cygnus @ cygnus @lemmy.ca

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You don't consider it rather exclusionary to imply that only men use computers?

There was a pull request to change "he" to "they" somewhere in the code and the dev refused, saying people should leave "their politics" out of it. I wouldn't say it's transphobic specifically - it may also be misogynistic. Either way, it doesn't look good.

Yeah, but it's cheaper than therapy.

"Your honour, I can't be convicted of murder, because the victim was only dead after I killed her - she was perfectly fine before"

I'm really torn about this comment - on one hand it's environment-destroying AI, but it also saves the need to watch a pointlessly long video that should have been an article and probably consumes as much compute as the AI summary.

First hands, then feet.

Well, I wouldn't say that with any certainty - there's certainly a chance the pulling off of the hijab was motivated by xenophobia, but even if it was, that only puts it a distant third behind the violent assault and the robbery. It shouldn't be the first thing mentioned in the headline because it implies having her hijab removed is worse than getting her store robbed and her head kicked in.

Use of force makes this robbery by definition. Theft is done without coercion, usually without the victim's knowledge (pickpocketing for example).

The headline doesn't even mention this was a robbery. Don't you think that's more important than an article of clothing?

That's a weird element for the headline to focus on. From the article:

The NCCM says the woman, who is a local Pizza Pizza owner, saw a group of people, including teenagers, attempt to commit theft in the restaurant, and once she went to confront the group, the situation quickly turned violent.

Good point, but unless the ustashe independently invented it, I'd consider it a Nazi salute.

Maybe they're only a Nazi if they're a card-carrying member of the NSDAP, otherwise they're only a sparkling fascist.

How is a "pro-Nazi salute" different from a "Nazi salute"?

There's a Files desktop app, which will sync photo folders as regular folders.

I guess we have different definitions of cross-platform but I think it's unfair to leave Nextcloud out of the diagram when it has a memories app as well as one for facial recognition. it meets all criteria except an iOS app.

Ha, yes there's some truth to that. Moral relativism has twisted the left in knots and many then struggle to reconcile viewpoints that are completely incompatible.

Oh, you feel the white man's burden because the brown people are too simple to govern themselves? They need your guiding hand to help them along the road to civilisation?

Clearly the soda company and the rich still have water, so I'd hardly say it's a "secondary cause", but anyway, even taking all you've said as true, that still doesn't explain why the west should get involved here. What would we even do? Occupy the soda factory and give free bottles to everyone?

I'd suggest reading the article. Climate change certainly plays a part, but overextraction (in particular by their homegrown Nestlé equivalent) is a major driver of this. I fail to see how that is the west's fault.

Reading the article, it seems capitalism is the cause rather than imperialism past or present. Especially considering the Taliban were in charge in 2000 as they are today, could you explain how the situation would be meaningfully different without the (admittedly stupid) western military escapade? Would Talib like money less than they do today?