When I realized at 19 that I’d been raised with nothing but lies, my entire reality crumbled in front of me, and part of me died that day.

This is such an underappreciated aspect of the experience of leaving something like that, looking from the outside you just think “finally they got out of that dark deep pit” but for you that moment must have been in one way the bottom of the pit as you exited a reality that defined you into one where you had to rebuild most or all of your definitions.

I imagine it felt good, but also I can totally see how it would feel like a death.

if you combine the two differing letters it makes LA, which is widely known to be where most of the high level antifa commanders reside.

Coincidence?

I read that phrasing like the headlines that say things like “Ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon on shakey ground as Israel repeatedly bombs Lebanon”… like yeah that isn’t a ceasfire anymore??

Imagine if ANY OTHER COUNTRY had done this?

I hate Ben Gvir with a passion and I cannot IMAGINE if I was jewish how much more I would hate and despise the man for dragging judaism through the mud in the pursuit of base murder and violence.

Don’t become who Netanyahu wants you to become, the only way bigots who rationalize their obsession with violence and subjugation through their fear of everything different than them can keep power in Israel is if they have people they can point to who despise jews in Israel for genuinely antisemitic reasons. This dynamic comes up again and again the longer you consider this tragedy, every action taken by leaders is done to cultivate an equally bigoted resistance in the existential enemy so as to preserve the status quo politics at home.

It is also a mental error to understand this purely as a product of the people living in Israel, this is directly connected to European and US politics and the consequences of them that have been reverberating in the middle east for generations. Support for Israel in the US often centers on christian power centers, not jewish ones and if you don’t step back and appreciate the broader context, than you will hyperfocus on jews in Israel being uniquely evil and desiring of Genocide when in reality the Palestinian Genocide expresses the capacity for the systems we have built to produce, back and sustain Genocide even when it is in plain sight for the entire world to see.

The second largest population center of jews on earth is New York City, which just elected Zohran Mamdani, a muslim as mayor and he is extremely popular. None of this has anything to do with the supposed holy words written on books god has handed down to us as guidance and everything to do with geopolitics, colonialism, xenophobia and empire.

Fuck Israel.

I don’t even think it will take many jobs permanently, but to your point it never mattered if AI works or can actually replace human beings at work, all that matters is that people believe it will and then that means that companies can fire large amounts of workers and hire them back under permanently “temporary” positions that pay less, have less stability and condescend the humanity of the worker at a basic level by framing their labor as a temporary substitution for a superior LLM/“AI” to eventually step in and replace.

It is the SAME EXACT STORY as how Uber from the beginning framed its human drivers as temporary… even as dreams of self driving cars have faded from any serious discussion in the near term… the mistreatment, devaluing and dehumanization were successfully codified into the rideshare industry which was always the goal in the first place.

Which isn’t to say that plenty of CEOs haven’t drank the KoolAid on AI and are totally lost in the sauce, but two things can be true at the same time…

It just makes you sad when you remember Musk wasn’t on it.

This is the real world, you are real, I am real. This space is biased, incomplete and unrepresentative of other spaces… just like all the other places…

However… by the massive polling collapse for support for Israel in the US alone you can demonstrate your thesis is incorrect.

Why the massive polling shift if not a rising human awareness of atrocity? It wasn’t like in the span of several years a bunch of USians developed familial connections to Genocide victims?

No, get out of here with your nihilism and cynicism.

Humans are capable of empathy, and across the world humans are screaming for this to stop, countless jews included. The chorus of people who may have never even met a Palestinian shouting at the top of their lungs to stop this Genocide is overwhelming and stretches across every demographic divide in societies.

The reason it hasn’t stopped isn’t a failing of the average person to care, there really isn’t any evidence of that at least in the US, the reason is the people in power do not care that the majority of us are shocked and gouged in our soul when we wake up to this Genocide happening every day.

You can see the same thing with Germany, if you look at the German government and see how they talk about things vs. how much the German people reject supporting the Palestinian Genocide and Israel again it is CRYSTAL CLEAR why this is happening and it isn’t the fault of the average person being too callous or uninterested.

The Palestinian Genocide is a product of European/US Colonialism supercharging itself and doubling down on hate until a limit is found, I don’t know if this Genocide is a product of forgetting, rather it might be more accurate to say it is a product of remembering.

I do not need a familial connection to Genocide to understand we are all in danger the world over when Genocide is allowed to flourish.

Also, if you say trans rights are political in attempt to push it out the realm of acceptable discussion, that is an offensive action, expect people like me to treat it as an act of war because it is.

Literally

Radical change is hard!

hmmm

I am so tired of these losers like Rimu who can’t accept the politics of average people have evolved past them and so they claw at these truly pathetic methods of attempting to silence and manipulate people.

It is disgusting and it underlines how toxic and extreme self proclaimed “moderates” or “centrists” can be.

I am a “radical leftist” but I will never resort to these kinds of underhanded and sad tactics undertaken by someone who is clearly lashing out from a perceived loss of power and status.

I aim to convince people of my points, not blatantingly manipulate and micromanage what people can see so they adopt my world views based on faulty premises.

Shame on you Rimu, you sad, toxic troll living under a bridge.

Damn, stupid, commie, tankies censoring everything!! This is why we need to kick them off the fediverse!

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Well my point still stands!

If this isn’t resolved I will no longer post science articles on Mander.

Eewww nope what a creepy choice I don’t like it at all, I hope this was a misunderstanding.

edit ok who wants to make a new science focused instance?

Yes Europe CAN afford not to be scammed.

This article is nonsense marketing.

This comes up periodically and as a massive James Joyce fan I must point out that most people don’t know that Ulysses, as a middle finger to the conservatism of the Catholic Church which he considered had a stranglehold on Irish society, was set on one day, June 16th, known now as Bloom’s Day, which in James Joyce’s life was the first date he went on with his wife/from then on to be life partner Nora Barnacle.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18693899-the-most-dangerous-book

On this first date, Nora Barnacle gave James Joyce a handjob, and so Ulysses the most famous book in all of English Literature is devoted to a handy J given by the love of his life, which is a clear fuck you to prudes time eternal lol.

All of this to say, if you read this and think James Joyce goes hard, you have no idea, I am not sure anybody in the last 200 years has given less fucks.

Trump doesn’t really bluff so much as waffle between committing and backing down because he is too cowardly to ever directly concede he has lost until the system he is contained within shatters apart.

People very dangerously misunderstand Trump when they think all he does is bluff, which isn’t to say that Trump isn’t a bullshitter and that Trump isn’t a bloviating idiot, but understand that what makes Trump so dangerous is that he is too cowardly to ever back down even when it makes no sense not to back down.