I mean, I think a badge titled Normal would have been just fine.

I hope I don’t get lynched for saying this on lemmy, but … amen brother. :D

I just wanna be left alone, man. I keep to myself, I keep my head down, I don’t stir the pot by placing political signs or anything. I don’t have anything to prove to anyone. But likewise, I’m going to protect my rights as well.

I’ve been experiencing this on lemmy 100% They follow a playbook of sorts too. A couple of things I notice they all do:

• Ignore any comparison to Republicans/Trump. Because doing so would point out how absolutely lop-sided the choice is.
• Claim Genocide is the reason. Ignore all other reasons.
• Call you Racist, Conservative, etc.
• Claim that you insulted them in an attempt to become the victim.
• Claim that during every presidential vote “America has been at stake if you don’t vote for [X] candidate” - ignoring the very real attempts at overthrowing our government.

The community “leftymemes” also seems to have been made explicitly for spreading this kind of thing.

Crunchyroll has a monopoly on Anime? Shit, someone better tell Nyaa.

When he lost the election to Biden, I went from disappointed that he wouldn’t ever see equal justice, to disappointed that not only is he running again, but somehow has a chance of winning again.

At this point, I’m just stocking up on ammo.

It’s not remotely within the realm of plausibility that Sam Altman genuinely believes any of the horseshit he spews.

Welcome to earth. That’s basically every business ever, and you’ll quite literally never be able to prove that in court; which is the litmus test for this claim.

You’ve got a pretty high bar of proof for proving “actual fraud”…

You can’t provably say that this is a “bubble” as claimed. The tools do what they purport to do. Where’s the fraud?

You might want to look up the definition of reactionary. Because that’s…exactly what it means. To oppose reform/advancements.

You okay there bud?

In political science, a reactionary or a reactionist is a person who holds political views that favor a return to the status quo ante—the previous political state of society—which the person believes possessed positive characteristics that are absent from contemporary society.

Congratulations – Currently you and 18 others are not smarter than an average high schooler.

I’ve known many people to be like this, they just want to slink back, and ignore the blatant. Thank you for having the balls to step up and bite back. People like you are the reason I don’t see almost ANY Trump flags in my neighborhood this year. It’s a cult of personality that nobody else has quite been able to achieve. Once he’s gone for good, things can get back to semi-normal. We still have to be vigilant about the shit Republicans are doing, but at least maybe at that point some family ties will begin to heal.

Honestly, he’s wrong though.

I know tons of full stack developers who use AI to GREATLY speed up their workflow. I’ve used AI image generators to put something I wanted into the concept stage before I paid an artist to do the work with the revisions I wanted that I couldn’t get AI to produce properly.

And first and foremost, they’re a great use in surfacing information that is discussed and available, but might be buried with no SEO behind it to surface it. They are terrible at deducing things themselves, because they can’t ‘think’, or coming up with solutions that others haven’t already - but so long as people are aware of those limitations, then they’re a pretty good tool to have.

It’s a reactionary opinion when people jump to the ‘but they’re stealing art!’ – isn’t your brain also stealing art when it’s inspired by others art? Artists don’t just POOF, and have the capability to be artists. They learn slowly over time, using others as inspiration or as training to improve. That’s all stable diffusors do - just a lot faster.

I mean they can. Anyone can basically sue for anything. The bigger question is: Are you ever really going to be a big enough target for anyone to care?

Any guarantee of a price lock with the stipulation of “You can just NOT use us if we ever decide to fuck you over!” - should come with HEAVY penalties.

You should be, because there’s more than a 0% chance it happens, and when it does, it’s likely the end of America as we know it.

Alright, listen…

Insults are meant to hurt the person you’re hurling them at. That’s the point of insults. “Lazy” is a pretty generic one, and it’s kind of a reach to say it’s racially-motivated. Yes, Trump is a Racist Wannabe-Nazi, but come on. Enough with the sensationalism.

MSN = Microsoft Network. They didn’t “happen”…they were always part of the process. MSN messenger was never anything other than a Microsoft product.

The point is to remove the air from the sails of the word “antisemitism”. Much like many groups who have adopted slurs against them, and turned their meanings around.

We can have a new word for hatred of the jewish people that doesn’t connotate back to the incidences of WWII that Israel uses to shield against criticism every single time.

If you want one for Arabs, or whatever other division of people you go ahead and do that.

But including semitic speaking people under the umbrella of antisemitism serves to relinquish the power it has over people when Israel uses it as a mallet to deflect criticism. Quite literally, nothing you say will cause me to change my viewpoint on this.

I am not arguing this to discuss and enlighten my viewpoint. My viewpoint is already the enlightened one in my eyes. Call me wrong, call me whatever you will - but I’m going to continue to push the term antisemitism to include the cultures which speak semitic languages.

I’m using it in this context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages

If they speak a Semitic language, and they’re being targeted, I’m calling it Anti-Semitic. I reject your reality, and substitute it with my own. It removes the power of the claim that Israel uses it for. I could think of no better way to reappropriate the power of a word to claim victimization. It’s used to deflect criticism and push blame onto the person criticizing.

I reject Israel’s modification of semitic to only refer to themselves. It originally meant the inclusion of Arabs, and I’m going to continue using it that way, regardless of it’s “obsolete” designation.

It is still used to this day in linguistics to refer to the same thing, and I’m going to use it more broadly to ensure that Israel can’t gatekeep its usage, and utilize it in a way to harass others and as a universal cover-all any time anyone criticizes them for anything.

I am not ignorant of its linguistic origins, I am purposely reappropriating it. It seems fitting, especially in this case, to be able to turn the word on them.

Aaaaaaaaaand immediately gets called antisemitic…jesus christ these people…

Guess what Israel? Semites include Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians. So you’re being antisemitic by killing all of them!