I evolved from a monkey.
Piefed is fine too. The drama there is a nothing-burger. The tankies are just pissed off that Piefed has better moderation so they can’t troll Piefed servers the way they would like to
You ask it about the Tiananmen Square Massacre
Yes I agree completely. I was using DuckDuckGo for like 10 years but it’s gotten to the point where it’s genuinely unusable. Even if AI turned off, basically all the results are AI slop blog posts. I was basically impossible to find an answer to any question. I’ve switch to Ecosia and it’s noticeably better, but still, this is a problem every search engine is grappling with right now.
AI slop is like toxic sludge that polluting the online commons. Places like Lemmy are one of the last intact ecosystems that haven’t been destroyed by the sludge.
👍 if you say so
There’s a way to block posts with certain key words, if you go to your settings
but some people here definitely have a ridiculously absolutist stance towards it
I was talking to a guy on here who was comparing AI to nuclear bombs.
Yes the lack of subtly in the thinking here can be really jarring sometimes
Chill out man you’re overthinking this
Was a major vulnerability discovered?
Read the original message. You were claiming that all allies of the US are vassal states because they’ll get bombed etc if they do not play along with their military. Canada is not playing along (no action in Iran) and is not bombed etc
Well if it helps I live in Canada and I can confirm we haven’t been bombed lol
Because the trump administration is historically incompetent, lol.
So you’re not even denying that what you just said is false. You’re openly contradicting yourself. I’m blocking you because you’re being really aggressive
Then why have none of America’s allys helped the US in Iran? What you are saying is demonstrably false.
Taiwan is a country btw
So any country that is not an ally with North Korea is a “vassal state”?
So when the South Korean government speaks poorly of North Korea, that’s American propaganda?
coming from the country that literally genocided them, lmao.
Why are you assuming that the original commentator is American?
How would that even work? Did they think the US gov was making up the existence of other countries as some sort of conspiracy?
The sources for the blog post in point number 3 are pretty spotty. They quote Western media like the Washington Post or a former Australian official without giving the proper links or citations. The citations to some “Western” sources like Amnesty International are there but these sources are only brought in so the authors can get nitpicky about their word choices. The only solid source I could find was the WikiLeaks source from the US embassy, but that doesn’t contradict the massacre narrative because the wire could have been sent before the violence peaked. The more substantive claims rely on YouTube videos or other blog posts for their sources.
I’m not trying to be hostile by saying this; I’m willing to hear you out. But I will need a far higher standard of rigour before I’m willing to take any of these ideas seriously.