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    • Making people opt-out of AI in Preferences, AI Controls (and using a double negative there), instead of having people install the AI stuff as extensions.
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    • Making people opt-out of all the garbage ads in Preferences, Home.
    • Making people opt-out of “Show search terms in the address bar on results pages” in Preferences, Search. Jesus fucking Christ, UX rules 1-4 are do no mess with links, Back, Forward, or the address bar.
    • Not including the NoAI or the Lite versions of DuckDuckGo in Preferences, Search.

    Anyone know why LibreWolf isn’t in Debian repos? I know there’s a Flatpak, but I don’t know if it can be trusted since mintinstall says it’s by an “Unknown maintainer”.








  • preemptive war

    OK - reacting-only would reduce wars of aggression.

    How about if 98% of UN members votes for an allied attack against something that almost everyone agrees is psychotic, like ISIS, NK, Eritrea, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, etc.? Does the combination of actions and clear intent not make pre-emptive war and regime change of these seem like the right thing?

    Ahmed Yassin

    Here I don’t agree - I think the 1988 Hamas charter is utterly indefensible.

    these type of groups form as a direct result of imperial violence.

    Yes, and Israel was formed in response to the Holocaust and pogroms. Hamas is also genocidal, just incompetent - but would be worse. I think both should be boycotted and sanctioned, until Israeli voters stop voting the way they have been (which might not happen until they reject religion and racism), and Gazans overthrow Hamas (which seems more possible than in e.g. NK).

    nuclear weapons

    not offensive, but defensive

    Yeah, allowing Iran to get/create nukes and intercontinental delivery, would reduce the chances of attacks against it like the recent ones by USA and Israel, which would be good for the normal people of Iran in the short and medium term.

    When it comes to the people (not the regimes) I think that the Israeli, older Gazan, and USA citizens are the worst because of the way they vote(d); while the Iranians might be the least bad (tho that may just be because they haven’t had real elections for so long).



  • Putting violent desire on the same moral plane as actual murder victims is a silly thing to do.

    Agreed, but what if not stopping the IRGC ends up causing orders-of-magnitude more suffering and deaths? (Tho, is Trump actually unleashing the IRGC because Mojtaba gives them free-er reign than Ali; and causing some Iranians to actually side with their own psychotic countrymen against the attacking foreigners? If yes, then US voters may be more harmful than Iran.)

    Would Hamas not be vastly worse than Israel if they had the same military power as Israel?

    ISIS?

    Shouldn’t intent count to prevent access to biological and nuclear weapons?



  • Jack@lemmy.catoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldJust a reminder
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    People who won’t vote for the Democrats don’t necessarily see the world the same way as people who do vote D. Really go have a look at https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2020

    There are ethical lines some people actually won’t cross, e.g. voting for the Ds who make anthropogenic climate change worse and so are causing a mass extinction, sell weapons to people actively committing a genocide, further an economic system that rewards narcissistic sociopaths and punishes ethical people, …

    Go look at the linked graph above again. You may not agree, but understand that there are people who do, and to get these people to vote for the Ds, you need to convince them why voting for omnicidal, genocidal, greedy sociopaths is the right thing to do. The “lesser evil” argument doesn’t work on them, because if you look at the linked graph above and compare the distances between the parties, and understand there are ethical lines between the Ds and leftists/socialists/Greens/etc. they won’t cross; then it means vastly better arguments need to be put forth. Yes the Rs are psychopaths and openly racist, but compared to the slightly less (compare the distances on the graph) sociopathic Ds, then

    “It is infinitely better to vote for freedom and fail than to vote for slavery and succeed.” - Eugene V. Debs, Appeal to Reason, 1900-10-13.

    “Wage-labor is but a name; wage-slavery is the fact.” - Eugene V. Debs, The Socialist Party and the Working Class 1904-09-01

    If there are no ethical options, then activity making the world more evil isn’t something these people will do.