I tried to think of an exception, but no dice.

Hypothetically though, if Canada invaded and annexed the United States then gave them free universal healthcare, that would probably be completely justifie. Basically any action against the US government is acceptable if I think about it.

The Democrats would not do something as self-destructive as invading Iran.

Even if everyone did, not every business would. Shell would buy American oil in a heartbeat.

CCTV isn’t a problem. It’s mass surveillance that’s the problem. As the saying goes, “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”. With enough information the state can always find something to turn their political enemy into a criminal. The government should not be able to do that with a mere flick of the wrist.

If anything a higher number of CCTV’s is a good thing, assuming the number of all types of camera combined remains constant between cities.

• Searching a large dataset with a vague search criteria.
• Real-time feedback when studying a foreign language (since accuracy is less important than quantity).
• Apparently in medicine they’re using generative AI for something meaningful, but I’m not entirely convinced it is actually generative AI and I’d need to do more research.
• Sometimes it can help in learning to program and in sanity-checking code security.

I think part of the problem is that Linux basically supports every use case. Sometimes the scope needs to reduce, older hardware needs to be abandoned, etc.

The article cites some hardware being incompatible with Rust as part of the issue, but perhaps what needs to change is that a line in the sand needs to be drawn over which hardware is accepted. The legacy hardware can be left to the forks developed by paid employees for their businesses own personal use.

Linux doesn’t need to become as hardline on hardware as Windows 11, but the distros where the maintainers are at risk of burnout can certainly afford to abandon at least some hardware. Apparently Rust doesn’t support alpha (1992-2007), hppa (1986-2008), ia64 (2001-2019), m68k (1979-1994), or s390 (1990-2004). All of these are at least 18 years old, with the exception of ia64, but apparently the Linux kernel already dropped support in 2024.

“Protecting Automobile Accident Victims from Attorney Self-Dealing Act” is such a BS name.

To combat global AI memory shortage

More likely, to combat Cxmt.

They’re also bombing luxury hotels and fossil fuel facilities.

Iran isn’t so much defending itself, as it is establishing consequences for the West by bombing everyone they can in the region (while still holding back to some extent).

If I remembered it, it wouldn’t be overrated.

Do people rate that highly, or just play a lot of it?

People normally don’t want to record video of themselves while actively being lynched. The ones that do are the exception, not the norm. Hell, most people don’t even want to do that as part of a job application.

And in the first place, there’s no reason to suspect this is a bot. There’s nothing abnormal about any of this, with laws mandating age indication and someone suggesting adding an age field alongside the user’s full name and email address to the user.json.

It was also, seemingly, counterproductive in Palestine. Sure more countries have on paper recognized Palestine and there is more awareness of the cause, but practically nothing has improved.

Then again, there’s not really any action I can think of that they could’ve taken to improved things in Palestine.

We’ll deal with that when it happens. Not fighting against an imagined threat by using the slippery slope fallacy.

Start by fighting the New York one.

Otherwise why would they bother, because as it is now it is useless or inconsequential.

The leading theory is that this is to help companies in California comply with the child online privacy laws.

Ireland abstained too, and they didn’t really have a recent slave trade.

Luigi did nothing wrong.

Usually though violence does more harm than good to the cause, and the people who partake in it usually care more about LARPing as a revolutionary than actually achieving revolution.

There’s normally a reason when that assortment of countries chooses to abstain (the no voters are normally just evil). In this case it’s likely the use of the word “gravest”. I’d say the holocaust was worse, at least in the slave trade the people were just a means to an end. The holocaust involved torture by design and aimed to erase an entire religion.

Others may disagree, but there’s at least room for doubt on the declaration that it’s the “gravest”.

That’s not what they asked

Yes, I know. I answered the question that reasonably follows from the context. Not their loaded question that assumes something which was not in the pull request.

I know a lot of people like to use the slippery slope fallacy here but even if that applies, you should limit your resistance to points where you actually have a leg to stand on. It’s not like the government would find it much harder to jump straight to age verification without this age indication step. Going all-in now just does all manner of a disservice to the cause of digital privacy.