What about people with mixed ancestry?

(And … watch out there. You’re awfully close to some ‘blood and soil’ shit there. It should be a bit of a red flag there that you just agreed with the fascists about deporting people of African descent.)

the objective numbers and actions show that there are more good people out there than bad

However, you can pretty easily get into situations where the ‘good people’ stand by and do nothing, allowing the bad people to do very bad things.

Going back to the OG example, even at the height of the Nazi regime’s power, only about 30% of Germans were actually Nazis. But when the majority of ‘good people’ don’t stop them, that’s more than enough for them to exert absolute control over a country and commit horrible atrocities.

They want you to think that isn’t the case so you give up.

Well, going by historical examples, that fucking works.

When you want to do GPU processing for AI, crypto, video editing, etc, though, this gets reversed.

Getting Cuda working on Linux with an nvidia card is relatively painless. Just a few well-documented commands, worked on the first try.

I could never get AMD’s equivalent to work on Linux, though, and it led me down a horrible rabbit-hole of trying a dozen different driver versions from a dozen different places, all with their own unique and quirky ways of installing… And it still never did work.

They really do like to penalize people for caring about their privacy, don’t they?

Yep, either way, your job is toast.

AI succeeds: AI takes your job.

AI fails: Economy crashes and you lose your job due to the crash.

But you won’t be able to afford it because the market crash means you lose your job.

The ones that require traffic lights and shit never seem to work properly for me. They always make me do an endless repetition of them, going through dozens and dozens before it finally, maybe lets me see the website I was trying to get to.

Maybe I’m just not human enough?

Those terms are specifically used by the pedo “roleplay” portion of the anime fandom

How would you even know enough about that portion of that fandom to know such things…? 🤨

Heaven forbid leftists get a bit doomy when climate change is inevitably accelerating and fascists are in the process of consolidating their complete control over the most powerful country on earth.

(you can have tracker free ads)

In theory, yes. But in practice? It’s quite rare these days.

(Honestly, I don’t even see why they want to track users so much. Is it really that effective? You could just have targeted ads based on the content of the web page you’re on, rather than based on the identity of the user. That should still target your ads pretty well, and without infringing on anyone’s privacy in the slightest. Plus, you don’t need the overhead of maintaining a giant database of every potential customer in the world.)

My family always used to mute ads on the TV when I was growing up.

I guess that’s piracy too, eh?

isn’t piracy, it’s self-defense

It can be both. What’s wrong with a little piracy in self-defense?

A lot of ads are given permission to run unvetted, arbitrary code in your browser.

Every modern browser is supposed to sandbox that shit, but all they need is one security exploit to escape that sandbox and potentially be executing arbitrary code on your computer with full access to all of your files.

Some malicious ads can potentially infect/hijack your computer without you clicking on them at all.

Yep. I don’t recall signing any contract…

How do you make a profit from producing AI slop?

You sell how-to guides to other producers of AI slop.

And yet I get constantly shadowbanned there just for using a VPN…

I think reddit likes bots more than it likes real users.

If you donate even just $5 to my submarine balloon program, you can be part of the solution to this harrowing issue. Be the change you want to see in the world.

Paying attention to a trans man’s feelings would only give them feelings of gender dysphoria.

Sounds like a big opportunity if anybody ever wanted to start up and run a big, popular instance…

Though it might be a bit of a nightmare to moderate.

The primary argument of “you might forget to disengage it in the heat of the moment” is complete bullshit.

Even if you are in that (rather misguided) camp, there are better alternatives. Specifically, a grip safety. Safety automatically disengaged as long as you’re holding the gun properly. Can’t ‘forget’ to do that!

And, yes, there are good, modern designs that use grip safeties. The Springfield XD line, for example. (Those models also require a trigger pull for disassembly, though. Is it that hard to include some kind of decocker?)