Did you know that "eat the #rich" was first a #philosophy concept?
Limitarianism is fundamentally the study of when it might be #ethical to put limitations on citizens in a governed society. It's a case-based theory, not a political system.
It asks questions like: is #wealth ever individual? What is the wealth limit?
& questions it isn't positing, like: If no one is ultra-rich, should no one be #poor? Is limitarianism virtue #ethics or justifiable without perfectionist views?
What is the proper general term for someone who is bent on imposing their religious beliefs on those who do not share them? Like the Taliban, Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the Spanish Conquistadores, ...
"Theocrat" indeed seems to be used with that meaning too. But I understand that it has a more extreme meaning: a theocrat wants the government to be exercised by priests, or officially submitted to some church. Or is a member of such a government.
The Taliban and the Revolutionary Guard in Iran are theocratic. But the Catholics who made divorce illegal in some Catholic-majority countries are not generally "theocrats" - they don't want gov by priests or the Church.
What I am referring to is /not/ attempts to convert or proselitize. The people in question may accept nominally the idea of religious freedom and the fact that many others do not share their religious beliefs and cannot be converted; but want to impose some of those beliefs on everybody, anyway. Like banning abortion, divorce, or women education; mandating prayer in schools, etc.
@fedibikes Hallo zusammen, ich suche nach einer - am besten Open Source - Software mit der die Vermietung von Fahrradboxen an öffentlichen Orten gemanaged werden kann. Gibt es soetwas in eurer Stadt und wenn ja, was wird da eingesetzt? Oder hat jemand eine Idee oder selbst in seiner Stadt schon eine Lösung dafür gefunden? Danke für eure Hilfe!
People should realize that THEY are now superfluous.
AI can make a virtual "you" that is much better than you, (For one thing, the AI "you" does not need yo be paid and will never unionize or blow the whistle on your company's dirty secrets.)
So the non-AI people should take the hint now and jump into a well or something, to clear the way for progress.
These people are so fucking dumb. Let me do some quick math.
Any given week day, at peak hour, any train from Madrid's metro can be carrying around 500 people. Let's consider that some of them may be traveling together, so let's say that being optimistic, they could be divided in 250 robotaxies.
Now, that's one train. At any moment there are between 10 and 20 trains going in that line in that same direction. And as much in the opposite. That makes it between 5k and 10k robotaxies. To cover a single metro line
Madrid has 16 metro lines. That makes it between 80k and 160k robotaxies just they could move the same order of magnitude of people our Metro moves in any given workday. If you want to cover really busy moments, like big sport events, you need twice that amount (the nominal max capacity of metro trains is around 1200 people per train, and believe me, I've seen them so full that you couldn't get in pretty often).
That's just for the subway. Local commuter trains and city buses, combined, are actually carrying more people daily than the subway. So let's double the robotaxies fleet again if they want it to "kill public transport". So you need between 350k and 700k robotaxies just to be able to kill the public transit of a single major city.
That's about 1/6th of every Tesla ever made. Just. For. One. City.
But that is precsely the hope and plan of the car industry.
To save theplane, we must drastically reduce the burning of fossil fuels. For electricity generation we can switch to solar, wind, and hydro; and that is already happening. For transportation, we must expand public transportation, improve the biking infrastructure, put housing within walking distance of work until 90% (say) of human and cargo traffic that now uses cars and trucks switches to those modes. >>
@javi >> But then 90% of the people will see no reason to own a car. THAT is the car's industry nightmare.
So the car industry is doing what they have been doing for the past century: fight public transportation, so that each family, no matter how poor, MUST buy at least one private car. >>
OK, maybe 90% is unrealistic. But ~60% of people live in cities. If most of those people can use metro, train, or fast bus for commuting to work and regular shopping, most of the remaining uses of personal cars can be supplied by taxis and rented cars.
As for people in rural areas, they will probably still want to have personal cars; but how much travel do they actually do?
High-speed trains can cut down airplane use. Shipping is going to be a problem though. >>
I don't have much hope of governments outright forcing most people to switch away from personal cars. At most the gov can nudge them a bit by increasing taxes on cars and gasoline, closing streets to cars, etc; but those measures will be unpopular and will be easily overturned under a democratic gov.
I hope the same result can be achieved by simply offering people better (faster, cheaper, ubiquitous, and comfortable) public transportation alternatives.
HT to @wdormann here - somebody has backdoored the open source project XZ which has downstream impacts.
For example, although OpenSSH doesn’t use XZ, Debian patch OpenSSH and introduced a dependency which translates as the XZ changes introducing a sshd authentication bypass backdoor it appears.
One dude bothered to investigate in his free time about why ssh was running slow, so it was caught fairly early - i.e. hopefully before distros started bundling it.
I don't know which is the biggest crime: naming a product or service with a word of the English language, like "upstream", or mentioning that product or service in an article without capitalizing, changing the font, or qualifiying it -- as "software from upstream" rather than "software from Upstream" or "software from the /upstream/ site".
Q: Why is Donald Trump suddenly selling $60 bibles?
A: It enables churches to funnel money to him without violating the (US law) ban on political campaigning by churches—it's a form of money laundering, in other words.