gnomicutterance

joined 11 months ago
[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 13 points 10 months ago

the banhammer is strong in our admins.

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views. Me: Holy shit! You were censored forwanting lower taxes? Con: LOL no...no not those views. Me: So....deregulation? Con: Haha no not those views either. Me: Which views, exactly? Con: Oh, you know the ones

(for mastodon users who don't get the image: it's Andrew Lawrence's "you know the ones" tweet)

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I suspect Elon's pretty comfortable with his political ideology and ego, tbh. But I agree with the second part.

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 20 points 10 months ago

They want to ban kosher food and circumcision, but love the Israeli government and the war on Gaza, which says... so many things, about so many people.

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 4 points 10 months ago

you're not wrong.

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 9 points 10 months ago

but can you observe their chromosones?

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I expect SneerClub to provide my alibis when reading one of these finally makes me snap.

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

to be fair, a lot of the early Internet, including the early research Internet, was driven by libertarian tendencies (which always ignored the dilemma in combining libertarian tendencies with the fact that the entire early Internet was enabled by massive government funding). John Perry Barlow, the EFF, etc. It’s just that a lot of those people were libertarian utopians – and I will fully admit that in my youth it seemed very convincing. It felt like there were no space for bad actors because when the Internet was smaller, it was less obvious to idealists and the naïve that a larger internet would be incredibly useful for bad actors.

As recently as gamergate the EFF was loudly insisting that all moderation by private companies was wrong, and in the intervening few years they have only grudgingly and rarely admitted that overly libertarian moderation policies can suppress speech massively. And yet I fully believe all the EFF people mean well.

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 21 points 10 months ago

“I went last night to the hospital to bring him some cash, ‘cause Solana doesn’t help when you are in the hospital.” DLuxx told Decrypt

God i am so depressed rn.

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Trying to figure out if that comment is a bit or not, and at least one of the poster's other comments on the video is this literary masterwork:

some people have observable x chromosones and others have observable y chromosones, and those categories are good to make useful distinctions, just like I make a distinction between a chair and a sofa... I still don't believe gender is real, and I can still observe sex. Sure, sex could be an illusion, but it doesn't matter. The chair is most certainly an illusion.... At what point does wood become a chair? Is a three legged chair a chair? A two legged? A one legged? A none legged? Is a seat and a chair the same thing? What if I break the seat in half? Is it still a chair?

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Some scientific breakthroughs were memes at first

name one.

[–] gnomicutterance@awful.systems 17 points 10 months ago

There’s only one way in the US, where most employment is at-will, to have a contract that prevents getting fired for a completely boneheaded reason.

/me bursts into chorus of L’Internationale and is dragged to the gate by admins, off-key singing the entire track listing of Chumbawamba’s “English Rebel Songs 1381–1914” dopplering off into the distance as I go.

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