There is only one guy who guessed correct religion after particularly vivid mushroom trip, but he’s still in hell because he started doing correct things for the wrong motivation.

Wait, 8? Out of two 214? So that means 206 democrats didn’t do that knowing how much it’s actually terrible politically? That’s a pretty good result, I wonder why nobody is talking about how good it is, huh?

Going there was never a problem, the part where they started killing people and bombing shit is what we take an issue with.

Not saying that’s what happened, but if I ever find myself in a similar situation, I’m faking my death and moving halfway across the world in heartbeat. After I get the money of course

Don’t know what is involved in your process, but recently I made some baked vegies with cheese in a ceramic tray, and the only difference is, I had to run dishwasher on a long mode instead of regular eco mode I use. Then I wiped it with a towel and it was as clean as it was the day I bought it. I don’t know what to tell you, it’s a normal German dishwasher, nothing out of the ordinary. It’s a new one, the house I’m renting in is like 3 years old, maybe that’s the difference. But my previous one was some older model, and I also don’t remember any troubles with it.

What weak ass dishwasher are you using? Normal ones will clean everything from everything.

It’s mobik, not mobnik

Why would anyone waste enormous amount of energy making a new engine, when forked Gecko works and you can backport Mozilla’s updates to it. Same way with Linux, everyone uses Linux kernel because it exists.
When/if those project die, that’s when you’ll start seeing replacements, and at some point the best or most popular will be seen as mainstream and will be a focus point of all the enthusiasts. Like Firefox now.
There is absolutely no reason to believe that a corporation is required to have a good opensource project, just because right now a corporation maintains this specific one.

These forks are in essence just preconfigured and hardened Firefox

That’s also not true for a lot of the projects. Forks maintain their own code, porting new updates from Mozilla’s stuff, but they aren’t required to port everything, and that’s the big reason to use them.

Outside of America ice cream machines work. The rest of the world doesn’t do monopolies very well, so mcdolands can actually fix their machine when it’s broke, instead of waiting forever for an authorised fixer from one company. Also, people get a living wage working there, so they care a bit more.

Of all the people who wouldn’t surprise me with a stance like that, she doesn’t surprise me the most.

if Mozilla stopped maintaining Firefox, almost all of its forks would die.

That’s an assumption. You’re severely underestimating the amount of work open source maintainers put into those things.

Would these people pay […] Canonical for their work?

Plenty of nice distribs exist without being maintained by a corporation. Good on them, for getting to have a bunch of money of the opensource, but it’s not a necessary model for the opensource projects to survive.

I see a lot of people shit on Firefox for integrating LLM-related features

And that’s good, as it should be. They crammed this bullshit that nobody asked for, and reluctantly gave a button to opt out a year later, and it’s still on by default. This is bad behavior regardless of your stance on it.

Powerful can also get away with fucking over the population using said agents* while we all not looking at them doing so.

*agent is a python script that runs in a loop and asks an llm the endless questions about fucking over the population

Targeting AI for this kind of thing is just a distraction.

Emphasis mine

It’s true for every type of societal issue. Let’s just assume that for every problem, number one thing that we need to do is eat the rich hold the powerful accountable. But while we figure out how to do that, let’s at least not ignore the actual smaller problem that we’re dealing with.
A house is on fire because of poor regulations and corruption, poor regulations and corruption needs to be dealt with for sure. A house is on fire though, so it’s also important to deal with.

I personally convinced more than one anti-abortion person out of their anti-abortion position, by definitively showing them that at the time abortion is performed, the fetus not yet posses the ability to feel. Those people were convinced into their anti-abortion position by those lying pictures of doctors going up there with sharp instruments and killing fully formed person that screams for help, and when discovered that it’s not the case, abandoned their stance.
So it’s a point of contention for at least someone, I know that.

You should never, ever, under any circumstances, cherry-pick what parts of studies to read and use that to draw conclusions. You need to read all the words, experts believe all the words in the study they publish, unless it’s a citation predicated with “some idiots who are wrong also saying:”.
Whoever told you your way of reading lied to you, possibly taught you wrong way on purpose as a joke.

They are not even pro life, they’re against women’s autonomy, they’re perfectly happy letting a woman and a fetus die as long as she doesn’t receive healthcare she needs.
But to the point, incredibly common anti-abortion “argument” is this appeal to emotions, they lie that fetus has developed senses and actually wants to live and all that. All this shit isn’t rational, and yet very common. You’ll find a significant number of people who will use this “but it’s not a fetus, it’s a person with feeling, dreams, job, mortgage, and depression already”, like it’s an argument, but wouldn’t answer yes to your question to “will it be ok if it didn’t have this things?”.

Is that how you read the articles? Is that how you expect everyone to read the articles? You just skip to conclusion and pretend that you now understand what it’s all about? Bloody hell, no wonder then. I know people like to link studies that don’t support their points, and I now get why, you actually think you do.

There is more people who are OK with eating meat but dislike industrial farming that actual vegans. Your analogy makes less sense

And holding a breath while you’re quickly scamping across the room.