ivan

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[–] ivan@piefed.social 13 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Lives claimed by climate change

Lives claimed by murderers.

These are the same thing.

[–] ivan@piefed.social 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yup. Today's Russian near total surveillance began as "means to protect the children".

And Kaczyński just decides to regurgitate ideas from last country anyone should look up to.

[–] ivan@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Calling her just Russian asset undersells her a bit. She took money from Iran, from Qatar, and even from Assad, which is like lowest low. And list is not complete.

She's so compromised that magic 8 ball would've been a better head of national intelligence. 💀

[–] ivan@piefed.social 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel like AI employed to audit the company and look for ways to increase efficiency can certainly get funny ideas about guys who get seven figure paychecks for showing PowerPoints once in a while. 🌝

[–] ivan@piefed.social 0 points 2 days ago

Sir, you're under arrest for not adding age verification to your LFS build. 🚓

[–] ivan@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago

Had a situation twice where one particular friend would antagonize other one (different people in both cases), and after some time rest of us would have that "oh!" moment, with that second friend no longer being a friend now.

As for myself - became good friends for almost 10 years now with a person who's first impression to me was not good to say the least.

[–] ivan@piefed.social 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They have this quasi-religious cult vibe that makes them like this:

  1. Sacred texts that give answers to everything.
  2. Saints and prophets. I mean - they mostly identify themselves by someone else's name - e.g. stalinists, trotskyists, maoists etc.
  3. Aggression to outsiders. Building a good sect requires that, it's how you keep folks inside - just make them hate the outside.

That's not a scientific conclusion on my part, rather vibe-based one, and some conspiracy theory communities can also be described in that way. Which also leads to next conclusion - they're kept in by a sense of community, and since that community is built around fringe and often cringe ideas - it only leads to doubling down on ideas that seem stupid or dangerous or simply not thought through to any sensible person.

[–] ivan@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Depends on how you look at it.

Toxic nerds shower each other with insults at tech help forums instead of, you know, providing help -> web scrapers yield zero useful data from said forums and therefore LLM's get dick too.

Toxic nerds 1:0 LLM's.

[–] ivan@piefed.social 24 points 1 week ago (8 children)

"Oh, someone had the same problem" as I see forum thread in search results, followed by finding out that thread turned into a gaslighting session on why OP's problem wasn't actually a problem, and no solution was provided as result. 🌝

[–] ivan@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, like Bush Senior's "Chicken Kiev" speech but even more stupid.

[–] ivan@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Once during a high school history lesson on a quite debate-inducing topic my teacher just shut me down with "I'm a PhD in history".

For ~15 years I thought my history teacher was PhD until quite recently discovering it was a lie. 🗿

[–] ivan@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, but he probably wouldn't have won the election if he was hated by majority, especially the second time.

And not to mention all those new wave fashy assholes getting increasingly more popular all over Europe.

If Vatican caved in and chose that trumpist cardinal as Pope over Leo - I'd probably start believing in Antichrist stuff. 🌚

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