narratives that have been put into play so far, it's well sourced and based on data collected by Erik Andersson who lead an independent diving expedition to the blast sites. You can also check out his Substack if you absolutely don't want to read TGZ.

If you're still convinced it was Russia, I don't know what to tell you.

And leave everyone exposed to one-sided Western propaganda that's already all over the media? Nah, pass. I did my own research into the whole Ukraine/Russia/maidan coup story years ago after stumbling upon some people critical of the Western narrative. You and people like you can downvote and keep on repeating the same NATO talking points all you want, I'm not here for the clout/karma/whatever. :)

I was fascinated by Jung's works after tripping on shrooms and becoming obsessed with understanding conciousness. I already stumbled upon llama.cpp and started playing around with LLMs and just decided to build a prototype for myself, because I've doing shadow work for self-therapy reasons anways.

It's not really that useful yet, but making it into a product is unlikely because most people who wouldn't trust ChatGPT won't trust an open source model on my machine(s) either. Also shipping a product glued together from multiple open source components with rather strict GPU requirements seems like a terrible experience for potential customers and I don't think I'd be able to handle the effort of supporting others to properly set it up. Dunno, we'll see. :D

I'll make sure to give Putin a call and let him know once I've finished dinner.

Agreed, 9/11 isn't a good example for the topic of the RUS/UKR war. Thanks!

I'm pumped for Llama2 which was released yesterday. Early tests slow some big improvements. Can't wait for Wizard/Vicuna/Uncensored versions of it.

I'm building an assistant for Jungian shadow work with persistent storage, but I'm a terrible programmer so it's taking longer than expected.

Since shadow work is very intimate and personal, I wouldn't trust a ChatGPT integration and I'd never be fully open in conversations.

Well, there are plans to create a SWIFT alternative (?)/digital currency for African nations to trade between themselves. They're not simply relying on BRICS, it would seem.

Thanks for explaining war to me. Helpful.

You're replying to a comment where I explicitly mention that Russia and Ukraine are at war. Duh. Thanks for... explaining war?

I never disputed that Russia is killing Ukrainians. wtf.

Ukraine was likely behind the assassination of Darya Dugin and they've flown drones armed with explosives over residential areas in Moscow.

Just one source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65751632

Not to forget the Nordstream pipelines (though I'm sure the US was heavily involved).

Come on man, there are no good people in war. Stop the "Russian talking points" line while simultaneously regurgitating Western talking points. It's quite tiresome.

There's a reason I quoted multiple definitions. The 9/11 example is also clearly a response to the comment I'm replying to because the author claimed that terrorism requires that the perpetrators are hiding their involvement.

I also bolded nations (state-sponsored), political organizations, state institutions such as armies and intelligence services.

Exactly for that reason. Ukraine is openly and clandestinely attacking* Russia, most likely with help from Western governments. The goal is to instill fear in the Russian population in order to reduce the russian population's willingness to support or accept the ongoing SMO/war against Ukraine/NATO expansion.

• I'm not judging, they're at war.

Uhm, no, based on your definition not even the official 9/11 story's Al-Quaida would be considered terrorists because they supposedly admitted to what they were doing:

FBI's terrorism definitions:

International terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups who are inspired by, or associated with, designated foreign terrorist organizations or nations (state-sponsored).

Domestic terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.

Encyclopedia Britannica:

terrorism, the calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective. Terrorism has been practiced by political organizations with both rightist and leftist objectives, by nationalistic and religious groups, by revolutionaries, and even by state institutions such as armies, intelligence services, and police.

Cambridge:

violent action for political purposes

After the backlash that was created by Google Glass and the clusterfucks that other hip consumer-oriented wearable cameras (like Snap's Spectacles, Ray Ban's and Bose's glasses) have been, I don't expect this to happen.

It's much more likely that CCTV will be so pervavise that we're unlikely to have any expectation of privacy whatsoever, once in public and that governments and the private sector will have access to most of it.

Yeah, the post you're replying to is definitely filled with anger.

SA ignored an ICC warrant in 2015 already and it was basically shrugged off.