AutistoMephisto

AutistoMephisto , 4 days ago

See: Tea Party Republicans.

They absolutely are what happened when the rubes got tired of the lip service and demanded action.

Now, if only the radicals of the left could do the same, grow tired of the lip service, and hijack the Democratic Party.

AutistoMephisto , 8 days ago

I got a coworker who does this. He's a company man through and through because he actually believes that one day it'll be his boots getting licked.

AutistoMephisto , 9 days ago

And it's never explicitly said whose wedding he was at. For all we know, he might have been the groom. But they don't want to hear that he might have done what people did back then and got married.

AutistoMephisto , 11 days ago

They seem to be making a lot of "states rights" arguments. At this point we should just let the several States just be nations unto themselves. It's clearly what the Federalist Society wants. But then each State will have to provide for its own defense, have to print its own currency, and there won't be any organization to regulate commerce between these new separate nations.

AutistoMephisto , 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Here's the thing about YouTube. From the very beginning, it was a video-hosting platform. Users create content. They upload the content to YouTube's servers. Other users view the content, and upload their own. A simple formula, no? That's why their pre-Google slogan was "Broadcast Yourself". The thing is, storing video data long-term is expensive. This is where Google comes into play, because, unless you've got Google's money, you cannot afford to store literally 100s of Yottabytes of video data, not for very long, anyway. Even if YouTube becomes a "mostly-worthless relic", there's nobody who can readily replace it. I suppose someone could create a fediverse version of it where you simply upload your own content to your own server and then sell (or give) access to other users, but it would be slow to start, and small as not everyone can afford their own server to host their content on. Or, a service that aggregates videos by scraping them from from video servers that it has access to, creating a hub for users to enjoy the content made by other users that is stored on their own servers.

AutistoMephisto , 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago)

For me, I think the problems all started when creators themselves wanted to be paid for the content they created. When "content creator" started becoming a legitimate profession. YouTube was always going to need to have ads. They started adding more ads when creators started to establish themselves and want paid for the work they do. Don't get me wrong, creators should absolutely get paid for their work. But there were better ways to ensure that those who made quality content got paid for it AND keep the servers that host their content up and running than embracing full enshittification.

EDIT: You can downvote me all you like, but it does little to change the fact that once the costs started increasing to more than simply keeping the lights on, they started looking for places to put ads. Like the meme itself says, They could have had one skippable ad at the start of the video and just passively made income that way, but then their operating costs went up when it was determined that the pay for content creators should come directly from the platform's coffers.

AutistoMephisto , 11 days ago

Exactly. If Trump wins, he will outright BAN the Democratic Party, at worst. We will all either be Republicans, or we will be prisoners. And if that happens, the only group with the means to oppose him and the GOP Fascists is gone. And yes, the DNC absolutely has the means. They have all the tools they need. Now, I will admit that they lack the will to use those tools, but if Trump wins they'll never get the chance to use them.

AutistoMephisto , 11 days ago

Good luck. The Left has been made up of everyone who couldn't form their own parties because they lacked the resources, and so the Democratic Party became the "Big Tent" Party.

AutistoMephisto OP , 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Yeah, turns out if you set a bunch of loudspeakers facing away from an area and then blast white noise through them, you can basically create your very own Cone of Silence! They use something similar in office buildings called pink noise. It's basically white noise but at a much lower volume. Just loud enough to prevent you from being overheard halfway across the building, but not enough to drive you crazy. Sound masking is interesting.

AutistoMephisto , 14 days ago

Exactly. And they'll feel its effects and while they suffer they'll only say "Well, at least it's hurting my enemies worse!"

AutistoMephisto , 15 days ago

If Trump wins the election, he's going to do what he wants regardless of the Court's ruling. Let's stop pretending that "Even when it accomplishes nothing, following the rules to the bitter end is the noble thing to do." Why the fuck does the Captain need to go down with his ship?

AutistoMephisto , 17 days ago

This all began almost a half-century ago, when conservatives began pouring billions of dollars into researching language and ideas. They wanted to ensure that they would forever dominate political discourse in the USA by making words mean what they wanted them to mean.

AutistoMephisto , 19 days ago

You dumb fuck. They're sending that money in the form of weapons, ammo, fuel, tools, and equipment. Zelenskyy even said "I don't need a ride, I need more bullets."

AutistoMephisto , 22 days ago

Right, because when capitalists win, we all win! /s

AutistoMephisto , 25 days ago

Well, guess Rome shall rise once more.

AutistoMephisto , 1 month ago

Exactly. The hardliners have decided that if they can't have this country, then nobody should.

AutistoMephisto , 1 month ago

Diddling little girls, specifically. They think humanity was at it's peak during the Bronze Age, when women weren't considered people, they were a resource like livestock.

AutistoMephisto , 1 month ago

And right now, with Private Equity firms owning about 44% of single-family homes in the US, it's almost like a return to feudalism. Better bow and scrape and slave for your liege lord, and maybe, in the distant future, your descendants will be married into one of their families, to be given the life you only dreamed of.

AutistoMephisto , 1 month ago

As much as I'd like to think so, I think that the US is just going to go mask off, too.

AutistoMephisto , 2 months ago

Yep. Some of these things get unhinged. People speaking in tongues, mass hysteria, chanting, singing, etc. It's at these revivals that it definitely looks like the cult it really is.

AutistoMephisto , 2 months ago

Exactly. When these people tell you who they really are, believe them. They're not lying, they're not joking, they're not confused.

AutistoMephisto , 2 months ago

His headstone will become my new urinal.

AutistoMephisto , 2 months ago

I've asked it before, but I wonder how Hitler would react to Israel. Probably be beaming with pride, like a master does when their apprentice surpasses them. I imagine when Netanyahu finally shuffles his way off this mortal coil, and his soul goes wherever Hitler's is, Adolf will probably shake his hand.

AutistoMephisto , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

I look at it like this:Two sides. One side is completely full of shit and they know it. They also know the other side knows. However, both sides have agreed to keep up the pretense of everything being okay, for whatever reason. I like to call it the "Slow Break-up".

It's like when your romantic partner stops showing up for date nights, then they get home late, then they start sleeping on the couch. And eventually you get around to asking, "Is something wrong?" And they're all like, "No, everything is fine, work's just been riding me so hard lately, and now I get home so late that I don't want to wake you up." Then one day they're packing their shit to leave, and they look at you and go, "Look, we both saw this coming."

It's always "not happening" until it's already happened. The moment is skipped over where they could acknowledge they misled you, try to make amends, maybe do something about the problem.

But, my overall point is this. A civil war would be like a fight between spouses. Like, a big serious fight. Where there is the possibility that someone's going to yell "I want a divorce!". So the divorce happens, but both parties move on, and try to heal. I am on the side that wants to have the fight, move on, and heal.

AutistoMephisto , 2 months ago

The media made them paranoid. No one is actually coming for them.

Truth. They also let people on sites like "Truth" and social media grifters tell them shit like "Public schools are turning your kids trans!" and they eat it up.

AutistoMephisto , 2 months ago

In the case of the school helping students socially transition without telling the parents, being a parent myself, I can understand how upset those parents might be, but the public school was probably told not to tell the parents for fear that the parents might not take it well. That's a lot of parents. If my son came to me and said he did not feel right as a boy, I would respect his feelings, and support and help and empathize. Not many others would. At the school district in question, there would be so many kids pulled out of school and sent to Christian indoctrination centers to be forced to see themselves how their parents what them to see themselves.

AutistoMephisto , 2 months ago

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For all that Biden has done and is doing wrong, he has still done more good for people here at home. People here choosing not to vote for Biden simply because of his support for Israel would damn this entire country, their country, to help people who don't even know them terrify me.

AutistoMephisto , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

No, what terrifies me is that people would deliver this country, the only home I have ever known, into the hands of an incompetent kleptocratic fascist, who will inevitably give us up to theocratic ideologues, for the sake of the Palestinians. Don't get me wrong, I abhor Israel and the Israeli government for its genocide, and all who collaborate with them should be cast into the fires of Hell with them. But what is stopping that genocide worth to you? What price are you willing to pay? Is there no price too high, no expense too great? An entire nation, for a free Palestine? Why stop at just one nation? How about two? 20? 50? 100? The entire world? A small sacrifice, if it means a free Palestine, right?

AutistoMephisto , 2 months ago

I won't argue that. My life to save innocent lives is a small sacrifice. But to OP's point, choosing not to vote this November means we get another 4 years of Trump, who has said, with his whole chest, that he will be a dictator from Day 1. You know what that means, right? It means no woman in the USA will ever have an abortion ever the fuck again. No woman will ever have access to birth control, ever the fuck again. Trans people will be rounded up. Anyone who leans just slightly to the left of the Nazis will be rounded up. Workers rights will cease to functionally exist. Black people will be enslaved once more. Children will be sent to the mines and workhouses. NOTHING is off the table.

AutistoMephisto , 2 months ago

I get what you're saying. "The Rules" can't stop bad ideas. The only thing that stops a bad idea is a good idea and the spine to implement it. Republicans have gotten as far as they have because they believe in something, and govern in accordance with those beliefs, even if it's a bunch of bigoted, fascist, bullshit. Democrats, and liberals in particular, say, "Forget your conscience and just Trust the Process", because "The Process" is morality itself, and any ends achieved by going outside "The Process" is inherently immoral.

AutistoMephisto , 2 months ago

Exactly. They would probably force implant embryos into women, and then arrest them for murder if the embryo fails to take hold.

AutistoMephisto , 3 months ago

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b5fb0e00-2697-4c21-885a-a00c8030891a.jpeg

AutistoMephisto , 2 months ago

I find it hard to believe there's no evidence, I mean, the Romans ruled half the world and were meticulous and methodical in their record keeping. I find it difficult to imagine they have no historical records of Iesus Nazaretum.

AutistoMephisto , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

And they do it because they think it makes them immortal. They fear death. That dark abyss. Their deeds laid bare, their sins punished.

AutistoMephisto , 3 months ago

Right? Like, show me the original document that says that Texas is permitted to leave the United States. The original agreement between the Republic of Texas and the United States. Name the members of Congress who approved the agreement and when.

AutistoMephisto , 3 months ago

If Abbot were a smarter man, he'd have thought of this. How I'd do it is I would split Texas into several smaller States, appoint new sub-governors for each of these new States, and they'd appoint Representatives for the counties in their separate jurisdictions, and somehow get each of these new States to form their own Union separate from the US Union. Call it something like, the Federation of Texan States.

AutistoMephisto , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Personally I would be in favor for granting DC the power to revoke Statehood, regardless of the desire of any given State to remain or leave. Sort of like, "These are the rules. Choose not to abide by them, and consider your membership in the Union revoked." Like, I'm sick of State governments egregiously flouting the authority of the Federal Government, of which they are ostensibly members, and getting away with it. At the very least Congress should have the power to place trade sanctions on States like Texas, since the Commerce Clause gives them the authority to "regulate interstate commerce".

AutistoMephisto , 3 months ago

How long before one Senator just up and shoots another Senator? Anyone starting a pool? I know MTG and Boebert both conceal carry while on the floor.

AutistoMephisto , 3 months ago

I say to fucking take the bait. Come down hard, be a "tyrant" for once. Do what Lincoln did, suspend habeas corpus, declare martial law, slap every GOP Governor siding with this shit in handcuffs. They want to act like criminals, treat them as criminals.

AutistoMephisto , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Like, for a party that is full of anti-mask sentiment, they sure do love to wear metaphorical masks. One thing I said at the exit interview for a job I worked is, "When are you going to admit that you don't really see me or any of the guys on the shop floor as 'people'?"

And I'd like to put it forward to Republicans. What's it going to take to get you to take your mask off? What's it going to take to get you to admit you see everyone who isn't you as livestock? You know you're full of shit, we know you're full of shit, and you know that we know, and we know that you know that we know. Can we just drop the pretense and be honest with each other for a little bit?

It's like, when two people are in a romantic relationship, and that relationship enters a rough patch, but instead of fighting, moving on, and healing, both sides just have some unspoken agreement to keep pretending that everything is fine. The more I think about it, I kinda realize that it's like a game of chicken. First to drop the charade loses. And neither side wants to lose.

AutistoMephisto , 3 months ago

So what are you proposing? Go on, say it with your chest.

AutistoMephisto , 3 months ago

True. Also, openly taking a swing at spooks is not a good idea. One wrong move and next thing you know you're unpersoned.

AutistoMephisto , 3 months ago

Magnetic tape is still a thing, particularly for long-term data storage. If you want to keep some data around for longer than most humans live, store it on magnetic tape.

AutistoMephisto , 3 months ago

Yeah, but a lot of companies started storing their records on magnetic tape when that became a thing, and it's more for continuity purposes. It's still the lowest cost, highest capacity, longest durability solution for archival purposes.

AutistoMephisto , 3 months ago

Even simpler than that. Biden is the Commander in Chief. Abbot can mobilize the National Guard in his state, but at the end of the day if their commander receives a stand down order direct from the President, they MUST obey, or it's insubordination and the penalty for insubordination within the military is much higher than in the private sector.

AutistoMephisto , 3 months ago

I remember reading about that. There's actually a woman who looks perpetually 8, but is in her 20's and she was talking about how hard it is for her to find dates because any man she tried to go out with was either actually a pedo, or afraid of being seen as a pedo. I actually kinda feel bad for her, but I also understand how it would be hard for other guys, myself included, to see her as a fully functioning adult.