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I'll be ready to move on once our society is no longer being pillaged by hoarding sociopaths, thankyouverymuch.

I don't want to.

But I don't want others to be easily able to either.

In your scenario, yes, you are guilty as well. But so is the one that actually did the deed, i.e. Grok in this case.

You're arguing my point for me. Just because you do something for someone else doesn't mean you're absolved of responsibility.

You can't build a tool with a "create child porn" button and then expect not to get into trouble for helping people make child porn.

Does Photoshop have a "let me jerk off to this minor" button?

This is accountability for the crimes of humans.

The crime is creating a system that lets schoolboys create fake nudes of other minors.

You don't just get to build a CSAM-generator and then be like "well I never intended for it to be used...".

The humans running a company are liable for the product that their company builds, easy as that.

Going from the capitalism of small business owners to the market socialism of coops is a small step ;)

GPL is much more than that. It is distributing the means of production to the tech workers.

rms is the Marx of the 20th Century. GPL is freedom from corporate oppression.

That might be true philosophically, but tactically it makes no sense to fork until a potential future license change. Why lose the free maintenance from upstream?

Yeah, that's pretty much my thinking also.

By cutting out the memorization of Hanzi, I am able to accelerate my actual goal of having conversations with people.

In Silicon Valley speak, I think the term would be "ruthless prioritization" .

The public-facing mirror :-)

The French government built their own: https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet

That's not a new angle. The right to your own image has been a thing in Europe for a while, and I'm glad it is.

https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/d/echr/fs_own_image_eng

I should have clarified. My goal in learning Mandarin is only conversational fluency, not literacy.

I don't bother with the Hanzi past being able to recognize them. I want to be able to talk to people and, if I have to, use a pinyin keyboard to write basic sentences.

So only 1 & 4 are really relevant, 2 is what Anki is designed to do.

Poe's Law strikes again.

Is this satirizing the bootlicking often found in Silicon Valley or is it the bootlicking often found in Silicon Valley?

Can you import Anki decks and review history?

Yeah, FSRS is much better. For me it was the difference between learning 10 new words of Mandarin a day and learning 20, with the same time commitment.

That, for example, would be a better system. One the GPL would work beautifully in.

The GPL is a good idea. It's our socieconomic system that isn't.

The difference is, imo, the Constitution.

Had the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe succeeded, I would agree with your point.

Since it hasn't, it's all just a bunch of treaties between countries. Yes, there is European politican entities. But they all just exist by the power of the member states instituting them. They are not (yet?) established as powers in their own right.

The EU at its very core is international contracts between member states. All that the EU is is contracts between states. Thus, the EU itself is nothing but the member states acting from their sovereignty.

The US federalised a long time ago. It is not the counterexample you think it is. If it were still a bunch of little states, it would be irrelevant.

The EU is nothing more but the sum of its member states. The Venn diagram is a circle.

The sovereignty of the EU is the sum of the sovereignty of its member states.

The EU is the member states. The distinction is purely in your head.

> Does China, Indonesia, Africa, South America, India give a crap about saving the environment?

That's precisely what the border carbon tax is about. They have to now, or their products will be noncompetitive in the worlds largest market.

They could also build wind- and solar parks. They should, actually.

Fossil Fuels are dead, man.

Renewables are the future and the EU is amongst the leaders. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/22/wind-and...

The EU just signed large deals with Latin America and India, binding a sizable chunk of the world to its rules. ASEAN is on the docket, Japan, Canada and South Korea have been signed for a while now.

Make of that what you will. Power isn't always tanks and soldiers. Sometimes its bureaucracy and contracts.

> That's the kind of "I took an edgy course in college" shit that makes people outside the progressive bubble think "society is getting too woke and everyday people are getting left behind."

Nah, that's the "I was raised in Austria and all my history classes where about driving that point home" take.

How did the Nazis ever come to power, one asks? Why didn't anybody stop them? It's because everybody stayed silent until it was too late.

Screw polite meekness. You're either against what's happening or you're a collaborator. It takes people actively speaking out to show others they aren't alone and that not everyone is okay with what is happening.

The cruelty inflicted on people just trying to get by is absolutely shameful and horrible.

My only hope is that one day everyone who participated or collaborated will come to regret their heinous acts.

I would say the use of neutral there is a linguistic cop-out to avoid having to assign blame.

To be silent in the face of oppression isn't neutrality. It's implicitly siding with the oppressor.