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  1. Comment on What does the delete button on a post do? in ~tildes

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    The only pushback I have for you is that I also do not believe you should be prevented by the site from deleting your own content (you made it seem at the end that perhaps this is what I am...
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    The only pushback I have for you is that I also do not believe you should be prevented by the site from deleting your own content (you made it seem at the end that perhaps this is what I am arguing). I hope that clears that up.

    I actually don’t find the idea of being judged so bad, to me it seems to be a part of the societal fabric and we navigate it in part by picking up on social clues.

    I however don’t think you have the right heuristic here. If he could do it with the flip of a switch, should Hemingway be allowed to delete all his contributions to society as well? Maybe because he disagrees with the publisher? We’re not important enough to generate that kind of dilemma because we’re not writing monumental works of fiction here, but in the society that is Tildes, the only reason your contributions matter at all is because you are a part of a chain of comments that builds up an exchange of ideas. Taking your ideas back breaks the chain in a tiny tiny way and sucks for everyone else.

    It’s honestly not a big deal because on important topics, just like you get a few upvotes, there are also other comments with similar ideas, but it truly does not affect your life to leave it up and it is an annoyance for others nonetheless.

    I mentioned that it’s about give and take. I think giving something to society and then taking it away is actually a horrible practice and your principled stance entails something of that sort. It’s the „nuclear option“ of social media and there probably is a reason why we use the world nuclear to describe it. You’re not the one getting blown up.

    So for me this is a case of defending your right to do it, but never agreeing with you.

    And you can replace Hemingway with Marcus Aurelius or a contemporary writer. My point is independent of the agreements we make with platforms or publishers because it’s about the exchange of ideas.

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  2. Comment on What does the delete button on a post do? in ~tildes

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    That‘s a pretty silly mistake!

    That‘s a pretty silly mistake!

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  3. Comment on What does the delete button on a post do? in ~tildes

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    Of course you’re right! But, it’s what my people call an asshole move. Unless keeping the post or comment interferes with your well-being, it’s not a matter of rights, because it genuinely does...

    Of course you’re right! But, it’s what my people call an asshole move.

    Unless keeping the post or comment interferes with your well-being, it’s not a matter of rights, because it genuinely does not matter to you.

    You are participating in a forum where if everyone deleted their comments on a whim, it would sieze to exist. It’s give and take. It’s etiquette. It’s about sensibility.

    It would be healthy for the forum as a society if people viewed deleting their contributions with severity and did not do it out of principle or habit.

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  4. Comment on What does the delete button on a post do? in ~tildes

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    One of the more frustrating things on reddit is when you find an ancient post that asks exactly what you want to know and the top rated reply is deleted.

    One of the more frustrating things on reddit is when you find an ancient post that asks exactly what you want to know and the top rated reply is deleted.

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  5. Comment on Tildes Demographics Survey, year… uh, it’s 2024? in ~tildes

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    Me too, but I’m also an EU-citizen. Maybe we could at some point organize a Tildes meetup in Berlin. Like ten years ago I used to go to the reddit ones and they were chill. I’d probably organize...

    Me too, but I’m also an EU-citizen.

    Maybe we could at some point organize a Tildes meetup in Berlin. Like ten years ago I used to go to the reddit ones and they were chill.

    I’d probably organize it slightly differently though, we could all just go play billiard.

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  6. Comment on What are your predictions for 2025? in ~talk

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    I predict democracy in Belarus.

    I predict democracy in Belarus.

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  7. Comment on Tildes Demographics Survey, year… uh, it’s 2024? in ~tildes

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    Thanks for doing this! I'm curious how many non-'Muricans there are on here and where they're all from. (I reside in Berlin for example.)

    Thanks for doing this! I'm curious how many non-'Muricans there are on here and where they're all from. (I reside in Berlin for example.)

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  8. Comment on The Witcher IV | Cinematic reveal trailer in ~games

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    I can’t speak for the game fanbase, but Ciri is a protagonist in the books, so any fans of both the games and books should be fine with it. Anecdotally, the Netflix series really screwed up though...

    I can’t speak for the game fanbase, but Ciri is a protagonist in the books, so any fans of both the games and books should be fine with it.

    Anecdotally, the Netflix series really screwed up though by changing the central Ciri-Yennefer-Geralt relationship. I have no idea why that Geralt would forgive Yennefer and why Ciri loves Yen at all.

    There is a lot of valid criticism from the fanbase with this franchise.

    So as long as the new game doesn’t make a huge faux pas like that, the core fans will embrace a new game. It can be reasonably explained why and how Ciri underwent the mutations after Geralt and Yen left.

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  9. Comment on Anyone interested in trying out Kagi? in ~tech

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    I’m pretty happy with searx.be after I set it up to search DuckDuckGo, Google and Bing.

    I’m pretty happy with searx.be after I set it up to search DuckDuckGo, Google and Bing.

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  10. Comment on Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor on sale now in ~comp

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    Is that a good display? For $100 it's not a bad option as an external display if it is compatible with a laptop as well.

    Is that a good display? For $100 it's not a bad option as an external display if it is compatible with a laptop as well.

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  11. Comment on Oatly loses right to call its drinks ‘milk’ in landmark UK ruling – lexical dispute with trade body Dairy UK argued slogan ‘Post Milk Generation’ was misleading to consumers in ~food

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    I think we are talking past each other here. Your point about the ingredients clues me in on something here because this is my point as well in a way. I want it to be clear what a company is...

    I dont have that information memorized. I would need an old container of oat milk to compare it to, as I mentioned.

    I think we are talking past each other here. Your point about the ingredients clues me in on something here because this is my point as well in a way. I want it to be clear what a company is selling when a brand calls their product 'Oat whatever' with a clear list of ingredients.

    I'm also looking at this from a perspective that is more focused on cooking maybe?

    In the EU, milk is a defined ingredient, does not have an ingredients list on the carton and it is enough to list 'milk' itself as an ingredient in derived foods. I think in the US, they actually do include ingredients lists on milk since milk is sometimes pumped with other stuff like calcium (crazy in my opinion).

    But using 'milk' in the name could make it seem like it is an equivalent cooking ingredient at first glance and does not require an ingredients list or further scrutiny. Does it boil the same way? Does it make a good crepe? You can't use oat milk like milk in cooking, you have to get a little bit more creative. And you don't get what you see like you do with milk. So it is a different category of food. Unlike milk, it is only a drink.

    Regulations do change though. Maybe people will completely understand that 'oat milk' is a universal term for oats+water+'clearly defined additives' that is standardized by the UN or some other organization. It could be considered a universal term like 'coconut milk' is with standards like this: https://www.fao.org/input/download/standards/10401/CXS_240e.pdf

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  12. Comment on Oatly loses right to call its drinks ‘milk’ in landmark UK ruling – lexical dispute with trade body Dairy UK argued slogan ‘Post Milk Generation’ was misleading to consumers in ~food

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    I don't think oat milk is at the stage yet where you know what you are buying. It's not clear at all. The ingredients other than water and oats depends on the brand. In my opinion it is important...
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    I don't think oat milk is at the stage yet where you know what you are buying. It's not clear at all. The ingredients other than water and oats depends on the brand. In my opinion it is important which oil is used for example.

    My point was that you should not have to assume anything. Labels have to be clear, but there are some traditional products where society has chosen a name for a specific protected food preparation. I think in Italy, latte di mandorla is actually a protected traditional agricultural product, so there is a definition and ingredients are controlled. Sure, someone can sell home-made almond milk at the Renaissance Festival, but the risks there are hopefully well understood. People also drink raw milk.

    I guess we disagree. I see naming of food products as an important part in knowing what you are getting. I want the label and ingredients to be clear.

    As for getting confused by Oat Drink. If things were clearly labeled and ingredients were easy to understand, you could just glance if it is made of water, oat, and the oils, carbonates and phosphates you like.

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  13. Comment on Oatly loses right to call its drinks ‘milk’ in landmark UK ruling – lexical dispute with trade body Dairy UK argued slogan ‘Post Milk Generation’ was misleading to consumers in ~food

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    I always assumed the reasoning wasn’t sinister. I know the EU is also quite strict about using the word milk, meat and cheese. It’s about not causing confusion with newly invented naming schemes....

    I always assumed the reasoning wasn’t sinister. I know the EU is also quite strict about using the word milk, meat and cheese.

    It’s about not causing confusion with newly invented naming schemes. The traditional names like cocoa butter and coconut milk are prevalent enough to get an exception.

    It’s difficult to regulate clarity in a culinary world full of contradictory traditions where chocolate milk has milk in it but almond milk does not. Peanut butter is another good example of a traditional exception. By comparison margarine is not allowed to be called butter.

    Personally, I like this kind of regulation. I’d even welcome reducing advertising on food. Packaging should be distinct between brands, but product information should be presented in a uniform way like we do with nutritional information (and in my opinion the tiny ingredients list should be in huge letters on one side of the package).

    Ideally I want to pick up two competing products and with a 5 second glance compare the origin, expiration, ingredients, certification, and nutritional information because it is so clearly labeled instead of hidden as tiny text.

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  14. Comment on Your partner asks for your phone, you refuse over privacy, they tell you they don't trust you. How do you respond? in ~talk

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    Privacy is freedom from intrusion. If you state privacy concerns as a reason without seriously contemplating if it is intrusion for you, i.e. if you actually give a crap your partner sees what’s...

    Privacy is freedom from intrusion. If you state privacy concerns as a reason without seriously contemplating if it is intrusion for you, i.e. if you actually give a crap your partner sees what’s on your phone, then it’s not a real reason because you wouldn’t actually find it intrusive in any consequential sense.

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  15. Comment on This is the largest vehicle on Earth. But why was it built? in ~engineering

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    Coal, the answer is coal. In Germany there are fields and fields of this horrible type of coal called lignite. You scoop it up in large quantities and use it to produce electricity. It’s dirty, it...

    Coal, the answer is coal. In Germany there are fields and fields of this horrible type of coal called lignite. You scoop it up in large quantities and use it to produce electricity. It’s dirty, it displaces people and it’s paradoxically part of the stop-gap solution to convert to renewable electricity.

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  16. Comment on The sham legacy of Richard Feynman in ~science

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    Good summary, I skipped around instead of watching the whole thing. I think she picked the wrong guy from the get-go! And who says this is an authoritative list anyway? Kaku is probably the least...

    Good summary, I skipped around instead of watching the whole thing. I think she picked the wrong guy from the get-go! And who says this is an authoritative list anyway?

    Kaku is probably the least deserving physicist on that list. Some of the fields he contributed to may actually be shams. Okay, that is too harsh, he contributed to physics and probably got a lot of kids interested in science, which is extremely good for society. But string theory is a strange little club. If you study quantum mechanics, you are gaining insight into our universe, if you study string theory, you are gaining insight into string theory.

    Feynman had a personality, but he worked on the Manhattan Project and expanded the field of quantum electrodynamics. There's a lot of good physics there. So what that people focus on him as a human being? Society does this this with royalty, actors, musicians and celebrities.

    People interested in facts focus on science and everyone else wants more stories of Gilgamesh.

    Personally, before I knew he was a personality, I found his lectures on YouTube. He was a good teacher. He had a good sense of humor. You can listen to them here: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

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  17. Comment on What are the cons of Google being forced to give up its control of Chrome? in ~tech

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    Oh wow, there is a recommendation for an actual ban. I'm skeptical that can go through, but I'm not a lawyer. It just seems to be that since Coca-Cola/Pepsi gives restaurant chains something of...

    Oh wow, there is a recommendation for an actual ban. I'm skeptical that can go through, but I'm not a lawyer.

    It just seems to be that since Coca-Cola/Pepsi gives restaurant chains something of value (probably a discount) for exclusive rights as their vendor, Google should be able to do something similar digitally.

    What Google is doing looks to me like exclusive rights light, since users can change the default search engine. You can't drink Pepsi at McDonald's.

    5 votes
  18. Comment on What are the cons of Google being forced to give up its control of Chrome? in ~tech

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    Google could still pay Mozilla to have their search engine as the default, because there is value in that in itself. They could also pay the new Chrome company to have Google as the default. I...

    Google could still pay Mozilla to have their search engine as the default, because there is value in that in itself. They could also pay the new Chrome company to have Google as the default. I suspect it would be less money.

    I could see the move being beneficial to Mozilla and all other browsers if Google is also forced to drop Chrome as the browser on Chromebooks and Android with users having to pick from a list instead. I would also welcome this for Windows, iOS and MacOS. That would lower their 67% market share for sure and as long as Firefox is convincing, Mozilla would profit.

    If the ruling is half-assed though with loop-holes, I also think Mozilla will suffer.

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  19. Comment on Mozilla begs courts to allow Google search deal for Firefox to continue in ~tech

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    I agree. I've been thinking that maybe the problem is their focus. Market share is a buzz word out there, but they don't need to pay attention to it. If they are trying to make money through ads,...

    I agree. I've been thinking that maybe the problem is their focus. Market share is a buzz word out there, but they don't need to pay attention to it. If they are trying to make money through ads, they need more market share.

    Honestly if they take care of their users and get a portion to support a pro version, they could probably make a good profit. And taking care of the users will just get more people to switch to Firefox. Gradual growth based on a good product is what they need.

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  20. Comment on Mozilla begs courts to allow Google search deal for Firefox to continue in ~tech

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    Mozilla may be able to get more revenue through their subscription-based products. They’re pretty solid but I don’t think so many people know about them. I may even pay for Firefox and Thunderbird...

    Mozilla may be able to get more revenue through their subscription-based products. They’re pretty solid but I don’t think so many people know about them. I may even pay for Firefox and Thunderbird “pro" if they come up with some nice-to-haves. I love the password manager, the email masks and the add-on marketplace that is independent of Google.

    It sucks that they are so dependent on that deal with Google, because once they are gone, everything is Google or Apple.

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