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in a sense it is.

i spent a short while trying to figure out what the petition was and who it was supposed to be addressed to, only to conclude there wasn't a petition at all.

finally i found a statement in small print: This is not a petition to any government, agency or company.

so it's an ad to build a database of gullible and compulsive people. oh, well ...

i'm guessing it's a metaphor for neutrality. except it's a metaphor that isn't really aging well ...

> (1) Just read what it gave you, (2) then write your own take on it

completely agree except a crucial step is missing here:

(1.5) validate the accuracy/truth/relevance of it

your own sincere and human take on rubbish will still be rubbish. validating is indeed the more uncomfortable/demanding task here but if you omit it you become just a "human ai beautifier", and this will actually undermine the trust in you as a human. if you are going to omit validation just paste away, be honest and let it be obvious, you can then blame the ai.

i found that almost everything around me is evil, and after a period of hesitation i resolved to make the most of it.

> We're back to pre-google, but it's a lot worse now

a lot is worse now, but not shopping. on amazon some very specific items may be hard to find, and the search will throw a lot of crap at you, but you're still free to refine, compare and explore. finding exactly what you need and making an informed purchase has never been easier, and you get next day delivery (most of the time) plus exceptional return/refund policy and process. not sure about picking a, b or c? order all three, keep one, return the rest. i ofc don't (usually) do that, but i could. don't know how shopping could get any better/easier?

i don't like amazon as a company, it is evil and there is a lot to criticise, but the service and the value to the customer they provided has completely transformed shopping, for the better.

ofc long gone are the times where you could walk into a shop and talk to someone who actually had a clue about what they were selling and most likely was even an expert on the matter. that isn't coming back but that happened long before amazon.

writes an anodyne wall of text about his obsession with particular elements in a character table - ends with:

PS: if you want personalised advice from me on how to use punctuation correctly, you can now get it for $175/hour.

humans sometimes ...

ps: sasha, if you want me to read your future regurgitations you can now get that for €175/minute (limited availability, only skimread mode for now)

that's one term of the equation. the other is that war is the tool of banking cartels.

because the empire sees no other way but war to maintain dominance, scratch that, avoid dissolution. so folks all over the world prepare, and rightly so if u ask me.

spoiler alert: the cozy days of the colonial west are over. it will all be over soon, and one can hope but i don't guarantee surviving will be necessarily a lucky draw.

btw, this would explain fermi's paradox pretty well.

taking vacation and switching off is actually the sane thing for a person to do. the problem is that there is no provision for your post being covered while on vacation, and it's a problem in the enterprise/organization.

imo that a representative of the people misses a vote should just not be acceptable under any circumstances.

that's of course if we had to take "democracy" as an actually meaningful representation of the people. this was a cheap political maneuver to get a bill passed. happens everywhere. they would have gotten the bill through by any other means anyway.

that would be in an ideal democracy, though, in reality european parlamentarians don't even draft laws, they are only able to sign off on laws drafted by shady appointees of an equally shady and largely unelected (by the people) comission, take it or leave it. that, photo ops and declarations is their whole job, it shouldn't be too complicated to have a fucking substitute when on vacation.

i reply to reddit on twitter with a cheeky capture because they sent me this crap from a "noreply" email account. it seemed appropriate. tbh i don't really "use" neither "reddit" nor "twitter/x", the decision is easy.

this dark ongoing trend is not to be taken lightly, though. i know it is a lost battle. i know this is a shout in the void. there even isn't really much to say to who won't listen. i don't really care because i have no faith in humanity anymore. but there it is.

this literally is about ibm providing free cloud infrastructure and offering support for the community. what failures are you talking about? s390x is not an "exotic" architecture by any stretch and is pretty top-notch in terms of availability, reliance and performance, which is why it is still in use. the incentives both for the community supporting it and the manufacturer supporting the community seem pretty evident to me.

>I'm happy for competition in this space, specially because Deno can run true TypeScript directly and not just strip types like the current Node implementation.

this is misleading. there is no "running true ts". you will always be running pure js (until someone actually develops a "true" ts engine), and deno does "type stripping" just the same. the only difference is that it bundles the tools and makes it transparent and config-free which is more convenient (although more rigid).