I think you’re just framing issues to match the claim you’re making. For example, an anti-bad-cop protest could be “protesting against cops violating civil rights” or just as well “protesting to bring justice to the victim’s family”. The former is a negative, the latter is a positive.

Japan has a lot of drink vending machines, but relatively few food or candy vending machines. This is actually an area where the United States performs strongly. That being said, Japan has a real number of strange vending machines.

There you go, good job. In the future, do that the first time.

I have heard that some of the newer sites have much better search engines and UIs, or maybe you can even get search built into your software. So perhaps it’s more of a fallback site these years.

I like how you say that without citing any sources. You can be right, but there’s no reason you’re speculation is any better than someone else’s.

If you subscribe to the Pirate Bay, there is no expiration date.

Many years ago I got to the bar early, before my friends, and while waiting I applied for a job using their Wi-Fi. And I got the job. The job looked good on paper but my new boss f***** me by wage theft and pocketing pension contributions. It was fun, but it would have been more fun if I had been paid according to the law.

I disagree about the value of commenting and posting. If I don’t have anything to actively contribute, and I know it, I’m doing you a favor by STFU. Entertainment and disengagement have nothing to do with it.

If I’m using this platform as a news aggregator, that’s 100% passive and legitimate and respectable.

I think you misinterpreted some or most of the downvotes. The problem seems to be the role model that they did find.

lol shitposting predates the World Wide Web but it’s the kids doing it, zomfg

Best behavior is subjective. Talking less is usually smart, but some people mistakenly believe it’s good behavior.

(Which is to say, the above comment has good advice, but it’s not universally reliable. Use your own judgment or pay a lawyer if your judgment sucks.)

The article did mention a fundamental obstacle. It said quite clearly that we would run out of resources before we had enough computing power. I suppose you could counter that by arguing that we could discover magic, or magical technology, or a lot of new resources through space exploration.

Of course things get more efficient. But in the past few decades they’ve gotten efficient in predictable, and mostly predicted, ways. It’s certainly possible that totally unexpected things can happen. I could win the lottery next week. Is that the standard? Are you pushing the stance that says AGI is somewhat less likely than winning the lottery or getting struck by lightning, but by golly it’s more than zero, how dare you suggest that it’s anywhere close to zero?

In your edit where you say that many people take this too seriously, that’s you taking it too seriously. Stop being so sensitive. Don’t have a hissy fit. We’re all just playing around, right?

It’s the way you opened your post. You felt that perhaps Lemmy is largely communist, and some of us just don’t see that trend at all. That means either you’re ignoring many users, or you haven’t spent a reasonable amount of time browsing, which in turn makes it a waste of time for us to answer your question.

That being said, I can only speak to my motivation. Presumably some other people downvoted for similar reasons.

I feel like the other answers undercut the message that you were trying to deliver. Users here are quite clear about when they’re describing their own opinions versus when they’re describing how a system theoretically works. Nobody is getting tricked about anything.

The big white collar crimes are far more of a danger to society than many of the so-called blue collar crimes. Massive pollution leading to global warming, which impacts billions of people around the globe, that’s high impact, and that’s 100% white collar.

Or pick something that’s not as dramatic. Pick the bank collapse in the US 15 years ago, where many people lost their homes but we didn’t see finance experts get locked up even though they created a massive catastrophe for the country and had to get bailed out by the government. But of course we would lock up someone for stealing an orange, or breaking a car window, because somehow those are more dangerous.

Or let’s get even smaller scale. Let’s just talk about wage theft. If my boss steals thousands of dollars from my paycheck, as she did many years ago, there’s zero chance she’s going to get locked up. But if I were to steal $20 from the cash register, the police might take me away in handcuffs.

We all agree that the bond system functions. The question is whether it’s discriminatory, and data shows that it is, which is why it’s no longer used in some places. It’s not only the corrupt judges, it’s the judges. It’s not only the judges, it’s the cops who know that the judges will do their thing. You can beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride, as they say, and this is one piece of it.

And suppose you get arrested. Now you want to post bond, but part of that involves pretrial release conditions, which would ordinarily be a violation of your constitutional rights, but if you agree to them, then they’re acceptable. And what’s your real option here? Get locked up until the trial? Then you can’t work and you lose your house and your car and your family. So you get onerous conditions imposed on you, assumed guilty until proven innocent, and somehow it’s supposed to be consistent with the Bill of Rights. We all know it’s not, but that’s no matter, because the appeals courts are down with it, and nobody can stop them.

Haha fuck the customers, right?

If only there were a way to search specifically for videos. That would be convenient.

My cats treat me like a big cat. That’s why they brush up against my leg, for example. Or wake me up at 6AM on Sundays.

I’m not the master. But they don’t want to disrupt the harmony, and I’m the biggest, so they usually avoid doing things that irritate me, if I’m there to see it happening.