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.

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.

Really hope we go with the Gripens instead.

It’s so damn great!

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.

This. Only the server owner needs a plexpass.

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.