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TiredTiger

@ TiredTiger @lemmy.ml

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  • I'd say that dialectical materialism is a "theory" in the same vein as gravity or other scientific theories rather than the colloquial usage of the term. I'm still studying it myself and don't feel I've read enough to explicate in detail - others are more learned than I am on the subject. That said, my personal feelings on the subject are just that - feelings, not facts, and can no more impact dialectical materialism than my feelings on gravity can allow me to fly.

    That said, certainly people can disagree on how best to apply the theory to a given time or place. But if you're unwilling to provide details and engage in the conversation, you come across as being either dismissive or defensive.

  • NHS to grant Palantir contractors ‘unlimited access’ to patient data

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  • I almost wonder whether these regulations exist not to protect data, but to lull the public into a sense of complacency. Perhaps that's a tad conspiratorial, but so many laws exist to make legislators look good rather than serve their purported raison d'etre - just look at that OS-based age verification nonsense. At the very least, the national security state has a use for such things, regardless.

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  • On the contrary, it would take a lot to stretch my credulity with how little people understand security and how much they love convenience.

    You're probably right about fax. Telecom infrastructure in the US is notoriously insecure, as demonstrated by Salt Typhoon, and the only reason there has been little regulatory pressure to secure it is that the NSA et al love how easy it is to spy on us.

  • What are the best unbiased (as much as its realistic i guess) investigative journalism organizations worth financially supporting?

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  • Seconding Drop Site News. They've been publishing pieces on Epstein's links to Mossad that other outlets won't touch and they're getting heat for it, as well as their coverage of Gaza.

  • NHS to grant Palantir contractors ‘unlimited access’ to patient data

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  • People think HIPAA is sancrosanct, but I'm willing to bet hospital IT departments aren't thoroughly vetting their third-party contractors as much as one would hope.

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  • You don't hear about Monsanto anymore only because they were bought out by Bayer in 2018. You can be sure they're up to the same garbage under new management.

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  • I was skeptical of China myself until I started reading the arguments and trying to understand where they were coming from, and trying to read theory instead of being a socialist based on vibes. (Edit: not accusing you of being the same, I'm just poking fun at myself here.) I lurked a long time before making my account here, and I honestly think I was all the better for that.

    I'd love it if we could eliminate all billionaires tomorrow, but I frankly don't think that's possible so long as imperialism exists. Imperialism is the primary contradiction at the moment, not the existence of billionaires, though I think resolving that contradiction would result in a redistribution of resources such that there would, at minimum, be far fewer billionaires.

    I'd encourage you to read more about all the myriad ways the imperial core enforces its will on the third world. Vincent Bevins' book The Jakarta Method is a good starting point if you haven't read it or other books on the subject.

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    Have you ever been summoned for Jury Duty in either the US & Canada?

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  • I've never actually served, but the pay is like $2 an hour plus maybe parking in the US. How frequently you actually receive a jury duty summons depends on jurisdiction.

  • Do you think there would be less conflict in the world if the average intelligence went up 50%?

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  • IQ is not a proxy for education, though. Raising intelligence without changing education wouldn't accomplish much. People are kept stupid by means of propaganda, regardless of their intellectual ability.

  • Me discussing buying a car has convinced my mother to finally go grapheneOS

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  • I cannot imagine being excited by advertisements. Sounds like something out of Fahrenheit 451 or Brave New World.

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  • I have no idea what other instances are like, but you can join lemmy.ml without even giving an email. Unless you're allergic to communism, I'm really not seeing the benefit of choosing one of those instances, let alone something like PieFed, as your home base. No captchas or VPN blocks, either.

  • I was a week away from buying a Pixel Pro 10 for GrapheneOS

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  • This is just ID verification in another guise. The second I see one of these, I'll stop using the website I see it on.

  • Ultrasound waves rupture COVID-19 and flu viruses without damaging cells

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  • Neat. I wonder whether this technique would he effective against retained viral matter (a la long COVID), or whether it's limited to active infection.

  • ‘Worst energy crisis’ anyone has ever seen: Experts sounds alarm over depleting oil

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  • So long as the chaos is in service of empire, it's fine. But give even the smallest hint of possibly doubting the machine, and well...

  • The hardest challenge for most westerners to pass.

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  • The average westerner has their entire concept of reality built upon the idea that capitalism is "as good as it gets" and that people are divided roughly 50/50 into two separate camps, therefore a government with broad approval is impossible. They can't see that their culture wars are manufactured precisely to keep them from ever questioning that system. They throw aside any high approval rating as manufactured. (Nevermind the fact that those states that do have manufactured approval ratings are imperial puppets and China is obviously not one of those.)

    To those libs who love to talk about the 99%, I posit the following: if a government actually were made by and for the 99%, wouldn't you expect it to have high approval ratings?

  • Europe considering banning VPN for 'children protection'

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  • Who is using the VPNs, though? That they bypass restrictions does not necessarily imply that all people using them are children. Of course, they'll disregard any possible interpretations that would be counter to their narrative.

  • What's a good replacement for HuffPost?

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  • this is who I want to be. this is my ideal

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  • TIL. Somehow, I never realized yerba mate has caffeine. I'll have to try some eventually.

  • yeah, I'm a centrist

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  • How exactly do you expect a country of any significant size to effectively enact communism without anything resembling a state apparatus?