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Also, they aren’t. That was a news media taking what a judge said and misinterpreting it.

I don't know which judge from which government you're talking about, but the concept of juridical person is widely used across the world. Specially by governments with civil/Roman law. It's basically a legal tool to assign responsibilities and rights to abstract concepts.

It's also descriptively useful to explain why corporations/governments often act in a way that the actual people (i.e. human beings) behind them wouldn't.

If I recall correctly I was mostly pissed with 4chan doing jack shit against the invasion of Stormfront clowns.

The right to abortion itself is a negative right; it should prevent a woman from being forced to keep a pregnancy against her will.

However, it must (in the moral sense) be followed by a positive right: the right to medical assistance to terminate the pregnancy.

I just use the website, and make sure to log in at least twice a day to look for reports.

Additionally, I'm following the RSS of the communities that I moderate. If something potentially problematic is posted in one, I'll see it with or without reports.

The problem that Lemmy is supposed to solve - and it does solve - is the admins. Here, if you have a bone to pick against a specific admin, you can register into another instance. And if none pleases you, you can create your own, with your own rules. In Reddit however if you have a bone to pick with spez or another of his shitheads, you're out of luck because they control the whole thing.

Moderators are another can of worms. You'll find shitty moderators here, just like in Reddit. And you'll find a good ones too.

That's a good counterpoint.

Taking what you said into account: perhaps the industry is generalising too much a diverse market, and leaving unsatisfied players who drift too much away from said generalisation.

Do people want it? Or does the gaming industry believes that people want it?

I'll give you an example: Minecraft. It has no story whatsoever, unless you count as "story" those lame excuses for lore (like the ender dragon). And yet it's the best-selling video game ever.

Same deal with Pokémon main series games. The series started out strongly gameplay-driven, to become gradually strongly story-driven. Guess which are the best selling gens? Gen 1 (Red/Blue/Green/Yellow) and Gen 2 (Gold/Silver/Crystal), that are far less story-driven than the rest! (And if you look at player ranks, Heart Gold and Soul Silver are often near the top. Gen 2 gameplay and story, Gen 4 visuals.)

So... really, I don't think that people want gameplay-less games. It's just that the industry is shoving it down their throats nonstop. And the ones who do want a story will look for it elsewhere - like visual novels, movies (as you said) or the good old books.

Given that it's pointing straight to "no", should I interpret "AI" as "additional irony"?

...seriously, model-based generation is in its infancy. Currently it outputs mostly trash; you need to spend quite a bit of time to sort something useful out of it. If anyone here actually believes that it's smart, I have a bridge to sell you.

Teleportation for sure. It covers all practical applications that I can see for invis, plus more.

I'm cis, man, straight. Usually I pay for the first date, unless she says that she wants to split it. Further dates depend, really - sometimes I'm short on cash, sometimes she is, but usually we'd split.

awkwardly fail to turn them down when the other person offers to pay.

Frame it differently: you aren't awkwardly failing to turn them down, you're gracefully accepting their generosity. If the other person is offering themself to pay, you shouldn't feel guilty for letting them to do so.

Ghostery does work as an ad blocker too, and advertises eh itself as such.

Plus, for corporate nowadays, tracking and advertisement are two steps of the same process.

Perhaps this makes me a shitty fan, but I simply avoid the genre for a while, or reread/rewatch works that I know to be good, divergent, or atypical. Then when I come back it feels fresh again.

in my case it's fantasy anime and manga. Specially isekai. And ooh boy those can be cookie-cutter repetitive.

As the other poster said, it's on F-Droid. It's mostly a Youtube frontend, although it accesses SoundCloud and PeerTube too. And more importantly, it doesn't download advertisements from YT, so you don't even need an ad blocker when using it.

Not even parrots - the birds are actually smart.

I'm not a lawyer but I can see a good way for lawyers to use ChatGPT: tell it to list laws that are potentially related to the case, then manually check those laws to see if they apply. This would work nicely in countries with Roman law; and perhaps in countries with tribal law too (the article is from USA), as long as the model is fed with older cases for precedent.

And... really, that's the best use for those bots IMO - asking it to sort, filter and search information from messy and large systems. Letting it write things for you, like those two lawyers did, is worse than laziness: it stinks stupidity.

It's also immoral. The lawyer is a human being, thus someone who can be held responsible for one's actions; ChatGPT is not and, as such, it should not be in charge of decisions that affect human lives.

The ad blockers in question were AdGuard and Ghostery, acc. to the article.
\ uBlock Origin is still working fine for me. And NewPipe in the cell phone.

I think that Kongregate dies this year or the next. Or rather, the zombie called Kongregate, the actual platform died alongside Flash.

Another alternative is the "cellphone box". I got a friend who does this all the time when he invites us to his home; you put the cell phone in a cardboard box as you enter his house, and forget about it until you pick it up as you leave. He does this because he wants people to actually chat and drink instead of staring their cell phones, it works great.

...that makes me wonder if, due to the decreasing role of religion and the lack of other decent "third spaces", the internet isn't filling this role, not just in Brazil but across the globe. I mean... at least in my city the third spaces would be mostly bars and malls, that's fine for some but not for most people.

Mostly true. It reaches the point of being anti-social behaviour disguised as socialisation - you can't hold a decent conversation with some people any more, as they don't stop staring their bloody cell phones. And if you don't have IG/FB/TT (like I don't) they look at you like you were an alien.

Did you even read the post you’re responding to?

I did.

I'm addressing mostly OP's comments across this thread because it's the stuff that I can actually give advice for, based on life experience; I'm no woman but I'm bipolar, so I wouldn't be surprised if OP's experiences in this regard were similar to mine. And if they are, I'm old enough to know shit that worked and shit that did not.

Let me guess. People expect you to behave consistently, bipolar disorder prevents you from doing so, you got dumped a few times because the cheerful/moody woman suddenly became moody/cheerful, and now you feel like starting out a relationship is walking on eggs. Is this correct?

If it is, frame it another way - it's a painful blessing disguised as curse, you're filtering out the morons who wouldn't be able to hold into a decent relationship to begin with.

Past that: stop overthinking. At the end of the day this shit boils down to

1. Show interest.
2. Check if the other side is interested. If he is, go on; if not, move on.
3. Get to know each other better. If it's worth, go on; if not, move on.
4. Repeat as needed.

I don’t drink alcohol. I don’t go to pubs or bars. The only place I see men is at gyms. I see so many every day. There’s prolonged eye contact, hungry glances, I get scared and look away and continue my workout. This avoidance is becoming unbearable.

Plus if you date lots of people over booze you'll get a disproportionate amount of alcoholic folks to deal with. (I know from experience, most of my ex-gfs were met over some beer.)

What about jogging in the park? You're still doing some physical activity and you can capitalise on probably being fit. You'll find men doing random stuff - walking their dogs, jogging like you, writing, etc. I feel like it would be a tiny bit outside your comfort zone (the gym), but not by much.

Good luck.