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I've been saying this for months and I'll keep saying it. These people aren't genuine users. They're a combination of bot-farm workers and useful idiots. There's a reason their perspectives don't reflect those of actual human beings that we meet and talk to out in the world. Because they're literally just hired to demotivate us.

I trust the content I see on Beehaw and Lemmy in general less and less as the months go by, because it's inundated with this shit to the point that it's clearly being targeted to demotivate any resistance. It's literally flooded with messaging designed to make us feel hopeless and helpless.

Thank you for this. There has been far too much of people utterly ignoring the hard work that people have done against authoritarianism in the US and the actual impact it's had. Lemmy seems to be inundated with people insisting that nothing anyone can do could possibly help and the no one has ever done anything meaningful to resist, and that's just bullshit. It's some terminally online doomerism and it's the last thing we need.

Frankly, it's complicity. It needs to be called out and opposed, and you're doing good work by not mincing words here.

People who pull this shit day in and day out are as much a part of the problem as the MAGA idiots, both in their constant attempts to undermine any and all resistance and very likely in getting us into this situation in the first place.

We need to stop tiptoeing around them and throw their bullshit back in their faces. It's fucking shameful, and they should be embarrassed to be such spineless bootlickers.

Tompato!!!

Potamto!!!

That's quite possible. This administration has shown that it doesn't care about the rule of law. However, that's a far sight from the justice system bending over and letting them.

It's important to be precise about what's happening right now and not to give up and admit defeat. There's a world of difference between "this is bad, we have work to do" and "we're absolutely cooked and have zero hope". Trump's administration wants you to give up. They want you to decide the fight is over before it's even properly begun. Don't do them the favor of making it easy.

I'm not sure that checks out. I mean, fair, I do think that someone being habitually cruel toward AI might not be the greatest indicator of their disposition in general, though I'd hesitate to make a hasty judgement on that. But if we take AI's presentation as a person as fictional, does that extend to other fictional contexts? Would you consider an evil play-through in a video game to indicate an issue? Playing a hostile character in a roleplay setting? Writing horror fiction?

It seems to me that there are many contexts where exhibiting or creating simulated behavior in a fictional environment isn't really equivalent to doing so with genuine individuals in non-imaginary circumstances. AI isn't quite the same as a fictional setting, but it's potentially closer to that than it is to dealing with a real person.

By the same token, if not being polite to an AI is problematic, is it equally problematic to repeatedly say things like "human" and "operator" to an automated phone system until you get a response? Both mimic human speech, while neither ostensibly have a legitimate understanding of what's being said by either party.

Where does the line get drawn? Is it wrong to curse at fully inanimate objects that don't even pretend to be people? Is verbally condemning a malfunctioning phone, refrigerator, or toaster equivalent to berating a hallucinating AI?

Thanks! Hooray!

That is also bad, but it's a ruling on another aspect of the issue. They ruled that the Alien Enemies Act can be used against supposed Venezuelan gang members, but they also ruled that anyone being accused of this has to be informed ahead of time and have an opportunity to contest it. It does not say that those deported in a so-called administrative error can just be left in a foreign prison because oopsies.

The ACLU even referred to the ruling as a victory.

"We are disappointed that we will need to start the court process over again in a different venue, but the critical point is that the Court rejected the government's remarkable position that it does not even have to give individuals meaningful advance notice to challenge their removal under the Alien Enemies Act. That is a big victory," the ACLU's Lee Gelernt said in a texted statement.

So again, it's not really what you're construing it as. It would be better if they'd decided that the deportations were entirely illegal, but this also definitely isn't permission for the administration to deport anyone they want with no due process.

Do you have a source for this claim? Because that's not what your link says at all.

As promised. One soft fish.

Neither does he deserve them.

I mean, I love Black Mirror. I would watch 1000 seasons of it. Even the mediocre ones, but Severance is once in a lifetime.

If humans went extinct.. um...

Um.

UUMMMM.......!!!!!

Massachusetts has much more dude than this.