Best I’ve been able to explain it is that it’s a country build on hope and dreams, which are not compatible with reality and truth.

Democracy isn’t really meant to prevent something the majority wants.

If the majority wants a criminal to lead the country they’ll elect them, or someone with the same policies, or someone who promises to put the criminal in power. The end result isn’t all that different, and the latter two could be worse in some ways.

In a democracy the majority rules, and should they decide to put a lunatic in charge, well, that would be the least of your problems.

All reasonable arguments not to vote for Harris. But no arguments whatsoever to vote for Trump.

And unless the archaic and infuriatingly flawed election system is fixed, you’ve got a civic duty to pick the lesser of two evils.

If you want a system that cannot be abused then don’t remove the safeguards designed to fix mistakes.

Allowed innocents to be released from prison, and allow the disenfranchised to regain their voting rights.

This is why there is always a higher power to overrule previous decisions, and when it comes to elections there is no higher power than a majority.

It’s one of those safe-guards that democracy implements that’s currently having rather unintended consequences.

The reasoning is that taking away voting rights is far too easy to abuse, and if a majority of people agree with whomever you wanted to prevent from voting/getting elected then you’re fucked anyway.

Which, incidentally, is looking like a very real possibility right now.

Well, who did you trust to build your hardware?

Lenovo definitely deserves to be banned after that shit they pulled with the malicious root certificates.

That same description applies to downloading a zipped file.

For a revolution to succeed you need the power to remove any people in power that oppose you, doesn’t get more authoritarian than that.

Agreed, but I am sad that they don’t choose to share any of those personal experiences that they claim are vital for understanding communism.

Even if communist revolutions tend to fail for the same reasons most revolutions fail (a need for temporary authoritarian rule followed by fumbling the succession) anything that can help understand how and why something failed is useful.

And at this point it’s also code for ‘machine learning’.

Which really is just fancy statistics. Sometimes it’s barely more advanced than plain regression.

Reminds me of the time I did roughly the same thing trying to get people to move away from internet explorer.

I won’t pretend that its popularity is in any way proportional to its quality, but I enjoyed it and so did many others so she must have done something right. Calling a work that many people enjoy trash just sounds a bit elitist to me.

Feel free to call the author whatever you want though, at this point I’ve no respect left for her.

Just so I got this clear, making it illegal to tell advertisers when their ads are running next to dangerous or illegal content is a freedom of speech win?

I’m surprised you got tired of the stupid decisions if I’m honest.

I wasn’t aware the characters were making any.

Wouldn’t surprise me if even Unicode advices against using Roman numerals depending on meaning.

It was mostly a joke (though frankly if you try any implementation more complicated than that joke you’re going to have a bad time).

It’s simple ⅯⅯⅩⅩⅣis a number, MMXXIV is not.

Education has really failed to impress upon people the importance of asking questions. It’s amazing how much time is wasted on making people learn answers to questions they don’t even know how to ask.

If you place killing an ideal beyond implementing your own you’re making exactly the same mistake.

The best we’ve come up with is to try to ensure people are educated and well informed and only a majority can make certain decisions. Not all countries are doing too well on all 3 (heck the U.S. doesn’t even manage to ensure decisions require a majority) but if an ideal gets accepted under anything resembling those conditions then killing the bigots is no longer an option.

Please tell me someone thought about a switch to take them offline.