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I feel like advertising is probably the funniest place anyone can choose to predicate their moral arguments against AI on the basis of environmental impact because like. The advertising industry is already probably the most wasteful i dustry in terms of environmental costs vs. actual value it provides, to the point that adding AI to it amounts to a very small drop in the world's biggest bucket. Like.

"Using AI to design flyers looks cheap and tacky" 👍 I completely agree.

"Using AI to design flyers is bad for the environment" I can tell you with 100% absolute certainty that the environmental impact of printing hundreds of paper flyers which will be looked at exactly once and then thrown in the garbage is like. Several orders of magnitude bigger than the environmental impact of generating the picture that will go on said flyers.

imsobadatnicknames2

Like I find it hard to think of a position that more succinctly communicates "I never think about where anything comes from or how it's produced or how it's disposed of or the environmental costs of any steps in that process unless there's some sort of moral panic telling me to be concerned about it" than thinking that the "AI" part of "ads made with AI" is the part that's bad for the environment.

tamamita

natoapologistblocker

There's a perversity to the "moral logic" of modern imperialism, in the sense that it's willing, to an extent, to criticise itself. It will admit to bombing, ruining, killing, raping, and destabilising countries insofar as some distant and oppositional Other remains worse. We bombed Libya, Iraq, etc., but Russia is worse! Our transnational corporations and financial institutions may be exploiting Africa and the developing world, but China is worse! We may repress people, but North Korea is worse!

They don't need to be morally pure, just kings of the shitheap of their own design. And it doesn't even need to be true. They simply need to make this moral asymmetry appear true because they own the media, dominate international institutions, and write the cheques of academics who produce the knowledge that reassures them that, no matter how shit-stained and blood-encrusted their faces are, they'll always be cleaner than the enemy. Then they convince most people of that too.

mortalityplays

Americans will see someone express mild discomfort that they teach their children obliterating two civilian cities in the most horrific manner humanity has yet devised was a defensible wartime strategy and be like "to be fair,"

ninefoldrin

Fun fact! The Japanese were literally trying to surrender and were going through the Soviets (the US' allies throughout WW2) to negotiate but were only really holding out because they wanted assurances that America wouldn't execute the emperor (go figure, the leader didn't want to die because he said he gave up). America wasn't actually planning to execute him, but refused to accept anything less than unconditional surrender, and that was a condition. Regardless of conditions, Japan was going to be surrendering the moment the USSR invaded, which was planned to happen imminently. America knew this. America knew that once the USSR entered the war with Japan, they would have a seat at the negotiating table.

Anti-communist sentiments were already strong in US leadership. The US didn't want communists gaining any more ground on the world stage and nuking Japan was a way to kill two birds with one bomb: end the war before the USSR entered and show the USSR that the USA could wipe out any of their cities in the blink of an eye. People sometimes try to argue that the second bomb had to be dropped because Japan didn't surrender after the first, but Japanese leadership didn't even meet to discuss the first bomb until shortly before the second dropped. At that point, losing an entire city had little effect on leadership. They already had entire cities leveled with conventional weapons. They hadn't yet processed that Hiroshima was leveled by a single bomb. It didn't matter though. The fact that they delayed at all gave America an excuse to prove to the USSR that they could do it again. The US obliterated two cities in Japan ultimately as a shot across the bow for the USSR.

What popular history likes to gloss over is the chain of events that lead to Perl Harbor. The US initially supported Japan (along with selling resources to all sides in the European war), even as Japan committed war crimes across China and Korea. The US had good relations with Japan at that point and saw Japan's invasion of China as a way to get a foothold in a country that had a history of being restrictive of foreign trade. Japan didn't roll out the red carpet for America though; they realized that they had something that the USA wanted and planned to use that to their advantage in global politics and trade. In response, the US stopped selling steel to Japan for their war effort. US leaders/strategists were very aware that cutting Japan off from resources they'd been relying on for their war would invite retaliation, and thus Perl Harbor happened. The US only ever cared about gaining greater access to markets and labor and was willing to fight a war over it, but in such a way that Japan would make the first move.

The US might have ended up on the right side of WW2, but not for the right reasons. The war in Europe was already going in the allies' favor and the entrance of the US only really expedited the war, but it gave the US a seat at the table when deciding what happened after the war. It let the US build military bases in Europe and bring more US businesses into Europe. The US suffered the least from the war and was able to take advantage of the fact that they didn't need to rebuild entire cities like every European country did. it was politically and financially beneficial to the US to join the war late on the side that was already set up to win, especially with a little extra push.

And for the future, the US had a chance to show the world that they weren't afraid to wipe out entire cities with a single bomb. They didn't care about the children incinerated at school, or the handful of survivors who would die because of the radiation. There was no reason for the US to obliterate two cities in a single moment. The US could have chosen to end the war by then but refused to accept any conditions of surrender. The US only used those bombs to show the world how heartless they could be, and then spent decades feeding the public propaganda about how it was necessary so that no one would question why they would ever be willing to do something so horrific.

mousidy

I think part of it is people REALLY don't want to accept that trans women face misogyny

mousidy

they love to scrub the misogyny off of transmisogyny and try to say it's just transphobia

mousidy

wonder how mask off some people would go if we were to occasionally mix in just calling it misogyny. because transmisogyny is a subset. of misogyny

mousidy

failing to live up to a narrow standard of womanhood can straight up get us denied lifesaving healthcare and that's apparently just not misogyny...?

mousidy

science: "yup this healthcare will dramatically reduce her chances of depression and suicide and there's a regret rate so low it's miraculous 👍"

the healthcare system: "ok but like does she really deserve it... she didn't smile for me..."

mousidy

consider how thoroughly and constantly scrutinized and punished we are for perceived failures to live up to the narrow patriarchal standards of womanhood. men are not punished for failing to achieve womanhood. if they are punished for femininity, it's because they are failing to achieve manhood

trans women, on the other hand, are very frequently punished in a way where the pressure is toward performing the patriarchal idea of womanhood, not away from it

trans women are often criticized by saying that we stereotype womanhood, but we are coerced to perform the same patriarchal stereotypes as all women are

mousidy

a woman in a dress is criticized for not looking good enough in it. her body is scrutinized, every detail judged against stereotypical, patriarchal ideals, any feature considered masculine ruthlessly stigmatized

a man in a dress is criticized for the dress itself, not his failure to wear it well. the dress is the failure, not his body

now pay attention to the way trans women are talked about

mousidy

before I came out, femininity was the insult. after coming out, masculinity was the insult

mousidy

no. come the fuck on. yes misogyny affects everyone. but trans women are not just affected by misogyny by technicality or by accident. women are the subjects of misogyny. that includes us. did you read

mousidy

it's insane when I say trans women face misogyny and people say "yeah true everyone does." it's insane when I say trans women's breasts are real breasts and people say "yeah everyone has breast tissue after all." what the fuck is not clicking. what do you think the words I'm saying are supposed to mean

guelwaar

people love the idea of the mean girl nurse pipeline because it problematises medical abuse as a personal perversion rather than understanding it as a product of broadly held ableist values and its like, if this was only about ontologically evil teenage girls choosing to enter a profession because of their unique sadism then you really wouldnt expect to see the exact same forms of abuse pervading all arrangements of paid, unpaid, formal, ad hoc, and familial caretaking as well -- its more comforting to believe the nurse was just a preexisting bad person than that most of the world broadly hates disabled people and will abuse, neglect, and gaslight them if given power over their care

madmonksandmaenads

I wish I could make white people(and not just white Americans) understand how diverse the pre-columbian Americas were. The history, religion, culture, politics was at least as complex as Europe's. There was the full gamut of religions, from monotheists to animists to ancestral religions. There were city building empires, village farmers, nomadic traders, and so many other ways to live. This is all just based on what we know, the fragments left behind and the stories of survivors of an apocalyptic plague. All this before the most extended campaign of genocide in history was waged in an attempt to wipe out those survivors.

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.

Do you understand how much poorer our whole species is because of it? Can you imagine where art, religion, and science would be if we still had these vast bodies of knowledge? The stain of the colonial project will never be fully washed clean. We owe more than just the land to those we stole from. We owe them a whole future, a future that could have been brighter for all of us. If only greed and fear weren't allowed to rule this land.

marxistlesbianist

The history of socialist movements in Amerikkka is a history of mass mobalizations around genuinely progressive demands being divided and smothered by the imperialist bourgeoisie, using the spoils of empire to buy off enough proletarians that they can unleash violence on the rest.* Crucially, this bribery has never actually produced stable prosperity for even the white working class: the economic expansion of the 1920s led to the great depression; the recovery of the New Deal and the WWII economy led to the financial crisis of the 1970s; the neo-liberal turn of the 1980s led to our present economic mire. Historically, these crises have led to outbursts of revolutionary activity, however the 1980s counterrevolution so thoroughly dismembered our left, that our new generation of activists has a long way to go.

What we are currently seeing is the slow but steady reemergence of socialist politics here, at the same time that the system of wealth production/extraction with which the bourgeoisie bribed past generations is rapidly going up in smoke. That the ruling class will soon be unable to govern in their old style is all but cerfain—how long it takes for the socialisits here to actually build a movement capable of seizing state power is the main question

*Historically, this dynamic of the dollar for some, the sword for others has been generally drawn across racial/national lines. If we are to ever overcome this, it's important to understand both the cultural experience of this phenomenon, but also the abstract economic character which reveals the mechanism and motive.

genderoutlaws

At least two Black women in Florida were forced into courtroom-style hearings while in labor after refusing cesarean sections, with judges b

this is fucking insane. two different cases in Florida where pregnant Black women were forced into video call court proceedings, in the middle of labor, laying in their hospital beds, because their doctors chose to go after them for refusing cesarean sections.

the first woman was able to convince them to let her continue laboring unless it became medically necessary, and ultimately chose to go through with the C-section of her own accord later.

the second woman was completely denied autonomy and the C-section was performed against her will.

the white man who prosecuted them defends the decision, stating on the record "I'm real comfortable with what we did here. I hate that she's upset about it."

genderoutlaws

the two women mentioned here, Cherise and Brianna, are calling on supporters to sign their petition to these two hospitals to:

"Stop forcing pregnant people to have cesarean births.

Take all necessary steps to end discriminatory policies and practices based on sex, gender, pregnancy status, and race.

Discipline the doctors and hospital staff who ignored Doyley and Bennett’s concerns and coerced them to undergo a court-ordered C-section against their will.

Publicly acknowledge and provide financial relief for the harm UF Health caused to the Doyley family and Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare inflicted on the Bennett family."

Cherise Doyley was 12 hours into labor at University of Florida Health (UF Health) Jacksonville when a nurse walked in with a bedsheet and t

You can keep up with Cherise on her Instagram page here, where she is posting updates and generally about being a survivor, doula, and birth justice activist.

thesituation

that post about how sports should be desegregated is ruffling some serious feathers & every response arguing against me is like “but testosterone literally makes you stronger you naive moron” like yeah man. but how many sports are strictly based on raw strength and nothing else. like sure men would likely generally dominate weightlifting but women would still dominate gymnastics. it’s almost like genetics have always played a part in performance of sports and the sex binary is just one genetic factor that people can’t seem to let go of. michael phelps isn’t put in his own category of “people shaped like a torpedo” even though he has an unfair genetic advantage. like i don’t get why raw strength is seen as the end all be all when most sports don’t rely on that alone for performance

thesituation

like for the majority of human civilization it was believed that women are intellectually inferior, and you better believe that there was data to back that up. now we acknowledge that that notion is a patriarchal fantasy that was forced into being proven by the scientific tools they had at the time, and that the data may have been honestly collected, but it was flawed in that it erased environmental and social factors and misinterpreted how intelligence works. even feminists at the time conceded that they were incapable of reaching male intelligence levels. i really honestly do think that once full gender equality is achieved that women’s lesser physical prowess would be regarded as a similarly antiquated misogynistic belief based on social and environmental factors and shortsighted data collection/synthesis

kabaks

My unnecessary two cents is that ppl in the imperial core are prone to viewing "benefiting from imperialism" as some sort of personal attack on their character or moral standing (& the higher moral ground they believe they have the more they resist this idea, imo) -- like you realize that its just factual. In a somewhat similar way to the principle that men as a class benefit from misogyny

kabaks

The monetary plunder of imperialism on a gradient being "walled off" based on class race gender citizenship status etc. etc. does not make the imperial core a tragic outlier, this is the case in most if not all places, including places that are outside the empire. But fact of the matter is some people have imperial warfare in their countries or the ever present threat of imperial warfare in their countries and you do not, some people have to worry about imperial aggression and extraction on top of the million things that you worry about, and you do not, some people have to worry about massive currency fluctuation/degradation and the exponential impact this has on their ability to live their lives well or at all, and you do not, some people have to worry about access to minimally upwardly mobile jobs based on their ability to "speak english" regardless of what their native language may be or what the dominant language of their environment may be, and you, for the most part, do not. And on and on and on. Everything is affected. All the little or big things that add up to make some peoples' lives relatively easy and others' lives relatively impossible -- these things exist everywhere, but for those living outside the core, there's more often than not an added, significant layer of instability and insecurity and wanton destruction, alongside the pervasive feeling (and reality) of there being nowhere to go to escape from the way of things. Bc of how the world is ordered. Namely in a manner that ensures that wealth and bounty and opportunity only flows one way at the expense of the other and the gates between these places are, largely, locked off

leviathan-supersystem

superb tags

libertineangel

Always worth remembering that Cuba has a very strong proletarian democracy - any such reforms would have to be decided on via mass public consultation and discussion, just like every change in economic direction and every change to the Constitution since the revolution. It's not up to the President to "take responsibility" and impose changes on the country, it is and always has been the people's responsibility to decide for themselves what stances the country should take, and the government's responsibility to enact the will of the masses.

And considering the 2019 constitutional consultations saw popular demand affirm the commitment to progressing toward Communism which the government's initial draft omitted, I don't think they'll be embracing the free market any time soon.

thelaurenshippen

it's always "did you really need to burn down your workplace to prove a point" and never "how was the revenge arson? did you have fun doing revenge arson? were the flames pretty?"

thelaurenshippen

um.

partasah

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Context for other users:

On the morning of April 7, 2026, a fire was started at the Kimberly-Clark Distribution Center in Ontario, California. It escalated to a six-alarm fire and took nearly twelve hours to extinguish. The facility was completely destroyed and declared a "total loss". There were no injuries or deaths. An employee who was working in the warehouse is accused of arson.

Authorities stated that the employee had shared videos of himself starting the fire on Facebook, saying "all you had to do was pay us enough to live" and "there goes your inventory" while lighting pallets of toilet paper ablaze.

ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS PAY US ENOUGH TO LIVE

No injuries. No deaths. This was a protest fire. This is why unions are important, to prevent frustrations like these, to ensure people are paid enough to live.

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moonfox-mumbles

northgazaupdates

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stillnaomi

Iran isn't an anomaly. the US has a long history of bombing hospitals. they did it in Laos, Cambodia, Yemen and Iraq, and bombed a hospital in Afghanistan that Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) had already given them precise co-ordinates for.

An internal inquiry revealed that the airmen aboard the AC-130 gunship that carried out the operation pushed back against their superiors, questioning the strike’s legality. However, they were overruled and ordered to bomb the hospital regardless of their concerns.

source

they've bombed hospitals in other countries too. destroying infrastructure necessary for life, through bombs and sanctions, is standard US practice against any population it wants to subjugate. like all imperialist powers, nothing is off limits when trying to expand its ability to exploit and pillage

nasajpl

We know that we cannot take the current President's statements at face value. But in light of Trump's recent speech where he claimed that he's "saved" NASA and always supported them (which isn't true), I wanted to elaborate on some of this.

He's slashed the budget, forced removal of DEI history and contributions at NASA, and caused many NASA workers' unemployment. I have worked closely with people in these spheres and know that the budget cuts have deeply jeopardized the future space missions, space exploration, and space science.

My close friends and colleagues, especially those relying on DEI programs, have had such a difficult time during this administration, and we still are. This program found some success with Artemis II and beyond in spite of the current administration's lack of support and lack of funding.

You can read more details here.

cardassiangoodreads

This is all the more reason you guys have to stop circulating shit about Artemis II being “US army propaganda.” Along with that it just isn’t, all those arguments are various forms of associating this with Trump “but leftishly.” In fact I don’t think he should get credit for a program from an agency he’s done everything he can to kneecap at every turn. You don’t have to give it to him!

thedreadvampy

Ok so do you actually think that American imperialism is directly and uniquely linked to Donald Trump or have you paid a single second of attention to anything in the last 80 years?

did Donald Trump invent the US military or was the US already a) a globally belligerent military power and b) using space exploration to flex both soft and hard power? for that matter, when people link the moon mission to US military intervention in Gaza and Iran, did that start with Trump or have both Democrat and Republican governments consistently engaged in military aggression against Arab nations and on the part of genocidal allies for decades?

that being the case, is it possible that people might criticise American hegemony without it being entirely focused on the One Bad President?

noooooo you can't criticise anything Americans do unless Trump did it 🥲 calling American imperialism American imperialism is fascist sympathising 🥲🥲🥲

indig0witch

Just to expand on this, NASA and US Military are inexoribly linked, from it's foundation. Both on the soft-power/propoganda side of things, but also on the hard power side. NASA built rockets so America could have better missiles, NASA built satellites so America could have a global surveillance platform. The computer in first fly-by-wire plane, an modified american F-8 fighter jet, was litterally the (well, *a*, it was one of three) Appollo guidance computer (also, NASA did the modification in conjunction with & commissioned by the US Navy). Sure NASA isn't litterally the US military, but that doesn't mean it can't (or even *doesn't*) serve US military or imperialist interests

fugayyyku

The notes on this thread are so painful it's just desperate, clawing "can't we have ONE good thing" like I'm sorry that the real world exists outside of this narrativized version of reality you have but I absolutely hate NASA for their collaboration with US military WELL before Donald Trump got elected and I truly think the sheer amount of forced celebration this launched has garnered is laundering NASA's reputation in a time where the US arsenal they helped build is killing people.

Like this is not a "let people enjoy things" moment you need to actively wonder why do many people are thrilled about this when, you know, this is also happening:

Congrats! You fell for Cold War Space Race v.2

And you people think this has nothing to do with US hegemony. Okay

philcollinsenjoyer

saying this in a soft tone but i dislike this presentation of artemis 2 in the least political way possible as a wholesome and uncomplicated win for humanity as a whole like it's not american propagandism of the highest and most vulgar degree

voicelessv

"For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock."

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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