Do Italian professors know their students’ names? Over here, two countries to the North, no professor knows anything about their students.

You cannot ban cars without having a solid public transit network, obviously. Besides, in nearly all cases you’d take a child to a closer doctor anyways because visiting a doctor shouldn’t require car ownership, ever.

Ban personal vehicles from cities and you can still order as many Amazon packages as you wish

Placebos work even when you knows it’s a placebo though. Pointing out something is a placebo is important because many are at best overpriced scams (homeopathy) and at worst actively harmful (chiropracty). The culture behind many placebos is also rife with pseudoscience and advocates against seeking out genuine care, so you should ensure nobody gets invested into placebos past a certain point.

One can make an informed decision regarding taking placebos if and only if one knows it’s a placebo, else one will be scammed and/or harmed.

Ever seen a Mercedes A class? I don’t think anyone pretending to be rich drove those, at least the older models from the early 2000s.

Violating the spirit of the law is still violating the law, at least in Germany; the EU may have similar rules.

To be honest, other programming languages aren’t named any better

Pascal is just a common name, Rust is a common noun, Java is an island which you cannot find by searching for just its name, Python’s a snake, C# is a musical note and C is just a letter.

Yeah, it’s just the triangle inequality.

The only aspect which should be taken into consideration is noise ordinance laws, honestly. If the venue exceeds them, they’re clearly at fault.

Also RCS which I am basically obligated to mention

But why, I don’t think any artist has ever thought:

“Creating elevator music is so fulfilling! I would never take a different job and express myself in unique and creative ways, bland repeating background noise music is my passion!”

A party tolerating Nazis in their ranks is not worth differentiating from a party made entirely out of Nazis.

Ya know, if politicians have Himmler’s instruction to produce more “aryan” babies hanging in their bedroom as a poster, it is safe to say it’s a Nazi party.

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That makes much more sense, my first intuition was passing people on the sidewalk which… doesn’t seem like a red flag.

What do you mean with

walking around other earthlings on footpaths etc instead of through

Is an earthling a human, an animal, a plant or subsets of those three? And what is walking through an earthling?

I’m geniuenly curious, I have no idea what you mean.

Because this will get .001% more total data considering the low number of GrapheneOS users. Besides, this is highly illegal and would result in significant public outcry and legal consequences far greater in cost than any potential benefits.

And if you cannot trust Google with their processors, you cannot trust any other company either.

I don’t see how AI will potentially shatter society. You can’t prevent AI models from being misused any more than you can prevent the internet from being misused.

The biggest danger of AI is the capability of spreading orchestrated misinformation. Since this is mostly done by state actors nothing can be done against it. I’m not opposed to AI regulation, it’s just that generating images or text is not what’s worrying about AI.

potentially society-shattering fuckery

Clearly cameras, screens and the internet shouldn’t have been invented. After all - they facilitate the creation and spread of CSAM!

Meh, it’s probably phones with very loose power buttons who are the culprit. I don’t think my current phone has gotten its power button accidentally pressed even once and I keep it in my pocket pretty much 16/7 [not while sleeping tho].