KelvarCherry [They/Them]

I absolutely did not mean to legitimize any genuine anti-Semitism. Idk about the source comment but I am arguing quite the opposite. Genocide is always wrong. The Holocaust was an atrocity. Israeli’s terrorism in Palestine is an atrocity.

I am objecting to the idea that Israeli aggression can be written off a reaction or response to the Holocaust. Israeli aggression is done because Israel deems it strategic for political reasons; and because IDF soldiers (many of which source from the UK and USA) are eager to enlist for financial and racist reasons.

I took that line to mean: monitoring LLM queries; which is one of the many reasons you should be skeptical of this whole push for AI companionship from big tech and billionaire-backed media firms, alike.

Israeli warmongering is unrelated to the Holocaust. Zionism is a whole separate ideology; and neither justifies the other.

The mentality of genocide warranting genocide is exactly what the Nazis used to psuedo-justify their bigotry (against those they scapegoated for sabotaging them in WWI). That same mentality is used now to psuedo-justify Zionism because of the Holocaust. Zionists are like Nazis; but Zionists do not vindicate Nazis.

Columbia University revoked earned degrees. All rationale is out the window.

I smirked at this, then realized the nation is one viral Facebook post away from convincing the state that the plague is good because it only affects “gay” cattle… or something.

Many Canadians are doing just that. If you use YouTube, check out the channel “Guard The Leaf”. Their channel largely focuses on boycotts of the USA from Canada and the wider world; and their commentary is very witty.

are you familiar with 3d printing? The print head’s instructions will be completely different if you rotate the model. Unrecognizably different.

just rotate the piece at different angles on the plate, which would change the positions of vertexes and generate an unrecognizable set of printer head instructions. No extra pieces necessary; and even if there were, there’s no need for them to be printed attached to the main part.

Both cases are the same dynamic. They never handled the pandemic nor will they stop ICE. The problem is still there; and workers are being coerced into endangering their own lives for marginal gains in economic metrics.

No one is excusing anything. The shooter being a high school freshman is unusual, even in a country where school shootings are tragically normalized. My ChatGPT suggestion isn’t just pulled out of nowhere. Just this April, Florida’s attorney general launched an investigation over messages between ChatGPT and the Florida State Uni shooter.

The boy was en route to nearby Grand Prairie Elementary School.

According to a Yahoo article the boy was a high school freshman. It would obviously be terrifying if the boy was a fifth grader or younger. Even for a freshman to be attempting a shooting with all of this gear—

…a Glock handgun, a backpack which contained multiple loaded magazines, knives, an accelerant, gloves, and other items…

—this is noteworthy. High schoolers doing a shooting have happened before, but for a freshman, I suspect there’s something more behind the scene. 15 year olds can’t plan out mass shootings alone. Maybe ChatGPT coerced the kid into it and helped with the planning?

Good. No money for fascists.

Stop going to their parks (Disney’s main profit source) and stop watching their slop; and I trust Disney will burn its way to irrelevancy within a decade. Their TCG performs miserably and their cruises aren’t a profit source AFAIK; so it’s just their streaming service, movies, and the parks keeping them afloat.

Yep. This is just one of those aspects of the internet era. I’m certain people publicly said far worse than this in every nation, and they were shunned and their words never made it into a printed article. I know far worse claims that have been published on YouTube and also never got an article about them.

Now there is the aspect that this is an organization registered as a charity. I can’t speak for the UK, but in the USA, it’s very easy to form a registered charity organization if you are willing to bind yourself to the limitations of such. It’s not something that a government department head signs off on, or a parliamentary body votes on. It’s usually an accounting operation and a rubber stamp.

being able to say stupid shit with a straight face is one of the core skills of being a business leader.

So I looked up the video mentioned in the article. This just sounds like someone who is insane and/or trying to garner attention from religious hysteria. Even after this article’s publication, the video mentioned in the article has 397 views and only 7 likes, so it doesn’t seem like anyone cares who these people are.

Who needs pictographic buttons when you can have AI models coax them through every step?

This is a perspective that I continually see dismissed in the wider political landscape. When we say “The American Medical System is fucked” we’re not just talking about getting hit with massive bills.

Ask folks with chronic conditions, who are seeking medical treatment, how they feel about doctors. These aren’t “tinfoil hat looneys” and they know the system well. I’d bet a good amount that the most plentiful opinion will be “fuck them”.

Women and folks of color are constantly neglected in our system. Nuerodiverse folks are constantly abused. Walk with an ADHD person trying to get diagnosed, or get meds refilled. Listen to a patient with chronic pain; with schizophrenia; with anything beyond the generic “anxiety and depression”. Sit with a pregnant woman of color on Medicaid going into labor.

Or look through the two centuries of medical malpractice against women and people of color. Have we forgotten the opioid epidemic? It wasn’t the CEOs handing those prescriptions out. Have we forgotten the horrors of lobotomies and mental wards? The latter still exist. Are we just going to brush over how the queerphobic “Lavender scare” was legitimized by the medical industry? Being trans still is 3 or so mental disorders; and any identity past that point was grounds to get violated before Trump’s reelection, and still is.

I don’t know where this fetishized view of the “ever-trustworthy doctor” comes from, but it’s as detached from reality as the Manosphere’s “happy 50s housewife”.

ICE Raids did lasting damage to the American psyche. Many will never forgive this country or feel safe in America ever again. So state fairs are going to be empty; in-person shopping is going to be more depressed than normal. The economy is a factor, as always; but having federal agents storming your streets and breaking into businesses is a new tier of bad.

This trauma is real and most are still unaware of how hard it has hit. I imagine the USA will see a stark increase in nEETs, shut-ins, and “hikikomori” in the coming decades; as well as a pervasive sense of apathy and nihilism. It will be a far better time to be an online business than an in-person one.

two dates to gamble upon.

I share your sentiment. There’s a lot of work to be done in running general strikes. There’s also work in sabotaging workplaces.