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Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 00:04:10 JST 
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James Lindsay was on Joe Rogan!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IlRNjBQm5Y -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 17-Mar-2024 00:04:09 JST
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In Missouri transgender surgery for minors was essentially ended with a simple change:
Extending the statute of limitations for suing for malpractice for minors undergoing gender-affirming care, from 2 years to
> within fifteen years of the individual injured attaining the age of twenty-one or of the date the treatment of the injury at issue in the action by the defendant has ceased, whichever is later.
(Lindsay got the numbers a bit wrong, but still in the ballpark. I autistically went and found the bill itself to verify (https://www.senate.mo.gov/23info/pdf-bill/tat/SB49.pdf). He incorrectly said 20 years after reaching 20 years old. I think other states doing similar legislation might be like that)
from timestamp 1:10:10 ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IlRNjBQm5Y&t=4210s )
This is an amazing idea. It really calls their bluff about it being real medicine instead of a political zeitgeist designed to abuse trans people by leaving them holding the bags for the decision pushed on them without informed consent. -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 04:12:20 JST
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@lain wow, if the state doesn't make mistakes, then everything should be inside it! nothing should be outside of it! and nothing should be against it!
*Dr. Strangelove arm spasm*
"Welcome to Itchy & Scratchy Land, where nothing can possibligh go wrong... Possibly go wrong. That's... the first thing that's ever gone wrong." -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 00:55:14 JST
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The TikTok Ban Bill is Basically a Digital Patriot Act
https://rumble.com/v4j7p8l-the-tiktok-ban-bill-is-basically-a-digital-patriot-act.html
The determination of if a site shall be banned is made *entirely* and single-handed-ly and by "the president". The president determines unilaterally.
Any challenge to the bill is handled in the *exclusive jurisdiction* of DC court of appeals. (extremely democrat biased)
Shame on the Republicans who fell for this bill, or are just sellout RINOs. -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Mar-2024 03:01:13 JST
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@lain @piggo @mangeurdenuage as someone who has been in those threads in real life more than once, I felt that. -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 03:12:31 JST
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@lain It's a cult-religion, not an economic or scientific model. It doesn't require or desire itself to be consistent or factual. -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 02:49:24 JST
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@lain I got curious and used a calculator and you're probably right. It returned
$nan
because the number was so big. If he invested the $1 with 2% annual interest for 8200 years (10% of the years in the tweet), he'd have
$33,220,674,635,271,203,749,460,101,460,068,681,101,232,405,760,063,115,849,057,159,813,791,744
Elon Musk has roughly
$200,000,000,000
>Why didn't my seeds grow?!?!
<Where did you plant them?
>They're in the seed packet in the drawer. Damn farmers are cheating! Tax them and give it to me!!!
You have to be educated to be this ignorant. This level of anger and ignorance are not a human's natural state. They probably also think the bank gives 2% interest out of the goodness of its heart while storing the deposited cash in a box until you come back for it. Any other belief would admit the legitimacy of capital. -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 02:48:25 JST
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@lain catgirlfriend / catgrillfriend? -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 01:34:25 JST
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@thendrix @lain @Moon that is a worrying development. To be fair it's about animal products, but it does move in the direction where plants could be next ("omg bad lettuce! ban gardening!").
The talk about food-inflation always made me think "that's just general inflation", because food prices cannot spiral out of control in a free market, because more people will grow food as it becomes more profitable to be a farmer, putting a ceiling on prices (in terms of purchasing power, not dollars, as dollars can go up forever as money printer go brrrr).
Part of why cattle products are going up so much is because it is more regulated, compared to chicken. IIRC, the regulation is that if you butcher anything larger than a chicken, you have you employ a full-time inspector, whom you provide with his own office, which is in its own room, with a dedicated bathroom solely for that office. This is why small butchers don't exist. A small business can't afford that, but a factory-farm can.
There are only two ways that food prices spiral out of control: becoming a warzone, and socialism. If the government puts price controls on food, cracks down on "hoarding" food, or bans growing food, those are the only ways that a food crisis can be caused (or war). -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 01:34:24 JST
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@thendrix @lain @Moon
>They couldn’t let people introduce supply to the market was their excuse.
Lol. The US gov pays Mexican farmers to not grow corn, for the same reason.
The shinkflation thing is such a misdirection, too. Companies have been very reluctant to be the first to raise prices, and "shrinkflation", selling a smaller amount for the same price is an alternative, albeit lousy and short-sighted. It's still all just symptoms of inflation, but they're trying to frame it as corporate greed ("capitalism"). If they're only doing it because they're greedy, then why didn't they do it five years ago? If they could make more profit by selling less stuff for the same price, why don't they just keep doing that? It makes no sense. Like you said, the point is to agitate and manufacture consent for price controls.
It's more like Venezuela or the USSR than Ukraine. -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 00:59:38 JST
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@lain @Moon I like this comparison and I've thought about it before:
If "healthcare is a human right", then why not food? You need food to live, after all.
So why not treat food the same way we treat medical care?
Why is one industry exorbitantly expensive and fucked up, and the other not so much?
Because one is heavily regulated, and the other is a (somewhat) free market with low barrier to entry.
You can't start an insurance company these days (so they merge into monopolies), but you can grow your own food.
And yes, socializing or nationalizing food industry, would involve taking the CEOs of McDonalds and Nestle and Walmart, and having them lead the new state-owned corporation, to which no competition is allowed. Growing your own food would be banned, for the same reason that not having health insurance would be banned.
I don't have health insurance. I used to have health insurance, and initially it was considered a bronze-rated plan in Obamacare, but then they raised the standards, and my plan became illegal and they stopped offering it. Instead of paying 5x as much, I opted to pay the individual mandate fee for not buying insurance. So, thanks Obama. "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan".
Oh! The single-payer McDonalds meme should include the penalty you have to pay if you *don't* buy McDonalds food. -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 00:49:07 JST
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@thendrix
live by the bot trading stocks on your behalf
die by the bot trading stocks on your behalf -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 15-Feb-2024 00:30:29 JST
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@lain so many things:
Inability to separate the people of a country from its government. This shit actually chases Russian people toward Putin to save them.
"you know what to do" is the call of the arrogant reddit lynchmob organizer
Reminds me of "The International Cat Federation has banned Russian-bred cats from its shows". Those evil Russian cats!
Now do USA for what their government does. -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 01:54:53 JST
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@thendrix I did miss it, in what "admin"? People don't seem to want to remember that he was Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, among other, pizza-related things.... -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 01:54:52 JST
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@thendrix in my opinion, the absolute number one issue in politics that must be solved before anything else can possibly be meaningfully worked on, is blackmailed pedo-puppets occupying the seats of power and actively ejecting anyone who isn't also blackmailed. This includes both parties, and likely the 3rd parties as well.
Until this is corruption exposed and fixed, all of the regular political issues are inaccessible. -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 01:54:51 JST
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@thendrix "climate diplomat". There's a money-laundering title if I've ever heard one.
We don't need a purge, we need justice. And not justice by their disingenuous Orwellian usage of the term. My ideal scenario is that the public needs to be shown their crimes in excruciating detail until their stomachs turn (a lot of this evil is protected by the "too horrible to be true" and "I don't want to think about it" psychology). They need to be prosecuted thoroughly and publicly, with lower-level grunts being given plea-bargains to sell out the mid- and high-levels. No plea-bargains for mid- and high-levels. Fair public trials. Everything by the book. No fake evidence or intentional bullshit that causes mistrials or doubt in the public consciousness. Justice.
I personally don't believe in the death penalty, but depending on laws and jurisdiction, it might apply. No lynch-mobbing, no guillotines, no revenge. Only justice.
The key things are showing the public until they can't deny it or the extent of it anymore, and discovery and verification of evidence (no "poison-pill" planted fake evidence that later gets disproven and taints the rest). If those happen, everything else will flow. Similar to how the country's problems will suddenly be really easy to solve, once bad actors who benefit from problems being unsolvable are removed. -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 23:19:30 JST
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@lain @kaia @cell I agree with this sentiment regarding morality, but there's an important nuance in this particular case.
While TTS and translation are good for non-native english speakers, using AI to generate full scripts in often evil, and I suspect that might be what's being done here.
I've encountered this kind of auto-generated content before, a TTS voice reading Wikipedia or MSM articles, with stock video in the background that is relevant to the words in the script (which can be very funny when it portrays a turn-of-phrase or expression in the script with video).
But this video had zero original research, and is entirely MSM journo smear pieces about Notch, set to a combination of footage from the documentary "Minecraft: The Story of Mojang" and stock video.
It re-churns the churnalism into a new medium, and may have been generated by a bot and massaged by a human.
The channel's other content reveals it to be a clickbait algorithm farm.
So mind that most of what you learned in that video about Notch being evil was written by evil journos as smear, and has been uncritically copy-pasted to the video. -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 03:47:07 JST
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@icedquinn @incognitum @olmitch I'm sure there was some of that because the CIA is evil and should be destroyed. But also communists lie and blame the CIA for literally everything. The USSR did the vast majority of it to itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrecking_(Soviet_Union) -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 03:47:06 JST
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@thendrix @icedquinn @incognitum @olmitch the CIA is fascist and therefore benefits from socialism. I forget who said it but it went like "The very portrait of fascism is the man sitting at the FBI desk at Twitter".
You can't have an FBI desk at every fedi instance admin's house. That's why they need a monopoly that needs to be regulated such that it becomes illegal to run a fedi instance. For instance, legally requiring real-time moderation that is impossible for anyone but a megacorporation to do, and removing the concept of "posts are property of their respective users".
Consolidation of the market under a few giant umbrella companies is great for the government, and is worth bailing them out as they get less and less competitive. Everything gets shittier, but the fascists gain increasing control over an ever-shrinking pie. If Marxist revolution comes, it'll just be a CIA coup to remove the remaining publicly-elected officials and non-government power, and crown themselves (the TLAs) kings, making what they were building all along official. -
Aven (aven@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 03:31:41 JST
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@incognitum @icedquinn @olmitch socialist activists seem to pretend that abolishing capitalism means that corporations and industry would cease to exist, in a "food comes from a grocery store" mindset. In reality, it means that companies are nationalized and seized by the state (which communists call "the workers" or "the people") and become state-owned corporations.
State-owned corporations operate on a different set of incentives: money and growth of their corporation don't come from profit (revenue minus costs) or happy customers, it comes from The Party (bureaucrats with politically-correct opinions). Therefore state-owned corporations tend to be very inefficient, very polluting, miserable to work for, an miserable to buy from.
The post office is a good example, with the expression "going postal" coming from how happy their workers are with their jobs. In terms of customer satisfaction, I'd point to the VA (Veteran's Administration) as the state-owned corporation for single-payer public-option healthcare. Public school teacher low salaries, public school teacher child abuse (and inability to be fired for it).
Socialists seem to think that all industry and corporations should work that way, and point to the most regulated and government-controlled industries as examples of how capitalism is failing, demanding even more merger of state and corporate power as the solution. Socialism was never about ending corporations, it was always about making them too big to fail and then incorporating them into the government.
Full-blown communism is when you have to go to work and your shitty abusive job, and refusing to do so is unpatriotic and criminal. There is no unemployment or homelessness in communism because they're rounded up and put in sweatshops. If they refuse to work, they're imprisoned and enslaved and sent to more remote areas. Look up "Wrecking" in the USSR.
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