Allero

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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My favorite part is the article on, well, conservatives, in which they don't actually define anything until the second section and just open the article with:

"A conservative promotes moral and economic values beneficial to all"

https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservative

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Wikipedia is not currently banned in Russia.

But the Russian branch of Wikimedia as an organization is.

Also, pretty much nobody in Russia uses Ruwiki, everyone keeps using Wikipedia.

That's all not to say it isn't a troubling development, though. But Russians are more likely to access Wikipedia through VPN than to rely on Ruwiki. The game's not lost.

Edit: Thank you OP for striving for the best accuracy!

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And I absolutely agree on "fix the society" part!

There is a lot of issues in the modern world that drive people to drugs, rampant inequality and lack of prospects included.

But trying to fix that doesn't mean rejecting every other approach to the prevention of drug abuse. We need all we can do right now.

And if making murders illegal decreases homicide rates, we should make them illegal. Same idea.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ah, no

They are almost universally addictive, bad for health (often causing significant irreversible damage), and associated with elevated probability of antisocial behavior (not saying everyone has it, but it's a risk).

Prisons are an issue, especially in America, but that's absolutely not the whole story about drugs. Just about every country with a normal, non-commercialized and non-weaponized prison system has those laws too.

But some of the Americans seem to be completely unable to look elsewhere for any political experience.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think the real issue is the way we wage this war.

War on drugs has been a cover for insane international operations that siphon away endless amounts of money but don't work on the root causes.

I think we absolutely should build more rehabilitation facilities, educate more about the real dangers of drugs, but at the same time we should come up with smart policies regarding fight on drug crime.

And that regulation should exist - even the Netherlands, well-known for trying not to control this but go other ways, actually prohibits everything but the lightest of drugs.

I think the approach should be more like the new ideas on fighting things like bribery - you should be able to legally buy, but not sell drugs, and be rewarded for reporting sellers. This way you can easily turn up with real recording of the transaction and some evidence and be covered and rewarded as the perpetrator is sent to jail. Additionally, you should be offered witness protection.

This puts sellers in a super cautious asymmetric position relative to buyers and forces them out of the market. And without sellers, there's no drugs.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 7 points 7 months ago

Was banned on Lemmygrad for exactly that - said Stalin's policies had both up- and downsides.

Was apparently enough.

(For the record, I'm a full-blown communist)

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 5 points 7 months ago

And also to talk with children about predators

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Thanks! Speaking of .docx files, I never actually encountered the issues with them on Linux. The only issue being macros not working great, so maybe that's your case.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 7 months ago

I actually run Debian on laptop, and it's great too, just in its own right. Certainly not installing it on my main machine.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 2 points 7 months ago

I think it can be done even simpler - no need for a special screen, just make notification and don't turn off while the kernel is updating.

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