Nini

I'm just an idiot. Far too much politics, not enough furry stuff and goofery, working on a balance.

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2026-05-30 14:42:39 CEST

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Oh, tell me more.

2026-05-30 12:11:46 CEST

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Yes, great... talking to the same 10 greybeards still lamenting Eternal September or whatever gatekeeping crap they use to keep people out of their clubhouse. Did that change since the last time I was active on Usenet around 15 years or so ago?

2026-05-08 12:59:28 CEST

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It is a bit soon but even so it does show the English have proved themselves to be idiots bound by ignorance, hate and xenophobia once again.

2026-04-09 11:02:56 CEST

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Is it? It's only a good step if it's purely optional and opportunities are made available that actually accommodate for disabilities. Most folk don't want the insistence of work even on a voluntary basis because it's a reminder of the constant push to get them into work they've been experiencing since they were first diagnosed.

2026-04-09 09:56:09 CEST

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A "right to try"? What's that supposed to mean, is it like the "right to work" thing in the US which works more like a "right to fire at will" for the employer? I figure "right to try" is veiled "you need to do this or your benefits will be stopped".

2026-04-05 12:14:04 CEST

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Though it's not to say there isn't a long-term sickness issue, Covid has done a lot of silent damage.

2026-03-25 12:41:49 CET

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They have no reason to be concerned though, the pride of the centrist is to not ask why but only to ask if it complies with the status quo.

2026-02-20 10:40:19 CET

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Seems like the same logic DWP runs on where there's constant need to confirm and qualify for things in case you're one of those blaggers. What exactly a SEN child or teen is trying to scam is unclear but the government has this pathological need to make sure the process is onerous and draining enough that people drop out from the process or don't even try. The core is just an exercise in reducing the budget because that's all it ever is, appeasing beancounters who only want to see a budget used "correctly" regardless of the human cost.

2026-02-19 11:31:57 CET

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Just images or does this expand out to hate speech and/or intentionally misleading speech as well?

2026-02-19 10:13:59 CET

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This is the extreme end of "running a system hot", the components don't so much fail as explode.

2026-02-18 09:46:42 CET

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This fucking world makes no sense...

2026-02-11 19:31:06 CET

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I wouldn't even watch it, it's all very corrupt and doesn't deserve your attention much less your money.

2026-02-05 11:50:53 CET

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While I'm not that big a fan of aggressive populism, Polanski's approach works for the Greens given they're typically seen as passive and soft and this gives them some much needed backbone to fight.

2026-01-27 13:44:22 CET

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And the culture war, even if it's just the rightwing participating in it against everyone else, is a front for a class war much in the same way Trump's gaggle of numpties and unemployables are. It's all just part of the same network of authoritarian fascists the world over.

2026-01-20 10:29:56 CET

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It's the US working as they usually do, it's about who is loyal and who is disloyal but with a mercurial tyrant that status can flip in an instant.

2026-01-18 12:43:41 CET

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Depending where you're located, yes. There's a reason that ICE rolled into places that don't have a high gun ownership level, they are not going where there's a high chance they will be fired at.

2026-01-18 11:11:00 CET

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If it does then initially it won't be a civil war, war does require both sides to be active combatants. This'll be more like a massacre.

2025-12-26 10:48:56 CET

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We know why, none of those positive things will ever happen and might generate all new negatives while making "bullshit jobs" more prevalent ("prompt engineer"). Nothing regarding the people pushing it, the ethics of the systems, the outputs, any of it has me convinced it'll be anything other than a total black hole of intelligence forcing us back into the Dark Ages ruled over by neo-feuadlist kings and their digital gods.

2025-12-23 15:38:54 CET

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Russian money pays Farage well, it also pays certain sections of the media well enough to bolster Farage's message which is Russia's message. They got a success with the rise of UKIP from minority isolationist party to thought leaders, didn't even need to win because their ideas became reality and showed how misinformation can be power.
Now there's far-right reactionary parties making huge gains in several democratic countries or indeed winning to the degree that it feels silly to not see the correlation in the rise of fascism being an engineered one.

2025-12-15 09:46:57 CET

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Wonder if this'll be attributed to "quiet quitting" which is literally just doing exactly what the job demands in the time allocated to it, no overtime and no extra work. They're trying to make employment numbers go up but they think removing the social safety nets are the way to do it and automating various entry level jobs won't lead to higher unemployment forcing them into the precarious gig economy which is barely making a living for those engaged with it besides the wealthy elites running the gigs.

2025-12-14 11:58:35 CET

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We don't have enough data already from the Online Safety Act?

2025-12-07 22:00:20 CET

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Sounds like the only people winning are the corporations gaining cheap labour while the government subsidises the worker's low wages to get them to "just about livable". Careers as we knew them are dead, now it's just a precarious situation where a job can vanish in an instant and the desperation that'll drive.

2025-12-07 10:42:25 CET

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Patriarchy instills both racism and sexism as core tenets of society, until you topple that it'll be a constant struggle with or without the obscenely rich.

2025-11-07 13:26:17 CET

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Always trying something those Brits, can't ever join something without special allowances for themselves.

2025-11-07 10:49:27 CET

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Nostalgia for... 2020? I mean, I do feel some nostalgia but context is important for what exactly is being missed. People will always look back on the past as some preferable place to be, it's what makes humans immensely sentimental to a fault.
Point is though that 2020 was a hugely different year than many before it, one that threatened to change a lot about how we lived (maybe for the better) until the push to "normal" started because profit wasn't high enough for the corporatocracy. As such things went to shit in that race back to "normal" and now we're here in 2025 wishing for the quiet panic of 2020.

2025-11-03 09:44:34 CET

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Patriotism and "big tent" politics are rarely going to work for a left-leaning party as those two things will include some conservative voters who'll want their position seen and as such they'll bring them into a more centrist position. Nice if you want to win but you won't be able to effect the sort of change you want. Not looking for a "purity test", just be more aware of your intended voter base rather than aiming blindly at whoever will listen.

2025-10-12 10:14:20 CEST

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Wouldn't say that, the Fediverse is unsafe for several categories of people, just not striated by age and there's a whole other Fediverse that is more Truth Social in nature.

2025-09-21 10:53:43 CEST

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It's concerning when a politician feels the need to wrap themselves in a flag, they have nothing else but identity politics to bolster their appeal. The second any of the Greens decide to go flagshagging it's over.

2025-09-18 11:07:12 CEST

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It's going to be a self-pereptuating system where only those with the connections will succeed and they will select those they're familiar with and push out anyone who they're not familiar with which'd exclude those lowly non-rich types who found their way into the elite enclave somehow.

2025-09-18 10:42:40 CEST

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"Free speech" that operates more as "me speech", it's about their right to free speech without retaliation or consequence and of course removing the rights of free speech to dissenters.

2025-04-16 10:22:41 CEST

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Or worse, go for Reform and end up with a full Vichy state.

2025-04-15 12:41:51 CEST

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People need purpose in their work beyond money, that's usually the case for why people jump careers right? They need to feel like their work does good in a tangible way and sometimes they don't feel like they're seeing the good so they need to change something even if it's well-paid. It doesn't fulfil something they want from life so if a life is defined by its' works it'd be good to do something with worth even if only one person sees that worth.

2025-04-15 09:26:25 CEST

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I would argue more people need to find their jobs meaningless, "working in order to live" is a meaning sure but doesn't mean the materiality of the job duties are meaningful, they don't enrich or feel like a net positive beyond what it pays.

2025-01-27 10:49:36 CET

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I did see that, yeah. I know there's some good uses coming from the medical field but like you and others mentioned the use of various terms for similar but fairly different areas and conflating them means it gets muddy very quickly. I was specific about my use of the term "LLMs" because of that, ML is often put under the AI umbrella but it's a misnomer as is AI in general for much of what we see in this area.

2025-01-27 09:39:44 CET

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LLMs are useless at dealing with hard facts or situations where you cannot fudge the information, their output is next to useless for that sort of thing because it is just making assumptions about what should come next. Decisions like that can't be left to systems that weren't designed for it no matter how much data you feed it or power you give it to think up the wrong answer.

2025-01-19 11:24:52 CET

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An interesting causal effect, too many applications for fewer jobs means less people having their application even considered creating a problem of futility in job searching which makes the process of mass application more appealing as the net has to be cast ever wider, even for jobs that you wouldn't qualify for as it has equal chance of being rejected as the jobs you do qualify for. Any job as long as it pays the bills, that's the level of desperation involved and desperate people will do things that are antithetical to their goals like mass applications because it feels like they have no better option.

2025-01-16 10:19:17 CET

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I dare say that an unstable and ever-changing government is intentional, makes it easier to get a strongman authoritarian in charge if the existing government can't be trusted.

2024-11-24 11:18:28 CET

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Still don't like it, three authorities need to sign off on dying a few months sooner? What are they fretting about exactly? I feel like we're placing way too much on the "sanctity of life" while ignoring the individual who apparently has no free will.
My opinion that assisted dying shouldn't be determined by age nor health condition (be that mental or physical) but solely by the individual involved is a bit of an outlier sure but why can't someone leave this realm while their faculties are still intact and not be subject to a gradual deterioration of body and mind? All very Catholic if you ask me.

2024-11-03 10:33:50 CET

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It is weird that they're not entertaining decreased population numbers, is the idea of not growing that anathema?