zephyrvs

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[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

ad hominem: in a way that is directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.

If you think his narrative is skewed and based on selectively chosen facts and twisted words, you could correct that.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and providing new data points instead of just coming up with reasons to assume my questions had malintent. Appreciated!

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same with me, occult literature opened up many doors after having the atheist ripped out of me on shrooms.

Somehow "knowing" (well, connecting some dots, intuition, feeling, all that) that it's all much weirder than I assumed while still being an atheist, is minimally more comforting but I'm probably still in "my dark night of the soul" days. Jung helped and still helps a lot.

And thinking that curiosity about a few old buildings in my neighbourhood that felt visually out of place would lead me to hypothesises of cyclical cataclysms, Western history being mostly lies as well as deep dives into secret societies and ancient mystic schools - it's still boggling my mind.

Years ago I became vegan because I wanted to live healthier, opt-out of participating in animal suffering while also something against climate change (since I don't own a car and mainly use bicycles and public transport) I was always all in on climate change and never expected to grow old anyways.

I just wish there wasn't a compelling bunch of evidence out there in the crazier edges of the Internet that the entire lyrical concept of Hypocrisy's Worship wasn't actually spot on.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem isn't that they're spending money on political causes and I wouldn't even expect them to do some false balance bs where they'd spend money on left and right wing politics, but spending money on political causes with almost zero transparency (like what do orgs do with the money, how effective are they, are they actually aligned with certain values, who is involved in these orgs, etc) seems fishy as fuck.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's still just ad hominem.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Uhm, aren't all questions raised in that text completely on point?

I'm as far left as it gets but none of these expenses make any sense to me. The CEO pay is bonkers. Wtf are they doing? Why does the CEO deserve to basically collect the entirety of donations for... basically just extending a cash cow deal with Google?

I don't give a damn if the author is on the right but so far this looks sus as fuck.

Firefox being as good and fast as it is probably more an accomplishment of individual teams inspite of company leadership and that should be called out.

Can't sell yourself as the underdog if you're got almost half a billion in assets.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Has my research on this been just been somehow skewed over the past months or does it really seem like Western media is suddenly turning on Ukraine?

Until like 1-2 weeks ago it was really difficult to find anything overly critical about Ukraine and now it seems as of there's a sudden change in coverage.

Is it just me? I think I've been rather thorough.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

From the looks of it, they'd rather have no democracy than a Western one?

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Anyone else had no idea that archive.is is actually archive.today?

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

What's creepy and disgusting now can quickly turn absolutely dystopian soon. Image states pairing up these systems with social/climate credits and possibly AI. I don't get why this is mainly debated in loony right-wing circles when it's clearly something that's technically feasible, and if not yet, then it's just a matter of time.

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A different perspective from Democracy Now: https://youtu.be/KLCd6vxniow

[–] zephyrvs@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Research Central Bank-issued Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and specifically the so called "programmable money" parts of them. Central Banks and states are creating stuff like money that has an expiration date or that can only be spent on certain approved products and services.

Cash is privacy and no one can estimate your "climate footprint" based on its use while their class keeps on riding their private jets to World Economic Forum and other oligarch conferences.

This is not some futuristic stuff. All big countries are heavily invested in CBDCs, have pilot programs and some are already using them.

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