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Gorilladrums

@ Gorilladrums @lemmy.world

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  • Why don't I care about the Artemis mission/program?

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  • It's because it's not a sexy mission. The astronauts never leave the ship, they're not landing anywhere, they're not doing anything that hasn't been done before, and the trip is only precursor for the cool stuff that's yet to come. Nobody remembers the space missions before the first moon landing, and nobody will remember this either.

    The explicit goal of this mission is to not just to send people back to the moon, but to actually set up a base there, and that's exciting stuff. When there is an actual moon base and scientists can travel back and forth from earth to it, the entire world will focus on it because that's never been done before.

  • Punish the Democrats, she says

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  • Jesus christ you're disingenuous as fuck. That's clearly not what I said

  • Punish the Democrats, she says

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  • It's both. The Democrats are incompetent, but it's also true that Russia used their vast propaganda network to influence the election. This isn't exactly some secret.

  • Punish the Democrats, she says

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  • That's because it was a push by foreign propaganda campaigns to influence the US election. Israel and Russia both had a vested interest in having Trump win.

  • How do you feel about the current state of Lemmy?

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  • Secondly, be the change you want to see. You’ve been here 2 years and 8 months and according to your stats you do not even make a comment a day. The more people like this, the more dead the place feels

    My account is nearly 3 years old. I have 1.2k comments, 15 posts, and I created two communities. I only come on this place like twice a week, and I always try to leave something. But that's kind of the issue, it feels like most of the active users are only active for the seek of keeping this platform on life support.

  • Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

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  • People who talk like this tend to not interact with anyone, they just sit in their house all day writing comments like this

  • What phrases/sentences instantly reveal someone as a chud?

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  • This highly depends on the context

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  • One thing I learned over the years is that toxic people don't change. The signs are always there from the very beginning, and ignoring them is always a choice.

    It took me 3 years of dating a toxic woman to realize this. At the beginning I was so happy at the thought of having a relationship that I intentionally ignored red flags that were always there. I ignored her passive aggressiveness, her emotional unavailability, her manipulative tendencies, her narcissism, all of it. I was miserable, but I tried to naively convince myself that I could try to change her or that she would see things my way eventually, but that's a stupid mentality to have.

    People can only ever change themselves. Change requires dissatisfaction with oneself, and that comes from personal growth. Toxic people like this, they're always satisfied with themselves, which is why they're unaware of their toxicity. These people can't ever change. This is why it is vitally important to not ignore the signs in the beginning, it's never worth it. You'll be in a bad relationship from day one, and it'll only get worse with time. If you're smelling something sketch about the person you're dating, then trust your gut and dip. Your hunches will be right more often than not.

  • Why is the herd mentality so common on Lemmy?

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  • It should be noted that a very huge chunk of the userbase here are chronically online far left types who were banned from Reddit for being too extreme and toxic. Those same people came over here and brought the same problems that got them banned on other platforms here. Lemmy's is basically a cesspool of the Internets worst leftists.

    That being said, I would say something like 40% of Lemmy's userbase is here for tech, privacy, and memes. If you filter out most of the politics, this site still has a big enough userbase to have an active and enjoyable experience.

  • Why is the herd mentality so common on Lemmy?

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  • Basically filter out the tankies, and this place becomes pleasant. I can't say you're wrong.

  • Why is the herd mentality so common on Lemmy?

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  • Because it's an echo chamber. You have communities that are modded by a small group of people who can control narratives through censorship, the community is very hostile to any differing views from their own, and the existing communities are so devoid of internal criticism that they start to purity test each other, which leads to more extreme views and develops a herd mentality.

  • Our duty

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  • The childless circles have this preconceived stereotype that life stops the moment you have kids for the next 20 years. What they don't understand is that life doesn't stop when you have kids, having kids is a part of life. Creating your own children, raising them, and watching them is in of itself a joy even if it is hard work. Parenting isn't misery and having kids doesn't mean you don't have time to enjoy what you like.

  • Our duty

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  • Unfortunately a lot of times it's not a joke. These people genuinely think they're superior to parents, and a lot of them genuinely hate kids and those who chose to have them. It's a rotten mindset to it's core that built on hatred of preconceived stereotypes. It's something that's irrational in both logic and the emotions that it evokes. It's literally a new form of bigotry.

    People like you should be the default. You made your choice and you respect other people who made theirs. You understand other people have their own reasons that are different than yours. That's normal, that's healthy. It means you're secure enough in the decisions you've made to not go around trying to justify it to yourself by pretending you're better than other people. As much as I would like to believe that people like you are the silent majority, I'm finding that more and more difficult to believe with just how prevalent these smug childless people are becoming in society.

  • WTF

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  • These virtual assistants are entirely a sham to artifically drive up stock value. This is how it works:

    • Company A is big tech that invested billions of dollars building up a LLM model that nobody asked for to increase it's stock value
    • Company A incorporates its AI model into all of its products even if nobody wants them to, once again, artificially increase the stock price
    • When company A runs out of places in its own products to shove the AI, it moves over to company B where it does everything in its power to convince them get the AI and incorporate it into everything
    • Company B sees company A's sham and wants in, and so it buys the AI and smears its feces on all its products to artificially inflate its own stock price.
    • When Company B is exhausted, company A moves on to company C, D, E, and so on and so forth.

    In the end all the companies, or more specifically, all the executives, win in the short term by making billions upon billions by artificially increasing stock prices and thus creating a bubble. They're the only winners. Regular employees at these companies still get treated like shit, consumers are getting much worse products, and the economy is doomed to another recession due to their actions... but that won't stop them because they know the people won't do shit, the government is in their pockets and won't stop them, and if a recession does really happen, they're confident they'll get bailed out.

  • A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.

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  • I don't necessarily disagree with you here, I also think that no generative LLM is worth paying for, let alone a subscription with such a ridiculous price. However, I can still at least understand the appeal for a certain niche subset of people who constantly do the few stuff that a generative LLM like chatgpt excels at.

  • A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump.

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  • They're extremely helpful, just not at a professional level. They can help a student proof read an essay or a content creator come up with a script, but they can't help you code an app from scratch or give you a medical diagnosis.

  • Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate

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  • Is there a company that's trying to destroy itself as much as Ubisoft? The CEO and board that's running this company are genuinely some of the dumbest motherfuckers in the world. These idiots are still dedicating significant resources to make NFT games, they're still trying to insist that microtransactions are fun, they refuse to do anything to make their games more enjoyable to players, and they're trying everything in their power to squeeze out their talent. At this point, Ubisoft deserves to collapse.

  • TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture

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  • Did YOU read what you said?

    Your entire spiel from before was literally nothing more than a collection of fallacies. You used a false equivalence by comparing worst case domestic repression (death squads) to foreign data misuse, which are fundamentally different types of risk and not logically comparable. It engages in whataboutism by deflecting concerns about China’s data access with references to American authoritarian threats, which doesn’t actually refute the original concern. The argument also builds a straw man by reducing all China related security worries to racist “Yellow Peril” panic, ignoring more nuanced, non racial critiques about state power and influence. Finally, it also leans on appeals to extreme outcomes and fear, invoking Nazis and executions to shut down debate rather than assess proportional, evidence based risks. Together, these fallacies prove two things: 1) You're engaging in bad faith and 2) your points were inherently flawed and logically unsound.

    Like what even is the thesis supposed to be, that the concerns about China aren't real or serious because propaganda exists or because other threats exist? It's such a nonsensical take. People aren't concerned about China because of propaganda, they're concerned because China's actions, intentions, and track record raise a lot of red flags that are concerning. It doesn't take a genius to see that something nefarious is going on with these Chinese apps. Like for example...

    • Why is the international version of TikTok banned in China?
    • Why does the domestic version of the app and the international one use different algorithms?
    • The CCP has unrestricted control over all corporations in China, how much of the data collection is directly ordered from the government?
    • There are reports from multiple countries stating that China is collecting massive amounts of data for military purposes, what are they collecting and why?
    • China is also well known for spending tens of billions on propaganda campaigns, are they using the data from apps like TikTok to more effectively manipulate public opinions around the globe to further their interests?
    • What about the secret police networks that the CCP has established in foreign cities where there's large populations of ethnic Chinese residing? Countries around the globe have uncovered hundreds of these networks, is the CCP using this data to find, target, and silence dissent?

    These are are valid concerns that you're trying to conveniently dismiss because you're either ignorant of them or you're being dishonest. Like do you not find any of these things even slightly concerning? Trying to chalk up these legitimate concerns as nothing more than product of fearmongering and propaganda is the most intellectually lazy way to dismiss them because you can't be bothered to parse through the implications and consequences.

    If you don't care about things like privacy, tyranny, freedom, ownership, safety, and the like then that's your problem. However, just because you don't care that doesn't mean others don't or that their concerns are product of propaganda. If anything that's a more of a reflection of you and how your own beliefs came to be. Your stance, even if we ignore all the fallacies, isn't even a principled one. At least what I'm saying is consistent and principled. You on the other hand? You're acting smug over a disingenuous, fallacious, and inconsistent stance, it's, as you would say, fucking pathetic.

  • DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI

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  • We can agree to that