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HalfSalesman

@ HalfSalesman @lemmy.world

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Cynical and bitter mutualist & consequentialist. I hate accelerationists and their apologists as much as I hate fascists.

I used to want good things, but everyone else seems to be fine with bad things. So now I'm pro-vacuum decay event.

I don't have access to this account on non-work days

  • CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant

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  • I think he's vocally self delusional. He does actually believe it, but he's incentivized to delude himself into that belief. And incentivized to say it publicly.

  • CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant

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  • I was a massive proponent of UBI all the way back in like 2010. Got on to invite-only dedicated debate spaces specifically because of my advocacy.

    I'd feel vindicated if I also wasn't so depressed about where we're at today as a country.

  • Anyone find this? I'm old so don't

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  • Younger people are no longer the most computer literate on average. Its between Millennials and Gen X that are the most computer literate generation. Boomers are too old computers weren't big when they were young. Zoomers are too young, computers became highly simplified during their childhood with the start of web 2.0 into the era of tablet & phone domination.

    Alphas are going to be on the other hand completely illiterate, because education is increasingly a joke in the US. Also AI will do everything for them.

  • Billie Eilish says ‘fuck ICE’ during Grammy win: ‘No one is illegal on stolen land’

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  • If I must judge people's virtue while remaining rational, I don't judge people as bad for not taking action. No one chooses to be born, we are not obligated to do anything. In fact, my perspective is that if virtue is of any concern then collective society intrinsically owes the individual for having fostered itself as natalist (which it has to to continue to exist). If any blame can actually be placed at all, of course.

    I don't actually even believe in free will. I don't deal with virtue outside of catharsis and interpersonal relationships, being a consequentialist.

    For instance, I feel hatred towards those that could have but did not vote in 2024, largely out of catharsis. I know its pointless outside of emotional satisfaction.

    So from that perspective: it makes sense you feel frustration at slackivists, but its just catharsis. Your anger and chastisement of them is unlikely to foster any actual positive outcome.

  • Love this

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  • Should everyone know how to apply eyeliner?

  • The world is trying to log off U.S. tech

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  • Silicon Valley people who wanted Trump are so fucking stupid its absurd.

  • Billie Eilish says ‘fuck ICE’ during Grammy win: ‘No one is illegal on stolen land’

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  • OK, but I think the point a lot of commenters were making is Billie Eilish's anti-ICE statement was likely genuine. She might be a slackivist, but it seemed like you attributed her statement to just a grift trying to get kudos and this attitude is applied to every progressive celebrity. I always find this perspective unnecessarily pessimistic.

    I know being a celebrity basically gives you a mental illness, but I'm pretty sure celebrities authentically believe things. If they were in it purely for a grift, they'd start appealing to rightwingers given how much more money they'd be making that way.

  • Billie Eilish says ‘fuck ICE’ during Grammy win: ‘No one is illegal on stolen land’

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  • or do they just say crap [...] score points with little zero inconvenience or consequence to themselves?

    You just described the vast majority of people.

  • Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do? All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.

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  • The "grandparent test" won't necessarily work on child-free and anti-natalists though. Unless they plan on adopting I guess in the latter category.

  • Same sentiment in 2026

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  • The reason they hated the idea of pedo dems is because of the implied heresy in imaginary blood drinking or whatever. The idea of them being atheists, pagans, or gay satanists or whatever. Screaming about pedos was just a marketing avenue and protective tactic because if you tried to defend people who were accused of pedophilia you ran the risk of just being pedojacketed yourself.

    They're already starting to say "Epstein was based, actually" in some rightwing political spaces. Saying he understood power or masculinity or whatever.

    They never actually cared about children or pedophiles. They just hate "the other". They're OK with children being married to adults in number of US states law-wise and rightwingers will defend that, as long as its "trad" or "christian" or whatever.

  • I'm foss plus steam

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  • Hes tried Linux and he hated it, he even used to be in IT. IDK why he disliked it.

  • I'm foss plus steam

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  • I get this response every time, there is a measurable decrease in performance benchmarks. For the 2070 its only like 10% or something around that because its an older card (thus why I'm at least considering swapping that one to Bazzite), but newer nvidia cards (4000 & 5000 series) lose like 30-40% because nvidia's driver support is not great for Linux.

  • I'm foss plus steam

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  • I'm not foss at my core OS level unfortunately because of nvidia hardware and my brother insisting "Windows 11 is fine dude! Stick with Windows!", its funny hes got a AMD card...

    I have a Windows 11 gaming 4070 SUPER Desktop as well as an elderly Windows 10 TV "Console" 2070 desktop. I have both LCD & OLED Steam Decks and some "revived from Windows bloat" linux laptops.

    I am tempted to convert the "console" to Bazzite once I get the time to set that up but its my old gaming PC and I know they're old irreplaceable files I want to scoop up before I wipe it and install that.

    That all said, on my windows machines I use foss whenever available.

  • Society is Limited by Wage Slavery

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  • I meant executives in general, not specifically at my workplace. There is only 1 person with the title "Executive" and shes generally pretty decent.

    My immediate boss is the Youth (After School) Program Director and they don't have true executive powers, they just have basic supervisory powers.

    I will say, before the Youth Director was hired though, we all generally operated fairly autonomously and without issue, things went smoothly. Since my boss was hired, two separate youth counselors quit, one because her hours were cut (One of the few decisions I found pretty dumb by the executive director) and another specifically because she found my immediate bosses decision making actively hampered the quality of our program and she wasn't working there for the money.

    I was once told I should apply for my bosses position and at the time I found the idea completely unattractive. I now regret not applying given who has ended up there.

  • Social gatherings have been... different since I switched.

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  • They're for my personal use and they serve the purpose I use them for fine with a 2 second inconvenience for one of them. Worth saving the money or so to replace them for the time being, especially if I need uniform monitors to maximally work with Linux without issue. Also it reduces e-waste.

    I don't give a fuck about what you think of my character, so the only thing calling me lazy and cheap achieves is just makes me think you're angry for no good reason.

  • Social gatherings have been... different since I switched.

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  • The trick is to buy linux-approved hardware.

    So have money.

    I have two extra monitors, one of them is technically a small low res LCD TV, another is in an elderly monitor that I can only turn on and off by plugging and unplugging it because its power button work's 1 out of 1000 times its pressed. They work, why spend money to replace them, they are just used to monitor temps, music players, and Discord.

    Also this flies in the face of sustainability. I'd figure sustainability is also a major motivating factor of Linux, given its association with other progressive tech movements like right to repair. If I have some random jank old hardware, it'd be nice to not have to just throw it away for the sake of switching to Linux. In fact, Linux does save some hardware of course and gives them new life sometimes. I've revived some old laptops before with it.

    I say this as a Linux advocate, I use Windows due to current necessity. I also use Linux (Not just on a Steam Deck, but yes on a Steam Deck). I'd stop using Windows entirely but I'd need to be richer or accept significant downgrades. I'm not the former and I wont do the latter.

  • Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda

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  • I mean, I've interacted with someone with active anti-semitic beliefs in a dedicated debate space who eventually changed his views to "Well, its not the Jews fault that they got into finance. They just kind of got funneled into that." So absolutely people with shitty views can evolve in the right direction. I respect that a million times more than someone who is morally lucky and never budges.

    And example of the opposite would be someone who adopts progressive stances of their time and never evolved from there or have selective self serving progressive blinders. "LGB w/o the T", rainbow capitalists, Red-brown alliance types, etc.

  • [image] when good infrastructure design does not just prioritize cars its a plus for everyone.

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  • People don't want to get into a car accident.

  • [image] when good infrastructure design does not just prioritize cars its a plus for everyone.

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  • Hey I don’t want to mow that, pave it.

    Hey I hate stroads and car brained infrastructure too but honestly fuck mowing lawns, I relate to that instinct.