I 100% agree that progressive liberalism doesn’t work, but that doesn’t stop them trying. Center-left capitalists love them as well, because they get to look like the nice guys while keeping the focus away from any serious regulation or reform.

This picture perfectly encapsulates what I mean when I say progressive liberal:

There is a real difference between the two. Others have made the point that CNN doesn’t care, it’s all just scary “THE LEFT” wording to them, but the difference in political theory is the following:

Progressive liberals care about social issues, but not economic ones. They will actually care and move the needle on LGBTQ+ rights, the gender gap, minority rights, etc, but as a liberal they’ll also care about the free market and the wellbeing of corporations.

A social democrat wants to regulate and control the economy for the benefit of people. They aren’t going to go full communist and sieze the means of production, but they will actively oppose economic interests in order to improve the standard of living.

The constant flipflopping between calling him a “progressive liberal” and a “democratic socialist” is annoying. Pick a lane, CNN. He’s one or the other, and from what I’ve heard from him he’s very clearly a democratic socialist.

Like it or not (I certainly don’t), we’ve gone full circle to the old server-client relationship instead of the peer-to-peer model we had for a while. Almost everything is in the browser now, which means we need EU infrastructure. That takes time, money and effort to set up, even before you start dealing with user inertia.

Can’t blame him for walking right up to the line of acceptability. If he’d have actually laid the blame where it’s fully deserved, he wouldn’t have a fine, he’d be defenestrated.

That’s for people who for whatever reason don’t use a bank. If you have a bank, it’s with your bank.

That’s not what this is. It’s not a digital wallet: it’s a transfer method. It’s essentially the direct equivalent of the virtual debit cards most banks are offering these days.

I’m not on PopOS, but as a general rule of thumb always do a backup before a major version upgrade. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.

Foundry VTT is amazing. Been running Kingmaker for almost 2 years on it with the official module (very slow pace, 1-2 sessions a month). I’d argue it’s basically mandatory if you’re serious about online TTRPGs.

“You can’t have programs that do multiple things! Any program that is multi-use is ebil. Standardized syntax and functionality between different related systems? NO! PROGRAM DO ONE THING!”

Adam Something, is that you?

That chemical can be very deadly. If enough of it gets into your airway, it can cause asphyxiation.

The GMan has broken containment and is now wandering through our timeline, inserting people into the right points to change the future. I guess this explains the whacky wild ride we’re currently on.

Yup. This is the solution to US control of cashless transactions. The sooner the digital euro can be agreed upon, standardized and rolled out at the EU level, the better.

As a Romanian in a country still outside the Eurozone, I hope there’s provisions to allow us to use it for RON transactions while our economy is still too much of a mess to join.

Why write more than necessary? Surely 26 = 26 is enough.

I edit PDFs all the time for work. It’s a pain in the ass, but perfectly doable. Trying to prevent people from editing files by making it annoying is not in any way a sane strategy.

Altered Carbon is a great little sci-fi show that explores what might happen in such a scenario. According to the writer, the slow accumulation of money making money would trend to infinite, leaving a world that makes what we have now look like an egalitarian utopia by comparison.

The point here isn’t that genai is ethical: the point is that Ponzi schemes are a very specific kind of crime which doesn’t really map to genai.

Let’s assume that all genai is theft. That still wouldn’t make it a Ponzi scheme. Ponzi schemes are, very specifically, when an investment company sends money to new investors from their old investments while lying and claiming it’s from profit from the new investment, in order to keep new investors coming in.

The specific crime that all genai companies are very clearly and obviously guilty of is copyright infringement. Making the internet worse is unfortunately not a crime.

In a hypothetical well-crafted treaty (which I agree Russia would never sign) there would be penalties attached to breaking the conditions. Sanction snap-backs, for example.

Should have read the fine print my friend