No, they showed me their antifa membership card, they’re legit /s

Honestly I’m probably lucky that CK3 was laggy on my laptop or I’d be unemployed

I want to track down some Quatro bricks and find out.

We just have to succeed before we get drone striked

The American Revolution worked because there were professional military veterans fighting in and leading it. The American Civil War was a war because the Confederacy had professional military veterans and leaders fighting for it. A second American revolution/civil war only works if a significant part of the military defects and sides with us.

It absolutely does, because this time the enforcers wouldn’t be on the same side as the rioters

Well I learned about something new today, thank you for that!

Socialism just seems to develop naturally so often throughout human history, until it gets violently repressed by an authoritarian minority

It’s set in 932, so solidly in the Middle Ages, but there’s definitely more anachronisms than anarchism in the movie

Medieval leftists:

That’s the actual solution, we outnumber them by such a huge margin that just standing together and telling them to fuck off is our best bet. They’re cowards, it doesn’t take a lot to make them back down.

I didn’t think you were suggesting violent solutions, I just also wanted to vent about the people who are like “wHy aREN’T AmERicAnS DoiNG MoRE?” and acting like because we haven’t gunned down Trump and most of Congress that we’re complicit

Fucking keyboard warriors telling us “just start a civil war, why haven’t you done it already” as if grabbing a gun and executing your neighbors is the easiest thing in the world.

I’d love to go my whole life without ever having to so much as slap someone. But the rest of lemmy seems convinced that “American == gun owner” and that we should have been cutting each other down in the streets since November 2024

live without ANY stress your entire life

Tell me your secrets, o wise one

Hegseth has to be a master of drunken boxing

Not like any actual fighting style, just years of experience trying to punch people outside of bars

Yeah, that seems pretty accurate.

The issue isn’t population, it’s consumption.

We don’t need a dozen different plastic tchotchkes delivered to our doorstep the day after we order them. We don’t need 64 GB of RAM for 10,000 steam games we’ll never play in 4k at 60fps. We don’t need to be able to order greasy piles of fast food whenever we want.

To me, blaming overpopulation for the world’s problems always comes across as saying “I don’t want to change my lifestyle, and if there’s 6 billion fewer people, I won’t have to”

Because with harm reduction as the goal, the solution is never “give them more of the harmful thing.”

I’ll compare it to the problems of drug abuse. You don’t help someone with an addiction by giving them more drugs, you don’t help them by throwing them in jail just for having an addiction, you help them by making it safe and easy to get treatment for the addiction.

Look at what Portugal did in the early 2000s to help mitigate the problems associated with drug use, treating it as a health crisis rather than a criminal one.

You don’t arrest someone for being addicted to meth, you arrest them for stabbing someone and stealing their wallet to buy more meth; you don’t arrest someone just for being a pedophile, you arrest them for abusing children.

This means making AI better, more realistic, and at the same time more diverse.

No, it most certainly does not. AI is already being used to generate explicit images of actual children. Making it better at that task is the opposite of harm reduction, it makes creating new victims easier than ever.

Acting reasonably to prevent what we can prevent means shutting down the CSAM-generating bot, not optimizing and improving it.

We could feed the pedo AI more training data and make it even better!

No.

The leaders of the American revolution were some of the wealthiest, most powerful, most influential people in the colonies.

It’s like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos deciding that Trump’s tariffs are costing them too much money so they commit to organizing and overthrowing him, not a bunch of farmers and laborers managing to organize a rebellion