What does "isn't real" mean?

Is anyone selling the false reality that meritocracy perfectly exists, especially at the highest socioeconomic level?

Conversely, what does exist is that retarded notion that developed over the last decade or two that attacks meritocracy itself (Equity vs. Equality, The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto, ...etc). A notion that replaces any serious examination of why meritocracy itself doesn't exist, for some self-serving tokenism, and some demands for high remuneration for bullshit work, in arguments that are ironically, but not surprisingly, not dissimilar to how some management types justify their high pay.

it’s not about robocalls.

Nothing was ever really about "le evil pedophiles" or "protecting children" either. Yet, using that excuse seems to work wonders with the gullible masses, including many people here, I would imagine.

Real power doesn't exchange hands at the ballot box. And to think it does is the most laughable a notion. But much investment goes into conditioning (a nicer word than brainwashing) people to subscribe to it.

Some contrarians take this too far and use the framing "Democracy is a lie". But the reality is, it's not necessarily a lie, but rather, it's just largely inconsequential when the brokenness exists at a higher level (the modern nation state itself, its establishment, and both their interconnections with inter and extra national powers). In that reality, the voting process is not a tool for the masses, but rather a tool to distract and contain them.

Consulting people, via voting or any other method, is still desirable of course, but only after that brokenness is taken care of.

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The best way to get full access to fediverse data (including e.g. voting) is to run your own instance. So what instances, do we think, are operated by bad actors, irrespective of their identity or nature❓🤔

Or to get more conspiratorial, a bad actor would need one or more big instances to collect that info without sticking out. So which big instances, do we think, would be willing to give, or sell, a "bad actor" full access❓😉
(This of course assumes that none of the big instances were created by bad actors).

In any case, if you're posting overton wrongthink™, and not doing it (pseudo-)anonymously, then you're doing it wrong. I mean, you're in a network/platform that goes as far as encouraging you to use multiple accounts, so what's stopping you from doing it right?!

I guess it's good for Radio Free Asia to have competition.

The Israel project was misguided from the beginning, but it could have been justified in the immediate aftermath of the holocaust. Now?

European Jews* grabbing land and displacing people in another continent to create a new faux-nation, all facilitated by the British empire (with help from the French, and the already mentioned soviets) is "justified" because they suffered a holocaust! at the hands of Nazis who actually had an agreement with Zionists before the war (yes, Nazi Germany itself was on the list of facilitators, together with soviets)!

I'm not necessarily attacking you personally btw. I'm just showing that your positioning, common among some mainstream leftists today, is neither historically informed, nor logically, intellectually, or morally consistent. This positioning, precise in its "filtering", is designed specifically to score points in the mainstream right-left political theater. A theater that has staunch Zionists in every faction, to the point where Zionism was often the easiest uniting factor one can point to.

That is not to say that all apparent opposition to Zionism in mainstream politics is fake. But whatever genuine opposition that exists out there, is an opposition to factions within Zionism, not Zionism itself. And it's often an extension of local/national factional fights within that theater.

* Many were atheist and non-religious cultural Jews btw.

I denounce Zionism. Some Zionists are not as bad as others.

I support Zionism. Some Zionists are worse than others.

You seem to gloss over what's important (the first stipulation), by arguing for the latter stipulation, which is on the surface true, no matter how formulated. Although, the "not as bad as" formulation makes it clearer that this is a simple case of relative privation.

Mainstream politics in the west, left and right, supports Zionism. And that's what's most relevant. Everything else can be assumed a diversion, unless otherwise proven.

The word "acknowledged" seems to have been dropped from the title.

Make the question(s) more interesting:

• Are there instances which offer users the option to access their user UI+API via tor hidden services?
• Are there instances which primarily exist as tor hidden services, and thus, federation traffic itself must go through the tor network if an instance wants to federate with them?
• Are there clear net instances which would be willing to federate with the hypothetical tor hidden service instances mentioned above?

This is a mix of you growing up with a hint of nostalgia, and the death of the TV.

Excitement for the world cup is waning, just like it's waning for any other event/show that collected the family in front of the small screen.

The quality of game itself has always been not good at the international level. And that probably increased with players playing in many different leagues, not just teams. While decades ago, you had some cores of teams playing for the same club.

The game itself changed of course. No more no.10 artists giving you a good show.

In my extended family, most people who care about the world cup are people who don't watch the sport much during the regular season. So it's not really primarily a sporting event for them.

I would love it if it was a moral awakening, or increased awareness of the hubris that is the modern nation state identity, that is driving this. But I genuinely doubt it. And if you think it is now, or was in Qatar (the biggest moral posturing maxxing event in internet history) or Russia, I'm afraid you're probably over-influenced by your echo chamber of choice.

ITT: Uniparty-ists thinking anyone with a brain trusts anyone of them, from any faction, current or former.

Did you mean to direct this at me?

And the mask is off.

Massacres in 2024 are abhorrent and a very big deal. Massacres in 1948 were unfortunate, preferably not mentioned at all.
Population displacement is abhorrent and criminal in 2024. But it was "understandable" in 1948.
Colonialism in 1948 was okay whenever it had good enough red paint!

Many of you are not against Zionism. You are specifically against the Jabotinskyists leading the Zionist entity's scene today. And the opposition itself is not that genuine. It's just a part of the moral posturing arsenal for scoring points in the right-left political theater.

LLM's and stylometry are not magic.
i write using different styles constantly.
And It's not like people are writing original long essays here all the time, for the weapons grade tools to assay anything with high confidence.

Going on a bit of a tangent here, but how come the enlightened never seem to push for simply banning commercial porn, fixing the problem at the source?

Such a move would kill multiple birds with one stone: It would call the pretend socially conservative's bluff, invalidate the wannabe authoritarian-dressed-up-as-paternal uniparties' argument(s), and strip the Zionist entity of a big source of income (Do not look up OF's dead owner. And certainly do not look up where the company is actually registered/based. That second one will render your irony-meter nonoperational. You have been WARNED).

It's not because most of the enlightened are just neoliberal cattle, right? right?

Or are we still doing the "sex work positivity" COPE-bullshit, which is not something anyone working in the inherently exploitative and abusive "industry" actually believes in. Just like how no semi-neglected child in the ghetto actually believes in, or feels, the embrace of the so called "village".

The internet actually deleted most "real people having real sex" years ago. You just didn't notice. There is a reason I specified "commercial" in my comment.

If you actually show modern, or worse, "post-modern" porn to a non-porn-brained person, he will more likely to be put off by it, than attracted to it.

An imperfect analogy can be made to a similar(ish) direction the so called "music industry" went through. Although, the divergence there is less stark, the direction is less universally off-putting, and no erasure happened to good old (and some new) stuff. And the "real" angle is not fully there, auto-tune and co. aside. But it should be noted that very recently (in the last 3 years), "AI" has already been helping automating the generation of the already boringly derivative content, with both tunes and lyrics. You just didn't notice because all the anger is strategically directed at the full content generation startups (including instrument play and vocals).

"Nazi" is not a generic synonym for "bad person" or "mass murderer" or "genocider". I know it's common place, but this is the laziness I'm talking about. If we start using every word by its generic connotations or goodness/badness, then these words will no longer serve as a distinctive epistemological tool.

And there is actually a historical irony here, in the context of doing this with Zionism. The soviet union and its bolsheviks actually supported the Zionist entity in its first decade of existence, and actively so. Massacres against villagers and other events from that era didn't cause any deterrence to that support. They even went as far as making Arab communists work as what would effectively be described today as Mossad agents. This alignment only started to shift circa ~1958.

Should we call the soviets from that era "Nazis"?

If we want to principally oppose Zionism, and we should be, then we need to be educated, informed, and diligent against falling for traps like those from the mainstream right-left political theater.

I only use the free models on offer by duck.ai, and do it sparingly and in a self-contained manner. I decided that if those models are not enough for a problem, then I would probably be better off seeking a source with real authority and intelligence. They can track my anonymous private (network and browser) sessions all they want 😎, if they wish to.

(And that annoying non-cross-poster can go fuck itself. I'm deliberately posting this here because of it. So, Mission Accomplished!)

THIS.

All my murderer friends have moved their activities to jurisdictions where murder is allowed or tolerated.

I think CodeBerg should push for giving Vibe Coders the death penalty, to make sure deterrence will work.