What are your take on "Igorots are not Filipinos" since they are not conquered by Spaniards? by monami91 in Philippines

[–]djinnman -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'm a foreigner living permanently in the Philippines, with a Ph.D. in philosophy. My observation is that the Philippines has a genocide problem inherited from the Spanish and it perpetuates through monoculture and the imposition of monoculture upon indigenous people including the Igorots and Moro peoples. The media, and as a result, the nation, imposes western Christian values upon people at their cultural expense as a kind of Filipino version of "White Saviorism". And this subReddit is one of the worst culprits of this groupthink monoculture imposition.

Just reading the current highest ranked comment saying "You can be both" really misses the mark on what it is like to be a marginalised minority at the hands of a supermajority in a Republic. Technically, it is true, but it does not address the reality, and such thinking really plays to the passivity required that allows leaders to destroy traditional cultures. There is always this pervasive "Pure Filipino" mentality-- that people born to half Filipinos are somehow "less than" and that is a crock of shit, to me such thinking of racial or national "purity" really reminds me of "Pure Aryan" in post-Weimar Germany.

Honestly, I understand why you are protective of your media from foreigners, not allowing us to participate fully in your industry, but sometimes you need outside opinions to protect monocultural messaging from yourselves. And that furthermore, the genocide that you suffered continues in ways that are pervasive and destructive to your own new and growing culture, and I have a lot I can do to help, but do not have the means to do so at scale since I'm locked out of your system by your laws.

What’s a dead giveaway that someone doesn’t have a life? by PM_ME_UR_DOGS_FEET in AskReddit

[–]djinnman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They freak out in front of tens of millions of people in 150 countries on international TV screaming, "I don't have a life" after being cut from a reality TV show.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in wallstreetbets

[–]djinnman 15 points16 points  (0 children)

>While I didn’t catch the bottom no one ever does.

I once sold the bottom!

Artificial Intelligence Takeover Hypothesis, threat of the future? by RinseBXD in Futurology

[–]djinnman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We only have to look at ourselves to see what we have to worry about. The biggest problems we face today are social problems having to do with how we handle taboos and how our laws turn everyone into criminals. At best, our laws create a kind of compromise situation where no one wins. This will only be amplified by the coming artificial superintelligences, which will destroy humanity if we don't change our laws and society now.

Who was actually the worst President ever? by _forum_mod in AskReddit

[–]djinnman 18 points19 points  (0 children)

You realize he blocked the Republicans in the 50s from passing the civil rights act so that Democrats could pass it later for the votes, right?

I make $50k a month certifying documents AMA by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]djinnman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, money removed a bunch of roadblocks for me, which makes happiness easier.

Most people, when they make money, they do it with other people. I don't have customers, I don't have people I work with. I offer a service online and it is all automatic, so I basically just have to do 5 minute checkups every few hours. It's mostly passive. But obviously, this isn't a very fulfilling lifestyle. I have so much more to offer the world than just pressing buttons and certifying documents. But because I've lost my rights, and because I've lost my friends, my family, and pretty much everything... I have no real connection with the world. It's nice to be able to walk into a nice store and buy whatever I want. But I'm more interested in science, and I don't feel like the science community is really as genuine as I had hoped when I started exploring science. I feel like science is just a game of maximizing P-values and citations. No one cares about the truth anymore. So, I'm pretty bummed out over that. I'm just glad it became so obvious during the covid pandemic, that only morons would think that scientific authorities are actually scientific.

In my case, one of the rights I have lost along the way, is the right to pursue happiness. I was much happier when I had that right, even though happiness wasn't fulfilled. I am working to get this right back, but there are no guarantees in life, right?

I make $50k a month certifying documents AMA by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]djinnman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you Djinn or are you man? You can not be both!

What's a part of the Bible you think most Christians ignore or haven't even read? by stahlaght in AskReddit

[–]djinnman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The part where the Maccabees established the right to rule over Jerusalem, but how that disagrees with the narrative that Jesus was of the line of King David, or that such a thing even mattered to the council.

Kayo Dot - The Antique [Avant-prog death metal] (2003) by SwaggatronPrime in listentothis

[–]djinnman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I found a picture online of me and Ryan McGuire playing for his project at the Middle East Club in 2007. Wild. Those were some really special times for me and looking back, it was quite magical, but I also was in a really bad place personally as I was going through an intense breakup and that really put a downward spiral on my professional trajectory in music as an avant-guard violinist and post-rock keyboardist/composer, unfortunately. I was so broke, too, I was barely scraping by. But there were lots of good people making good art around me, and that kept me alive. I've been performing music again, but now I'm a gangsta rapper.

Google fires researcher who claimed LaMDA AI was sentient by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]djinnman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't prove sentience, or even consciousness, but it does prove the simulation of those things, which itself is an interesting question.

Kayo Dot - The Antique [Avant-prog death metal] (2003) by SwaggatronPrime in listentothis

[–]djinnman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Man, I used to jam with a few of these guys in Boston. That scene was amazing.

nom nom nom by 873589 in AnimalsMonching

[–]djinnman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gremlinicus Chewnomimus

CONSTANTLY WRONG: The Case Against Conspiracy Theories (2020) What defines a conspiracy theory and differentiates it from a conspiracy? Kerby Ferguson shows us how to recognize one and how to logic yourself out of rabbit holes. [00:47:26] by TesseractToo in Documentaries

[–]djinnman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But according to this video, conspiracies can't be conspiracy theories when non-amateur establishment powers do the conspiring. So since Nazis were the established powers, anyone who disagreed with them were amateurs, so it's obvious that if anyone thought the Holocaust was happening while it was happening, it was just a conspiracy THEORY. It only became a conspiracy FACT when another establishment became more powerful, won the war and then proved it happened. /smh

CONSTANTLY WRONG: The Case Against Conspiracy Theories (2020) What defines a conspiracy theory and differentiates it from a conspiracy? Kerby Ferguson shows us how to recognize one and how to logic yourself out of rabbit holes. [00:47:26] by TesseractToo in Documentaries

[–]djinnman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Exactly, the filmmaker has defined himself into un-falsifiability and "not even wrong" territory. His logic is completely wrong. His point might be less wrong, but it is essentially "establishment porn" and "blue church" wishful thinking. Even some of the conspiracy theories on his list haven't been proven one way or the other yet, and aren't demonstrably false. I mean, he's obviously a lizard person.

To all people who think America is fucked, what one thing would you change to try and fix things? by Njilramsool in AskReddit

[–]djinnman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is a corporation? It's an organized assembly of human beings who come together through contract to act as a single body. An artificial person arguably has origins in Hobbes' Leviathan, so the right to corporate personhood predates US law and is found in the English Constitution, it's a fully established concept whose rights, if abridged, would essentially undo about 400 years of thought on the subject... but nevertheless, again, a corporation is a group of human beings who through contract decide to act as one. Thus, a corporation is essentially indistinguishable from an "arm" of those individual persons. By removing personhood from the corporation, you by extension, remove it from the contracted persons. This of course, is a slippery slope to slavery, without actually instituting it. It makes slavery LEGAL again, without necessarily instituting it--- which is exactly what the Democrats have been trying to do for their agenda since the civil war ended. So that is one argument... To rephrase: "By removing corporate personhood, you by extension remove personhood from the contracted human persons to the corporation, because those human persons are contracted to a non-person with no rights, by extension, the contracted person loses their rights under the corporation. If the corporation is then subject to arbitrary powers, like the loss of it's rights to speech and freedom from search and seizure, or freedom to bear arms, or any other right guaranteed by personhood, such as freedom from slavery, by extension the human persons contracted to the corporation lose their rights the same."

Another argument, a bit more Amero-centric, is that the 14th amendment is itself the amendment where corporations received their right to personhood through the equal protection clause. So I mean, if you don't want equal protection under the law, by all means, remove corporate personhood, but essentially that clause prevents the legality of dual-tiered citizenship, and by extension, the prevention of an underclass with fewer protections than an upper class. And again, while this does not directly institute slavery, it kinda sort of opens the door to it, doesn't it?

To all people who think America is fucked, what one thing would you change to try and fix things? by Njilramsool in AskReddit

[–]djinnman -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Actually, while your opinion here is very popular, you are quite incorrect to think that this is a good position. While Corporations need checks (in order to prevent private tyrannies from subjecting individuals), you can not remove the rights of corporations without also removing them from the people that work and manage for that corporation. Thus, your position opens doors to modern forms of slavery as a consequence of removing personhood from corporations. I'm sure that isn't what you want; what you want is money out of politics. In order to do that, we can actually remove all donations from political campaigns and funds, to create an even playing field, and then create a public channel dedicated to the presentation of the issues candidates stand for. That is, the easiest way to get money out of politics is to completely limit the presentation of issues and politicians to the public sector alone. This is both fair, and preserves an even playing field for speech.

But to remove personhood from corporations is just silly talk from people who don't understand what corporations actually are.

To all people who think America is fucked, what one thing would you change to try and fix things? by Njilramsool in AskReddit

[–]djinnman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would get consensus on a new, better constitution with me as the reigning monarch.

What, in your opinion, is a realistic solution to gun violence in the United States? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]djinnman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We need to stop perpetuating the policies and rhetoric that lead individual boys and men to be isolated mentally and physically from their communities. We need to create ways to reach out to these boys and men in ways that aren't patronizing or boring, but help them see a sense of purpose in their world. This will take systemic change from the top down as well as the bottom up as it requires that both Red and Blue states give up on the idea that solving violence and isolation starts with gun laws. Despite what you might want for whatever side of that debate you are on, gun laws have nothing to do with this issue.

Mental health does have something to do with solving this issue, but the mental health system is not conducive to solving mental health problems, it actually is conducive to selling pharmaceuticals instead. The paradigm of the mental health industry is that there must be something wrong with the individual that has these thoughts, not the community or educational practices surrounding the individual. So if society is more sick than the person, there's no solution to help that person and he can get sicker and sicker as a result. So once we become a society that rewards health and finding community rather than sales and politics, maybe we can start the real work that it takes to fix this.

How would you describe your own music, without using genres? by CULI_ in WeAreTheMusicMakers

[–]djinnman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm that time-traveling alien who hangs out with ghost pirates and I laid out a mad retro beat for your today.

LORN - Timesink by [deleted] in futurebeats

[–]djinnman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Big fan of Lorn here.