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Everyone is free to define “need” and who their friends should be as strictly as they want, because, sure, some people could become total hermits. But it’s not going to strike most people as a reasonable definition. You mention “FB and Inst
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You are years behind. It was in 2016 that, when traveling and wanting to exchange contacts with cool local people I met, I first began to get the response “My e-mail address? I don’t have email.” Already then many younger people were only o
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But FB/Insta haven't been able to get everyone onto one platform. Generations are balkanized across FB, Instagram, and WhatsApp (all of which Meta bought precisely because it can’t manage with its original social network), and Tik
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The EU has already started expanding to countries whose prestigious classical language was Greek, not Latin, so Latin would no longer look like a compromise but favoritism towards Western Europe.
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Community largely died out already by 2012. Originally Last.fm enabled a lot of IRL socializing, connecting hipsters who lived in the same town and listened to the same music. Changes in music-listening habits, the atomization of tastes in
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On this North American-dominated forum, "Asia" is rarely used in the expansive definition that encompasses also the Middle East which is necessary for Islam to be called the majority religion. Even Pakistan rarely gets included. T
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Buddhism is the largest religion in the continent they mentioned alongside Hinduism. And Hinduism, too, is majoritywise a religion of prayer to deities treated as external, while its contemplative traditions are the domain of a relative few
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How are Islam's ethics derived from orthodox Christianity specifically? Muhammad's only likely encounter with Christianity was with Nestorianism, i.e. not orthodox.
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This is too pat a description. While Buddhism began as a religion of meditation, for centuries Buddhist practice in various parts of Asia has been to pray to an outside figure like Amitabha in the Pure Land or Avalokitesvara. Buddhist teac
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Siskel and Ebert the TV show was a good example of the dumbing down of criticism; that trend started already before the internet age. The twentieth-century American television medium simply didn't allow much informational depth and n
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Of course, but not everyone has a reason to look at it in the beginning. As I said, I only became interested in hacking Elisp once I had been using Emacs for a long while (years) and eventually ran into cases where I wanted to change defaul
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The GP is right to be offended by what you said, because his way of learning Emacs was an extremely typical one for decades. Remember that such informative and inspirational resources like Mastering Emacs didn't exist until the 2010s
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I don’t see why you single out non-western immigrants in the UAE and try to depict this as an outcome of corruption or abuse. Most non-western immigrants are subject to the kafala system, but even if they weren’t, their eligibility for citi
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> Almost every single European country requires you to leave the country in order to apply for a new visa status. This is not the case for transitioning from a temporary residence permit to a permanent residence permit, which is the best
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> Those who believe that the people who are not currently citizens of your country should never be able to become so. This is basically the longtime practice of countries like UAE, and historically it is categorized under camp 2; no need
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In European Union countries, transitioning from a temporary residence permit to a permanent residence permit is typically done inside the country: once one meets the eligibility based on length of stay or whatever, one files an application
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Have you ever been to the DRC? Its former colonial master plays almost no role in Congolese society. Belgium made little effort to spread its culture to its colony, rather like the Dutch in Indonesia. Then, after independence, most of the p
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For academic books, which are after all a substantial part of Anna, the publishers aren’t usually paying the editors if the book is a collection of papers. The editors got paid by the grant funding for the project that produced the research
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It is precisely because Anna has such incredible breadth that corporations should use those materials to train their LLMs; it is a public good. I work in an areal-studies field and my colleagues and I resolved some years ago to scan and OCR
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> any question that a chatbot can answer that winds up wasting the time of a real human being because the asker was too lazy or inconsiderate to use resources that don't waste anyone else's time first. Neurotypical members of G
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> I don't understand why this is a movement that is ethical to get behind. Someone spends months or years of their life dedicated to writing a book. And people celebrate the fact they can get it for free. Academics have never really
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> LLM corporations should be paying authors to read their books and benefit from them. I don’t think you realize just how huge the holdings of the shadow libraries are now. They have publications from all over the world, in myriad langua
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Mastodon developers have repeatedly stated that the fediverse is not just a protocol but a distinct culture and values, and federating with their servers means accepting that culture and values. So, even if one’s timeline doesn’t show those
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The countries that still employ the death penalty highly overlap with countries that disrespect intellectual property, to the point of bootleg media being openly sold in the market, a thriving local torrent scene, etc. Appealing to ancient
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> I used to be a young broke kid and piracy was one of the few way to access culture and education There has been a sea change in how academia perceives piracy. Scanned-book websites used to be something that only developing-country scho
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Try reading my post again. I wasn’t making a judgement about “a single post” but a trend that lasted months and months. But look at the Trending view right now (and tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that). The Mastodon instance
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I’m obviously talking about the main Mastodon instance and its Trending view [0]. The main instance has cultural prestige for the other instances that form the fediverse as people here normally define it and is regarded as exemplifying its
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> Microblogging in the fediverse somehow does not trend towards social pathologies. The fediverse, too, trends towards social pathologies; something or some things is causing craziness on all the mentioned platforms, even if the exact ma
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The topic here is a mutual thing, too. You can see that people sculpting trees are keeping the tree alive when it might otherwise be cut down. Possibly taking pains to ensure it gets enough water, too. After all, the sculpting process relie
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> History provides the same answer every time this question arises You mean that after some popular discontent arises, the top authorities will simply be overthrown by a competing faction within the ruling class, but that competing facti

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