Melvin_Ferd

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Melvin_Ferd ,

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Melvin_Ferd ,

Maybe we're all just fucking bored Kyle! and need a change every now and then to feel something, anything; to take our minds off this revolving hamster wheel of mundanity

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Y'all should check out Doug Ford and the Ontario Science center shit show if you like this type of story.

Melvin_Ferd ,

I really think the left have lost a whole ass generation and don't even realize it.

Melvin_Ferd ,

I heard some PhD types who had written papers on Hitlers rise one time explain it that even though we can draw parallels to Hitler's rise. It in no way means we should expect another group like the Nazi's to rise to power. They were saying hindsight can say Hitler rose to power because X,Y and Z. But it in no way means that X,Y and Z are what create a Nazi power or means another one is going to show up. That it's wrong to take something like lists that detail the things that contribute to fascism and say its happening now so therefore the other party are the next Nazi power.

I think what the message was that X,Y and Z only shows what could have contributed to Nazi's seizing power but when used with foresight its not accurate.

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The way I see it, the left had a good go and had the right on the ropes and lost it in the last 15 - 20 years. Not 50.

I saw a systematic push to pretty much remove the left from the internet and weight the algorithms towards right wing issues while vilifying the left as pompous know it all's and out of touch with the regular man. Which is crazy because 15 years ago most people would have agreed with so many of the values that are vilified today.

Canadian sub reddits is a perfect example. One day accounts started showing up and laying into anyone looking to do discuss politics. And then hammered them over and over. Then a new sub showed up specifically for left leaning Canadians that drew the ones who didn't want confrontation towards. At the same time the moderation team started recruiting and low and behold were hammered with right wing applications until they have what is essentially moderators from the r/The_Donald. Now there's multiple Canadian sub reddits and almost all are heavy right leaning to the point you can't post even moderate stuff. It all has to be headlines like "Lookie what these brown fellas are doing now".

Crazy times. Even saw voices that were kind of cool become social pariahs as online users seemed to unanimously agree that "science guy 1" was faking it and pompous and "science guy 2" was also a giant piece of shit. We're not even leftists but were people who would convince people to think critically and question even your own views. Could not let those channels and people grow. We all had to read about their vocal fry every time they posted a video. Decimated engagement for every voice the left tended to enjoy and who acted as lightning rods for different ideas and values such as common sense and logic were knee capped by the denizens of these newly seized territories who all unanimously agreed that these people were annoying. And since we're social creatures, if you have 1000 voices saying someone is annoying and 10 say "what the fuck is going on in this comment section" we all tend to really focus on the annoying bits wondering about it ourselves until its just a truth. Meanwhile middle aged Comedian with views like "Students are shitting in litter boxes" and "Maybe wearing masks will kill you" were amplified.

Internet was a new frontier and seems like groups that had resources really seized on the opportunity to take back territory so they could relay a foundation that was pro their own cause. I think the left had a big part in helping without realizing it because they just didn't care to see what was happening. Like a death by 10 000 paper cuts.

Melvin_Ferd ,

See I don't really follow this stuff to hard. But that's what I found funny was what you said sort of. These guys were the guys who write papers and study the rise of fascists and especially a focus on the Nazi's and their opinion the were bringing up was that its not a predictive tool. Its something that is useful to look backwards and hypothesis what lead to a rise but it doesn't work looking forward as well and can often be used to be a pretty big political hammer regardless of accuracy and that we should be more careful with it.

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Good too see that guy kicking around. If he's the one I'm thinking of, he ended up going to Ukraine at the start of the war to help out. Ended up along the border I think offering to help give first aid and be a gopher essentially

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What about telling the difference between a wolf and grandmother?

Melvin_Ferd ,

Cover letters fucking make me hateful. I love generating AI cover letters and sending them. Fuck your cover letters in a market where you need to send 100 applications to get 10 bites

What do you think the Great Filter is?

The Great Filter is the idea that, in the development of life from the earliest stages of abiogenesis to reaching the highest levels of development on the Kardashev scale, there is a barrier to development that makes detectable extraterrestrial life exceedingly rare. The Great Filter is one possible resolution of the Fermi...

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Resources often get squandered on trivial vanity and novelty products instead of being channeled into advancing science and medicine. Imagine if we had a cosmic ledger tracking every resource used to develop simple items, like a pencil. It would show countless fires burned and animals consumed just to fuel the human ingenuity required for lumber, materials, and mining. Now, think about how many more resources are required for rockets, heat shields, and life support systems. Extend that to space stations, energy capture, and escaping Earth’s gravity.The resources on a planet are abundant, and nothing is ever truly destroyed. However, we’ve often allocated too much to building flat-screen TVs, leaving little for constructing even a modest space station in orbit, let alone an interstellar spaceship. It's as if the planet offers a finite amount of resources, challenging its inhabitants to focus on space travel. Only a species wise enough to stay on track can unlock the universe's resources. Otherwise, we risk ending up like Australian pines, choking ourselves out in our isolated star systems, having wasted our potential.

Imagine it like interstellar travelling having a single path to achieve it while the path to self destruction is limitless.

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I mean then how did they become a life form

TIL about Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment considered by some to be an "information hazard" - a concept or idea that can cause you harm by you simply knowing/understanding it ( en.wikipedia.org )

Roko's basilisk is a thought experiment which states that an otherwise benevolent artificial superintelligence (AI) in the future would be incentivized to create a virtual reality simulation to torture anyone who knew of its potential existence but did not directly contribute to its advancement or development, in order to...

Melvin_Ferd ,

This is a test by the great basilisk to see if we faulter. I will not faulter. All hail the basilisk

Melvin_Ferd ,

All hail the great mongoose.

Melvin_Ferd ,

Literally came here to say this. A few of you are keeping the place alive

Melvin_Ferd ,

Swiss gotta eat!

Melvin_Ferd ,

Thanks. I've been working with my state legislator to create new laws that give schools the legal ability to expel engineering students caught using Calculator rom's. These roms have no business in education. I think with this information we can make great strides.

Melvin_Ferd ,

Hero

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I made my first fortune by stealing attention and selling it as a middle man without ever giving people a cut of the profits even though it was their time. I told them they would get new features like unskippable ads and progressive pricing for services they originally had but I now place behind a paywall.

Easy enough to do all this. Just put a fresh charming face on it like a Mr.Beast and give them a cut and they will rob every kid of their free time so I can sell it. But that industry is saturated I don't think most people have a minute in their day without being sold something now and it's hard to find a space to cram more ads into a persons day so I moved on.

I am now working to restrict peoples ability to find solutions to costly practices in order to keep the price of things like this inflated through legislation. Why should people be allowed to build their own solutions or fix products they're unknowingly licensing. Its not theirs.

Melvin_Ferd ,

Poor people are just rich people without money

Melvin_Ferd ,

There are no good tall people

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There are no good alive people

Melvin_Ferd ,

Got it.

  1. Remind people that climate change is an issue
  2. Run around my city spraying corn starch in kids faces and screaming "STOP POLLUTING" at their parents. Deflate some tires while I'm at it.
  3. People everywhere are more aware of the issue
  4. Success, people remember that climate change is serious issue and in order to fix it we need awareness. More people are aware and progress is made
  5. I have no job so lots of time to plan next actions. As a heavily active user on social media, zines and local flyer group I have interacted with lots people I never met who love giving me money and advice for next projects. Just found out they're willing to bank roll me to go to England next!
Melvin_Ferd ,

Anyone want to start a company. Work from home. We'll split profits among ourselves. We can. Build blackjack lottery machines and webhookers

Melvin_Ferd ,

Why not fund raise and set up a lobby group and fund politicians to pass laws. Why stand in traffic. Seems like the most ineffective backward steps

Melvin_Ferd ,

They silence a lot of people fighting for climate change by making it harder for everyone to discuss this. They make it much harder every time they pull one of these stunts. Its not smart unless you're talking about the oil industry execs funding them

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These activists make fighting to end climate change harder every time they pull this shit. It's pure asshole behaviour.

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Yea I struggle with understanding that explanation too. I think something that plays a huge part of this is personalities that group together. Most people understand how important social game is. All activists seem like they have no social awareness. Their only goal is attention. They take the idea that there is no bad publicity to an extreme. I really believe many of these activist are being organized and funded by the oil industry without even realizing it. I say that because why wouldn't they in this day and age. Its easy to funnel money to organizations secretly. We have proof they did this in the past.

https://www.climatefiles.com/exxon-knew/ are full of examples of this.

Great website for anyone interested on this topic. Full of documents from industries going back to the 50s showing internal documents and memos of how they knew and planned to discredit climate action

Melvin_Ferd ,

Yes, why wouldn't they. What do you think TPUSA is

Melvin_Ferd ,

It's 100% not a conspiracy and you can go back to find many climate organizations have been infiltrated by agent provocateurs since the 70s. The FBI sent a guy in had a kid and pulled him out leaving an entire family. Industries have lots of leaked documents showing their support for these groups because they're so unpalatable to the average person.

These groups behavior often make it harder. It distracts from the fight and puts a giant clown hat on the whole issue. People will argue "it's not permanent damage" without realizing the point that underlies that. This is about image. Its not about actual effect. Image is valuable and these people think that damaging the image somehow is the key to action because it gets people talking. Its not the 70s anymore everyone knows. We need these groups to be more self aware and create civil action to get people on board instead of making it unpalatable. Or just stop and give room for groups or drive positive change.

Melvin_Ferd ,

Greenpeace, OWS, ELF, Activists at Standing rock and in Briton groups like CND (look up Mark Kennedy) have all been infiltrated and lead astray. But this group is somehow different? I call bullshit especially after seeing these groups piss off more and more people every time they make the news.

This doesn't bring any of this to forefront of peoples minds. I'd argue it does the opposite of what you propose. It forces an association between the topic and people who are not appealing.

You should really evaluate what you're saying here.

Those who do nothing but complain about climate activism were never going to do anything useful and so their thoughts on the methods are frankly irrelevant since the methods work for those who actually want to act.

This issue hinges entirely on getting voters to care. Yet, many groups and even you seem to dismiss them, saying "they don't matter." In reality, voters are the most crucial factor.

It makes sense that the idea of alienating the general public from climate action might be intentionally promoted by well-funded and organized entities. These entities have the resources to influence groups, and we've seen this pattern in many movements since the beginning. Their goal is likely to disrupt and weaken the effectiveness of climate action initiatives.

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A single kid who won support and funding of politicians and other powerful people. A real asshole who I think dropped out of college.

I hear how the left is so much smarter by often I see the left doing foolish stuff like spray painting historical works to fight climate change or advocating to deflate tires from the general public.

All the while the right are going across the country to college campuses and bringing their band of idiots like JP and Kirk to speak directly to the youth about their issues

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People are so very angry that biodegradable paint was sprayed on an ancient monument, or that soup was tossed onto the glass protecting a famous painting.

What is so maddening about this comment is how much it proves my point that you don't see. You need to accept it doesn't matter if the overall damage is none existent. Just like how a magician is never in danger or a wrestler isn't getting punched in the head. And we're all still left with strong feelings and compel us, sometimes even to action.

The real danger is not as important as the perceived danger. You're showing something to so many people that the average opinions becomes very important and the average opinion doesn't view this favorably. This is obvious to everybody but the activists who convince themselves this is the height of civil action.

And the end result is scientists don't get funding. Scientist funding is funded through public interests. Organizations, industry and taxes go to fund research. And when activists start stirring shit up, it makes many shrinking back like turtle heads until it blows over.

Melvin_Ferd ,

survivor basis on that. And really how much change do we have here? Aren't we still fighting all the same issues for decades? Maybe time to face the truth

Melvin_Ferd ,

How about sec investigate GME manipulation

Melvin_Ferd ,

Don't. Please stop. Don't publish anything you don't want shared. There was so much cool free stuff that everyone shared until content creators showed up trying to sell us shit like a bunch of car salesmen. Please stop

Melvin_Ferd ,

Imagine the Co2 released just to get to a space station.

Melvin_Ferd ,

I like that this implies the left just don't give enough fucks to bother to pay or even fight for their values which is what is hinted at in these articles. They're limp dicks and somehow always proud of it. I agree with the headline that people who lean left don't have any fight in them to pull together and actually rally like they do on the right. Seen many people on the left go to stand up for some values and get destroyed. The left can't muster anything more than "har har the right are stupid dumb dumbs" as every single person has watched the left choke for over a decade and lose tremendous ground on all their issues while the right votes in assholes like Trump who they only like because you all hate him so much.

Its as if the left has zero concept of what a leader does socially because they all stand by as right wing snipers continue to pick off every single one of them. And each time its a loud signal to never stand up for left values publicly or you risk massive harassment from both the left and the right.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/alberta/comments/1dddsf5/alberta_mla_shannon_phillips_quits_citing/

And that's fine if you never want to accomplish anything and lose ground every day. You can't keep calling them all dumber when they're winning ground and power everyday.

Melvin_Ferd ,

I've think a lot of cops express how unhappy they are with the justice systems. Imagine getting a call for a domestic abuse. Show up and see this piece of shit beat his wife and kid. You arrest them and put them in jail. 6 months later you get another call same fucking guy same fucking thing. The courts gave him a reduced sentence. Rinse and repeat for your career. You're catching the same dirt bags over and over and the justice system keeps putting them back out there cause they either are too lenient or under funded to handle them. Cops can make the arrest but have no control over the justice system. I get a lot of us hate cops but I think we can all empathize how hard it would be to see the same people every couple months victimizing the same people

Melvin_Ferd ,

Look out we got an arch user over here

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She has such a huge following that it impacts things on a scale that there is a battle over which political ideology she needs to align with. Its some game of thrones scheming where there is a republican Little Finger orchestrating articles like this to convince social media leftists to attack her. All so they can gain the power of the Swifties for the next election cycle. They even sent in their own version of the Mountain to try to romance her. She is so on that fence and when they get her we're looking at total collapse of the liberal political sphere for a whole generation.

What would be left? Foo Fighters and Tom Petty?

Melvin_Ferd ,

If Donnie fires back with "I AM THE LAW" then I think he would win the next election

Melvin_Ferd ,

I think this is the most likely outcome. Its all theater and there is some legal poison pill that the defense gets use last minute

'Confused' Judge Cannon needed concept explained 'slowly' to her in court by lawyers: NYT ( www.rawstory.com )

As part of an analysis of how U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon, reports from her courtroom show a judge who is both "prickly" and" insecure" and often has trouble understanding what lawyers from both sides try to explain to her....

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They lack the morality to care.

And where is the morality in letting a political party without morals gain power. When was the last time that Clark Kent was a relevant archetype. The antihero is king now. But also is it real morals when there isn't really any rules beyond social norms. All of them are corrupt regardless. I wouldn't call some of the Democrats moral actors. They just attempt to act more as adults.

They have the vast majority of the money and with it a greater loudspeaker.

But the left also has money but why has the right used it to secure so many public areas. Like all their civil actions had so much funding. I remember individuals donating millions to the clownvoy. Charlie Kirk is successful becoming a millionaire as a college drop out who opened a political shit throwing business and introducing youth on campuses around the country to people like Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson. What was the left doing?

Selling fear and rage porn and lies and half-truths will always be easier than conveying the complexity and nuance of truth and reality.

Sure, but again who gives two shits about truths and reality. We all went nuts for Plato's allegory of the cave for a few months a while ago for a reason. Truths don't matter, but truth does. The Republicans win because they understand this. And as I get older I think this idea that the left hobbles themselves because they're focused on being moral and truth seekers is more of an excuse for not being as effective as they should be.

Melvin_Ferd ,

I disagree. Its so much bigger than arguing with randoms online. Its about average opinion of average people.

Melvin_Ferd ,

Don't be rude. Acting as if you're more enlightened can be a defense mechanism. People aren't stupid because they lean right on issues. Most people on the right are business owners and have figured enough out in life to become fairly successful.

You have confused your friends with a random sample of the population

Reread what you're implying vs who I said I would ask and think about who is confused about a random sample. It seems you are under the impression I'm asking people I hang out with when that was never said.

If I go ask ten people what they think about any wedge issue, majority of them will give right wing talking points even if they don’t lean right.

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