AlbigensianGhoul

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Double posting because I think this Tom Scott video is another useful visualization.

https://youtu.be/8YUWDrLazCg

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And don't forget the millions with negative net worths.

It's because liberals have cult of personality as the only way they can understand politics. So the only way they can mock or demean the Russian government is by projecting some kind of made up personality on Putin, despite being unwilling to ever read or listen to a thing he says. You could probably voice over Putin in faux Russian and they probably wouldn't be able to tell that that wasn't his actual voice. It's related to how they can only understand their political opponents as dumb/senile/angry/weak as that's the only thing they usually consider in electoral politics, actual ideology be damned.

this might be relevant for your privacy. As for the posters, I don't have concrete ones to recommend, but if you're in the USA it might be cool to look into posters for Latin American communist parties in Spanish, or for historical ones from the BPP/Rainbow Coalition. They might respond better to those than to ones written in Russian.

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago

I apologize for the inconvenience, but as an AI language model, I don't have direct access to books or copyrighted materials like "The Bedwetter" by Sarah Silverman.

Pack it up, guys!

On a serious note corporations abusing authors' copyrighted work is on an entire different level to civilian piracy and I hope they get seriously shafted over it. Same thing for Bing and Bard. All of chatGPT is built on dubious or outright illegal datasets and there is no reason huge multinationals shouldn't at least pay and inform the authors of those works. But in reality the blame will probably be shifted to the libraries.

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I randomly stumbled on this thread a while back, and the comments are a very useful illustrative example of the typical Western liberal chauvinism, while they try to frame it in a friendly way.

I've come to realise the last few days how respectful some so called 3rd world countries are.

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 2 years ago

How are those cluster munitions going?

It is truly baffling how the Freedom Land has so many barriers for people trying to access a thing that they're already paying for when it's useful for them rather than for the KKK. And considering that it was explicit state policy until not that long ago to sterilise non-white people (particularly Native people) and there were even criminal hysterectomies happening in the border camps just 4 years ago it's no surprise that this is still implicitly policy. A lot of doctors are old enough to have been practising since then without facing any repercussions or re-education. The USA has to end.

Also this map is fun because it's not even "always the same map".

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 years ago

I miss darkly-red actually having red bits. Until it's back I guess I can suffer in i386 hell.

[–] AlbigensianGhoul@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wasn't the myth supposed to be Russians/Indians some 10 years back? I think it's a lot of confirmation bias due to foreign sounding names, but it could have a slight boost due to having a stronger tech environment while allowing some very accessible forums for general game hackery (both cheats and piracy). The comments are quite funny in their obliviousness, though:

Appreciate the insight. I think a lot of people don't realize it's a social issue over there with the mentality of "Win by absolutely any means necessary.".

Interesting, I've heard that there are similar issues with cheating on Chinese educational exams where there is huge pressure to score well to get into good schools or jobs.

Yeah, might not be a good immediate strict rule but some people over there already seems to be doing something like that either with a comment or a quote. Even as an informal tradition it still helps understand how a Washington Post article is useful despite its Washingtonianness, for instance, and drive discussion. The old reddit analogue kinda focused way too much on bombarding you with headlines but I personally am more in favour of deeper discussions on each thread.

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