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gardylou ,

“No offense, but if they cops don’t feel like respecting free speech and protest, you probably should expect them bullets”.

The 2020 protests were largely non-violent, and when that was breached it was typically because the cops brought so much violence. Its amazing to me that people can see a civil rights image and see the police oppression, but videos of cops cornering a crowd and then inundating them with tear gas and shit gets rationalized.

Why not serve fried chicken on Juneteenth? How is it different from serving corned beef on St. Patrick’s day? (old.lemmy.world)

Disclaimer: I am not trolling, I am an autistic person who doesn’t understand so many social nuances. Also I am from New Hampshire (97% white), so I just don’t have any close African-American friends that I am willing to risk asking such a loaded question.

gardylou ,

The history of forcing slaves into limited food choices, and then caricaturing an entire race based on people adapting to those arbitrary forced limits…there are alot of layers of historical racism in play that could make doing this in a way that highlights those foods would probably play into that racism. Chicken and watermelon aren’t “black” foods, they were common staples of Southern slaves that had limited choices.

That said, those stereotypes are stupid, those foods are delicious to people of all races, so if those foods are served as a broader celebration or feast and its just part of the day without any emphasis or indicators of meeting (i.e., chicken and fruit are common foods for celebration so why not have them), I don’t think anyone would care.

gardylou ,

I presume you are being ironic but just in case the Irish have experienced alot of racism LOL.

gardylou ,

America is not the world my friend. I mean Irish people in Ireland have been historically repressed and reviled in and by UK and Europe. I dont know how prevelant it continues to be, but there is a deep history.

Humans beings the world over find ways to categorize and class each other on ethnicity in all sorts of ways that is fundamentally working with similar power relations to racism without it being reducible to skin tone.

gardylou ,

Well not anymore since that song came out. =P

gardylou ,

Buddy, look up some facts on the distance to and conditions of Mars. Then look up how far a real human being has actually gone in space.

Mars colonies are a stupid fucking idea that scientifically literate people who understand basic facts about Mars know wont ever happen. Makes it that much more painful how easily Americans buy into that as a “plan” that a company is realistically pursuing.

gardylou ,

An even better idea is just terraforming parts of earth to be habitable again if climate change gets out of control. It’s orders of magnitude more logistically plausible than moon or Mars colonies imo.

gardylou ,

Lol, so Telsa is fucked?

gardylou ,

“Sorry about your dead husband, trains weren’t in the training data. Our bad. Anyway, his loss is not in vain, as now that our engineers are aware that trains can be a potential driving hazard, we are going to fix this soon in a future software update.”

gardylou ,

Yikes at the responses ITT. This shit should definitely be illegal, and the people that want it probably want to abuse real children too. All of you parsing arguments to make goddamn representations of sexual child abuse legal should take a long hard look in the mirror and consider whether or not you yourself need therapy.

gardylou ,

LOL, that’s a lot of bullshit misdirection to defend AI child porn. Christ, can there be one social media like platform that just has normal fucking people.

gardylou ,

No it’s immoral because they are sexual gratifying themselves to pictures that look like children. Sexually desiring children or wanting to see them abused is immoral, full stop.

gardylou ,

If everyone you go, everyone you know thinks AI generated child sex stuff is normal, well buddy, I think I’ve got some news for you.

Trump floats idea of three-term presidency at NRA convention (www.theguardian.com)

Donald Trump flirted with the idea of being president for three terms – a clear violation of the US constitution – during a bombastic speech for the National Rifle Association in which he vowed to reverse gun safety measures green-lighted during the Biden administration....

gardylou ,

This is massively news-worthy…news media is supposed to relay relevant facts about the situation, like this one, not try to entertain people by pivoting to new forms of content constantly.

gardylou ,

It’s the rich man’s philosophy too usually. People aren’t really that great at philosophy.

gardylou ,

Hopefully he will get some of the racist and nutbags to consider Kennedy if they are sick of Trump for some random bullshit reason (if they were going to pick a good reason to be sick of Trump, they never would have liked him to begin with.

gardylou ,

I agree with your sentiment generally but will say that Trump supporters are the ones who also like Kennedy…I dont see much crossover from his brand of crazy from Dems or those left of Dems.

gardylou ,

Some people are really confused that we aren’t all perpetually online.

gardylou ,

Lol, hated by people who despise poorly designed death traps that are unsafe for pedestrians.

gardylou ,

It wasn’t buying twitter that was the problem, it was turning around to elevate the profile of alt-whites, racists and neo-nazi types with that purchase.

gardylou ,

How is this shit legal? Like, why is any company allowed to willy nilly fuck around with trying to implant computer chips into human brains?

gardylou ,

I’m saying the continued misuse of technology for unnecessary and dangerous purposes can be considered a threat to public health and safety in the long term. For far too long we have identified risks of certain technology, especially in the hands of amoral alt-whites like Musk (he spent $44 billion to amplify neo-nazis for fuck sake), but shrugged our shoulders at the idea of regulating or banning dangerous technology. I want to challenge people to envision a world where we don’t have to tolerate shit like this.

gardylou ,

Not gonna lie, looks pretty awful.

gardylou ,

I believe that’s the joke my friend.

gardylou ,

I’m against what Israel is doing in Gaza but some small % of protestors are getting legitimately anti-Semetic, but starting to be very aggressive about it in an uncomfortable way, especially with larger authoritarianism at play in the culture.

I appreciate the president calling that type of shit out personally.

gardylou ,

Yeah, because its unfortunately a choice between those two at this point. Until Biden is re-elected, it will be a constant reminder that its him or a fascist criminal that led an insurrection, even if a particular criticism is valid. This criticism is shit btw, antisemitism is happening and should be called out.

gardylou ,

He’s doesn’t unilaterally have the power to stop it. I agree we should stop military support under current conditions, but Biden isn’t Israel…this isn’t a US War. Its amazingly short-sided to blame Biden for this to the point of helping Trumps reelection chances.

gardylou ,

Aye, look at all of those dead children! Somebody get F.U.K.D. and B.O.M.B.D. to start another campaign!

gardylou ,

I’m so old that Mike Tyson was too busy eating my balls to prepare to fight that youtube scammer guy.

A mission of mercy, then a fatal mistake: How an aid convoy in Gaza became Israel's target (apnews.com)

The path to the April 1 attack started months ago, as aid groups desperately looked for ways to feed millions cut off from regular food deliveries. Gaza was sealed off by Israeli forces within hours of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants that ignited the war. Since then, more than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed and more...

gardylou ,

“Mistake”. Bullshit, they are starving people on purpose.

gardylou ,

He ain’t there by coincidence, and isn’t the good guy in this story. Might have exposed bad shit US had surveillance wise, but Snowden didn’t do it for ethical reasons, he did it to undermine the country, and ran to an authoritarian state that violates privacy even worse.

gardylou ,

Makes more sense when you look back at how Wikileaks actually functioned. They literally coordinated with Trump campaign to generate anti-Clinton disinformation, for instance. Why would they do that? Because the wanted Putin’s guy to win.

gardylou ,

Lol, asshole millennials want more than rice and beans? No wonder they can’t afford houses! /s

gardylou ,

If you click the article you can see the whole flag…spot on, its a Trump flag.

gardylou ,

I have a Brother laser printer and I highly recommend one.

gardylou ,

Not necessarily AI, but needs to be handled automatically by software–its far too much for human moderation to be the norm unless you assume masses of completely unpaid labor.

Trump can appeal ruling that kept Georgia prosecutor on case, judge says (www.reuters.com)

A Georgia judge on Wednesday said Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and eight of his co-defendants in the state’s criminal election subversion case could appeal a ruling that let lead prosecutor Fani Willis remain on the case....

gardylou ,

Trump is getting special treatment over and over again across all of his trials. We’ve heard him beg for the exact number of votes he needed with state officials. The prosecutor getting some dick is non-sequitor to the crimes he did.

Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more (apnews.com)

Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour....

gardylou ,

Fuck Lyft and Uber. Mass transit FTW.

gardylou ,

The extrapolated head math people like to do based on their narrow interactions to determine how large companies should run is rarely right or useful.

gardylou ,

Google: serves 5 ads about AI softwares that make posts for you, followed by AI generated content about making AI generated posts.

gardylou ,

To be fair, it’s often brought up accurately. Contemporary internet is a deeply enshittified place.

gardylou ,

Holy shit, yikes.

gardylou ,

That comparison isn’t nice to the chimp!

gardylou ,

I took their statement as ironic fwiw.

gardylou ,

I don’t know why Boeing would wait 6 or 7 years to kill him, right in the middle of his deposition, at the exact moment it would greatly intensify exposure of the story.

I hope people focus on the facts he was sharing-- that Boeing was taking safety shortcuts and ignoring clear risks to keep production deadlines–and what that means about possible risks to the millions of Americans that fly, not fall off into conspiracy land.

gardylou ,

Christianity Fascism really messes people up.

They aren’t interchangeable.

Tesla Cybertrucks Are Rusting Despite Being Made Of Stainless Steel (jalopnik.com)

Despite the recent release of these Tesla EVs — and the little road time they’ve been subjected to — Cybertrucks are already developing imperfections on their body panels, leading owners to debate what’s causing the early signs of rust on forums. From Futurism:...

gardylou ,

Nah its funny. Those things are ugly, overpriced, poorly designed pre-ordered fake futurism that, amazingly, some people bought for that look.

That the “geniuses” at Telsa didn’t realizing paint and protective coatings are actually important and it leads to such immediate problems that destroy the look–i.e., the entire main purpose of the shit design–well thats funny.

gardylou ,

Unfortunately, we can’t avoid manufactured outrage.

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