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  • You’re using an analogy as the basis for an argument. That’s not what analogies are for. Analogies are useful explanatory tools, but only within a limited domain

    actually that’s exactly what i was using it for.

    Kicking a baby is not the same[1] as creating an artwork, so there are areas in which they don’t map to each other.

    if you read carefully, you’ll see that writing is analogous to creating an artwork, and kicking a baby is analogous to doing something that someone has asked you not to, and you’re continuing anyways. if you read even more carefully, you’ll see that i implied i wasn’t making a moral comment on ai, piracy, or even kicking babies

    You can’t dodge flaws in your argument by adding a “don’t respond unless you agree with me” clause on your comment.

    i didn’t intend to. i did it so i wouldn’t have to waste my time arguing with those who don’t understand analogies. however i seem to be doing that anyways, so if you’ll excuse me, i’m going to stop


    edit: okay, i’ve been reading the rest of this thread, and you clearly don’t understand analogy. i have no idea why you clicked on my comment


    1. yes. analogous doesn’t mean “the same”. it means "able to draw demonstrative parallels between ↩︎



  • Are you really surprised I’m replying to you when you keep replying?

    well yes, actually. i have time to sit down over breakfast, read a few articles, maybe reply to a few comments

    you clearly live such a busy lifestyle you haven’t time to read an article before making an asinine comment

    And yes, you are merely confirming my point. There is no use for me personally. I would only have to use it and endure slower internet so that others benefit. Still doesn’t change the fact that for me personally there is no advantage. You can argue all you want but that’s what it comes down to for most people.

    well that’s a pretty fuckin stupid viewpoint in my opinion. “i’m not going to help protect the careers and possibly lives of people in authoritarian countries, because i’d have to install a programme and possibly even launch it a couple of times per month”. running folding@home did me no advantage, i still did it.

    And if you keep replying I’ll keep replying. No need to be surprised about that.

    don’t worry, i won’t be. i was being flippant because i thought you an idiot, but it turns out you’re willfully ignorant.



  • Thing is… if I have to do that for every time someone linkdrops an article, I’ll have no time left in my day.

    if you spent less time writing comments about articles you haven’t read, you might have more time. do you do this in other walks of life? wander into restaurants you’ve never eaten at and announce “i don’t think there’s really any reason to order the fish”?

    And it seems I was right that I have no real reason to use tor.

    okay, i’ll sum the article up for you. the more people that use tor, the more it protects vulnerable people. journalists writing exposés about corrupt governments, refugees trying to flee, etc. the more normal people using tor, the more they get lost in the crowd. it’s nothing to do with whether you have any reason to use tor, that’s irrelevant. by using it, you’re helping those in vulnerable positions. happy? now go write something inciteful





  • lemm.ee was talking about using cloudflare (i can’t remember whether he went through with it), which will almost certainly implement this. lemmy.world already does. there is no good outcome from this going through where this only blocks google sites from firefox.

    even if there was, that still means you can’t open any gdrive links you find on the internet, use a youtube tutorial to fix something, use the play store to buy any apps (because if they integrate this into chrome, they will integrate it into the play store), etc.


    edit 2023-08-10:

    hey guess what engywuck, lemm.ee uses cloudflare now:

    image showing the cloudflare "edge ip restricted" page for lemm.ee

    good luck accessing lemm.ee from non-chromium if this goes through

    in fact view you probably won’t be able to view any embedded youtube videos at all. people would have to go back to hosting their own videos which would push hosting costs up, which would raise the barrier of entry to people making their own sites. which is something we want to encourage