There’s no meeting in the middle with folks who are trying to make a white ethnostate.
I’ll debate with my friends about lots of things: is it worth adding a new tax? Is the needle exchange program appropriately measuring their numbers? Does it make more sense to build a homeless shelter next to the other one in the tenderloin to keep disadvantaged folks next to their peers or should we build it farther north so we balance people across care facilities.
These are the things we debate.
Things like, “do trans people deserve human rights?”, “are concentration camps okay?”, and, “are we cozy with state sanctioned extrajudicial murder?” are not up for debate. The answers are “yes”, “no”, and “no”, and if anyone disagrees with that fuck them. They are a waste of my time and emotional energy. They will never be convinced.
I’m triaging. My friends and family and community need my limited energy. They deserve it.
Thank you for pointing out the issue with, I think, the ML instance? I don’t particularly like how it was done and have some critiques, but those can wait and this can be a good teaching opportunity for both of us.
If you’ll note the age of my account you may realize that Mastodon Fed didn’t exist when it was created. In fact, when I signed up as part of the great Reddit Exodus there weren’t many other functional instances. The other alternative I tried didn’t send me an account activation email. It would seem the ML is the only one that would have me at the time.
After reading your post I found myself scratching my head thinking, “Why is this person talking about China? I didn’t even mention China?” Then I thought, wait, is the lemmy dev an advocate for genocide or something? I don’t see any articles on that and it’s an open source project. Perhaps the ML instance is mainly hosted in China? But I’m not giving them money?
Finally, I found someone mention that the ML domain was “Marxism-Lenninism” and not “machine learning”. I haven’t confirmed this so don’t take my word as gospel.
There’s no meeting in the middle with folks who are trying to make a white ethnostate.
I’ll debate with my friends about lots of things: is it worth adding a new tax? Is the needle exchange program appropriately measuring their numbers? Does it make more sense to build a homeless shelter next to the other one in the tenderloin to keep disadvantaged folks next to their peers or should we build it farther north so we balance people across care facilities.
These are the things we debate.
Things like, “do trans people deserve human rights?”, “are concentration camps okay?”, and, “are we cozy with state sanctioned extrajudicial murder?” are not up for debate. The answers are “yes”, “no”, and “no”, and if anyone disagrees with that fuck them. They are a waste of my time and emotional energy. They will never be convinced.
I’m triaging. My friends and family and community need my limited energy. They deserve it.
And yet, you registered on .ml. But let me guess, China doesn’t do that. It’s not a concentration camp if it’s a Gulag, right?
No. It’s not okay when China does it either.
EDIT:
Thank you for pointing out the issue with, I think, the ML instance? I don’t particularly like how it was done and have some critiques, but those can wait and this can be a good teaching opportunity for both of us.
If you’ll note the age of my account you may realize that Mastodon Fed didn’t exist when it was created. In fact, when I signed up as part of the great Reddit Exodus there weren’t many other functional instances. The other alternative I tried didn’t send me an account activation email. It would seem the ML is the only one that would have me at the time.
After reading your post I found myself scratching my head thinking, “Why is this person talking about China? I didn’t even mention China?” Then I thought, wait, is the lemmy dev an advocate for genocide or something? I don’t see any articles on that and it’s an open source project. Perhaps the ML instance is mainly hosted in China? But I’m not giving them money?
Finally, I found someone mention that the ML domain was “Marxism-Lenninism” and not “machine learning”. I haven’t confirmed this so don’t take my word as gospel.
Now the question is, “do I move instances?”
That’s a longer conversation.