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Unfortunately much of Trump’s base cares more about their religious idols than they do about people, so this kind of news might actually make a difference for once.

West on top is as much of an orientation (occidentation?) as north on top.

It’s a gradual thing. People (are supposed to) acquire more and more agency and responsibility as they grow and at some fuzzy point they are the main responsible for their own life. Some people never really get there.

99% of new pet videos online are AI generated, which has to be the saddest use of genAI yet.

Assuming you are in the loop about the fact there’s a war ongoing, Iran has a fractured leadership right now (by design, so they are not vulnerable to decapatitation attacks), and the US is lead by one of the most finicky and unscrupulous individual to lead a world power since WW2.

Maybe that keeping that FPTP thingy isn’t the brightest idea.

Every few generations everyone seems to forget the existing social contracts exist for reason, and that reason is never the benevolence of the plutocrats.

Apparently only atheists read the catechism these days:

2309 The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. the gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time: - the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; - all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective; - there must be serious prospects of success; - the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. the power of modem means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition.

Vance’s war of choice meets none of the criteria. There was no certain damage (Iran has been “Two Months Away”™ from having nukes for 20 years, and even if they had them doesn’t mean they would use them), negotiations were still officially ongoing, they went in without even having concrete goals let alone a plan to end the war, and then started by bombing a school.

Perfect example, Skynet is an excellent engineer. Be like Skynet.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani says water is wet. Orange Ape with oversized red tie says the smartest people say water is hugely dry. Tune in for the debate where we present the two sides as equivalent.

In this case it looks like on purpose. Making the punchline look like an afterthought is a common humor trope.

Without OS updates, apps gradually stop working and security goes down the drain. Nowadays this include apps required to interact with the state and basic services like banking. You can still do thing the old way, but it’s far less convinient.

The main exception to this is device firmware and operating system images that require them (most visibly for smartphones), but the law in that case focused on demanding 5 years of software updates. IMO it doesn’t go far enough - they should also be forced to publish everything required for the community to pick up the support at EOL - but it’s not being ignored.

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I said it before and I’ll it again, the best solution for this is to have a standard API where device admins can optionally set a age group, and that treats an unset value as signalling unrestricted access. This is so simple it’s almost impossible to fuck up, parents get a parenting tool, most people can just ignore it, and big brother can go on a long vacation.

There was a case where an American woman screamed at a French baker for refusing a crisp $20 bill as payment

This happens depressingly often, especially in touristy areas.

They mainly use OpenStreetMaps data, and OSM added the villages a long time ago. Even if they were never added to Apple Maps is because they willingfuly didn’t import the data for them.

Apple uses OpenStreetMaps data, and OSM added all the villages about 7 years ago.

Marx’s problem with religion was that religion is used to keep people sedated, which is what China is trying to perpetuate here.

Why aren’t we using Marx’s spinning corpse to solve the energy problem?