It’s not normally about power level, but about how far apart the servers are. Because they’re sent serially and have to be acknowledged before they can be processed, it means that world can send out content faster than regionally distant instances can process them because of the geographical latency added to every event

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It’s spam

Flatpak annoys me

CachyOS. I use it because I am a fan of Arch based systems, rolling releases etc, but CachyOS is optimised for my generation of hardware, and has lots of good default configurations for various apps. They have a customised proton version, a good default fish profile etc.

tl;dr It’s Arch, but optimised, and slightly more pre-configured out of the box.

You think a trans person getting death threats wouldn’t love to be able to identify as their AGAB?

No… That person wouldn’t be me, they’d be someone else…

I don’t remember him speaking like that though! :P

Maybe I’ve just played too much Shadowrun with too many Australians, but lots of them ended up speaking like that, even when they weren’t meant to be Australian! :)

Children tempted to drink gasoline, for example.

Sure. But the goal with kids is to work them towards being able to think for themselves. We guide them until they can, and even then, the guidance should look like rules and guidelines, not indoctrination of thoughts and beliefs.

And lets take your scenario and extend it. Lets say that aliens come along, and they see our planet, and they realise that it’s doomed because if they don’t intervene, scenario X will happen. They can’t solve this for us, so they need us to mobilise to save ourselves.

Aliens that come along and set “rules for our own good”, and enforce certain protective rules and regulations, like strict space parents, but do so without trying to control what we think are more “good” than aliens that indoctrinate away our free will and artificially create “voluntary” compliance.

In the first scenario, the space parents are saving us. In the second scenario, the space parents are replacing us.

It doesn’t matter how you do it, if your goal is to make someone think the way you want them to, rather than trying to get them to think for themselves, it’s the same problem

There isn’t, because installing chips in everyone that effectively over-rides their identity is mutually exclusive with “goodness”

Capitalism and the 5 day 9 to 5 work week