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  • zionazi libs b like "its good actually"

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  • The people hold them accountable, through the mechanisms I described previously

    So, free and fair elections. Well, now we're back to square one, and pretty much describing how Western democracies work.

    Nordic countries offer sizable concessions to their working classes because the Soviets were right next to them, and already offered better safety nets.

    Ah, yes, the soviet Union, definitely not imperialist. Sarcasm aside, they literally did not allow their population to leave. They killed people who dared to leave. That's not a sign of things going well, to mention just one.

    The state serves private interests in capitalism

    Just because you repeat it a hundred times doesn't make it true. The very mechanisms you described are used (with varying degrees of success depending on how well the democracy functions) to keep the state accountable to the people.

    you're again giving examples of concessions given largely because of working class organization, not through the "democratic processes."

    So then why are these mostly things that parties campaigned on, got voted into power for and then implemented?

    Fascism is a result of the decay in capitalism and imperialism

    That's a very, very broad interpretation that many historians would disagree with. But let's say, for the sake of argument, that it's the case. How do these capitalist structures decay into imperialism then?

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  • consultative democracy

    Yes, but who enforces the consulting and the usage of the information gathered from consulting? Without accountability, that's just fantasy and/or simping for authoritarianism. Let's not forget, every authoritarian leader, party or Organisation has its supporters who will claim they're not authoritarian.

    Capitalism inevitably tends towards centralization of the essential means of production and distribution into fewer and fewer hand

    Except when it doesn't. There are plenty of examples where countries that have capitalism based economies moved significantly to the left. Look at Nordic countries, for instance.

    Very few leftist parties can get anything done in western countries because the media is largely controlled by capitalists

    What about all the public broadcasters? There are many countries where they're quite strong. And as to parties getting things done, what about:

    • Minimum wages
    • Welfare systems
    • Massive improvements in workplace safety
    • Universal healthcare
    • Childcare

    I could go on and on, but that's not the point. The point is that fascists are trying to weaken the electoral system because they know how effective it can be. Otherwise, they wouldn't give a fuck. And part of the way they do that is by downplaying its efficacy in order to wear it down and eventually get rid of it.

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  • A single party system can be more democratic if it's a consultative democracy and reflects the will of the majority, like how it works in China

    Oh really? How do you hold the people in power accountable, then, if they're part of the only party that is allowed to exist (which that party itself decided, what a coincidence!)?

    In capitalism, a tiny class of people controls the most essential means of production and distribution for society.

    False, that is the result of capitalism when it goes unchecked, not the definition. And different countries have different levels of checks on capitalism.

    The state represents their interests, and any parties that exist must represent them

    Yeah, no, that's not the case. Otherwise explain to me how many western countries have leftist parties and even marxist-leninist parties. It's just not the will of the majority. Which leads me back to the point: your (or even my) satisfaction with the results don't measure how democratic a country is, despite the FUD spread by authoritarians and wannabe authoritarians to destabilize democracies by encouraging people to not participate.

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  • How the hell are elections not indicative of democracy? I mean, just because you have elections doesn't mean you have a proper democracy (e.g. if there is only one party available), but how those elections are run says a lot. They're the core of any democracy. Democracy is, by definition, the people being ruled by the people. So you need some form of governance that is accountable to the people.

    And capital is far from the only thing that determines if parties are viable. Yes, it plays too much of a role (especially in the US, but there are many western countries that aren't the US), but let's not pretend it's some mysterious being that decides everything. That ignores so many important factors.

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  • Just because the majority of the people in a country disagree with you doesn't mean it's not a democracy. In many western countries there are (still) free and fair elections. This is verifiable. But democracy lives off of active participation, and there are people (read: fascists) who see democracy as a threat and do everything they can to sow FUD in order to reduce election participation.

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  • ...maybe because many westerners are worried about losing their democracy? I mean, when democracies Fall, they usually don't make room for better democracies, historically speaking.

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    What is the aim of all the AI investment?

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  • Unfortunately there are a lot of answers that aren't really properly explaining why and just taking the opportunity to piss on AI...

    LLMs (the currently hyped form of AI) is seen by many as the "next big thing". And honestly, it's not surprising. LLMs are impressive. They're the closest we've ever gotten to mimicking human behavior. A lot of us have seen a lot of LLM-generated stuff and are sick of it, but think back to the first time you saw or heard an LLM string together sentences that are grammatically not gibberish, and in many cases quite coherent. That's already enough to spark interest from companies and investors.

    And the development isn't stopping, at least not in the next while. Even in the last few years LLMs have noticeably improved. And the question is: where does it go from here? There's definitely a scenario where this whole thing is a bubble that pops at some point, 90% of the things the current use cases for LLMs disappear as pointless, and we're left with the remaining 10% that actually help people. But there's also a scenario where LLMs improve to the point where they can vastly improve productivity. There's definitely precedent - think computer and Internet or steam engines. And in those cases, those who got in at the right time made a lot of money. Think of the railroad barons and today's tech companies. There were people then who said "why do we need all this, it's terribly unreliable and not worth the expense", as well. The flip side of this is: there are many people who thought other technologies would be really successful who turned out to be completely wrong, think blimps and Google Glass (stories which, by the way, are often quickly forgotten since they are, in hindsight, irrelevant). That's one part of the answer.

    The other part of the answer is that in the long term, there's generally an increase of productivity, and companies try to outcompete each other. It's nothing new - companies who were able to use the Internet to be more efficient, for instance, survived much better than those who didn't. The companies who used steam engines to decrease the costs survived much better than those who didn't. So, naturally, if companies see something they might be able to use to become more efficient, they do what they can to adopt it before everyone else. (Who should profit from those efficiencies is an entirely different question.)

    And that's really the problem: it's hard to know exactly where this whole thing is going. After all the hype dies down I see some use cases, improving search results being one of the main ones, or improving the auto complete functions so we can use them much better than we currently do. I don't see the current environment with AI chatbots being offered at every corner as sustainable or something that will last. But I could also be wrong. You generally never know it 100% for sure when you're in a bubble, you only know for sure when the bubble pops.

  • Hello Kitty shinkansen makes final run after 8 years of operation

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  • That's somewhat average, I would say. I was actually told that the Japanese only keep their high speed trains on service for about 20 years, this is obviously longer than that. In many other countries, high speed trains built in the 90s are still in service. Mind you, the birth of high speed trains was around 1990, so it's hard to really compare with much. Conventional rail vehicles can last very long, though - rolling stock that is 40 years old or older isn't exactly the exception. Often the problem is less the state of the rolling stock (especially with the older stuff, which was often built more solidly), but passengers' expectations. In fact, passenger expectations changing too quickly for durable, long lasting trains can be a significant issue.

  • Penne alla vodka I made the other day

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  • Did somebody say Vodka???

  • Badger Badger Badger Video Officially Preserved by British Film Institute

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  • Narwhal song when?

  • Passengers Groan as Humanoid Robot on Flight Causes Hour-Long Delay at Oakland Airport

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  • Don't diss Amtrak, they're actually doing what they can to make their travel offerings as decent as possible.

  • There Ought be a Word for "FOSS" Projects Whose Infrastructure Involves a Lot of Proprietary Services

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  • This is an age old discussion. The FSF doesn't "approve" of Debian because it contains proprietary drivers (which are already in the Linux kernel). Even when Debian didn't have these drivers by default and you had to go out of your way to download an unofficial version that did have these drivers, that was too much for the FSF. Thing is, in most cases you need those drivers to get your hardware working properly. For instance (and IIRC), the latest WiFi version that has a WiFi card available where the drivers are fully open source is WiFi 4 (back then WiFi N).

    There will always be a compromise (setting aside the ID thing on Discord, which is a whole other can of worms and affects open source software as well). Even if you're running only Linux (or FreeBSD or whatever other open source OS), there are in all likelihood still closed source drivers being used. Or, you decide to limit yourself to WiFi 4 or ethernet connections, for instance. OK, now you don't have any closed source drivers anymore, yay! Except... The processor and processor architecture your computer is running on isn't open source. Shit. And in fact, there currently is only one open source processor architecture: RISC-V, but that still has a bit of a ways to go until it's ready for mass adoption. And even then, I'm sure you'd find something closed source in whatever computer you'd be using. It's always (at least in the current day and age) a question of how much you can realistically have open source.

    The situation with that game definitely seems a little more extreme in the other direction, unfortunately. The question that I'm wondering is: the game is open source, what's preventing you from compiling it yourself? That way you don't have to run it through steam. And if there aren't proper instructions, check the license of the original project, it may just be a violation of that license (since a clear compilation path is practically a part of the source code, since without you can't compile it and thus use it properly otherwise).

  • Bugs Rust Won't Catch | corrode Rust Consulting

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  • The goal is to create a more secure version of the program. Since (safe) rust eliminates entire classes of security relevant bugs, a rust version has the potential to be much more secure that the C version. And since rust can eliminate entire classes of bugs, we can put more energy into finding bugs like the ones presented in the article.

    The weaker license is unfortunate, though.

  • The Five Stages of Grief

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  • Yeah, the cope is strong on this one.

  • Anon observes redditors

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  • How is it disrespectful to women who have experienced "similar" sexual assault (bearing in mind, this wasn't sexual assault, she literally asked for it and planned it all out)? By that logic, it would be disrespectful to women who have experienced sexual assault for women to have sex at all.

  • My brother wants to for Father's Day is volunteer at the local women's shelter. Not really a father but has two dogs. But is afraid to even ask because he is male. How does he go about this?

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  • Ouch, I looked through a bit of stuff... This person seems to have been through some shit (to put it mildly) and is having trouble processing things. Reminds me of my lowest points when I was in an abusive situation as well as the time after. I hope things get better.

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  • The question is really: what is your goal? You say Open Source software development - which software are you talking about? Are there certain projects you're looking at? Are you looking at starting your own project? Are you trying to move the open source ecosystem forward generally? (Also, what is your current skillset? Are you just getting into development or are you fairly experienced already in other platforms?)

    If it's the first, follow the project and see what they're doing. If it's the second: look at the requirements. Most likely though, you will be stuck with Android, because the iPhone is even worse, and Linux on phones is far from being daily driver worthy for the vast majority of people. Alternatively, as people mentioned, you could try a Cross-Platform framework, but do be aware that these have downsides, as well. If it's the third: why not try to see what you can do to improve the situation of Linux on phones? Depending on what you're already capable of, you may already have the prerequisites to move that area forward, something badly needed IMO.

  • me_irl

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  • I know it's a meme, but sometimes you can really help people by just listening. Sometimes that's all they need. And they've chosen you. See it as an honor.

  • Shining a light behind this metal credit card.

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  • Doing that can reveal a whole bunch of interesting patterns. I was repairing something on a circuit board once and was trying to figure out the wiring. Trying to get more light, I shone my phone's flashlight at it. At some point I suddenly realized that the circuit board lets a bit of light through. I realized that, at least for some of the board, I could shine a flashlight onto the other side and see pretty exactly how the circuit was laid out. It also looked really, really cool.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    unknownuserunknownlocation @kbin.earth

    Yo dawg, I heard you like shit

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
    unknownuserunknownlocation @kbin.earth

    I'm so sick and tired of people posting bad opinion columns and acting like it represents the paper it's printed in

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    unknownuserunknownlocation @kbin.earth

    How do we prevent QR codes from containing swastikas or similar?

  • Mental Health @lemmy.world
    unknownuserunknownlocation @kbin.earth

    Is it possible that therapy can make things worse?

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
    unknownuserunknownlocation @kbin.earth

    Nice guys often do finish last, and I'm tired of hearing the opposite