There's probably an argument that it's okay when states do objectionable things. Certainly there are large portions of the population that are opposed to actions their states take on their behalf? What's the difference between the US bombing an Iranian pre-school and ISIS decapitating journalists? Mostly that one is sanctioned by a powerful state and the other is not.
If it targets others, it is. Some countries have ideas like that only non-state entities can commit terrorism, but that is nonsense. My own country's laws don't distinguish between state and non-state acts in its terrorism legislation, for example.
It's quite literally terrorism. Telling people "we can blow people up anywhere in the world" is intended to make people afraid. It's deliberately creating a climate of fear. That's what terrorism is.
You run it to see if your military tactics will defeat the enemy and then you keep running it until you find a strategy that guarantees victory. Who cares if some sim lives are churned through the simulation, our lives are at stake!
Reductionist but I feel like that’s how it would go.
Podcasting is going through the thousand cheap ads with the obnoxiously inserted interstitial ads. What they have accomplished is me unsubscribing to the worst offending podcast and beginning the journey of ad blocking on podcast with the help of whisper and LLMs. Also now I hate Shopify with the heat of a 1000 burning suns due to their obnoxious ads and the insane rate they get played.
So yea that one expensive ad would probably have a positive impact compared to a tidal wave of slop. Quality > Quantity after all.
Governments have conflicting goals. You think "raise taxes" is the most important goal. But, believe it or not, some governments -- even conservative ones -- also have goals like "protect the envirnment".
In Germany for example, you are nominally required to register your balcony solar. Online, no fee. So it's easy. But .. there are no fines attached if you don't do it. And they don't ask for any taxes.
They are HAPPY that you do your local electricity power after Putin turned off gas export and it turned out that LPG import is way more costly (due to cooling and pressure, a lot of the stored energy is used for that during the transport/processing on that).
In Germany, there was even a process where the politics told the electrical engineers to not be so anal about electric security to make plug in of these devices into normal sockets a possibility. The VDE only wanted special sockets to be used. The politics said "Nope, too expensive for the normal people".
The idea that legislative and executive is only working AGAINST the people is invalid.
I used to believe in that and would make sure all of my sites would work without Javascript until one of my projects (a micro community) got targeted by pedotrolls which lead to an awful time and now I associate people who are staunch no JS as pedos, I am not accusing you or anything but that is the impression it left on me. Ever since then I really don't care if the site doesn't work without JS, and if users can post stuff damn straight Javascript will be involved.
Unfortunately this idealistic principle (no JS) attracts the worst people.
You're on Tor? You have JS disabled? I might as well warm up fbi.gov/investigate/cyber for the probable report I'll have to do...
Well, I find your comment pretty offensive. In the past I've had some pretty rough and disparaging comments from JavaScript fanboys but yours has to be the worst. Associating disabling JS with pedos is about as low as it gets. Where did you get those stats from, or are they just a figment of your imagination?
"Unfortunately this idealistic principle (no JS) attracts the worst people."
Again, how did you come to that opinion? Where's your evidence/stats? Generally comments like that come from web/JS programmers who've realized that client-side users have them stymied when they disable JS.
An additional reason I avoid JS is speed, webpages become blinding fast when there's no JS. Once one gets addicted to the great rendering speed there's no return. I'm not against JS per se, trouble is you JS programmers have weaponised it against users, webpages of 7, 10 and even 20MB are now commonplace. Presenting such slow massive pages to users is nothing other than abuse.
I do not use Tor.
BTW, I should point out that my views about JS and privacy abuse were formed from my years working in govt. surveillance where the stakes are very high.
I came to my opinion through experience, I’m sorry you’re offended but I did say that I don’t imply that you’re a pedo but my stats sure show a pattern.
That does not change what I have dealt with. I am not a “JavaScript fanboy” remember I made a community that could work WITHOUT needing JavaScript and that lead to a bunch of grief for me which made me understand the extreme naivety of that original idealistic idea on the internet.
I always found it interesting that lead is sweet. I always heard the meme he’s dumb because he ate (lead) paint chips as a child and I could never understand why a child would eat paint chips until I realized the paint chips were sweet because of the lead. Also apparently lead was used by the Roman’s as a sweetener. The only true taste I think you should count on when eating strange food is bitterness, if you don’t trust the food and you have a strong bitter taste, spit it out!
pure lead, like any pure metal, is tasteless, but many salts of lead are sweet, so corroded lead can taste sweet, and also the white lead pigment that was used in the past is sweet.
There are several other metals whose salts are sweet, including beryllium and yttrium, which is why an alternative name for beryllium was glucinium, from the Greek word for "sweet".
- my procedurally generated fashion e-shop that has infinite designs for various apparel
- a micro community that a core group of people chat on every day
Both on what used to be digital ocean $5 droplets. Once I find the time and energy I will migrate everything away from DO, the price was raised but the quality and speed of their servers stayed the same.
I had a Shimano bike as a teenager and it was great, the breaks were amazing and I loved riding it until it got stolen right in front of a bank security guard. I still think about the bike.
You probably owned one of these retail store bikes who were often plastered with various shimano stickers for being equipped with their cheapest tourney transmission.
While at the very lowest end of the spectrum some of what we call bikes are really bicycle shape objects, you don't need an expensive bike to have a good time on the bike.
While on holidays, I once rented what looked to be a very cheap alu road bike, with the lowest end shimano transmission, heavy wheels and low end tires. My regular road bike at the time was a Festka custom road bike whose total price would have been north of 8k€ with much more gears and gear range, better brakes, super supple tubular tires. Yet I had the time of my life on that cheap rental bike.
You said it, you were a teenager. It was the right bike for you at the right time of your life and it was probably even easier for you to enjoy it if you didn't have any point of comparison.
The actual ride matters much more than the actual bike one is riding it on. People tend to obsess too much on equipment in the cycling word, even more so these days when online cycling medias are constantly reminding peoole how much watts them would save by using this over that.
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