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Sry, I think the innuendo got lost here. I was more holding up a mirror to their double-speak and trying to point out that if you really liked those goals, you'd take a different route. The conclusions these people jumped to, contradict each other and what they're supposedly achieving.

I think if they were for families and liberty, they'd do roughly what I said... Making me think that's not what it's about. For me they don't need to come up with wrong reasons to justify it. They could just say 'we hate people and freedom' and at least that'd be honest and free of contradictions.

I'd say give some guidance and be a good example yourself. Maybe make up some well reasoned rules... McDonalds is okay every now and then if you also eat healthy food every now and then. Make sure he gets some fibers and vitamins and maybe you can get even a small kid to understand that there is a reason behind it. In the end I don't think you have to apply force... I've seen children grow up on mostly plain noodles, water and a few other things and they turned out alright. But also don't enable such behaviour. I think there are some rough rules of thumb... Like a kid needs to try something 6 to 15 times to like it (at all). Liking food is a lot about what we're accustomed to, and not just the taste. And the early time in life is important to develop a diverse palette. And the parents are an important role model, so if they don't have a wide spectrum of food, the kids are also very unlikely to get any different, no matter what you do. I'd say maybe read a (good) book on the subject. This is a fairly common problem with children. (And drinking just water is fine. I'm not sure if that applies to 3 year olds, but in general that's a healthy thing to do.)

If your kid is special, you might have to try a few things and see what works. But from looking at several specimen, I've come to think children are very individual anyways and there's often not one thing that applies to all of them. Some people have rules. Some make the food look good, maybe carve a crocodile out of a cucumber every now and then. You can manipulate a 3yo and serve them arbitrary food in McDonalds containers if it's just that. Or have them watch other kids or people and see what they do to give some inspiration...

After World War II, the British and the USA under president Truman willed the country of Israel into existence. And helped.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-American_Committee_of_Inquiry

There have been lots of ties between America and Israel and lots of people formerly living in the USA (and/or having fled there) emmigrated to Israel.

Since then the stance hasn't changed. The two countries have ties, are allied. And that's the political side. As people pointed out here there are other sides to the story... Religuous beliefs of christians etc... And obviously it's difficult to resign from a long relationship.

(Edit: Especially for a country as conservative and traditionalist as the USA. I don't see a politician getting elected for saying: 'Look, we need to rethink our old ways of doing it.' And the US is very capitalist. And selling arms is a lucrative business.)

Wow. Thanks. With your summary and the titles alone I can make sense of that manifesto:

1. Define families properly to include all colours of families. Make them (the people) more important than corporate greed and capitalism. Make sure their children have access to education. And care for them if their parents aren't well off.
2. The state has no business dictating people's reproductive rights, choices in gender issues and religion. Instead they need the state to provide infrastructure to them, healthcare etc to enable them to achieve what they want individually. People need the freedom not to get shot on the streets or at school by some lunatic. And democracy in the USA is broken. Governance by the people needs true choices. Less lobbyism, gerrymandering and childish behaviour in the senate.
3. Make good choices in a globalized world. Sustainable politics. Trade and be friends with your neighbours and other friendly nations. If you want to be strong, you better have friends and also show them they're worth something to you.
4. Freedom and Liberty? That's a pretty straightforward proclamation to celebrate LGBTQ+ people, women etc as god made them. I'd say that extends to anyone and all the diversity and richness of life. And include welfare programs for the disadvantaged, as God and the founding fathers wanted equal opportunity. And the USA currently only cares for the rich. Contradicting any of Jesus' teachings.

Maybe read something from Jordan Peterson? He's conservative, against gender politics or modern life. Sells 'simple truths' that look well reasoned if you're not too intelligent (or don't believe in equality...) I think he wrote several books and has lots of YouTube videos available.

Roughly C, C++, Python, Java... But not all of them on an expert level.

Aren't HTML and XML markup languages and not turing complete? So they don't qualify as programming languages, because you can't program in them?

What's with the Republicans, don't they like their country and democracy any more?

They're fairly known to do this. For YouTube creators it's been this way for years. With nobody at the other side, just AI. Every now and then some YouTuber makes a video how they were able to restore their account against all odds.

I mean with that it's bad because peoples livelihood is on the line. But also getting a regular Google account can have serious consequences. People use it to login to other services, have half their lives stored there and their phones connected.

And I think there is a general push towards AI powered customer support. I'm afraid in 10 years it'll be very hard to reach anyone that can help you if it's not the standard procedure. And it'll be more a sci-fi dystopia. With most companies and contracts.

Hmmh. Good reminder not to rely on these cloud services too much. And I mean the terms and services are kinda vague and enforced by a (rogue) AI. She could have stored murder mystery stories to the same effect.

The answer is spread amonst the comments you've already got.

It's a combination of regular bans, IP bans, moderators knowing the 'regulars' and recognizing their (bad) behaviour. And the Lemmy admins have a Matrix chat(?) room where they exchange info.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mental_health_resources

You should call the crisis line line of your country and get someone to listen to you. Not just the civil services but someone who might actually care. Seems you arrived at the bottom. But you're not alone or the only one who's in a really bad place.

Simple answer: We don't have any computer to run that on. While I don't see any absolute limitations ruling out that approach... The human brain seems to have hundreds or thousands of trillions of connections. With analog electrical impulses and chemistry. That's still sci-fi and even the largest supercomputers can't do it as of today. I think scientists already did it for smaller brains like those from flies(?), so the concept should work.

And then there is the question what are you going to do with it. You can't just kill a human, freeze the brain, slice it and then digitize it by looking at a microscope a trillion times. So you have to make it learn from ground up. And this requires a connection to a body. So you also need to simulate a whole body and the world it's in on top. To make it learn anything and not just activate random neurons. So that's going to be sci-fi (like the Matrix) for the near and mid future.

Completely agree. First of all the voting behaviour. To me it looks completely like a score if a specific opinion is popular. I see lots of valid arguments (in friendly words) against a popular opinion getting downvoted. Urban legends getting upvoted while the correct answer has 2 upvotes... Things that are the first thing that comes to mind after reading the headline, but not part of the article at all getting a good amount of upvotes...

And with the sarcasm, innuendo, emotions, playing devils advocate... It's a long tradition on the internet to add hints to the text to make that clear. It's not mandatory in any way, but the subtext, verbal clues and facial expressions are definitely missing. Reddit folks have their own jargon with the '/s' etc. Other people use emojis. But even before emojis were a thing, people added ;-) :'-) or XD or other clues.

Sarcasm just doesn't work that well in text comments and it never has.

Sure. As long as they grant you the permit, they've granted you the right to free speech. And I suppose that's also why they're almost never declined.

Hmm. There might not be a way around that. At least is constructive critizism. And there's a good chance it's some bacteria (as it most often is) and it'll solve the issue for good. I can't give any advice on the social norms. I'm mostly thinking in a problem-oriented way...

Hand them some tea-tree oil and the instructions how to use it and tell them to wash their feet for a week with that.

Hmm. I'd say people want recognition or socialize. The right wing stuff is testing the waters. The rest wanting to talk. Especially when it's about health, relationships... Those people just want to talk. With most people you can react accordingly and they're able to tell from your reaction if you also want to chat and socialize.

With the immigrants stuff I found you can tell some people your experience and opinion is different. And that'll pretty much end that conversation. With some people that doesn't work at all and have the opposite effect.

"Don’t Like Mondays" from Bob Geldof (1979) would be another example of a good song about shooting elementary school kids.

Hmm, maybe with the next M4 Mac Studio. The current one maxes out at 192GB of memory. Which isn't enough for an decent quantized version of a 400B model. So either like 380GB of (unified) RAM or 8 NVidia A6000.