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  • I am confused about how standing up for cats while literally commenting on /c/cats would be downvoted so hard.

    You weren’t standing up for cats, you were enforcing binary gender roles on cats. What if the cat doesn’t want a human idea of gender projected onto it? If I were a cat, I wouldn’t give two whiskers about human genders and pronouns.





  • LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    15 days ago

    It’s just in the hands of big unilateral corporate tech rather than a public state, and artists depend on IP laws to gain profits to live, rather than being supported by a robust welfare state to provide art for a robust public domain.

    The second situation is a fantasy until after we have a communist revolution. So, don’t defend gen AI until after we create communism.



  • One day an old jewish pole, living in Warsaw, has his last light bulb burn out. To get a new one he’ll have to stand in line for two hours at the store (and they’ll probably be out by the time he gets there), so he goes up to his attic and starts rummaging around for an old oil lamp he vaguely remembers seeing.

    He finds the old brass lamp in the bottom of a trunk that has seen better days. He starts to polish it and (poof!) a genie appears in cloud of smoke.

    “Hoho, Mortal!” says the genie, stretching and yawning, “For releasing me I will grant you three wishes.”

    The old man thinks for a moment, and says, “I want Genghis Khan resurrected. I want him to re-unite his mongol hordes, march to the Polish border, and then decide he doesn’t want the place and march back home.”

    “No sooner said than done!” thunders the genie. “Your second wish?”

    “Ok. I want Genghis Khan resurrected. I want him to re-unite his mongol hordes, march to the Polish border, and then decide he doesn’t want the place and march back home.”

    “Hmmm. Well, all right. Your third wish?”

    “I want Genghis Khan resurrected. I want him to re-unite his --”

    “Okokok. Right. What’s this business about Genghis Khan marching to Poland and turning around again?”

    The old man smiles. “He has to pass through Russia six times.”