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yea but unless you think you can convince half the population to chop every billionaire's head off we'll just have to deal with it until we die of climate change

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The only things that the Biden administration has done that's bad is genocide obviously, but a little genocide never hurt anybody... I guess you could try blaming him for inflation or gas prices, or the fallout of COVID-19, but that would be kind of dumb

You can, of course, say he hasn't done enough, which wouldn't be wrong, but the things he's done have had a pretty positive effect on the country and have brought us at least a little closer to the left – even with an opposing congress. I can't say I like how he treats, say, nationalism and the Middle East, but he's at least somewhat redeemed himself from just being a "moderate Republican" I would say. At least his administration has brought in officials who are tougher on corporations, even if he's still a corporate Democrat.

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Godspeed

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I don't remember a time where kidnapping people and putting them into concentration camps away from their families made something not left, actually it seems pretty common in former and current communist countries lol...

but actually i meant "slightly more left" in the sense of economic-social matters, not... killing or kidnapping people matters. he has done quite a lot to improve social services and lessen the financial fuckedness of many government programs, for example.

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??? are you just resorting to bringing up completely unrelated shit to escape embarrassment? I imagined context could make it clear but mentioning "former communist countries" I was speaking of communist countries in history which formerly existed, but now no longer exist. If I meant countries which were communist but now aren't, I would have specified "formerly communist countries". Why would you even think it was implying that a country being communist in the past means it's leftist in the present? How do you reason that?

Edit: lol apparently @cypherpunks or an admin is removing the replies because they speak of Lenin's Gulags, dekulakization, and Mao's Laogai. Funny what kind of comments get removed by .ml mods; apparently not comments trying to suddenly bring antisemitism into the conversation, and not comments pretending that saying sometimes in history leftist governments have interned kids means I must both be anti-leftist and making excuses for the US' treatment of immigrants.

How do you, with a straight face, say "criticizing a communist leader/government means you hate jews"? You are simply resorting to making up "you're an antisemite" out of thin air to invalidate others. I have literally not once mentioned judaism. I don't even know if I've mentioned jews in my entire comment history before you randomly started blaming jews for alleged "anticommunism".

You are using discrimination against jews as a tool to attempt silencing others. You accusing everyone else of being an "antisemite" is your way of avoiding your own responsibility and putting others in a box. Let me guess, you support the Israeli genocide of Palestinians and use "antisemite" to defend it too?

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Watt-hours

how hard is it to just use joules 😭 the consequences of non-metric time are grave

i'm just kidding btw, i know why watt-hours are used

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I don't think 15:1 is needed, I think 10:1 or even 5:1 would be fine. The limiting factor then is just ammo

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Russia has pretty high gun ownership... comparable to Europe/Australia and not far from Canada. The US has like 4x the guns per capita as the next highest countries, and it's far from the most free.

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Compared to Japan, I mean yeah. Living in Japan & South Korea is absolutely hell, they're probably some of the most conservative governments/societies in the world, certainly the most conservative in the first world.

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Apparently he actually died in his car 2 days after a fruitless police raid, allegedly of "heart attack".

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god i even get the popup on mobile

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massive correlation with being trans, and being super adhd/asd/french/some other mental disorder (having one disorder means you have a strong possibility of having others, they're all extremely tied into each other, including gender dysphoria) which are things that cause you to be significantly more likely to spend a majority of your time on the internet and on obscure/nerdy/highly derived forums for various complicated and straightforward reasons.

being a social outcast also may push people towards corners of the internet, and trans people are often social outcasts even if they don't have some other disability causing them to be (especially those from more rural/more conservative or religious areas)

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the act is disrespectful, to refer to human beings using pronouns; by referring to people using fully qualified names, respect and humility is shown. pronouns are a declaration of war on the attributed creature, as immense inferiority is implied. societies created names with purpose – and to sidestep names is to break the fabric of culture!

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these are definitely not the words of a cybersecurity prodigy, i can tell that

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I can +1 this, a looong time ago I tried uninstalling Microsoft Edge and it made the system go ballistic. Every time I clicked a link, instead of going to my default browser (Chrome then) it would just open a completely broken Edge window with no functionality. Any time I tried to change settings, it'd do the same thing. Anything to do with touching the internet got fucked. I spent hours trying to reinstall Edge, contacting a Microsoft support person who was useless, before I realized that the official site only provides the Windows download for Edge if you set your user agent with... any system other than Windows. Huh.

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quick, let's notify the future shooter how government may track him so that he'll take the exact necessary steps to not be caught before committing a shooting. and the foreign spy. and the person who plans to sell/traffic illegal items. they deserve a right to know exactly how the government tracks them, after all

how do you catch criminals if they know exactly how the government would catch them? saying the government has nothing to hide if it has nothing to fear is very wrong

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so your solution is for the government to notify people of those vulnerabilities so others can immediately take abuse of them? because people know that the government makes backdoors on a lot of tech, it's no secret to people, your "solution" wouldn't exactly achieve anything. the current government doesn't care about collateral so it's not like they'd just stop doing it.

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of course, but that's not an issue with "the government needs to not be able to hide anything". you can't just nitpick some examples of where it may do good to justify the position – you open an entire can of worms with the vagueness. should they have to disclose a list of all the people theyre keeping tabs on, how theyre doing so, and the info they hold on them? that would be extremely dangerous for society. should they disclose the exact methods which they use to track people? again, you're just showing the people they're tracking (for good reason) how to avoid being tracked. if you just want no backdoors then say "we shouldn't have government backdoors", but the only way to properly ensure that the government isn't illegally doing so is by exposing a whole lot more stuff that may not go so nicely.

i don't want the government surveilling me illegally, but i find it reasonable that the government can hide a lot of stuff for the sake of all safety. i also find it reasonable for them to be audited extensively. do I trust the government? lol no, but i can't complain about the government not previously keeping tabs on obvious shooters, then say i don't want the government keeping secrets like that... it's one or the other.

obviously many specific things shouldn't be able to be hidden by the government. but you're painting with a broad brush

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Divinity 2, so probably for being God 2 or something

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    Words aren't gendered in Spanish/French/German/etc. It's called "grammatical gender" but it's just a way some languages differentiate words/word forms and do adjective/noun/verb agreement, it's only sometimes loosely correlated with actual gender and is often contradictory when it's used on living beings.

    For example, many words which are used to describe women or female animals in such languages are masculine or neuter gender. Many times words for living things will have one class regardless of the actual gender.

    Some grammatical gender types which might make more immediate sense are animacy (animate/inanimate, usually correlated with biotic/abiotic), human/animal/inhuman, countable vs uncountable (the difference between "a plant is here" vs "a water is here", the second one isn't grammatically correct in standard English because "water" is an uncountable noun, same with "furniture", "wind", "energy").

    A word that a lot of people prefer to use rather than "grammatical gender" is "noun class", it more clearly conveys what the actual use of that sort of thing in language is. "Grammatical gender" is a pretty outdaded name for it, it was called that in a time where "gender" was more broadly used to mean any class/enumeration/kind/variants/etc. (it has the same root as the word "genre" if that helps it make sense). Only way after the term was coined did "gender" start to refer to what it does now.

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    Tbh I don't know why people say Blahaj instead of Blaahaj. The second is the "correct" way to differentiate Å and A if you don't have diacritics. I would think it would be spelled "AO" instead since it's literally just an A with a lowercase O on top, like how German vowel letters with umlauts (Ä Ö Ü Ÿ) are spelled with an E at the end (AE OE UE YE) when you don't have diacritics available (since umlauts originated as a lowercase E above a letter). Or like how in Spanish the "correct" way to write Ñ without diacritics is to stick an N at the end like "NN".* But who knows what goes on in the minds of Swedish people... I'm pretty sure most of them don't even know that you're allegedly supposed to write "Å" as "AA".

    *fun fact: the tilde was previously a lowercase "N" above a letter used in Latin & post-Latin Romance languages to replace a following nasal "n/m" after any letter (e.g. Latin "Manu" -> "Mãu" -> Portuguese "Mão", Latin "Rationes" -> Portuguese/Galician "Razões"/"Rações"/"Rasões", Latin "annus" -> Spanish "anno" -> Spanish "año") but it has been reduced to only the letters Ñ in Spanish and Ã/Õ in Portuguese

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    Some people in my family line (a long time ago mind you) had "ÿ" in their surname, it came from a Russian name with "Се" (or maybe it came from the Polish counterpart spelled with "Sie"?) which they spelled with "Sÿ". Apparently the letter was used in German writing occasionally around that time period. I thought that was pretty interesting.

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    the second one

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    My guy, Italian politicians literally publicly idolize the good ol' days of Mussolini, and talk about Mussolini in a positive light, I think that's worthy of the title fascist since they're praising the guy who CREATED FASCISM. The current PM is just a fascist.

    And Putin, Orbán, Modi, the AfD are incredibly undeniably fascist. Or at the very least Modi and Orbán are fascist-adjacent (Modi is a sort of Nazi but for Hindus instead of Germans).

    I don't know enough about Dutch politics/politicians to speak of it. But afaik they're going down a similar path as Germany, Sweden, etc. but even more pronounced. Argentina I don't know if the word "fascist" is accurate at all but the new president is certainly very far-right.

    And in the US Republicans are descending towards fascism, they've already taken many of our rights and are in the process of taking more fundamental rights, the things the most popular Republicans publicly preach about and have like half the country's support over is sickening. The only reason we're not balls deep into stripping away the rights of anyone who doesn't fit into the majority categories (christian, white, straight/cis, male) is because Democrats exist (even though elected Democrats just play the "moderate Republican" and are complicit in the current state of the country).

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