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by FiniteField 3y ago
It sounds like most of what you've listed, especially immigration reductions, are in the general sense things that the government now has the power to change, it just chooses not to. I'd put complaints about post-brexit policies a
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by FiniteField 3y ago
Did that not happen? [0] shows an increase of £47bn on the department of health and social care from 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. That's £900m/week. If you compare to post-covid years then it's more like an increase of £28b or £5
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by FiniteField 3y ago
Which was entirely fair considering that extremely significant, costly parts of the EU structure and policies are essentially special conditions to other countries. The Common Agricultural Policy was/is basically a free fund of N billi
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by FiniteField 3y ago
The house of lords had major reform at the start of Labour's last stint in government to remove hereditary peers. It's not impossible to go further, in fact I'd put it at about the same likelihood as reforming the EU structur
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by FiniteField 3y ago
"Might makes right", the last word in every argument on the EU.
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by FiniteField 3y ago
>If you break a friendship in a painful way Given the argument for undoing Brexit is that the EU is "just a trade agreement" and not worthy of any discussions on democracy and sovereignty, I'm always surprised that so many
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by FiniteField 3y ago
Having to pretend GB and NI are different countries seems like the inevitable outcome of the Good Friday Agreement (or at least one interpretation of it) that requires you to pretend that parts of two different countries (NI and IE) are the
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by FiniteField 3y ago
Yes, and maybe after that we can create a new supranational government that has fundamental authority over our own government, is free to write laws for us, can overrule our courts, removes all sovereignty over immigration, has a parliament
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by FiniteField 3y ago
>This whole brexit thing happened by ignoring researchers and listening to whoever spoke louder :) When it goes the way someone wants they call that "democracy" ;)
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by FiniteField 3y ago
No, that's not "what I'm going for", because I'm talking about using a thing that I own, within the law. I'm not advocating for abolishing all laws that make "using a thing in a certain way" illegal,
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by FiniteField 3y ago
I think if anything it's the other way. For the Chinese system and other "traditional authoritarian" regimes in which power flows from the top down fairly straightforwardly, LLMs are just another form of speech that is pretty
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by FiniteField 3y ago
I touched on this in a cousin comment, but freedom 0 of the GPL states categorically that the user has: >The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose Redistributing modified versions of the software it what is regulated
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by FiniteField 3y ago
This simple "no you" reframing of the user being entitled misses that the two situations are totally asymmetric. 1. A user is "entitled" to use a product how they see fit without being harassed 2. A maker is "entitl
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by FiniteField 3y ago
"Responsible censorship" is a good term, and I think it started in earnest after Trump won the 2016 election. Right across the board, all kinds of institutions made the conscious decision that the basic principles of free speech,
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by FiniteField 3y ago
It's another "bandwagon" title after that EFF article
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by FiniteField 3y ago
>Asking builders to ONLY use maximally permissive licenses is equivalent to telling people never to release anything they're not ok with being used in every possible way. That's exactly right, and it shouldn't be their cal
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by FiniteField 3y ago
To add onto this comment, saying "having children is the worst thing for the climate" is a totally defeatist attitude towards the issue. What people are saying is "human life is incompatible with the Earth so we should stop p
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by FiniteField 4y ago
>So, by process of elimination, are you are saying that Pakistanis and Bengalis are a major source of problems? Yes. Sorry but while it's unpleasant to say, that's just indisputable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by FiniteField 4y ago
The difference, though, is that to humans, all these "unspeakable" things aren't really categorically unspeakable, which is obvious from the fact that they haven't been completely forgotten to history. Almost every time
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by FiniteField 4y ago
This exact thought experiment has already been taken to its logical conclusion with the below licence [NSFW]. It's kind of genius in its own dark way, definitely an interesting example of modern-day subversion of the governing system.
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by FiniteField 4y ago
Sounds like Agent Smith needs a trip to Australia and New Zealand.
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by FiniteField 4y ago
That film always seems like 2 films interleaved into 1 to me. Most of the British cast are great, and really capture the style and humour of the book - Stephen Fry as the narrator, Martin Freeman as Arthur Dent, Alan Rickman as Marvin, even
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by FiniteField 4y ago
In this case though, the current "cyber mob", as you might call it, is agitating for a famously editorially neutral company (that simply provides a service to other websites) to become strictly partial based on what is essentially
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by FiniteField 4y ago
>the terrorist who killed worshippers at the mosques in New Zealand posted on Kiwi Farms before the attacks. That's not hyperbole, it's simply not true. The shooter posted on 8chan, not Kiwi Farms. You're thinking of a com
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by FiniteField 4y ago
A better analogy would be this: You run a business that, while pretty unethical, is fairly soundly legal (as evidenced by winning multiple lawsuits and not being taken offline by a court order). An aggrieved person incites a mob that attemp
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by FiniteField 4y ago
>organized harassment campaign It should be noted that the stated aim of KF is a forum to document and discuss the escapades of people that naturally produce their own drama and spectacle, and actually interacting with the "lolcows&