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fosforus

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politics: green/libertarian

geo: anti-r***ia, anti-religious extremism, anti-fascist, anti-trump

gaming since 1986

linuxing since 1996

psych: drinking too much coffee, wasting too much time and energy in here

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fosforus ,

Well I guess I did correct by switching to Tidal. From Apple Music. Until Tidal does the same, I guess.

fosforus ,

The Left is right. This doesn’t make sense.

fosforus ,

He’s not CEO of Twitter, just the sole owner.

fosforus ,

Twitter made some profit in 2018 and 2019: www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/

They claim to be on track to make another profit year in 2024. Remains to be seen. In a way, now that Elon owns it alone, it’s not as vulnerable to quarterly economics that public companies are. But of course it cannot bleed money forever.

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https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/b970e190-6a19-430e-ba29-62b4ce57fc44.png

fosforus ,

Sometimes war is necessary because some people want to ruin things more than some people want peace.

fosforus ,

Well that’s just clearly historically false. Israel wouldn’t even exist without them making war on their neighbors. Or as it initially played out, without winning wars against their neighbors who started those wars.

About Palestine specifically, it doesn’t seem that not making war against them worked brilliantly either.

fosforus ,

I think that is a 100% admirable position and its only weakness (sadly a big one) is that not everyone thinks like that.

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That bill doesn’t make it illegal for transgender people to have a job in government or government adjacent. It merely prohibits them from requiring (with the force of law) other people to acknowledge their sexual identity.

No doubt it makes it difficult for some transgender people – namely those who are unable to function if people don’t acknowledge them – to hold some jobs, though, but it doesn’t forbid it as you imply.

This is essentially a pro freedom of speech legislation. To compare this with the Russians raiding gay bars and making “gay propaganda” illegal is preposterous.

If I read the bill wrong, please correct me.

fosforus , (edited )

Translation: I don’t like what he says but I have no actual arguments so I’ll just ad hominem. That’ll show him.

Thank you for, in your own peculiar way, confirming my conclusions though.

fosforus ,

My reading of the bill is that it specifically forbids any mandates towards pronoun use. This may enable bigotry, but does not require it.

But perhaps you can point to the sentence that requires bigotry since I missed it.

fosforus ,

Yes, seems like you were right and I was wrong. Thank you for correcting me.

That’s indeed a rather shitty clause which goes beyond protecting free speech.

fosforus ,

I recognize this form of argumentation from middle school. As you are presumably an adult instead of a child, perhaps you should try to improve your argumentation skills quite a lot before continuing these “actual arguments” you claim to have.

fosforus ,

You got that right. Russia is not required to be bad, though. We’re all hoping they improve. Any day now.

fosforus ,

I don’t get it. Is this news article wrong? Who is u/soot?

fosforus , (edited )

Betteridge’s law.

When a country is at war, its laws tend to support that war effort over many other things. It doesn’t excuse everything of course, but limiting speech that supports the enemy in a war is an obvious thing to do. That of course doesn’t stop the enemy or the enemy’s supporters (like Al Jazeera here and I suppose many commenters here) from disliking such laws.

fosforus ,

I wish they would tease a Steam release so I could actually pay for this game.

fosforus ,

Musk couldn’t care less about free speech. He has implemented a policy that bans you for using the word “cisgender”

How did he accomplish that, given how he doesn’t have any kind of political power? Or are you confusing “free speech” with company policy?

fosforus ,

I have a suggestion which makes Lemmy a better place: go to settings and look for “Show scores”. Disable it and then forget those numbers exist.

fosforus , (edited )

Lemmy is even worse than than Reddit when it comes to sharing a different opinion.

No, it’s better in at least one way, at least for now. On Lemmy, there’s no such thing as ban evasion. If you hurt a mod’s feelings on Lemmy, you might get banned from your current account. But you can make a new account (possibly on the very same instance, but at least on another), and go on, hopefully with more strategically thought out commenting.

On Reddit, if you get a strong enough ban from a sub, it follows you everywhere. Their ban evasion algorithms are pretty good. For instance, I got a ban from r/libertarian (imagine that, yea? I think I criticized a pro-Trump article or something a bit too harshly). I try sometimes to get back there with new accounts, from new IP addresses and new email addresses, but the system detects me every time. Perhaps some fingerprinting that I’m too dumb or unmotivated to properly evade.

On Lemmy, most you get is people bitching at you and downvotes. You can block the people and you can hide the scores.

fosforus ,

Ford of Bruinen moment.

fosforus ,

Probably false news. SCMP is a biased magazine and these figures cannot be found in any official sources.

fosforus ,

More? Is anyone in Mastodon?

Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago (www.nytimes.com)

Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out....

fosforus ,

I listen to many defenders of Israel, podcasts and such. Each and every one of them mentions at some point how bad Netanjahu’s government is and how Israel’s intelligence community failed on and before Oct. 7.

That said, I think it would be useful context to know how many similar warnings go through the system typically? The terrorists have the privilege of failing many times if they succeed just once. The defenders against terrorism have to get it right every single time.

fosforus ,

People are way angrier here than in Reddit, because in Reddit, mods usually clean up the angriest people from the whole platform.

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You seem to be implying that violence doesn’t serve a purpose. But it certainly does, for instance in stopping violence.

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No wait, US has one of the highest rate of death from gun violence.

That’s not really true if you look at per capita figures. USA is , with 4.46 firearm-related homicides per 100K. Compare to something like El Salvador, which was 71.60 per 100K in 2015.

USA is not fabulous in this departement obviously, but it’s not like latin america. Specifically, it doesn’t seem like the number of legally owned guns directly correlates with the amount of gun homicides. If you look at the top ten countries on gun ownership, all of them have the firearm-related homicides figure < 5.0 and 8 of them under 0.8.

fosforus ,

Good luck with your non-violent protests in WW2 Normandy then I guess. Non-violence is a fine ideal, but breaks badly when the other person doesn’t share your ideals.

You have an interesting way of getting the world completely wrong.

I’m completely amazed that people can be this oblivious to how the world works. Perhaps you’re very young and haven’t read any history, or perhaps I just read you wrong?

fosforus ,

I actually have a history degree, internet guy.

I do not believe you. You cannot have a history degree and be so ignorant of the countless of times violence has been used to stop violence. And since you didn’t elaborate if your simplistic ad hominem had some context and nuance behind it, I have to assume that you meant your comment as it sounds.

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The man who negotiated the first SALT treaty with USSR in 1969, which somehow held until START II in 1993 which never really took effect, sadly. He opened up relations between USA and China in 1971. He led the peace process between Vietnam and the US (leading to his Nobel Peace Prize).

This article is absurd bullshit in how much guilt it lays on Kissinger. For instance, it alludes that the Cambodian genocide was due to Kissinger, while in reality, it was Pol Pot 100%. Even if there are circumstances that lead to committing genocide, country leaders are not unthinking animals with no free will. Pol Pot decided to do this, it’s on him, and it’s one of the many atrocities communist countries have done. You cannot just bullshit your way out of that, no matter how much you like communism.

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Their neighbors are Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. First two had significant and successful communist uprisings and of course Vietnam War going on at the time. Also China directly supported Khmer Rouge, and USSR less directly. I think it’s silly to place so much guilt on Kissinger when all that was going on.

fosforus ,

Twitter has roughly 240 million daily users, about half of whom are from USA. It might be a bit early to call it a ruined company.

fosforus ,

Reddit just like Lemmy it’s not an accurate representation of reality

Thank you for reminding us. This place can be a bit crazy sometimes, and reddit too.

fosforus ,

Dump all your data in a data lake, throw a thousand GPUs in there too, and you’ll have your answer in 2 hours max.

fosforus ,

Two thousand GPUs

fosforus ,

Any non-pro-China sources for this?

fosforus , (edited )

That’s not a reference to source, that’s just words that claim these things happened. The only references to that price point seem to be from this article or articles that reference this article.

Ignoring a source because you disagree with their political position rather than the facts being presented is, frankly, dangerous.

I did the opposite of ignoring them. I read through and tried to figure out by the sources whether they’re lying.

Blindly trusting a clearly biased source as you do is way more dangerous. Blindly defending them is worse. But perhaps this data does exist and I just suck at finding it.

fosforus ,

It’s an SEC filing. I found the filing.

Yet you fail to link to it. Curious, or just some sort of a flex?

If you found the filing, I fully admit that you are a better googler than I am. Happy?

It’s SCMP, not the Times of Israel.

Uhh, yeah. You seemed to have driven on a mine there, comrade. Times of Israel is ranked as more trustworthy than SCMP.

fosforus OP ,

Personally, I’m glad that he has calibrated his bullshit so that not a single thinking person on this planet can possibly think that he’s talking sense. Previously he has been saying things that are absurd but which can be thought of having some historical basis, at least in an academic sense. But Lisbon? No sense at all.

fosforus OP , (edited )

Ah, that’s they want to annex Portugal, so they can bring their GDP down to Russia’s levels and fulfill that promise.

fosforus ,

I guess I’m one of the few people who thought Witcher 3 was a bit bland. I was already getting very bored at Novigrad and at Kaer Morhen I totally lost interest and have been unable to pick the game up since.

What do people like about it so much? I’ve read all the books, and generally speaking thought they were good, so I’m not exactly lacking in lore either.

fosforus ,

What if somebody bullies me at school and I genocide him a little bit?

fosforus , (edited )

What about … examples

Sure, many of these happened in a time where communism was still more like a theory (or not even that yet) than anything tried in practice. People who called themselves communist did a lot of these in a single century, most of them after WW2.

Besides, Pol Pot wasn’t much of a communist

To be fair, I said people “who call themselves communist”.

fosforus , (edited )

You looked at my reply to your comment and thought I was being serious?

fosforus ,

Yes, my apologies. School bullying is a serious problem.

fosforus ,

Pol Pot pretended to be a communist, until it no longer suited him and he had them killed.

He was the leader of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from 1963-1981, at which point it was rebranded as the Party of Democratic Kampuchea, which he lead until 1985. Also that new party was communist. The Cambodian genocide was roughly 1975-1979.

Are you just defining people who are absolutely horrible not communists even though they call themselves communist, are allied with other governments who call themselves communist, and execute similar policies as them? I mean I get the impulse, I also get plenty of negative feelings when I think about pro-free market, pro-freedom politicians who commit atrocities or say stupid shit and would rather that those people don’t exist. Sadly, real world doesn’t always like us.

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