[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wish there were a group of cis men who would be willing to open-carry where it's legal, on demand, and accompany any trans person to and from anywhere they gotta go. I'd do it if I weren't a pacifist, but maybe it's still useful even to just have a walking buddy.

It's a shame that this is where we are as a society, but then again, I'm just using the same argument I've been fed my whole life about guns being critical towards creating a more polite society.

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 20 points 1 month ago

Nazis did not have an ideology. They were a grievance movement that utilized a common folk scapegoat (Jewish and Roma migrants) to unify the fractured German political landscape in the Weimar Republic era.

It was a populist demogogue movement that cynically and callously used terminology that was common and popular among poor working class people in order to trick them into believing that their movement was about anything other than hatred, extermination, and pilfering public coffers. The 'Socialist' part of their name was a cynical play to attract those who were active in Communist organizing in the early 1900s.

There was no collective ownership in Nazi Germany. The government owned much of everything, and the only parties that benefited from that ownership were the individual cronies that Hitler personally feted. Nazi Germany was socialist in the way that Vladimir Putin's Russian Federation is a Communist state — IN NAME ONLY.

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not all religions and cultures believe in Hell as a discrete place; it's actually a pretty uniquely Christian (okay and Zoroastrian, leave me alone) eschatological phenomenon. Most world religions really understand the afterlife as a constant for everyone, in the way that if you get on a train and leave one station, you have little choice but to go to the next station.

In the Bahá'í tradition, 'Heaven' and 'Hell' are considered poetic (or, if you're into the Monist / Dualist discourse, 'fictional elements') descriptions of the state of any one person's spirit upon arriving at the afterlife. 'Hell' is a state in the way having chronic pain is 'being in hell.'

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Windows meme makers, can you go five seconds without revealing your appalling lack of technical curiosity?"

Windows Meme Makers: "The C drive! ...... How long was that?"

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Millions of small retail or craft businesses now out of business: "haha so true bestie!"

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 25 points 1 month ago

I saw it expressed well on a photo of a protest sign from January — JD Vance puts his cast iron skillet in the dishwasher.

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 20 points 2 months ago

For anyone too lazy to read, ChatGPT does have guardrails for this kind of thing, but if you continue a conversation anyway, eventually it will stop giving that information and start just being agreeable. It basically gave the kid instructions, and actively discouraged him from any cries for help, because it might keep him from his goal.

My friends, I understand the notion to use an LLM as a cheap replacement for therapy, I genuinely do. But, please don't use them for that, they cannot give you good advice, and they usually can't even remember anything except the 128,000 token window it has open right then. A human therapist takes notes and remembers them.

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 26 points 2 months ago

I'm really not far off. Once my Tiny11 install breaks, it's on to Bazzite.

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 22 points 2 months ago

Bobby: "Dad, everybody knows they can't catch Rayquazza... it entices ."

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 23 points 2 months ago

echo "echo "\Please don't hack me. I'm just a little guy. 👶"\" > ~/.bashrc

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 21 points 2 months ago

Baby, I hope you're posting this comment from inside a tent after a long day of training with your guerilla resistance militia, because it's horseshit and classist to dump on people who are actually doing something, even if that something is just the beginning of what should be done.

I cannot begin to express how over I am hearing the opinions of anyone who has already given up. Playing Red Dawn with your little pistols and rifles and mail-order TEMU body plate armor isn't going to save you against a global military hedgemon with more autonomous missiles than taxpaxong citizens. If you have theory that will fix all this, then get the fuck out there and put it into action and convince us with results. Jesus Christ.

[-] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 26 points 2 months ago

I have been saying it for 6 months straight now, and now, I need you all to say it with me:

No matter what is to come, we. do. not. split.

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