Right, because I’m sure none of their older relatives have that covered. /s

Pics?

“Unlike ours, which is a foundationally ethnocentric, and so doesn’t need hate crimes”

“Humanity” feels like a grand term for a concept a couple decades old or so, but I guess it’s right, and it’s the same thing that happened with railways way back in the day.

Legislation would be amazing, and it even seems plausible that the EU might adopt something like that eventually. Even without, though, we have the advantage that monopolies have a way of collapsing themselves in the long run, whether by dynastic succession (the Medici bank IIRC), complacency (Xerox) or anti-trust issues (Standard Oil), while the fediverse can’t really die that way.

It’s because they solved all the version control problems, but not accessibility and discoverability. I’m probably not going to try and use git peer-to-peer with a total stranger.

Pretty much. My impression is that there’s a lot of “how” in the things today’s CCP does, but not nearly enough “why”.

They’ve invented a digital point system to discourage private talk about bad news. That’s very impressive and innovative from an organisational point of view. It’s just put towards a very questionable goal, not only morally but also practically.

Eventually that contradiction is bound to catch up with them.

I’d be more surprised if Trump didn’t get weird nuke ideas fairly shortly after getting access, actually.

Yeah, but sometimes you want to debunk it, or use it as a starting point for other research.

As of last I checked, people are trying it out and seeing if they can get away with it under the way GDPR is enforced. Hopefully that gets hammered out in court.

Yep. At which point that becomes embezzlement is super vague, but presumably it would be at some point. If you’re just a little loose with self compensation as opposed to potentially sinking the organisation, though, it would be hard to prosecute you.

This also goes for the feed-the-starving-kids type nonprofits. I’m aware of examples that spend most of their budget on management and marketing IRL.

IANAL

I mean, it’s not just a thing you can call yourselves, there’s a legal definition. There’s no way to pay money out of a nonprofit into your pocket without committing embezzlement.

Hmm, are they finally hiring internationally? Americans are historically funny about that.

Wait, you earn more to not commute?

If I ever was in a room with him, I’d ask if he thinks there’s ever a situation where a comedian should have priorities beyond getting a laugh. He seems to operate on the assumption it’s a no, and I want to hear him openly say that, or else have the opportunity to call him out.

Hmm, I wonder how often it would generate a false positive and force someone to reword something innocuous. My guess is that it would be relatively rare.

Dope. Put garbage language where it belongs.

Oof ouch my Lynx.

Oh well, there’s always DDG and friends.

It’s not even just security. People live in cities, so things tend to be built near cities.

The argument Hamas being anywhere in Gaza counts as using human shields was fully bullshit. In their case, they operate(d) mostly as guerillas, so they didn’t have conventional military bases to build in any place in particular, anyway.

The remarks raised questions on social media on why West did not accuse the intelligence agency of using Israeli civilians as “human shields”, as they claim Hamas and Hezbollah do.

Because that would be devastating to their case.

The US supports Israel for reasons unrelated to them being truthful or good actors (possibly just mysticism). They try not to openly say that.

It’s like how chefs eat really basic stuff at home.

It has to just be interest, right?