Nonsense, next you are going to claim the point of English, Creative Writing and Non-Fiction Writing degrees aren’t to increase the raw amount of words being written in the world as if these degrees existed to do anything other than focus on drilling student’s typing and writing speed while only grading their output on quantity and other superficial bulk metrics!!?

You are SO naive!

Do you even know how the whole world works? No? Well you should have studied computers and not wasted your time!

I only figured out this was vibe coded with AI after I posted this, but that may be why.

What if you are in an existential horror situation where you have a cursed book that your future is written in but you were just given it, bears are hunting you, the book is thousands of pages, is written in the style of Henry James and the later parts only appear if you read everything preceding?

Advertising to AI Agent is not a real business, it is a perpetual motion machine that consumes a shocking amount of energy.

No!

I mean Yes!

well yes No I am not under an illusion spell but yes I missed an important no!

It should alarm you how incompetent they are at obscuring their evil.

Sorry I think I plugged your slugs by accident.

Israel is a state, Judaism is a religion.

I would not say “f the jews” because that is bigotry.

I will happily say “f Israel” however. F the Usa (I post there frequently) F the UK F russia F China F New Zealand F New Caledonia, F New Guinea, F New York, F The Yankees…

…those two are VERY different types of criticism!

If I said the former it is implicit that I have some fundamental grievance that cannot be bridged.

If I say the latter I am criticizing actions taken by government of a country and thus my grievance is in the choices made by those entities not some totalitarian division.

When I say “F Israel” I don’t mean I want to deny Jews peace and harmony in Israel, I mean fuck the state of the current reality which brutally dehumanizes others who are just trying to live their lives.

When I say “F Israel” I recognize my country the US is also complicit and that blaming some evil inherent to Jews for getting us here would be stupid, I blame the US too and I don’t think there is an inherent evil living here, neither in the wonderful places I have visited with vibrant Jewish culture like New York City or places without significant Jewish populations for that matter!

ha! those stupid Ukrainians, they think their drones will win them the war!!! Well we are developing this special mystery missile in a secret buil---- oh nvm a drone just blew it up…

looks down at big foldout flowchart on how to beat Ukraine

where are we are on the Great Patriotic Leader’s Flowchart now…?

No, don’t listen to my opinions, disagree with them vehemently that is fine.

What you need to stop doing is conflating having an inconsistent, unexamined belief system handed to you by the society around you and the cues you took from it with not having a belief system which is literally impossible as a sentient human trying to make sense of the world around them.

I was kind of switching into a classist tone in my frustration and you are right to point it out, fair enough and genuinely that is a shitty thing to lean into I am sorry, I recognize education is extremely unequal and not knowing things is not a fair basis to judge people on… however please recognize that a lack of your awareness of parts of you does not mean those parts do not exist.

i don’t have a belief system.

facepalm I really hate being reminded constantly of how important a well rounded education with arts, language and critical thinking stressed as well as STEM concepts is…

Yes, you most definitely have a belief system just as much as you most certainly have biases, it is part of being a human being.

To be as clear as possible, I am not upset if people think my assessment here that this strategic situation where Ukraine has no interceptors and has to sit and take every antique ballistic missile russia lobs at them isn’t really the unfortunate mistake it is being presented as is wrong…

…what I find alarming is that it has been labelled as being antisemitic as if my interest here was to promote some wild antisemitic conspiracy instead of pointing out direct obvious changes in geopolitical power and what the motivations behind them likely might be…?

My argument is simple here, the system is what the system does and yet people keep talking about the system as continually “accidentally” creating a set of conditions that are advantageous for those in power.

No conclusive nor even compelling evidence has been put forward that the Iran War was necessary to launch when Israel and the US launched it, and there is zero room here to argue that it was not forseeable that the US and Israel would deplete their interceptor stocks and their allies stocks if they undertook a war with Iran. All of this was CRYSTAL clear beforehand and well established in US military analyst circles as a reality.

Virtually nobody high up in the US military industrial complex who was a professional believed the US could seriously wrestle control of the Straight Of Hormuz from Iran, this was wildly recognized long before drones became so demonstrably effective at hitting geographically dispersed and lightly defended permanent installations.

…but how does that help me create a blog post demonstrating I can make a thing in order to get hired? If I just use mostly the thing that already exists and just intelligently hook up a smaller more minimally scoped software to it then it doesn’t really help me get a job…?

What it achieved was to apply a tourniquet to the hemoraghing artery of artillery pressure on Ukraine’s frontlines that Ukraine had let flow red by chopping off russia’s effective use of ground artillery with adept counter battery work.

Now all that is left is to apply a pair of scissors to the tourniquet and the land war is over for good.

The developer for Piefed.Social’s main front end app that they develop literally has censorship baked into the code with hardcoded instance blocks that are not obvious to the user or even a new instance creator who doesn’t look to far into the details…

So what are you saying is, your bubble is nice and you aren’t willing to confront how or why the bubble looks as unchallenging to your belief systems as it does :)

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299

https://lemmy.pobierz.net/post/1293

I discovered this after upgrading our instance yesterday, which also upgraded all frontends to their latest versions as well. After I did, our Tesseract frontend stopped working and I noticed immediately as it’s been my primary for a while. Initially I thought it was an API version mismatch, but no, it was much worse.

Someone pointed out that the developer of the frontend added an explicit hidden and unmodifiably blacklist which includes any and all instances to the left of Kissinger. There’s a commit which also explains their specious reasoning about our instance specifically, as it seems we’ve been on their shit list for a bit longer than that.

This instance and its admin staff encourages identity politics, groupthink, mob mentality, and extremist solutions to societal problems. Users who advocate violence are not moderated so long as the admins agree with the target. Caution and critical thinking are advised when interacting with this instance or its users.

When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is “incompatible with that instance” which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward.

Isn’t it funny how all the software developed by turbolibs, like Piefed and Tesseract, end up with hidden control mechanisms from developers who think they know better than everyone else? That they don’t just think they deserve to tell you what you should think, but they should manipulate you to think it? Isn’t it funny how libs go on about how bad it is to support lemmy due to the ideology of the devs behind it, and yet lemmy has 0 opinions as a software? It does make one think…

Anyway, I forked - it as one does - and disabled the blacklist, but since this is a massively ideologically compromised software, I’ll doubt I’ll keep this frontend up after Lemmy 1.0. I think we’ll bring up mlmym again now that someone’s maintaining it again.

Don’t know why you bring up ‘conservatives’ Japan, the threat comes from somewhere else.

No, it doesn’t, they are one in the same that is precisely my point.

Can you stop hyperfocusing on that? I am not saying Japan shouldn’t take a sober look at defense and focus on rationally deterring Chinese military power with intelligent buildup of military capability, I am saying handing power to conservative ideologies will make Japan radically less safe and more vulnerable to attack no matter how much Japan appears to be strengthing itself in the process, it will end up hastening whatever nightmare the conservatives in charge point to as a rationalization for closing down the vibrancy of society.

Not only are conservatives obsessed with war for the aesthetics of it, for the way it makes them feel, and thus they are uninterested in learning the professional parts of it (a distastrous choice in modern war), conservatives are also as a rule incompetent as hell.

I am not distracting from them, I am pointing out conservative idiots in Japan are turning to the same kinds of idiots who have made China, North Korea and Russia so dangerous.

To put it another way, Japan is doing precisely what “they” want Japan to do, which is embracing a culture of conservative strength that is xenophobic and completely divorced from the exhaustively established reality that everything conservatives obsessed with war do makes the people they are “protecting” far less safe.

Japan is clearly turning to empowering the people in its society that think the same way as the leaders of those antagonistic countries do… which leads me to believe that Japan does not in fact understand the danger coming from every direction including from within…