How could you possibly read that as “buying their excuses” when the context is “don’t give authoritianism excuses”? Did you make it past two words?
An authority doesn’t need much to deploy secundum quid. That’s arguably the most used tactic. It’s part of the backbone of any authoritarian ideology.
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We’re so fucked, lol
Better parenting.
That’s not a joke. This is a stupid government’s way of trying to halt generational harm and decline due to low quality parents. Everything listed is a “if they won’t, we’ll have to” solution. Unfortunately this means every child gets a Nanny State out of it and it’ll fail to work and likely backfire long-term, leading to more nannying.
Pretty nuts but no where near as crazy as Trump and Epstein.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
It’s why you can go to the store and not worry about being murdered even though there’s nothing preventing that from happening.
The install counts for ad block extensions is surprisingly lower than you’d think.
uBlock only peaked just shy of 30M users, so much less than 1% of general users. Obviously it’s not that cut and dry, but you get the idea. It’s unlikely they have much influence no matter where they go.
Because bad reaction to shellfish is the in look rn.
I had to get a de-bloat script and turn off about 50 Microsoft “essential services”
And then a Windows Update comes along…
No mention of videoing yourself
In videos posted online, he can be heard saying “Hail Pauline Hanson … the great white hope,”
There are other countries these people can go to if they don’t like Australia. It’s a bit much to expect an entire nation’s culture to change because you don’t like Australians and don’t want to be one. Do they even know where they are? lol
Wait until you go on that internet thing with Chrome.
It’s weird that it’s even legal because the entire premise of it is probability. It’s fundamentally unaligned with ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ because there is literally no capability of doubt in algorithmic processing—quite the opposite, actually; confidence scores.
Hell, I could be wanted for murder in Florida right now. If I ever visit, I’ll find out then in the exact same way as the victims in the article did…
“I was literally on the other side of the planet…”
“Computers don’t lie, kid.”
I was about to say that ironically.
Truth is you couldn’t be further from it. But it’s a little magical to pretend and hope that, yes, Nick Cage is irl all of that.
Only 80%?
So 1 in 5 Australians are totally cool with the actions of that State?
Christ. They’re slowly becoming the southern hemisphere’s USA but without the GDP.
Legend 🥕 Fixed
Ugh, yeah, that’s all the place has become; communities full of unsubstantial news articles for what is only substantial news a small amount of the time.
Lemmy is like 80% really shitty newspaper, 18% hollow rooms, and 2% community.
But the court found that, unlike traditional search engines that merely present lists of links to third-party statements, Google’s tool made “independent, new, and substantive statements” based on its own misinterpretation of links on the Internet.
That’s a problem, the court said, because while publishers may have been able to sue to stop third parties from publishing defamatory statements appearing in Google search results, only Google can correct the underlying algorithm and outputs displayed in AI Overviews. And because, at least initially, the company did not, it therefore “must be held accountable,” the court ruled. Beyond that, Google’s argument was deemed particularly weak, since the AI overview in this case “contains statements that do not appear in the search results at all.”
That’s pretty cut and dry, especially for the parties that were being incorrectly represented in the overview despite letters to Google for cease-and-desist.
So often this sort of thing makes sense because it’s conduct or disruption that are reasons they got kicked out. The topic could be <insert whatever>, but a clickbait title will latch onto that topic if it could be edgy…
The scientists were ejected for handing out copies of an April editorial
…yup. Well, obviously this isn’t one of those times.
I always struggle with villains like that.
There’s the ones that you kind of get swooned by and kinda back their cause, like Agent Smith.
Then there’s the ones that are just bad, but you get it. Some people just be psychopathic.
Then there’s Vecna types and you’re like, “What’s the plan here, huh? You get your way and then what? Nothing’s left to do. Like, at all.”
Sauron’s another one. Ultimate rule and order… Cool-cool. So he gets that and then what? Why? Just sit and watch Middle Earth like a model railway in the back shed for the next few eons? Wooooow.
Yep. Obsidian plugins is like installing Skyrim then thinking, “I’ll just go get the essentials from Nexus Mods…”
Three hours later you have an absolute beast that also does note taking too.
Almost got it.
Point is, it doesn’t have to be bad parenting, that’s just the narrative. But if not, what is it then? What’s the foothold? As far as I can tell, it’s to protect children since that’s the narrative. How was that foothold given to them? They don’t need much to work with. If it were evident there were no foothold, there wouldn’t be one.
And, you’re exactly right, they would look for another if we had this one defended well. It is evident what the end goal is, but a defence is by minimising chinks in armour. If there were strong contrasting evidence to the very few bad parents, it wouldn’t be a foothold—they couldn’t use that narrative. But they seem to think there’s just enough of a chink for pressing fallacious generalisation.
Everyone knows kids just get around it all anyway, so that’s not the point, but they’re in because there was enough to make use of secundum quid. That’s almost always how authoritarian shifts worked in social history if not outright oppression through violence. We know it’s bullshit, but it works like that, unfortunately.