Online? Dictatorship. Let the guidelines be clear and the conversations civil and on topic. If my speech isn’t wanted in a particular community I can find another, or make another where I’m the dictator.
IRL? Democracy. It sucks, but it’s better than everything else. I do, however, wish there were better laws forcing media to be locally owned, and bound to be truthful. And some way to keep late stage capitalism’s hand off the scales.
American “dairy” doesn’t usually qualify as food under Canadian law. Too many steroids and antibiotics.
100% truth. It’s the same intergenerational trauma causing this, and that this is causing.
Isreal had a unique opportunity to “turn the other cheek” and be a good neighbour, even while Palestine was fighting them, and they instead choose the evil path.
Ya, this is one of those times where I’m hoping they both lose. Both leaders houses and their entire cabinets get bombed to rubble while the innocent civilians evade all damage.
And that just underlines my decision to quit Duolingo when it got contaminated with AI stop.
I can tell you from experience that AI was worse at teaching me a language than humans were.
Because Oracle sucks donkey balls.
Never give EA money - they’ll just use it to destroy yet another cherished dev or franchise.
“But I want…” NO!
“But Star Wa…” NO!
“But Ma…” NO!
There’s a lot of “chocolate” in the US that doesn’t qualify as chocolate in sane countries because it has too much wax or other additives in it. US “chocolate” bar in Canada has to be called a “candy” bar.
Same way their “milk” has too much other garbage in it to qualify as “milk” in Canada.
Lindt, otoh, is /actual/ chocolate. So it’s seen as luxurious.
That’s inevitable if the squabbling children over there don’t collectively pull their heads out of their asses. Some religious nutters, Jewish or Muslim, is going to glaze over the whole fucking area because their imaginary friend told them to.
At least then the atrocities from both sides will stop. Overall, it’ll probably be less innocent deaths than will be caused by a few more centuries of those ignorant savages clawing at each other’s throats.
Yet another reason to look at non US CPUs going forward. Either RISC-V or ARM from Europe/Korea.
Fascists gonna fash!
The AI slop is why I quit Duolingo after my 1500+ day streak.
Fascists gonna fash.
Yup. Same goes for being employed - if they’re publicly traded they’ll almost certainly treat their staff like absolute garbage.
I know it’s a slim chance and I’m going out on a limb here, but something tells me the driver was a white conservative.
Justice would be to have his ass thrown in prison and all his assets, including the house, transferred to this woman. Also, let the general population of the priso know that he liked to watch kids use the bathroom.
Lol, no. We don’t need a Heritage Foundation puppet like they have in the US.
You really think PP has the spine to stand up to Trump? He’s a puppet for the Heritage Foundation just like half the conservatives down south.
Conservatism is an epically failed viewpoint.
I can understand your desire for change, to be fair. But you see what happened in the US when they went that way? Same shit show up here if PP gets in.
The policy damage is easily repairable. The reputation damage is going to take a lot longer. Trust is hard to gain and easy to lose, and the US has been shedding a LOT of trust recently.
Hell, you couldn’t pay me to cross the border right now. (Literally - my employer offered me a 20% raise to go work in the NY office and I laughed at them.) I don’t want to risk getting a one way trip to El Salvodore because some psycho with a badge doesn’t like the shirt I’m wearing, or whatever fucking excuse they use.
Decades. Lifetimes, even.
The US has shown that it’s not a reliable partner.
Sure, the next pres might be sane, but what about the one after that? They’ve shown they’re more than happy to elect a con man and do sfa to keep him in check - they’ve done it twice now, so it’s near 100% that they’ll do it again.
The entire USA is in FO stage of FAFO, and now China and Europe will be the players to watch. I mean, other than watching the US flush itself down the toilet to own the Libs, obvs.
Online spaces are limitless, basically. If you don’t like living under someone else’s rules it’s dead easy to spin up your own space with your own rules. The dictatorship-ness of these virtual spaces keeps then semi-civil and on-topic. Ideally, at least. We are talking spherical cows here, obvs.
Real life spaces, not so easy to spin up your own country. So we have to use a political system that (on paper, at least) caters to the majority without stepping on the minorities too much.