neku

neku wrote

Reply to De-federating P92 by Seirdy

facebooks involvement seems totally counter to the underlying principles of the fediverse but really i have no idea why they would even bother to get involved. do they really think that a facebook branded mastodon instance is going to generate profit or signups or whatever?

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neku wrote

Reply to comment by twovests in More like CRAPtocurrencies by flabberghaster

The only thing left in cryptocurrency that's "good" (in the sense of fulfilling its basic goals) is the ability to make private payments

but its literally worse than physical money, which requires no overhead on the part of the individual and is virtually untraceable unless youre doing some serious shit. all this effort and the only ostensibly redeemable thing is worse than the system in use since the invention of "dollars"

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neku wrote

Reply to Google Gets Stricter About Employees’ Time in Office by damn_unpretty

im mostly totally sympathetic to people who reorganised their lives to work from home during covid and now have to resist these employers demanding that they get back to working in person and definitely support their efforts. but the part of me whos been working at a supermarket for most of my professional life is like "well... like... part of having a job is going in to the place where the job is..."

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neku wrote

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in juicero by twovests

the juicero is the same though. i tried using it once and an orange clipped out of it. smashed through my window and sailed into the horizon at terminal velocity

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neku wrote

Reply to do you use fountain pens? by oolong

no i used to bother buying nice (i.e. maybe like four pens for $20) pens but then i realised that it didnt make enough difference to me to care or bother. so now i just use whatever generic pen branded with some company i dealt with once or some bic stabilo pilot or something that i bought when it was getting hard for me to buy a pen. in fairness i use a tablet for school work so really i'm using a Microsoft TM Surface TM Pen TM

i've never actually used a fountain pen but it seems like it would be a hassle.

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neku wrote

Reply to What are some good readings about why eugenics is harmful, specifically targeting younger or less-educated people? (Serious-posting) by twovests

idk if theres easily digestible youtube video essay type content out there talking about why eugenics is bad. maybe you could show them a phrenology skull or eugenicist literature https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/vaughts-phrenology-book/ but i feel like you could probably just use the socratic method, ask questions, and see where you end up. like:

  • "why do you think this is a good idea?"
  • "what happens to people who you want to remove from the gene pool?"

maybe that could be a good point for you to link it back to genetics and the evolutionary advantage of genetic diversity https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2021.656168 if theyre trying to portray this as though its for the benefit of the human race

  • if you believe in sterilising undesirables, who will do the sterilising? if you believe in killing undesirables, who will do the killing?
  • who will classify people as undesirables?
  • if people are classified as undesirables based on supposedly objective measures, who developed these objective measures? how do you know that they're objective? if this is based on criminal conviction, how do you know the courts have ruled correctly and fairly?
  • what happens when a non-undesirable person is misidentified as an undesirable? is that a tragedy?
  • do you think that undesirable behaviour is the result of nature or nurture? is undesirable behaviour the genetic destiny of undesirable genes?
  • what happens when The Party That You Don't Like comes into power over this program?
  • is this program democratically controlled? would democratic control of this program be a good thing? how else should it be controlled?
  • are you an undesirable? could you become an undesirable?
  • how do you feel about the way eugenics has gone in the past (i.e. a justification for imperialism and mass death)? what will be different about your ideal program?
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