Lemmy generally. I’m not making a factual statement just trying to make them feel unwelcome so they go away.

This post reeks of Reddit 2.0 typical AI-bashing. I love AI and I’m glad this is a fun place free of corpo shills and useful idiot anprim types.

Bro the only one wasting time here is you. I like AI content and come here for it.

Why are you even here? This is the AI cave.

🎵 And I’m coming straight for your heart 🎵

I loved terminator but after learning tmux I just don’t really see much point in the main feature. I use xfce4-terminal on i3 these days.

This just makes your house a target for robbery because the criminals who deliver on the side will think you have lots of money

Americans be crazy. I never tipped in my life and ain’t about to start.

Always has been

L> What are you trusting then?

Nothing. I don’t have any particular need for quasi-religious faith in corporations or institutions that protect them like governments. It’s just glorified HR for corporations.

Yourself? That’s what I would call of naiveté. An individual power is irrelevant in the modern world, even most communities are irrelevant (Lemmy is an example, we’re the 0,001%)

I don’t really see the relevance.

Revolution sure is a nice idea, but I don’t see anyone getting off their arses and doing it (talking about it on Lemmy doesn’t matter, it’s a tiny little bubble), and honestly, I don’t even think revolutions are technically possible anymore (the powers that be are very keenly aware of its processes, mechanisms and risks, and media manipulation is so fucking easy these days)

I agree.

So you got to do something, you have to stand behind some power that can actually make a difference: there’s only one real/realistic choice: your government.

The only difference is I don’t believe this either. Governments serve at the pleasure of capital.

I’ve seen what happens when the left starts voicing their mistrust of the government too carelessly. The right will take those complaints and shift them into their own, and things will snowball very quickly.

They will do this either way. It’s utterly irrelevant what you say, a determined rightoid will twist it to their gain.

People often mistake the idea of trust with the idea of blind faith. You can trust someone/something and still complain and fight against some of their actions and decisions.

Yeah I fundamentally don’t believe it is possible to have a truly beneficial government in any useful modern contemporary sense of the term. The very concentration of power invites corruption.

But you have to pick your battles very carefully. If you want a history lesson

Sure.

look up what happened with Brazil in the period between 2011-2018. I was there, I lived through history.

So? I lived through history too, extreme poverty in Russia, brief benefits of liberalisation, government overreach and eventually the beginning of fascist wars of conquest, then Brexit in the UK and utter collapse of consensus reality across the west and it’s taught me rather differently.

I can tell you that we should all really be fucking afraid of social medias and the internet

I’m never afraid of technology, I’m only afraid of people who use it, and that’s what we oughta be afraid of.

and if a government moves aggressively into regulating that, we should take a step back and think very hard while analysing the whole picture. Even if it looks like authoritarianism, it might still be the correct choice.

You never know. But I remain skeptical.

I can either vote to not pay taxes and slave away with no limit till I croak to maximise shareholder value to accelerate biosphere collapse by rich on yachts or I can pay taxes to fund BBC writing hate and fearmongering articles about my people (trans folks) for the benefit of rich on yachts.

Not much of a choice, is it? You’ll forgive me then if I stay an anarchist.

I mean, yeah? If you generalized enough lots of things can be said to not be materially different, and that’s not invalid, but this state has fundamentally different causes and elements and therefore can’t be lumped together, lest we make the mistake of ignoring the lessons of history.

I don’t live in America, I live in Europe, but the fact you believe in the effectiveness of democracy when governments under capitalism exist to protect corporations and maintain balance for the most part - to me shows naiveté more than anything.

I don’t trust the government, nor should you, and there’s nothing short of a revolution that can change that.

Putin and the oligarchs were handed all the power they have now by people who overthrew the communist government of the RSFSR, not by the communists at all.

It’s present failure stems from the extreme poverty caused primarily by mass sell-off of government institutions and rapid privatisation, otherwise known as shock therapy, a common element in the rise of fascism.

“The 90s” were an absolute hell for a lot of people there. I know, because I was there.

Don’t get me wrong, the USSR was shit in many ways and did incredibly awful things in eastern europe, but to ignore the fact that present Russia is a fascist oligarchy and instead call it communism is not only ignorant of history, but it aids Putin sympathisers and fascists in the west, i.e. Musk, AfD, etc.

This has been the literal opposite of my experience, I’ve literally never had a USB-C cable fail, but I throw out at least a dozen broken MicroUSB cables every single year ranging from having the metal plug literally just fall out of the cable to looking brand new yet simply not working to cables that only work if you apply downwards pressure at the connector, I honestly don’t think I have a single one that works right now and I replaced every microUSB device I owned as quickly as possible.

Hope you don’t think Russia is communist…?

While you raise a good point for a potential reason I can’t imagine having this much faith in a government, where does the optimism stem from?

How you measuring this? Looks very neat.

“badly made music” is a subjective idea.

“Inserting 30 C and D films” implies forcing someone, you are never forced, Spotify is not a goddamn radio station, you can just click on the track or album or artists you want.

That’s the whole selling point of portable music since the days of the original Walkman, that you listen to what you want, and not what’s on the radio.

Same thing with Netflix, you can click the search bar and type in your film or show of choice, you can even stop using Netflix altogether instead of just consooming like a slop vacuum.

Maybe touch non-algorithmically selected non-personalized grass too.

Thanks for letting me know you’re a moron. Blocked.

Yeah sure, it’s actually good to think critically about it, but that doesn’t mean it’s existence is a negative, which is how your comment comes off - dismissive.

In the same way the world would be a slightly worse place without the joys of b-movies like The Room or Suburban Sasquatch or Plan 9 FOS, or without outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston etc…