Yeah, to a certain extent that’s true, but it’s also the demand that creates the subsidies in the first place.

If all demand were to suddenly disappear (it won’t), you’re absolutely right, production would tend towards lingering on for quite a while. The best option in that sort of case would be for the producers to get paid to not produce. Governments shouldn’t punish people for not being able to forsee every circumstance.

But that scenario is unrealistic. Transitions take time, and existing systems will have time to respond accordingly.

“Lalalala! I can’t hear you with my hands over my ears and me talking about straws so loudly!”

Cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug.

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I mean, couldn’t you just use any of a plethora of other uncensored LLMs from huggingface if you want those sorts of answers?

Wait, I don’t remember that part of highschool…

Leave it to CNN to somehow bring ageism into an otherwise pertinent topic. That doesn’t belong in the headline.

If you want to say they’re inexperienced, then just do it. That might require verifying factual evidence, though.

As a Canadian, while it was mildly insulting, I think ultimately it was FUDD. We’ll be ready if he tries anything abroad, but y’all be ready when he tries shit in your own backyard.

I’d imagine services like these have backups with fairly high levels of resiliency. Just having write access isn’t sufficient. You’d probably have to physically go to the off site backup premises.

Even then, you might need a court order to seize equipment.

Any deletion or overwriting of the records is likely temporary, and reliant on the continued coup attempt.

In some ways, yes, but actually no. While Connochaetes (gnus) are of the Bovidae family, they are clearly not cows.

I can’t tell if that’s a thinly veiled threat, or a thank you for the assist.

Sure! I’ll repost someone else’s explanation:

Each comment has a score from -1 to 5 (most comments start at 1), and each user has a score from -10 to 50 (start at 0). Any account that is at least a year or two old, has a high enough score, and has a certain amount of recent activity will occasionally get a package of “mod points” that can be used for increasing or decreasing the score of a comment in any thread to which the user hasn’t already posted along with the score of the user who posted the comment. (Site administrators get unlimited mod points.)

Just to add a few minor bits: Comments that reached -1 would appear collapsed by default. When voting, you’d also choose one out of a preset list of reasons (insightful, funny, etc.), and the dominant reason would tag your comment as that.

Oh, I’ll add a few!

• alienate all your friends
• refuse to let the sun’s rays touch your skin
• spend all day on the internet
• change your sleep schedule every week

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This right here. If anything, I prefer Slashdot style mod points to upvotes/downvotes as there is an opportunity cost to voting. I find it fosters more interesting and less echo-chambery discussions.

Most of us are probably guilty of this at least on occaaion, but the down vote button isn’t intended to be a disagree button.

The monkey’s paw curls its finger. Alcohol has been criminalised, and is now equally easy to buy as cocaine.

Same thing with Taylor Swift tickets I guess? I’d imagine it’s because of negative backlash to charging so much. Instead of people being mad at the scalpers, they’d be mad at the retailers.

I’m personally kind of partial to the lottery method for right to buy, since it cuts down on scalpers.

I mean, there’s such a limited volume rn, that they’re just going to get scalped for that price, so it probably doesn’t affect the end buyer’s price much anyways.

Still, not a great precedent.

OK, Grandpa, back to bed. j/k j/k :)

We have multiple industries (movie/tv/gaming/sports) whose main focus is “wasting” time. Finding some enjoyment in linguistics and logic certainly isn’t any more of a waste.

Remember, there were plenty of rounds of moderator purges on reddit, especially when subs would lock down in protest. Any mod with ethics and a backbone would’ve been shown the door. So I think it’s fair to say a lot of the moderation problems were at least in part caused by the admins.

At least on Lemmy, different instances have different ethoses, so communities can be more in line with the instance they’re on, and there isn’t this need for absolute centralised conformity.

Also, having public mod logs is a big step towards transparency. Sure there are still problems, but it’s definitely no where near as bad IMO.

I think you’re right. There’s a bit of an infinite regress problem, isn’t there?

Just a good reason not to dabble in paradoxes before you’ve had some coffee. lol