Honestly, nowadays a part of the “birds and bees” talk should include an explanation of privacy settings and common Internet scams.
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Absolutely not; I wish all kids argued their case using well-thought-out presentations
Bravo@eviltoast.orgto Technology@lemmy.world•Former Meta exec (Nick Clegg) says asking for artist permission will kill AI industryEnglish35·3 days agoIn principle I agree. The problem is that there are countries which don’t care about respecting law and if you kill AI in the West, all that will happen is the West will get left behind.
Bravo@eviltoast.orgtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•got the bratwurst from the back of the grillEnglish19·3 days agoMy limited knowledge of history suggests that it’s always something really random that finally sets off a revolution. Real “straw that broke the camel’s back” stuff. For example, Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire and suddenly the entire Middle East is experiencing the Arab Spring. There was a lot of discontent leading up to it, but in the grand scheme of things, nobody could have predicted that that would be the final straw.
To borrow some terminology from Criminal Minds, there’s a difference between a stressor and a trigger.
Well it is, in the sense that rather than you becoming slightly better at things, everybody else becomes much worse, thereby you are still above average even though you have gotten worse.
Bravo@eviltoast.orgto Games@sh.itjust.works•Why old games never die (but new ones do) – Pawlicker's BlogEnglish8·7 days agoWell, yes. It’s no use just paying and not actually downloading it, for obvious reasons but also for the reasons I assume you mean, whereby once you have the files you’re no longer reliant on GOG to keep them available.
Bravo@eviltoast.orgto Games@sh.itjust.works•Why old games never die (but new ones do) – Pawlicker's BlogEnglish141·7 days agoJust buy your games on GOG. No DRM
Bravo@eviltoast.orgto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If someone gave you 5 billion dollars to improve the world in any way you see fit, what would you do?5·8 days agoI would develop some city neighborhoods and set up some community land trusts to run them.
Bravo@eviltoast.orgto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•This section of Jim Carrey's Wikipedia Article1·8 days agodeleted by creator
Bravo@eviltoast.orgto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.31·9 days agoThat’s a rug pull, though. Both the American and EU states only agreed to join their respective unions in the first place on the promise that these systems of balances would give them this level of input on union policy. Without such assurances, what small nation would ever agree to become inevitably subordinate to the whims of a larger state? It would never happen, and the western world would remain fractured into small nation-states constantly warring with each other, failing to cooperate and probably getting picked off, one by one, by nations like China or Russia which have no such qualms about forcing a union through conquest.
No, these unions were negotiated in good faith and if we’re unhappy with them now, then the answer should be secession. Brexit proved that nobody is forced to remain in the EU if they don’t like the deal.
Bravo@eviltoast.orgto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.22·9 days agoThe EU has a similar system:
- Each EU member state gets ONE seat at the EU Council, regardless of population. This is comparable to the US Senate.
- Differences in population size are accounted for by EU Parliament, where the number of MEPs (Members of European Parliament) a member state gets is determined by population. This is comparable to the US House of Representatives.
- Finally there is the EU Commission which is the executive branch, comparable to the US president and cabinet.
The point of the EU Council/US Senate is to protect isolated regions from getting steamrolled by urban regions. Farmers are comparatively few relative to city industry workers, but any nation, union or federation is built on the back of farming. However, due to the distance and lack of interaction between city dwellers and rural dwellers, it’s easy for city dwellers to grow disconnected from the reality of just how important the rural dimension is, and vote for laws that only suit the city. It is utterly necessary to create a system which balances the two. Otherwise you’d have, like, three states (New York, California, Texas) making all the decisions, with the other 47 states having to like it or lump it.
Yeah, I was testing how robust the formula was by using the first adjective, curse word, and noun that I could see in my immediate environment. I’m not convinced it holds up.
Nothing much you designated pussy field.
Bravo@eviltoast.orgto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.1·10 days agoPut simply: if RCV had been in place for the US presidential race in 2024, the Gaza issue wouldn’t have split the Democratic vote.
Bravo@eviltoast.orgto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.1·10 days agoDon’t blame me; I voted for Kodos
Bravo@eviltoast.orgto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.1·10 days agoi’m not advocating that
You don’t have to. Forbes already publishes a real-time up-to-date list of the richest people in the world.
https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#5b60b1453d78
It can be sorted by net worth, country of residence, industry the person made their fortune in, or age.
Bravo@eviltoast.orgto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.1·10 days agoor sometimes no candidate
How does FPTP help in that scenario?
risks more people accidentally voting different than they wanted
Can you describe how that might happen?
Bravo@eviltoast.orgto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.1·10 days agoIt’s not just the USA that’s in dire need of it. The UK should also adopt it. First Past The Post (FPTP) voting encourages polarized extremism. Because it functions on a Ricky Bobby-esque “if you’re not first, you’re last” philosophy that punishes moderates for being moderate.
Bravo@eviltoast.orgto Games@lemmy.world•"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"English6·10 days agoPoe’s law is an adage of Internet culture which says that, without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Poe’s law is based on a comment written by Nathan Poe in 2005 on christianforums.com, an Internet forum on Christianity. The message was posted during a debate on creationism, where a previous poster had remarked to another user: “Good thing you included the winky. Otherwise people might think you are serious”.[4]
The reply by Nathan Poe read:[1]
Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won’t mistake for the genuine article.
The original statement of Poe’s law referred specifically to creationism, but it has since been generalized to apply to any kind of fundamentalism or extremism.[3]
I don’t have kids so I dunno if it’s still happening, but my dad had a brief and very awkward conversation with me to tell me that if I had sex to make sure to use a condom but if I ever did get a girl pregnant I could always tell him and it’d be OK, we’d figure it out, etc. Nothing fancy or anything; just the essentials to make sure I wasn’t a dumbass about sex.