Maybe you can’t avoid AWS, but at least get rid of Amazon Prime.

Of course you vote for the viable non fascist candidate. What else to do, if you do not intend to be a fascist enabler?

I think they just seek to create controversy. They don’t care for young people or people at all.

The radical ideology is called the truth and America hates it. It undermines their precious lies.

There’s Lake Freedom in the upper right corner.

Fuck them. It doesn’t matter what they have to say.

That’s true. I was more talking about regular people defending such behaviour.

Just because a system is designed a certain (amoral) way, doesn’t mean you HAVE to use it in that way.

Trump and many others may think it’s smart to not pay taxes because of the immediate advantage of having more money. But I’d argue, it’s actually a stupid thing to do. Especially for wealthy people. They profit more from government services like a well equiped police force, good infrastructure, health services that keep their employees healthy, etc. They are just to stupid or shortsighted to factor all variables in.

Also I think societal norms and individual identity plays a big role in such decisions. I mean, why are you on lemmy and not on reddit? Isn’t it smarter to use reddit since there is more content, more users who read your comments? Maybe reddit just banned you and you have no viable alternative. But there is also the possibility that you are aware of the shortcomings of reddit and arrived at the decision that it’s actually smarter to use lemmy.

In the end, it’s your descision who you want to be. Do you want to be they guy who doesn’t pay taxes and brags about it? Or the guy who thinks it’s so smart to bribe the president? Do you want to be the guy who reads bot comments on reddit all day and gobbles up their rage bait? Even if society deems certain descisons as smart, they are very often not.

It isn’t their fault this was the smart thing to do.

Oh my, the shit Americans people say. Reminded me of this.

Just some ideas:

• try deprogramming one of your MAGA relatives
• boycott the big evil corperations
• eat less meat, drive your car less
• VOTE in every election
• involve yourself in your community
• help in local election campains
• maybe even involve yourself with a new local chapter of DSA? (I don’t know how it works in the US on a local level)
• complain
• If you’re up to it, throw your sabot

Alterlaa in Vienna

When we say American, we don’t mean every single American. We speak of overall societal tendencies. And yes, you live in a society. You are part of it. I’m sure you know, but the first step to overcoming a problem is to identify it.

Americans are like fish who don’t know what water is.

I don’t think AI is anti-ethical or fascist per se. As many argued here, you can run it locally, you can train it on public data sets, etc.

But there is another problem that is hardly mentioned. Let’s call it a culturally negative feedback loop. AI is different from any other tool because it pretends to be an universal tool. It can generate music, pictures, videos, text, code. If we as a society outsource all those skills to automatisation, there’s a real danger we unlearn those skills.

Elbows up, Canada! I’m really happy to see that there is at least one nation that pushes back.

I only wish the European Commission would take note and grow some balls.

Because we Europeans are almost as fucked in the head as you Americans.

Better an asshole then a bloody American. The whole world is sick and tired of your shit.

I mean if you American, then you did in fact send us the bill. You flattened our cities and convicted our leaders, literaly Nuremberg style. I think we deserved it back then. For me that’s not hard to see.

Why is it so hard for you guys to take a look in the mirror?

USA starts war after war and I’m the asshole because I can tell that’s not right? You call yourself “Land Of The Free” and all I ever hear from you guys is: “There is really nothing we can do about it”.

You get all defensive and butthurt all the time. But yeah, I listened to a lot of David Foster Wallace yesterday. I think I learned something(1). Maybe you give it a shot? There’s some stuff on youtube.

Yeah. That’s exactly what I’m talking about. Carbrained psychopaths look a people crossing the street and think: How dare they make me wait a few seconds longer. I’ll fucking hit them with my car.

And they think that’s a proportinal response. It’s just deeply sick and twisted.

Oh poor fellow, I’m sorry I made you a victim of my linguistic violence here. Land of the free, home of the brave, right? Just be glad my country never bombed one of your schools. But then again, we really don’t have to, since you guys shoot those little bastards yourself.

But I could tell you a lot about WW2 Germany. Concentration Camps were an open secret. For example, in my own home county, there was one of those camps. In 1945 there was a big escape. Civilians from all around came together to hunt and kill the escapees. From 500 escapees 11 survived. I would call that evil.

Now this flame of evil has passed onto you guys. And you carry it with pride and ignorance.