Intriguing.

What’s the mechanism for dealing with spammers?

In lemmy there’s a clear escalation path that will lead to either the spammer’s instance dealing with the issue or the instance itself being de-federated.

How would that work in a p2p system?

Each user having to individually block every spammer will work as well as it did for email back in the day.

Does Israel have any hope?

Protests will move to their moms’ houses

German car makers put their energy into scamming Europeans (with eco-incentives and dieselgate) rather than future-proofing their business, and the result is once again is the European people being f*cked

No. It seems you posted this as a photo

No, it was to pin everybody’s attention on this possible meeting while he refused the Tomahawks.

Honestly, Putin must have some dirt on Trump… I mean, there must be some reason why Putin is the only person getting the white-glove treatement from Trump.

TBH being poor and a foreigner is far worse in these people’s eyes. And god forbid if on top of that you are fleeing a country where war or persecution threaten your existence.

Surely we can trust Hungary to do the right thing. I’ll even go so far as to say they are gonna do the far right thing.

This looks a lot like Anchorage II: a celebration of Putin managing to play Trump for a fool, and the beginning of more months of the same.

Ok, but is it AI assisted?

Surely this time it’s gonna work, right?

IDK what they would do in that regard (if we are talking Meloni’s government, nothing), but it would be sensible to stop pro-Israel protests that were likely to become pro-genocide ones.

Anyway, we are talking about this specific day and this specific protest; drawing arbitrary generalizations (that also happen to be very convenient for your cause) is a sophism that does not help discussion to progress. Let’s strive to be better than the right-wing idiots.

edit: by “right-wing idiots” I mean “right-wing people who also happen to be idiots”, I’m not implying here and not that all right-wing people be idiots.

Killing civilians that just happen to be at a location is not called an uprising, it’s called a massacre.

I understand being enraged towards Israel (I am enraged myself), but let’s not allow that to make us as idiotic as those who believe Netanyahu’s BS.

I detest the current Italian government and their attitude towards propal protesters (and dissenters in general), but October 7th is the one day when manifesting for Palestine should be put on hold.

We seem to sacrifice all the principles that brought us where we are in exchange for a vague sense of security from made-up dangers, and cower in fear of the future. It was better when we had a spine and looked forwards with confidence.

TLDW: glass doors open via a sensor that requires you to move your hand near a specific zone marked in the door rather than just by walking in front of it

It’s really impressive how all the noblest human beings seem to be good friends with Putin.

I’m not thinking of oldschool colonialism or anything like that, I’m just wondering if giving them (by force) a constitution and keeping them under control (by force) while they adapt would work (think, post-WWII West Germany or Japan).

Please note I am not saying that this would really solve the problems between Israel and Palestine or that it is in any way feasible… in fact, I didn’t even want to write down this thought, which is why I stopped at “they don’t deserve” without going further on (which in hindsight was probably not the smartest choice).

I think you don’t get what “arrogance” means (not a fault: English is not my first language either and it just happens that the English concept of “arrogance” exists with the same nuances in my language - I guess it’s not the same for yours).

In layman’s terms, arrogance is when one dismisses another’s opinion not for its (de)merits, but because they believe their own is a priori the right one.

Ironically, that describes more closely your “the amount of arrogance dripping off of this comment omg” than me expressing a position 1) without refusing another’s, 2) explaining the reasoning behind it, and 3) explicitly stating that it is my opinion (“I think”) and not factual reality.

You’re assuming you get to say who deserves self governance.

I am in fact allowed to say who I think (you conveniently omitted this) deserves to self-govern… What do you mean I don’t get to say that? Why? Do you get to say what I can say and what I can’t?

Regardless, I’ll try to explain my reasoning further… hopefully this will bring this discussion back into productive lands.

It is normal that people can be stripped of their rights if they can’t use them responsibly (where I live this only applies to most rights, but in those backwards countries that still have the death penalty even the very right to be alive can be retracted).

Drive carelessly and your license gets taken away, show you are unstable and your gun+carry permit get taken away, kill and your freedom gets taken away, etc.

Specifically, for serious crimes (IIRC where I live it’s those with 5+ years of detention, but IANAL) people have their very right to vote taken away.

Now, self determination is not more fundamental a right than voting (in fact, in a democracy it’s the same thing, only for the populace at large instead of individuals)… why should that be inviolable?