U de Recife

At first I thought it was a minor thing. But it’s still down. Any news?

It’s crazy to think that this level of intrusion is considered fair game. The way these behaviors are normalized is completely dystopian.

I really want to thank you for the levelheadedness you’re bringing in.

Perhaps that’s a learned behaviour from other networks where drama=engagement=upvotes. I don’t know. But reading your comment filled me with gratitude.

It’s reassuring to see these technicalities being taken for what they are. Different people have different needs. Understanding that makes respecting those needs something simple and natural. Each to their own, right?

tl; dr?

Thank you for your levelheadedness.

That’s the thing, right? Those giant networks’ admins surely know how inflated their userbase is. They surely know that a lot of the activity is bot faked/manipulated.

But since the end goal of those networks is generate traffic to sell something (ads, user data), they never purge the bots. They need fake engagement. They might even promote it. The human user is just being used (Cf. Stallman’s use of this term).

I want to celebrate two things. 1. Your awareness of the potential dangers looming over the fediverse. 2. Your proactive attitude curtailing the problem at its root. From one human to another, thank you!

Dogs are a good example of how wonderful our selective breeding has been. Well, it’s great for us, no doubt. Who doesn’t love a tiny tiny dog? But for the dog? Probably not the best.

Cool, we have better paper making factories with better trees for the purpose. But what about all the unknown unknowns of changing the genes of the tree? How will that affect the environment? Is this carefully tested, monitored, giving it enough time to truly understand the consequences? Or are we just breeding a nice cute little dog again, without caring about what happens to the thing modified?

You see, this has nothing to do with taking sides. I wonder. Just that. And yeah, it still feels dumb to me. But being no expert, perhaps reality will prove me wrong. I do hope so, because I hope for a brighter future, not a gloomy one.

Thanks for posting about this extension! It’s a very welcomed addition to make YouTube more bearable.

Here’s my point. We live under global capitalism. It’s just how things are, right?

And capitalism, just like, say, life, has its ways. It creates an environment where certain outcomes are more likely than others.

Making an observation about it does not make me partial to other systems. I have no such preference. What I observe is just that capitalism, just like life, always finds a way—its way.

I heard someone mentioned the danger of using CRISPR to make better soldiers. It’s crazy, right? But why isn’t crazy to tinker with a tree? Yes, it may make those trees a better product. And all seems good. But once you do that to the tree, and it becomes profitable, the incentive is there to make that true for everything else.

I think it’s dumb because such power (CRISPR) should be treated with great care. Curing a disease? Go for it. But be careful. Now, to make a better product? I dunno, it just rubs me the wrong way.

Perhaps I’m not seeing the whole picture. Or maybe I should take some bioethics class again.

But whatever may be the case, my point is not there all proletariat the world over should unite.

Capitalism always finds a way…

From all the uses one could find to CRISPR, this is probably one of the dumbest.

Now that you mentioned, I remember seeing that Reddit’s alien balloons image.

Yours is waaaay cuter! I hope we get to see it more on lemmy.