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  • actively destroying our planet

    Hey, my little GTX 3070ti is only passively destroying the planet.

    That only exists through the theft and destruction of the creative works of others?

    No, I use models trained on public domain and open source works. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm

    Which is responsible for atrophying the critical thinking skills of the population?

    I’ve been learning so much about microelectronics, soldering, voltage, current, components, programming, libraries, that I never would have been able to learn before, because I need to be able to ask a million tiny stupid questions, because I’m just that autistic. Before, I’d need to wait a few hours for someone on Stack Overflow to tell me it’s already been asked, and then link to the wrong answer.

    There’s a reason you’ve been trained to knee-jerk hate AI, who benefits?













  • Yeah, it is socialism. Socialism is when the people own the means of production. In a democracy, the people own the government, hence why government services are referred to as “publicly owned”.

    Any and all problems with this, either present or past, have nothing to do with socialism, and everything to do with a lack of democracy. The well being of the working class is inextricably tied to the amount and quality of democracy in their country.

    Every single country they’re referencing - Venezuela, USSR, China, North Korea - the problems with these countries aren’t because they were socialist or communist. It’s because they were dictatorships. Absolute power always corrupts.

    And the same dictatorships currently branding themselves as “socialist” don’t want western leftists to recognize the fact that Europe is actually doing socialism for the working class, and they try to discredit it by claiming they are only enriching their working class off the backs of the global south. But you can’t claim that for countries like Ireland or Finland. They’re examples of socialism working, examples of socialism we should follow.

    And it’s for the exact same reasons the American Republicans don’t want you to think of Europe when you think of socialism. Because it threatens hypercapitalism, whether in the form of America, or China.


  • The reason there’s so much pro-NK propaganda is because NK is being propped up by China. They’re the biggest trading partner. China could exert pressure or influence to get the NK government to be better to its citizens. But China doesn’t want that, because that might convince Chinese citizens to demand the same.

    So their only recourse is to convince everyone that North Korea actually isn’t that bad and it’s actually all just western propaganda telling you that it’s bad and if they are bad it’s actually because of western sanctions.