Why are only some executable and source code file formats blocked? Wouldn’t it make sense to also block Python, Pascal, Fortran, MatLab, JS, TS, BF, ELF, A, B, C, C++, C#, D files?

Malware distributors would find another way, and broad restrictions would only frustrate legitimate users.

Game theory is about extracting personal good from cooperation. Game theory has nothing to say against boiling your cat alive as it has no leverage on you.

In societies where things like slavery existed for centuries or even millennias, owners had great evolutionary benefit from owning slaves. Their descendants hold some privileges to this day. Game theory was on their side.

Did you watch “86”? In this show, San-Magnolia was a country populated exclusively with blonde people, referred as “alba”. People with non-white hair (referred as “colorata”) were sent to internment camps outside the state walls and conscripted to fight in a war in a hope to regain at least some rights.

It was later revealed that over 10 million colorata and zero alba were killed in the later stage of the war, and if original prognosis on enemy forces ceasing to operate in a few years would be correct, alba people would totally win the evolutionary race and no game theory would bring justice. Doesn’t sound great if your hair happens to be brown or red.

If it were for pure game theory, slavery would still exist in some form (legally, because illegal slavery is still wide-spread IRL). Why would we care to liberate a useful caste of human servants if they would lose all means to rebel against a modern army? Granted, they could kill someone in an uprising, but so does cattle occasionally injure and kill farmers. Any great injustice is justified by game theory at the end.

An idea that species can “be meant to do x” by y has roots in teleological philosophy. Aincent Greeks believed that gods designed and meant us to live a certain way, this approach was adapted by other religions. It cannot be applied to evolution as evolution is a sequence of random events, some more likely than other.

We have evolved to, under certain conditions, when it increases our or our relatives’ chances of survival or recreation, kill others of our species or enact violence against them, including the type of violence that increases the expected number of offsprings of the person enacting it, but nobody argues we should build ethics around it.

The Trail has that

Huang was born and spent early childhood in the city of Taipei. In 1968, by the time he was five years old, there were 17,000 cars and 75,000 motorcycles† in the city with population of 13,801,200‡, with one car per 812 people.

† Taipei MRT celebrates its 30th birthday | EuroView, 2026
‡ Population records increases in Taiwan | CountryEconomy

A good charity can save a dozen lives with a 100k donation. It would take a few million button pushes until well-being of the global poorest gets so good that the cost of saving one life rises to 100k and you are no longer morally obligated to press.

Fun fact: it is scientifically proven that messy beds, thanks to more exposure to UV light and better distribution of that exposure per various points of surface, have lower populations of harmful microorganisms and are better for your health.

Tankie is a pejorative for those who defend socialist states.

Never heard it used against democratic socialists who acknowledged mistakes of the past.

The “authoritarian” part doesn’t really make any sense, considering the Marxist analysis of authority is that what matters most is which class has the authority of the state.

So you believe there were no authoritarian socialist states in history? Ones that silenced critics, shot protesters, censored press and didn’t have competitive elections? Lol.

Either way, the ethnic cleansing of the Donbass region was widely reported even by western organizations until 2022, then this was all wiped away and minimized.

This war killed almost half a million people already on all sides combined (if we believe Russian MoD, this number way exceeds a million). Do you think the “ethnic cleansing” would kill this much in a thousand years? According to DPR-operated media, only 17 people died in last years before 2022 on Donbas, most from uncleaned minefields.

Could just write “18 Mm from home”.

FFMPEG in the command line generally has permission to access the entire non-sudo filesystem and delete files.

You made it about communism by complaining about tankies

From Wikipedia:

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support or defend acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof.

Not about communism as a political philosophy.

You are covering up the ethnic cleansing committed by Kiev against the Donbass region

This is a common myth created by Russian propaganda. I invite you to check it for yourself. Open an official website of any town that was part of Ukraine before 2022 and had Russian majority in population. Check publications before 2022. You’ll see an abundant use of Russian language and culture. Even Zelenski, with Russian being his first language, often spoke it in political campaigns.

Now many of these towns are ghost towns due to shelling.

I’m sorry, but that’s not about pro-communism and anti-communism. You know Russia is no longer a communist country, right? That’s about pro-war and anti-war. Blaming Ukraine for the start of the war and following genocide (or denying that genocide happening) is one of the most absurd and dangerous fakes created by Russian propaganda and it deserves to be challenged.

https://plus.codes/ click ミ > Grid

The full plus-code is actually 8 characters before the plus and 2–3 after. Usually you only need 4 to get within one city. Just like with phone numbers, where the first geographical part is often omitted.

That the echo chamber lemmy.ml where tankies could post the most insane pro-dictator bullshit unchallenged finally gets challenged from the outside. My first interaction with lemmy was ruined by encountering a deranged post from there.

That’s quite a common thing on lemmy.ml servers. Glad their hole started being recommended to people in other communities to average reactions.

People in this article were arrested for trying to break a barrier and throwing projectiles. It’s really hard to get arrested in the US for speech alone. As a person from an actual authoritarian county, sorry, you don’t really get to play the victim here.

As the world is right now, we live is “gattaca-lite”. Your success in life depends on genetical characteristics that you got at conception by pure luck. You can’t (or less likely to with the same amount of effort) become a pilot with poor vision, a musician with serious disorder of hearing, a scientist or engineer with learning difficulties, an actor with some forms of autism. Parental wealth and health also have impact on your congenital stats.

If anything, genetic intervention will make the society more equal. Yes, it would be nice if every parent would have access to this for free, and current influence of bad genetics would be eliminated, but even if in first years of this tech being developed only kids of rich will be enhanced, this advantage will not be more or less deserved than random chance we currently have.

AC means Alternating Current, electrical current that periodically reverses direction, and DC means Direct Current, a current that continuously flows in one direction. AC/DC on a socket means it can take both types of power.