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matt5sean3

@matt5sean3@urusai.social

Talking about anime, sci-fI, games, cosplay, and other light-hearted stuff. Usually cosplaying alongside https://urusai.social/@Smashbcosplay but I don't seem to have sold her on the Fediverse quite yet.

I lost the domain that my previous main account was using to the practice of "premium domains," so this is my main account now.

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neatchee, to random
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Maybe I just like controversy or something, but the "stuck on an island with a man or a bear" meme is so rife with reply-guys and whatnot that it's genuinely satisfying to watch people trip over themselves to self identify as contributors to the patriarchy with not even a hint of self-awareness.

matt5sean3,
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@neatchee

The top comment says it's a "Strange Bear," so it could very well be a wild shaped druid in this role play. Then you could very well be on an island with a man who is a bear. I bet you didn't think about that.

absolute_G0blin, to random
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I'm so used to using the bird website and anything I care to follow is over there. Genuinely don't know what to even follow here. I guess I mostly have this as a back up of some sort?
Just kinda feel like I'm yelling into the void over here

matt5sean3,
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@absolute_G0blin It looks like it's your third day on the Fediverse. It's a different paradigm here that takes a lot more manual exploration. Make a post with the tag so people with an eye out for new people can see that you're here and have a little more of a clue what you're about. From there the void you shout into gets less empty.

matt5sean3, to random
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Folks, I present to you the "rule-of-law" Democrat. Biden must win even if it takes tens of thousands of deaths abroad and cracking the skulls and silencing of student protestors at home. All in the name of saving democracy.

https://mstdn.social/@GreenFire/112434415402303535

matt5sean3, (edited )
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@neatchee This person doesn't seem to be trans and I'm increasingly seeing more trans people visibly taking the principled stance on Biden.

That's not what I'm even trying to get through to them, though. At an intuitive level, ordinary people can smell condescension, elitism, and authoritarianism. This guy oozes it and it's destructive to him convincing anyone to do anything.

matt5sean3,
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@neatchee

Honestly, I would argue showing you can respect people's opinion even when it leads them the other way and still believe they're equal human beings can go far further towards winning elections than brow beating people for standing on principle. Every on the ground campaigner I've met has told me it's the earnest, equal, not even necessarily polite conversations, or at least the attitudes that lead to them, that win people. I don't know why everyone forgets that on the Fediverse.

matt5sean3,
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@neatchee Actually, a lot, maybe even most, people on the Fediverse don't forget that. That's maybe part of why I like the Fediverse. With patience, I'm often able to find mutual understanding with people on the Fediverse even if I'm walking in with disagreement.

matt5sean3,
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@neatchee

Sure, but if we just fall in without hashing through the disagreements we can hardly call ourselves the left anymore, because at the core the left is about equality and falling in is about hierarchy.

We can stand together and set aside differences to do things, but falling in line is out. Standing together when part of the group is visibly contemptuous of the other part and their goals is foolishness and in the case that political power is taken, ends in one side siccing cops on the other.

matt5sean3,
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@neatchee

When Biden backs cops cracking skulls of students on account of violating property and brings it down to the trope of, you can protest so long as you're in a corner out of the way and in no way opposing the counter protestors attacking peaceful protestors or cops attacking peaceful protestors, I really don't see where I can believe he genuinely supports free speech beyond as a distant abstraction and saying the students getting their skulls cracked have any obligation to vote for him is just way out for me. Violence on the protestors is already under way.

matt5sean3,
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@neatchee

Video for context straight from the horse's mouth.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-silence-college-protests-police-gaza-israel-d5f3092671951c3bc2968b8751c93ba6

matt5sean3,
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@neatchee

And that's fine, I can respect that. I'm not as sold on the narrative that Trump getting a second term is the whole ball game. I am more persuaded that sticking to the Republican-Democrat duopoly has been the whole ball game and keeping on doing that will be the end of us as the pendulum will swing back to the Republicans as the Democrats keep using Republican crapulence as a crutch.

If Trump wins, I agree it's damaging, but it's not the whole ball game. Trump is an authoritarian opportunist and at this point seems to be in the game more to avoid jail than anything else. He's damaging, but he's no Caesar.

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matt5sean3,
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@neatchee

If Biden wins, I'm a bit more worried about the apparatus that is behind Trump continuing to be built upon in the ensuing four years, but attached to someone decidedly more lucid and with more longevity that would have the capacity to actually capitalize on a January 6th moment in a way Trump proved incapable, unready, or unwilling to. In the worst case, I can absolutely see that apparatus attached to a christo-Fascist true believer and that is a nightmare scenario. Meanwhile the Democrats feel that they don't need to do better and things keep getting worse while they're now facing someone that knows to conceal their evil.

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matt5sean3,
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@neatchee

For what it's worth, if more vocal Biden supporters acted as you have in this conversation I'd probably still plan to vote for him. That's in part because, yes, I share your concerns and can actually believe you'd push Biden, not view protestors or the Palestinians as acceptable losses, and perhaps even take to the streets if that's what is needed to put on that pressure. Underpinning all of that, you talked to me as an equal.

matt5sean3,
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@neatchee I was meaning to reply to this more directly earlier. If Biden came out vocally that he would commit resources to investigations of police department's actions against protesters that could be huge, actually. It would signal that Biden is serious about protection of free speech and puts other departments on notice that attacking peaceful protestors is not free of consequences.

matt5sean3,
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@neatchee

If it's stated as a trolley problem it's visible that I'm hardly the one standing at the lever. The best I could do if helping people is my goal is to pull people off the rails.

No, folks in Portland with a strong community behind them aren't the best situated to protect a young kid in Ohio figuring things out, but folks in Columbus or Dayton with a strong community behind them are.

Voting isn't the vital piece. If you remember the "back to brunch" meme, that's the problem. It's visible that there is this contingent of the Democrats that when Trump was in power would fight but back the cops when Biden is at the head.

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matt5sean3,
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@neatchee

That's kind of the fucked thing. Would I rather have Biden as the one to fight? Absolutely. Is the executive the one you're fighting directly? Usually, no. When you're fighting the executive does which executive change the tactics of the enforcers? Not radically, they're mostly the same cops with the same training except that DHS starts showing up in weird places.

It's seeing people say the border is fine now that Biden is in office that kills me. We still have people who die attempting to cross the border. We are seeing kids who make it across turn up as underage workers in meat packing plants.

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matt5sean3,
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@neatchee

If the vocal Biden supporters could all understand that through all of this Biden is not a fix, I could be on board with that. But, that's not the case, so if Biden is re-elected I absolutely want it to be by a difference of exactly one vote so they know it's not a safe position.

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negativeprimes, to random
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Inb4 companies try applying gacha mechanics to groceries and utilities. "w00t! Limited banner mac n cheese tonight!"

matt5sean3,
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@negativeprimes They would absolutely rig it to make sure you get only foods you're allergic to on the first few pulls.

matt5sean3,
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@negativeprimes Well, that's already the prescription drug system in the US, so I guess it's not that much of a change ...

matt5sean3,
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@negativeprimes @neatchee I think we need to find a Kaiji reaction pack or something for this one.

WhyNotZoidberg, (edited ) to ai
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Why the fuck are so many "Tech people" (not only Techbros) okay with LLMs eating up the planet while private citizens, as always, are the only ones having to mitigate the damage?

"Make gas cars illegal!" - "Double the electricity bill!" - "Everyone has to compost at home!" - "Hey look at this new toy that eats enough drinking water to feed Ireland, let's do more of that!"

matt5sean3,
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@WhyNotZoidberg

I think there are two reasons.

First, when I'm not terminally online, there are a lot of people who cannot be bothered when eating up the planet would interfere with their personal good time. Tech people are no different in that respect.

Second, the really visible tech people are capitalists or view themselves as such and so chase the latest tech grifts. It's hard to charge hefty costs if the infrastructure isn't expensive. If AI did not require the massive infrastructure that it does we would see it integrated into everyday tech, but it would be hard to charge a lot of money for (and still, AI has been sold below cost).

matt5sean3, to 3DPrinting
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I've been reading it posited that is becoming more accessible as printers become easier to use. I then am seeing this article positing that people are sticking to the model repository marketed with their printer. This is a bit weird to me as even at the price point of hundreds of dollars I don't see a 3D printer making much sense for someone without at least rudimentary CAD knowledge, so going beyond the OEM repo should be little challenge. Am I off-base in finding this strange. Is there anyone here who can speak to owning a 3D printer but not having the CAD and CAM knowledge to make a model and run it through a slicer?

thovaiso, to random
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Test.

matt5sean3,
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@thovaiso Welcome to the Fediverse and/or urusai.social

matt5sean3,
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@thovaiso fair enough, though @neatchee runs this off of the glitch-soc fork with a few custom modifications here and there, so it's a little different here in general.

WNC_Wobbly, to random
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I'll be hanging out in the reddest, most Trump loving god fearing part of Appalachian North Carolina. I'll get talking to people and they'll start grousing about the economy or politics in one way or another. As we go on I'll start saying the most overtly Anarchist shit you can imagine and these "conservatives" will respond with "well yeah, obviously". It is so fucking easy to move the target of their anger from immigrants and the govt to the billionaires.

matt5sean3,
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@neatchee @WNC_Wobbly I wouldn't call it education necessarily. Falsehoods could be and are propagated by the same mechanisms. Otherwise, I think you're more or less right.

When people experience something they'll interpret the causes through their own ideology which they've picked up from people around them and the media they consume, but challenging the interpretation grown from that ideology isn't necessarily an affront to them personally.

18+ matt5sean3, to random
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If a vote for one guy is a vote for genocide, a vote for the other guy is a vote for genocide, and you're out here telling us a vote or non-vote otherwise is a vote for genocide then it seems to me you've admitted that we already have a democracy so impotent that it's incapable of steering away from committing genocide.

You're going to then say anyone who points this out is a shill for Putin who is aiding in the demise of democracy.

Putin isn't the one curtailing the choices to the point that there is no opposing genocide.

matt5sean3,
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@ianbicking

There's at a minimum one point.

If you stick to the duopoly, it perpetuates the duopoly. Both parties take losses to what they consider "spoiler candidates." Pushing for reforms like RCV would fix that problem for them, but involves a degree of ceding that duopoly.

Both parties would rather lose because of spoiler candidates than allow space for more choices in politics. After this here, I am saying "okay, let them have their clear preference then. Let them have it so much and so often they can stop preferring it."

So I guess, thanks for helping me figure out fully why I'm fine voting Cornel West.

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