theedodger.bsky.social
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I can’t. Super hot curries leave me doubled over in pain nowadays.
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Oh, so you’re in favour of capitalism and opposed to socialism and communism?
Weird name then.
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I’m not. You’re now using an ad hominem, because you know your position is too weak to support without doing so. I was merely educating you, to borrow your phrase, in how to stop looking like the fool.
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Really. And will I see them talking about Tiananmen Square on RedNote?
I am not saying “state bad”, I am saying “oligarchy bad,” just like it is in America. It doesn’t matter how the wealthy elite steal power or under what guise.
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Obviously. But your misuse of grammar doesn’t pair well with your feigned intellectualism.
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Also getting pretty fed up with you pretending my disagreeing with you about how China works is me not knowing and you needing to “educate” me.
I’d hate to block someone on my side, but you’re acting like an ass.
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I want a system where workers can criticise the state, form independent parties and unions, and remove leaders who betray them. That’s not liberalism or capitalism — that’s actual democracy. One-party rule isn’t socialism. It’s just tyranny in red paint.
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also: comprises or is composed of. “is comprised of” is bad grammar. That’s not how you use “comprise”. An encyclopaedia comprises several volumes. It isn’t comprised OF several volumes.
Pet peeve.
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Yeah, they vote—between pre-approved candidates, under one party, with no press freedom, no opposition, and no right to organise. That’s not democracy. That’s a performance.
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A party made of workers isn’t the same as rule by workers. If workers can’t organise, vote out leaders, or control policy, it’s not a workers’ state. It’s just a new ruling class in boiler suits.
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If workers can’t vote out the “representative,” strike, organise independently, or access uncensored information, it’s not a democracy. It’s a dictatorship wearing workers’ clothes. A real workers’ state isn’t one where the state claims to serve workers — it’s one where workers have power.
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China isn’t socialist. Workers don’t control production, can’t strike freely, and have no say in governance. Calling it socialism because the state owns stuff is like calling a prison a commune. It’s just capitalism with party bosses instead of CEOs.
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State capitalism isn’t socialism. In socialism, workers own the means of production. In state capitalism, the state owns them—but still exploits labour, concentrates wealth, and preserves class hierarchies. It’s capitalism with a central manager, not worker control.
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In D&D there is a cursed magical item called a Ring of Contrariness that forces the wearer to be unable to respond to everyone with anything but argument.
Please take yours off.
And no, state capitalism isn’t the same thing as socialism. Further, China has vast wealth inequality and homeless.
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That was literally my point. But I wouldn’t even call China socialist. Neither would involve there being homeless people. China is fascism—state-controlled capitalism w. authoritarian trappings and barely-disguised Han supremacy.
Google’s “AI” summaries atop search results is a joke.
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Wow. Should I accuse you of not being fluent in English, or of being an LLM? Maybe I could assume your buddy up there is a sockpuppet for good measure.
Also: you are projecting.
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I’m not “pretending”.
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No, it doesn’t. It’s a perfectly valid reply. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t make it not valid.
Also, you want to talk about rude? OMG. Trashing someone’s use of language is not just rude, it’s classist (which comes with racist for free).
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That’s also untrue.
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What I just said was correct and what you just said back is incorrect.
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That is true. But I *did* reply to their point. My reply even starts with “correct”. Then I clarified what I agreed with.
Then they replied to my reply without replying to my specifics, but acting like I said the same. Which I pointed out that I hadn’t.
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Well then don’t do that.
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More votes when you’re already guaranteed the state is not better. It’s meaningless.
Also: *fewer.
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What does the number of followers I have have to do with anything? It certainly has nothing to do with whether I’m right.
Trump has his own fucking social network. He’s never right. (Well, almost never. He did recently say Tulsi Gabbard is useless.)
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If a reply or rebuttal were a hijacking… 🙄
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Tell me you don’t understand maths without explicitly saying that.
Anyone not voting in a battleground state was unlikely to shift the balance. And they didn’t. Not voting for YOUR candidate isn’t voting for the other any more than not voting for the other is voting for yours.
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No, we wouldn’t.
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Oh, wow. The post author blocked me for disagreeing with them.
“How to build an echo chamber 101”
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No, that is not what I said, so that is not to my point.
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I think that’s arguable.
1: The advancements in medicine are themselves worth a lot
2: If we would actually commit to green energy instead of waving it like a corporation at a pride parade, that would help a lot
3: I think it is going to collapse capitalism. I want capitalism to collapse.
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You’re right. But you smiled at them there are called them a dipshit here, and that’s kinda cunty.
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Of course, you realise that using Google’s AI summaries as an example of AI’s capabilities is a lot like using mainland China as an example of Communism.
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Correct. Humans work that way, but on a biological computer that’s constantly being flooded with homemade drugs intended to control the direction of the “me” cursor to increase survival and reproduction chances. So humans work all sorts of messed up ways based on that core.
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Finally someone who knows what they’re talking about instead of just stamping their feet and screaming “AI BAD!”
Thank you!
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It’s weird how insecure we humans are about our specialness, that we try to diminish advancements in AI to reassert it.
Some say we’ll never have AGI. I just say most of you will never believe it when we do.
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eas.gov and sos.oregon.gov/elections/Do... www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/electio... &c.
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No, he’s “‘armless”
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Martin Luther, Jr., Stephen, Rodney, AdRock, Elvis, and Biggie Smalls dissent.
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We should self-police our claims: EAC docs show ES&S uses APC UPSs; its lone Tripp Lite part is a passive SPIKECUBE surge plug—no data, no code. Dominion can run a Tripp Lite rack UPS, USB-only & optional. No credible path for a nationwide ‘smart Tripp Lite hack’.
Sorry, but false.
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“That’s Friendless Urinal Cake King! … wait.”
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Not a Roman salute.
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So “rumour” used to mean what people had to invent “rumourmill” to cover now?
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Army brat here: they actually do. Less so with newer ones but they're not really intended as stealth vehicles.
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So historically inaccurate. The WWII soldiers are supposed to fight the nazis, not parade in front of them.
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I mean, there’s only so much time before TOS starts.
I wonder if a reboot/retelling of stories in TOS following it would go over.
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I’m a published fantasy artist, you condescending dickhead. As well as a web application developer. Both of my careers have been displaced, but I know who to blame, and it ain’t GPT. The problem is power, either consumption or generation. Solve that.
Y’all all like “i love SW yay R2D2 i hate AI”🙄
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Specific breakthroughs in medicine would work, too.
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If I didn’t like what I said, I wouldn’t have said it.
But it’s also pretty easy to hit that on iphone. I just didn’t go back and unlike it.