Countries are defined by land-hoarding class, because the nomadic people define themselves by their group instead of the land on which they live.

Without hoarders (landlords), we wouldn’t need to put as much effort towards regulating land use, instead we could focus on regulating behaviours. Ex: “this land is a national park, you are not allowed to trash it. Go next door, there you are allowed to pour the trash from your industrial process into the ground, because it’s your private land”

How much can I make with a 10 yo account with average karma? Where can i sell it?

Hehe, I’ll have a read on that thread.

Yeah, that makes sense. It’s not so much that they are labeled weird, but that they are shocked thinking they were not…

Yup. A lot of feelings are unnecessary yet are there anyway for us to deal with them.

Nice, that makes sense. I’ll keep using weird.

And this is why tenure exists!

Mines are designated war crimes by the Geneva convention Ottawa treaty because of the indiscriminate killing. Many years ago, good human right lawyers could have extended that to drones… (Source: i had close friends in international law)

But i feel like now the tides have changed and tech companies have influenced the general population to think that ai is good enough to prevent “indiscriminate” killing.

Edit: fixed the treaty name, thanks!

Instead of gold versions, rich people will get inconel-pannel cybertrucks!

Bunyan sounds the same as some old French Canadian swear word, but is written differently. I think the real spelling would be something like “bon yenne”, and also resembles a French Canadian folklore named “Bon Jean”.

What’s that story about eggs?

I don’t know a lot about DNA, but i know about facial recognition.

Facial recognition is highly inaccurate. It would be easy for people from the same country to “match” at facial recognition despite being totally unrelated.

If “face generation from DNA” is only roughly accurate (ex: nose size or skin tone), then anybody from the same ethnic origin could be a match. Basically, the more you look like the “average person”, the more likely you would fit the generated face.

Doesn’t it sound a lot like technology-enabled profiling?

I don’t know, I didn’t read the article. I try to make as little assumptions as I can… It could just add easily be a native that trained in the UK, but then i suppose it would have been mentioned.

Which language do you think the government should use/expect from it’s employes in HK?

If the local language is Cantonese, but the government is forcing to use Mandarin in law and other official businesses, to me it sounds the same as forcing Ukrainians to speak Russian (in the old USSR), Catalans to speak Spanish, and French Canadian to speak English. It’s soft cultural assimilation.

I don’t know much about the local language usage in HK, so i could be wrong though.

MacOS, you mean Unix with a wallpaper? While Unix is not Linux, BSD is open source so it’s nice!

I usually say “Yeah, i used to like IPA but i got bored of it. Do you have anything else than hoppy beers?” Then, they come up with the sours…

Google map is late to the game. NORAD has radars and has been doing it for much longer.

Due to the uncertainty principle, they can know where he’s going or where he is, but not both at the same time.

To be fair, sometimes it’s fucking complicated to find the correct HS code for some goods…

I don’t condone their action, but i totally understand 😂😂

On Lemmy, whenever I use the “back” feature of my cell phone web browser, the feed reverts to the default filter. It’s probably a bug, but it prevents ne from clicking without fear that I’ll lose where i was in my doomscrolling…

I think it’s set up this way so buyers can’t get back to Sony to ask for a free replacement if the media can’t be used anymore.

Let’s say you buy a disk that contains a movie. You din’t buy the right to watch that movie forever, because if the disk breaks, you need to buy a new copy.

However, we could argue that this is just a symptom of a short industry… If my backpack breaks, even after 10 years, the company will replace it free of charge!