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Palantir's technofascist manifesto in c/latestagecapitalism@lemmygrad.ml
[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago

The juxtaposition of 8 and 9 is incredibly funny to me

The Anarkids would build absolute fuck all and then get mad at other socialists for actually building socialism. in c/shitultrassay@lemmygrad.ml
[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly whenever I see it, it just screams ecofascism to me

U.S. Air Force loses Warthog attack jet near Hormuz in c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml
[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Just another malfunction /s

The kids are not alright in c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml
[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 months ago

When they do they get deplatformed pretty quickly.

(Seriously, why do some people think like this?) By Me in c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 months ago

People are way too horny online these days.

So what's Iran's goals? what can they realistically win? in c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 months ago

Fair points, I thought of the UN mostly because of a scenario where the US "forces" their allies to actually help via UN resolutions, although I'm probably giving that path more credit than ot deserves.

If the US controls the narrative, they can declare the war over right? Considering a lot of people think Gaza is over just because it has been censored pretty effectively at this point.

So what's Iran's goals? what can they realistically win? in c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 months ago

Good points, I'd just like to say that if they go for the nuclear option I feel like they'd have no way of whitewashing it into a good thing. And just like Japan, it wouldn't cause a surrender, unless they really wiped out all of Iran instead of a couple of cities and at that point there wouldn't be anyone to surrender anyway.

So what's Iran's goals? what can they realistically win? in c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How realistic is it for them to keep a toll on the hormuz indefinitely? Wouldn't the UN eventually force them to allow free navigation? If the war is over, they wouldn't have a reason to keep it closed right?

So what's Iran's goals? what can they realistically win? in c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that be basically total defeat, economically, to the US? It's not like the saudis and the other gulf states are gping to be allowed to trade in yuan.

Men should be calling out other men when they witness them dehumanizing women. White people should utilize their privilege to call out racism when they see it. in c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml
[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I struggle with this a lot since I'm basically the only straight guy in every situation at work that doesn't use every single moment where a woman isn't nearby to say something deplorable. And while I try to push back without making enemies (I acknowledge the irony), it's been really difficult.

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So what's Iran's goals? what can they realistically win? (lemmygrad.ml)
 

They definitely can defeat US intervention and cause a lot of damage to their position in the middle east, but I keep mulling over what they can win. They can certainly force them to abandon some bases closer to them and maybe even keep a toll of some kind of the strait, but I don't think it's realistic to expect to force the US to abandon the middle east and even Israel. At that point they'd need to actually move troops or something to do that, which isn't realistic.

Maybe just force them to give up sanctions? And make the bomb?

The mental colonized and the beauty standards. in c/genzedong@lemmygrad.ml
[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I really want to know where that map is from, because there's no way it's right for where I live. People do tan here a lot, and it's a marker of beauty, but only when done naturally, by the Sun, and not with machines.

Jeffrey Sachs: Israel Could Use Nuclear Weapons Against Iran in c/geopolitics@lemmygrad.ml
[–] lorty@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I've not been following the conflict close enough but there's no way the Zionists think they are about to get wiped out.

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I wish people went past "AI will take our jobs" point. (lemmygrad.ml)
 

Yes, it will happen, inevitably. Just like every other technology that makes people more productive. Just look at a picture of what a bank sas like 100 years ago.

But the biggest problem that nobody seems to be talking about is that this will make a few companies control an essential tool for a lot of future jobs. It won't matter if AI can't fully replace your job, all it takes is that you can't work without it. It doesn't even have to be because you can't do your job without it, it just has to speed you up enough so that you have to use it to keep up with everyone else.

It has the potential to become something akin to a factory, and at that point it won't matter if you can make a great drawing or piece of software if the supervised slop machine can do thousands of good enough art/software at the same time. And just like a factory, it becomes a means of opression. But maybe that's a bit too far for your average centrist.

Anyway, I just find the discourse could be a lot richer beyond this and "I want machines to clean my place, not make the drawings I like doing"

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Why do people like Onimai? (lemmygrad.ml)
 

I watched on a recommendation and, well, I can understand the appeal if you are a trans woman or at least curious, but overall at least half of it is a slice of life about girls just doing random stuff. It's not even particularly about being trans since the MC doesn't seem to think much about being transed other than the mechanics and day to day of being the opposite gender.

Maybe I'm reading too much into it?

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Yak 38 (youtu.be)
 

The cool VTOL aircraft.

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"I don't understand zoomer skibidi humour" (lemmygrad.ml)
 

Same people: "Amogus"

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Ok I binged it all and it was really, really good! (lemmygrad.ml)
 

Although I'm 100% sure everyone understood something different from Lain, it was a very interesting trip lol.

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Fixed libposting (lemmygrad.ml)
 
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Solo Leveling is agressively mid and idk why people are losing their minds over it (lemmygrad.ml)
 

Maybe the web comic is awesome but so far the anime is nothing special. Other than the Korean names.

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Are there any anime where any revolutionary thought isn't discarded by the end? (lemmygrad.ml)
 

Even that one about literal terrorists ends up changing absolutely nothing about society.

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We are not the same (lemmygrad.ml)
 
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