• SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    I wonder if AI is going to turn people mad like computers did in the 60s when they were first introduced. Like, I already see people commenting online on real vids ‘this is AI this is AI!!!’ and that the owner has to explain that, no, it is not.

  • Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    Saw a guy on Xitter compaining about the Japanese having low birthrates. He then threw a temper tantrum when he was informed that birthrates are down for every country all over the world, which is also why immigration has gotten such a big push lately. Fascists hate being told that their delusions have rational explanations.

  • She Was Speaking@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    Tsunami warning on my island. I’m out of the evacuation zone, but still got me rattled. Likely not to have power tonight at the very least.

  • Hazel@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    There was rain yesterday and I was cold. Climate change has to be fake. Opinions? /ns

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    Rode my bike through my hometown yesterday which sparked some severe nostalgia it seems. This night I had an intense dream of waking up in 2009 in my old bedroom. Jersey Shore was playing on the tv and I lived a day like it was 2009 again. Going to school, dicking around outside, playing games with my brother. I woke up with food poisoning so that probably didn’t help either. Which is funny because I commented on someone here the other day who was also having a stomach bug.

    I have to renew my residence permit over here soon and that has sparked some thought regarding what the fuck I need to do with my life and for the first time in years I seem to be somewhat homesick and I’m not really sure what it is that I’m staying for here.

    Political wise nothing seems to be happening. The party wants to be open to new ideas from members but whenever I present my ideas I get hit with an ‘awesome that sounds cool’ and nothing happens. I’m not really sure what to do right now. We have a meeting every month and for the past month or three-four that is the only moment something seems to be happening. Basically all political action I did in the last few months were organised by other orgs. Sure, I could set up shit myself but my life is busy anyway and I seem to have resorted to minding my own business some more.

  • SlayGuevara@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    A wolf attacked a child in The Netherlands today. I’m curious to see how long they will last. Every square centimeter of ‘nature’ is managed there and you can’t have actual wildlife in the country because everybody and their mother sees ‘nature’ as a fun little hike with no problems at all. God forbid actual animals start living in the country. Or worse, that people have to watch out for something.

  • TheBungTankie@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    Ok… so… I know it wont probably Happened…

    But what if… Palestine Won the 2026 World Cup.

    I wonder what kind of… ‘Reactions’

  • 0144927536231884@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    We’re living in a time when it seems people are identifying their own Sinophobia or anti-China programming, and of course there is something similar going on with the Zionist state.

    What are productive ways to talk about North Korea if you must? Some ideas I have:

    • ‘I like positive depictions of North Korean people/Korean culture’
    • ‘Regardless of what you feel about any place’s government, it is always good to see an increase in standards of living’
    • any remarks or analysis about sanctions, for example talking about how sanctions don’t actually accomplish the popularly ascribed goals, but instead directly target the most vulnerable people in a society (with the stated goal of “making the people dislike their government” as if that is not the most mask-off thing politicians say)
    • maybe some framing of Korea as a land that has been under occupation for 75 years straight if that resonates

    Thoughts???

    • JucheBot1988@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 months ago

      I’ve made headway simply by being non-apologetic. “The DPR Korea is a nation which forges its own path. They do not interfere in the affairs of other nations, nor do they let any other nation interfere with them. They do not let America or anybody else dictate to them their past, their present, or their future. As a democratic citizen, you are free not to like the path the Koreans have chosen, but it is a strong as well as a difficult one, and nobody asked you to walk it. Your main obligation toward the Korean people right now is to ensure your government minds its own business.” People seem to respect that.

    • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 months ago

      I know you’re trying to persuade liberals, but these arguments seem fairly liberal. Mind you, I’m as far from wanting to see the DPRK color revv’d as you can imagine.

      ‘I like positive depictions of North Korean people/Korean culture’

      “I enjoy seeing romantic perspectives on imperial Japan.”

      ‘Regardless of what you feel about any place’s government, it is always good to see an increase in standards of living’

      “You don’t have to like Andrew Jackson but think of all those settlers with free land!”

      any remarks or analysis about sanctions, for example talking about how sanctions don’t actually accomplish the popularly ascribed goals, but instead directly target the most vulnerable people in a society (with the stated goal of “making the people dislike their government” as if that is not the most mask-off thing politicians say)

      “It’s good to remind people the long history of the Jewish people’s oppression. Imagine trying to slander Israel when Iran wants to see them gone.”

      …

    • redchert@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 months ago

      Its important to highlight the slander and continuous violence brought against them. The one-sided aggression.

      NK is the legitimate successor of the Korean People’s Republic, the south was literally the americans putting their own citizen and japanese collaborators on the throne. North Korea has a protestant presence since its foundation.

      Bring attention to the continuous crimes committed against NK, despite north koreans NEVER having attacked the west. The Nuclear bombs on Japan killed 22k korean slave labourers. One in seven nuclear bombing victims in Hiroshima was of korean descent.

      The US partook in the Jeju massacre killing up to 100k people, South Korea killed 200k communists causing NK to invade, the us then killed 25% of NK population and destroyed 75% of its infrastructure.

      The north lacked agricultural lands (historically located in the south or china’s dongbei region) and so is very food insecure and needs petroleum agricultural machinery and imports from Russia to nourish itself. The collapse of the soviet union and america’s sanction on oil imports (as well as sabotaging NK agriculture by paying saboteurs to cut off the tails of laboring animals), caused massive starvation. Modern UN sanctions have also “violated” their own standards and had an adverse effect on the populace.

    • Magicicad@lemmygrad.ml
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      4 months ago

      Sometimes I’ll bring up how fucked they were by the Korean War and how their entire foreign policy was shaped by the violence they experienced.

  • KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    I think I want to get back into improv/theatre again. It’s been a couple of years and I’ve found out recently I miss it. I was too old for the improv class I was taking a couple years, since that one was mostly geared towards teenagers. But I found improv classes for adults so I’m thinking of doing that one.

  • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    🇰🇵 Symbolic parade of the Korean People’s Army for the 72nd anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War