Welcome again to everybody. Make yourself at home. In the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
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Every time the temperature rises above like 23 degrees I wonder why I spawned into a swamp
Because why does it need to be 80% humidity
Serious question: is it even worth posting about the “Chinese caste system” psyop here? It has persisted for days now, but people actually read history, so it seems unnecessary. (?)
It’s pretty obviously false so there’s no really point I feel
New Psyop Only Relevant To People Planning On Time Traveling At Least A Millenium
In an act of pettiness I decided to appeal my Reddit ban and call the admins stupid for allowing Nazism and… it worked lmao. They unbanned me. But now I feel stupid for appealing a fucking Reddit ban.
Wore my Celtic FC shirt today and when outside some older guy started talking in English about our Scottish atmosphere at the WC and how it was amazing. I asked him in English if he was Scottish and he said no and then I understood he must’ve thought I was Scottish lmao. I played along and just had a chat in English trying to do my best Scottish accent. People are so funny towards foreigners.
This is a very funny story.
i feel a bit blindsided bc i dont live there but the uk also having a new u16 ban on social media after australia stuns me
Its the easiest way to make everyone scan their ID into social media. In a few years nobody will be able to use mainstream internet without every word being linked to their real name. Then people will start being disappeared. Their accounts will be taken over by AI that slowly alienates their digital community. Any mention of them having been snatched will be removed from the internet, and other bot accounts will tell lies about hanging out with them in the meat world.
I’m busting a gut laughing at this recreation of the Charlie Kirk shooting in Pokemon Showdown. It’s so packed with details that you gotta pause every second to notice everything. I just about died when Erika Kirk used Water Spout lmfao this is a generational shitpost
Does this include Elder Tiktok? Mormon influencer and crime scene contaminator?
No but now that you mention it, it totally should have. He could’ve been a Scrafty that uses Follow Me or maybe Taunt lol
You are thinking with portals™ I can see it already
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Funniest thing i saw today is a news article about “iranian” fans in the world cup protesting against iranian national team 😂 dawg they’re americans
There were like 9 of them too. And no pro Iranians of course because they can’t go.
🫵 You WILL have hope, comrade.
I can’t begin to count the number of times I’m glad I have this place as a respite from how godawful most of the western English-speaking internet culture and moderation is.
On the whole, you try to enforce basic ideological lines people shouldn’t mess with and you don’t treat politics like dirt to sweep under the rug. Those two alone already make it stand out from a lot of spaces on the internet. And you aren’t reactionary or liberal about it, which together with the other two, really makes it stand out.
This may sound exaggerative since it’s “just an internet forum”, but I want to say it’s like a little preview of what life could be like if I lived under an AES state. A world where the system itself says no to the worst tendencies and supports betterment in theory and practice of ideology explicitly. Like it’s a night and day difference in feel when you are a lone person trying to draw attention to a problem vs. when the system and community are on your side.
At the same time i find this to be a very open place that doesn’t stifle discussion in that obnoxious way that liberal/ultra-leftist spaces with purity fetishes do, which is very good for encouraging newcomers to ask questions and learn without feeling like they are in a sectarian echo-chamber. So long as there is no apologia for fascism, imperialism or genocide of course…
For sure.
I don’t understand Reddit’s filters. I have reported actual Nazism and it does not get banned but I make a sarcastic comment and I get banned for 7 days immediately.
Commie cries over getting banned from Stormfront v2
Lol, lmao even!
It took a month of mass reporting to take down a Steam forum post openly calling for a Second Holocaust to “finish the job” from some Nazi prick crashing out because some company was being scummy as usual while I got forum banned within the hour for telling the guy to follow his leader.
Telling one person to kill themselves? Steam mods say that’s completely unacceptable no matter the circumstances.
Calling for mass genocide on a global scale? Steam mods think that’s okay unless you literally harass them into doing their job.
I don’t care that I got a ban for it; I accepted that as a fair consequence for telling a fascist scumbag what he deserves to be told. It was the fact they didn’t do anything about the guy calling for killing all Jews everywhere until multiple people bullied them into taking care of it that left me livid. The moderation of nearly every major website online is almost exclusively dominated by the Far Right and their collaborators. Rules only apply to Leftists and the marginalized.
It’s so baffling how these same losers think mods persecute them when mods consistently let them get away with saying truly vile shit. I just recently got harassed on the Gothic Remake forums for asking the basic question of whether or not you could choose your character’s gender; immediately assailed by a flurry of transphobic and misogynistic abuse that went on for several pages over a span of two days before mods finally closed to thread for being “unproductive”. Nobody got banned. Absolutely hideous behavior. The worst part is one of the first response was from a moderator answering my question honestly - that same moderator was the one who locked the thread! They were there the entire fucking time, saw everything, and did nothing!
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother with Steam Forums. That place is like a mini 4chan sometimes.
I’d bet they’re taking cues from youtube moderation: opaque algorithms rife with confusing rulesets and false positives.
It would make sense if they started ramping that up after the fallout from the mod protest relating to API changes, as a way to moderate more with less people.
Not to say it is unbiased at all. I’m sure it’s biased toward imperialist politics to one degree or another.
I hope you all have a nice week :D
You too, comrade! ꒰⌗´ ᵕ `⌗꒱৩
You too, Comrade!
You too, comrade!
Have a great week, everyone! One thing I’ve found handy is limiting social media use to specific times and places, helps me not be so phone addicted. For me, it’s been very nice!
As always, communism will win.
Wishing everyone a great week. I need to get off SM+YT. I finally have days off and I can’t go anywhere or clean anything… Like the first few days were fantastic. However, a neighbor did come help me get out of the house, gave me two fresh peaches, and helped me back in. They promised me a couple of ears of silver queen corn. Fur baby enjoyed getting outside for a while too.
Sounds nice!
Twas lovely!
reading interesting articles full of jargon about LLMs posted by others here makes me feel silly. variance derivatives pre-LM something something optimization. i have no knowledge of computer science so i wonder where i can even begin even though its not really relevant to me
I bet if you ask deepseek it will give really good breakdowns of any jargon you don’t understand.
Happy birthday president Xi! o7
