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- Comment on What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate 4 days ago:
For many European languages and some non-European ones there is the CEFR, so you could look for an “A1” or “A2” level language course in whatever you want to learn. They aim to establish exactly this basic level of communication.
- Comment on Following Trump’s lead, his allies lash out at Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and suggest he may need to resign 6 days ago:
According to your opinion. But you are not in charge. He is. And he’s doing what people who voted him in, asked him to do.
Well of course it’s just my opinion. I think it is pretty clear we disagree, no point arguing that. Just wanted to let you know my perspective, since that seems to be allowed here instead of being an echo chamber, which I respect. But you seem to be hell-bent on learning this lesson on a personal level, so no stopping you I guess. Kind regards from Germany.
- Comment on Following Trump’s lead, his allies lash out at Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and suggest he may need to resign 6 days ago:
Then you have nothing to worry about, right?
The thing that worries me is that Trump seems to be consistently acting against the best interest of US foreign policy.
Hasn’t happened yet.
Alea iacta est.
- Comment on Following Trump’s lead, his allies lash out at Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and suggest he may need to resign 6 days ago:
I don’t care about that. You all can fix your own shit. If you don’t like how we do something, then you all fucking do it.
You know what, if that is how you feel, fair enough actually. I just don’t think that’s how your former and current governments, including Trump, really feel about it.
I don’t think so.
You don’t think losing the US dollar as the world reserve currency would hurt you economically? Because that’s where this is going.
- Comment on Following Trump’s lead, his allies lash out at Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and suggest he may need to resign 6 days ago:
It has damaged your reputation as a country. It hasn’t damaged you domestically (yet), which is why I advised looking at it from a foreign policy perspective.
And make no mistake, just giving up on global hegemony will hurt you domestically as well in the long run. Not that I’m opposed to it, on the contrary actually, it just strikes me as utterly misguided since it’s done for selfish, and I think foolish, reasons.
- Comment on Following Trump’s lead, his allies lash out at Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and suggest he may need to resign 6 days ago:
The argument you are getting and setting here seems to be a domestic one primarily, but I think from a foreign policy perspective it becomes much clearer, especially given what this post is about.
US global hegemony after WWII rests on a several aspects, a few key ones of which are free trade with US dollar as the world reserve currency, a system of international alliances, and resulting from that the ability to have bases all over the world for immediate power projection anywhere.
Trump is practically giving all of that away for no discernable reason whatsoever. He basically just publicly announced to all of Americas allies that your word, like as a country, is worth nothing.
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 5 months ago:
FYI you have a typo in your last screenshot (This sign m[a]y not…):
- Comment on Bees 5 months ago:
Because bee stingers are mostly used against other insects. They don’t get stuck in a chitin exoskeleton, only in the more flexible skin tissue of mammals. In insects the barbs instead pull out soft tissue from inside, thus making them more lethal (to the bees victim).
- Comment on My dad fought the Nazi's they lost. The world knows it. What is the deal with their recent resurgence? 7 months ago:
I don’t think capitalism is necessarily at fault, nor must the working/middle classes be struggling for fascism to emerge. If anything, quite the opposite. It is the better off countries that end up turning fascist. All fascist countries are/were first world countries, in various states of advanced development.
That’s not right, at least not for the fascist regimes in Europe that emerged prior to WW2. The countries where it happened (specifically Germany/Italy/Spain) had all seen civil unrest or even civil war in the recent past, they were hit hard by the global financial crisis in the twenties and had high unemployment and widespread poverty. This was the very thing the fascists used to ingratiate themselves to the public at large, by creating jobs through massive public building and rearmament projects.
By the way “first world countries” is post-WW2 terminology and didn’t originally have a connotation of superior economic status, but was referring strictly to ideological alignment. Whether a country belonged to the capitalist/communist/unaligned block in international politics during the cold war.
- Comment on President 360 No Scope... 8 months ago:
That it was offered is nigh impossible to prove if the offer is only made verbally though. And conversely, if they make the offer an “official act” they are immune again.
- Comment on President 360 No Scope... 8 months ago:
Yeah but like I said, if you promise some other form of compensation on the level or above what they lose in benefits, you will still find people willing to follow these illegal orders. Hell you could find people willing to follow illegal orders even before this ruling, but now that the presidents right to give illegal orders is explicitly enshrined in constitutional jurisprudence this pre-existing problem is much worse. I doubt those people will care about a dishonourable discharge, on the contrary it will make them martyrs to “the cause” and they will be worshipped for it. And it remains to be seen how all this would play out in court, I guess it’s quite possible for the defence to argue that if the president has immunity for giving orders, their subordinates have immunity for following those orders.
- Comment on President 360 No Scope... 8 months ago:
All good points if true. However I will say that to my limited understanding a crime under a specific law having been pardoned, that same law can then not be used to prosecute this crime anymore. Meaning states would have to find a different (preferably state) law under which the same offence is punishable.
And that is all disregarding other issues like packed courts, republican controlled states, the vagueness of double-jeopardy in this regard, and the general chilling effect a presidential pardon would have on prosecutors to even press charges in the first place.
The loss of benefits is easily circumvented by promising a golden parachute along with the pardon, so I could still see a lot of fanatics doing the crime “for country and freedom” or whatever they tell themselves.
Overall this seems like a potentially dangerous erosion of checks and balances that is easily abused when put in the wrong hands. As the dissenting opinions in the ruling openly state.
- Comment on President 360 No Scope... 8 months ago:
Ok yeah fair enough, that sounds reasonable. But to my knowledge the UMCJ is a federal law, not a state law, so how does that line of argument factor in there? You cited that as an example of checks and balances that would prevent people from following illegal orders, but it being a federal law still means the president could circumvent it with the official order plus pardon combo, at least if my understanding of this new supreme court ruling is correct.
- Comment on President 360 No Scope... 8 months ago:
IANAL, but there is the presidential power to pardon. So the president could in theory give an illegal order (as long as it is an official act they have immunity) and promise a presidential pardon once the order is fulfilled (therefore extending immunity to the perpetrator). Meaning the president can entirely circumvent the UCMJ.
- Comment on Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article | It's unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review. 1 year ago:
At this point somebody should really create a /c/Aipocalypse community or something to collect stuff like this.
- Comment on This may just not be the best packaging idea... 1 year ago:
IIRC there were two variants in the movie and the “green” variant based on humans was added as a new product because the production couldn’t keep up with population increase.
- Comment on This may just not be the best packaging idea... 1 year ago:
And it’s made of soy and lentils, hence the name. At least it was in the novel the film was (loosely) based on.
- Comment on SilverBullet: the self-hosted notes app for people with a hacker mindset 1 year ago:
pandoc.org is probably what you are looking for, but you might have to create a custom reader/writer or find one on the internet.
- Comment on The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes 1 year ago:
Cryptography ⊋ Blockchain
A blockchain is cryptography, but not all cryptography is a blockchain.
- Comment on It was in self-defence 🙃 1 year ago:
Myth #1: Israel is guilty of “genocide” in Gaza.
The term “genocide” has a clear meaning—it’s the destruction or attempted destruction of a whole people.
Yes , 95% of people starving in the world were in Gaza when Israel chose to withhold aid to them. That is the attempted destruction of a whole people
Not sure why you are debating semantics here, as that statement is just straight up wrong, which can be easily confirmed by taking a single look at article 2 of the Genocide Convention (emphasis mine):
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such
- Comment on Google and Mozilla don’t like Apple’s new iOS browser rules 1 year ago:
Well I guess that depends very much on what you mean by being on life support. Like financially speaking? Oh yeah, they are more or less entirely dependent on Google. Regarding user numbers? Sure, Statcounter says 3.3% currently. Technologically speaking? Not really, quite the opposite actually. Besides Apples WebKit and Googles fork of it called Blink there is but one game in browser engine town, and its name is Gecko.
- Comment on Oh great – now Facebook and Instagram want your private data to train Meta's latest AI pipe dream 1 year ago:
Now? Want?!
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 1 year ago:
Just here to leave the daily reminder that API reimplementation may constitute fair use under certain circumstances.
