Let’s put some old people on the streets and let’s let children starve.

And if you’re the prime age you better tow the line or you know what’s coming. Just like we did to your parents and will do to your children.

Abundant exploitation, if they had any integrity.

Homelessness is a for-profit industry.

Oh they will incorporate as non-profits. But everything they do screams operational as a for-profit and they will exploit and extract every single penny nickel and dime they can.

This seems to be another example of people not understanding the most basic exponential function.

If you have 3% listeria… And it doubles every minute. In 5 minutes you have full-blown listeria and you’re dead…

Her baby is dead and you want to see her in prison for murder?

I’m pretty sure whatever lessons there are in life to learn will be better learned by the loss of a child rather than incarceration in a system that doesn’t really emphasize rehabilitation in any meaningful way.

Sisko might just be the GOAT!

I found Voyager on f-droid. No ads. :)

So Boost, eh. I haven’t really looked into lemmy apps, just been using it in FF. Those options look much better than what the website offers.

Thanks counterfactual!

Hey man I would totally agree with you, if it was 20-30 years ago and search engines actually gave relevant results instead of commercial SEO garbage. Which in my opinion is a hell of a lot worse than the worst AI slop…

I just prefer it to search engines these days. Chatgpt will give you good basic answers with direct links to citations.

Most search engines just produce endless commercial spam. I can instruct chatgpt to basically be Google scholar on steroids and get highly relevant academic results, which I then go read. “Based on highly regarded scientific literature like nature, please find me links regarding …” Works great! In you need, “no summaries, no conjecture. I don’t want your thoughts about this. I just want highly cited links/literature. Please act like a good search engine chat GPT.” And it generally does pretty great, minimizing me having to wade through shit-tons of SEO garbage.

I’m not having much discussion with it, except for fun/novelty.

I’m finding it difficult to curate my feed. Blocking subs is tedious. Having to go into the settings and manually type each out. Is there an easier way? Or like on bsky where I can block keywords? Which is pretty great. I just don’t really care for the x/twitter/bsky/mastodon style (basically like shuffled diary entries, just a lot of redundant content and exhausting reposts). I like the digg/Reddit style, like lemmy, with subs, comment sections and articles… I’ve actually been using digg somewhat. The latest redesign isn’t bad.

I much rather discuss science and tech and my other interests rather than politics.

Thanks for the warm welcome counterfactual.

Works fine here.

Look at that moral lecture/history lesson you gave me over a joke that whooshed over your head.

You weren’t ‘correcting history.’ You were correcting something you hallucinated

I like how the director and Melania are photographed on Epstein Island together sitting next to Jeff.

1. Chronology is irrelevant.
2. That’s mostly just polemic invective
3. That’s a bad analogy because they share only a word, cake, and no actual substance (unlike various forms of Zionism which do share substantive ideological currents)

Yeah I got an award you 0 points here.

Someone that wants to take over ‘your land’ and kill you or enslave you probably doesn’t really give a fuck about ethics. Especially cuz they’ll probably consider your kin subhuman.

Can you pray to ethics? Are there ‘acts of ethics’ that are going to save you?

There is no country on Earth that isn’t here or there without colonization, wars, and abundant ‘crimes against humanity.’

And much more than just crimes against humanity! There is no country on Earth that isn’t here without helping to kill +90% of the fucking wildlife and wild habitat on this planet.

Anyway back to the first paragraph I made. You’re never going to convince those type of people that will burn you and rape you and enslave you that they should listen to your ethics and they should obey your laws and then your Justice will rain (reign) supreme all over the land with rainbows in the sky and the bears and the lions are hugging the piggies and the bunnies.

I personally think Trump will be a great catalyst for a socialist resurgence and will perhaps make America greater and more united than it has ever been.

Not really. But jump to conclusions all you like. It was just an historically popular option. I don’t support slavery.

That’s a good question with endless possible answers.

I can’t speak for everyone. But I like the idea of egalitarian intentional communities, as a demsoc. No representatives or charismatic leaders. Smaller communities with direct democracy I think would be ideal. A place where you know everyone’s name and vice versa.

It’s my first account here. Thanks for the warm welcome?