Like that: https://wasp.eu/en/osa/osa-pb-4-2.html

Oh. Cool.

At this point if I have a problem I’ll talk it over with a person myself if i can. Less likely to be killed doing so.

Ah, yes, remembering that time when I walked to a Russian police station to report a missing person (my mom likes to just vanish without warning anyone, and I was too nervous that particular time, got worried), by the morning thought I’ll remain there, they clearly decided I killed her.

Jodi Hefti and Kyle Blunck should be in prison.

Not an English native speaker, but a question, this spelling of names - is it indicative of anything in their family background? Like “redneck who can’t write his own name” kind of that?

Police should not have lethal weapons at all. Traumatic pistols are well enough by stopping power. Not even shockers - they regularly misuse them for torture and murder.

Speaking of stopping power - for police use traumatic weapons are actually better than lethal ones.

When you think about it, carrying weapons in peacetime was a civilian thing for much of modernity in much of the world. Soldiers would be armed when posted, and in other situations it would depend on many things, often armed, but without ammunition. Gendarmes would be armed on service - and that’s not people doing usual police work. Policemen, like boring peelers, would not, batons and sticks are enough.

Civilians would carry weapons to defend against criminals and for other civilian things, like duels.

I’ve mixed, of course, different countries and traditions, but what good does it do to arm police with lethal weapons if it’s not their responsibility to go after really dangerous offenders and, say, mass riots, they have SWAT teams and national guard for that? Talking of USA. Anyway, I live in Russia, here it’ll soon be worse. Right now at least police doing what’s in the article is uncommon, but that can be explained by a system different from USA, static units instead of patrols.

I’m fine with the idea of a coop for a business. There are people whom I’d want to associate with. There’s a little catch - we all do different things in different areas. And those who do the same things in the same areas as me whom I know - those I wouldn’t want a coop with. I mean, OK, possibly I would.

or leave it with zero charge for too long

That.

Well, my PSP had its battery inflate. I had replaced that battery a few years ago, used it a bit, then forgot about it. Recently found that the new battery is in oopsie state too.

It’s not just degradation.

And PSP is still a fine device. Actually amazingly useful, it’s the missing branch of evolution that should have been chosen instead of smartphones. No touchscreen, but convenient controls. If it only had a SIM port. There even was a Skype client.

A general purpose device and not a gaming one, like PSP, would be very good. Instead of that proprietary optical drive - additional ports and memory card slots, perhaps even a section with an interface for some extension chips. A similar set of buttons - except perhaps a retractable (or attachable via some interface) QWERTY keyboard would be useful.

The UI and UX of the OS were very cool. OK, I was using it for listening to music and reading books.

Syndicates and coops are fine, just show me how you do that with power. Police, financial regulations. That usually doesn’t work so well.

Even in late USSR coops were a thing and could function, while everything was falling apart. It’s just that the pressure of power matters.

Occupation is a normal legal term and its presence doesn’t limit calling the system inside “Israel proper” socialist.

I think that to properly limit the difference we should compare how these all came to exist.

CSA were a split off part of a state created by rich landowners, and so it was a republic of rich landowners. Nothing surprising in that.

South Africa was part of the British Empire where natives were considered inferior from the very beginning, and their “bantustans” were sort of British traditional “to each his own” decorations, similarly to how even in the British Isles technically they have a United Kingdom and even Wales is not the same as England and so on, but in fact it’s more or less one state. Tradition.

While Israel was initially a bunch of Zionist settlements on sparsely populated land, like Tel-Aviv and such, which didn’t have much of said disenfranchised population and had lots of socialist traits in organization. Also among Zionists in the beginning of XX century the left part was far more numerous and popular than the right part (which has captured dominance in Israel since about 80s), especially after WWII, these things tend to make effect. That left part basically had just one Zionist idea - that Jews should have a nation-state in Palestine, all the rest was pretty normally leftist for the time (a bit obsolete by now, with planned economy traits and collectivism and so called meritocracy and so on).

Then that bunch of settlements in the war of 1948 became state of Israel. And then in subsequent wars it captured/occupied territories, without expelling much of populace. Which then lived under occupation status.

So the difference is that for Israel occupied territories were really occupied territories. There’s a clear difference between Tel-Aviv and Haifa on one side and Hebron on the other. While in South Africa bantustans were sort of big zoos\reservations with people set here and there through its territory, and CSA was in its entirety a republic of rich landowners.

OK, I can name one. It’s Israel. Before 90s it was (administratively, politically, socially) socialist (not like marxist, but with collectives and communes and kibbutz, and much of economy being state monopolies). One reason after 90s everything changed about it was because there were certain reforms which, eh, significantly raised level of life, making all the old institutions unpopular. So it’s no more socialist in anything.

A-and, of course, the part about collectivism was present. Some things I’ve heard about Israel before 90s emotionally reminisce USSR. Sort of a procrustean bed of a society, if you don’t fit it’s your problem.

Show me where.

This huge problem stems from “we need”. Collectivism leads to hierarchy, because a collective isn’t semantically compatible to one person. A collective can’t be responsible, a collective can’t make a decision, a collective can’t think, a collective can’t speak in one voice. But collectivism means trying to treat a collective like one person. Leading to dictatorships.

I was just thinking that one person I’ve met is an incredibly gifted actor, including voice acting. There are a few records floating around having heard which no man wants to live. I haven’t had a chance to listen to them in full, patiently and for a few times, but I hope some day I will.

So-o … I don’t think this is something that can be done properly by a machine. Not yet. Too much context and nuance. And also I’m not sure this is legal. I don’t think those actors consented to any other derivative works other than the original games.

I meant the quick change from hot weather outside under sun to conditioned weather inside.

That kinda happens. It’s not about maintenance of systems. Similarly to cold drinks at summer.

That would be analogous to what Nazis did with MEFO bills and autobahns - one definitely intended quality of those was troop movement. One can also remember John Lowe and his effect on French ownership of Louisiana.

“From the ground up” and “WebKit” seem contradictory. Why can’t they use words by their meaning, I wonder?

But if it can be configured the way Firefox before dropping XUL was, then would be nice.

I know, I know. Another reason it’s uncommon is because the risks of catching serious cold at summer are not worth it.

That’s alarmism.

The US held a unique privilege of being the world’s cloud host, but that’s thankfully only a decade or so of bullshit.

And it’s good when trust gets broken in things where trust is wrong.

And sorry, I still see most big things in tech centered around USA. That won’t go away until some jurisdiction becomes safer. Perhaps Brazil stands a chance eventually, LOL.

Americans just don’t understand how good they have it

Yes.

Air conditioning? practically unheard of for more than half the world mostly living much closer to the equator where heat is literally killing people.

Well, not unheard of, but the way you over there use it is. Slight correction - yes. Turning it full on to have temperature 10 Celsius degrees lower than on the outside - no.

It’s not like latin america where starvation is much of an issue almost everywhere if you don’t have a job. No idea how the food situation is in China, but I can’t imagine them handing out free food to anybody.

Honestly almost everywhere outside of the golden billion countries starvation is an issue if you don’t have a job.