Mohamed

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago

Not sure if thats what you meant, but yeah, cars used to be made "stronger", until it was realised that they are more fatal that way. Theres a reason most modern cars crumble up quickly in an accident, and that is because the crumbling absorbs energy from the impact, helping the vehicle slow down and stop without damaging the passenger. If the car didnt crumble, the energy has to go somewhere else - this could go to the passenger, flinging them through their window.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

So, what words are allowed? Are there any agricultural terms left for the agriculture department to use?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Most people use "religion" to mean "organized religion" in particular, and many people further take it to mean christianity and christianity-like religions. Religion is a word that is hard to define, but I think that although there are many edge cases, most people mostly agree on what is and what isnt a religion. My point here is that, just because they are not definable in a strict sense, does not mean the words "religion" and "faith" are "pointless". They very much have meaning.

Many words are like that: no clear definition but they refer to real things or ideas. For example, existentialism, postmodernism, artistic styles (such as cubism or impressionism), etc. And even many terms in the sciences are like that. None of the words mathematics, physics or philosophy have clear-cut definitions. Hell, i can take this to the extreme. Even words like water or gold do not have a clear definition, in the way that lay people use them. Seawater is water even though it is made up of more than just H2O. 95% ethanol is never called water, even though 5% of it is water.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Thats the thing. Rounding up people from the street will not catch any criminals (legally speaking), by definition: if they committed a crime, and a judge deemed them guilty, they would be in jail or they would be fugitives. In either case, they are not unknowns, and authorities must've already knew about them. Getting people randomly off the street, you cannot, legally speaking, be catching criminals.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Even if it didn't go to bluesky.app first before the actual link, clicks on it can still be made to be tracked. It's trivial to do it much more discreetly.

It is definitely tracked, but I would guess that turning it into a bluesky link has other uses, not all nefarious, such as: link previews, caching, dealing with dead links.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Not sure where I stand on this issue, but I am leaning towards that it shouldn't have been removed for being "offensive".

Anyway, on a slightly related topic, hijab is a pretty complex issue. It is both a symbol of religious freedom, and of religious oppression. In many parts of the world, women are forced to wear it, and in some other parts of the world, women are forbidden from wearing it. Even in places that have more freedom wrt this issue, women might be forced by their families to wear it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yes and no, in my opinion. Attackers can keep a list of all compromised passwords, and try it even for accoints that may not be associated. This is a much smaller search space than to go through every possible password of length <= 32 (for example).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

EDIT: I was wrong. The minimum seems to have been 7 or 8.

~~Why are the exactly ten, the minimum number required to advance the vote?~~

[–] [email protected] 251 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

In the same vein, Musk didn't make billions. Tesla workers did.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Scotland, UK, which is not in the EU.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Next up, Reddit punishes users who downvote peaceful posts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

So, soo close to supporting vaccines.

 

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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