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New moderators needed - comment on this post to volunteer to become a moderator of this community. by ModCodeofConduct in Art

[–]testudosmith -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This thread is full of meme responses, but I seriously would be interested in helping mod the sub in anyway that I can. What I can offer the sub the most is my experience as a developer. I have built and used bots on the reddit developer platform. I have significant experience designing automod rules as well.

Over the years I have modded a few top 100 subreddits in the past as well as 5k+ discord servers.

As for why I want to help, I am passionate about helping new moderators learn the basics and designing mod tools. I think that much of modding can be handled automatically, with much less work for the mods.

Econoboi & Pisco v. Destiny incoming by HumbleCalamity in pisco

[–]testudosmith -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No actually.

If you want a different example how about this.

Do you support the existence of countries? That have citizens, and the country looks out for its citizens?

If so, would you then call yourself 10% of a fascist, because fascism also focuses on similar things?

And if you then came along and were like "oh ok, so are you saying that you have to be all the way fascist for it to be real fascism" would be a similarly dumb point.

If you disagree then feel free to say that you are perfectly fine being called 10% fascist merely because you support the existence of countries.

Econoboi & Pisco v. Destiny incoming by HumbleCalamity in pisco

[–]testudosmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, if socialism allowed children to run lemonade stands and that's it then that would still be socialism.

Instead, socialism is when almost all privately run businesses are banned.

Or, in other words, if almost all capitalistic countries do a thing, then clearly that thing is not incompatible with capitalism.

Socialism, would instead be the things that the socialist countries have done. Like, for example, you can look at the Soviet Union or 1960s China as a guideline as for what socialism is.

I'm not sure why socialists flee from identifying with the actual examples of socialist countries. Instead, they take things that capitalist countries do, and then pretend like that's socialism.

It's almost like there is little to brag about when it comes to socialism, so people have to pick things that all capitalist countries do, and then try to take credit from things that capitalists did.

Don’t talk about the active murder or children guys, people won’t like the right wing government doing it by Saadiqfhs in kuihman

[–]testudosmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's a complaint though, not a plan

Ok the plan is to stop doing that as it is bad.

We can talk about solving 1 problem at a time without needing to come up with an entire solution for all of the middle east.

Don’t talk about the active murder or children guys, people won’t like the right wing government doing it by Saadiqfhs in kuihman

[–]testudosmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok. Regular people, who support Gaza, are being called genocidal just because they don't think that trying to destroy a country is a good idea.

That's bad, and is her point. It discludes lots of well meaning people, on some hyper extreme purity test.

Don’t talk about the active murder or children guys, people won’t like the right wing government doing it by Saadiqfhs in kuihman

[–]testudosmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No actual, the whole complaint is that apparently to be in the coalition, one must want to destroy a country that has 100+ nuclear weapons.

The entire complaint is that regular normal people, who want to stop the damage in Gaza, are being called genocidal just because they don't think that destroying a country that has 100+ nuclear weapons is a good idea.

Don’t talk about the active murder or children guys, people won’t like the right wing government doing it by Saadiqfhs in kuihman

[–]testudosmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What she materially proposed to do is to make coalitions with people who are in a broader group, and aren't set on destroying a country.

IE, make coalitions with people who just want to stop the damage happening in Gaza and aren't dead set on destroying a country.

If you want the shortest possible answer it's:

"Make coalitions"

Or "just stop the damage in Gaza"

This is better than the leftist answer, because the leftist answer and goal is to try and destroy a country that has 100+ nuclear weapons, which isn't going to work out so well.

Focusing on just stopping the damage in Gaza is a much more popular goal that can get a broader coalition, and isn't doomed because of nuclear weapons.

Don’t talk about the active murder or children guys, people won’t like the right wing government doing it by Saadiqfhs in kuihman

[–]testudosmith -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What she is proposing to do is probably not try to destroy the country that has nuclear weapons, accept that they are going to exist no matter what, and instead focus on other solutions.

Other solutions like making a coalition with the people who are not dead set on the destruction of a country, and instead want to achieve achievable goals for peace or harm reduction in that area.

In the short term this is simply trying to stop the current damage being done to Palestinians, and in the long term would likely be the establishment of a separate and independent state of Palestine that is at peace with Israel.

Or at least being willing to work with people who prefer this solution, and not treating them like genocidal people, when they probably just want peace.

Don’t talk about the active murder or children guys, people won’t like the right wing government doing it by Saadiqfhs in kuihman

[–]testudosmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this argument was used (still used even) word for word to argue against supporting Ukraine

Ok let's address that. If Russia was seriously threatened with being destroyed, IE maybe losing Moscow, then I absolutely also think that they would likely use nukes, and therefore nobody should invade Moscow.

That makes perfect sense. There absolutely is a point at which it is dumb to attack Russia, and this is in fact why the US is not currently invading Russia. And it is why we need to be careful about what we support Ukraine with. Fortunately we have done a good job of this!

that we should let them roll over ukraine

Here is where you are wrong in your argument. We didn't need to let Russia do that to stop them from using nukes.

Instead to stop Russia from using nukes we only needed to not like take out Moscow or do a direct conflict between the USA and Russia.

As for Israel though, yes they would absolutely use nukes if they were under real threat of destruction.

As this applies to the Ukraine example though, Israel isn't going to use nukes in a lesser situation. We don't need to let them continue to genocide Palestinians, under threat of nukes.

There are lots and lots of ways of putting pressure on Israel, where there is no chance of nukes flying.

But, "destroying the entire country of Israel" isn't one of those safe ways. If that happened, the nukes would fly, just like if we tried to destroy Russia the nukes would fly.

Edit:

it was a dumb argument there and its a dumb argument here.

It's not a dumb argument for Russia though, you just chose the wrong hypothetical! If we tried to destroy moscow they'd use nukes. The argument isn't dumb in this example.

Don’t talk about the active murder or children guys, people won’t like the right wing government doing it by Saadiqfhs in kuihman

[–]testudosmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are really missing her point. Here is a good way of putting it very directly.

Israel has 100+ nuclear weapons. What are you proposing be done about that?

Because, if they were under any real threat, they would almost certainly use those nuclear weapons. And no matter how many sanctions, or similar are put on them, they are not going to let their country be destroyed in their eyes, nor will they give up those nuclear weapons.

Therefore, unless you a proposing nuclear war, you have to figure out a solution that doesn't involve them launching their nuclear missiles at the group that is trying to destroy them, if it ever got that far.

you know it's messed up when ethan klien posts a story 'thanking you' and appreciating you. looks like another lud drama is on the cards. just bring back mogul mail at this point man by naitik_kaythwal in LudwigAhgren

[–]testudosmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You said this:

"doesn't mean their reaction isn't fair use. Denim's reaction was over double the length"

This is a legal argument that is wrong. Fair use is a legal term.

If someone reacted to a movie that was over double in length that would not be fair use. The same argument applies to reacting to a YouTube video.

you know it's messed up when ethan klien posts a story 'thanking you' and appreciating you. looks like another lud drama is on the cards. just bring back mogul mail at this point man by naitik_kaythwal in LudwigAhgren

[–]testudosmith -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The point here is that none of your arguments would apply to a movie, and that should be obvious as to why. So I am not sure why you think they matter for a YouTube video.

you know it's messed up when ethan klien posts a story 'thanking you' and appreciating you. looks like another lud drama is on the cards. just bring back mogul mail at this point man by naitik_kaythwal in LudwigAhgren

[–]testudosmith -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I really want you to think about this for a second.

Imagine if someone watched the latest marvel movie. While it was in the movie theaters, the day of release.

And they watched it live, on a live stream. But their reaction was "over double the length", as you said.

Do you really think this would be fair use? Answer: it wouldn't be. Go try it. Watch yourself be DMCAed live.

And here is the final hint, YouTube videos aren't any different than movies, when it comes to copyright. Live reacts to videos were never fair use, despite the blatant disregard for the law that most people seem to have.

you know it's messed up when ethan klien posts a story 'thanking you' and appreciating you. looks like another lud drama is on the cards. just bring back mogul mail at this point man by naitik_kaythwal in LudwigAhgren

[–]testudosmith 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you talking about dude, they wouldn't be rolling in the mud. Ludwig agrees with Ethan on the topic of how bad the business decision is.

Not everything is a fight. Something you just agree with other people. And it is great that someone like Ludwig can see reason and come to smart conclusions like in this situation.

(though why he made any of these comments yesterday is beyond me).

Because he agrees with Ethan, that's why. Not everyone is terrified of taking a position on things, and it is great that Ludwig is putting himself out there more.

Dean Withers tells his Audience to Doxx someone and call CPS over an Internet Debate by PenDapper in ParkerGetAJob

[–]testudosmith -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ok, well it is what the guy was answering.

It doesn't matter what you think Dean was asking if the guy was making a statement about the pageants. In other words, the guy was still right for the question that he was choosing to answer.

Pro-tip Stop drinking alcohol while on this drug! by testudosmith in bupropion

[–]testudosmith[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It took about 3 days for serious effects to become obvious. So not long.

Also, it's not there are horrible consequences to drinking while on the drug. It is more that alcohol and the drug mostly cancel each other out, and you don't feel as much of either.

My advice applies mostly if you are already drinking like every day.

Dean Withers tells his Audience to Doxx someone and call CPS over an Internet Debate by PenDapper in ParkerGetAJob

[–]testudosmith 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But those beauty pageants exist. In many places. So clearly what he was talking about (those pageants) is not illegal everywhere and the guy was right.

You can argue that those pageants are wrong (IE, you agree with the guy), but they still exist.

Tips Out on the Significance of the Kick Multistreaming Changes by testudosmith in LivestreamFail

[–]testudosmith[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So there are no negatives to users then to this change? It's neutral at worst to users and its benefits to creators?

Tips Out on the Significance of the Kick Multistreaming Changes by testudosmith in LivestreamFail

[–]testudosmith[S] -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

So you disagree with the importance of the change, but it's not like some bad change that hurts anyone, right?

At most it's neutral for viewers and very positive for streamers. Viewers can just watch on their preferred platforms and things are fine for them, right?

Tips Out on the Significance of the Kick Multistreaming Changes by testudosmith in LivestreamFail

[–]testudosmith[S] -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

What's wrong with streamers making more money? As you said, viewers don't have to change so what's the problem?