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  • Again, both are shitty. In fact, not just both, but all. All hierarchical power structures are just plain evil. I'm not interested in parsing which evil is more evil. The Chinese government is an evil institution. The US government is an evil institution.

  • Can Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods?

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  • Well, there are a hell of a lot of Christians, Jews, and Muslims alive right now who aren't actively trying to kill each other. Mostly, they just let others go about living their lives. It's only the radical fundamentalists who try to kill others.

  • What would happen if the Supreme Court sent a US Marshall to arrest a member of the executive branch?

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  • Wouldn't ever even come to that, at least not under the current Trump administration.

    Yes, the US Marshall Service is technically the enforcement arm of the judiciary, but they're under the Department of Justice and answer directly to the US Attorney General. The DoJ is part of the Executive Branch and the AG is a member of the Cabinet appointed by the President. The current AG is Pam Bondi, who is a VERY close Trump ally who's been working for him in various ways as a lawyer since at least 2019.

    The Supreme Court doesn't order the Marshall Service to do anything. They send a request to the AG, who then gives orders to the Marshall Service. Even under previous administrations it would have been incredibly difficult to imagine the circumstance where the AG would order the Marshalls to arrest a member of the Executive Branch, and it's just never going to happen under Trump.

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  • I meant, is hosting it locally something someone without a coding background can do easily

  • Can Christians, Muslims or Jews worship or pray to pagan gods?

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  • Not while remaining faithful to their religion. A core tenant of all three faiths you named is that their God (which are all different interpretations of the same god) is the ONLY god and you cannot recognize any other god.

    Of course, there have always been varying interpretations of each faith. Christianity, especially, has lent itself to syncretism quite well. There have been (and still are) many cultures where the people would identify themselves as Christian, but see no contradiction in also recognizing aspects of other faiths, including sometimes gods (although they might call them some other word).

    If you're following any of the major, world-recognized denominations of Christianity, Judaism, or Islam (eg Catholicism, Protestantism, Sunni Islam, Orthodox Judaism, Shia Islam, etc) then, no, you cannot worship pagan gods. But there are smaller versions of each religion which do.

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  • Why do you have to pick one or the other? Can we not recognize that the governments of western nations and the government of China are all evil institutions that cause far more harm than they ever could benefit?

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  • This is just pure Chinese state propaganda. Taiwan has been an independent country since 1949.

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  • No gods, no masters!

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  • I tried asking ChatGPT how a fictional character in a story I was writing would go about rigging a tesla cybertruck to light on fire without the police catching him. It wrote out a pretty detailed scene, but glossed over the specific actions. So I asked it to get more detailed in how it would change the wiring of the car. Then it wiped away the entire conversation (including previous responses) and said it couldn't talk about that right now.

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  • How?

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  • Is this something someone without a coding background can do easily?

  • Does not the constitution say something one should not be charged or something to vote? If so then why does my home state charge 50$ to get a regular id to vote? Is that no illegal?

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  • You're thinking of the 24th Amendment, which reads:

    The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

    The way your state (and many others) gets around this is because the fee to get your ID is not technically a tax. It's a fee. It's a rather silly semantic difference, but that's how the law works. You're not paying a tax, and your right to vote isn't being restricted because you didn't pay a tax. You are being required to have a photo ID to vote, and the form of photo ID you've chosen to get (which might well be the easiest to access) requires you pay a fee to acquire.

    Yes, this seems like a minor pedantic difference, but that's kinda the point. The people who push these voter ID laws are doing the exact same thing people in the Jim Crow South did when they created poll taxes, poll tests, grandfather clauses, etc. They are trying to skirt around a law (in this case, the 24th Amendment, back then the 15th Amendment) in order to restrict the right to vote from people who should be protected.

  • Why can humans seemingly only imagine like 3 different forms of government in different flavors?

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  • If Wengrow and Graeber were required reading every civics/government/social studies curriculum for high school age students, the world would be a much better place.

  • Why can humans seemingly only imagine like 3 different forms of government in different flavors?

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  • Honestly, I think the issue here is more your lack of education/awareness than anything else.

    Like electing citizens to office at random

    Ancient Athens had a system to do exactly this for a period of time.

    Or even a pure democracy in a modern sense

    Check out the Democratic Confederalist system currently in practice in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (commonly called Rojava). It's not strictly pure democracy, but that's a core principle, and it's MUCH more participatory than virtually any other governmental system on the planet.

    The big issue here is that education is always political, even if you don't think it is. I'm guessing, based on your writing here, that you were educated in a western liberal democracy. The curriculum you were taught in school, especially with regards to governmental systems, civics, and history, is heavily influenced by the ideology of your country: liberal western representative democracy. I had the same education in school growing up. The curriculum is only interested in presenting alternative forms of government as a way to show how great the one you were living under is. "Monarchy was bad for these reasons, so we replaced it with liberal representative democracy." "Fascism is bad for these reasons (while ignoring all the ways it's very similar to our current system), so be happy you have a liberal democracy." "State communism was authoritarian and bad, so be happy you have what you do." Etc.

    They never talk about the shortcomings of their own system, or the benefits of others, because they aren't trying to educate a bunch of radicals who might one day overthrow the system.

    There are a lot of people thinking of alternative forms of government. For my own personal ideological biases, I'd recommend reading stuff by people like Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876), Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921), Murray Bookchin (1921-2006), David Graeber (1961-2020), or Abdullah Öcalan (1948-).

  • How would you do this Technically?

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  • You can use those AI image detectors, but they're not foolproof and the companies that produce AI image generators will always be trying to improve their product so that it can't be detected. It's a place to start, though.

    Realistically, it'll be fear of prosecution. The real question is who they would prosecute? If a random individual posts an AI image on WeChat that isn't tagged as AI, is the Chinese government going to fine them? Or will they go after WeChat for allowing unlabeled images to be shared?

    They can shut down companies that make AI image generation software if the software doesn't automatically tag the image as AI generated, but that will only apply to companies within China. They'll probably look to ban access to all AI image generation that isn't housed within China (if they don't already).

    And this will only ever apply to images shared publicly. If someone send a private message to someone else with an untagged AI image, nothing will happen.

  • i’m scared of my boyfriend because he’s dry and doesn’t want to initiate a relationship, should i break up because of the latter part?

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  • Are you sure you're really dating? If he doesn't call, doesn't want to hang our, doesn't initiate anything, and is very dry in his texting it sounds like he's just a distant acquaintance....

  • Tim Walz says he and Harris were too ‘safe’ during 2024 presidential campaign

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  • I mean, he is absolutely and rightly heavily criticized for his use of drone warfare. He isn't directly faulted for the entire Afghan and Iraq Wars, though, because they were W Bush's baby. He was the driving force behind both, and his administration oversaw them for the first 7 years (5 for Iraq). His administration set the course for them from the start.

    Eta: I also think there's a degree to which the developments of drone warfare under Obama were bound to happen regardless who was in the White House. If McCain or Clinton had won in 2008, drone warfare would have continued on the trajectory it took IRL, perhaps even more aggressively (definitely so under McCain). Yes, Obama deserves the blame for what happened under his watch, but it's not like the same wouldn't have happened without him.

  • Is it possible to switch instances without making a new account?

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  • Thanks. It doesn't look like there are any blocked instances on lemmy.world. Is there a similar list of blocked communities?

  • Is it possible to switch instances without making a new account?

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  • I guess I'm not aware enough to even know how the server I'm on is run. From my understanding, you could see pretty much any community regardless of instance from whatever instance you happen to be on?