“He was asking for it”

Now, was that sarcasm or not? hehe. We’ll never know.

Sounds like this might go well beyond a university choice at this point. Sorry.

As long as these people are not put in charge of all our institutions, the rule of Law, and police forces…

Or are they so desperate to shoot someone that they just wanna blast some kid and say they feared for their lives?

Too many people are kept in check by fear of getting caught by the law and will turn into savage beasts at the slightest opportunity.

That was true a long time ago. And remains true in some places, but since we started pushing the different bins, things progressed on that front. Plenty of place have actual recycling facilities (although their efficiency is another topic). Of course, in some far away area, it is not practical to sort stuff, but it’s kind of a chicken and egg problem. Infrastructure see no point in making large facilities for processing recyclable if they’re not sorted, and people see no point in sorting their trash if the infrastructure isn’t available. Putting colored recycling bins everywhere to initiate the process was cheaper.

Eh. No jokes, no. The most engaging thing I remember seeing around in the city was a “vote” panel for cigarette butts with silly questions; but even that has gone away.

It is unfortunate that we’re at this point. Hopefully other places do fare better.

There are plenty of tool for that. And, for that matter, “making an account” for gemini means having used gmail/youtube/anything vaguely google related in the last ten years. I’m pretty sure lazy people are already there.

That is what I thought I said, yes.

People throw their waste everywhere because there’s not enough waste bins in comfortable walking distance

I see almost daily people throwing trash on the street in front of an empty recycle bin. I think the issue is more about people not giving a shit than convenience of finding a trashcan or keeping stuff in your pocket until you do.

fine tuning the prompt until it is perfect.

hahahahahahahahaha

What effort? I can open gemini and type “give me a shitpost meme about being angry for something random, you pick” and get a picture. I don’t even have to think about what it would be. The part that requires the most effort is copy/pasting it here.

You think 1990 where a time of full consent and awareness about other sensitivities? Oh boy.

The awareness is relatively recent. “The woman place is in the kitchen” is not an old thing.

think about the wild and unnecessary risk they’re taking and how they’ll regret it functionally forever

hmm what? Unless I missed a very big part of this, you’re not dropping a percentage of your soul when you have sex, it usually conclude with a good shower, and if you were not cautious at all with protection, a pill.

I’d say a larger part of the population being aware that they can reject “unsolicited requests” is a part of it.

Also, it requires meeting people to some extent. That sounds boring.

It’s been tried a bit before, but didn’t get through. The current situation with secure boot is worrying, because we’re one manufacturer playing ball away from it to become a reality.

I’d like to say there’s strong incentive to not do that, but it seems that logic alone would not stop this kind of push. And weirdly enough, even financial risk might not be enough, as we’ve seen baffling decisions made these last few months.

The main saving graces is that there are more than two manufacturer for motherboard, and as far as I know, patent lockdown and secrecy isn’t as big on PC hardware than on mobile boards, so it might be easier to escape such lockdown. But fully locked down systems under external control is clearly where some people wants us to go.

The best way to go is a some “a”, a few “o”, a long string of “m”, and write “oh yeah” in the last question.

has inspired others to embrace violence over reasoned debate

It is definitely not the murder of whatever ceo that fueled the will to go over “reasoned debate”. It’s the absolute lack of effects from “reasoned debate” for the majority of populations.

Watch the whole world go “ahaha age verification go brrrrr” in the next months/years, and we’ll talk again. I’m particularly baffled at the EU that was all “privacy friendly, consumer first” until a handful of month ago.

I think that was the point. Not only decentralized services, but a lot of small and/or individual services too. The way age verification is done is both stupid, and expensive. Only the big names will remain.