Posts by itty53@beige.party
(DIR) Post #AhYF04FQ1QS7zzaQiW by itty53@beige.party
2024-05-04T15:11:18Z
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@ZachWeinersmith The Internet is just a facet of life, and "life is boring" or "life is unfair" or "life is stacked against me" are all very common complaints about life. Replace life with the Internet there and it's all quite familiar, even has the same conclusions.The reality is life is what you go out and make of it. It's a big world, but of course you're bored sitting in the same room doing the same thing. Same with the Internet. The old Internet didn't go anywhere. There was no "new" Internet to take over. It's the same Internet: HTTP protocols. Hell there's still BBS and IRC around. People changed. What people think has changed. Focusing elsewhere besides the people who make up the Internet (and life) is just assigning blame to something more convenient.
(DIR) Post #AiJqMBIXJnKYy9ZLwe by itty53@beige.party
2024-05-27T14:17:53Z
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@ainmosni @hazelnot @futurebird They don't define words, they play with words despite their definitions. It's a subtle but important difference. That difference goes to the heart of why their brand of politics is just authoritarianism. The ultimate desire of the authoritarian is to dictate objectivity as desired, moment to moment. You could use the definitions they use against them and they'll just redefine it again and scold you for using an old definition.
(DIR) Post #AiQqFuR8SIMT2mJuNc by itty53@beige.party
2024-05-30T23:23:07Z
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@futurebird @sri @ozdreaming @realmaplesyrup This is legitimately an Alicia Keys song that just features Jay Z, imo. Man, but I love her voice.
(DIR) Post #AiQr1w1Zr5OPrtGXzc by itty53@beige.party
2024-05-30T23:31:31Z
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@futurebird @sri @ozdreaming @realmaplesyrup All that, plus the piano talent _and_ she's beyond beautiful _and_ she's got the brains to back it all up. She's the whole package. Wildly underrated imo, even if she is a mainstream icon.And she stole the Super Bowl show from Usher, same way she did this Jay Z song. To paraphrase her husband, "why are we talking about Usher? Did you see how beautiful she was in that dress?"
(DIR) Post #Aj5U9wXPfLanrYv488 by itty53@beige.party
2024-06-19T13:58:05Z
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@epilonious @futurebird @Sean@liberal.city My concern is less threat he'll be duly elected and more that the GOP criminal conspiracy to undermine elections will again even further reduce the number of votes needed to win. The GOP is preparing to lose the popular vote. They're planning on it. They don't think they can eek it out, so they're building contingencies in judicial appointments, election laws, ID laws, etc.Trump isn't popular, but the GOP is one-minded about winning: "at all costs". And that's the real threat.
(DIR) Post #AjP2fqrbNLKb0VHrMm by itty53@beige.party
2024-06-29T00:24:59Z
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@ZachWeinersmith Not really looking at the best case but rather just what I think will happen (because it isn't the best ... It's grim). Forgive me some creative writing license here. I think it's very likely we're going to see something techno-utopian like this .. In some perspectives. I think that's already true or moving ever closer by the year. Because despite how laughable it is, people do drive their cybertrucks. They're out there, oblivious and wealthy. Despite how much we hate it, people do use the AI "tools" all over the place. We work for them, it's management. We saw it with smart watches and those are all but ubiquitous now. We saw it with smart phones too. Technology that exists gets used. As more and more capture and leech technology gets created, we will surrender more and more of our rights as citizens. What we'll also see is the darker cyberpunk side of things. Mass encampments of the poor and the refugees of all kinds, folks haphazardly building complex networks themselves trying to hide. The technology won't have missed them, but the infrastructure will have. You'll have the poorer citizens living in giant suburbs owned by banks, thinking they have it good because they can barely pay their bills with an eye glance, they can call a robot taxi with the company device, and they get to see options for all the food they can't afford. But they'll have options for buying it, at least.Then you'll have an uncomfortable number more, even poorer, people that aren't really people in the new sense, because they're not in the system. They couldn't call a taxi if they had the money, which they can't because money only exists on thosr company-issued devices. They don't pay taxes because they won't have tax numbers. They won't go to hospitals, they'll go to ramshackle clinics.They won't be called homeless, but they'll be confined to tent cities. They will build an evolution of barter economies, they'll be hacker economies. And there will be long running, quiet wars between certain subgroups of them and the established powers that be, called terrorists by the citizen class for doing things like bypassing DRM on medical equipment or spoofing a company pad to buy food for the park kitchen.You already see the early signs of all of this, everywhere you look. The pot just hasn't been put to pressure yet, but the flames are up already. Hell, look at the proliferation of simple hacker multi tools like Flipper Zero. That device by itself is solid evidence of all this in the future. Look at the existence of this place, the fediverse. Ever play the old MicroProse game BloodNet? Think that, just without vampires. I think that's exactly where we're headed. I mean it's basically exactly what that fascist YComb guy said recently, with his fascist tech city dreams of an inner circle of technocratic citizens in charge. That's not practically a dystopian mega corp city, it _is one_. Definitively.We "grays" might see from afar some fantastic technology, real sci-fi future shit, but relatively very few of us will ever touch it themselves, let alone benefit from it. That's the future they're paying for, right now. I got no reason to believe it isn't imminent.
(DIR) Post #AjWOV9gEdKPXHKzica by itty53@beige.party
2024-07-02T13:32:14Z
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@futurebird The reason images like this are pushed out (straight up propaganda) is because they play on emotions that people WANT to feel, but don't want to vocalize. And the people behind them definitely don't want them vocalizing it, so these assuage their mental needs. They want folks to feel compassionate, not to BE compassionate.That's the trick. It's Trump's trick too. It is not about explanation, it isn't about words. It's about feelings. Photos and speeches and the like that play on emotions and feelings always fall apart when you pull any one thread, but are seemingly more rock solid than concrete. It's because folks want to feel a type of way, but don't want to put the effort in to BE a type of way. Clicking share solves that for them.If you have trouble explaining why these upset you, I can help. Just look at real images of real homeless veterans and spot the differences. For the sake of the experiment I'm leaving these without any alt text, but these are all actual photos of actual homeless veterans, and there are no young blonde girls sitting with them. The signs they display explain they are humiliated and in desperation. Moreover these are not young men with clean skin and baby faces. Their fatigues aren't new, if they're still around at all. I'm not on Facebook anymore, haven't been for over a decade, but if you are and you see that bullshit shared, please: just share real photos of homeless vets in response. Nothing else. Not arguments, not "this is what it really looks like", do not try to reason with them. Simply speak back to them in their language with photos like these.
(DIR) Post #AjqK3EI7NlyqoeLCsa by itty53@beige.party
2024-07-12T04:16:53Z
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@ChrisWere @Chromino Said it a few days ago and I'm saying it again. The more often aging liberal white guys tell me, "The real threat is Biden who maybe won't beat Trump", the more I get the feeling that's not so much a fear of theirs as it is a threat.
(DIR) Post #AjqKpYMI4lUMxBKqKe by itty53@beige.party
2024-07-12T04:25:40Z
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@ChrisWere @Chromino I thought you were taking the stance that you weren't stupid.
(DIR) Post #AkSUllsbFDEVuM0W5g by itty53@beige.party
2024-07-30T14:15:56Z
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@futurebird Cause he's weird.
(DIR) Post #AkYlZjIBtzRwZta4fI by itty53@beige.party
2024-08-02T14:52:05Z
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@futurebird Nah it's definitely intentional racism. The use of language is the core of how all outward racism begins. Every racist act of violence is preluded with the language. No exceptions. Language is central to how hate groups work, people need to be more aware of it. It has overt and subversive effects. It's both.There's a similar thing that happens with incel types who spit the word "female". They refer to women as "females", not women, and it's exactly an intentional dehumanization tactic.Monkeys can be female. Pipes can be female. Electrical outlets are female. Female isn't a term specific to people, nor is "population" or simply "Blacks". They understand that. Trump understands it at the core of his being.
(DIR) Post #AkbcYMu1LSqcjaQnrM by itty53@beige.party
2024-08-03T23:55:37Z
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@futurebird @stevesilberman There's two things I think at play, you touch on one: Lecter was feared, if nothing else. Trump wants to be feared. So yeah, he'll appreciate the association. On a deeper level though, despite anyone including him knowing the difference between insane asylum and political asylum, the human brain doesn't care. The human brain has one entry way for that word, and anything secondary is just that, secondary. Cognitive framing is at play. By constantly referring to Lecter in relation to asylum he's building cognitive pathways in his base: whenever they hear asylum they'll picture Lecter first. That's the idea and the goal. Demonizing political asylum in the mind of the electorate. And before anyone thinks Trump is too stupid to do any of that, he doesn't have to realize any of it. Just his handlers who keep telling him to stick with it. And they absolutely realize this stuff, they play with cognitive frames routinely. Every day.
(DIR) Post #AkjCV0CCGjqLtjLYjA by itty53@beige.party
2024-08-07T15:41:20Z
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@futurebird Simple molecular chemistry works. Pheromones are pretty big molecules in the scheme of things. A molecule built to aggressively attach only to X and neutralize it but Y goes right past it.You could go the materials science route and look at a similar thing like Sharklet for instance. The structure of the material is shaped at a nano level such that it captures (whatever you want hidden). Sharklet itself is real and works similar to how a sharks skin works, both doing a good job at preventing bacteria from settling on the surface. You're basically looking for the opposite, at a smaller level. Magic some up!
(DIR) Post #Al2XlCKYi25rCw3ocy by itty53@beige.party
2024-08-16T23:39:07Z
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@futurebird @alexwild Little ant pheromones be like <pivot! pivot!>
(DIR) Post #AlStPOgNM1XUFNEVcm by itty53@beige.party
2024-08-29T16:44:09Z
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@futurebird This is an outstanding point and I do hope they capitalize on it. "The royal We" is something Trump would've benefited greatly from learning how to wield properly and because he can't - like I don't think his mind lets him think in terms of a collective - it'll be a huge advantage Harris will have in front of him.
(DIR) Post #AnBJcVmMQZ0vyFy0Tg by itty53@beige.party
2024-10-20T00:57:20Z
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@ErikUden It's great how easy it is to verify what he says. He gave a few thousand dollars to Obama over the years, but he gave Nikki Haley's Super PAC over 1.75 million. There are zero contributions reported to Harris or Biden for that matter. And the rest is just Republicans like you'd expect.https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=draper%2C+timothy
(DIR) Post #AnaIZXqiiQkqSze6zI by itty53@beige.party
2024-11-01T02:13:21Z
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@Ricardus I was always kind of surprised he never turned up in a separate Tarantino film. He's long considered all his movies to have taken place in the same alternate universe so it feels like almost a given