Preston Maness ☭

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The problem is chatgpt will say you the wrong answer confidently unlike humans

We must be hanging around different humans.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/fediverse · 1 pts · 2y

We lost the .ml domains. Defederation happened.

Looks to me like lemmy.world still has lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml linked. I can see this post on All at least.

Sincerely, leftist pacifist

Why are you a pacifist? All rights are won through violence.

As for your assertion on the origins of rights, that’s absolute bullshit. The vast majority of worker’s and other civil rights have been won via peaceful protest.

The history of society is the history of class struggle. Those rights were earned through struggle, not through asking nicely.

on Planned Obsolescense · c/memes · 21 pts · 3y

Man, there’s a lot of shit one can criticize Apple for, but planned obsolescence? I’m typing this from my 2012 MacBook Air, which has my iPhone 8 plugged into it that I use for work every day. I don’t upgrade because I don’t have a need to.

I don’t upgrade because I don’t have a need to.

You don't upgrade because you can't. Apple intentionally locks down its products. And that's before getting into the numerous lawsuits over battery life and iOS slowdowns.

Apple is absolutely engaged in planned obsolescence.

Lemmy.world, you are positively glowing right now :3

It never ceases to amaze me how threatened liberals are by tiny groups of commies. And of course, the fact that a bunch of liberals are busy denigrating the very commies that made their migration away from capitalist Reddit possible in the first place is, unfortunately, very par for the course for liberals.

Then there is the tankie Left, which also started with good intentions but seem to have confuse the recipe-book of slogans and the Party über alles discipline invented in the late 19th century and early 20th century by middle class intellectuals to inspired the near-illiterate masses of the time to create an utopian leftwing world (which didn’t work) with the actual thinking Principles and Intentions from which the rules were made.

The "tankies" are absolutely not utopian. There was a great big schism about this very question more than a century ago, with Marxists roundly rejecting the utopianism of the libertarian socialists (Anarchists). Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels is a good starting point.

but I hate it when someone behind the scenes decides whether or not I should be able to debate/talk to my political opposites.

Then you're not gonna be a fan of federated alternatives like Lemmy. At least unless you run your own instance. Because instance admins can defederate from other instances, preventing you from reaching those defederated instances. In my mind, this is a Good Thing. I don't want to federate with nazis and fascists myself, and I want to minimize my association with anyone who does. If "having a dialogue" with people that want us dead is super important, then they can pick a different instance to call home.