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by graemep 26d ago
> The US governmental system does have it's issues (first past the post and it's effects being the most glaring), but isn't it the longest continuous democracy alive right now? Depends how you define it and what you count.
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by graemep 26d ago
Noneheless all he did was stand silently. There is no way it is right to criminalise standing and saying nothing.
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by graemep 26d ago
While they did not invent neo-paganism per se, they invented a particular form of it that fit their ideology. They also invented "positive Christianity". The Nazi leadership and their core followers were very much committed to get
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by graemep 26d ago
Such a statement could not be made a thousand years ago as it would be utterly anachronistic. The concept of "homosexual individuals" only exists as part of the modern concept of sexual orientation. A thousand years ago people tho
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by graemep 26d ago
> the Nazis claimed they officially fought in the name of god against the atheist communists. Not the Christian God. The aim of the Nazis was to replace the Christian ethos. Himmler said they aimed to get rid of the 10 commandments. They
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by graemep 26d ago
Christianity has no rules on how to treat slaves other than one or two sentences in the epistles of Paul telling people to be kind, and another encouraging freeing slaves. This is far form endorsing slavery. it was regarded as a necessity f
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by graemep 26d ago
> Most Christians from before the early-20th century, would consider your interpretation of Christianity as mostly heretical. No they would not. Mainstream Christian belief has not changed in a very long time. Tell me of any belief the C
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by graemep 26d ago
You have not covered anything like all cases these, and the article makes it clear "breaching a buffer zone" was standing silently while praying. > Poole Magistrates' Court heard the former serviceman had his head bowed an
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by graemep 26d ago
> Even if, in the past, we've had stuff like the crusades and the dark ages i It is interesting that both those examples (which are the "obvious" ones people pick") was really anything like what people imagine then to
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by graemep 26d ago
A lot of people know it, there are a huge number of existing installs that work well, the ecosystem is huge and not everyone wants to vibe code replacements. It is very empowering for people with limited skills.
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by graemep 26d ago
Christianity, Islam and Judaism are most people between then, as you agree. They explicitly all worship the same God so not "incompatible gods". I did not claim there were no disagreements about the nature of God, but that it only
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by graemep 27d ago
Why does the name end in "OS"?
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by graemep 27d ago
> Married women couldn't own their own property independently in England until 1870. This predates married women losing the right to control their own property https://lawandhistoryreview.org/article/married-wom
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by graemep 27d ago
> When that does not happen, they continue these behaviours into adulthood with the expected results. I am not sure this is true. People brought up the same way can be morally very different. People can be taught right and wrong and do e
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by graemep 27d ago
It also empowers the people trying to stop them.
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by graemep 27d ago
I thought it was the Turkish genocide of the Armenians? Hitler was also inspired by Sparta, maybe other societies too.
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by graemep 27d ago
> t. We’ve invented 3000+ gods and almost as many religions, most of them are incompatible with each other. 1. Most people believe in the same one God 2. A lot of the rest are compatible 3. Mistakes are not self-deception
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by graemep 27d ago
That is tiny. I just checked Uk legislation and it seems to require £1.2m cover for damage to property and unlimited cover for personal injury and deaths.
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by graemep 28d ago
A human driver would be more able to tell a toy gun from a real one.
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by graemep 28d ago
Do the vast majority never drive a long distance? If you use a car purely for short journeys maybe. Is this common in the US? Everywhere I have lived most people do atleast some long (i.e. an ICE car needs refuelling at some point) some lon
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by graemep 28d ago
My point is that it has worked for nuclear weapons because there are deterrents to using them. The acknowledged nuclear powers have all pledged to only use them in self defence. No one is going to develop AI and not use it.
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by graemep 28d ago
> nuclear non-proliferation has been pretty successful; we can use a similar model for AI. Development of nuclear weapons has continued, and a lot of effort goes into developing delivery systems. A number of countries have acquired nucle
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by graemep 28d ago
EVs that are 10 years old now will have a lower range than current models, AFAIK, so 80% of that might still be limiting. They will also be slower charging.
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by graemep 28d ago
I assume the US will also ban the use for foreign models as part of this. Pausing development means the people with the currently most advanced models are shielded from competition, especially if foreign competition is not allowed. A new ag
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by graemep 28d ago
I just remembered and checked. Noscript does allow blocking webgl on a per site basis.
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by graemep 29d ago
I have noticed that when asking LLMs to work with existing code, their output reflects the existing codebase: the better the existing code, the better the LLM code.
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by graemep 29d ago
It really ought to be something you can enable or disable per site. I was surprised to find its not.
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by graemep 1mo ago
its not a signficant difference though. 22% vs 23% for total reporting isolation.
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by graemep 1mo ago
Great way to put it. Ignoring collateral damage too.
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by graemep 1mo ago
It is used to mean a schedule of fees. Its a common usage in the UK and some other countries.

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