In Israeli culture, a “ceasefire” is an agreement where the victim agrees to stop fighting back. They cease, Israel fires.

Yeah, I expect them to sabotage the agreement.

“Corporations want a way to verify the humanity of users” is a simple answer.

“Governments want a way to easily prosecute users” is also a simple answer.

I don’t see why it can’t be all of these things. There is actually a more complicated answer that I didn’t bring up, which is that smaller websites will have a hard time complying with ID laws, which gives preferential treatment to large websites. That locks out potential competition, hinders smaller projects like lemmy or mastodon, and helps secure the current social media monopolies.

That one might just be a useful side effect, rather than the intentional outcome.

If you back Trump over the Pope, you aren’t a Catholic. You’re an apostate. A protestant with extra steps.

They also want a reliable way to differentiate between chatbots and real users, because advertising isn’t very effective on chatbots.

But also, one benefit of ID laws for the government is that it makes court proceedings much faster and cheaper. Sure, they’re tracking everyone online, but a lot of that information is locked behind procedure. By just requiring ID to log in they can sidestep the procedures, because they can just ask corporations nicely for ID information and they’ll eagerly comply.

It’s absolutely worth mentioning that they are coordinated enough to all meet up to discuss their plans for us. If this was a fringe idea it wouldn’t go anywhere, everyone is ready to consider the idea even if they still need to be convinced to implement it.

Do you think it doesn’t require coordination to have a meeting? Without coordination, no one shows up.

The coordination is already happening and after this it will likely increase.

The headline literally says that Macron is pushing for a coordinated approach with the rest of the EU. From the article; “The main goal is to ​act in ​a ⁠coordinated manner and push the European Commission, ​in the positive sense ​of ⁠the term, to move ahead at the same pace ⁠as ​member states.” I’m not particularly sure why you’re dismissing this as conspiratorial. It’s just out in the open.

Warehouses just do that sometimes.

And art doesn’t make money.

Gambling does.

The games that generate the most profit are.

And they’ll just roll over and accept it.

Why even have another election cycle?

That seems like a poor bait-and-switch.

So, what, the US will announce a strategic investment of a billion dollars in “development” in Israel, and then Israel will just turn around and buy a billion dollars in weapons? People can only be fooled by this trick in its early stages, the moment the switch actually occurs people will just go back to being mad and nothing was fixed. It buys them one election cycle.

The concept of a “woman chauvinist” is irrelevant. It literally does not matter. What’s going to happen, are women going to take over society and force men into servitude? Stop them from leaving the house without an escort? Make them give up their careers? 🙄

In a society that was built by men, for men, men’s chauvinism is a problem and an unconscious bias they all carry with them from a very young age. There’s a lifetime of unlearning that men need to do to not be chauvinists. Any man who has gone through this process to rid themselves of their chauvinism has no problem with statements like “men are chauvinists” because they know it’s true.

… can Israel afford their own weapons?

So you’re the reason they haven’t gone out of business.

Iran has played the US into becoming the sin-eater for the consequences of blocking the Strait.

Sorry, I mean it’s being pushed that way by its fans. There are people who like Omarchy specifically because of who its behind it.

That’s why, if you wore their merch, you’d be making a political statement - similar to wearing Tesla merch.

Men are chauvinists. This is not somehow unique to Mexico.

Two sentence harassment.