I don’t like the thought that the EU is limited by semantics. They started out as an alliance of European nations, but why should they be limited to that just because of their name? (Also, I’d argue Canada and the US are European by culture, but not by geography.)

If you can make an actual argument about it being useful or not then do that. The US proximity thing is the start of an argument, though I’d argue it isn’t a smart, forward-thinking reason. If the US expands (or another antagonistic nation), should membership be rejected or removed to satisfy them? That’s how WWII started.

The comparison being made is them growing up with these parents, and suffering the consequences of it, or them dying at birth and not suffering. I don’t think those are comparable (as in, you literally can’t weight them against each other). They have totally different ways you’d evaluate their value.

Them dying at birth has almost zero cost or consequence. How do you measure against nothing? Them surviving has many costs and benefits. You can weight them against each other to argue if it’s good or bad, but you can’t compare it against oblivion. It’s like temperature. You can say it’s hot or it’s cold subjectively, but you can’t compare it against a vacuum that literally doesn’t have temperature.

I don’t know. I wouldn’t be so sure. It’s a good idea to spread the message anywhere.

It’s both heartening and disheartening. It’s good to see the people of the time didn’t accept the bullshit either, but it also hurts to see we’ve been fighting the same fight for hundreds (probably more like thousands, or tens of thousands) of years, and we’re not much closer to winning.

People still direct people to Lemmy.world. A lot of people don’t understand the benefits of federation still and want everyone on one instance. They won’t stop when an instance gets too large.

I think potentially the comment above isn’t questioning the pedophile part, but the apologist part. Has Bannon even acknowledged that there’s anything wrong? An apologist has to at least try to defend something. He just acts as if nothings changed and everything is fine.

Best bet, don’t conceil. First, that makes it easier for them to blame you, acting as if you were planning something nefarious by hiding it until they shot you. Second, how are they going to be made afraid of doing something wrong if they don’t know you’re armed? Be proud of it, and ideally have a bigger stick than they do. Make sure they’re aware of the potential consequences of breaking the law.

If by “direct traffic” you mean to send them there, then I’d say we don’t need that, and shouldn’t want it. The whole reason federation works is because control is spread out. Giving one, or a few, instances control of most of the content and users is a horrible idea and begging for issues. Speaking of, if you’re on lemmy.world, you should consider spreading elsewhere. At least don’t send new people there.

You’re absolutely right, and, as an American, I encourage it. These people don’t stand for us, and they need to face consequences. One thing I’ll always disagree with though is treating all the people as the same entity. No matter where it is, this is a class war. We need to work with people in every nation to fight against rising fascism, wherever it is. We’re in this together, against them. We need allies to fight it though.

I know exactly how time travail would work; forward only. Backwards time travel isn’t happening. In the imaginary world where it does work though I don’t see how radio waves wouldn’t work. I don’t know what heliocentric math has to do with it. You can tell where they’re coming from no matter where you are in the universe, not just around the sun. Then you adjust to that position and you’re done.

Yeah, it’s something everyone has to consider. That can’t really be compared though. It’s different for everyone. I think there’s also an opportunity cost to buying pre-built to. You won’t have as good of an understanding of your hardware.

To say it’s the same for people who are fully grown and have a life behind them are the same as a newborn baby is a bit simplistic at best. They aren’t even capable of understanding what it is to be alive, and there’s been almost nothing spent on them yet.

We could still look into people suffering chronically out of interest, but I wouldn’t say anything that comes from it can be compared to this. A baby has no concept of relationships, morals, religion, or anything else that ties them to the world. If they’re gone, the world continues on just like the day before (obviously except for the parents potentially, but they’re the ones that caused this).

I have to be pedantic, but I always hate it when people say “free” for something they paid for. It’s included in the price, not free.

One good thing if you purchase this and ditch the PS is you don’t have to pay for a membership, which is insane that console players still put up with that. A quick search (without actually checking if it’s correct) is that it’s $160 per year, on top of what you’re paying for your internet. The Steam Machine would pay for itself in just a few years, even with no other advantages.

Despite what everyone says, it’s probably not going to be cheaper than building your own system, especially since building your own you can skip stuff you don’t need and prioritize parts you really want. This just has whatever it has. You don’t get to pick and choose. At best, it’s going to be about the same price as if you purchased the hardware yourself.

It will be less effort though, so there’s that.

I think price estimates are somewhere sub $600. That’s all just speculation though.

I highly doubt it’s going to be an upgrade to the Index, or at least I hope it isn’t. That device is the ultimate premium gaming option, if you can afford it and have the space. I’m assuming this device is going to be targeting a more affordable price. The Index did well for the price, but it didn’t sell crazy numbers because it was $1k on top of needing a $2-3k PC. If they actually want to finally push VR, it needs to be much cheaper.

That’s not really true. First, if you can invent time travel you can probably do the math to calculate positions of objects. Second, even if you do need a beacon, you could use something that already exists. For example, radio waves. Earth has been shooting off radio waves for a fair amount of time now. That could be used as a beacon. Also, you could do something like having your time machine do small jumps, check it’s relative position, then adjust. This would solve just about every issue.

You only asked me how to convince other Anarchists to accept that some form of leadership isn’t authoritarianism. Also, I didn’t even mention voting or term limits. I mentioned leadership, where it’s needed, needs to cycle. This doesn’t even imply voting. Stop making shit up and saying I didn’t answer it. There are a lot of solutions out there. If you care, you can look into it. I’m not spending hours listing all possible solutions to vague questions that aren’t asked in good faith.

You sound like one of those people who go “communism can’t work because…” and then give some stupid reason it can’t work. It’s not worth discussing because they aren’t actually arguing in good faith the answers exist, and they’re only against something because they’re idiologically against it, not because they actually understand it.

I don’t want to be an asshole, but no one can make a definitive statement like this (accurately). It’s incredibly subjective. Many years of pain and suffering, as well as increased resource drain, or nothingness. You can’t really compare those. You can’t really make any claim about non-existence.

If your argument is that more people is always better, I’d say that’s nieve and dangerous, but I guess it is a belief you could hold. In that case I’d say there will be plenty more children born. It’s not a concern. We’ve reduced deaths of infants/babies/fetuses pretty substantially.

2k is nice. 4k is pushing the limit of utility, even if you can get content for it (or play games with that resolution if gaming). 8k is beyond any need for any normal person. Maybe if you have a private movie studio you could use it, but I don’t think that’s what this is discussing.