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AlteredEgo

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    least pro china .ml user

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  • It's become strawman arguments to create different tribes. The issue isn't about China or what they do well or do badly. The "facts" and accusations against "tankies" are just taken as given.

    Prejudice has become mainstream and a serious problem because people are just fed up with actually arguing. I think it started with the global warming denial. we learned that it's not just fringe groups that are simply immune to arguing, but that you can have half of the people be immune to political discourse. And of course Russia propaganda played a major role in that, but much less than the climate denial or religious or libertarian propaganda that comes from think tanks and the Koch brothers and Murdock and other plutocrats.

    As a radical and dissenter myself, I'm not pro Russia or pro China but I see them as a country of human beings and see how the propaganda against them is used to deflect both blame and attention away from the dominant world order, "US centric imperialism". The "leftists" and "progressives" point their finger to Iran or China or Russia about the LGBTQ or whatever issues over there using mainstream media or memes, instead of primarily focusing on the responsibility of their own actions, the actions of their own countries. The effects of soft power, the effects of "economic imperialism" on other countries, and their ignorance of what regime change actually means for the actual quality of life of those people living in "shithole" countries. Liberals don't realize how redpilled they are, how "unwoke". Hate sells really well in the attention economy.

    Almost nobody on "those instances" believes Russia or China is socialist. It's simply that a unipolar instead of a multipolar world will mean much less hope for any socialist projects to succeed. Constantly painting them as "evil" and threatening them with military expansion is also just wrong.

  • I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it.

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  • Italy made VPNs practically illegal. The UK might soon follow. And surfing the web with a VPN is a painful torrent of capchas. And email addresses you can get without revealing your phone number to identify yourself are becoming sparse too.

    If you'd want to actually address the issue (insofar unsupervised teenagers watching porn is an issue) you'd need something like a U2F security key that can be used as anonymous age verification and be bought anonymously in a physical shop for cash, just by showing your ID to a clerk (without your details being stored). Keys being stolen or misused could then also be flagged in a public database.

  • “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for”, President Trump says

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  • Don't worry about the AI companies, they can afford it and then make a profit (eventually).

    Worry about the open source AI models that you can run locally using solar panels. They will become defacto illegal piracy. Affordable hardware to run large models without too much power is finally appearing (Ryzen AI max), but the software will become proprietary intellectual property of those who own the world. Which is the worst case scenario.

  • The ol' Uno Reverse

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  • You made a very strong claim that she committed a sex crime. You imply her accusations are wrong and malicious. You jumped to that conclusion and took that as fact. And you didn't even bother to read what she did. You judged her without even caring about that.

    Not saying you are a bigot, but what you did was bigoted. You should reflect on your behavior, apologize and resolve not to do it again. Only then you could ask for the downvotes to stop lol.

  • Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette

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  • Yeah public broadcasting is under attack because of advertising. Advertising fuels private broadcasting and it's in their owner's interest to push anti public broadcasting propaganda.

    Any system humans design to serve us as a society will over time become "min maxed" by people or institutions seeking to maximize their profit or gain more power or maintain power in the face of changes. Advertising is a primary vector how those with the most economic power can influence society without people even realizing it. And everything is political.

    For example take the ratings and something like yellow pages and announcements for new businesses like a plumber - needing to invest additional capital in advertising has an effect too. It makes it so new businesses are more indentures, more like wage slavery, than if no advertising existed at all. Obviously no advertising at all would favor seniority. But we have advanced in technology since we designed our government systems - there should be an independent "forth estate" or fifth or something for economics and regulation. They could be independently voted on to the executive or legislative. And their job would be to deal with regulation in the public's interest, and sponsor things like an independent ratings portal that is moderated, and force shops like amazon to use the independent ratings for the products and the vendors. It will stay a struggle to stay ahead of people trying to abuse the system for gain, but right now we pretend the tools we have right now are somehow god given. We Europeans are far more conservative than we like to think.

    If we want to have any resiliency against what is coming (because we destroyed our planet and let wealth inequality spiral and social media is nearly completely controlled by plutocrats) we need to push for better tools to govern democratically. And advertising is a major obstacle because it allows unmitigated influence of those who own the world.

    TLDR: We don't *have to * screw over new plumbers, but we should do it if we had to because stopping the brainwashing is more important.

  • Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette

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  • Ok, it's obviously a complicated task, and banning advertising will make things more complex. But that is what progress often is.

    But before the internet we used to even have TV shows reviewing things, under the mandate they don't get paid to do so. People do have an interest in learning about new cool things or improvements to old, and comparative reviews. There is no reason this wouldn't serve the legitimate need for information better. Now we have ratings and that could be improved as well, through better technology to gather independent reviews.

    And yeah, there are not free lunches from corporations, but there are from people or from the government. We pay collectively for things and distribute them for free all the time. Public broadcasting could be extended to youtube or even news papers, to make them more independent from profit driven behavior or owners. You can't have democracy without free press, and currently we don't have that. We have corporate press and every single youtube channel has to serve corporate news. And as you point out, in capitalism there is no free lunch. But we can make it free so we can stop the insanity of neoliberal and fascist propaganda currently destroying our civilization globally.

    Another thing I forgot to mention, advertising is the main vector to increase consumerism. Which is killing our planet.

  • Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette

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  • There are also market effects on what type of content is produced / profitable to advertise on.

    And mostly unknown psychological effects of advertising on the human mind. Maybe advertising has altered your mind so much that you "don't even mind" it any more. It is a brainwashing technique after all haha. Maybe all those youtube ads made about 5% of the people's brain soft enough to vote for MAGA. Maybe the effect of advertising is as bad as lead in gasoline.

  • I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product..

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  • Yeah you'd want to legally verify that and organize en masse for this to have any impact.

  • Many such cases

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  • The dog wouldn't want to die without him. Dogs are almost like our symbiotes.

    Even though I’d set up the cat tree on her insistence, Donut jumped straight onto my neck and settled in.

    “Goodnight, Carl,” she said.

    “Goodnight, Donut,” I said, patting her head.

    “Promise me you won’t let me die alone like GumGum’s mom,” she said. “Or GumGum. I guess she died alone, too. She was probably really scared.”

    “Don’t worry, Donut,” I said. “We’ll find out who’s responsible, and we’ll make them pay.”

    I'm just reading the "Dungeon Crawler Carl" series (which includes "The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook") and he sort of inherits his ex-girlfriends cat Donut. Then the earth is flattened by aliens because we failed to file and appeal 50 years after first content and Carl is forced into a Running Man style dungeon for the alien's entertainment. Luckily his cat Donut evolves and becomes intelligent and can shoot magic missiles out of her eyes. She later says:

    “You promised me that I wouldn’t die alone,” she said. “You can’t keep that promise if you die before me. We do this together.”

  • MIT's new AI can teach itself to control robots by watching the world through their eyes — it only needs a single camera

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  • I believe things like this are a breakthrough to making building robots cheaper and easier, without requiring heavy and high precision parts and manufacturing. Build robot out of wood, if wood gets wet and warps, the AI model just retrains and adapts. This will make easier to exploit comrade robot!

    I'd be curious if there are efforts or considerations about automation and a type of "techno-communism". But something that is actually achievable in a small country or a large (distributed) community. A kind of planned economy that can be bootstrapped using relatively cheap technology including IT, software and robotics. To achieve a more sustainable and mostly circular local economy covering all the basic human needs. Like a crowdfunded research and development project to create a "bottom up" communism.

  • please wake up

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  • Vote blue no matter yahu

  • If you want to see my pusswatcha, dress like men in hair metal bands from the 1980s.

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  • Lets repopularize costume parties so guys get a chance to try to dress-up

    Yeah but isn't that what women do when "going out"? Makup and clothes that create a different look and style?. Maybe call it "persona", like "my social persona is male harajuku" (lol)

  • Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee'

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  • It's still irony. Like rain on your wedding day

  • Voting age to be lowered to 16 in UK by next general election

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  • Is there a reason to call it "male loneliness epidemic" instead of just "loneliness epidemic"?

    Isn't the male part actually a reaction to the "fascist youth indoctrination" mentioned above? The modern fascism pushed by the anti-woke "intellectual dark web" is fundamentally a belief in inequality based on identity like sex, gender or race. Which is incompatible with dating emancipated women if based on sex, and causes problem when dating materialistic women who seek beauty or wealth.

    So part of the problem is fascism. And the other part is neoliberalism, making raising children so expensive that it forces people to strongly consider wealth of partners before other attributes. That and the other things you mentioned of course, or an identity fueled by social media self marketing.

  • I dont want to enter a contract when consuming your product..

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  • There should be an "protest buy" action to any the products that do this bullshit. A large group of people buy the products and then return them to the store for a refund. Especially for perishable goods, this would make them worthless. Which would make stocking such products a loss and force the vendors and manufacturers to cut the shit out.

  • what was bro even thinking lmao

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  • Woah everybody is going wild and jumping on Stephen King like piranhas haha. He said one vague things and now everyone here is accusing him of being a pedophile. Fucking crazy!

  • sigh

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  • consumerism is fundamental to human nature

    I don't disagree. Like Nietche said: "I shop, therefor I am" haha. Also:

    Any argument you make that increases the risk of genocide is wrong.

    I agree that hedonism is a fundamental part of human nature, but not exclusively or in this extreme. Lets agree "Extreme Consumerism" on the current level is destructive, genocidal and not healthy for us. People also need a planet to live on, and want a world where their children can grow up without being consumed by advertising, self-marketing or endlessly distracted by tasty nonsense.

    Advertising is the primary "infection vector" that makes people think that what they shop is their identity. It also doesn't require full on socialism to prevent the genocidal effects of unbridled consumerism.

    I do believe we can achieve a modest level of hedonism where this "DLS" becomes something more luxurious than our current living standards. Working only 20 hours a week, having a luxury apartment with an awesome look on nature or on a green city. With the current technology, the "one mobile phone and one laptop per person on earth" isn't more sustainable than a gaming PC.

    There are many destructive or abhorrent things that are part of human nature that we as rational individuals want to control in a society. I believe video games or virtual worlds with full "deep dive VR" is where we could explore and satisfy our less savory natures. But we can't let it influence us like the toxic male teenage gamer culture has by now. The "sheepism" is real, unless you think MAGA is fine. But it's mostly driven by dire outlook on material conditions.

    Fundamentally, we can't keep going as we have. It doesn't matter if nobody "wants" the party to stop. It has to. And the study in OP gives us strong evidence that it is possible to achieve at least a decent living standard without exterminating ourselves.

    Humans only really need 7 or so fundamental: Food / water, shelter / housing, safety, community, healthcare, communication, education / news. If we can get those with working only very little, living mostly a life of leisure, that's already luxury. Everything on top of that advanced technology can give us is gravy.

    Like building tons of greenhouses to grow food beyond "subsistence farming" locally and using simple farming robots that are not harder to assemble than 3D printers, or genetically engineering food.

    What technology can't give us is a culture where greed and politics doesn't lead to irrational, undesirable and unequal outcomes. Or maybe our new savior ChatGPT can haha.

  • movie rule

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  • There is no doubt the creator of that short had a creative experience though. Why shouldn't a dilettante "play" at film directing using shortcuts? And the work as a whole is clearly not stolen, but unique.

    I'd kinda would love to see that AI short remade now, with a prompt "make this as as shitty video that was produced by an amateur and his friends, without professional actors and no production value" haha.

  • sigh

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  • Only a subset of food can be grown locally and that local food is only available seasonally. It’s the system we already have.

    We're probably talking about different things, like "you can't grow almonds or citrus fruit locally". But humans can clearly survive on a local diet pretty much everywhere, it's just a question of population density. Your food staple would simply be what kind of calorie crop grows locally, plus vegetables and greenhouses for exotic fruit.

    And yeah, all of this is a social solution through and though. Like you'd want to encourage people to help plant and harvest. But this might differ from of community to community. Some might want to use more automation with robotics. You really don't want a uniform regime. One man's utopia is another man's gulag.

    People already love to eat or order out. You could have a cafeteria for each apartment block and robots delivering inside the building like a hotel. This would still be drastic reduction, even compared to shopping by car. Going shopping by foot or bike in your local city neighborhood is probably still more, because you don't have to transport the harvested food using trucks but process it locally.

    The greatest luxury of all would be to have free time.

    That doesn’t follow. The same work needs to be done

    No it doesn't! We can drastically reduce the amount of work that needs to be done! That is the whole point! You can look at it as capitalism being incredibly inefficient. Or incredibly efficient at creating unequal conditions benefiting those with capital (and vastly inefficient conditions for those without).

    A major driver of this is advertising or "brainwashing" people to buy garbage they don't need. Or the advertising industry itself - think of the stock value of all the social and TV media, it is completely financed by advertising, and all the downstream industry that is fed by it. All that is waste!

    Or planned obsolescence, purposefully producing goods and appliances that break within one or two year.

    Or things like a byzantine tax code, or complicated laws. Or regulations or land ownership preventing efficient reorganization of cities or infrastructure.

    PS: And yeah the obvious impossibility is that those who own and profit from all these inefficiency would never allow this. But we shouldn't forget or deny it's possible.