Nah. Many people in Russia have no problem with Putin starting the war, as long as he does it “competently”. They see Putin as a “mastermind” who is “playing the long game”. They are content as long as they can be convinced that Russia is winning (or at least not losing).

They don’t give a fuck about war crimes or human cost of war if it doesn’t directly affect their own lives.

It sounds more and more like planned economy rather than capitalism lol

Transwomen are definitely more visible in online spaces more (at least as a group). E.g. here in threadiverse 99% of posts from trans communities in the “all” feed are mtf related, even on general trans communities. And transfem communities are much more active.

You think USA government agencies never thought of using public surveillance cameras to spy on people before now? That’s like basic stuff for any domestic security agency, in any country. The only difference is that now the data is shared with regular police with all the incompetence and abuse it implies. You have always been spied on.

Any “license plate reader” has a camera and can be used for anything. This was true before flock.

Mainland chinese grandmas workout too. It’s gonna be one hell of a battle.

Well, some people do dedicate their lives to protesting about stuff. It’s called political activism.

Trolls are a dying breed now. It’s all automated bots that don’t care whether you “feed” them or not.

Way too many trolls and other forms of bad actors on the Web who intentionally or unintentionally use ad hominems or other toxic communication, it’s so hopelessly divisive and draining.

How exactly would id verification help against that. Do you want “toxic speech” to become a crime and punished by a court of law?

Only european governments should have access to europeans’ data.

So the government is gonna give me a robot gf?

I’m sure you can vibe code it in like 5 minutes

The entire selling point of AI is that I’d does things faster than humans. This advantage is rendered null if you require manual validation since it reintroduces human in the loop. The only way to “effectively” use AI is to adopt YOLO mindset and accept the consequences. This is what AI companies promote.

Clipboard is provided by the OS, but application chooses how to integrate with it.

When you select text and hit ctrl-c or click copy in the context menu, it’s all done by the application. And it may choose to remove/disable this feature.

That’s exactly why shower/sink pissers do it. They love the smell.

The advantage of Visa/Mastercard is that they work anywhere.

Europeans are rich and like to travel all over the world, so they want their cards to work everywhere too. Or order stuff online from abroad. Why bother using some local payment processor that barely works if you can just use your Visa card?

Independent payment systems only work in countries that are poor (where people don’t travel or buy stuff from abroad) and/or isolated by sanctions or internal restrictions.