southerntofu

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by southerntofu 3y ago
Assuming you are commenting in good faith, no of course not your empty bedroom. A person's residence is protected by law in most countries, and this has nothing to do with the legal status of squatting. Occupying part of someone's
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You're talking about wildly different situations. If the owners wanted to lease the place for a fair price, it would never be empty long enough to be squatted. Most squatters are actually looking to rent a place but can't afford i
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by southerntofu 3y ago
It is by no means insane, especially if you consider the broader legal status. It's illegal to break into places, and it's illegal to occupy people's homes. What is called squatting refers to occupying empty/abandoned pl
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by southerntofu 3y ago
> Why would you invent something new when you could use a protocol that already exists and already has a vast ecosystem of libraries and users? Unfortunately that's exactly what Matrix did, and people keep repeating the same mistake
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by southerntofu 3y ago
EU law only applies in the EU, but an actor who doesn't respect EU law outside of the EU may be refused business in the EU. I agree the precedents are not strong to propose an outright ban (eg. Coca Cola murdering trade unionists and f
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by southerntofu 3y ago
The list is long, but for starters Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier are obvious cases, imprisoned since 1981 and 1977 respectively. The Black Panther and AIM had countless other political prisoners over the years. Since 2001, anti-terror
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by southerntofu 3y ago
I can't say it's the same when protesters occupy a building as a symbol or for logistics purposes, and when "protesters" are called upon by the outgoing president to take power by force. There were armed militiamen in th
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by southerntofu 3y ago
I'm gonna play the devil's advocate, but it's not as crazy as it sounds. Like some other commenter noted, the "shock doctrine" for example is a very widely documented/theorized phenomenon and not a conspiracy t
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by southerntofu 3y ago
You must watch a lot of french propaganda to have some romantic young rosy view on "hostage taking". Except for those who profit from the system's abuses (such as your colleagues) most people very much support the strikes. It
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Elections are the opposite of a strike. Elections were designed to prevent the people from exerting power, by dividing them along arbitrary lines (party lines) and then concentrating power in the hands of the few. Strikes are designed to re
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Who is "the population"? Here in France there's a major difference between people who watch the news and those who live in the real world. On the news we get fed propaganda by the business owners and fascist apparatus about a
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by southerntofu 3y ago
It's not just about the warming. Can you name one source of water in your neighborhood that's not polluted and can be drunk? Are you aware of the massive desertification due to industrialized agriculture? There's more than is
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by southerntofu 3y ago
This is not entirely wrong, but is misleading. Yes, striking is supposed to be a protected worker right, but there are entire regulations to follow for that ("préavis" / "droit de retrait" etc). However, it was not
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by southerntofu 3y ago
The trends are not reversible, but they may be attenuated if we don't adopt a "dooomed" worldview. In the french speaking world, there's a wave of eco-angriness starting to replace eco-anxiety and that's a welcome c
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Debian and other distro repositories would like to disagree. When the packager doesn't provide the final build, it becomes much harder for malware/adware to reach end users. Not technically impossible, but much harder than direct-
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by southerntofu 3y ago
> I know they would be easily scammed by shady apps that don't have to pass through the App Store's review process. My entire family uses F-Droid on ungoogled Androids. They have much less chances to be scammed/exploited b
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Not from that field, but "reading" the brain means electromagnetism. In real life, EM interference is everywhere from lights, electric devices, cellphone towers... EVERYWHERE. Parent meant brain waves are weak to detect compared t
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by southerntofu 3y ago
I feel like you are looking at it backwards. When the prosecutor proposes a plea bargain, it's usually because they don't have enough proof to get a proper conviction through a juge/jury, or at least it is so here in France.
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Have you ever faced custody and pre-trial detention? It's hard to imagine until you've gone through this. But yes, offering a definitely innocent person that was abused by the System the choice between two forms of punishment is s
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by southerntofu 3y ago
It's not just "can i beat this case"? It's also, "how much will it cost me?" and "how long will i stay imprisoned for before i'm found not guilty?". Of course, there's the chance you're
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by southerntofu 3y ago
I don't know where you live, but in France and surrounding countries expropriations are certainly "go away or else". It's very common for the cops to evict people for industrial projects that have been found illegal by t
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by southerntofu 3y ago
As a westerner myself, i think you have a misguided view of the West that's biased by a higher socio-economic status. Safety regulations are often not followed in the West. See for example "Greenfell tower", "rue d&#x2
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by southerntofu 3y ago
> "As far as I know there's a sizeable number of devs who don't intend to ever rely on copilot" I'm one of those. I've been programming for a while now and there's no way i'm gonna trust a neural n
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Replying to a now-deleted comment > I see from your post history you are operating with a definition of "fascism" that counts any highly capitalist state as fascist A definition of fascism is the merger of State and corporate i
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by southerntofu 3y ago
> I mean AOC, Bernie, and Biden are fairly distinct politically but all "left." That's very debatable. I'm not from the US, but from what i gather AOC/Bernie would be considered centrists. Center-left would be th
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Well it's not just historically debunked. There's plenty of modern examples of common resources being well-managed. Take free public transit in some european cities, for example: they're not the trashy full-of-grafiti hellsca
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Le Pen is not "quite popular". Except in the rich neighborhoods where she's from, it's hard to find anyone supporting her views. However, even in the poor neighborhoods where i'm from, it's more and more common
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by southerntofu 3y ago
Sure, but that's true also with cryptocurrencies. You can make donations to non-profits / free-software with them, or acquire hosting services (web/dns/vps/vpn). I don't think technology is neutral in the gener
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by southerntofu 3y ago
I don't think that's it. They have to do it because they themselves have bills to pay. However, if we're not talking about big industrial farms, most farmers are very much below the poverty line and have massive debt. So it&#
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by southerntofu 3y ago
A decentralized P2P verification network is not hard. What's hard is building a global consensus to order these transactions, and there's not really a satisfying solution to that problem. > It's also not obvious to me th

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