Realistically speaking, we really need to start differenciating between restoring human functions (like artificial eye for the blind) and enhancements augmenting abilities normal human limits (that same eye having x-ray and nightvision).
Restoring functions, at least, should be treated as universal medicine and healthcare and be available for whoever needs it.
Hope you don't mind being billed for the whole surgery, including amputation of limbs you never asked for in the first place. Shiny stuff with soul crushing debt - sounds like American colleges.
Video game historians 50 years later will scratch their heads everytime the word 'DENUVO' is inside thr readme. I hope they have more efficient methods to bypass today's bs then.
I'm afraid they'll break off Debian one day. Supporting snap is one thing, sabotaging well established user cases (apt installing deb, not being a snap prozy) is another.
I heard many Salvadoreans support this (and the president). They see it as an exchange made for overall public safety. Can't comment much else, since I don't think I've lived surrounded by MS-13 and similar gangs to truly understand their desperation before the change.
Now, what happens if someone was falsely accused of being a gang member and thrown there? Are they able to get proper legal consultations and contact family members?
Is that even possible now? When I attempted buying a domain for 10 years, it showed me the numbers as if I had renewed the domain 9 times instead of 10 times the purchasing price.
The same mistake could be made, since OP assumed the audience is the SIJW instance, thus using inclusive we, when actually its the whole federation, the exclusive we could have been used.
Sometimes you need to see its contents (e.g. store listing prices only on IG) and don't want to make a Meta account for obvious reasons. Plus it skips all the tracking bs.
It's nice to have an ideal and wanting to contribute. Dealing with constant abuse and threat to your physical safety, mental health, financial and legal liability, etc., is not what everyone has in mind at start.
And this goes to Lemmy instance admins too. It's not supposed to be anonymous, but the federated nature makes spreading content with malicious intent very easy.
I'm so sorry for you, man. I had to take care of my parents when covid started (they're all fine now) and couldn't stand the mouth breathers thinking only they and themselves mattered.
If we're comparing to human history, the Aztecs weren't singlehandedly defeated by the Spanish. The conquistadors had plenty of assistance of other nations that wanted to see the Aztecs gone. We all know what happened afterwards, but even if you went back in time you wouldn't convince a single Tlaxcala warrior that their newfound awesome ally against their sworn enemy was actually the "bad guy" - until much later, that is.
So, if the aliens started an attack against whoever the superpower happens to be, they would have plenty of assistance as well. It's human nature.
Data collection will only intensify as microsoft saw the gold rush in AI and plans to integrate chatgpt-like assistant to the next iteration of windows.
And we are kind of getting there, but we often see multinational megacorps with Chinese or Korean names/origin.