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LeninOnAPrayer

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  • AI HYPE HYPE AI HYPE NOOOW

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  • We train algorithms to detect CP, Violent, and NSFW images. Which, in the right hands is a good thing. But to do this we need to actually provide these images to a model. A massive dataset of CP and other awful material.

    So we pay third world workers pennies to ruin their minds looking at some of the most disgusting images imaginable. Seriously, spend 8 hours a day looking at CP and violent beheadings and think you'll be ok in the head? Most workers do it for a day and quit.

    These AI models datasets are built on the suffering of the third world.

  • Pro-Israel Figures Threaten to Kill Greta Thunberg Over Gaza Aid Mission - Quds News Network (2025-06-02)

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  • Most people in the west you mean. Most people in the world are very much against Israel and it's genocide. I think we forget this.

    If you live in the west you can feel alone in caring about the suffering. You just feel alone in the west.

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  • We've hit the point where people are only trying to save their own asses from any type of future justice. Justice that will hopefully come before they are all dead.

    It is a positive shift. Don't get me wrong. But what we are seeing right now has not done anything yet to improve the material conditions of the people of Gaza or Palestine as a whole.

    These western leaders and scholars are trying to form a narrative that can be looked back at as "the point" in which they stood up against the genocide. But (1) that point was 19 months ago and (2) they aren't actually doing anything to stop the genocide.

    We cannot let history see them in a good light. These leaders and scholars have known exactly what has been happening for the last 19 months. You can't spend 19 months denying the acts of genocide and only finally come to the conclusion once Gaza is reduced to ruins and it's entire population is starving. That not what genocide scholars are meant to tell us. They aren't meant to tell as after the fact. They are meant to learn from history and call out these things long before it is allowed to reach this point.

    And many of them did. But if you're a "genocide scholar" and you're only now coming to the conclusion that this is genocide. 19 months after real scholars correctly pointed to it. You are not a scholar. You are a glorified record keeper.

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    Roommate refuses to use my body wash cause it's not "manly"

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  • My friend from Korea once said "I think most American men's entire personality is built around trying to prove to everyone they're not gay". Pretty much sums it up.

  • Spain aims to ban flushing of wet wipes, with manufacturers paying for cleanup

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  • This reminded me to hit my bidet button and stop browsing. Enjoying the ass blast as I type this.

  • Spain aims to ban flushing of wet wipes, with manufacturers paying for cleanup

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  • That's only true if it's more profitable. Companies sell plenty of shit to Americans that is banned in other markets. We're basically a dumping ground for a lot of cheap "has been linked to cancer" products.

  • White House refuses to come clean on Musk drug testing

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  • Shrooms often "enhance" your mind. They don't necessarily make you more open minded. If you were already an open minded person they will likely enhance that. If you were a right wing Nazi they're most likely going to enhance that too.

    People act like drugs are some mind opening experience. And to an extent they are. But, they don't reveal something to you like a message from God. They allow your mind to be revealed without restrictions. To learn things about your mind that it was hiding.

    This can be a positive or negative experience depending on who you are.

  • White House refuses to come clean on Musk drug testing

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  • Yeah. If he just stayed with pot I think we'd be better off. Whatever other cocktail he is on is really not helping anyone. But I think if he drops it he's going to do something insane with the withdrawals.

  • Are IDEs really like this ?

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  • I can't live without VIM keybinds. Maybe I'm a boomer. I do use it as a note taking or "collect my thoughts" app. Or just a place to paste shit when I'm working. Very useful for that. Though only when I'm forced to be on Windows.

  • Is that bad?

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  • I'm convinced a lot of the "AI tools" in general are just the same old tool with data collection tacked onto it. I really hope some of the things I see labeled as "AI" in tech these days are not actually running some model on a GPU somewhere. I pray they aren't at least.

  • Belgium’s future queen caught up in Harvard foreign student ban

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  • Yeah. Famously no other universities have been targeted. We definitely don't have a green card holding student rotting in a cell for months at this point. With not a single charge of a crime against him.

    Yeah. I'm sure this rich queen is the only victim. And Harvard has definitely been the only school targeted /s

  • Belgium’s future queen caught up in Harvard foreign student ban

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  • Do you think this policy is only going to be unique to Harvard? Your comment is ironic because it's upvoted by the same people disagreeing with me that don't care about a royal. But can't see the the the bigger picture of who this hurts.

    The entire criticism I have is that it shouldn't take a royal for people to care and it's absolutely silly to write an article around it. It makes the absolutely wrong point about who is harmed by this. It's literally pro Trump. Use to trick his base into thinking the "elite" are the ones that will be hurt. They won't. They will at most be inconvenienced.

    But you somehow miss BOTH points. Somehow not getting my point of criticism of the article AND missing the larger picture of who these xenophobic policies will hurt the most.

    It's starts here. At the easiest place for American working class to say "yep, fuck the Queen". And solidifies xenophobic policies into law. All while idiot liberals clutch their pearls as "the poor queen".

  • Belgium’s future queen caught up in Harvard foreign student ban

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  • /woosh

    The criticism is that the media coverage here is around some slight inconvenience to a royal. Thanks for pointing to the thing the article entirely misses and using that to point to misunderstand my criticism.

  • Python needs an actual default function

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  • If the file is just a class I usually put example usage with some default arguments in that block by itself. There is no reason for a "main" function. It's a nice obvious block that doesn't run when someone imports the class but if they're looking at the class there is a really obvious place to see the class usage. No confusion about what "main()" is meant to do. 

     
        
if __name__ == '__main__':
    # MyClass example Usage
    my_object = MyClass()
    my_object.my_method()

  • GNU Taler (a swiss FLOSS alternative to Visa, Mastercard and Paypal) begins operating in Switzerland as Version 1.0 releases

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  • The data on these things is completely unreliable. Wallets are opened and dumped at will. I don't think that you're really wrong. It is likely very concentrated. But I know that there is no reliable way of actually coming to this statistic.

  • GNU Taler (a swiss FLOSS alternative to Visa, Mastercard and Paypal) begins operating in Switzerland as Version 1.0 releases

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  • Decentralized currencies will only actually make sense when the material incentives of our economic system would benefit from them. Capitalism is literally all about concentrating the control of capital and the means by which we produce things. Sadly, decentralized currencies will never be allowed to decouple themselves from these economic systems. There is too much material power to prevent that. And by material power I mean literally the enforcement of these concentrations of wealth through the use of violence.

    The tech is cool. But it doesn't magically solve the problem by simply being invented. It's why no one is actually paying with these cryptocurrencies on anything but an extremely small scale.

    A currency that cannot be manipulated by capitalist for their benefit has no place in our world. So, it will never reach any meaningful real use until those structures are dismantled. It will just continue to be a speculative asset that rich people dump their extra wealth into and poor people play as the lottery.

  • GNU Taler (a swiss FLOSS alternative to Visa, Mastercard and Paypal) begins operating in Switzerland as Version 1.0 releases

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  • That's like saying a HDD is bad because someone can put CP on it.

    Edit: CP rhymes with "Mild Corn".

  • You can't "skill issue" yourself out from every situation

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  • This sadly excludes the majority of bad UX decisions that are done entirely to maximize users time inside of the app as well as display advertising.

    So many functional apps are destroyed by these incentives. There is literally a "skill issue" but in the opposite direction. The design is either purposely malicious in a subtle way with "dark patterns" (something Amazon is insanely guilty of. Literally just go try and return and item.) or is purposely annoying trying to ensure the user purchases the "free trial" to actually make the app functional. Knowing a lot of users will be charged at least once for the free trial.

    I guess my point is that there is so so so so much wrong with UX design today. But for the majority of people that's not because of a bad programmer with no design knowledge. It's on purpose in most cases.

  • This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco area

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  • That car route is likely on an interstate that mopeds can't ride on. Motorcycle is ok, but again, safety is a concern for a lot of people on an interstate.

    Likely an alternative side road route but depending on the place that could literally be twice as long with all the red lights you hit on the stroads.