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  • Couple things…

    The nerd brigade is reporting for duty. They probably won’t win any push-up contests and might not be sharpshooters.

    I’ve been a nerd since the 80s and I’ll have you know I’m a great shot even with my eyes being fucked. Fuck your stereotyping bullshit.

    Bosworth said Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg supported his decision to join the Reserve. “There’s a lot of patriotism that has been under the covers that I think is coming to light in the Valley,” he said.

    That’s not patriotism, that’s oligarchs who are utterly dependent upon deregulation to stay oligarchs eagerly kowtowing to the fascist regime in order to curry favor.



  • What do you imagine ‘destroying the web’ looks like if not killing off huge swaths of websites that relied on traffic/ads to sustain themselves? Do you imagine a man has to bleed all the way out before we can say he’s going to die, or is it sufficient to look at the severity of the wound to critical systems in his body and determine that he is probably going to die?




  • Libra00@lemmy.mltoFlippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.comLiberals right now...
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    So let me get this straight, you’re worried about giving the fascists who have shown zero compunction about lying and making shit up at literally every turn a justification for being fascists? They’ve been spinning non-issues into crises and fabricating bullshit whole-cloth the entire time, why do you imagine they care whether their reasons are legitimate or not? Do you think they would just stop being fascists if everybody was super chill? Someone else refuted that idea far more eloquently than I can::





  • Yeah, it could be, but these guys aren’t looking to replace human workers with a robust, well-trained, and properly-deployed AI, they’re looking to slash and burn their labor costs with whatever they think will squeak by.

    I’ve used Amazon’s AI live chat bots a fair bit over the years and I have to say they’re actually pretty good. 90% of the time they can resolve the issue themselves (at least in my experience) and faster than it would take to connect to a person. But most people don’t have Amazon’s budget or customer service-oriented business model.




  • Your scale is off there… it should probably be more like: cult(-100)...religion(-80).................atheism(0).................?'

    A group of people that is very serious about what they believe in, no matter how illogical it is.

    It’s pretty easy to invert that statement: a group of people that is very unserious about what they believe in? That would be folks like DIscordians, the Church of the SubGenius, Pastafarians, etc.




  • Interesting, I never even knew Brave had that stuff built in, i switched from Chrome years ago and installing ublock origin had already just become the default thing I do to any browser first thing by that point. Though I will note this line in the link you provided:

    For as long as we’re able (and assuming the cooperation of the extension authors), Brave will continue to support some privacy-relevant MV2 extensions—specifically AdGuard, NoScript, uBlock Origin, and uMatrix

    Which suggests that they’re planning to eventually be forced into Manifest V3 (or something similar) to gimp those extensions, but I s’pose I’ll give it a shot without ublock and see how it goes. Firefox has given me trouble in a bunch of ways (not remembering per-page zoom, hotkeys changing on me unexpectedly, issues with reddit/lemmy on long posts, etc) and I wouldn’t mind switching back.