If you live in a country then you are evil and problematic. You should move into the city like a civilized progressive person. That’s how humans have been living for thousands of years, it’s a natural habitat for humanity.

Hansel and Gretel are diminutives of Johann and Margaret. I guess that in English they are turned in John and Mary which have the same origin.

Humans have bilateral symmetry and forward-facing eyes so we naturally have four basic directions.

Many moddable games are made in Unity and C# which is trivial to decompile and modify.

Also the fact that most games use one of the mainstream engines and are made using standard tools and practices makes this easier.

Do you use cloud or local ai to write your comments?

Copyright exists so that corporations can extract profit from their “intellectual property” by restricting other people’s free creative expression.

Copyright should not exist

I suspect that most car owners don’t really have an emotional attachment to owning a car, they just use it as a tool. However there is also nothing wrong with enjoying driving either, I don’t see any point in telling such people that they are evil or something. As long as there is good public transport most people will just use it anyway which will naturally reduce amount of cars on the roads. And I doubt that even passionate car enthusiasts really enjoy driving in a city so many of them will use public transport too, and only drive when it’s enjoyable (on autobahns or whatever) or necessary / more convenient. Which is fine, this option should not be taken away completely.

That’s their modus operandi. Next they will claim that it’s totally an agi and is too dangerous to release, before starting to sell it. Or is this anthropic’s playbook?

Lots of things are not necessary and are bad for the climate. You likely enjoy many of them. You start by reducing your own consumption.

PC has been digital only for at least 15 years.

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?