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[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

dude...your bike is farting so loud you gave grandma a heart attack...that's not as cool as you imagine it to be :/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The rest of my comment addresses that. The "good king" father figure does a lot of heavy lifting for autocracy in people's subconscious (even Plato's haha), but it is inevitable for a "benevolent monarch" with the mandate to "fix everything" to turn sour and abuse power, the variance of one single individual's performance and world iew is too high. Aristotle writes about some of this too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Sure, a good autocracy will always be more effective and fairer than a good democracy. The greek already knew that.

They also knew that a bad autocracy will always be worse than a bad democracy.

And you have no idea what you will get with an autocrat, they change over time, they make new enemies out of you, what is good for some is bad for others...

So democracy is not just about giving people what they want or representing their views, it is about damage limitation between all the established "mafias" vying for power and a ruleset for peaceful evolution.

To make it worse, some modern societies hide de facto autocracy or oligarchy under democracy, which may sour you towards democracy.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Jumping spiders are the tigers of the mm scale. They jump and pounce, they stare at you and stalk their prey, they carefully plan their attack from a strategic vantage point, they are cute, furry and pettable...so long as you are at least twice as large.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thanks, good to be reminded.

But I disagree that all intelligence agencies are the same around the world (or at least how they use the legal system to punish dissent)

e.g. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/15/europe/ksenia-karelina-russia-america-sentence-treason-intl/index.html

or

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Wu

or

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/journalist-ryanair-plane-diverted-by-belarus-jailed-8-years-state-media-2023-05-03/

If you have equivalent situations in western countries (besides Assange) where people were denied habeas corpus, please share

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Best. Buds. Having a parade together in Brest, 1939. Getting betrayed is what you get for making deals with nazis. #leopardsatemyface

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

If I understand you correctly, read more history. the nazis invaded Poland together with the USSR on two fronts (as, you know, best buds), hard to botch that.

When the nazis invaded France...it was the French who fucked up...the nazis didn't.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Yes, starting stupid wars and botching them in front of the whole world makes you vulnerable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I realized like you that it is not the content or the actions, it is a brand that appeals to their emotions (and the grown-ups too who got conditioned to react to a type of branding over the years). It's just like selling an Adidas.

And it's tragic, because he stands against everything they could ever gain...like an opioid...which reminds me of the Shady Vance quote:

In 2016 and 2017, Vance, then best-known for penning the best-selling book “Hillbilly Elegy” said Trump was “cultural heroin” and “just another opioid” for Middle America.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/15/politics/kfile-jd-vance-comments-trump/index.html

and this olympic gold for spinelessness (a posteriori):

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/opioid-of-the-masses/489911/

lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This is not like reading a book from a library...unless you want to force the LLM to only train one book per day and keep no copies after that day.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Buy high, sell low" is a great way to launder money, along with real estate (and the art market). Things Donny is an expert in. You don't bankrupt a casino without wanting to.

 

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Faced with the lack of a legal representative of the social network X in Brazil, the minister of the Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes blocked accounts of the company Starlink Holding, which also belongs to billionaire Elon Musk – which provoked a new reaction from the businessman (read more below)

Last week, Moraes considered the existence of a “de facto economic group” under Musk and, on August 18, ordered the blocking of all the financial values of this group in Brazil, to guarantee the payment of fines imposed by the Brazilian Justice against Rede X.

According to aides to the office of Minister Alexandre de Moraes, the other company under Elon Musk in the country – in addition to the X – is precisely Starlink, which operates in Brazil in the sale of internet services by satellite, especially in the North region.

What Starlink is and how does it work

Elon Musk compares Alexandre de Moraes to movie villains

All Starlink leaders in Brazil have already been notified and subpoenaed to also answer for the amounts due to the Brazilian Justice by X.

After the blockade of the accounts, the billionaire returned to criticize Alexandre de Moraes - whom, on Wednesday (28), compared to villains of films (see video above).

In a publication in X on Thursday (29), Musk called the minister "dictator" and said that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) is conniving with him.

“The tyrant Alexandre [de Moraes] is the dictator of Brazil. Lula is his dog,” Musk wrote in a free translation.

The businessman Elon Musk decided, according to announced on the 17th, to close the X office in Brazil.

The reason is the fact that the company does not agree with the fines imposed by the Supreme Court or with the determination of withdrawal of content published by users on the social network that confront the Democratic State of Law and Brazilian legislation.

Since then, Minister Alexandre de Moraes has gone on to request the businessman to establish a legal representative to officially answer for the acts of the platform. O processo de Elon Musk contra megaempresas por suposto 'boicote' ao X — Foto: Getty Images

Elon Musk’s lawsuit against mega-companies for alleged ‘boicote’ to X — Photo: Getty Images

The subpoena in post

On Wednesday (28), Moraes gave 24 hours so that the social network again has a legal representative in the country, under penalty of suspension of service.

The decision was released overnight, in a post on the STF’s profile on X, in response to the company’s post made on August 17 about the closure of the office. On that occasion, in addition to announcing the closure of the office and the withdrawal of its representative from the country, the platform informed that the network would continue to be used in the country.

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I was just trying something out in suno.com and one of the songs has a melody sounds vaguely familiar, but I have no idea where I've heard it before, sounds like from a video game.

 

Each city has a different mix of subcultures. Some cities are impersonal with posers and businesslike like Linkedin, some may be more of a disjoint cacophony like reddit or an aged police state dystopia like facebook...which ones have the vibe of Lemmy?

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