gcheliotis

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[–] gcheliotis 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Regardless of one’s politics, over-reliance on presidential decrees can be problematic in more ways than one.

[–] gcheliotis 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah nowadays that is a common interpretation, and you can try to find support for it in the mysticism with which all of the protosciences were imbued. But I really do think they were aiming for gold. Or were claiming as much, to get sponsorships and such. Kinda like how researchers nowadays will exaggerate their abilities and research goals to get grants.

[–] gcheliotis 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Jesus Christ so many of you on here are in love with your echo chambers aren’t you? Every other day there is something about instance wars and oh let’s see, whom do we want to exclude today. You don’t have to like what others have to say, but you have to be able to listen to them.

[–] gcheliotis 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] gcheliotis 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Wait did world defederare from ml after all? I thought it hadn’t. Because people keep complaining about ml and I still see memes.ml and comments from ml users. Or is it one of these things where federation works in ways that are more complex than most of us assume? Is it that the other instances defederated from world? But I’ve seen ml users comment on my comments. Argh federarion is confusing…

[–] gcheliotis 15 points 3 weeks ago

He clearly thinks he’s going to extend it. But he may indeed cause irreparable damage.

[–] gcheliotis 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe. And apparently you really want to believe it. Not saying it’s necessarily true or false, just that the people complaining on this thread make some valid points. We do after all like to vilify China/NK on this side of the fence. Vilification goes both ways ;)

[–] gcheliotis 13 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

There’s no credible sources in any of this. A ban may or may not have come to pass, and if it has, it’s possible it’s for some health-related reason, similarly to how processed meats have been taken out of school lunches in other countries. The news itself is not necessarily false, but there’s a definitive spin to this as with almost all English-language news on North Korea. Unfortunately it’s hard for any of us to get any objective info on what’s happening in the country.

[–] gcheliotis 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh wow veilguard got so much flak that it’s refreshing to hear someone so positive on it.

[–] gcheliotis 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah isn’t it fun? Liberals downvoting you for speaking out against arms sales. The world is itching for war and preparing for it unfortunately and many liberals are fully onboard.

[–] gcheliotis 8 points 1 month ago

Are we still going to refer to them as Putin’s puppets, when the US has been angling for a while now to become the greatest exporter of alt-right ideology? Doesn’t this detract from the fact that the US isn’t exporting democracy anymore (if it ever did) and is instead exporting its degeneration into whatever Bannon/Trump/Musk/Thiel and others want it to become?

Maybe calling them Putin’s puppets helps discredit them on US soil, but the rest of us see the US go the way of Russia and China. And a bleak future in which most of us will only get to choose between different flavors of authoritarianism…

[–] gcheliotis 9 points 1 month ago

Yeah it’s weird because you can both see Russia as an exporter of hate, but the US is on it too. I guess before late everyone will be on it.

 

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