@jonn_blanchard When I had a new computer built at the end of 2024, for the first time since they became a thing, I switched from Nvidia to AMD.
I am so glad I did. I'm glad to know my new computer didn't fund their bullshit.
@DJGummikuh @jonn_blanchard Please don't use terms like "survival" for corporations. A corporation has no live, it isn't alive, and therefore "survival" is no concept that applies here.
People though are fighting for survival.
A corporation going bankrupt and a person fighting for survival aren't on the same conceptual level.
Language matters. Language influences how people think.
Letting a contract go unfulfilled and letting a person die also aren't on the same level. We shouldn't try harder to prevent the former than we try to prevent the latter.
@DJGummikuh What is the matter at hand? Defending scumbags and explaining why scumbags behave like scumbags? Because that's all that you did.
If someone in the novel 1984 had said that people should stop calling the torture agency the "Ministry of Love" and stop speaking in Newspeak because it's propaganda, would you also have told them that they're just picking at words?
@UndeadMinotaur @jonn_blanchard if you read your last response and turn it inward, Minotaur, you may see yourself.
Good luck.
@UndeadMinotaur @jonn_blanchard well, getting blocked isn't going to help your cause.
You decided to insert yourself into a thread and create a false binary. As if discussion of something else negates what you think is most important.
What you are doing is amounting to epistemic injustice in your attempt to gain epistemic justice.
Your move.
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Covid is underprioritized by people precisely because it's a hard thing for humans to wrap their heads around psychologically; we don't do well with invisible, unknown/variable risks.
Similarly the effect of boycotts are real but deferred and hard to comprehend. They remove money from the hands of fascist pricks.
That being said, boycotts are weaksauce compared to general strikes, which are the purerer form of that kind of action, but the material effects in aggregate do real work. Part of what makes them weak in practice is precisely because it's hard to keep them up. People don't see the benefits directly, so in practice, in their brains, the cost/benefit analysis becomes muddled because, again, humans don't cope well with this shit.
The entire capital system benefits from this. It's how capitalist pricks get away with doing terrible evil shit and still manage to sell things to everybody. Nestle owns several sub-brands and people just indirectly buy their shit even when they think and will say that they hate Nestle.
It's a sickheaded kind of irony here, that this dynamic is so similar and yet you will take the tragedy of war and throw it aside just to announce your moral incoherence to everyone within 30 miles.
@jonn_blanchard @UndeadMinotaur Masking is important and I suggest it of everybody, especially here in America where our health system is also now ran by a complete and utter moron who throws his kids in sewer-infested water and claims Tylenol causes autism.
It was important way before that, and never stopped being important, and I am livid at the Biden admin for sweeping the sustained harms under the rug just to appease the terrible economic system we're under.
But if people were not masking then, they should definitely be masking now. There's no reality where you should trust our national health system to be reliable, atp.
However, how you persuade people isn't going to be replyguy moral puritanical shit in their replies that's fucking batshit insane.
Frankly I think the only true solution, given how hard it is to motivate people to mask, even when their friends were recently sick and I can show them stats about increased virus content in the wastewater, is from the societal level. We need contact tracing. We need better indoor ventilation. So on.
@jonn_blanchard I've been watching the shift happen...
Fortunately, I am running mainly used apple silicon for ollama lately. It's just a matter of availability.
I hate apple business practices too, so all I do is... not buy new things these days.
I don't need to be so fast. Most people don't.
It's just sisyphean churn. After three decades, you realize they call it a race... but there is no finish line. 🙃
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