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  1. Comment on Sweden prides itself on equality, so why is its political gender gap growing – as general election looms, survey shows twice as many men as women support far-right Sverigedemokraterna in ~society

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    I mean that the left should adopt these "right-wing" policies, which I don't think are fundamentally right-wing actually.

    Similarly, I'm not seeing that adopting right-wing policies has been effective at curbing the right in the US. It really doesn't seem like that strategy is that effective?

    I mean that the left should adopt these "right-wing" policies, which I don't think are fundamentally right-wing actually.

    2 votes

  2. Comment on Sweden prides itself on equality, so why is its political gender gap growing – as general election looms, survey shows twice as many men as women support far-right Sverigedemokraterna in ~society

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    Billionaires are obviously not the problem in Sweden. Unless you desperately need to buy a home from Södermalm.

    Billionaires are obviously not the problem in Sweden. Unless you desperately need to buy a home from Södermalm.

    3 votes

  3. Comment on Sweden prides itself on equality, so why is its political gender gap growing – as general election looms, survey shows twice as many men as women support far-right Sverigedemokraterna in ~society

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    Regarding Sweden, there are three facts: Olof Palme's government voted (with an unanimous parliament vote!) in favour of a new immigration and minority policy in 1975. The previous one was a...

    Regarding Sweden, there are three facts:

    1. Olof Palme's government voted (with an unanimous parliament vote!) in favour of a new immigration and minority policy in 1975. The previous one was a policy of assimilation and ethno-cultural homogeneity. The new one was state-sponsored multiculturalism which essentially continues to this day.

    2. This immediately led to a sharp increase of muslim immigrants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Sweden#/media/File:Muslim_percentage_in_Sweden,_1930%E2%80%932016.svg

    3. The non-existent assimilation policy directly led to muslims forming their own societies in Sweden, which in turn directly led to several new organized crime groups and greatly increased crime rates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized_crime_in_Sweden

    Now, some right-wing circles and Russia like to over-emphasize these problems for (geo)political gain but that doesn't mean there are no problems. There are clear political decision points that obviously led to worsening situations.

    If we want to curb the rise of the far right, the most obvious path towards that would be to overturn these decisions. It won't be nearly as fun as not making those decisions in the first place would have been, but I don't think ignoring the problem and letting it fester is a great idea either.

    9 votes

  4. Comment on Help me choose a HiDPI monitor for work in ~tech

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    It sounds to me like I should avoid checking out what 120Hz would feel like because if I like it too much, I'll be compelled to buy expensive equipment and spend way more energy in the future for...

    It sounds to me like I should avoid checking out what 120Hz would feel like because if I like it too much, I'll be compelled to buy expensive equipment and spend way more energy in the future for all computer use. :)

    Do you like the interpolation effects in televisions? You know, the thing that makes a 30Hz video stream
    into a 240Hz stream? I kinda feel like I'm looking at something like that when I see a higher Hz monitor.

  5. Comment on Help me choose a HiDPI monitor for work in ~tech

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    For what it's worth, my Ultrawide LG bought about 3 years ago works pretty much perfectly with Linux (intel gpu / Thunderbolt) via USB-C. Screen quality is superb at 5120x2160. In my opinion,...

    For what it's worth, my Ultrawide LG bought about 3 years ago works pretty much perfectly with Linux (intel gpu / Thunderbolt) via USB-C. Screen quality is superb at 5120x2160.

    In my opinion, going above 60Hz is not useful even for gaming, and pretty much a complete waste of energy for desktop work. But you of course are the one experiencing your vision, so mileage may vary :)

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Ukraine ‘cuts off’ Crimea from Russia, plunging it into an energy crisis in ~society

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    There's probably a fair bit of propaganda sprinkled in all this goodness, but I'm still happy to hear it.

    There's probably a fair bit of propaganda sprinkled in all this goodness, but I'm still happy to hear it.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party? in ~tech

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    I'm sorry for your lousy executives. Ours do stuff like that too, but also 100% accept that we'll just use his version as a prototype example and rewrite all of it. But we are an AI first company...

    I'm sorry for your lousy executives. Ours do stuff like that too, but also 100% accept that we'll just use his version as a prototype example and rewrite all of it. But we are an AI first company anyway, so we probably have quite a bit more competence in the area than others.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on China is dealing with its own manosphere in ~life.men

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    I think it's worthwhile to think whether societies work in harmful, possibly preventable cycles. That thinking requires "toying with ideas" so to speak.

    But worse than that is how many people here are openly toying with the idea that we should send these men out to die in a war.

    I think it's worthwhile to think whether societies work in harmful, possibly preventable cycles. That thinking requires "toying with ideas" so to speak.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on China is dealing with its own manosphere in ~life.men

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    Russia seems like the most logical direction as it collapses. China has lost plenty of territory to Russia in tha last 200 years. Although I'm not sure if China would lose much in such a conflict....

    Russia seems like the most logical direction as it collapses. China has lost plenty of territory to Russia in tha last 200 years.

    Although I'm not sure if China would lose much in such a conflict. And of course they're probably getting much more stuff from Russia by just being a sort of an overlord.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Zig creator weighs in on the Bun Rust rewrite in ~comp

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    I'm starting to be a bit worried for Kelley. The AI onslaught is not great for people like him, and it's not gonna get better. He (and a lot of other very smart people) seem to be doing the exact...

    I'm starting to be a bit worried for Kelley. The AI onslaught is not great for people like him, and it's not gonna get better. He (and a lot of other very smart people) seem to be doing the exact opposite of the famous Bruce Lee adage "be water, my friend".

    6 votes

  11. Comment on Chat control 1.0 passes even though majority actually voted against in todays vote in ~society

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    It doesn't, more like affirms it. Although "only" is a bit too strong there. Third reading require only a simple majority to reject a law. But this one didn't get there. But I don't think...

    It doesn't, more like affirms it. Although "only" is a bit too strong there. Third reading require only a simple majority to reject a law. But this one didn't get there.

    But I don't think governments generally have mechanisms to prevent proposals from coming back. That would effectively be a denial-of-service attack against democracy, wouldn't it?

    Perhaps EU should have a way to make proposals properly expire though.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Chat control 1.0 passes even though majority actually voted against in todays vote in ~society

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    There's a lot of misinformation around how the EU works because some people seem to really hate this set of laws. It shouldn't be a reason to be dishonest though, in my opinion. People are reading...

    There's a lot of misinformation around how the EU works because some people seem to really hate this set of laws. It shouldn't be a reason to be dishonest though, in my opinion.

    People are reading the 314 vs 276 vote as "the EU passed a law against the majority," but that's not quite what happened. The EU has two lawmaking chambers: the Parliament, which citizens elect directly, and the Council, which is made up of the elected national governments. This law had already been approved by the governments in the Council. The July vote was Parliament trying to overturn that position, and overturning it requires a majority of all 720 members (361 votes), not just a majority of those voting on the day. The rejection got 314, so it fell short and the law survived.

    By this stage of the process, the member state governments have negotiated and committed to a text. The rules say that undoing their agreement takes a yes from over half of all 720 members, present or not, rather than half of whoever showed up that day. Absences and abstentions effectively count for the deal. It also protects against turnout luck: a law's fate shouldn't hinge on who happened to be absent. Parliament has cleared this bar before, killing the software patents directive 648 to 14 in 2005, so it's hard but doable when opposition is genuinely broad. Here the chamber was split roughly 53/47, and the system deliberately lets the existing agreement win a split.

    You can absolutely argue this design gives the governments' chamber too much weight over the directly elected one, and this vote is now the best example of that critique. But it's not a breach of democracy. The rule is written into treaties that every member state ratified, it was applied openly, and every vote along the way was cast by elected governments or elected members of parliament, on the record.

    6 votes

  13. Comment on Chat control 1.0 passes even though majority actually voted against in todays vote in ~society

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    Because this wasn't a vote for passing a new law. This was a vote for overturning an existing law. It was passed in 2021 the first time as a temporary solution. Because it was temporary, they had...

    Because this wasn't a vote for passing a new law. This was a vote for overturning an existing law.

    It was passed in 2021 the first time as a temporary solution. Because it was temporary, they had to reinstate it two times now, counting this one.

    7 votes

  14. Comment on Chat control 1.0 passes even though majority actually voted against in todays vote in ~society

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    Well, yes and no. It wasn't proposed again, it was the same proposal. A first reading rejection doesn't kill a proposal in the EU. The Council could have chosen to just not act after the first...

    Well, yes and no. It wasn't proposed again, it was the same proposal. A first reading rejection doesn't kill a proposal in the EU.

    The Council could have chosen to just not act after the first rejection. That would have made the proposal effectively become a zombie. But they chose to make their own adoption which leads to the second reading. Which was this one.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Did Kamala Harris's silence on Gaza cost her the White House? in ~society

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    I think the strongest evidence that it wasn't a fake shooting is that Crooks shot three people in the audience, one of whom died, while trying to hit Trump.

    I think the strongest evidence that it wasn't a fake shooting is that Crooks shot three people in the audience, one of whom died, while trying to hit Trump.

    10 votes

  16. Comment on Climate.us is a new website created by former NOAA employees who worked on Climate.gov until they were laid off last year as part of the heinous DOGE cutbacks in ~enviro

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    Sure, but we don't always behave like humans here.

    Just a reminder that the online people are actual humans, too!

    Sure, but we don't always behave like humans here.

    1 vote

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  18. Comment on Climate.us is a new website created by former NOAA employees who worked on Climate.gov until they were laid off last year as part of the heinous DOGE cutbacks in ~enviro

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    I was in cloud consulting, before that in AI (pre chatgpt!), now financial programming. I've been doing programming / systems maintenance and design in various domains for about 30 years. In my...

    I was in cloud consulting, before that in AI (pre chatgpt!), now financial programming. I've been doing programming / systems maintenance and design in various domains for about 30 years. In my previous consulting job we were carefully optimistic about AI and in my current job we're actively selecting for pro-AI people. I haven't seen anyone interview with us who have been screened out due to that requirement, although it's possible that our job postings are clear enough about that so that obvious non-matches won't even apply.

  19. Comment on Climate.us is a new website created by former NOAA employees who worked on Climate.gov until they were laid off last year as part of the heinous DOGE cutbacks in ~enviro

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    Are they really that numerous? Sure, I meet them online every day, but not in real life.

    Are they really that numerous? Sure, I meet them online every day, but not in real life.

  20. Comment on Climate.us is a new website created by former NOAA employees who worked on Climate.gov until they were laid off last year as part of the heinous DOGE cutbacks in ~enviro

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    I don't quite understand why people think that anything new is built without LLMs anymore. Especially if there are serious budget constraints. My take: this is obviously built with LLM because...

    I don't quite understand why people think that anything new is built without LLMs anymore. Especially if there are serious budget constraints.

    My take: this is obviously built with LLM because it's a new project.

    5 votes