I think this is ambigous. When people are asked “do you support the views of Andrew Tate?” How many actually know these in particular? What if individual views are asked and then if more than 50% are answered with “support” it is considered to support his views overall?
I’ve read enough news to know that Tate is a terrible person and probably a serious criminal. But i would not be able to describe his views, nor do i want to find out what his views are exactly.
If the same authority is doing verification that is also doing moderation and both ultimately in a for profit setting, that has conflict of interest.
We dont know how reliable bluesky moderation will stay. We dont know how they will respond to political pressure. We dont know how they will monetize past the growth phase and then could also argue a “service fee” for verification.
In a perfect world none of these would happen, but then everybody could still be on twitter and be fine there.
Idk. Celebrities and Politicians usually have other vetted channels such as their own website or a website of their ogranization representing them. It should be basic journalistic work to see if their social media links link to the account in question or not.
The US has been a threat to world peace no matter who was president for the past 30 years (at least)
There is measures everyone can take by speaking up, holding political representatives accountable, boycotting Israeli products or products by companies complicit in Israeli crimes, by demonstrating, by organizing and by educating ourselves.
As an individual we have little power. As a collective we have more than enough power, which is why it is crucial never to become defeatist.
Do you mean the enlarged picture? It could be that you run a script-blocker and it is blocking the javascript of the instance. If you click the picture again or the post link it should link directly to the file on feddit.org w.o. requiring javascript.
From research to large scale trials i would expect building the processing industry to take at the very least a few years. And once things are in place, China can just reopen the floodgates and give these new refiners a hard time, unless they are heavily protected by their government then.
So it requires a dedicated long term strategy to counteract, which will take some years. Also in the meantime all dependent industries are suffering big-time while China can still export the finished products and further strengthen their industries.
In terms of economical power this move is much stronger than Trumps tariffs and there is no rewards to be expected for countries who stick it out for the US. The US has already made it clear that it will just make you suffer more, the more you give in to them.
Google translate is using the same approach like an LLM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Translate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_machine_translation
So is DeepL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepL_Translator
And before they were using neural network approaches they used statistical approaches, which are subject to the same errors as a result of bad training data.
The UN noted at least 36 Israeli attacks on Gaza between 18. March and 9. April in which only women and children were killed.
Fair point. I guess we will see how things develop.
If you look at the German language lemmy community it will be difficult to find the pro Merz ones.
The US military fucking people completely without any reason or legitimization and in blatant violation to international law is a tradition that the US military upholds since long before Trump though.
But in February, the DoD issued a memo halting a major counter-extremism initiative rooting out white nationalists and far-right influences among servicemen, citing that it was not in line with Donald Trump’s executive orders. Since, the efficacy of rooting out the far right within the ranks remains unclear.
The story is these measures to start having an effect with extremism becoming more visibly prevalent.
You are interpreting way too much in what i said. I don’t get why you got so offended by me pointing out that for me in the context “being” does not just entail “conscious beings”. Also looking back at the dictionary under 1 a “the quality or state of having existence” and 1 b “something that is conceivable and hence capable of existing…” it provides even more abstract definitions.
Otherwise i can just point out that a reliable dictionary is providing multiple definitions for a word shows that there isn’t such a clarity to proclaim that “only interpretation x makes sense”. At the very least not to the extend to attack someone as acting in bad faith when pointing out that the term is not precise.
From your source:
1 c: conscious existence : life
3: a living thing
sentient beings
a mythical being
The term “being” is very broad and the dictionary you quoted does account for that by addressing these possibilities. This shows that arbitrarily reducing the meaning to “sentient” beings or “conscious” existence is not correct.
In terms of “sentience” or “consciousness” these also cannot be applied black and white to animals or plants. There is animals which show a quite complex consciousness and there is animals, where we couldn’t observe these (yet). At the same time we see more and more examples of plants showing what could be called “pain” or “social life”.
OP could have just talked about “animals” instead of “beings”. Talking in terms of “beings” only muddies the water both between plants and animals but also animals and humans. And the latter is highly problematic, which is why we must not be careless with these words.
Some Fascists work to infiltrate movements such as veganism or animal rights precisely with the goal to devalue human life through weakening the perception of value of human life over animal life. I don’t think this is the case for OP or the majority of people in these movements, but they need to be vigilant against it.
If you consider plants living beings then you kinda have to in order survive.
When you are suffering vitamin deficiency it is always time to get those vitamins in.
When you are sleep deprived it is always time to go to bed.
When your teeth are rotting it is always time to clean them.
Your condition will get worse until you make use of the remedy. And the reminder to make use of the remedy will stay the same as long as the condition lasts. Just as Windows is getting worse and worse the only remedy is to use another OS, but some people choose to help themselves sooner than others.
Depends on the age group imo.
I think the people who experienced internet from ca. 2005-2015 will have the best English on average. Because in this time English was simply necessary to get a grip on a lot of media, games, websites… Now a lot of things are translated, sometimes by force (youtube, reddit…) and with bad auto-translation. Also German content creators became much more widespread since 2015, so now people might never need to look past their language horizon.
Of course the dates and statements aren’t absolutes, just general observations.
I dont think any Christian who has a sliver of religious education considers the bible to be the word of God. For starters some of the Gospels that are canon already start with an explanation that this is a recollected account. Then there is other chapters like the letters to the Romans and so on. As for the Torah it is also clear that it is containing some revelations but also a lot of interpretation and chronicles.
This is fundamentally different to the Quran, which we Muslims believe to be the word of God as revealed to the prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) and preserved in full and in the original Arabic language. Also Muslims are obliged to treat Christians and Jews (people of the book) kindly and respectfully, unless persecuted or attacked by them.
I looked at the one for mysoginy
I think the source provides a nuanced picture and offer suggestions how to combat his influence that got lost in the short notion in the guardian article.