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thesmokingman

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  • Your guide to a new Music Streaming service (Reworked)

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  • Tidal is owned by Block, the owners of Square, which is the biggest POS vendor in the US. If that’s not big tech I don’t know what is.

  • ‘Taskmaster’ Is a Mischievous, Unpredictable British Panel Show

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  • I think Game Changers is the only real US answer to UK panel shows. I want more of them. I think some other exists; they do not show up a ton in any of my feeds or circles.

  • "Together we'll make X great again!"

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  • Your last sentence is somewhat naive. It can often place the onus on the wrong group. People don’t want to engage with the XLibre dude with open minds and empathy any more because back when they did, he didn’t engage with an open mind or empathy. You can only do that for so long before you have to isolate and protect. Quarantine, deplatforming, and isolation works when someone refuses to engage. At some point you have to be intolerant of intolerance if you want to get anything done.

    Scope some literature on deradicalization. There is only so much empathy you can give someone who thinks an entire group of people don’t deserve to be human and, more importantly, there has to be a cutoff when you’re not getting empathy back. You’re right, empathy and an attempt to understand is important. Don’t forget many people in marginalized or attacked groups have to defend their existence every single fucking day so sometimes their empathy is pretty drained.

  • ‘I feel disposable’: Confessions of a transgender Target employee after DEI pullback

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  • What part of “disposable” isn’t dehumanizing to begin with?

  • Open Source washing

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  • Not yet, not for some time, and certainly not at single local GPU running at minimal use. Both you and the commenter I was responding to seem to forget how massive the @home projects were.

  • Open Source washing

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  • Blockchain mining, completely open source and run on local GPUs, is no worse for the environment than gaming via this logic. I think that’s easily disprovable.

  • There is no such thing as a vegetable

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  • Don’t tell me you think Roko's basilisk is real

  • Now that a genetic disease has been fixed with CRSPR we have a duty to iraducate all physically harmful genetic diseases

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  • I must be pulling a red herring then

  • Now that a genetic disease has been fixed with CRSPR we have a duty to iraducate all physically harmful genetic diseases

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  • A point I haven’t seen yet is just general eugenics. I know OP says “no appearance or mind” but genetic diseases directly affect those. Take deafness, for example. It can be genetic and therefore could be “fixed.” The deaf community would be fucking furious (cochlear implants can be incredibly controversial). Blindness can also be genetic. Cleft lips and club feet can be genetic (or influenced by) and they can be really gnarly so why wouldn’t we fix those? And since we’re fixing things, why not fix autism and Down’s syndrome (I know we said no mind but those are truly game changers!) and oh shit now we’re in Gattaca. Eugenics is bad. I won’t fully commit to a slippery slope because that’s a fallacy; I will say very convincing science fiction has been written about this and I have seen nothing under capitalism (or communism!) that convinces me that wouldn’t happen.

  • ‘Who Can I Talk to That Has a Human Heart?’: The mom of a trans girl pleaded with a New York Times not to use audio captured in a vulnerable moment.

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  • Maybe you should read the article.

  • ‘Who Can I Talk to That Has a Human Heart?’: The mom of a trans girl pleaded with a New York Times not to use audio captured in a vulnerable moment.

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  • Assuming you read the article, which part wasn’t clear?

  • US efforts to coerce China into trade concessions ‘will not work’, analysts say

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  • Kinda strange that the SCMP won’t say which analysts say this. Granted, broken clock and all that. Or this.

  • Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests

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  • Let me pull that quote for you.

    The number of people living with dementia is still increasing due to our ageing population, but this study adds to the good news that more recent generations have a decreased risk compared to past generations

    Now let me help you understand percentages. See, when you have more people alive, the number goes up. What does the quote say? The number is going up because the population is ageing. Notice it doesn’t say frequency. That’s when the percentage increases. Percentage is the ratio of the number to the whole. See, in your conspiracy, you forgot to bring something that talks about percentage. In the article we’re talking about, “frequency” and “percent” are never mentioned.

    Had you actually read the article, you might have pulled this quote

    it should not be assumed that the trend would continue, given some of the biggest health changes to reduce dementia risk may already have been made

    Which, unsurprisingly, doesn’t match your conspiracy theory. More importantly, you might have pulled this one, which can directly be linked to your conspiracy.

    evidence suggested nearly half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by addressing 14 key risk factors – from smoking to air quality – although he noted not all were within individuals’ control

    But you don’t really have supporting facts, which is really annoying. There are great points to be made about meat and mental health. Maybe come with those next time! Good sources, too, covering meta studies perhaps?

  • Younger generations less likely to have dementia, study suggests

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  • Fascinating how the numbers decreased a hundred years before your range, isn’t it! Maybe you should take the time to read the article and offer real criticism instead of conspiracy theory.

  • Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform

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  • See‽ Easy explanation. I get it, absolutely reasonable issues, and one of several areas Linux just isn’t great with. “Too many issues to explain here” doesn’t click with me.

  • Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform

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  • This rings a little hollow to me. Most of the people I know that understand Linux can quickly summarize why they might not use it as their daily driver (eg staying on macOS for graphics/video or staying on Windows for desktop Word/Excel). If you can’t summarize that quickly, it really makes me wonder if you really understand it. I’m not trying to No True Scotsman my way around it; I really don’t understand.

  • Has anyone created an AI tarpit for images yet?

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  • You’re looking for something like Nightshade. The chuds into accelerating the rapid destruction of all energy resources are aware and capable of defending so it’s not as solid. I don’t know if image datasets are scraped or manually compiled so YMMV; I do know the more poison you throw out the better.

  • Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade

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  • You haven’t linked actual jobs and programs. Your snide Google search was a GitHub repo, not school programs or job postings that show your anecdotal dream is a reality. Your foundational assumption is that everyone wants to grow exactly like you did (ie not the easy path) which is completely wrong.

    You do not appear to actually understand the audience you’re holier than. This the same conversation that’s been happening in the Linux world for more than two decades. Good luck changing the world.

  • Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade

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  • How does someone starting design tomorrow get schooling and career experience (both of which almost universally require Adobe products) without using Adobe products? Where are these programs and jobs accessible to the entire market? Where the easy path that most will take?