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- Comment on Andy Burnham backs under 16s social media ban and wants 'urgency' in delivery 8 hours ago:
No. I see no moral difference. Human rights declarations (such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, European Convention on Human Rights, Convention on Rights of the Child) protect freedom of speech and/or expression regardless of medium, so I have those on my side.
- Comment on Andy Burnham backs under 16s social media ban and wants 'urgency' in delivery 8 hours ago:
Implying that other media companies, like TV or magazine companies, do not target children and don’t influence their minds? And have done so since long before the Internet became available to children? Or what now?
- Comment on How do waves in Lemmy work? 11 hours ago:
Mainly the fact that it makes sure that if I refresh after a few minutes, I will probably get different posts. That’s not the case for most other sorting methods.
- Comment on How do waves in Lemmy work? 11 hours ago:
I personally sort by “new comments” which isn’t a thing on reddit. So I am more likely to see, and comment on, things if plenty of other people have also done so.
But I don’t know how many other people do that.
- Submitted 11 hours ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 11 comments
- Comment on What's the weirdest thing in english? 11 hours ago:
German has this too, “beziehungsweise”, but it replaces the “and” instead of being added to it. It is common enough that it’s usually abbreviated “bzw.”.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 2 days ago:
Both words can have more than one meaning.
Socialism may be among other things:
- an economic system where the “means of production” are owned by the workers (Marxist theory as I understand it)
- the economic and political system that was implemented in the Soviet Union and its allies (they described it as socialism)
- social democracy, ie government regulations of the free market in order to make it more socially just
Communism, in Marxist theory, is a future stateless moneyless classless society which Marxists claim will inevitably happen after socialism. (Nonsense, but that’s the theory.) But a lot of times the word is used, it just means the second point from above, ie the way the Soviet Union and its allies were ruled. That’s mainly because a lot of ruling parties in those countries called and still call themselves the Communist Party of (country), though others didn’t, eg the East German ruling party was called the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
- Comment on What's the difference between socialism and communism? Is there one? Or are the terms interchangeable? 2 days ago:
Or that Hitler was a Marxist?
Hitler described himself as a socialist, but certainly not Marxist.
- Comment on Are Lemmy and Mbin the same instance? 4 days ago:
You seem to be confused what the word “instance” means in a fediverse context. The answer to your question, as asked, is “no, the question doesn’t even make sense”.
Lemmy and Mbin are two different backends that talk in the same language (“protocol”), ActivityPub, to each other. The entire idea of that common language is that you should be able to use either of them and also communicate with people using the other.
- Comment on Is it true that airport customs can legally demand access to your unlocked phone? 5 days ago:
Legal questions cannot be answered without information which jurisdiction you want to know this about.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Report, downvote, ignore. Community moderators and instance admins can ban users.
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 1 week ago:
If I recall, I asked Gemini to generate an image of a kitten wrapped in a blanket.
It initially gave me a photorealistic image, then I asked it to turn that into a drawn image with the background removed, and that gave me what I have now (though I think I cleaned up some stray pixels in the background).
- Comment on Are there words in reverse order between two languages using the Latin Alphabet? 1 week ago:
This is common when comparing acronyms of Germanic vs. Romance languages because the former tend to put adjectives in front of their noun, the latter after it. But acronyms aren’t really words.
- Comment on Are there words in reverse order between two languages using the Latin Alphabet? 1 week ago:
Even both singular masculine. In Italian, “le” exists too but that is feminine plural. This is the only real example so far posted here.
If we count romanizations of languages not normally written with the Latin alphabet, I think definite articles give us another one: “la” in French, Spanish, Italian, and Esperanto is a definite article, and if I’m not mistaken, “al” is one in Arabic.
- Comment on Is there any good thing for using AI for the middle class and poor? Instead of just the oligarchs ripping off the middle class and poor? 1 week ago:
I used it for generating my profile picture here on Lemmy and don’t see anything wrong with that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You seem confused about a few things:
- people from everywhere in the world can register on most websites including lemmy.world, doesn’t matter where they are hosted
- people from other instances, who likewise may be everywhere in the world, can interact with your posts and comments too
FWIW legal.lemmy.world/tos/ claims that instance operates according to Dutch, Finnish and German law.
- Comment on How did we reach to having 18 required for voting in elections? 1 week ago:
I live in a country that lowered the voting age to 16 in the 2000s, so I voted in my first election at the age of 16.
I don’t think it changed very much at all, 16- and 17-year-olds aren’t big enough of a demographic or vote in radically different ways from people slightly older than that.
- Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Is gaming better as a kid or an adult? 1 week ago:
This so much.
Gen 3 Pokémon games which I mainly played as a preteen were basically my second home, I knew almost everything there was to know about them.
Games I played later in life, including later Pokémon games, I mostly forgot the details after playing.
- Comment on How come people are stupid nowadays? Especially on social media 1 week ago:
Nowadays compared to when?
xkcd.com/202/ was published in 2006, so you must be thinking of much earlier than that…
- Comment on Why are the two major American parties called what they are? 1 week ago:
The Democratic Party is the older one of the two. My understanding is they called themselves that because they saw themselves as the party representing the popular will.
Why the Republicans called themselves that, not sure. They were mainly founded over opposition to slavery, not really described by the name at all.
- Comment on Why are the two major American parties called what they are? 1 week ago:
No. The Democratic Party does descend directly from them, but the Republican Party was founded much later independently.
- Comment on When did the Internet come to reflect society? Or has society shaped the internet? Were we always distrusting mean and vindictive before the net? Are we really that bad? 1 week ago:
Before smartphones, the Internet was a self-selecting space because the only people regularly posting on it were the kinds of people who consciously chose it as a hobby.
Now that anyone can access it anywhere they go and it’s easy enough for people with zero technical capabilities, it reflects society as a whole a lot more.
I find that sad because I was one of the people who self-selected into it before smartphones. I always hoped that if more people were using the Internet, society would become more similar to (my experiences on) the Internet, and not (as actually turned out) the other way round.
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- Comment on Is the G7 or G8 summits named for the countries that attend? So one day we could have a G143 summit? Or am I missing something why numbers go up or down? 2 weeks ago:
Yes and there already is also this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G20
- Comment on The UK’s New Under-16 Social Media Ban Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents 2 weeks ago:
I wonder how this is looking in Australia?
like this: techdirt.com/…/australias-teen-social-media-ban-i…
But of course, that’s not the talking point I would want to focus on. It’s a bad idea even if there were no workarounds and even if there were no privacy problems. I find it difficult to think of a more harmless, more fulfilling, less dangerous hobby for young people to have than to be on social media.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
No, I didn’t.
Yes, you did, because people can look for those exact images - possibly with AI assistance nowadays…
Even if I did, what are you going to do with that information?
Me, nothing, someone else, who knows…
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments