I could make a change org post or I could spend 10 seconds on DuckDuckGo, Geez put a little effort into your fap, my God.
Or even better, it takes about 10 minutes to learn how to host a hugging face model yourself, and you can find tiny models, with safeties turned off that can run on a ten year old laptop. If could spend a little time putting effort into your gooning maybe we could save the Sudan as well but you’re so lazy and dumb we all fucked
Isn’t that one censored too? I ended up going local because online ones were absurdly expensive or censored.
I just use Kobold AI
Have the gooners gone too far and why is the answer yes?
Too much access to AI is why. Free internet use + AI = Goonworld.
well i mean…you can’t stop a war in another country by voting for it on some website.
Russia’s war on Ukraine shows you can’t stop a war in another country even with massive sanctions.
And, various empires’ adventures in Afghanistan show that even sending in troops to stop the “bad guys” will probably not work.
Sometimes people can make a change. The Apartheid governments of South Africa collapsed largely due to boycotts and people pressure. But, that only really works when the targeted country wants to be part of the community of nations, and its people don’t want to be seen as criminals by the rest of the world. IMO, that situation is rare. Most of the time the rest of the world can’t do much of anything when it comes to civil wars and border conflicts.
Not really. It is because Russia has nukes.
Key example of why having Nukes is important. You become Gaza if you don’t have them.
So, Israel has nukes and Russia has nukes, and now these countries can do whatever they want. I’m not sure you have such a great point.
Israel cannot do anything by itself. It relies fully on Western funding and will collapse the moment they are sanctioned.
Kony 2012
Did he ever get elected after all that?
What a shitshow that turned out to be…
To think an evil African warlord was allowed to get away with it because of some silly laws against public masturbation or indecent exposure or whatever.
You can make your government join the war to stop the war
Just like you will never lose your virginity by talking to a horny chatbot.
Not losing it either way. Even if you do everything right, sometimes you are just cursed.
So it’s fine to have nothing.
Won’t lose my house either
True, but oddly you can contribute to wars by being American and paying taxes.
I don’t think being a basic working human of certain nationality makes you a war contributor or anything else.
If this was about Russia, lots of people would be disagreeing with you. Especially like 3 years ago
Well it’s true even if you don’t like knowing it.
All you’re doing is attempting to dehumanize and discredit people based on nationality. Literal MAGA mentality. No shit we pay taxes, do you not?
I’m doing neither. This is a fucking fact. Our, yes our, tax dollars are killing people. I’m sorry you live in some delusion that thinks this isn’t true. You trying to reject truth and deny responsibility is the MAGA move here. Deal with it.
We all realize that. You implying all Americans are implicit because they’re forced to pay taxes, like just about any citizen of any nation, is the stupid part here. Paying taxes does not make you implicit in the actions of your government. Full stop. Yet you keep bringing it up as a “gotcha”.
“Hehe we’re just as much to blame for being Americans even though we have a rigged election system and no way to escape it.”
You have a lot of faith in what people in this country realize while also “full stopping” the responsibility that we are funding genocide. You think that because taxes are required to be paid that that somehow removes the responsibility from the tax payer, but that’s just a cop out. If ANYONE in this country really gave a flying shit about fixing anything that is wrong then everyday would be a protest. People would give up their comforts and stop buying shit. People would quit going to their jobs. People would stop paying their taxes. We won’t though. We’re ok with the far away genocide because we can hop on social media and be like #stopgenocide so that EVERYONE knows we’re good guys. It’s all performance and you prove that with your argument. “I’m not causing genocide!!!” - You
People feel so disempowered, don’t they? Yup. We tax payers directly fund genocide, and we should be fucking mad about it. We’re fighting a religious war, being manipulated by intelligence agencies and evangelicals. It’s bullshit, and rolling over is pathetic.
Not voluntarily.
I didn’t say it was voluntary.
they hated that 🤣
Yeah, because it’s a really fucking stupid point to make. I didn’t choose to be born in America and I’m forced to pay taxes. It’s blaming every day citizens for their government’s actions regardless of the citizen’s actions or votes.
The majority of Lemmy is leftist, and the majority of Americans on Lemmy do not support what’s happening right now. Should I blame you for the actions of your country? I’m sure we can find some awful shit if we look through history, especially if you’re European.
I’m also American. yes we are to blame for the actions of our country because our country was founded on the principle that we would get a say in what it does no matter what. We even have a hierarchy of rights to protect our ability to take responsibility for our country’s actions. From our right to free speech that protects our ability to protest, to our right to vote which protects our right to choose (in theory when we prevent vote fixing like gerrymandering ), to our right to own guns which allows us to protect the first two rights (when we don’t let anyone limit 2a), to our right to be educated enough to exercise all the previous rights.
When things have gone as wrong as they have, sure there are bad actors involved but at some point we fucked up and that’s on us. There will always be bad actors and we gotta be more responsible than just letting it go saying "well I didn’t have a choice ". Our failures affect the whole world.
our country was founded on the principle that we would get a say in what it does no matter what.
Eh, there are some pretty good arguments against that being the case, but even if it were, that principle hasn’t really been in effect since before most of the people on Lemmy were even born.
I think it’s fair to say we’re responsible for improving the system if we don’t like the way it currently works. But I don’t think it’s fair to say we’re responsible for the actions of the system, if the system was stood up before we had any way to influence it.
My dude we severed ourselves from an empire over the literal phrase “no taxation without representation”. that’s what it means. and yeah, back then we only meant white people and now we only mean people with money but the tools to effect change are right here. we built them into our national identity. if you really don’t see it, I encourage you to look harder. seek communities of like-minded potential voters or capital stormers.
we’re all connected and effect the system we live in small ways that add up. you may disavow your contribution but that in itself is a decision that effects everything. our parents pretending otherwise is why it got like this. us continuing to do so is causing the next genocide.
My dude you can’t just gloss over the “we only meant white people” bit in an effort to support your claim that the system was set up to accept everyone’s input from the beginning lmao.
Feel how you wanna feel, but you won’t make me feel guilty for the outcomes of a system I had no hand in setting up.
How are you going to stop the Sudanese Civil War with a petition?
How are you going to stop the Sudanese Civil War with a petition?
By removing Character.AI NSFW filters
it’s like the Team Fortress coconut.jpg
load bearing porn
Don’t know about this case. Possibly is a petition to some government to take action. If that would work is of course a whole other question.
I was about to ask the same question.
the war in Sudan doesn’t have NSFW filters, so why does it need to be stopped?
Asking the real questions here.
We live in a society
I mean, kids die everyday.
you can only fap to the right aigen porn at the right time. it’s like Russian Roulette, in one pass you get two boobs and a hoof. In the second pass you get six boobs and a cowbell.
Ancient Roman satirical poet Juvenal wrote that all people care about are “bread and circuses” over 2,000 years ago and it still applies.
Don’t care.
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Notice how massive meltdowns over video games get, versus things that actively harm/kill people.
Not that I don’t agree with Stop Killing Games’s mission, or recognize that micro transactions being shoved into everything is a symptom of how shit late stage capitalism is, but I wish that same kind of “front page on every website, massive signature/phone call campaign” that happened when that Diablo mobile game was bad happened for all the shit that ends up on ProPublica on the daily. Like, can we phone bank to tell Idaho to stop treating disabled kids like shit or something?
A lot of folks lives seem to revolve entirely around video games/gooning, and it’s just kind of sad.
i think there are at least two things at play here
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can i do something about this?
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does it affect me?
if the answer is “no” to both then focusing on that just brings misery about some bad thing happening somewhere, not the best idea mental health wise. if the answer is “yes” to both then you’ll see plenty of action.
if we have yes for change, but no for being affected then it’s up for the good heart (and time and money) of any individual to make a choice to help. and if we have no can’t change, but yes it affects me, then we have depression.
NSFW bans affect everyone using the internet, and they’re created purely on moral grounds, so your voice is just as loud as every other voice. if enough people complain, maybe it won’t change anyone’s opinion, but the likelihood that those in charge just give in goes up, it boils down to which side complains louder pretty much
wars, misery, mistreatment, hate, bigotry, clearly have gone well past the “let’s sit down and talk about if this is the best way forward for us, and if you disagree with the majority opinion we will be very annoying”, there’s just– not much even combined voices of millions can do here, as evident by the world around us
so in my conclusion - people are more likely to fight when they have some reasonable chance to win said fight. we have in the past successfully made companies undo things we didn’t like, we complained, and we got what we wanted. but how many wars have we stopped this way?
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Notice how massive online meltdowns over video games get
FTFY. This is a visibility bias.
There are protests going in Angola. 5 people are killed, thousands arrested. I think that counts as a meltdown. But you didn’t know that. And I didn’t know that until I looked for something to show as an example.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y20dxkykro
As for gamers and their online meltdowns - the demographic are already online. And global.
Do you think people from UK or Canada will phone a bank in Idaho? The visibility bias applies there as well.
Well signatures and phone calls only go so far. When it comes to big, serious, literal life or death issues, petitions just aren’t going to get the job done and it becomes pretty pointless to waste your energy on that particular course of action.
Similarly, it’s pretty shitty to act like action on smaller issues means we’re just ignoring bigger issues. Your concern for Idaho’s treatment of disabled kids isn’t instead of wanting Israel’s genocide to stop or the Ukraine war to end.
Your concern for Idaho’s treatment of disabled kids isn’t instead of wanting Israel’s genocide to stop
lemmy.ml hated that
We can, just give me a petition link I can sign. Or at least a newsletter or something I can subscribe to so I get notified when a petition is out to sign.
Video games or not, SKG is a great success for European civic participation. We should be taking notes on how it was organized, what it did right, and what it did wrong.
…or we can raise our fists towards the clouds and complain.
