schnurrito @ schnurrito @discuss.tchncs.de

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People exceed the speed limit on highways, but usually not by a lot. If they exceed it by a lot, it is usually enforced, e.g. by speed cameras; but of course some people still sometimes get away with it, no enforcement of any law is perfect.

no idea where you're from, but it's true in many European countries too

I don't think that would be any better. It is still compulsory service and a violation of people's individual freedoms to choose how to live their lives.

(and many countries do allow that as an alternative e.g. for conscientious objectors)

Sleep deprived probably

Yeah, I agree with you. There are so many topics that nobody talks about here, but does elsewhere on the Internet.

In general yes, but I would prefer if it had a wider variety of viewpoints on societal issues. I don't even always disagree with the prevailing circlejerk here on everything, but I would occasionally like to read counterarguments to it too.

Commenting on a message board is a lot more normal now than it used to be. Facebook, Reddit as well as comment sections on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, etc. are fairly mainstream things by now, I would consider all of these forms of message boards.

By definition in a dictatorship, there are either no parties, or there is only one party, or the parties that are not the one the dictator belongs to are not allowed to be in actual opposition to the ruling one or attempt to become the ruling one. (That last one is the case in North Korea and was the case in East Germany for most of its history.)

The birthright citizenship one is the main one that comes to mind. I do not think all of them are, that would be stretching things.

What do you mean "instead of"? There are many kinds of taxes in my country, which is in the EU. I pay a huge cut of my salary in taxes every month even before I pay VAT on things I buy.

The best place to privately store anything is on your own machine, not anyone else's.

@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de calls to end premiership of Pedro Sanchez

I mean in Venice you have to admit that cruise ships offer a very unique view on the city. To my knowledge, they travelled through Canale della Giudecca when they were still allowed there, i.e. cruise ship passengers could view the entire city center including Piazza San Marco from above in a way you can't anymore nowadays. But of course that also made them a nuisance to everyone else because of waves and also because this just doesn't look very nice.

Venice is so uniquely beautiful I wouldn't want to spend just one day there anyway, so abolishing cruises there may be good for the tourists too.

nothing stopping people from just flying to Nice if that is where they want to go, there are many other ways to travel to Nice

Problem with cruise ships is that cruise passengers don't spend much money in the places they go to. I went on a cruise once myself and if I get three all-you-can-eat buffets a day included in the cruise fare, no way am I going to a restaurant on land. So I get why places don't like this.

Yes, but that is less likely if they have been deleted very soon after creation.

citing sources such as ... "traditional news media", right?

Israel/Palestine is truly a conflict where no matter what argument you raise (on either side), there is a counterargument.

The argument against yours, for example, is here: https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2024/05/a-really-strange-genocide.html

I am generally very sympathetic to the Palestinians and think the immediate root cause of the present situation is the fact that Israel has been blockading Gaza for more than a decade, not allowing movement in or out of it, which I do not think can be justified by anything. I regularly read the blog I linked to above (yes, I consciously read things I don't agree with), its author would probably say that the immediate root cause is something Hamas did in October of 2023. Difficult to say how to "neutrally" present that, right?

Yeah but instances are supposed to e.g. delete posts when the user deletes them. A malicious instance might not do that. Even without malice, I know this doesn't always work because some weeks ago, I deleted a comment almost immediately after saving it, then kept getting upvotes for it; I found out this was because (at least) one very popular instance hadn't deleted that comment, its users were still seeing it and upvoting it.

Wikis are unsuitable for anything contentious. Wikis are the solution to the problem of crowdsourcing objective facts, what makes them great is that anyone can add a few (even very obscure) ones; on anything contentious there are way too many, not too few, people wanting to write about them, making the wiki a solution to a nonexistent problem. This news story is yet another example of this.

... and hardly anything is more contentious than Israel/Palestine, which is why wikis work least well for articles on that.

the divisions and minus? what now?