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‘A’ grades are suddenly everywhere, as introduction of stochastic parrot as a service reveals the education system is geared towards training parrots instead of teaching humans. What a surprise.

Translation: we loathe our suckers cultists customers, and we are going to be as shitty to them as the law allows.

A) cultural genocide has been a thing, in lots of places, for millenia. As one of the oldest civilisations, China has plenty of examples in its history, no need to rely on Americans for inspiration.

B) countries shouldn’t get a turn or an hall pass at crimes against humanity because other countries did or are doing the same.

USB-C can take 240W. The law just says all laptops under 100W need to use USB-C, not that others are not allowed.

Unfortunately much of Trump’s base cares more about their religious idols than they do about people, so this kind of news might actually make a difference for once.

Apparently only atheists read the catechism these days:

2309 The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. the gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time: - the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain; - all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective; - there must be serious prospects of success; - the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. the power of modem means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition.

Vance’s war of choice meets none of the criteria. There was no certain damage (Iran has been “Two Months Away”™ from having nukes for 20 years, and even if they had them doesn’t mean they would use them), negotiations were still officially ongoing, they went without even having concrete goals let alone a plan to end the war, and then started by bombing a school.

Without OS updates, apps gradually stop working and security goes down the drain. Nowadays this include apps required to interact with the state and basic services like banking. You can still do thing the old way, but it’s far less convinient.

The main exception to this is device firmware and operating system images that require them (most visibly for smartphones), but the law in that case focused on demanding 5 years of software updates. IMO it doesn’t go far enough - they should also be forced to publish everything required for the community to pick up the support at EOL - but it’s not being ignored.

Californian law makes mandatory on user setup and it doesn’t allow empty values. Or at least the most recent draft I read didn’t.

I said it before and said it again, the best solution for this is to have a standard api where device admins can optionally set a age group, and that treats an unset value as signalling unrestricted access. This is so simple it’s almost impossible to fuck up, parents get a parenting tool, most people can just ignore it, and big brother can go on a long vacation.

There was a case where an American woman screamed at a French baker for refusing a crisp $20 bill as payment

This happens depressingly often, especially in touristy areas.

Catholics can disagree with the pope on secular matters, the problem here is that the pope is quoting the catechism almost verbatim, and convert-boy is throwing a tantrum because he joined the church based on aesthetics and not any kind of conviction.

Did they forget to give him the brochure when he converted to Catholicism?

There always are when a politician had iron grip on power and lost support very fast.

Formally not yet, but lots of people are probably lining up to show that they aren’t really pro-Orban.

The villages I clicked at random were added 7 years ago.

Apple Maps’s main data source is OpenStreetMaps which definitely has the villages. So it doesn’t matter when the villages were removed, someone at Apple went out of their way to do it.

The massive turnout also made it impossible to pull anything funny. It’s relatively easy to slip in a few thousands of fake votes when you control the electoral apparatus, but trying to skew such a lopsided election with such an high participation rate would create participation rates above 100% in some places.

But this was already the case. When someone submitted code to Linux they always had to assume responsibility for the legality of the submitted code, that’s one of the points of mandatory Signed-off-by.