Mohamed

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[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Scotland, UK, which is not in the EU.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Next up, Reddit punishes users who downvote peaceful posts.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

So, soo close to supporting vaccines.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Exactly. They aren't even attempting to scare Tesla customers themselves. It's all about tarnishing Musk's image, sending a message, and damaging his cashcow.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Just fyi, there isnt just one liquor monopoly. Not sure about other provinces, but BC has BC Liquor and Quebec has SAQ. I guess LCBO is Ontario's.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

I wonder if, in his infinite costcutting wisdom, he removed "redundancies" in the twitter stack that wouldve helped it better withstand cyberattacks.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

Weird that they said "only" half an hour. Thats a really long time

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Just replaced every instance of the word "war" with "deal"

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

The connection also looks like a RAM stick's. I think.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

While too far left could mean this, the op just said "slightly left". Of course, if what you meant is that Bernie Sanders is barely left enough, that anyone to the right of him is the problem, then nvm.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 50 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This is irrelevant because Meta should not be tried for this the same as a private individual would be.

The case for torrenting being illegal for private individuals is one or both of:

  1. Downloading in of itself is stealing.
  2. Uploading is giving unauthorized access to someone else who otherwise might have had a harder time finding it. Anything else, such as watching, reading, listening, learning, etc. is not illegal (or does not make sense to make illegal). The exception might be publishing. This is rare for private individuals (e.g. using pirated FL studio to make a commercial song).

For corporations, a lot change. Firstly, a corporation downloading a torrent is necessarily making unauthorized material available for some people of the company. It's like a group of 20 friends all downloaded and uploaded to each other. Secondly, they used this copyrighted material commercially (like playing pirated music in a public night club). Both should be illegal.

However, all of this is still a distraction. The real issue is using copyrighted materials to train commercial AI. Does Meta require permission from copyright holders to make AI based on their work? The law is grey on this, and desperately needs regulations.

Just my thoughts.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

Youre both saying the same thing!

"A russian VPN is blocked" is what you showed. From that, we can infer that probably all Russian ip's are blocked.

 

I am genuinely curious. Some of my passing thoughts are below, if some context is needed.

I strongly believe that PR is a much better and fairer system than FPTP, and I hope it passes in Canada at least at the federal level.

The question. Are there any real disadvantages to PR compared to FPTP?

PR is obviously not a peefect system, and it has downsides compared to other forms of representation, such as Direct Democracy. But i cant find any real downsides when compared to FPTP.

I heard about:

  1. PR allows extremist ideas to be represented. This is maybe true, but I think it is blown out of proportion It is also probably not a negative. Allowing their representation means that these ideas can be challenged in public, rather than simply censored. It also could reduce feelings of not being represented among the public, feelings which might be a strong contributing force to the rise of authoritarianism.

  2. PR could effectively freeze government by not allowing anything to pass. This could be a negative, but in many cases it isn't. In case the majority is the extremist party, PR allows a sort of damage control.

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