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  • Do you believe in Aliens?

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  • I recognize that the universe is so vast that it's likely that life forms other than us exist in it, but that's the extent of it.

    I've seen no verifiable evidence that they in fact do, so I don't "believe" that they do.

    Really, I don't "believe" in much of anything for which there is no verifiable evidence. I don't even understand how that works - how it is that other people apparently do. It's not a conscious choice or anything - it's just appears that there's a set of requirements that must be met before the position of "belief" is triggered inside my mind, and one of those requirements is verifiable evidence. Without that, the state of "believing" just isn't triggered, and it's not as if I can somehow force it, so that's that.

    As far as I can see, governments are comprised almost entirely of psychopaths, opportunists, charlatans and fools, so I see little likelihood that they possess concealed knowledge regarding any nominal extraterrestrial life. First, and most simply, if they did possess any such knowledge, it's near certain that somebody would've blabbed something by now.

    Beyond that though, I think it's exceedingly unlikely that any alien life form capable of traveling interstellar distances would, on arriving on the Earth, seek out contact with a government, much less limit its contact to a government. If they're that advanced, it can only be the case that they, in their own development, either never bought into the flatly ludicrous and clearly destructive idea of institutionalized authority or overcame it before it inevitably destroyed them, and in either case, I don't see any reason why they would lend any credence to our mass delusion that this one subset of humanity forms a specially qualified and empowered elite that rightly oversees everyone else's interests. That's our delusion - not theirs.

  • Israel's 'Where's Daddy?' AI system helps target suspected Hamas militants when they're at home with their families, report says

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  • Yes - it is sociopathic.

    That's not a coincidence.

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    A gunman killed and injured protesters at a BLM march. Why did police blame the victims?

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  • As with so many such things, it's only a mystery if you start with the presumption that official narratives are true.

    If you start with the presumption that official narratives are not true, then the supposed mystery immediately vanishes and everything just falls neatly into place.

  • Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV

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  • Would you refuse to visit websites that force registration even if the account is free?

    I already generally do.

    What’s all the fuss about, you don’t care?

    I honestly don't much care, but that's because western civilization is circling the drain, warped and undermined at every turn by wealthy and powerful psychopaths, and it's just not worth it to care, since there's absolutely nothing I can do to stop them

    Is advertising a necessary evil in fair trade for content?

    Some sort of revenue stream is potentially necessary, but that's the extent of it. Advertising is just one revenue stream, and even if we limit the choices to that, there are still many different ways it could be implemented.

    The specific forms of advertising to which we're subjected on the internet are very much not necessary. And they don't exist as they do because the costs of serving content require that much revenue - they exist as they do to pay for corporate bloat - ludicrously expensive real estate and facilities and grotesquely inflated salaries for mostly useless executive shitheads.

    Would this limit your visiting of websites to only a narrow few you are willing to trade personal details for?

    Again, that's what I already do, so it would just add more sites to those I won't visit.

    Is this a bad thing for the internet experience as whole, or just another progression of technology?

    At this point, the two are almost always one and the same. Internet technology is primarily harnessed to the goal of maximizing income for the well-positioned few, and all other considerations are secondary.

    Is this no different from using any other technology platform that’s free (If it’s free, you’re the product)?

    This is cynically amusing on Lemmy.

    Should website owners just accept a lower revenue model and adapt their business, rather than seeking higher / unfair revenues from privacy invasive practices of the past?

    Of course they should, but they won't, because they're psychopaths. They'll never give up any of their grotesque and destructive privilege, even if that means that they ultimately destroy the host on which they're parasites.

  • unironically. yes. demand your government work for you.

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  • Unironically yes.

    It's not an issue of whether or not the government will work for the advantage ofone group of people - it WILL work for the advantage of one group of people. It can't help but. It can't do literally everything - it has to pick and choose specific things. And each of those specific things will, if it provides benefit at all, only provide that benefit for some.

    So the issue is merely who is going to benefit.

    And the only way for we the people to benefit, as opposed to a handful of wealthy and powerful fuckwads benefitting, is if we the people demand that we're the ones who benefit - if we insist, "No - fuck you - this is our government spending our tax revenue and it's fucking well going to spend it on us!"

  • Every day we stray further from God's light.

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  • And I have the same reaction I have to most of these types of things - I wonder what it tastes like, and wish I could try it.

    I've never understood why these things trigger such uproar. It's not like it's poison or some sort of bodily secretion or something - it's just a somewhat unusual but entirely edible ingredient. And it could be good. So what's the problem?

  • A friend of mine says they don’t wanna “yuck my yum” whenever they’re about to trash something I like and it infuriates me, mildly

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  • Yeah - the whole dynamic of claiming that you don't intend to do the specific shitty thing that you then intentionally and specifically do is infuriating already, and "yuck your yum" just adds an extra layer of cringe to it.

  • I don't get people that are here in the fediverse and want to bring over the content that is on FB, IG, TikTok, etc.

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  • I agree completely.

    I recently compared it to sitting in a comfortable little cafe that serves delicious food and looking around and saying, "Gee, I wish this was a McDonalds."

    It just doesn't even begin to make sense to me.

    And I'm with you - gatekeeping or no - anyone who wants Twitter or Reddit or Facebook content can already go to Twitter or Reddit or Facebook to get it, and that's exactly what they should do.