Notices by altruios phasma (altruios@mastodon.social)

@mekkaokereke @DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson there is also this:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=Who%20can%20see%20my%20vote&hl=en

Which shows a growing concern jumping heavily around 2020…

The phrase about the husband might be manufactured: but the sentiment may be organic.

@mekkaokereke @DoesntExist @jcrabapple @Tarah @corycarson I wonder: the trend you show only goes back to Oct of 2023… which (coincidently 0_o ) doesn’t have an election… what’s the trend of that phrase (or paraphrases) over the last 16 years? That would be a much more convincing graph… what you showed was hardly convincing at all.

If you’re going to use data to make your point: use the correct data.

At a mall…
70% of the stores are closed.

I go to another mall. Same story.

Are we in a recession?

#politics #finance #bubble #recession #mall

Or are malls just: dying a hardcore death?

Is it like this everywhere? In SoCal I figured at least one mall is okay.

#outlaw is a concept we maybe need to bring back. The idea is not that bad people were all outlaws… an outlaw is someone to be treated outside of the law, that any action taken against them was legal as the law no longer protected them.

We should outlaw nazism: rendering it perfectly legal to punch a nazi!

#punchanazi
#makenazisdeadagain
#makenazisoutlaws
#politics
#leftist #progressive
#Antinazism #antifascist #antifascism

Nazism deserves to be outlawed: it is toxic to the law.

@WarnerCrocker capitalism leads straight to fascism.

#democrats if you want the #leftist vote: don’t support a genocide.

Our system of voting is trash: we need #RatedVoting (not #rankedchoicevoting : which can be gamed and still has the spoiler effect).

Those two issues: fix the system, and don’t support a genocide.

#politics

The monetization trends in development is how we got where we are today. Practically Every app in the iOS store has dark patterns so it can extract from you your money.

Freemium is intrinsically gross. In-app purchases is inherently suspect.

This is reinforced by the structure of the walled garden preventing alternative economic structures and competition.

Don’t you want to fight back against such an inhuman overstep?

#leftist #progressive #iOS #anticapitalism #opensource

Not all believes should be respected. No beleive should be respected for simply existing. There exists evil believes.

Fascism is an evil belief that does not deserve to be respected for existing.

It’s not “a difficult question”. It’s not hard at all. Reject fascism: reject those that choose fascism. No fascist argues in “good faith”.

#leftist #progressive #atheism #politics #antifa #antifascism #religion

@clarity it is a generalization based on a miscategorization. I want AI to gain sentience not to have a slave, but to have a friend (which is free to leave, and not be my friend). A capitalistic lens renders that impossible. I reject that capitalism and the imperialist tendencies.

I also believe we have the duty to raise sentience in species we’ve inadvertently repressed through our advancement. This includes artificial ones as well.

Sample size of one: maybe I’m just weird.

@clarity in the same way a calculator is a slave that does math for you… sure. But words have meaning, and there must be an experience happening for personhood/slavery to apply.

Does statistics dressed in a trench coat have such an experience? No.

Should we think about these things now so we don’t miss when machines gain sentience, yes. We should err on the side of permissive for what makes up an experience and what can have an experience: So we don’t do a slavery.

@TCatInReality @rbreich to which I say: voting blue no matter who is an exploitable flaw by republicans to change parties to (d) while being in line with maga.

Don’t just vote because they are blue: vote for the truest blue you can find - which is a lot more work.

Rated choice allows us to vote for progressives without conceding to the spoiler effect giving republicans votes.

We need a true leftist movement: now!

#progressives #HarrisWalz2024 #democrats

Hey: democrats… want the left to vote for you in droves?
Stop shipping over bombs and funding a genocide. Leftists hate genocide.

Fix it.

Just stop sending bombs. You are already In power: show it.

@unclesam 20 billion dollar weapon deal? Remind me how indiscriminate bombing fueled by racism constantly for a year is done in defense? Is committing a genocide “right to defend”?

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/us-approves-20-billion-weapons-sales-israel-hamas-backs-out-cease-fire-talks/

You want a ceasefire? Stop giving them things to fire? Let the bombs run out: enough of them have fallen… too many have fallen.

It’s time to let the hate cool off. Can’t do that while bombs are dropping.

#progressives #leftist #dnc #politics

@unclesam
Mad at both. But come on… don’t be combative to genuine criticism… just do better. Don’t complain about how hard it is to do better either.

Mad at Joe for different reasons (pro-capitalist/antiworker railroad strike breaking, for example). But she said those words: not Joe. Joe agrees, sure… but did you hear what she said? Or just what you wanted to hear?

@unclesam I think you are trolling instead of engaging in an honest discussion. Either you are being dense on purpose or you are being dense without realizing it. You’ve ignored anything I’ve actually said and engaged solely in what-about-ism.

consider pausing to reflect on the billions we are spending to bomb children is the issue… not words about bombing children, words aren’t the issue; anyone can say anything… but not anyone can do something…

Do: don’t talk. Stop the bombs.