Notices by mike805 (mike805@noc.social), page 2

@br00t4c It should have been obvious to everyone, around the time of the Arab Spring, that the American social media companies are intelligence assets of the US and its allies.

TikTok is an intelligence asset of China and its allies.

None of these things can be trusted.

@jenzi @kaye Aliens receive the stock quotes, along with what are apparently videos of our planet, from our satellite transmissions and conclude the Earth is a fantastically wealthy place they cannot wait to visit.

When the first diplomatic mission arrives, they find an entirely dead planet. The stock quotes were from AIs. The videos were advertisements for video games also written by AIs.

@mekkaokereke @jonathanpeterson @noyes @EdSanders @beadsland I actually had some N95s in 2020 because a family member bought some when SARS happened. Good old 3M type. I did not listen to Fauci, and wore them, and did not get a symptomatic case.

Lying to the public is not ok in a case like that. If you have to ration them then straight-up ration them. The public can go ahead and pay $10 a mask to preppers who are scalping them. But do not lie to the public.

@kaye Give it another thousand years.

Aliens land on this planet and find that all humans are extinct and have been for a few hundred years, but this economy is still running and the NASDAQ continues to climb as the bots trade with each other.

Mass transit continues to travel through the empty cities carrying parts to repair machinery.

AI continues to post ads on the Internet.

The aliens decide to make the Earth a museum, where their students can visit to see how not to run a planet.

@mekkaokereke As for racist people, they really don't change their attitudes. The next generation may grow up more or less racist, but the people who are racist tend to stay racist. Social change is like the old saying about scientific progress: one funeral at a time.

@ATLeagle @mekkaokereke For most people the definition of peace is "I can walk down the street without feeling any fear or annoyance."

They would be happy in Singapore or Japan, as long as they don't want to smoke pot or do some other thing that happens to be strongly repressed there.

@mekkaokereke What most people want is peace and security and to get on with their lives. If they see riots and stuff on fire, they will vote for more cops and hardline DAs and a general crackdown.

This whole cycle happened in the 1970s and 80s. Anyone remember the Willie Horton ad? The crack wars and resulting extreme sentences for crack? If history really does rhyme, the backlash is just getting started.

@fkamiah17 The corporate logos put the finishing touches on that one.

@patrickcmiller I'm trying to find the best non-evil plug in hybrid.

@patrickcmiller Is there a cure for the location spying on newer Toyotas? I was looking into them but found out they have a built in cellular transceiver you cannot turn off, which reports absolutely everything back to Toyota.

@jeffowski That's the point of a republic. There are things even a majority cannot do.

@mekkaokereke What they never point out is, slavery is not only evil, it's also stupid.

The South was so backward they could not maintain their own locomotives post-secession. The high tech industry was all in the North.

They did build a powder mill, by commandeering a Northern-made steam engine to power it!

The cotton picking machine was invented in the 1920s but not used until after WW2, because Black people were still effectively indentured before WW2. They were paid in fake money.

@RodneyPetersonTalent @freemo Oh I've read the history plenty. It's ugly.

(1) when the Zionists were weak and stateless, some of them resorted to terrorism too (King David Hotel anyone?)

(2) when the Palestinians were given citizenship in Jordan, some of them kept provoking the Israelis, triggering reprisals inside Jordan. When Jordan tried to make them stop, they tried to kill the king! The Jordanian army then drove them out, and that's how they ended up in a prison-like state.

@freemo @RodneyPetersonTalent Yes I was saying the Left supports Palestine as an "oppressed proletariat" and hates Israel as a "colonial oppressor."

They are therefore quick to condemn Israel bombing residential neighborhoods. But somehow they cannot bring themselves to say the Hamas massacre in Israel was a horrible atrocity.

Some of those Leftists who cheered on Hamas, would do the same to Americans and Europeans if they got the chance.

@freemo @RodneyPetersonTalent The Western Left (with the exception of explicitly Jewish groups) seems pretty anti-Israel right now. And that is driving the Jews out of groups they felt at home in, which may break up the Leftist coalition.

The Left see Israel as colonial occupiers much like the old South Africans. The Holocaust sympathy has pretty much worn off.

Liberal Jewish "tikkun olam" with its "everyone is nice like us" mindset has done as much harm to Israel as to America.

@freemo @deegeese @RodneyPetersonTalent Both the Soviets and the Japanese gave their soldiers explicit permission to rape during WW2. Other nations punished soldiers for it. There is definitely a cultural divide on whether rape during warfare is ok or not.

@freemo @deegeese @RodneyPetersonTalent Cultures where raiding, conquest, and capturing women were normal things for centuries (like the Middle East) seem pretty rapey.

Civilized places where rape got you hanged, less so.

Where rape was "safe" was during warfare. Within one's own tribe it has always had consequences. The Middle East has had a lot of warfare.

@deegeese @freemo @RodneyPetersonTalent Yes, it is not moral. Not good for the species either. Rape must have some reproductive value or men wouldn't do it (since it's risky) so forced parenthood from rape will make more rapists.

There is no answer on the abortion issue that will satisfy all moral constraints, so like with war, people are going to have to accept some sort of compromise as to what is permitted.

Also, Taliban attitudes toward women lose elections, as the Rs keep learning.

@freemo @RodneyPetersonTalent Thought policing does seem to be a mostly Left wing phenom. I have read Right side forums and they are much less aggressive about it. They can barely keep blatant trolls out.

Although the Israel/Palestine thing is a humanitarian disaster, the divide within the Left is quite a spectacle. The inability of the Left to admit "their side" did a horrible evil is amazing. Even Greta T is now in trouble over it. Proving she's not really about climate, just wants attention.

@freemo @RodneyPetersonTalent First thing to acknowledge on abortion is it's not a trivial issue and neither side is obviously wrong.

Pregnancy and abortion is practically the divide by zero error of Western ethics.

Western ethics holds that if you have one person dependent on another, and the responsible person cannot provide, you transfer the responsibility to someone else. You cannot do that with pregnancy.

OTOH the West believes each person owns their own body.

So neither extreme works.