AshDene

AshDene, 11 months ago

Factions happen. Political power struggles happen. Even coups happen.

It's quite rare for civil wars to happen, or for countries to dissolve. With a world country where there were no outside groups to go to for support or see as an example, it will become even rarer. "Not in a thousand years" sort of rare.

Conflict within a country which maintains superior capacity to violence than it's constituent groups is very different from war. That doesn't mean no one gets shot, but it means no one carves the land up with trenches and barrages the enemy with artillery for months on end. Real war is a particularly ugly beast and very few things are like it.

AshDene, 11 months ago

A single world spanning country.

If we don't kill ourselves off first it will probably happen eventually. Country sized used to be limited by things like communication latency, and the time it took to move forces around. Technology has shrunk the world so that those things no longer matter. The natural size limit on a country is almost certainly as large as the earth now.

It won't happen soon, cultures will take time to become similar enough to merge. Leadership structures take time to be absorbed into a greater one (EU style) or have to forcefully taken over (Chechnya style, thankfully very rare these days). But with no real impediment to countries growing larger, it will happen eventually. With no-one able to fund or support rebellion and modern technology making police actions extremely effective it may well last effectively forever.

Whether it's a democratic utopia, a dictatorial nightmare, or something in between for the common citizen is not yet defined. Either way, war, as in peer to peer conflict between sovereigns, will be over.

AshDene, 11 months ago

With the capability of modern surveillance technology (making it extremely hard to organize a rebellion), and the sophistication of modern weaponry (making it extremely hard to arm an army without state support) it strikes me as unlikely that you would ever get civil war in a single country world.

Civil war is already incredibly rare with plenty of outside actors happy to support trouble.

I certainly don't rule out mass strife and protests, but the question was about war, not suffering.

AshDene, 11 months ago

What I expected:

Randos asking for it on /r/redditrequest

And if that didn't work out poorly paid workers in some cheap country somewhere, like facebook does.

AshDene, 11 months ago

Thanks, I love it.

AshDene, 11 months ago

Toronto, and the law I'm referring to is a city bylaw.

AshDene, 11 months ago

Just in case you're not aware, armored trains are (or were) a thing. In the US they were used from the US civil war to early in the cold war (at the end there to transport nuclear weapons).

In the rest of the world... the most recent use is by Russia in their invasion of Ukraine.

AshDene, 11 months ago

Pretty sure these people are trying to build a stylish helicopter more than anything else.

AshDene, 11 months ago

It looks like it's a giant quadcopter with wheels and a car shaped shell. It's hard to believe it has the lift to lift multiple people anyways...

I'm betting on ultralight. And toy for rich people, not for practical use.

AshDene, 11 months ago

Youtube is allowed to encourage you to say things. That's guaranteed by the free speech rights of the people that make up youtube.

AshDene, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I went a bit farther and used the built in variable to set color, as well as setting the font weight down to match the "n hours ago" text, and changing " - " to "@" so that the uesrname matched the standard fediverse string that you can put into search boxes

I'll publish this properly as soon as greasyfork sends me an email to authenticate my new account, but in the meantime here's the source. EDIT: Email has yet to arrive 13 hours later, I doubt it's going to. Anyone interested feel free to publish this somewhere it's easier for people to install.

// ==UserScript==
// @name        kbin social add home-instance name to username (modified)
// @namespace   english
// @description  kbin social add home -instance name to username, modified to match style and fediverse formatting
// @include     http*://*kbin.social*
// @version     1.16
// @run-at document-end
// @require       https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/jquery@3/dist/jquery.min.js
// @license MIT
// @grant       GM_addStyle
// ==/UserScript==

$( document ).ready(function() {
    $( ".user-inline" ).each(function() {
        // get username URL and text, then remove username from URL and paste the instance name after username (not if instance is home-instance of kbin.social

        var homeinstance = $(this).attr('href') ;
        var myname = $(this).text().trim();

        var homeinstance2 =  homeinstance.replace( "/u/@" + myname + "@"  , '');

        if( homeinstance2  !=   "/u/" + myname ){ //show nothing if home-instance kbin
            console.log(homeinstance2 );
            $(this).append( "<span>@" +  homeinstance2 +"</span>" );
        }
    });
}); //end each username a href

var style = document.createElement('style');
style.type = 'text/css';
style.innerHTML =   '#content a.user-inline span{color: var(--kbin-meta-text-color); font-weight: 400}' ;

document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(style);

AshDene, 11 months ago

You mean the thing you get when you hover over someone's profile pic?

Why!?

AshDene, 11 months ago

Rather I think they're diplomats in senior government rolls, because they're at the G7. In US terms think state department, not DOD.

Regardless the exact nature of the other meeting isn't the point. The general fact that DEI work is usually not the most impactful work you can be doing in terms of personal development and growth in the organization is, so saying that under-represented people need to lead it harms under-represented people.

AshDene, 11 months ago

I have to say I'm lowkey dissapointed, it was fun seeing my score bouncing around 0.

AshDene, 11 months ago

But it claims it will become decentralized (unless something has changed in the last month or so).

AshDene, 11 months ago

Phrasing it as "spotting potential swatting calls" is approaching it from the wrong direction.

Instead it should be "confirming that there is probable cause before moving in with weapons". A single call should not probable cause make.

AshDene, 11 months ago

I don't know...

Posts submitted by other users could also contain your personal identifying information, do they have to delete that somehow too? If not, what's the difference? If so, how does any social media site comply with this law?

Maybe there's some carve out where your own posts count and other people's don't, but it's not obvious that that has to be the case...

Like I said, I have an imperfect understanding of the law.

AshDene, 11 months ago

I don't believe so. They'd have to remove identifying information, but my imperfect understanding is outside of that they are allowed to keep the content.

AshDene, 11 months ago

Same as on twitter.

On reddit only reddit knew who you voted for (so long as your preferences were set so that votes weren't public).

AshDene, 11 months ago

If your accounts are on different instances (with different admins who aren't sharing logs, it would be weird if they were) then I don't think there is anything to correlate beyond analyzing the writing style.

AcitivtyPub doesn't forward on metadata like "what IP address sent this".