NoneOfUrBusiness

This is a reasonable point, but it’s also not what you said previously.

I mean at this point you’ll have to boycott everyone. Boycotting isn’t gonna cut it anymore.

We could argue all day over who is experiencing reality or who is in an echo chamber.

We could, or you could read the article where it addresses exactly that point. Most demographics are slightly positive on AI, with some neutral and only nonbinary people as slightly negative. The representative US sample is at 4.5/7.

The article contains nothing of the sort and I have no idea why you came to that conclusion.

You might be living in an echo chamber. Most Americans use AI at least sometimes and plenty use it regularly according to studies.

They claim to teach college level Spanish and French and have research to back that up, but I’m not sure of its accuracy.

And it’s not on Microsoft what people do with the Azure platform.

It absolutely is. It’s one thing when it’s individual users, who are too many to track and tracking whom would be a gross violation of privacy. Israel approached Microsoft with the explicit goal of using their platform to slaughter Palestinians, and Microsoft accepted knowing their platform would be used to slaughter Palestinians. In that sense there’s no difference between providing cloud computing and providing tanks.

Yeah Pug was really weird there, but to be fair the way Felix never addressed that fact in their responses, so the way they were responding makes them seem like they disagreed with Pug rather than (correctly) believing their statement to be irrelevant. That was really weird all around.

That’s… Wow. I have no words.

Again, sexual violence happened, systematic sexual violence did not. Felix only denounced the latter as Israeli lies, because it is; they didn’t say a word about the former. There was no misinformation to spread. Your own link says as much.

That makes sense, but as I said I think stating that you have problems with the instance, maybe with a short TL;DR, and a link for context would’ve been a better way to promote the community. As you can probably guess from the downvotes, titling a post “New Comm for Lord Of The Rings Memes at !Lotrmemes@Piefed.social” only to ambush the reader with eight paragraphs of instance drama gives a very bad first impression of you and, more relevantly, the community you’re creating, which kind of defeats the point. The easiest conclusion ends up being “who cares” with a hint of “Pug is in the wrong,” resulting in even potential subscribers deciding not to subscribe. Also there are people out there who tend to subscribe to more than one community about the same thing, so you could count on those subscribing.

Why would I link to a comm I’m banned from and trying to move away from?

Because as it stands it seems like you’re using the new community thing as an excuse to rant about db0 admins. Not that I think that’s the case, but it’ll turn off people who don’t have a horse in this race from the community you’re trying to promote as they’ll think “ew, instance drama,” not “nice, LOTR memes”.

I checked the original conversation, and for future reference there’s evidence for sexual violence on October 7th, but not systematic sexual violence. Both claims are substantiated by the article Pug linked (CTRL+F “system”), and yours only claims the latter not the former. In the first place neither is particularly controversial, so I’m not sure what either of you were even arguing about.

I checked the original conversation, and for future reference there’s evidence for sexual violence on October 7th, but not systematic sexual violence. Both claims are substantiated by the article you linked (CTRL+F “system”), and in the first place neither are particularly controversial, so I’m not sure what either of you were even arguing about.

I have to agree with mang0; introducing a new community is one thing, but I don’t think instance drama belongs here. Maybe instead link to your db0 community post if anyone wants context?

It has nothing to do with bigotry and everything to do with unaccountable authority.

I mean, they’re two sides of the same coin. Authority capitalizes on bigotry (and division, more broadly) to avoid accountability.

But I’m charmed by how they describe Japan as a nation where omnipresent surveillance is still not considered normal. This wasn’t the case with the EU 5 or 10 years ago.

Fair enough.

I mean, one look at Japanese work culture should be all demonstration you need for that.

The only reason Japan isn’t in the same boat as America and Europe (yet, far-right parties are slowly rising in popularity) is that they never got on the immigration train, so their population is mostly homogenous and there are few things for bigots to complain about. Of course, this came with a price; the dismal state of Japan’s industry, academia and economy compared to other first-world countries is at least partially due to their rejection of immigrants. Of course, they can’t keep this up forever, which is why they’ve been recently allowing more immigrants in, fueling the rise of the far-right. Unless they can change rapidly, what Japan is “enjoying” now is the calm before the storm. “Still has something appearing to be a democracy” is how the EU was described five years ago.

And that’s pretty cool, seems like a culture best suited for modern challenges.

I mean, looking at the Lost Decades it seems to be quite the opposite. Sometimes it helps to take things slow, but other times you really have to think “come on get on with the times already”.

Why would they ever do that? Buying a new Tesla is one thing, but using one they’ve already paid for doesn’t benefit Musk. Why would there be a threshold for them to get rid of their perfectly fine car?