If they were paid $0.01 per hour, would you say they were being paid?

If yes, then clearly, “being paid” is not the dividing line between slavery and freedom, so you should establish how much you think someone should be paid for it to not be slavery.

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I’m going to acknowledge that you responded so that, when I don’t continue this conversation, you’ll know that it wasn’t because I decided to abandon my position.

You could say your response did not have a significant impact.

Did anyone do studies on the homework and exam scores of people using compilers vs people not using compilers?

Did anyone establish that people who used compilers are measurably dumber than the people who didn’t?

No?

Well then obviously it’s not the same situation, now is it?

It’s like you didn’t read the article.

You shouldn’t have to take a class for an operating system…

…So we should use android? Maybe chromeos?

Invalid inference.

I’m immune to propaganda because I’m smart.

That’s not how that works. A smart person would recognize that there are degrees of smartness and degrees of immunity. Even if we accept that smarter people are less susceptible to propaganda, there is no threshold of smartness that grants immunity to propaganda.

The most important service one can provide to a kind-of-smart person is to tell them when they’ve said something stupid. I’m happy to provide this service. Please rate 5 stars.

An individual instance may be driven by some ideology… but as a decentralized collective of instances, there isn’t one governing ideology. It’d be super funny to have a pro-capitalism one… and it’s anyone’s right to create it or contribute to it if they want to.

Surely one of these instances allows videos of cats.

The best existing phrase I have is, “Dropping your guard.”

It doesn’t necessarily imply anything about why you dropped your guard, and only slightly implies that the bad thing happened while your guard was down.

We could coin a new phrase here by brainstorming. I’ll start:

Fumbled the shield

Sure, until next place changes their block function as well. Changing the rules to something that is objectively less safe is a bad thing, even if people are free to leave.

Edit for clarity.

$60 per kilo

That’s not bad for a prototype! With lab-growth meat, the initial cost was $2.3 million / kg. It’s come down since then because of process and scale improvements, but when it starts off that high, it’s going to be a while for it to become affordable.

A quick non-AI figure is $0.60 per kilo to recycle plastic… so we just need improvement by a factor of 100 which is quite realistic.

Hahaha, but that would have been a great question.

I’m going with snails. When I was younger, my family made a big deal about hating them in our garden, which is maybe fair. But now I’m an adult without a garden, and they’re just some cute, hungry little freaks.

THIS is a ‘real problem‘? A fraction of women who are hating trans? How’s this different from those women who are punching down on trans

Sorry wait… your question is about two actions

A) punching down on trans people

B) calling out other oppressed people who punch down on trans people

… and your question is about how these two actions are different?

why we have white, affluent, and fascist cis women

You can draw a different comic which depicts this, instead. The existing comic is a low-class cis women who eats up the rhetoric. Different types of people can be terrible for different reasons.

Welcome to Lemmy.

There’s a difference between A) ignoring the opinions of a particular fascist and B) ignoring a year-over-year increase in the population of people openly expressing fascist opinions.

It’s kind of like a tumor. As inconvenient as it might be, if it’s not hurting you worse than the surgery to remove it, then you should ignore it. If it starts growing, however… you probably shouldn’t ignore that.

the modern American use of “liberal” as a synonym for the progressive left… but word usages change

Modern American civics education is, on average, basically non-existent. All changes in word usage trends toward less nuance, greater redundancy, and greater ambiguity.

And that’s fine, I guess, because Descriptivism or whatever. But in the event that moderately educated people use the terms “Liberal” or “Leftist”, it’s probably okay to assume the formal meanings.

makes references to the “liberal media” confusing."

You seem to not be that confused, since you correctly pointed out that these companies are owned by conservatives.

the baking

Is this a typo, or a new term for me to learn?

I think a random lottery for office positions is the only system I’ve ever heard of which can’t be abused by narcissists.

It’s like the birthday problem, but goth-themed.

Do you know the Secretary Problem?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem

Your father’s been using computers for some number of years. It’s possible he’s been using computers for longer than he will continue using computers. From his perspective, the current edition of Windows is better than anything that’s come before it, so it’s the rational choice to stick with it until the end.

To get around this, you would basically need to set up a second machine with Zorin so that he can get some context before making a decision. That way, in the very realistic scenario where he decides it’s not for him, he hasn’t lost anything.