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PhilipTheBucket

@ PhilipTheBucket @piefed.social

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  • What's your opinion on divisive topics furthering working class division?

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  • See Rainbow capitalism as a very related example. Nutomic is right that identity politics are used to create division among the working class, because anything that can create division will be used to do so.

    I mean that part is accurate. But abandoning whatever issue it is that is being used to create division is not the answer. They use all kinds of legitimate issues to create division. The solution is clearly to get rid of that whole concept where disagreement = division. Not to say that it's just "all good" if I think people deserve human rights, and you don't. We can still work together on some things, sure. I'm still going to give you hell about your bad point of view. A lot of people on the left seem to have this concept like it has to be a monoculture, like everyone has to see all issues of right and wrong and good and evil in exactly the same way, and if you don't see it my way, then you're a total shit and an enemy on purpose and I need to try to destroy you first before even trying to attempt anything against the right. And that tendency is one that the right absolutely loves to exploit, and they have wild success at it.

    (Nutomic also in an extra irony takes it a step further, because his server will not just "divide" from you ideologically, but outright ban you if you try to say that some particular people deserve human rights.)

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  • I didn’t hear about this “mistake” but I agree it’s problematic and hope my instance eventually moves to piefed. Though I haven’t tried it so I don’t know how well I’ll like it.

    https://lemmy.world/post/32838609

    It was interesting.

    On the other hand, I do feel like the ideology of the standard corporate media platforms is about as bad as the tankies and we don’t flip out about that. Makes me wonder about double standards here.

    Yeah, pretty much. I realized that my Israel analogy wasn't even completely on point. It would be more along the lines of someone writing the software who was all cool with Palantir and ICE, and constantly spoke highly of them. That's about the level that I put the Russian government on (which of course isn't to excuse any of the horror of what the US government is currently trying to do; if anything, it goes the other way and throws into relief the horror that Russia has already been for decades now that has been normalized at this point.) And, of course, all our existing corporate social media is okay with Palantir and ICE, they just have more sense than to talk out loud about it.

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  • Hm... yeah. I mostly agree. Or sort of almost agree. This one issue of Nutomic having an offically incorrect stance on trans issues is one thing, and then their wider pro-authoritarian politics is another, and then the way they manage their instance is another. They are related but separate.

    In terms of a response to the third thing, I do agree about a "boycott" meaning not posting new stuff to lemmy.ml communities in general and just preferring communities in more human-rights-respecting instances. I don't think that blocking the instance, or not commenting on their stuff at all and having isolation, is a good way, though. The thing is that that isolation just helps their censorship to be effective. That's part of the point of the fanatical way they attack outsiders and try to curate a narrative for their users, and it's really very effective. If you ever look from inside lemmy.ml, it looks like they all make sense and there is consensus, and we're the weird ones. One way to tear down that veil is to have open communication, and people from the outside coming in and saying normal things, and then they have to continuously have that fanatical response or else have the mods intervene (and then we can talk about how the mods are overreaching and it's pretty clear who is talking sense about it, over time). Talking to each other is good. I feel like if all the not-pro-Russian people just self censor themselves from lemmy.ml, because they know the mods are going to go HAM on their comments, then it sort of does their job for them and makes it actually airtight, more so that it would be otherwise. That's what they would want to see happen.

    One related thing which bugs me more than it seems to bug a lot of people: I think it's a problem that they are so overtly aligned with these malicious actors, and then also they are producing and packaging software that all of us use that is designated for this important purpose. Like if if was an Israeli software development team putting together a new federated web site that all of us were going to trust our communication to, and their home instance was all pro-Israel stuff and you could get banned for criticizing Israel, that would be insane for us to trust the software and the core instance. I mean yeah it's open source but also, the people controlling all of it are super-green with these people that like to do corruptions to software and sneaky things in the Western media sphere. That would bug me. That's kind of how I look at the Lemmy devs, and why for example I reacted so strongly when the docs had that "mistake" that would send new Lemmy installs' admin passwords to lemmy.ml by default. I feel like that aspect of it is also something that should get thought about more often, it is why I am in favor of Piefed even if reimplementing the whole thing from the ground up is this massive amount of duplicative work.

  • What's your opinion on divisive topics furthering working class division?

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  • Personally, I think all of this "Person X holds an officially wrong viewpoint on this one singular issue, so let's attack them and create as much division as possible and take energy away from defending ourselves against people who hold objectively wrong and dangerous viewpoints on 100% of the issues and are actively trying to destroy us" thing is silly. But that is me.

    The Lemmy devs are a little bit unusual in that I have problems with their overall politics (even if we actually agree on more than we disagree, probably), not just a one issue. But even in that case, where it's a sizeable difference of opinion (instead of WE CAUGHT THEM BEING BAD ON THIS ONE ISSUE FUCK EM FUCK EM FUCK EM), I don't think should be a reason to "divide" from them. People are allowed to hold viewpoints, even allowed to contribute while holding those viewpoints, even if I think they are wrong.

  • As a Gopher I'm excited about Gleam, maybe you'll be too

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  • 18:05 if you want to hear him get to the damn point

  • My microwave has a nag feature

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  • TIL a french man ate bicycles, shopping carts, televisions, beds, and a Cessna 150 aircraft. It took him roughly 2 years, from 1978 to 1980, to eat the plane

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  • Tarrare: PATHETIC

  • California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn

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  • Obama was elected in 2008 and took office in 2009. The biggest overhaul to American health care since FDR went into effect on March 23, 2010, and that was with the US congress involved, which always inevitably turns everything into more of a shit show than it needs to be.

    You can do it, you just have to be something other than dysfunctional wreckage to do it.

  • California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn

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  • You've got the right spirit but I think it's unlikely that the car would realize its tires have been destroyed, I think it would just keep driving around just with less control over its actions which might not be the best.

    Give them a little hand-carried version of The Grappler, and then if Waymo has some kind of concern about what has happened to the brakes and suspension and all sorts of shit that is broken now, just give 'em one of these.

  • California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn

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  • You wouldn't molotovcocktail a car (just because it's putting everyone's safety at risk simply by existing)

  • California police stumped after trying to ticket driverless car for illegal U-turn

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  • “Since there was no human driver, a ticket couldn’t be issued (our citation books don’t have a box for “robot”),” reads the post.

    The department said that it had alerted Waymo of the glitch

    That's not how it fucking works

    How have you guys not bothered to prepare for this? It's not the cop's fault, but it is not a secret that there are Waymo cars in San Francisco. How is this something that nobody thought of?

    Last year, California governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that allows police officers to issue a “notice of noncompliance” if a driverless car breaks traffic laws. The law goes into effect in July 2026.

    Oh, pardon me. So you're on top of it.

    The bill was introduced by assemblymember Phil Ting of San Francisco amid several incidents in the city, including driverless cars blocking traffic, dragging a pedestrian, interfering with firetrucks, and entering active crime scenes.

    And your plan was to call up Waymo and ask them politely to improve their tech please? Or, that becomes the plan as of 2026?

    With the new law, first responders can order a company to move autonomous vehicles out of an area, and the company has two minutes to direct its cars to leave or avoid that area.

    The San Bruno police department, in response to people who believed officers were being lenient, reaffirmed: “There is legislation in the works that will allow officers to issue the company notices.”

    My guy these cars went on the road EIGHT FUCKING YEARS AGO

    The big invasion of Ukraine was years in the future, Covid hadn't happened and wasn't going to any time soon, Obama had just stepped down, CALIFORNIA EXPLAIN

  • Buyers of Radio Shack, Pier 1 brands accused of running $112M Ponzi scheme

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  • That's very much part of the goal.

    The people architecting and implementing the almost unfathomable power of the US government right now make their whole living and success off stealing it from people who do actual work, even if doing that causes tremendous damage. So of course they want to reshape the system to make it easier to steal people's money and work, and make it harder to prevent people from doing that (including demolishing systems for even arriving at the objective reality of what's going on so you can tell if someone is stealing or otherwise doing damage.)

    Once you realize that, a lot of things that seem just kind of pointlessly malicious start to make sense.

  • What was your number one favorite website 'back in the day', that is now defunct?

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  • What was your number one favorite website 'back in the day', that is now defunct?

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  • My Linux Setup for Work and Life - NixOS, Niri, Helix - Oleina Project

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  • This man is a board certified turbo nerd. I very much like for example his succinct explanation of NixOS, with concrete examples of what it makes easy that can be remarkably difficult on other distros sometimes, and how he likes to time his arrival in meetings so that he comes in exactly on the second that the meeting starts (I actually used to do the same with meetings that I was running, setting the clocks if I needed to so that their second hands were accurate.)

    Also: "People will use screen sometimes, if they're very old." 😃

  • All the cats I saw while in Sicily

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  • America: We're going to make a whole department, we can't just have unauthorized cats everywhere

    Mediterranean: "Hi, I am street cat, I'm gonna commandeer your beach towel and eat the fish I caught. Later we can hang out if you want."

  • N.J. drops nearly 225,000 from voter rolls - New Jersey Globe

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  • Chin up lad. This is just the boss fight. After this, it gets easier again.

    (And yes, the people who figured they were doing a big favor for Palestinians and American Hispanics by not voting against Trump are foolish people who helped to cause all of this. I'm not mad but I am disappointed.)

  • Clarence Thomas gives bonkers reason for SCOTUS to tear up settled laws

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  • I will hope, but it seems a little unlikely. Somehow, the most craven ones seem to escape justice most of the time. It's the true believers who rush out to the front, people like Stephen Miller or Alina Habba, who tend to start to catch some strays as the shit hits the fan. The dude who's sitting in the back quietly doing 100 times more damage seems to eventually get away on a boat to the Seychelles or something. He might get impeached in 5 years, or he might live out his days secure in the knowledge that he can drive his fucking RV around and do whatever he wants.

  • N.J. drops nearly 225,000 from voter rolls - New Jersey Globe

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  • Consultant: Hey you guys are losing in basically every election by like 23 points

    GOP: Yeah don't sweat it