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[–] 247 points 8 months ago (15 children)

Abandon all of these platforms and any others that associate in any way with Palantir or Thiel

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  • [–] 68 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    Almost wish I could be part of the exodus, but I use none of these

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  • [+] 28 points 8 months ago (10 children)
  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    The problem is that millions do, and won't understand what the big deal is, and be sucked into the fucking psyop vortex.

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  • [+] 15 points 8 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    That's the thing. You don't have to fool all the people all of the time, just most of the people most of the time.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I'm watching Gladiator tonight for the first time in 20 years. It's hardly new but so painful to watch again through the lens of the current state of America. It went from ominous historical warning 25 years ago of power, weakness and how men act in opportune moments to a primer on current affairs.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I never really saw it as an allegory for fascism, but that's an interesting take.

    At least the bad guy gets shanked in the end.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Ackshually the current state of the USA is highly reminiscent of the late Roman period of circa 300 CE. Civil unrest, oligarchic rule, bureaucratic overload, corruption, a state of perpetual internal and external conflict, rapid succession and dramatic leadership shifts...

    Panem et circem buddy, panem et circem.

    Burgers and halftime shows.

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  • [+] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)
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    Many don't have the capacity left to make conscious decisions about these things - either they are already living paycheck to paycheck or it is too abstract for them to realize it might bite them and everyone else on a future date. Even if i have ideas for the first group that I have no power to make reality, I don't have a solution for the second group either.

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  • [–] 175 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    With the unlubed, thorny, gritty, legendary dildo of consequences!

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    [–] 69 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    Fucking never. Never ever. I'd sooner cut myself off from all technology and live in the woods than willingly give those creepy fucks my middle goddamn name. There is absolutely nothing good that will come from this company. The people at that company literally fucking movie villains. It's fucking crazy that absolutely anyone works with them, let alone world governments.

    These large scale surveillance companies like Palantir, like Flock, they shouldn't exist. They should be outlawed. Our government needs probable cause and a warrant to surveil a suspect. If a normal civilian followed you around and filmed you, kept track of you at all times, they'd be arrested for stalking. But for some reason private companies can just watch every man, woman, and child in public and online, catalog all our movements, where we went, how we went there, who was with us, track what we do, what we read, who we know, how we spend our time, what we say, etc., and then permanently log all of that, use it to form dociers on us, predict our behaviors, or desires, ways to manipulate us, and then turn around and sell that data to governments, other companies and private parties. How the fuck is that legal.

    Why in the fuck would you ever allow a private, profit-driven company to have that kind of power over your nation, let alone reward it with federal dollars, long term contracts and access to our law enforcement and military data and systems?

    Worse, the founders and CEO are unhinged wannabe dictators trying to form their own sovereign techno-states. They're not even secretive about that. And our goverment is fucking funding these nuts and giving them every detail of the lives of our citizenry, our goverment officials, our military... how fucking stupid do we have to be, guys? I wish I could say it's just Trump but it's not. It's mind boggling.

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  • [–] 61 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    It's a great way to kill those products. That's maybe the only upside.

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  • [–] 40 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Is it?

    Most people won't care and continue using it anyways.

    I won't, for sure, but most people are fucking idiots when it comes to this stuff

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The problem is there are a lot of subreddits that are an excellent resource. As far as I know, there aren't any Blender help instances with a 100,000 people. I really wish there were.

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  • [–] 47 points 8 months ago (16 children)

    Thats going to finally break my reddit addition, and ill bet any amount of money im not alone.

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  • [+] 22 points 8 months ago (13 children)
  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    They'll undo it. Go look at mine that shouldn't exist.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    You could piss off the admins big time and they'll ban and suspend all your accounts using advanced methods to connect them across different emails or even if you signed up anonymously, and not a single thing you ever wrote on there will ever be visible to the world again. Ask me how I know.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Alternatively, sell your account to spammers, and they'll get your account banned in no time. Your comments get deleted, you'll get paid for it, and Reddit becomes worse for everyone. I see no downsides in this arrangement.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Man, you're telling me I could have been PAID?!

    It's like those toys you had when you were a kid and then just threw out when you approached puberty and are now worth like thousands of $.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (3 children)

    There's violentmonkey scripts that overwrite and delete them, and they stay gone. I've been using one for years.

    They might still be in some AI training data sets, but they're not on my profile.

    The only PITA thing is that you get rate limited, so doing your initial batch of deletions could a while, then just run it semi-regularly.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I used a script too, scrubbed years of stuff. It's all back.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    You might have just let it run past the rate limit.

    After it limits you, the script looks like it's still running, but if you hit refresh, you'll see your timed out, and nothing past when you're actually limited, got deleted. It'll be several minutes before you can start running it again.

    I've done this for many hundreds of comments.

    Every once in awhile, I've had a few batches of comments reappear that I can't associate with a rate limiting error, but I have yet to find comments that come back a third time.

    I guess YMMV, but that's what my experience has been.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    No, it was gone. The only thing that was left were relatively recent critiques I was commenting before I left. They took the time to fish my stuff out of old backups. Last I looked the critiques were there too so it wasn't just a blanket restoration either.

    I'd be flattered if it weren't so fucking creepy.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Or subtlely wrong just to break the AI that's lining Spez' pockets.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Not a bad idea. But AI is already subtly wrong as is. Just fill it with barely plausible sounding but completely garbage text,

    Idea bad, not. AI subtly already is wrong as. Text with plausible garbage fill.

    There should be an algorithmic way to do that starting from the posts/comments original text.

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    [–] 91 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    Fucking Peter literally creating the very monster he claims to hate.

    16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

    17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago (25 children)

    I’m permaband from Reddit but I miss some local subs. I hope this encourages people to move away to something else.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Unfortunately probably a lot fewer will move than we expect. People seem capable of accepting all sorts of shittification in favour of actively changing their platform. Just look at how many still uses twitter, despite its literal nazification.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    How do they permaban you? By IP address? I can't see how they could verify a new user being the same person as a old one. Email address is trivial to get around too.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    I got permabanned a while ago. In the time since, I’ve moved to a new country and gotten all new devices. Made a new account with a new email address to try to join local subs in the new area.

    That account was banned a couple hours later for ban evasion. I had made zero comments or posts and hadn’t joined any of my old subs. After that, I assumed they just have an AI that auto bans a chunk of new accounts “just in case”, because I genuinely have no idea what they could have done to connect the two accounts to each other.

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  • [+] 1 point 8 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Someone posted they wished Trump would die (basically). I said nah, let him stroke out and suffer.

    That was like my last strike. Before I had said stuff like Miller is a nazi and stuff(prove me wrong Reddit!). People would report those as threatening harm and I don’t think the Reddit goons really care so yeah…

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I was just permabanned on 3 accounts for anti-ice/trump/pedo comments. 2 existing accounts were 10 years old. One was pretty much just for NSFW/NSFL stuff and I rarely commented on anything with.

    One new one I made afterwards was permabanned within 5 hours for ban evasion.

    Somehow I forgot I’d made one with “sign in with Apple” a while back and it was on my iPad. That account still works fine.

    It’s weird.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (3 children)

    All of my accounts got permabanned on Reddit for calling someone "A piece of fucking human garbage" for saying that only vulnerable and old people died from Covid and how Covid wasn't a big deal. I lost friends in their 20s to it.

    Apparently what I said was inciting hatred and violence. But saying a deadly pandemic that killed millions "wasn't a big deal", and "Your friends were probably going to die anyway" is perfectly okay to Reddit Admins.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    Sorry if you did end up reading the comment I deleted. I misread your comment and thought you were denying COVID. I’m over here flighting off the flu (even though I got flu shot) and not thinking clearly.

    I once got a sub ban for speaking the truth about Lauren Bobert. Called her a “dumb cunt”, which is 100% true.

    Permabanned from the sub.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    All good. Thanks for the correction I appreciate it. Yeah I was defending people who died and buddy was saying that only vulnerable or old people were dying so it's "not a big deal".

    I knew people who died who were healthy and young. The entire idea that anyone dying from a global pandemic is "not a big deal, they would die anyway" can eat the biggest bag of dicks.

    Apparently reddit disagrees.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    That honestly isn't possible. I have several accounts perma banned and I just make new ones. VMs circumvent hardware ID mapping, VPNs circumvent IP banning. Until they require phone numbers to create accounts circumventing their bans is childs play.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Literally Spez right now...

    (I'd post the uncensored image but IIRC Lemmy World is German-based and have strict laws against Nazi iconography)

    He's wilfully given the data of users who have criticized Trump and ICE, AND he looks like a spitting image of Tintin...

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    So no more bots on Reddit then right????

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I guess I'm compelled not to use Roblox, Reddit or Discord, then.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago

    Over my dead body. These services can go fuck themselves and die.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago

    Peter fucking thiel has too much money and is backing everything, for example PayPal and stripe that are processing 80% of e-commerce payments

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago

    "Compelled" *evil shojo laughing all the way to the delete button"

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago

    The guy that said:

    Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain.

    I genuinely don't understand how is he still free and alive. He's as close to a real life devil you'd find. In his own words - he's working on societal collapse to gain more power. Can someone do something already?

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    those systems don't even work and can be so easily tricked.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    And I'm compelled to tell them to suck my ass.

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    My kid wants to be verified on Roblox sooooooo bad so he can defend himself against trolls. It’s actually been a good lesson in ignoring those idiots like water off a ducks back.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Why would you let him interact with randoms?

    Like. "Trolls" are the least of your worries here.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    You ever been on Roblox? I’m not going to shelter him from what’s out there. Together we’re going to learn how to outsmart and out play every kind of troll. My daughters are much stronger now after playing toxic COD Zombies lobbies a decade ago. I’m an old man with three wonderful kids who will never bully or belittle another animal, even the nasty animals online.

    Edit: do you think my child is unsupervised and I would allow a pedo to chat my kids up? “Roaming around time square”? Y’all need to stop pearl clutching. If you leave your kids unsupervised, that’s on you. My children are very aware of what is and isn’t appropriate.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago

    Buddy...

    Ask anyone that used to be a child if their parents knew about all the shit they got up to.

    You think you know everything and are on top of, but so do every parent.

    Hopefully your kid knows how to take care of himself.

    No one else is going to apparently

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    Right... It's like letting you kid run around times square in the 70/80s with no guardian.

    The parents probably post their photos on FB and social media too.

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