Melvin_Ferd

@ Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world

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3h ago

Assault charges dropped against Ontario man who confronted home intruder
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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 3h ago
Have you ever had to can the police to report something like this?

6h ago

Generative AI is reportedly tripling carbon dioxide emissions from data centers

Something like that. I see a weird pattern with articles about AI and articles about immigration in right wing circles. They're the same. Like the themes and focus in the headlines for each all seem to be reused

6h ago

Eight Experts on What You’re Not Being Told about the War in Iran | The Walrus

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 6h ago

That's not true

13h ago

Eight Experts on What You’re Not Being Told about the War in Iran | The Walrus

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 13h ago

Someone the other day bragged that they tagged me as a fascist and racist 😆 I have no idea why but I think tagging is stupid in general.

15h ago

Eight Experts on What You’re Not Being Told about the War in Iran | The Walrus

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 15h ago

I guess it freaks me thinking that maybe the real content was bots the entire time and that this is just us. No real insight. No moving anything forward. Just reacting and then telling each other to go outside or touch grass the minute anyone calls it out. Like "shut up and observe your cat memes you internet denizen."

16h ago

Eight Experts on What You’re Not Being Told about the War in Iran | The Walrus

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 16h ago

I did want to read some comments discussing the contents of the article. I'll pop back later I guess

This is kind of what I'm getting at. Like no matter what post I go on, it is all the same. The comments are cookie cutter from post to post.

4chan had insane investigative abilities. Reddit had insight from experts on so many posts about anything. Lemmy is just people who don't like things.

16h ago

Eight Experts on What You’re Not Being Told about the War in Iran | The Walrus

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 16h ago

Your Comment is on the level of "touch grass" just to highlight why lemmy is rapidly turning into a shit show

17h ago

Eight Experts on What You’re Not Being Told about the War in Iran | The Walrus

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 17h ago

My disgust at lemmy users grows daily. This place was suppose to be something great. Why not just read the piece and go off what it says. People need to accept that technology is here and they need to get over it.

There are handful of comments so far and none of them are discussion the content. They're all obsessed if they can tell if it's AI or not.

Of course there issues with AI but this place was heavily astroturfed against and now we're stuck with the consequences

1d ago

Assault charges dropped against Ontario man who confronted home intruder

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 1d ago

This is in Canada. You tell me. A cop finds someone in your car going through it. What are they going to do?

1d ago

BREAKING NEWS - Israeli media reports Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leader of Iran, was killed inside his bunker

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 1d ago

I did. For a while it only got worse and seems like the leftist i was a part of have become just really pitiful sad lumps. Like they really focused on "cat playing piano" part of the internet but ignored the rest. The rest was too confrontational for them. The leftist i left were watching liveleak videos and laughing their asses off.

1d ago

BREAKING NEWS - Israeli media reports Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leader of Iran, was killed inside his bunker

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 1d ago

We have hit an inflection point where what you said is the crazy out of touch opinion, not mine.

3d ago

BREAKING NEWS - Israeli media reports Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leader of Iran, was killed inside his bunker

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 3d ago

Wtf has happened.

The internet has become much worse. Iran is the most important thing happening. But take reddit for example. There seems to be a moderation effort to eliminate multiple discussions and funnel everyone and everything into these single chats. Does that bother anyone else?

Back in the day there would be multiple discussions so many views and opinions. Multiple conversations created momentum and insight. Each iteration improved on the last with information and then there was a single thread that could link to multiple threads. It now seems like that's all gone. Everything is sanitized. I scrolled through some homepages even here on lemmy and it's like

lame joke,

cat posts,

dumb meme,

angry post about Hollywood,

ww3 breaking out mega thread,

cat video,

trumps a butt head,

video game

video game.

Is this our world now. The most important thing is moderated into a drawer so we can get back to the paying a cat tax and being silly guys. What the fuck is going on. I feel like I'm losing my god damn mind.

3d ago

Assault charges dropped against Ontario man who confronted home intruder

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 3d ago

That's the number of occurrences now when it isn't a crime that anyone gets in caught for. Police take it upon themselves to be judges deciding where the law will and will not be applied. Criminals know petty crime is overlooked. Police do not even arrest individuals they find rummage in a vehicle. Those break ins are also not evenly distributed across the country. Police are choosing not to tackle this issue. It is not beneath them. It is their job.

4d ago

Assault charges dropped against Ontario man who confronted home intruder

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 4d ago

You tell me. How many?

5d ago

Assault charges dropped against Ontario man who confronted home intruder

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 5d ago

No they're not. They have the largest budgets every where. They are misallocating their budget. They are fat on the hog. Salaries and benefits are too high. Their equipment egregious. They are not providing even basic law enforcement capabilities. They should be the first place to look for budget cuts until they get in order

5d ago

Assault charges dropped against Ontario man who confronted home intruder

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 5d ago

That's the one. But even then, they can't be held accountable. Look at the gun buy back. Police all over are refusing to do their job. Same happened during covid. Police forces just flat out refused to listen if they don't want to. In America it also is happening more frequently. The police refused to action what the state government were asking of them.

Yet every year it's Police budgets that eat up the Majority of all budgets. So what are they doing?

5d ago

FIFA President Gianni Infantino attended Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ meeting wearing a red hat.

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 5d ago

Unless we figure out a way to organize better, adapt to modern tools and get rid of the of guard nothing will change.

5d ago

Assault charges dropped against Ontario man who confronted home intruder

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 5d ago

If they cannot provide this basic service then we as the public need to the law in our own hands. The entier reason we do not is we entrust that to police. But they no longer serve. They are there to increase their budget and militarize themselves to protect only certain people.

5d ago

Oh nooooo

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 5d ago

Sort of but like the post is saying, I've been way more right then wrong over my life. The amount of times I've argued online with people about things only to have that thing become the big issue 5 years from the point I was arguing it is disgusting. I remember 20 years ago sitting in a bay at work being made fun of because I kept talking about Russia and how they have started to allocate a higher percentage of their budget to cyber warfare that was unseen in budgets outside of wartime. It indicated they were building something. Stuff like that I get hyper interested in. I think I have a good nose for sources. I get into those sources and then find some weird thing nobody else is aware of and then you're just aware of this looming issue and all you can do is watch it unfold.

Same thing with online bots. I can see when certain activity spikes. Certain topics get AstroTurfed and all of a sudden we're talking about nuclear power for a week or some other topic that is really a facade for some bigger issue we're slowly being steered towards. AI was a big one, go to any AI article and tell me that is not the exact same approach Republicans use against immigrants. It's the same fucking thing. "they're taking your job" "they're going to destroy your culture" "they're coming after your women and children" "They're using up all the resouces"

AI has it's issues. But you cannot convince me that there wasn't something pushing articles and headlines on left wing spaces when it was first introduced. There was a massive push to set the tone.

6d ago

Assault charges dropped against Ontario man who confronted home intruder

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Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world 6d ago

There's a few ways I would like to take this but also I think overall I agree with you.

I don't go into it to much but where I'm slowly adapting my views are on a few issues.

One is that I think one is that no cost should be incurred by anyone who defended themselves. I do totally get the argument that everybody deserves justice including criminals. But the stories I've come across tend to highlight how self defense laws are lacking in Canada and there is a lot of room between allowing all killings and some kind of castle doctrine.

The second issue for me is as I've aged, I can't tell you what the hell police do. The amount of times myself or someone i know has called them, only for them to say "not much we can do, just file a report online" is too many. Yet majority of my municipal taxes go to them. So for me I am coming around to the idea that we need to pull back some of the responsibility society has given to police and reclaim it ourselves. They're not keeping us safe. They are now refusing to act when the government tells them to. Because of this I think society does need to go back to the idea that we can't rely on the justice system.