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I guess it’s time to check them. For political science, of course

With how monitored the Chinese internet is I would have assumed for there to be a lot less examples. A lot less. Maybe it’s “illegal” in that they turn a blind eye most of it, unless you’re trying to do something like bring in 69 hentai books through customs lol. I had to look it up but yeah, the official stance is that it’s illegal.

It is??? But then why are there so many… Examples… Of it online?

Honestly Latinos (plural) doesn’t really bother most of us either because the language is just gendered, but doesn’t mean we’re literally thinking a chair is a woman or a tv is a man. But, in the rare case where a gender neutral word would be better, such as referring to a person’s gender (singular), then Latine and such is useful. So El, Ella, É etc

Or 6 at once but 2 didn't make it

You’re being downvoted but the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen is white people deciding Latinx structure was the proper way of making something gender neutral in Spanish. We can’t even fucking pronounce that in SPANISH! But more annoyingly was that it ignored that there was already a gender neutral movement anyway that had started in Mexico that DID use something that could be pronounced: Latine structure.

Israel

Local wannabe crack dealer Mike Masnik says crack isn’t harmful, life without it would be boring. More at 11

I think this might fail for the same reason VPN companies began succeeding. Porn. Just have a few organizations say “Want everyone at Amazon/Microslop to know your fetishes and what porn you search for? Buy (thin client offered) now!”

I have donated and even used it. On said old phones, it works decently well. The issue is the hardware support, since most people won’t want a near decade old phone who’s battery you probably need to replace but can’t do so easily. Feels like they need to rally behind a more modern phone and polish that to get people to actually try it rather than fractured development. The Fairphone 4, which they already have a stable release on, would be a good candidate. Ah well, I’ll still keep up my donations anyway. Just feels like they could have more focused leadership, similar to the Linux Kernel. I also recommend (if you’re in Europe) petitioning government bodies to help fund them as well.

The problem with PostmarketOS is that it only is stable on extremely old phones that sometimes aren’t even midrange.

It’s funny that it was leaked that Russia specifically pushed for third party voting and candidates only during a major election when Republicans had a chance of winning

I assumed it was a joke and that’s why they posted to shitposts, but looking at their comments here no longer sure.

No, what’s messed up education in Finland is that it’s much, much harder now to fail and hold back a student. The semi-equivalent of the USA’s No Child Left Behind policy. Schools here in Finland still use plenty of books, and at least they still teach how to use computers, like typing lessons, unlike the USA. Here in Masala they even started teaching classes about detecting AI use, it’s usage in propaganda, and privacy on the internet plus usage of AdBlockers in elementary school. My wife gave the lessons - though she changed it up on the second one after seeing that kids don’t really care about this stuff much unless framed differently, like “you can watch YouTube without ads” rather than “it’s your legal right to not have ads as children” and “Linux has many many free games” for example.

It’s just the ancient Greek take

I have one

Perhaps, with some soldering. The issue is the firmware.

Didn’t know the HDMI cartel could afford bots / useful idiots

I agree it’s not that simple, but it’s just a proposed possible beginning to a solution. We could refine it further and then give the vet refined idea as a charter for a lawyer to them draft up as a proper proposal that could then be present to a relative governmental body to consider. But few people like to put in that work. Even politicians don’t - that’s why corporations get so much of what they want - they do that and pay people to do that for them. That said, view count isn’t the same as membership. This solution wouldn’t be perfect. But it would be better than nothing at all, especially now with the advent of AI turning the firehouse of lies into the tsunami of lies. Currently one side only grows stronger in their opportunity for causing havoc and mischief while the other, quite literally, does nothing and sometimes advocates for doing nothing. You could say it’s a reflection of the tolerance paradox that we’re seeing today.

Rick Rolling the meaning is pranking someone. Badger Badger Badger it’s the humor of the song and animation, and the unexpectedness of the mushroom, plus some absurdism of course. Nyan Cat is the closest, in that it’s just absurdist, but also it had a catchy song and was art. 6-7 is pure absurdism. There isn’t a meaning to it, and it’s lack of meaning is the joke. It’s meaningless is so absolute that the brain defaults to base pattern recognition to give it any semblance of meaning. And I’m not saying that’s bad. I’m just stating that it’s literally a meaningless joke. Some may ascribe it’s rise to prevalence as part of modernized brain rot culture, itself an extremist version of absurdist humor that began to rise in the 80s with Gen X and exploded with millennial, but evolved through very compressed short form content. To me, I think it’s maybe a prelude to an increase in dark humor again (and indeed we saw a rise for a moment in which 6-7 was given a dark twist with the mixing of SCP fiction with it’s focus on voidness, emphasizing the insanity of the meaninglessness of the meme, but also the emptiness of everything) similar to millennials, since I think Gen Alpha already sees how bad the situation is for their generation even at a young age and will eventually perhaps evolve to a mixture of dark nihilistic violent humor; the meaningless of 6-7 it’s expression of nihilism in a humorous way. But that’s just a theory. A meme theory.

They weren’t. 6-7 is literally not meant to have meaning. It’s meaning is that it doesn’t have meaning. That’s the joke.

Proton isn’t social media. If you can’t understand why big = bad in terms of the dissemination of misinformation, then clearly we’re already at an impass on further discussion of possible numbers and usage of statistics and other variables in determining potential regulations.

Just make the law so it only affects things with x-amount of millions of users or x-percent of the population number minimum. You could even have regulation tiers toed to amount of active users, so those over the billion mark are regulated the strictest, like Facebook. That’ll leave smaller networks, forums, and businesses alone while finally giving some actually needed regulations to the large corporations messing with things.

Embrace the zen. Draw your art in the sand of the Catbox. And then let it flow away, to start a new.

They’re power hungry for about the same performance as AMD. At least the i-series