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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.ziptoFediverse@lemmy.worldBluesky does federation-washing
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    10 days ago

    Yep.

    Its ‘federated’ as long as you ignore a single massive chokepoint controlled by one company that allows them to block/ban/censor users of any part of the system.

    So functionally, their ‘federation’ system is actually just a false marketing/propoganda campaign that may also result in crowd sourcing some server costs.

    It’s psuedo-federation, along the lines of a psuedo-historian or psuedo-scientist: They pretend to be something they are not, in such a way that makes them seem trustworthy when they are in fact not.


  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.ziptoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlAre psychopaths normalized?
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    1 month ago

    Bingo.

    Psycopathy/Sociopathy (They’ve been merged together into ASPD as of the DSM 5) is 100% normalized, actually idealized, often literally worshipped, promoted as the mode of behavior of a successful, powerful person.

    … So long as you don’t directly go around murdering and robbing and defrauding people yourself, one at a time, if you can do all that indirectly via commanding or directing a complex, layered, system, then congrats, your psycopathy produces concentrated profits and socialized misery, and tens of millions of idiots will believe you are a role model.



  • Life is a process of systems within (and outside of) an entity interacting consistently with each other.

    Why would a static screenshot of exact chemical composition matter for any process that involves a moving or animated body?

    A bricked computer with a corrupt boot loader is chemically the same as one that actually works.

    A car is chemically the same before and after you turn the key on its ignition.

    A lightbulb is comprised of the same substances whether or not its turned on or off.

    … Part of the difference between an alive and a dead body, is that the chemical reactions that constitute animating the thing into being alive … have stopped.

    A dead body is not metabolizing. It has no brain activity. The chemical reactions required to keep its heart beating are no longer happening.

    Decomposition then sets in.

    These are all differences in chemical processes.




  • Tell her you’ll fix it if she gives you power of attorney.

    No, I’m not joking.

    If you are having to spend 8 hours to figure out how to help her manage her basic affairs, if you are constantly teaching her how to use a password manager and she cannot figure it out, she has diminished cognitive capacity.

    If she has already delegated you to be in charge of all her account logins, she’s basically already given you de facto control over them, already acknowledged she isn’t capable of of managing her own affairs.

    Gather a bunch of other evidence that she has trouble with basic tasks, can’t reliably perform basic household activities, manage finances, whatever, approach a lawyer and get the power of attorney document(s) drawn up.

    EDIT: // Holy shit, just saw your other comment:

    Well I also cook everything, grocery shop and fix everything (basic electrical, plumbing, woodworking, installations, etc).

    Yeah, you are already functionally her caretaker.

    Depending on the state you’re in (assuming you are in the US) you might be able to actually get yourself certified as her caretaker without much or any actual input from her, before you pursue power of attorney. //

    This solves the cut out problem.

    After that, explain your solution:

    Print out a big list of all those passwords and logins for her.

    Meanwhile, you’ve got them all as well, presumably you can just use her password manager and have access to it.

    If she resets a password and can’t figure out how to log back in, fix it back to something you know, but don’t let her use this account for one week.

    After a week, print out a new list for her with the new password you’ve set.

    If she resets another password while in a 7 day timeout period, well now it’ll be two weeks for both passwords to become available to her, etc.

    This may sound like too much, but she’s a cognitively diminished entitled brat, who has already conditioned you into being a doormat who is expected to waste a seemingly endless amount of time and effort to solve problems she creates, problems that people without a live-in technical support agent pay hundreds of dollars to solve.

    She will not learn if she has no impetus to. She’s obviously used the ‘tough love’ model on you, use it back on her.

    If she complains about this, doesn’t matter, you have power of attorney, send her to an old folks home, sell the house and move to an apartment, or rent a room out if it or something.