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GarbageShoot [he/him]

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  • don't be a coward

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  • Maybe there's a rock out there made, by complete chance, in such huge proportion of silicon that it becomes more viable, I don't give a shit. It was just an aside anyway, pick another based on the same principle if you like. Why an obligate biped? Why this size? Why not a flying creature? Why not a rotationally-symetrical monstrosity? Why not an intelligent species that physically couldn't really be engineers but happen to live on the same planet as creatures who can? Or who just get contacted by outside life that can? I'm a dipshit who mostly prefers pulp and cosmic horror (read: fantasy) science fiction, so I'm sure someone who knows more could come up with more and better prompts.

  • don't be a coward

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  • I can't help but notice that you didn't list a whole lot of traits that would be considered vital to having a fairly human sillhouette. There's nothing here about obligate bipedalism, for example, or having just two legs in the lower part of the body at all. There's nothing here about how the forelimbs are articulated, and whether it would look meaningfully like hands or an array of dexterous tendrils or something. And all this gritty realist speculative biology seems out of place when most sci-fi is basically a particular sub-genre of fantasy anyway. Even being generous to the sci-fi writers, supposing the universe works in a fundamentally different way from how ours does (breaking laws of relativity and entropy, commonly), why can't some ecosystems work out to stretch your imagination of what could be an advanced species? It all seems very narrowly prescriptivist, even beyond the fact that this is fiction to the point of taking negative liberties with the bounds of what is truly realistic.

    Edit: idk, it just seems obtuse. Like, "Advanced life can only be carbon-based because being that way affords these benefits" without considering that other models could provide other benefits (I'm sure you know better than I about the use of silicon-based life in speculative biology). And that's if the subject is addressed at all.

  • i'm shocked that this sentiment exists on reddit at all... maybe there is hope?

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  • I'll give them a little bit of credit for even calling China leftwing, but I think that this is more indicative of their turn against democracy and desire for a benevolent monarchy. Their conception of China still looks to be unreconstructed.

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    UK expected to give Ukraine Storm Shadow missiles to strike inside Russia

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  • How good is Lemmy dealing with censorship and why does the sign-up process on lemmy.ml involve having to copy a sentence from "The Principles of Communism"?

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  • To their credit, I think the Principles of Communism thing is partially meant as a floodgate, since the devs really do believe in their project and want to avoid over-centralization from everyone defaulting to one instance. They know many people will go "What the hell? No!" and go somewhere else and that's exactly the point. I'd be surprised if they really thought it would get almost anyone to engage with Marxism with the prompt, especially since you can copy the first sentence of the text and not read anything else (and even just reading it is not engaging with it). I think it's more like a little joke.

    Also, copying a sentence of your choice to a pamphlet is not a pledge and I think it's silly to view it that way. If it helps, iirc, one of the sentences that appears is "No." and they will accept that as an answer.

    But assuming this was "promoting an ideology directly," would you find it less sketchy for an instance to promote ideology indirectly? Because if you aren't directly doing ideology, that just means you are indirectly doing it (sometimes very deliberately). Personally, I appreciate transparency.

  • How good is Lemmy dealing with censorship and why does the sign-up process on lemmy.ml involve having to copy a sentence from "The Principles of Communism"?

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  • Yeah, because they are all part of their respective instances and those instances (de)federate with each other. ml and ee are both good for that purpose. My own instance is bad for that purpose, but after spending some time on a more mainstream instance, I decided this was better for my mental health.

  • Forest of trees

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  • nor is it to "de-Nazify" Ukraine

    I think they do want to do this, since the Nazis are extremely hostile to Russia, so it's crushing the opposition. Obviously this is pretty different from the historical de-Nazification efforts whose corpse Putin cynically puppets as cover for his actions.

    If there are meaningful factions of Greater Russia Nazis, he'd obviously be fine with those.

  • Habits of Insects

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  • in middle east i wish everyone involved regime change, situation is fucked with any of current people in power staying in power. Put Netanyahu, Assad, Erdogan, Khamenei and their cabinets and top people from Hezbollah in Hague then we can talk.

    Great man theory doesn't stop being great man theory if you add "and their cabinets" after.

    At some point you need to engage with the problem of why things are the way they are, and the answer isn't "The bad guy is in charge (and his cabinet)"

  • Is there any hope for me?

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  • I appreciate your good humor since I think I came off as hostile

    IMO the fact that fastfood jobs are considered temporary bootstrap jobs that you're expected to be exploited to hell is bullshit and an indication of the absolutely broken moral compass of the corporate world. We could do without fast food, but that doesn't mean we should pay them them minimum wage. Everyone deserves a livable wage no matter what they do.

    I guess my perspective is that we're talking about what OP wants to do in the present world, not what she could do in a hypothetical utopia (or just fairer society). So yeah, fast food jobs could be less terrible and should be, but at the moment they are absolutely not something to aspire to or even to recommend in many places because, again, they don't even pay enough to live. Maybe OP is still living for free with a friend, in which case I guess it's better than nothing, but in general it seems bad as a survival strategy.

  • Is there any hope for me?

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  • Speaking for myself as someone who was dismissive, my best contribution to the answers here is that it's reductionist to a seriously misleading extent. It seems like you have a couple of conditions contributing to your struggle, but it all gets reduced to "your number is too low." As others have alluded to, how much of that is your adhd? How much is from some condition you may have that hasn't been diagnosed because you have been unsupported throughout your life? I don't think anyone is denying that you have real neurological conditions that hinder you, they just doubt low IQ as being a meaningful description of what you're facing compared to something that gives a better causal explanation.

  • Is there any hope for me?

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  • I'm sorry about how you were treated. That was fucked up and you didn't deserve it.

    I don't think it's over for you, it'll just be difficult. You're clearly able to overcome (presumably with effort and time) some of what you talk about since this is pretty well written.

    Alcohol is pretty hazardous on all levels (I assume that's what you cite as an addiction) but if you need pot to function, I see no problem with that besides it being another expense. It's probably worth finding a support group in your area with respect to the alcoholism, though.

    As far as I know, low IQ, insofar as we treat it as a credible concept at all, doesn't correspond to not being able to do things, but it just taking longer to learn them. That's probably not much of a consolation with respect to all that you've been through, but it's relevant for looking forward because it means you don't need to write things off as being something "for smarter people," though there are definitely circumstances where the extra time it takes could make something not viable (like needing more time in college representing a significantly greater financial burden, possibly).

    I think you can do it. Just remember that there is no shame in leaning on others; We're a social, cooperative species.

  • Is there any hope for me?

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  • If everyone was engineers and lawyers we'd have major problems keeping shops and fastfood open.

    Alright, this is a little condescending. I think OP can aim a little higher than that and frankly probably will need to if she wants a living wage.

    The fast food industry is basically a way for corporations to extract a pretty significant amount of labor value out of teenagers and the most desperate in society and all for the end result of contributing to society's bad health. It's not like society would collapse without it, unlike something like carpentry.

    Lastly, insofar as IQ is a valid concept at all, studies say low IQ alone doesn't prevent you from learning anything, it just makes it take longer to learn.

    Edit: I apologize if it comes off like I'm going off on you, I just felt some things were worth noting. I like the rest of your comment.

  • Saudi crown prince demands ceasefire, condemns Israel's war on Gaza as 'genocide'

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  • I didn't realize Mohammed bin Salman is part of KHamas.

  • Libs; "Trump won? Time to be a Nazi, see how they like it!"

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  • Wild how it's a binary choice between doing civility politics and being a Gestapo

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    Fox News attack on Tim Walz for helping struggling student instantly backfires

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  • Please call Tara Reade a Russian asset, just so we're clear on everything

  • Toxic X users sabotage Community Notes that could derail disinfo, report says

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  • Among the most-viewed misleading claims where X failed to add accurate notes were posts spreading lies that "welfare offices in 49 states are handing out voter registration applications to illegal aliens," the Democratic party is importing voters, most states don't require ID to vote, and both electronic and mail-in voting are "too risky."

    This is just normal Republican lies. There's no particular reason to attribute it to foreign influence. In fact:

    One false narrative—that Dems import voters—was amplified in a post from Elon Musk that got 51 million views. In the background, proposed notes sought to correct the disinformation by noting that "lawful permanent residents (green card holders)" cannot vote in US elections until they're granted citizenship after living in the US for five years. But even these seemingly straightforward citations to government resources did not pass muster for users politically motivated to hide the note.

    This appears to be a common pattern on X, the CCDH suggested, and Musk is seemingly a multiplier. In July, the CCDH reported that Musk's misleading posts about the 2024 election in particular were viewed more than a billion times without any notes ever added.

    It seems like some of it is nearly-openly lead by the platform owner, with judgements on veracity handed down from him to his fanboys.

    The calls are coming from inside the house. You can't pin everything on foreigners, least of all things where you have no specific information on them being to blame.

    "But bots!"

    Even setting aside that the article doesn't attribute even most of what's happening to bots (hence its title), that's not an adequate counterclaim. Do you really, really think that among the mountain of Republican think tanks and other organizations, none of them are running a bot farm of even a few dozen accounts, like the 45 cited in the article? Granted, it could be Russia (logically, it probably isn't China, which Republicans are usually harder on), but there have also been domestic operations, haven't there?

    Here's an easy example that does not directly "prove" the above case is not foreign interference (again, it's at an overlap point of the interest of different groups) but demonstrates that it clearly seems that there are domestic bot nets doing numbers and thus that such a possibility needs to be considered for other cases where a Republican bot net might have an interest.

  • I hate that that happens

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  • Defensible sentence technically, but I think it's actually plausible with three hads and the second past perfect makes the sentence unnatural.

  • If it weren't for their unwavering support of Isreal I'd be willing to vote and campaign for this bozo (yes I know at the core he's just a ghoulish dem)

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  • You know, if Elon runs America into the ground like he ran Twitter into the ground, it could be better for the world even if it sucks for us . . .

  • I haven't heard brat

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    I think this site gets too attached to meme phrases and it's ideologically problematic

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    Retracting my statement from yesterday about agitating on .world

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    We should probably be agitating on .world

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    Looking for a Speech/Essay by Xi Jinping on Democracy

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    Is Felvidek Antisemitic?

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    China Struggle Session

    Help, My Friends Are Ultras!