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by bigfudge 11mo ago
Yeah, well in this case it would be a feature rather than a bug to be squeamish about outright theft and repackaging of copyrighted materials for profit. If only it would also apply to their acquisitions too...
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by bigfudge 11mo ago
It’s that hard even with a user in the loop to press buttons. Verifying bots is even worse and the docs are either non existent or wrong. This is such a shame because element otherwise does exactly what we want but it makes me nervous it’s
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by bigfudge 11mo ago
My guess here is that this is not treatment as sic but assessment and that if you’re not appealing for your licence back you could just skip it. Perhaps a German could comment? It’s weird to me how right wing Americans seem primed to catas
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by bigfudge 11mo ago
But people and corporates are demonstrably not rational actors. There are thousands of studies documenting our inability to properly track and think about risks. Plus, as this story shows, if the fines are large enough they just phone up th
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by bigfudge 11mo ago
It’s not just old people that suffer. I’m slightly ashamed to admit I started the 100-tap process when I first used that input before realising it was dumb and googling what to do. They really are bad.
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by bigfudge 11mo ago
This sort of argument is reductio ad absurdum. At the start of COVID there was no 99.999% sure scientific evidence about anything. Policy was drawn up on the basis of first principles, both on the knowledge of the virus and on behavioural n
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by bigfudge 11mo ago
Useful factchecking of the "bed wetting boy racer" stories here: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/24/motability-d...
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by bigfudge 11mo ago
I agree with your assessment of the UK government, but I think you overstate the degree to which we are divided, aside from the hysterical rantings of the right wing press. You are implying division among the public when in fact the divisio
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by bigfudge 1y ago
The problem with this argument is that you imply that the left could simply choose to do away with what you call progressivism at no cost. In fact, what you’re calling progressivism and what is rejected by many Trump voters our fundamental
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by bigfudge 1y ago
Your final para sounds sarcastic - was that intended? I’d agree that proper coverage is unlikely, but it undercuts the sentiment of the first para.
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by bigfudge 1y ago
That might be a short term strategy to avoid losing market share in the states and it’s rational if you think the tariffs are temporary. For goods like iPhones which are truly global that might last. But It doesn’t look like a stable equili
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by bigfudge 1y ago
But this really isn’t about justifying spending as a moral good. The main changes which accelerate this debt are tax breaks for the wealthiest. Welfare spending and public investment are about a shared sense of public good. That’s really wh
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by bigfudge 1y ago
I think you need to expand here. My understanding is that there is a lot of law you can fall foul of pen testing and sharing vulns on products of companies you don't work for.
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by bigfudge 1y ago
This is so lazy. I literally posted a list of things that typify facism in an article from 30 years ago. In case it’s not clear: Trump looks like a racist and a facist to many Europeans. He’s stoking division for policitical ends, extending
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by bigfudge 1y ago
I don't think Facism is a meaningless concept, or the use of it to describe Trump/MAGA is empty. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism --- In his 1995 essay "Ur-Fascism", cultura
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by bigfudge 1y ago
Doesnt this become the developer? Or perhaps a specialist insurer who develops expertise and experience to indemnify them?
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by bigfudge 1y ago
I think the government in Iran gets their power as other antidemocratic authoritarian regimes do— by using a small number of violent people to intimidate other normal citizens and punishing them severely for protesting or campaigning for ch
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by bigfudge 1y ago
I mostly agree. Although for many years the only evidence for harm from smoking was correlational.
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by bigfudge 1y ago
Interestingly, I saw data from a road safety programme for young people that showed skid pan training actually made young men less safe not more, because they became even more overconfident about their ability to “react quickly” if bad thin
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by bigfudge 1y ago
When sites like these host a large part of our culture, I think it’s reasonable to think about non compliance because the alternative is essentially to become a digital hermit and not to be able to understand the world one is in. I never a
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by bigfudge 1y ago
> That is quite the defeatist attitude. Society becoming shittier isn’t inevitable, though inaction and giving up certainly helps that along. This feels like kicking someone when they’re down! Given the current state of corporate and pol
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by bigfudge 1y ago
If social media existed then, no doubt Sinn Fein would be on there. The restrictions were only on the voice— not the words— of people like Adams on national TV channels. I really don’t think the UK treatment 40 years ago is that unusual a
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by bigfudge 1y ago
The IRA were literally blowing up shopping centres around the time their speech was restricted (not banned) on national TV. Sinn Fein mps were elected because of our weird fptp system and the extreme concentration of nationalist voting bloc
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by bigfudge 1y ago
Slavery and segregation are as much a blight on US history as the holocaust on Germany’s. It’s important that the US is not proud of its entire history. I’d rather not have obvious political hacks making decisions about what is on display a
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by bigfudge 1y ago
Few European countries have free speech in the way the US does because their legal frameworks explicitly recognise potential harms from speech and freedoms speech can inhibit and attempt to balance these competing freedoms. I don’t think th
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by bigfudge 1y ago
Decided not to, but continued to actively campaign on. It’s created a really weird situation where the actual policy choices are hugely disconnected from the rhetoric and emotion in the debate. Legal immigration from South Asia dominates il
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by bigfudge 1y ago
I think there’s more difference than there has been since the 1980s. People really underestimate how far the Tory base (and parliamentary party following closely) have shifted to the right. The willingness of sitting Tory MPs to knowingly l
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by bigfudge 1y ago
How is this true if it’s actually GPL as gp claimed?
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by bigfudge 1y ago
But this essentially has to collapse down to 2 or 3 parties unless these preferences are for graphically concentrated. Which they don’t seem to be. Reform might wipe out the tories with Lib Dem’s cleaning up the scraps, but that doesn’t rea
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by bigfudge 1y ago
Surely gut feelings are how we get populists voted in? I’d prefer people sat and thought carefully for a while than trusted their gut!

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