ExLisper
@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
- Comment on freedom after speech 5 hours ago:
In Spain people were also prosecuted for threats and promoting terrorism. One raper was sentenced to prison for praising ETA and insulting the King but he escaped to Belgium which denied Spain extradition because insulting Spanish king is not a crime there.
Being prosecuted for insulting the King is of course stupid and this law should be changed but this and praising ETA are just more examples of this you can’t legally say in Spain. The law can’t prevent you from saying it but it can punish you afterwards.
- Comment on freedom after speech 9 hours ago:
Spanish constitution defines freedom of speech as “no censorship”. You can’t stop someone from publishing something but you very much can make them legally responsible for what they publish. Libel and defamation are still illegal under freedom of speech, right?
- Comment on Just god screwing with us again 22 hours ago:
I only know some friends of mine had this elf thing and would move it every morning before the kids wake up and make him do funny things. Like make him read a book or climb something or whatever. Never heard about the “it will ruin Christmas” thing. I think it’s fairly new invention, based on some children books. Most non-parents don’t know it.
- Comment on Just god screwing with us again 22 hours ago:
Yeah, looking at all the people around me I really doubt any of them evolved over multiple lifetimes.
- Comment on Just god screwing with us again 1 day ago:
Why do we have to evolve? Why not just create people good by nature so they don’t have to suffer to get better?
- Comment on Hbd 2 uu 1 day ago:
It’s quite funny if you don’t think too much about it.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Why not just hit the customers with a hammer? Of course wrap their heads in a towel first.
- Comment on Just god screwing with us again 1 day ago:
Sometimes I imagine what the world would look like if it was designed and created by a good, intelligent being and it’s definitely not what we have here.
- Comment on Just god screwing with us again 1 day ago:
And now I get it.
I still don’t.
- Comment on magic 1 day ago:
I was at a mountain equipment store a week ago and started talking with the owner about how shoes have completely random durability. Even same model from same brand can last years or fall apart in couple of months. She said that very often this will depend on how long the shoe was in a box as the rubber and glue don’t last forever.
- Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 2 days ago:
Depends. How much are the lobbyists paying? Its possible the auto industry simply refused to pay whereas gaming companies might pay more.
Yes, video game execs showed up with bags full of cash but the auto industry was like “we’re too principled to give them a bribe. We would rather die!”. I’m sure specially WV execs were against it. There way to honorable to cheat.
Sorry but you sound like all your knowledge about politics comes from The West Wing or some other stupid show.
- Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 3 days ago:
EU also banned ICE cars against the lobbying of all the European car companies. Auto industry is ~$600B in EU, video games are ~$80B. Sure, EU relaxed the rules in the end but again, you really think they are able to regulate auto industry but are folding immediately when video games lobbyist show up?
- Comment on porch of geese 4 days ago:
They used to be the same country but then the Portuguese got offended for some reason and left. They regret this decision to this day and are commonly known as “the sad ones” n Spain.
- Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 4 days ago:
So the “blatant corruption” is that they met? With interested party? Yes, I’m sure meeting the CEO of Ubisoft was dream come true for EC…
Seriously people, EC passed GDPR against Meta, they passed DMA against Google, they have excellent track record on regulating corporations literally hundredths of times bigger than Ubisoft. I know people here think video games are the most important industry in the entire world but the reality is that EC most likely simply doesn’t care.
Yes, it’s sad that 1M signatures was not enough. Turns out it’s pretty much impossible for a organic movement like that to change the laws on a continental level. It takes lawyers, it takes consumer groups, it takes political backing, it takes funding. SKG simply didn’t have a good enough case here.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 5 days ago:
So they pushed GDPR through against the lobbying for Meta and Google, they pushed ICE cars ban against the lobbying or auto industry, the passed DMA/DSA against the lobbying of all the biggest corporations but on video games they folded immediately because EA and Xbox told them to. Yeah, I’m sure that’s what happened.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 6 days ago:
Yes, those are the same people. Not the same people will write the whole bill but the same people will have to move it through all the legislative process and vote on it.
Yes, EU has done many improvements. That’s why I think it’s silly that everyone says they are corrupt just because they didn’t agree to work on video games. It’s like people can only see one thing at a time.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 6 days ago:
Because they don’t care? They won’t spend time on it because it’s low priority?
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 6 days ago:
Hey, maybe it’s not that EU is a failed and totally corrupt state but they simply don’t care about video games that much? You know, with global economic crises on the horizon, new war in the middle east, growing threat from Russia and the collapse of NATO? Is that possible?
- Comment on Which browser do you recommend for a low-resource PC? 1 week ago:
links?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think AGI will not be defined by scientific consensus but by a social/legal one. Experts will still argue if some software is AGI or not while people will simply start treating it like a conscious being. We already see people falling in love with LLMs and those are as different form a real person as you can get. The moment AI becomes more human like and people start interacting with them in a more natural way we will start seeing more and more people developing empathy for them and a slow process of granting them rights will begin (first informal ones, then formalized). There won’t be a strictly defined point in time when we’ll achieve AGI. It will be a long process.
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- Comment on Dammit 1 week ago:
Some of the fish were smart enough to get back into the water. We weren’t. It’s on us.
- Comment on Meow meow meow 2 weeks ago:
Monk parakeets I believe. I think by now you can find them in many places between Spain and Germany.
- Comment on Meow meow meow 2 weeks ago:
I’ve read that cats were used commonly in labs in USSR because they are smaller than dogs. I remember reading that they were used for example to study sleep deprivation. They would put a cat in a container with water so that he would have to stand or he would drawn and see how long would it last.
On a related note, there’s a parakeet species spreading in Europe. I’ve read that some researches form my local university wanted to study them but they were complaining those bastards are very sneaky and impossible to catch. They finally managed to capture one but it figured out how to open the cage and escaped. For me that’s quite uncooperative.
- Comment on East Asia 2 weeks ago:
What is ’ and ‘’?
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 2 weeks ago:
It’s because USA sucks and China rulez. Nothing suspicious here.
- Comment on There was a time when people had to deal with all of these being separate 2 weeks ago:
(I was kidding BTW)
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 2 weeks ago:
heh, it was a typo but now I’m leaving it like that.
- Comment on There was a time when people had to deal with all of these being separate 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure everyone enjoys a little bit of music in public places. And I’m sure everyone likes the type of music I’m listening to. Wat’s the problem?
- Comment on There was a time when people had to deal with all of these being separate 2 weeks ago:
No if you just play music on your phone speaker loudly.
