Yes?

Works fine on eternity

The difference is people still write Java, regardless of whether it’s a dated pos or not, so the use cases have evolved

Then there’s the use of the JVM/JRE which have evolved even more due to Scala, Clojure & Kotlin

My apartment is from 1865 but “own” is a little tenuous… Beyond that it’s probably down to probably 20 year old cutlery or my tv stand which is actually a crate that’s around 100 years old

Yeah, now AI can produce infinite slop there’s no need for human-produced slop anymore

Most likely a skiing/mountain biking/car/surfing/hiking/tragic boating accident would be my best guess, other than cancer… If you’re not suicidal, a risk taker or into extreme sports it’s most likely going to be cancer though

Looking in that thread it seems to be largely small scale/fine tuning where the data is cherrypicked… they’re not considering the corporations which create the models they’re finetuning in the first place

Do people need to care?

Do what you need to to secure your privacy, and let people know how much of a travesty it is that their privacy and rights are being stripped away, but at the end of the day they’re their own people and so if they choose not to care that’s their decision, and it’s not up to you to choose how they’re allowed to think or live their lives, even if it appears obviously wrong and short-sighted to you or I

Source tarballs are often super sensitive to environment and distro such that you’d need to modify them to work on the specific distro/with the specific dep versions and so at that point, just precompile binaries?

It’s also much quicker for the end user, nobody wants to wait 5-60 minutes for their package to install unless you’re making modifications to it

Why not just tax based on the number of homes, isn’t that a better idea?

If someone owns three £10M mansions, they’re potentially depriving two families of homes by way of scarsity, but frankly if you can afford a £10M mansion is it really an issue, as you’re not being deprived of a home?

If they instead own one £10M mansion and forty £200k flats/terraces, they’re potentially depriving forty families of homes and so should probably be charged twenty times as much to dissuade people from buying up the cheapest homes.

What made you think I thought the US isn’t authoritarian?

Authoritarian means the government deciding what people can do or say beyond preventing actual harm to others, or causing harm to their subjects to promote the government’s interest to the detriment of the people.

Overthrowing other governments is imperialism, not authoritarianism - I’d define thr latter as largely internal, exceptions being eg. Singapore’s laws applying to Singaporean citizens and residents even when they’re outside of Singapore.

Not wanting to lick the boots of either the government or corporations makes you a centrist?

That’s news to me

Authoritarian leftist things.

A lot of people on non ml/grad/hexbear instances are both anti-authoritarian and leftist, so they see hexbear as just as bad as capitalists in terms of being pro-opression

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In the US? None, but the Libertarians probably come closest.

The US is built on imperialism so of course no party is anti-imperialist, being anti-government is as close as you can get.

Within Europe there are some parties that lean more anti-imperialist, generally green and liberal parties, but the traditional major conservative and leftist parties rarely are.

The USSR rivals the US, Japan and Germany for the most imperialist state in the past 100 years, so no, leftists are not anti-imperialist by default, that’s closer to liberals. Leftists are anti-capitalist by default.

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Yeah, racism in europe is largely stereotypes directed at whole groups that are rooted in truth but grossly overblown, eg “black people just want to commit crime”, “arabs want to install sharia”, “east asians want to eat your dog”, “indians want to outgrow the native population” and other nonsense.

If you ask the huge majority of the people who are saying these things if they interact with people in these groups, they’ll say “yes, but they’re some of the good ones” not realising it’s only a tiny fraction who aren’t, but also accepting that race doesn’t automatically make you anything.

Comparing that to the US where (from what I’m aware of) there’s both “I refuse to even speak to members of xyz race because they’re subhuman” and “xyz race needs all the help they can get because they have such a tough time” it seems so hard for individuals to just live a normal life in the US?

European racism is casual compared to even everyday American racism, even considering the likes of AfD

What?

Britain for most of the 20th century wasn’t even trying to home grow food any more, it came in canned from across the world as it’s a lot easier to ration and stockpile food which lasts forever, hence the reputation for awful food… It’s only comparatively recently that we’ve been rediscovering historical British food