Not recognizing ICC, regime change, illegal killing of foreign civilians, supporting genocidal regimes, invading other countries, carpet bombing nations, incarcerating their own population, killing eachother in mass shootings, biggest per capita contribution to climate change.

American exceptionalism isn’t doing us any good.

But ooh nooo China, please Europe, fear China… We are your ‘allies’.

So, we can use Donald Duck, but not Harry Potter? I don’t quite understand why. Why shouldn’t I be allowed to write my own Harry Potter books? (not that I would).

Frontal lobe is for degenerate modernists, real people rely on their brainstem, and their brainstem only.

Well duh, Microsoft respects privacy

I wholeheartedly agree

It was voted for by 6 parties, all of which are considered right wing.

• PVV (right wing anti immigration party)
• VVD (fiscal conservative right wing party)
• BBB (conservative farmers’ lobby party)
• SGP (right wing conservative christian party)
• FvD (right wing QAnon-type conspiracy party)
• JA21 (split-off of FVD)

You could of course argue that this means the center has shifted, and some of these should be considered center. Personally I think it’s just that immigration has been the dominant theme for decades now, and therefor people who would benefit from left-wing economics, now vote extreme right. I don’t think that makes them or anybody else a center.

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

If humanity needs insight into anything, surely it is business. Doing market research is doing the Lords work. If only we could structure society in such a way that automatically most of the available money would be directed to market research and marketing, the world would be a better place.

I suppose my sarcasm here is obvious. But it’s not uncommon to hear people on the right say things like ‘but the money needs to be earned first, before it’s spent, therefor we shouldn’t hinder business in any way.’. As if to say 'we just need to make more room for business people to do their thing, and then we’ll be good. It amazes me how people fail to see how ‘business’ as we know it is such ill-directed human effort. I know, we need to be productive, we need to do good things, I am all in favor of that, but doing whatever makes the most money for a company, isn’t the equivalent of what is good.

you’re right, there’s probably some anti-ai/anti-scraping folks on there aswell as here. Personally I most definitely hate intellectual property more than I do generative AI. But you’re right, different people on there will feel differently. But the point still stands that for those who thought they shared their thoughts with the world, their ideas that they donated were taken from them.

This isn’t news.

People who posted on Reddit ( speaking in the past tense, because who would continue to do so now that we have better things? ) never intended for it to be of limited access. Reddit was a publicly accessible place, and people shared their thoughts and comments on it because it was the frontpage of the internet, so the place of choice to share things with the world. That being scraped should not be a problem. But clearly Reddit didn’t want to give you a platform to share your thoughts with the world, they wanted you to donate your thoughts and take it as their property so that they can capitalize on it.

Maybe rephrase the question, given the American Revolution?

And Jesus said: “Don’t share thy bread nor thy fish, for it is socialism, and it is wrong.”

If animals do something, it’s what the species does. If humans do something, it’s just some odd freaks, and it doesn’t reflect on us all.

odd how that works. we would make for a very dark nature documentary.

If the EU doesn’t combine forces to get out of this tech-dependency, than what do we have the EU for? I am a big fan the EU, it’s doing many things for us already, but I’m really hoping we can work our way out of this together, and I hope we choose the FOSS-route so that we significantly help the world forward

Those are some interesting apps of choice. Good thing people share these, in case people don’t know about them yet.

I get the feeling this is somehow also criticizing this particular woman. Someone did a small good thing, while others do bad things on a very large scale. What a naive idiot! Not a very helpful sentiment. One needs to look up for moral guidance, not down.