The worst type of person is the person who is so allergic to being "wrong" that they'll constantly double down with new bullshit to try to convince people why it wasn't a mistake in the first place. It's fucking exhausting.
Adderbox76
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In reality, "Democracy" as invented by the Greeks was never intended to be held by the uneducated. Ever citizen got a vote, but frankly not everyone was a citizen.
The rights of a citizen came with certain expectations, and that included knowledge of the Ars Liberalis, or "Liberal Arts", which...far from today's demonized meaning created in order to attack higher learning, literally translated in the greek world as "the exercise of freedom".
In other words, citizenship and voting rights obligated a person to be knowledgeable of things like Logic, History, Rhetoric, etc... You TRAINED to partake in the affairs of state just like you would prepare for any other task that requires skill and THAT was what granted you the priviledge of citizenship. (Well...that an being part of the wealthy class....)
Modern "Democracy" is predicated on the opposite; not just citizens that are ill-informed, but citizens that are so intellectually incurious that they can't be bothered to exercise their right properly.
The reason is simple. They refused to help him out by sending their eggs.
They already tried it. It's called Threads. It exists. People use it. And other instances have the choice to simply not federate with them.
To me (as unpopular as this sounds) that's the beautiful thing about FOSS and about Federation in particular. No one is stopping anyone from creating their own instance. Even Corporations.
It's the ultimate expression of "Anyone can do what they want, say what they want, believe what they want...but no one else is in any way obligated to listen to them/federate with them"
I know of companies that host small mastodon instances for their staff to communicate back and forth. I know of similar setups with lemmy instances. Anyone can use the technology for anything they wish to.
It's a "block party"!
I'll show myself out.
Can I be nit-picky here for a second?
If you're genetically modifying an elephant for cold tolerance and fur growth, you're not "bring a mammoth back from extinction", you're creating a furry elephant. It may look somewhat like a mammoth, but genetically it's not a mammoth at all.
It's like saying you can genetically modify a homo-sapien to have a pronounced brow ridge and a hairier back and say that you've brought the neandertal back from extinction. No you haven't, you've just designed a human who looks different.
It was Benito Mussolini's headquarters in Rome during WW2
So....America....you guys really are about a step-and-a-half away from this?
Get your shit together. Christ.
I agree with you.
However...there's an argument to be made that the post itself is a form of criticism and falls under the free speech rules where it regards political figures. In many ways, it's not any different than the drawings of Musk holding Trump's puppet strings, or Putin and Trump riding a horse together. One is drawn and the other is animated, but they're the same basic concept.
I understand however that that sets a disturbing precedent for what can and cannot be acceptable. But I don't know where to draw that line. I just know that it has to be drawn somewhere.
I think...and this is my opinion...political figures are fair game for this, while there should be protections in place for private citizens, since political figures by their very ambition put themselves in the public sphere whereas private individuals do not.
I don't expect it. I just hope for it because it would be the most big-dick-energy move Zelensky can pull on Trusk.
Depends on what you're using it for.
Writer, Presentation, etc... yeah. works great. No problems at all.
Calc/Excel....sure...will work for pretty basic stuff. But as soon as you get a relatively complex spreadsheet, interoperability goes out the window.
For example, I have a few spreadsheets that I work on at home (where I use Linux) and at work (where I use windows). I can't work on it in one without screwing up the formatting, forumlae, and advanced filtering in the other, and vice versa. I'm forced to use OnlyOffice in order to be able to do so.