I will say that I am genuinely glad to hear your business is giving you breaks instead of breaking your backs.

Your labor before they had LLMs helped pay for the LLMs. If you’re 3x more efficient and not also getting 3x more time off for the labor you put in previously for your bosses to afford the LLMs you got ripped off my dude.

If you’re working the same amount and not getting more time to cool your heels, maybe, just maybe, your own labor was exploited and used against you. Hyping how much harder you can work just makes you sound like a bitch.

Real “tread on me harder, daddy!” vibes all throughout this thread. Meanwhile your CEO is buying another yacht.

Absolutely. It’s maddening that I’ve had to go from “maybe we should make society better somewhat” in my twenties to “if we’re gonna do capitalism, can we do it how it actually works instead of doing it stupid?” in my forties.

I mean it’s pretty clear they’re desperate to cut human workers out of the picture so they don’t have to pay employees that need things like emotional support, food, and sleep.

They want a workslave that never demands better conditions, that’s it. That’s the play. Period.

Hate the system that caused the circumstances, not yourself.

Oh I do, and I hate that my parents are fully bought into that system and prioritized it over supporting me. Literally my whole life I have been made to feel less important than my mothers fucking house. I literally said to her recently that I was the only person paying attention to what was going on and she was so concerned with dying comfortably in her six bedroom fucking house that could be ten bedrooms if she had ever improved it that also has a fucking pool and a massive plot of undeveloped land that she lived in all alone that she never noticed our country was getting taken over by fucking Nazis. It was literally a choice to live beyond her means and never, ever have the ability to help me other than just barely keeping me off the streets. As I’ve said to her while she was busy playing fucking Barbie Dream House and teaching her dumbfuck daughter to do the same I was realizing how politically fucked we are for the last twenty five years. I was voting and getting involved while she checked out because she needed to play house so god damned bad. She said she was doing it for her grandchildren (because fuck me right for being too poor to have kids while my sister shat out some rugrats without a plan) but if she had ever given a shit about anyone’s future but her own maybe she would have gotten her ass out and fucking voted. Also she will probably lose the house to old age care and no one, especially not her fucking grandkids, will benefit from any of it except her. I’m so glad you got your dream house and I’ll probably die on the streets you selfish cunt.

My dad was somehow even worse and lived up to every terrible stereotype of a Use Car Salesman you can imagine, and then some.

He also screwed a lot of the employees on the way out from Pebble, and he also bailed on Beeper the minute it got complicated. Sold it to Matt Mullenweg a year or two after getting pimp-slapped by Apple because he had no real plan for what to do if Apple started banning the devices he was using as Matrix bridges. He gave up after like three days, it was honestly genuinely pathetic. This was a paid service and he fucked it all up for anyone using iMessage on it.

I have personal experiences with Beeper that make me less than trust Eric Migicovsky, and I really don’t think he seems like a “nice guy.” He actively sucks, doesn’t have plans for sustainability and then sells it all off to someone else at a personal profit while the people doing the actual work get fucked out of a job.

I wonder if people who freely choose their partners have less toxic families… 🤔

Hahahahahahahahahaha… No.

My parents chose each other. My father is an awful uneducated narcissist snd my mother is deep down a good person who was a terrible parent because she was similarly uneducated and lived in fear of everything and looked only to religion for answers. It sucked. I have boatloads of mental health issues snd resentment about it all. A lot of the time I wish I had just been aborted.

Damn, this one is brutally true. Like all media, 90% of anime is crap, but the good shit is real good and half the people who are into it are weird gooners.

I used to like the band Tool, but I don’t like people who like Tool so much that I stopped listening to Tool regularly.

Ha, I literally just got a new message with spaces between every letter to try to get around filters like this.

At this point I am just waiting for the Treasury to inevitably get RansomWare’d.

Personally, I don’t actually want to see Yarvin’s Technocrat “Freedom” states where the disabled are turned into biofuel.

People around here have better things to do

…we do???

Then this place would be just as infested with bots, paid actors, corporate shills, and government agents trying to shape the narrative. No thanks.

(To be clear I’m not saying there’s none of that here, there is, just not at the same scale of Reddit)

Whats the best way to take action for me as a single user?

That’s a tough question, because a lot of us explicitly don’t want this to become reddit, or as large as reddit (I am of this opinion myself). If you’re looking for things like a community for the city you live in, I think that’s far better served by creating a regional instance. Midwest.social is a good example of that, as is yall.theatl.social, an Atlanta-focused instance.

What kind of posts should I focus on making?

Whatever you want to make, the world (and the fediverse) is your oyster.

Ive heard of fetching reddit posts, maybe I could do that if theres like an easy process to do so, I’d happily feed some communities I like with posts from the silicon valley mafia platform to this platform!

Once again, a lot of us would prefer to not have that but have original content and discussions. Others may feel differently, however this is certainly my own opinion.

Also whats the name of this platform?

Lemmy. (At least for feddit.org, specifically)

I registered under feddit org, is the umbrella term called fediverse?

Yes, it is called the fediverse.

Accroding to wiki then this(fediverse) should be linked to platforms like pixelfed and mastadon too, is it?

Technically, yes, they all run on an underlying architecture called ActivityPub. Lemmy and Mastadon can see each other, but most people don’t browse between them that way because of how differently they work. Lemmy posts look weird on Mastodon and vice versa. Mastodon doesn’t have the same kind of threaded conversations, it’s conversation trees are like Twitters. I, for example, have a different Mastodon (Sharkey) account and Lemmy account because it’s easier for me to have them be separate entities even though they can technically connect. Many Lemmy instances host similar Mastodon instances, like my instance lemmy.blahaj.zone has a Mastodon instance at blahaj.zone. The aforementioned yall.theatl.social has a Mastodon instance at theatl.social.

How do I see content from them or in what way are these platforms interlinked with this reddit styled one?

That one I can’t answer because I haven’t tried it myself.

But here’s a link I did a quick search for that seems to have instructions on how you can. I haven’t tried it myself so your mileage may vary.

https://vijayprema.com/using-lemmy-from-my-existing-mastodon/

Lots of people, they just don’t get a lot of people reading about them. Most of the really serious ones are pretty wonky documents that most people wouldn’t want to sort through.

One idea I’ve personally had for years was taking away the voting rights of Representatives and Senators and making them glorified figureheads who write laws. Once they write a law (with Version Control being applied so we know who wrote what sentence) it’s instantly posted online in Wiki format where citizens (with proof of citizenship) can contribute in editing and work-shopping the new laws, and then when the new laws are ready, they are put up to a direct vote by the citizens. This would remove the representatives ability to be influenced in how they write the laws since citizens would have more direct control via editing the law and voting on it. I’m not as thoughtful as the more wonky people who have written a lot more serious stuff like this.

Outside an existing system, I think there’s lots of interesting writing on decentralized societies where diffuse power structures can lead to less consolidation of power by individuals seeking individual control. Anarchy lite, I guess you could call it?

Yeah, there’s a reason Norm only made one movie: because a bajillion times better at sketch comedy and standup.

See also: Run Ronnie Run

The Mr. Show movie Run Ronnie Run was such a pile.

I guess you can’t infer that other people have their own opinions. The whole thing that started this was me having the opinion that you can’t trust corporations to not change in the future.

You don’t have to say certain things for me to be willing to make statements of my own opinion. That’s how a conversation works but I guess you must not have a lot of those in real life.

Having an opinion and stating it isn’t making a strawman.

At this point I’m just having fun pissing you off.

Other people having their own opinions isn’t putting words in your mouth.