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by breadbreadbread 2y ago
The term "brainwashing" is so misleading and fear-baity here. Humans are gullible and can be convinced of falsehoods. You have just as much if not more "brainwashing" power than any chatbot. The only difference is that a
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
1. It's important to remember that having struggling poor people is expensive for the system. Emergency shelters, health issues that go untreated until they need emergency intervention, desperation crimes like theft (affecting policing
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
Ah yes the old "banning things=bad" argument that doesn't offer alternatives to fixing the issues with AI. Just ignore the issues with environmental impact, plagiarism, CP and other non-consensual shit in the data sets, scamm
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
In my lifetime school stopped being about teaching life skills and started being about college prep. I never had home ec, wood shop, auto shop, any life skill class. Hell even drivers ed was privatized in my town. I understand that these pr
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
you know all this shit is connected right? the rich in America exploit labor to accumulate profit -> funnel that shit into investments to passively increase their income -> investment firms squeeze their controlled companies to genera
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
if your opinion is that some people make millions a day and some people make $1 a day and thats just life and we shouldnt try to change that, I think you are fundamentally lost. Also consider: where do the billionaires in the US get the res
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
"a bad thing happens somewhere in the world therefore you shouldn't complain"
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
imagine if i told you that i think everyone deserves to make a wage that allows them to thrive and have stability. Also consider that A) things are more expensive here and B) our economy is debt based and many people with homes and cars in
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
idk what their profit structure or founding story is, but the poison pill for every company is investment capital. The second you take VC money you are beholden to someone other than your coworkers and clients. If you can get off the ground
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
> It implies you are not living in a communist society, and therefore allowed a measure of control over your own life OK red scare calm down. I think you overestimate how much control capitalism gives you. Criticizing the economy does no
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
actually no, I don't think anyone should look at the wealth spread in the US and think that it's normal or good. It's objectively dangerous and undemocratic. If someone can earn millions a day from passive investment but some
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
only if you are content with the way the US economy works, which requires wearing some pretty large blinders
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
You shouldn't just lazily lay down and accept the negatives of changes like this, you'll just create a techno-oligarchy. You should fight for change to be slow and deliberate to protect your neighbors instead of taking their floor
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
If your income is $0 it doesn't matter if prices go down by 20%. When the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" economy is designed to be sink or swim people are gonna drown when shit like this happens. It's not about &q
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
I agree with you that generally people who complain about assistive devices do not consider any form of disability in their analysis. But the way that the consumer tech industry is shaped makes selling assistive devices really hard. Investo
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
it's not as black and white as you make it out to be. those social norms affect men's ability to endure hardship, find community, and empathize with the struggles of others. The article is not just talking about written rights, it
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
Starfield is fine. It actually runs pretty smoothly, just not at 4k 120fps. A lot of AAA games these days require a DLSS-like solution to run well, which is kind of frustrating but we are already a few years into the roll out and its only a
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
I think you conveniently stopped reading before point 3. > The government does, in fact, have the power to regulate some speech. When the rights and liberties of others are in serious jeopardy, speakers who provoke others into violence,
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
Rent Control Now
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by breadbreadbread 3y ago
Everyone here has provided some good advice about looking for what you are missing. In any part of your life, if your conclusion is "everyone here sucks but me": you are probably missing something. Understand that your equation of
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by breadbreadbread 4y ago
there isnt like a trans spokesperson. Individual trans people arent responsible for every bad event you attribute to them. I'm sure trans people will agree with you on isolated cases but others might reject bad-faith characterizations
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by breadbreadbread 4y ago
Trans people largely dont want to be "sexual" around children. The problem is that you are conflating a performance art (drag) with an entire demographic of people (trans people). Do you actually think trans people are sexually as
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by breadbreadbread 4y ago
responding with violence is also "being affected by words". It also enforces the point that words can incite violence.
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by breadbreadbread 4y ago
our current system does not prevent sexual assault from occurring in public restrooms, men can enter restrooms and assault someone if they really want to and sexual predators arent transitioning to get more access to women. Trans women also
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by breadbreadbread 4y ago
I wrote that comment and I don't want to make speech illegal I want acknowledgement that speech can be harmful and allow communities to self moderate if they are threatened. > The recent movement against trans is wholly due to the m
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by breadbreadbread 4y ago
> Trans people are for some reason the only large visible group yelling that speech is violence and saying mean things about them should be illegal. this in an incredibly disingenuous take. Who is trying to make saying antitrans things s
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by breadbreadbread 4y ago
this is the most disingenuous response i've ever seen
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by breadbreadbread 4y ago
you could have said "I know you are but what am I" and it would've been easier and have the same effect nuance is dead and internet comment sections killed it
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by breadbreadbread 4y ago
> Why? why are you compelled to respond to me? why do you listen to anyone? why speak at all? > No speech can ever suppress that of others Only if you believe that no one has ever changed their behavior after recieving a death threat.
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by breadbreadbread 4y ago
I wrote a long thoughtful response to this but then YC crashed as I tried to post it. The gist was: Im not offering a solution, I just want some acknowledgement that there are harmful voices. we can bicker about who they are, but we need to

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