Mohamed

Me neither! Looks like I’m adding another service to my repertoire

I mean this whole ceasefire thing, especially at this point, is B.S PR. Its like if the Allies were asking The 3rd Reich to make sure they’re feeding their concentration camp populations well, before they kill them.

I think prisons have to be reformed in almost every country, including my own (Canada). Prison should fill one or both of these roles:

1. Isolate criminals from society,
2. Limit freedom as a deterrent for crime. Generally agree that imprisoned people should have the opportunity to rehabilitate.

My point that i want to make is that the punishment should not exceed simply limiting freedom. Prison should protect prisoners from violence. Prison should allow prisoners to live fulfilling lives while there in prison. Prison rape should not be a fact of life in prison. Prison should not dehumanise prisoners. Prison should guard all rights of prisoners (apart from freedom of movement). Prisoners can’t be forced to do work or even follow a routine. Etc.

Unfortanutely, it seems things are so fucked up that not many have time to seriously fight for prisoner’s rights (including me).

I think the statistic of 3.5 is more of a symptom rather than the cause of a regime’s fall. For 3.5% to protest means that:

1. Anger has reached a high level in the general population (a lot lot higher than 3.5%),
2. The state of affairs is dire enough and hopeless enough that the trust that the system can improve on its own is very very low.

Probably other reasons.

I assume the Saudi plant will be staffed with grossly underpaid labourers.

Oooh coffee!!

I think it’s more that placebo studies of vaccines could be unethical. Vaccines are preventative treatment. A placebo study would mean that, say, we give the vaccine to 50, and a placebo to 50, and then wait some time (or, for much more unethical, deliberately inject people with the virus), and compare the results.

For something like the common flu, this might be fine, but for something as dangerous as measles, this can be deadly.

I am interested to hear from someone knowlesgeable how vaccines are supposed to be tested.

Or what “most popular” means

Omg thats hilarious.

““We should have expected something like this,” said one Trump ally who would only speak off the record as she’s currently the premier of a western Canadian province.”

Hahaha

Except that he has no executive power over those people.

Yes, it is legal. There are many christians in Saudi Arabia, for example. What is usually illegal is public religious practices of religions other than Islam.

It works very well for me. My evidence that it is private is that I download plenty (more than 1 TB per month) and I never get a copyright notice from my ISP. When I torrent non-privately I get plenty of copyright notices, sometimes several times for the same torrent.

It does have, however, some major performance issues. It can be very slow, and it can use up a lot of RAM and a lot of CPU. Its internal database, which saves state of downloads, frequently gets corrupted at which point it has to be re-generated, meaning the list of torrents (not the downloads) is lost. It can be quite a bit slower than other torrent downloaders, and sometimes torrents stall for a while as it waits to prepare the network, especially at start-up.

It’s been getting a lot better though with every update, which is quite frequent.

That’s it exactly. JBP, JD Vance, etc., play word games of rhetoric to get what they want. It’s like they are defence lawyers and morality is a legal system they are trying to game - they argue whatever just to win.

Yeah they do that. It is really sneaky to call illegal immigrants criminals because of their illegal immigration. It’s like someone being called a criminal just for resisting arrest.

What do you dislike about the AI act?

Interesting idea to run a low-bandwidth link. It would keep us connected, but posts from disconnected instances would arrive late, depending on how much the traffic (posts between disconnected instances) exceeds available bandwidth.

It’s interesting to explore this more. We could, for example, prioritize specific types of posts, users, or instances to make those faster.

Not gravy. Op was talkng about gravy tea.

Yes, billionaires could end poverty. But they never did and never will.

There is a Bloomberg opinion piece (https://archive.ph/JKT85) that stated argues that China is so-called trade wars proof. TLDR: almost no day-to-day goods are imported from the US. The imports from the US are mainly things like cars, phones, etc. That is, tariffs will have a very small effect on the lower and middle classes in China. Compare this to the situation in the US: China is the main source for cheap items at Walmart, Amazon, etc. Tariffs can absolutely devestate the lower classes in the US.

So, it seems that China can easily win the attrition war against the US.

Keep in mind that tapes are still the most efficient storage medium, in terms of both cost and physical space used. What they lack is speed. These characteristics make them the perfect medium for archiving and backup.

To add: there’s no way money can be saved by switching to another medium. Switching to HDDs, SSDs, etc will be many times more expensive, and switching to cloud would be much more expensive over the long run. It’s unclear whether he wants to move existing data to other mediums (very expensive and stupid - the tapes are already there and have almost no upkeep) or just new data (slightly less stupid).