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Treat capitalists as you find them. Forget morality. What is advantageous and legal is automatically good. What is advantageous and illegal is a cost/benefit calculation.
yesman@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Have you seen progressive people be discriminatory either intentionally or unintentionally and if so in what way?22·2 days agoIn American leftism there is a definite divide between black and white.
For example second wave feminism is often thought of as Women seeking entry into the workplace, but at the same time black feminists were trying to leave the workforce and take care of their own kids.
The labor movement has an explicitly racist history. A fact that Capitalists often took advantage of by leveraging black scabs who were often ineligible for union membership. Eugne Debs identified this as a problem with the socialist movement.
I’m not saying that racism is common among today’s lefties, just that white lefties are often ignorant of black American life and especially black radical thought and activism.
If you are vexed by Bernie Sanders’ struggle with black voters, you’re probably not very familiar with this history.
yesman@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon ValleyEnglish39·3 days agoBut with OpenAI, [Sam Altman] told me, “there’s something real happening here”.
This sentience strikes me because it’s a tacit admission that AI as it stands is way less valuable than people like Altman promised it would be. But trust me bro.
yesman@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it mattersEnglish861·5 days agoOnedrive is Microsoft’s attempt to make Home Windows users a revenue source by making it a subscription service. This has been SOP in smart phones for a decade now.
yesman@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to ChinaEnglish10·7 days agoThe phone was probably stolen from a protestor they were investigating and the bust was coincidental.
It sounds like your concept of a casual relationship includes marriage.
Thinking about the actors as people who are at work.
I ignore videos people send to me. Back in like 2007 or something a friend discovered Youtube and sent me links for every video they enjoyed. Which would add up to hours a day. So now my policy is just to ignore. Especially crap from the socials that make you sign up/in.
Meanwhile, I’ll watch video essays from creators I respect that last 1-4 hours.
yesman@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why don't protestors who oppose Trump/ICE open carry their guns to prevent what's currently occuring in the US ie kidnapping, assaults etc?42·12 days agoIs this not the reason the second amendment exists?
No. The second amendment exists to sell guns. All that noise about protecting from tyranny or violence is marketing to sell more guns.
yesman@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every timeEnglish542·13 days agoTrillions of dollars to develop a calculator that’s wrong sometimes.
yesman@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your opinion on divisive topics furthering working class division?303·14 days agoLot’s of people would like to strip social justice from leftist ideology and only view the world in a strict Marxist sense where class divisions are the only thing. They claim that a classless society will automatically solve bigotry so we don’t have to worry about that.
In reality modern racism and capitalism were born as conjoined twins and one cannot be understood without the other. Ironically, black radical thought in America has always been bifurcated and marginalized from other Marxists largely over the issue of racial capitalism. This in part explains black voter’s skepticism shown toward politicians like Sanders.
Every time I meet someone who opposes illegal immigration but claims to support legal immigration I ask one question. If the law changed so that all immigration was legal, you’d be fine with it, right?
Nobody so far has been fine with it. I conclude that the question of legality is a dodge for people who are embarrassed about their actual motives.
yesman@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200English18·20 days agoJournalism and activism work.
yesman@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•What’s the deal with unrelated content platforms trying to add a games section?English1·20 days agoThe ones on Netflix are premium games without ads.
yesman@lemmy.worldto Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.world•OK, let's honor the legacy of one of our most influential enemiesEnglish253·24 days agoone of our most influential enem[ies]
Reactionaries have been working overtime to exaggerate and inflate Kirk’s importance and influence. It’s weird so many on the left are helping them with that project.
yesman@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is it true that people misuse the word "racist"/"Anti-Semite" /"bigot" to shut down criticism?51·24 days agoYou can’t be an atheist without calling out religions for the hate, war, and genocide that they cause.
Yes you can! Atheism is not an ideology. You’re talking about anti-theists and plenty of us non-believers don’t wanna be associated with those people.
yesman@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you perceive wild animals? Do you think they will hunt or attack you? Utterly harmless? In between?8·25 days agoGrowing up rural gives one a healthy respect for animals. I once knew a banty rooster who was known to have killed 2 snakes and a hawk going after his hens. I saw that rooster chase grown men and I did not laugh. I would have run from that feathery violence too.
yesman@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why does philosophy education make people uncomfortable?251·25 days agoPhilosophers are always the first targets of anti-intellectuals. People genuinely believe that studding what’s true about the world is a waste of time.
You can tell that this is a prejudice because the same people who think you shouldn’t get paid for having useless knowledge will still hire economists.
yesman@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”English47·29 days agoIt’s interesting to see the site treat it’s unpaid workers more and more like low level employees. I guess capitalists just can’t help themselves.
I need windows for flight sims. My problem is not so much the software, it’s the hardware. I have a head-tracking camera, a set of pedals, a throttle, and joystick. All need separate drivers. None support Linux. My throttle is so old that it hasn’t been supported since W7 and it’s work to get it going on W10.
It’s just way easier to dual boot than to try to get all that hardware running on Linux.