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Look at this nerd sietch

This is a commonly held belief and one that I had for most of my life. I don’t know what finally did it for me, but the book Trekonomics definitely gave me a push.

Great I really wanted that.

I wonder how this will affect the right to be forgotten. It’s not like theyre going to un-train any models or remove any derivative content

Honestly I’m not sure they even get it, so maybe they should

I think we have very different ways of enjoying art. I don’t really understand how it’s possible for at to have nothing with the artist’s views, unless it were totally random. Actually, even that would be saying something.

But I get the feeling that we look at art pretty differently.

Human rights don’t exist either. These are legal and philosophical concepts that we decide on, not fundamental constants.

Why I would separate the artist from what they made? I’m interested in what they have to say about the world. That’s the point of art.

It’s not just content to make me happy until the next hit. Like, it has meaning.

On the flip side, they are immune to any other “cringe attacks” that come up. Who knows it might be strangely liberating

It actually leads to at best inertia

Is there a client that lets you easily block vote counts and buttons?

I remember RedReader did this for the bad old place, and it greatly improved my QoL while browsing. I only looked at what people were saying.

I think a part of it is the same old “normies are invading our community.” A bunch of the queer old guard of fedi are having to dent the new kids into shape.

I’m seeing a lot more centrist takes than I did before, and we all know what that leads to

I’m finding it’s the opposite. Depending on what thread I stumble into I’ll get wildly different takes

I get ya. I’m also privileged enough that I used to be able to ignore politics unless it was really in my face, because most of it didn’t affect me directly.

But some people’s actual identities, bodies, their continued existence, is political - whether they like it or not.

So I’m sorry. We live in interesting times. Historical times. Some people feel we might be at the end of history. It’s going to get loud.

So we should… praise them for their donation even though they know they are materially contributing to wealth inequality in their country?

Yes the rest of us are also part of a system of exploitation (and that’s bad and I hope you are all combating against it as best you can), but we’re much more beholden to it, seeing as how our actual survival requires full lifelong participation in that system.

If there’s anyone that could be considered “above capitalism” it’s the billionaires. They actually have some individual power to shift the rules of the game they know is crooked. Or at least not take take take take and still want praise for giving away a micron of a rounding error of their wealth.

Hell if you’ve given your pocket change to a panhandler in the last few years you’re probably being more generous, comparatively

If I’m at a birthday party and we’re only getting cake crumbs and someone comes by and offers me a slice, then yeah it’s nice for me, but how can they afford to just be giving away cake at a crumb party? It’s not just charity, it’s inequality and people with more money want credit parting with the surplus they’ve accumulated.

I’m not even talking about millionaires. They’re down here with the rest of us as far as I’m concerned. You can earn millions by directly working for it.

But anyway when I give money to the local animal rescue, it stings a bit, because that’s money out of my pocket that I would have otherwise spent. And I’m well off compared to most.

A billionaire is so far beyond that you may as well not even call it “money” for them, because it’s so different then what you or I associate with the term. Their lifestyle will never be at risk of having to change because they spent too much.

They have insane, unethical, embarrassing, pernicious, criminal amounts of available capital.

We are told how to use our money. That’s what taxes are.

Same. Honestly it got me to stop putting butter on my toast. It’s so nasty.

It’s funny because it’s so obvious that no one would ever need to say it, but these two are whispering like it’s office gossip

I know a few nurses in the neighbourhood and this is basically their survival strategy.