The problem isn’t political systems, it’s superpowers intervening, e.g. america funding fascist coups of democratically elected socialists. It would be hard for any small nation, regardless of political system, to defend against a coup funded by a superpower. Please prove me wrong and tell me how e.g. the coup in Chile 1973 could have been prevented by decentralizing power.
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In many of these cases, the political system which couldn’t withstand coups were democracies. Does this mean that democracy isn’t useful? Are you saying that democracies should forbid socialists from being elected since if they get elected then america will intervene and the democracy will cease to be useful? Sounds like you don’t care for democracy and self-determination of nations. Bonus points will be awarded for being able to make your point without a potion metaphor.
mang0@lemmy.zipto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weaponEnglish
2·17 days agoIf false positives are frequent enough, police might not take the predictions of the system seriously.
mang0@lemmy.zipto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weaponEnglish
3·17 days agoNo. The police are well known for using violence against non-violent black people. Imagine what they could do if they believed a black person was armed. I would say that this kid got really lucky.
Besides the racism problem, many false positives will lead to people not taking the system seriously (see: the boy who cried wolf) and even if they take every positive seriously, it would be a huge waste of resources to frequently send a bunch of cops to do nothing (in best case scenario, in worst case it’ll result in the death of an innocent person).
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weaponEnglish
4·17 days agoMade me think of the beginning of the movie Brazil.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Trump Posts AI Video in Which He Drops Feces on No Kings ProtestersEnglish
33·21 days agoHow dare people not vote for someone who supports a genocide?
Damn, capitalism sure is great and is definitely working
Well said!
I suppose if their only source of considerable income was from snacks, then the comparison would make sense. Although it doesn’t make sense from a customer perspective where you’re paying more than 20 $/€ for a ticket (at least in Sweden)
The largest cinema corporation in Sweden (when asked about why they chose to restrict people from bringing their own snacks) infamously compared bringing snacks not bought at the cinema to brining your own food to a restaurant.
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0·2 months agoValve gets a huge cut of all games sold on their platform. The least you could expect from them is to ensure the
license to install and play avideo game which you’ve bought from them won’t ruin your life.
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memes@lemmy.world•Believe it or not, it was actually Reddit, not 4chan.
1·2 months agoI would expect tiktokers to be more ignorant about 4chan, but I see an impressing amount of people on Lemmy acting like 4chan is personally maintained and financed by Hitler.

That’s not what you’ve been saying until now.
No shit, what are you trying to say? Are you saying there exists political systems which are immune to people wanting to stage a coup?
How would it be more resilient?
What coup attempts are you talking about? Let’s try to focus on coups that were at least attempted or has any substantial evidence of being in the works.