Making the argument that you should kill scientists for their inventions is short sighted, dumb and morally dubious

1. Its Science, if Thomas didn’t invent leaded gasoline someone else would have figured it out, an interesting parallel is Fritz Haber, discoverer of the habers process(iykyk).

2. Even if he invented it, it was the corpos who heavily pushed and kept it in circulation for their own benefit.

3. Attacking Science in any way compromises human progress, CFC’s were the stepping stone to less harmful refrigerants.

I subscribe to the “The US president has investments in our rival country theory”

If you scroll down the article you would see that the select committee is shutting down any requests for change with the same set of arguments. The recourse might be to challenge the act in court but that seems unlikely, The public wont really do anything about it, because in their view it doesn’t affect them; they fail to see(and are veiled from seeing) the highly probable misuse angle of such far reaching legislation.

Bottom line: As long as you don’t touch the street dogs you can get away with anything

Both fantastic beasts and crushed child do more harm than good to the original franchise

I really liked the first FB movie, it captured the whimsical charm of the intial 3 HP movies and books quite authentically. I could go on and on on how the next film changes the tone, breaks established canon, and generally feels like a cobbled together mess of story beats hastily Scribbled on sticky notes(didn’t anyone proofread the thing?) So for me it ends with newt Scamander helping to apprehend grindelwald and the rest of the story is implied in the main HP books.

Cursed child doesn’t exist, what are you talking about?

classic first worlder with their elevated standard of living:

• Animal based protein is often cheaper and more easily accessible
• herbivores as a middle step helps digest frankly indigestible plants

I am not disagreeing with you there is a fine line between acceptable and gluttonous, but acting holier than though, just cause you insistently chew grass and destroy your gut biome doesn’t help the animals

Valid but counter point, popular vote is always easily influenceable, leading to counter productive results, and sometimes leads to psuedodemocracy which is authoritarian in all but name.

There is no good autocracy and no perfect democracy, but you cannot discredit both.

Short bursts of autocracy when necessary and done right(altruistic leader with accountability who steps down) leads to a lasting democracy

So if Mozilla wants to monetize location data, what does this mean for all the custom ROMs that use Mozilla’s location provider instead of Google’s?

Nothing, because they dont sell location data, this just seems like a routine warning that pops up when ToS and Privacy policy changes, and since they have clarified their position on this matter, (not to mention the lack of alternative FOSS web engines). We really shouldn’t let this bother us

Of course i might be wrong and it may come out that Mozilla has turned heel(lot of heel turning happening lately)

My high school chem teacher, while explaining soap micelles, went on a tangent saying that we don’t really need soap to wash ourselves and that he personally never used soap while bathing, I liked that teacher but TMI and gross.

interesting, do you have any research papers about this?

C/whoosh

Then thats where you draw the line!

But who or what’s standing on the other side?

I agree with your general point but I don’t agree with your example because apprenticeship can still lead to stable employment and a fulfilling life

I mean he has accepted a position as a luminary at the x86 ecosystem advisory group the most dominant and proprietary instruction set ever formed by companies with vested interest to keeping it in use and prevent competition (RISC-V & ARM) from catching up.

Nothing is devoid of global politics.

Russian maintainers were unceremoniously kicked out citing compliance issues.

RISK-V and ASML have been targeted by them in the past to prevent Chinese use.

reading the broad points regarding RISC-V, I think my worst case scenario is apparently just the present day.

but then the project loses momentum, the userbase fragments, opensource projects are fragile as they are mostly volunteer work; I guess the discussion of government threat and overreach towards opensource projects is mostly discussed in the context of cryptocurrencies and other ‘disruptive’ software

https://lemmy.ml/post/21682024 https://lemmy.ml/post/21715588

what’s the recent Linux drama?

https://lemmy.ml/post/21682024

https://lemmy.ml/post/21715588

I didn’t deny it; its akin to a first year med student reading about all the subtle little ways that the body hints something is majorly wrong and noticing symptoms exhibit in them, I guess i am just not jaded enough to accept that online anons can just send a swat team to my house if i comment on the local weather online.