[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 131 points 2 days ago

Someone should tell them that speaking out against war crimes and genocide isn't antisemitism

[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago
[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 60 points 3 months ago

He worked as a chemical engineer until he was killed by police over non-existant drugs. None of the officers involved got into any trouble.

[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 176 points 7 months ago

We asked A.I. to create a copyrighted image from the Joker movie. It generated a copyrighted image as expected.

Ftfy

[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 68 points 11 months ago

Sadly, there are plenty of people trying to dictate what other people's children read based on their own feelings

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Could a button for showing context be added when viewing a single thread?
For instance, I made a comment under someone else's comment, they replied and I see it in my inbox. When I click on the reply it takes me to the thread where I can see my comment, the reply, and any replies under it. But I can't see the OP comment that I originally replied to.
There's a "Click here to view all comments" button but that shows all threads and I'll have to scroll to find my comment. So is it possible to add a "context" button?

[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Imagine you're running a very long relay race. Just after the race starts, members of the other team jump out of the bushes, beat up your runner and tie them up. This happens for several laps until someone decides that this is probably bad so they stop beating and restraining you. But the race doesn't stop and the positions aren't reset, but the other team is like 20 laps ahead and allowed to finish. Is that fair?

Reparations would theoretically allow your team to catch up but former slaves and their descendants have never been allowed that. What's more, in the UK, former slave owners were paid for the inconvenience of no longer owning slaves (edit: up until 2015!!!) while the former slaves got to continue living as second-class citizens for a while.

Also, saying slavery ended hundreds of years ago and no one benefits from it today doesn't work because all slave-owner countries still benefit from slave labour in the form of generational wealth, advanced infrastructure and old laws that specifically aim to disadvantage black people (whether they were abolished or still on the books the effects are still felt). Imagine your great-granddad was able to build up a fortune, how likely would it be that your family would still be rich? Imagine your great-granddad lost every cent, how likely would it be that your family would be still poor? Sure, it's possible that situations drastically over time but that's the exception and not the rule. There are reasons why things are the way they are.

I believe that reparations should not be any lump sum of money but in the form of education, investment opportunities, resources and infrastructure. That way all persons living in former slave countries can benefit and pass those benefits down to their descendants.

Edit: I believe that up to last year Barbados went after Richard Drax for reparations due to his family's direct involvement in slavery in that country. I don't know how successful that was, but I support it.

[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

Why would you oppose this? Don't you want children to be safe online? Won't anybody please think of the children? /s

[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

Yes, so illegal content will end up being stored on both servers. The thing is that the piracy communities don't allow illegal content to be stored or linked to for the same liability reasons.

[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Owning an NFT is analogous to owning a receipt. You don't actually own the image and paying for one means you fell for a scam. Pointing that out is enough to piss off any NFT owners.

[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago

I unironically like Sucker Punch. And no, it's not only because of scantily clad women.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by silentdon@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

Apologies if this is the wrong place but I'm not sure where I should post.

If I have any lemmy app open to a particular thread (I mainly use Thunder but it happens on all apps I've tried) and I for e.g. switch to my email app for a couple of minutes, when I switch back to lemmy, it will go back to the home page. I'll then have to find the thread that I was on again. I have noticed this on Thunder, Connect, Voyager, Summit and Liftoff. It didn't seem to happen on Jerboa when I tested just now, though I'm sure it used to happen.

Is there something that app\lemmy developers have to fix or is it my crappy Samsung A10s?

[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

How long before Reddit staff start editing pixels to remove anything "inappropriate"?

[-] silentdon@lemmy.world 105 points 1 year ago

It is morally and ethically ok to pirate media that no longer legally accessible.

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