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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
If you do a DDG search site:news.ycombinator.com "libraries" "homeless", you find some such discussions from this very site. But as I said, you can also find this across the internet when forums are dominated by American
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Is that a new thing, though? Or could it go back decades to a time when Americans didn’t feel their country was decaying? Already in the 1960s Los Angeles was depicted as immense sprawl where people drove long distances for everything.
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
For getting media made inaccessible, you could just do what all those many countries around the world without good public libraries do: pirate it. Talk to anyone serious about cinema as an art form in Eastern Europe or the developing world,
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Not as a major political force to which Denmark’s Chat Control could be responding as the OP claims. Moreover, expressions like “milked and oppressed” ring American libertarianism to the ears of this European poster who is familiar with lon
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Can you point to examples of bad outcomes in Switzerland’s referendums? I mean unequivocal examples, of the sort that would convince everyone here that that model is undesirable as a whole.
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
That strain of libertarian rhetoric is overwhelmingly encountered on American-dominated fora. I won’t say it doesn’t exist in Europe, since Europeans can pick up on American internet culture, too, but it is too marginal in Europe to affect
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
> separating a dog from its natural social life You’re thinking of the wolf pack that dogs came from millennia ago to be its “natural social life”. But the dogs around today are the result of myriad generations bred to be social with hum
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Clearly there’s a tension on this venture-capital-run website between some people using their computer-nerd skills to save money and improve their experience, and other people hustling a business that requires the world to pay them.
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
If you still do guidebooks, it’s baffling that you get the Lonely Planet. After all, already in the early millennium there were magazine investigative pieces and tell-all books by former LP writers that the publisher was not actually resear
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
> Gaza Holocaust There was only one Holocaust, the Shoah. Even if the Gaza events qualified as a genocide, a label that can be applied to many such events throughout time and place, that is still not a Holocaust.
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
I wonder if the USA is unusually obsessive about meat and meat substitutes because, thanks to vast ranches and government subsidies, it has a steak culture. Even less prosperous Americans are used to looking at big red steaks at Walmart. Th
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
It’s a frequently met claim right now that the USA killing foreigners that its president deems adversaries on their boats is something unprecedented and beyond the pale, lacking necessary authorization like criminal charges and trials or de
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Samsung Smart TVs run Tizen.
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
By the time the "death camps" started, Nazism’s takeover of Germany’s society was complete; peer pressure was now doing the work that initially thugs had to do. Yes, there was a resistance because there will always be people who
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
> Some people like naziism. Those people were wrong. In your individual opinion. In mine, too, and hopefully everyone else’s here. But the OP was clearly talking about what views are presented as “morally right” by normative social force
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Several other European countries imitated German fascism in the 1930s (e.g. Hungary, Romania, Slovakia). This is well known in Eastern Europe because that brief period has cast long shadows to this day. Even in relatively faraway South Amer
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
The Monroe Doctrine was about preventing monarchies from operating in the Americas in a time when the United States was heady with its eighteenth-century democratic framework. The USA was preindustrial, trade was much simpler, and there was
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
My memory of Nokia is phones so strong, you didn’t a case, just maybe a screen protector. I dropped my N900 from a meter height many, many times and it never cracked. It’s still such a handsome piece of hardware in my drawer that I wish I c
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
No need to leave a comment in reply to such generated text. Just email the mods directly with a link to the username, they zap such accounts daily.
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
I wanted to cross a mountain in Uzbekistan by bike. As I found myself pushing my bike up a dry riverbed full of large stones, I thought, “Who the hell mapped this as a vehicle track on OpenStreetMap? No one could drive this”. And then I was
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
You assume that the public recognizes AI slop for what it is. Across platforms now, people are readily engaging with blatant AI text posts and generated images as if they are bona-fide. In fact, if you point out that the poster is a bot, yo
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by HeinzStuckeIt 11mo ago
Lyrics produced some of the first AI slop I noticed after ChatGPT was launched in late 2022, even if the large models hadn’t been trained on them specifically. Overnight there were a bunch of different advertising-laden sites that clearly s
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by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
> AI should, after every query, present on the right-side of the page a list of all clickable sources The default internet device these days is the phone; so many people don’t even use desktop any more. Space limitations on small screens
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by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
For some years now there has been a segment of the American left, particularly visible on social media, who believes that strictly enforcing immigration laws at all is bad. This predates the current guy, as well as his administration as the
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by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
Blame it on first-past-the-post. It’s just one of the many ways the Founding Fathers sowed the seeds of a politically unhealthy society.
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by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
No, my point was that in a close election that depended on a party building coalitions between heterogenous groups of voters, the people in favor of any particular action taken by the elected government may be a minority of the population
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by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
It looks like the difference in the popular vote was 2,284,967 votes towards R. Do all of those 2,284,967 voters demonstrably overlap with that 86% of the polled Republicans? If not, then claiming that a majority of Americans support every
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by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
> This is supported by a majority of the US. The election was fairly close. The winning candidate got elected by a coalition of people with differing views on an number of individual items within his platform. That does not equate to cer
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by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
> Same with place names that you've never seen (the name of some random village you see on a map) I’m just guessing here, albeit as someone with linguistic training: toponyms in a given region are typically formed by a limited inven
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by HeinzStuckeIt 1y ago
Not really. The ideal you are describing, where there is no role for the community in regulating public spaces outside the household and determining when young people can enter them, strikes me as highly unusual historically and geographica

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