@BowsacNoodle@threalist no harm's been done to his legacy. The people complaining about him don't even know about it, and don't even really care about him in particular.
The real shame is well in the past: the people he left behind, his progeny, were gradually eliminated from a city that honored him, or poisoned against themselves. That damage got worse over a long period of time, and the statue certainly wasn't any kind of ward against it. The statue was the last to fall, the people who pointlessly did that even failed in this last way and made him a symbol and drew people's attenton to his legacy that nobody was really talking about.
Suppose that the state remained, but the city had been overtly taken by a foreign military and you were at war with them. The city's been purged of civilians like like fortress-ciites in Ukraine, like Bakhmut, and there are only enemies in it anymore. Do you *want* to blow up the statue? Of course not. If you can save it, great. But you would also not go out of your way to save it when the people are what's important and the people are gone. If you take the city back, and the people return, then they can make a new statue.
@augustus Q: I am old. Should I learn to appreciate the music of the age? Maybe some nice 'electro-swing'? A: no, let's get a necromancer to simulate more of what I liked as a kid.
@lina@Senator_Armstrong she's an alien space pirate that crash landed on Earth and immediately got into a love triangle with a relatable Japanese athelete.
@lain Q: should you push a fat man in front of a train? A: no, of course not. Q: but he's in front of a train! He's going to be run over! Don't you want to save him? A: oh, then of course I do Q: so you're in favor of pushing fat people around, huh? tough guy? A: ...
the real lessons here are of sophistry and how to gaslight people, but superficiallly it's deep thoughts about morality. Just think of the people who come away with only the moral lesson, as the people who are helping to subsidize the education of the future politicians among them who learn the other lesson.
source: I have never attended a philosophy course of any kind
@georgia local governments would rather mandate millions of dollars on installing, checking, and maintaining emergency equipment to help you *after* you get a heart attack, but they won't spend much less money on puttng cats everywhere so that people pet them and calm down and have lower blood pressure and healthier arteries and don't need the emergency equipment.
@lina@lain nah, "jewish dwarf" is a reference to https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Vampire they're tough to deal with because they change their names to normal dwarf names, and show up with migrant waves, and you have to sus them out with a dwarven inquisition.
@Jens_Rasmussen@kaia from nowhere. That's fine. That can be the new meme, to replace recursive hacker acronyms. If people can get away with GNU = GNU's Not Unix, then people can get away with CUTE = Computers + Tech + Engineering. The "haha let me explain the joke to you" step that recursive acronyms require is also required here, and not different in any way. Q: why did you mess it up? A: I messed it up on purpose
@Moon I'm personally hurt by this: I looked at bitcoin long, long, long before it was cool, saw that everyone were moneygrubbers and scammers, and moved on. I would have grubbed *so much* money if I'd picked up bitcoin at that point, but the corruption was too evident: people were offering goods and services for bitcoin and getting censored because they were taking bitcoin for 'too little', people were saying economically crazy stuff like "bitcoin's value is derived from its energy costs".
On the other hand, bad publicity is publicity. I'm hearing a lot less about crypto in general since Ethereum left proof-of-work to escape the "burning jungles for NFTs" meme
@lina@iwillbite@mangeurdenuage@maxmustermann these countries don't: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Sweden. Received analysis: Hungary can flout the EU so much because it's not using the Euro. Slovakia, despite their significant elections, probably can't because it does use the Euro.
@Hyperhidrosis@elftummy I believe that he'll post a real pic [of a Palestinian] beheaded baby as soon as he has one, and that he'll post a real pic of a dead Israeli baby which shouldn't be that unlikely. Even if the baby was shot by complete accident, once it's dead they can defile it and take a picture of a headless corpse.
Normally I'd think such things completely beyond a people, but they're lying about 40 babies already when they have legitimately dead people to talk about, so is defiling a corpse really beyond them anymore? That's why I don't want to get too caught up in AI generation or whatever. Dead babies don't justify making more dead babies.
@Hyperhidrosis@elftummy >here's a picture of a dead baby. Can I commit war crimes now? no >oh sorry that was a fake pic sent to me by trolls. This is a real pic. Can I commit war crimes now? no >here's a video. An animated video. Simba the lion is crying in front of these dead babies. Please watch the video it has a very moving soundtrack. Stephen Spielberg came out of retirement and partnered with Disney to make this so you have to support war crimes now. I'm *against* dead babies. You are arguing *for* dead babies. >You pathetic Jew-hater! shutting up would be better, but what he should really do is call for cooler heads and effective responses. Bibi supported Hamas? Replace him, that's a good start. Replace the guy who thought that having a deranged enemy was a better idea than having a smart enemy.
@mangeurdenuage >brushing teeth >getting angry about ads >think of how much I won't watch ads >"If God told me to watch ads or go to hell, I'd say: send me to hell" >brushing stops >imagining stops >stare at own eyes in bathroom mirror >start backtracking >get to "and maybe if a priest said: this is really important for the church, you have to watch these ads", I'd watch ads in that case too I was angry as for practical reasons I thought of paying for youtube for a bit, but then I got that anti-adblock message and now I don't want to let the terrorists win. Ads aren't fit for human consumption. Ads are a war crime. Ads are evil. I once accidentally listened to a programme on Youtube instead of Telegram and just about lost my shit from having to pull the phone out and skip ads so many times (more than zero times, the correct number of times) For youtube to sabotage ad income so severely, and go along with self-deplatforming, and to have such a poorly-coded bullshit platform for so long, and then to invest in anti-adblock measures, is especially offensive. And the "for the creators" part of it is such bullshit, why do they want to play ads on channels I'm membered to, huh?! FUCK ADS I FUCKING HATE ADS IF GOD HIMSELF TOL ah better not get back on that track
@Moon shit, what's she up to? Why didn't you say so in this post?! I have to know, this is urgent.
1. she's supposedly more active on instagram, but I can't see that because it requires a login 2. same with bluesky, same problem 3. no posts on twitter since Sep 22, where she describes "fiction" as a genre, or maybe "genre books" are a genre. Typo in the first line. 4. she thinks Ken's problems in the movie Barbie are really about patriarchy. AAAAAAAAH WHAT A MONSTER
@p@SNEK@SoyMagnus@Zerglingman Those are Japanese characters. I've heard lots of funny speech patterns in anime, but if there's a Chinese idiom like that it's just not coming to mind. My Chinese is pretty rusty though, and also there are large regional differences and slang.
@SoyMagnus@p@SNEK@Zerglingman ever hear Enigma's "Return to Innocence"? Sung by an Amerindian dude in the music video? It's an Taiwanese drinking song.
4 tones isn't so bad. Cantonese has more. And they're pretty distinct provided you can hear them: high tone, rising, low tone, and falling tone. The characters are also fun to write, and even easier to learn for Chinese than say for Japanese where they're much more overloaded with different readings. There's a funny 4chan post somewhere about how terrible it is to know Chinese and deal with Chinese business in the Chinese market, but you'll notice he doesn't bash the language at any point.
@lina in that case they're really not trying to avoid negativity. CSAM's just the faddish word to use, and a legal term of art. If there's any leftism in the decision it could be something like "I don't want to suggest that porn is bad, because that's kinkshaming."
The reason could even be "I don't want to say 'child porn' because people argue with me about what that even means. Dude, literally, this instance has *real* child porn. Not Japanese cartoons. Don't argue with me about it."
@lina what's the acronym? MAP? CSAM? If it's either of those, they think they're pretty direct about it. of leftist attitudes towards pedophilia there are different levels of glowingness :brain0: that's something that I imagine right-wing trailer park people do, so I oppose it :brain1: love is love, age is just a number, as long as the child consents :brain2: anti-pedophilia sentiment is actually anti-gay sentiment, because gay men start having voluntary sexual experiences that aren't molestation at all as preteens, with much older men, and it's normal. The real shame is that gays have to hide this aspect of their community, when so many look back fondly on the adult men who welcomed them into the community at a tender age when most of society was scary and probably hostile :brain3: pedophilias OK because who here hasn't raped a child to death? But it's better to oppose it so that the blackmail keeps working
@LebRonPaul it's a trolly problem with three options and one of them is usually obviously superior from an anti-A C C E L E R A T E perspective. It takes very little time out of your day and it doesn't oblige you to do anything - apart from jury duty, which indeed is annoying, especially when it happens during lockdown season and those faggots wnat you to wear a mask.
Not voting also doesn't oblige you to do anything. All of the common sayings about voting are obviously false, mendacious propaganda: 1. if you don't vote you can't complain because you failed in your duty to participate 2. if you voted you can't complain because you participated 3. if you voted for the guy that won you can't complain 4. the guy that wins has a mandate Voting has very little importance but it also has very little cost so you should do it. The one big danger with voting is that it *feels* good, it's a pressure-release valve for tyrannies. But you can just be aware of that.
If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.Deo VindiceKeep your safety in mind and don't make loud statements for which you might go to the places not-so-far-from-here, because there you will help no one.