You can kinda trust them if you use an archived version of it from before.

TV show discussions

It’s non-existent on Lemmy

Tor still works

You just have to change the circuit like 10 times.

He’d be using Bing (search engine) and be Chilling

Curious what “safe” list you are referring to?

This community’s wiki/megathread

AT&T has a whitelist system, they check IMEIs often and if your device is not approved, cell service stops working.

For Verizon, you have to call customer service to do a manual override.

Only T-Mobile allows any phone to work without explicit approval.

Probably some reason like they don’t want people complaining the service is bad because they use a “no-name brand” phone, so they just cut you off and blame your phpne because it’s easier for corporate. (Yay, capitalism! 🫠 /s)

I heard that Australia now has a Nationwide whitelist system that even block unapproved phones from calling the emergency number.

Technology is really getting enshittified. 😓

ANI (Artificial Narrow Intelligence) =/= AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)

These “AI” are all ANI, and are useless.

AGI, however, could be used to win wars.

I don’t think civillians even have access to anything resembling AGI, and I’m not sure any government even have a fully developed AGI yet.

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You mean the state capitalist countries known as Russia and China?

There’s nothing socialist about China, most people don’t have health insurance, you even have to pre-pay for treatments, including emergency treatments

Most of the welfare in the west does not exist in China

China is even more capitalistic than the USA

Saying “Socialism Bad” because of China, is like saying “Democracy Bad” because Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea)

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That’s the difference between capitalism and socialism.

In a socialist country, the profits generated by automation would just go to the people, since they own the means of production.

Even a social democratic country is still tolerable given enough UBI, universal socialized healthcare, free education including university, etc…

Capitalist countries without regulations and UBI are totally fucked. I expect riots happening throughout the world. Every country would have their own Tiananamen Square Massacre.

Sure, if I want to end up in El Salavador on the way back home

Not to mention, there are theives everywhere in tourist hotspots (in every country, no exceptions)

Also, you can’t really bring cats on vacations

Vacations cannot fix brain chemicals

In Summary:

There are 3 things:

Popular Initiatives - Swiss Citizens Collect 100,000 signatures within 18 months and the proposal is put on the ballot in the mext election. If a majority approves, it becomes law.

Legislative Referrendum - If the legislature passes a law, citizens can call for a referrendum by collecting 50,000 signatures within 100 days of the law being passed, and it goes on the ballot in the next election. If a majority disagrees with the law, it’s repealed.

Mandatory Referrendums - In some situations, such as changes to the constitution, a referrendum is mandatory. A majority of the people and a majority of the Cantons (Sub-National divisions similar to States/Provinces) have to be in favor otherwise the changes wont happen.

Basically, the elected officials are more like caretakers than people with actual power. It’s not perfect tho, people could still vote in bad laws and racist/xenophobic policies.

Read more about them here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland#Referrendums

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_popular_initiative

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_referendum_in_Switzerland

Since we’re on this topic, what do you think about the referrendum/initiative process that some jurisdictions have, such as in Switzerland?

Oh, I’m talking about this: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33041848/15271204

db0 (instance admin) said voting is pointless… I disagreed

My point is: If this were .ml, I’d be banned (just check .ml’s modlogs lol), but this is not .ml, actual leftists can disagree and its fine. It’s funny how the fake leftists (tankies) get so mad and arbitarily bans for daring to disagree.

There are secret tankies. But instance admins do not like tankies.

If they start denying/downplaying Tiananmen Massacre, they will get banned.

dbzer0 is just very anti imperialism of all types, USA, Russia, China, is all bad.

The admin db0 does have a distrust in democracy and the electoral process and they have a “don’t vote in elections” stance which I have voiced my disagreement with, and I have not been banned.

I’ve citicized USA, Russia, China and not been banned. db0 seems to be sympathetic to Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian war.

TLDR: dbzer0 are not tankies

The catch is, you lose empathy the smarter you become.

You’ve just become Hitler 2.0

But then how do I jump on the Upvote/Downvote Bandwagon?

Nah, they actually can’t arrive faster due to time dialation.

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