deathbird

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

The worst person you know is still just a meatbag, same as anyone else. Jeff Amazon himself has no power but what others, operating within one weird system, grant him.

Problem is we let the pricks run things, or we become the pricks ourselves.

Trick is figuring out how to stop both those things from happening. Must be tricky, given how it keeps happening. But we're a clever species. We landed on the moon, took pictures of the backside of our star, spilt the atom, etc. We can figure out good economics and governance.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Move fast and break things, but it's a passenger vehicle on a public road.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Oh it's Towers of Hanoi. I have a screensaver that does this.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Once again trying to do a good redstone in Minecraft. But mostly just mine and chill.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah boo reddit.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

‘I can’t explain [why we think you shouldn't include these characters in your one-woman play]. And frankly, I’m quite baffled that you don’t understand.'

Okay but if you can't explain your position, why would you assume others can understand your position?

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

They're probably already in the data set of whichever LLM they use to write their policy documents anyway, so sure, fine. 🙄

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean, you do, but... Often you just attest citizenship. Not sure if it's checked on the backend or not. And illegal immigrants often have SSNs, just not their own. That's how they can work much of the time.

Not that I expect many non-citizens are voting. The risk to reward ratio makes it really unattractive. Even citizens struggle to bother.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

Without seeing the studies, it's hard to know if they were good studies that support her position or not.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Solidly built games, but they lack the player-characters at the center.

They're great games, pinnacles of the form, but I don't think they hit the same as Planescape: Torment.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

It's always niche stuff. Music by non-headliners. Indie films.

I honestly think text/pdfs will actually stay easy. Text, even manga I suspect, is lightweight to host, so it's easier to keep online. By contrast a flac rip of a band that's never gone gold will be too heavy to host on a web page, but too niche to keep dedicated seeders on a torrent.

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

This is an excellent policy position, if only the argumentation wasn't dogshit. I am begging everyone even vaguely lib-left, stop writing like this. If you're trying to write a petition, open letter, or public statement, for the love of god write it for people other than yourselves or just don't say anything at all.

Internet censorship is bad for alphabet people, but it's also bad for the straights. It's bad for everyone. It's just bad.

Freedom is for everyone. And Heritage wasn't coming to the parade anyway.

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