European (especially British) decolonization of Africa was mostly the result of 1) the Atlantic Charter negotiated between FDR and Churchill after WWII when FDR told Churchill to stop that shit, and 2) because Europeās devastated economy couldnāt afford to maintain their colonies abroad anymore anyway.
I wouldnāt say that Europe did any of this voluntarily, however. they were certainly forced by circumstance, highly pressured by the United States who threatened to withhold fund for post-war relief and rebuilding, and, obviously, mounting unrest in the colonies themselves.
i read through it, too. it's pretty textbook sealiong, and I don't see how you don't see that. as for transparency, that's what the modlog is for.
if your stance is to punish the victim, I'll know to see clear of this community myself. since fostering a toxic atmosphere is your goal, this isn't a community I want to be a part of
i tend to sort by Hot as a default. sometimes I sort by New to catch stuff that's up-and-coming.
i usually browse only my subscribed feed, but I'll dip into All sometimes to see if there's anything interesting in communities i don't subscribe to, but it's usually just memes.
curious as to why you left all the trolly comments and removed the comments from the person being trolled?
edit: they clearly are seasoning:
Sealioning refers to the disingenuous action by a commenter of making an ostensible effort to engage in sincere and serious civil debate, usually by asking persistent questions of the other commenter. These questions are phrased in a way that may come off as an effort to learn and engage with the subject at hand, but are really intended to erode the goodwill of the person to whom they are replying, to get them to appear impatient or to lash out, and therefore come off as unreasonable.
as a mod, if youāre looking to foster communities for open discussion rather than a place that will become toxic, punishing people for being targets of trolls while leaving trolls alone isnāt the way to go.
lmao, this is a theory, and this study hasn't only not been peer-reviewed, it doesn't seem to have gained much of any traction in the academic community in the last 20 years.
if I paid 600 college students to fuck each other, yeah, I'm going to find that one penis is going to squish out the cum from the last penis, but that doesn't prove that it evolved specifically for that purpose. isn't simple displacement, and a task that could be as easily performed by a dildo or fist or anything else that you shoved into the jizz-filled cavity.
Youāre getting lost in the weeds here and completely misunderstanding both copyright law and the technology used here.
you're accusing me of what you are clearly doing after I've explained twice how you're doing that. I'm not going to waste my time doing it again. except:
Where copyright comes into play is in whether the new work produced is derivative or transformative.
except that the contention isn't necessarily over what work is being produced (although whether it's derivative work is still a matter for a court to decide anyway), it's regarding that the source material is used for training without compensation.
The problem is that as a consumer, if I buy a book for $12, Iām fairly limited in how much use I can get out of it.
and, likewise, so are these companies who have been using copyrighted material - without compensating the content creators - to train their AIs.
RIP, you silly, silly man š¢