I’m a realist, I guess

Hmm the article doesn’t actually say they’re rooting for it to collapse, it just says they don’t mind if it collapses

So killing civilians helps?

One path requires a break from capitalism through a mass revolution and the other doesn’t

Then? More people have the incentive to break from this than not

Oil is only profitable for the people producing oil, which is not most people

Renewables+nuclear is cheaper and in a truly free market would beat out oil

We stop the oil propaganda. Without that, we do gradually stop using oil, because the alternatives are

• cheaper
• easier to obtain
• do not need dependency on Russia/middle east, which are both politically toxic

Setting up an unofficial mirror is an option

why use this over the hundreds of messaging platforms that can be self hosted and have e2ee

Cool. I’m getting off it so that they don’t think doing shit like this is okay

A democracy ideally should have checks against buying voters, not that these are effective maybe anywhere in the world, but I would hate to be a doomer and think this is something that can’t be fixed.

He probably thinks it isn’t real, rather than “it is not affecting me right now, but will probably be unmanageable in 20 years”

One might understand that posting LLM content in a community where people probably love FOSS and software freedoms, posting the output of something that has taken in a lot of GPL code and produces it on command (hence violating the license,) would not be seen favourably.

would you be mad if someone downvoted a comment about eating meat on a vegan community?

I do believe tikka masala is British but it is funny that it’s the first thing you said because it’s also very clearly Indian

Can they be sued for this?

left-pad was not the code they were threatened over, but yea

Why would one need a new protocol to add something to KDE?

nah, training data is not why it answered this (otherwise it would have training data from many different years, way more than of 2025)

Not really misogynistic is it, the first is not a bad thing