alvvayson

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[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

And how will they know if you're a fundie or not?

What they're doing is checking phones and social media. If they see you are a member of some antifa or BLM org, they'll get you.

So don't do those things via Facebook. Use meshtastic and hide your receiver.

But if you practice good OpSec and all they see is baseball, BBQ and church, then they won't be able to tell the difference.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Thanks for the effort post with great tips!

I would also really recommend having a physical community near you, not just online contacts.

I would even go so far as to say: join a progressive protestant church It's not a silver bullet, but the fascists in the US are Christian Nationalists and some of them will hesitate to mistreat a Christian. And some of them will feel an obligation towards a Christian.

This is a big part of why Martin Luther King wasn't killed earlier. The thugs in the 50s had no problem persecuting "godless heathens" in the McCarthy era, but black Christians were Christians.

And yes, they were also mistreated, but it would have been much worse if they had been atheist or communist.

Fascists divide the world very black and white. Us v. Them

Looking like them provides a survival advantage.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

https://nos.nl/artikel/2561959-belgische-geneeskundestudent-die-schuldig-is-aan-verkrachting-wordt-geschorst

They changed it though. Now they are saying she wanted him to be ineligible to practice medicine.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

It is quite safe. What I heard about this case is that the victim was happy with the outcome.

They met at a party, she was drunk. He said he asked consent, she said he raped her. There was no evidence or allegation of force, just that she couldn't have consented in her drunken state.

He had a clean record.

He got convicted and ordered to pay €3500 and if he commits another crime, then this one will count too.

She was satisfied with the outcome. She especially wanted recognition that it was rape.

I think this is a good outcome. If he ever rapes someone again, he'll be a serial rapist and get the book thrown at him.

And on the flipside, I find it difficult to throw the book at people under the circumstances in these kind of cases.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah, I was wondering how they are going to expel an EU citizen.

Germany, like really WTH is wrong with you.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

You could have made this same analysis in 2000 and it would be equally valid.

Yes, the business world is willing to pay big bucks to reduce labour costs and that business case is solid.

But we already see that success is not determined by the size of the model, but by the data and providing and processing that data in a smart way to the AI. And the companies that are successful in this area are model agnostic. They can, and will, switch to cheaper to run models that are good enough for their purposes.

So the dogma that whoever has the biggest model wins, just doesn't apply. AI is already hitting diminishing returns.

Once the investment money pumping the hype is gone, there will be a glut of capacity and a heavy price competition, which will drive down margins.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I will say that Israel is many times more evil than Hamas.

But Hamas definitely is evil, too.

They torture and kill Palestinians to maintain power. They had even smuggled a Yezidi slave girl into Gaza.

Of course, I do understand that they are resisting oppression. And that is justified. And I also know that a lot of the propaganda against them is false, such as the beheaded babies thing.

But there are enough credible reports of them doing really shady stuff.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

And China basically has a monopoly on Siberia with the current arrangements.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Officially, yes.

Orban is just being Orban.

But Poland said they wouldn't arrest him either and the new German chancellor also said the same.

It's only genocide if you starve white kids.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I agree. Almost no one is pro-Hamas. They are definitely evil.

Still, doesn't justify starving kids, bombing kids and withholding medicine which forces doctors to amputate kids without anaesthesia.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You don't 'need' Russia, but it's mutually beneficial to have them on your side.

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Why would Russia risk alienating China?

In realpolitik, China is the more desirable partner than the USA.

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