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Comment · 2 months ago
Quitting social media is probably one of the best things you could do to bring stress levels back to normal!
Comment · 1 year ago
Oh boy do they love the free market!
Comment · 1 year ago
You should have seen what happened a few years ago during a thing called covid
Comment · 2 years ago
Or perhaps they try to do what socialists are supposed to be doing, namely giving the people a place where they can live.
Comment · 2 years ago
The idea of Italy as a very specific place is much older than Italy as an independent, unified nation state though. A famous example from Dante’s Inferno: «Sì com’a Pola presso del Carnaro, ch’Italia chiude e i suoi termini bagna» (Inferno, Canto IX, 113-114).
Comment · 2 years ago
Oh boy am I glad to live in a first world country where this is not an issue.
Comment · 2 years ago
So far, it’s always been the other way round though.
Comment · 4 years ago
> Modern machine learning systems are not based on biological and symbolic rules of old fashioned artificial intelligence, where you could uphold a principle of noncontradiction as you can in traditional logic.

As if politicians had anything to do with noncontradiction.

Comment · 4 years ago
> there is a lot of evil in this world

Maybe, but evil vs good is very subjective and leads to paradoxes like the “anti-capitalist software license” not being usable by one of the most popular examples of anti-capitalism in history, namely the CNT militias in revolutionary Catalonia.

> a bunch of armed hooligans like the police or military

Your hooligan is someone else’s freedom fighter though. /me looks dramatically in the general direction of Kiev

Comment · 4 years ago
With remarkable consistency across space and time, those lists have historically grown from “the capitalists” to “their allies” to “the counter-revolutionaries” to “the enemies of The People“ to “the enemies of The Party”
Comment · 4 years ago
One thing the human race should have learned from history is that once you start restricting individual freedom, you know where you begin but you don't know where you end.

You don't want corporations to use your software, fine, fuck Google. Then one day you find out that the police may use the software, so you add "law enforcement" to the list of fields of endeavor you want to restrict.

Then it's the military, and that's where the definitions get tricky. The "Cooperative Nonviolent Licenses", just as an example, would have probably not been usable by the Anarchist Confederal militias in the Spanish Civil War.

A think tank promoting nuclear energy uses the license, is that fine? How about a neo-nazi nonprofit?

Soon enough the list of groups you don't like is gonna get long.

Comment · 4 years ago
At first I read this as “apologies for git”, that would have been much more interesting

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