Umbrias

@Umbrias@beehaw.org

I exist or something probably

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Umbrias,

Alternatively, lol

Umbrias,

Technology and ethics and politics are not airgapped magically distinct things. Pretending that they are is a strategic political choice you are actively making.

Umbrias,

If that’s what you feel is the case if you don’t separate politics from technology then that sounds like a personal problem to address.

People, not the climate, found to have caused the decline of the giant mammals (phys.org)

For years, scientists have debated whether humans or the climate have caused the population of large mammals to decline dramatically over the past several thousand years. A new study from Aarhus University confirms that climate cannot be the explanation....

Umbrias,

Until a people develop science its pretty silly to me to assign a value judgment to things like this. Invasive species wipe out other species all the time, and did so before humans to boot. Mitigating that is ideal, but you don’t even really conceive of a problem until you have a society which can conceive of the harms and alternatives anyway.

Umbrias, (edited )

Sure. But until a people can even know what the consequences of their actions are it’s a stretch to judge them harshly.

In this particular case, humans weren’t really moral agents until much later.

Umbrias,

Measuring is a loaded misnomer. Interacting with a particle changes what the particle is doing. There is no such thing as nondestructive testing in quantum physics.

Measuring just happens to be something we do a lot which necessarily causes particle interactions.

Umbrias,

Clarify your position on this statement you dodged:

calling for Palestinian freedom is not genocide

Umbrias,

“I know nothing about Thing In Video but I will choose to vehemently insist this can’t be Thing It Obviously Is, also it’s fine they shot at a civilian with no regard for rules of engagement anyway.”

Bruh

Umbrias,

Or maybe different cultures just have different palettes and people want to eat food that tastes like what they grew up eating? Maybe we could just… Enjoy both approaches to food? Outside of this meme do you even know with confidence that there aren’t Indians, a country of almost 1.5 billion people, 5x the size of the us, trying to recreate common meat dishes in a vegan way?

Friend, you just complained about the culture war, right before blatantly partaking in it in a wildly nonsensical way.

Umbrias,

I mean unless someone thinks lettuce or beans are unhealthy because they grow in dirt, this train of thought just makes no sense.

Umbrias,

Humor is not an impenetrable shield against criticism. Memes shape discourse. For better and worse.

Umbrias,

I am aware.

Umbrias,

Yeah I’m not disagreeing about the conditions.

Umbrias,

While more on the parent side of the age gap of things now, I know at least five offspring personally who do this willingly. It is a nightmare to me, moreso the fact that it’s basically impossible or was the last time I looked to find ways to do it that are foss.

But the point is, probably more people do it than you expect. This place is a selection bias, most people genuinely give no rats ass about their privacy, and, to the shock of many, trust their parents and like the safety net.

There are certainly secure privacy focused approaches they retain the agency of both parties which could exist. It’s a very real niche.

Umbrias,

This is not a great argument unless you are very deep into pretending a game company can do no wrong.

There are lots of ways this is silly to claim is fine, it’s ridiculous to act like this is expected or acceptable and not just amateurish lack of polish.

But it’s okay, you can still enjoy the game. It’s okay to enjoy things which have flaws.

Umbrias,

The actual reason the us hasn’t switched is the many billions of dollars it would cost for basically no tangible benefit. There are probably better uses of that money if we actually got to spend it on what we wanted, like social programs.

Umbrias,

Chest compressions >> new air

Get a second person to help on breathing

Get a third to make trading roles easier.

Umbrias,

It’s also, like other social media, easily and continuously manipulated to social engineer your worldview. Please try to avoid getting your news from social media, especially tik tok, but also Facebook, reddit, Instagram, Lemmy, Twitter or mastodon, etc.

Umbrias,

While true, it’s a false equivalence. Getting news from multiple news sources is less controllable of you than getting your news from ‘multiple sources’ filtered through social media algorithms targeting you.

Further, you can often browse news in a private fashion. You can be fingerprinted, sure, but it’s easier to mitigate with multiple news sources than fingerprinting in social media, especially when you get to accounts on both. And lets be realistic, someone getting their news from tik tok is being tracked hard in ways they would have no way of predicting from multiple data sources and with phone information that they don’t realize they are providing.

Someone watching CNN or fox news or abcnews or what have you is not even close to being manipulated in the same way, even if they are being provided a biased data set.

Social media news is the worst of both worlds.

Umbrias,

If it makes you feel better! I won’t see it so no worries on my end.

Umbrias,

“It’s just a meme bro, it couldn’t possibly be harmful”

Umbrias,

Sigh it was so nice not having the insane anti pitbull cult. Don’t tell me they decided to creep into Lemmy already.

Umbrias,

By the time of 3m pikes most infantry would be receiving pretty decent training.

Umbrias,

I mean, unless I’m missing something it should be fine as long as you get salts another way.

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