Ah shit, I just ninja edited that it. Too late! Oh well.
It is conservative in-group solidarity, and a crazy cult of personality he managed to stumble into, but that's not a common, easy-to-manufacture situation.
For most of history and still in most places, paying off officials was/is a normal, everyday part of life. Now, living in Canada, I've never paid a bribe, or even been given the opportunity. Democracy seems like the obvious answer as to why; it's not because Canadians are just better.
With a large enough body, it's true bribery gets harder, but you also have some of the same problems as direct democracy. At some point you've basically just made a smaller voting public.
There's very few things about representative democracy that works exactly as intended, but it does makes (illegal) corruption hard to maintain. A politician having a reputation for corruption and self-dealing is one of the few things that voters uniformly don't like, and will actually act on at the polls. (Obviously there's a major counterexample right now, but the trend is undeniable)
There are loads of people who dislike centralised services, like facebook, twitter, dropbox and so on
Are there? It seems more like 90% of people don't care, and 9.9% say they dislike big tech, but don't really feel it strongly enough to seriously look for alternatives.
Edit: I know that even if the service existed, most people wouldn’t use it and prefer Facebook et al. But that absolutely nobody has spun up one is what baffles me. Thousands work on the Linux kernel, where are the hardcore network nerds?
Oh, I see, by "people" you mean a few hardcore nerds just to run the server. Sure, they exist, and whatever indie version of Facebook exists. But, without people moving away from Facebook to it, there's not much to do on them. Lemmy was a ghost town before the API Rexodus, for example, and now it's just active enough that the large communities are rolling nicely.
Here, read this. When it comes to if a social media service is useful, the servers are like the smallest component. And, as a result, whichever server goes first has a huge advantage, and whoever started it becomes Mark Zuckerberg.
TBF a French peasant might have had less expectations about what food is for, anyway.
Although, that can go either way depending on which bit of pre-modernity is in question. Sometimes land was plentiful and lots of ingredients were around and in season, so peasants ate okay.
Often, it just wasn't well publicised, which is why police - and people friendly with the police - got away with so much more shit than they could now. If there weren't a ton of unfriendly witnesses, with no video they could just lie. If there was, the papers had the option of covering it, but the average journalist was friendly with the police. They might just make a gentleman's agreement that whatever incident was either a regrettable mistake, not worth upsetting the public about, or even that it was illegal but good. Things had to get pretty crazy bad before it got reported.
If you were a black person, you and people you know just very directly felt it. The police could harass or beat you whenever they wanted, which was often enough. And that was on top of the more open racist policies that existed.
Do consider, as well, that informal violence was more normised. Now, if you punch somebody you probably get charged with assault. Then, brawls happened fairly often, and as long as it stayed fisticuffs, it tended to be considered a personal matter. Which meant getting roughed up by the police probably wouldn't be considered brutality at all until deadly weapons come out, or it's an extended beating while you're restrained.
With police brutality specifically, a highly professional, highly centralised, very white and very pro-authority press might not have covered it better.
If you didn't read the article, don't get too worked up - it's a cell raised in a bath of ready-made cell organelles, which it can absorb and use, basically.
It's still impressive, given what the state of the art was, but don't expect it growing on a damp spot near you anytime soon.
Hmm, I wonder if that's regional, or just your grandmother specifically.
If you look at stuff from deep history, it might be a bit smaller (because people were smaller), but the 20th century furniture that makes up the bulk of what you'll see on the secondhand market isn't noticeably different.
More kinds of furniture used to be fashionable, that much is true, and if you don't live in a house as big as your parents (because people tend to move into bigger places until they're retired) getting rid of the china cabinet might be inevitable.
Yeah, the third point seems like it holds. This is basically just "kicking the can down the road". Maybe some enormous amount of meat would have won the war for Russia a couple years ago, but it's very late to start seriously conscripting now. Like, how are they going to equip those people? And enforce discipline? The momentum is very much not on Russia's side.
If Zelensky is saying it, I suspect there's at least a grain of truth. Until Putin has announced it, he could always change his mind, and do something more or less dramatic, though.
As for the other two:
It’s Russia. The election’s "results’ have as much impact to Putin’s crime syndicate as shooting rubber bands at the stars. Why would they bother to wait for a false mandate in an election that doesn’t matter?
It's propaganda lending them a sense of legitimacy. Think about it, if the elections didn't matter at all, then why would they run them? Basically, winning an unfair election is worth something.
In Russia, mostly people who are personally on the chopping block if the war fails think digging in even deeper is a good idea. So, they very much need to fabricate a strong case for it, and for their authority to do so.
They need the troops now. Mobilization that doesn’t start until October means those currently-civilian conscripts will not even start reaching the front lines for somewhere between 8 weeks and 6 months.
The front line moves very very slowly in this war. And as long as it's not rolling up on Moscow by then (lol) they can hope to push it back.
What could happen is that their logistics situation gets ever worse, and they start having domestic unrest as a result of all the conscription. That just has to be less scary to Putin and friends than the alternative with no conscripts, though.
Sounds like something a therapist would say. Actually, the usual line is something like "if there's a bear, negative emotions are very helpful". (It's always a bear; never a mugger or a giant rolling boulder. I don't make the rules)
It's hard to say over the internet, but either you're in a crowd where they overuse that line, or your emotions have grown to become unhelpful in your life.
TIL! Then it's interesting that it didn't get bigger faster, since the idea of locking people into your product isn't new. Like, Dell could have been doing in 2000 what Samsung is now with it's phones, and Linux would have been dead in the water.
Edit: Oh right, there weren't any SoCs yet, at least at full scale. At the very least, you could always get out your probes and flash the ROM that way.
Should we ban printers because you may print a news article without buying the rights? Should we ban pen and paper because you could use it to infringe on a trademark by drawing it?
Of course, history is over, and all governments and corporations are 100% trustworthy. We don't need to consider that opportunity for evil can't actually be eliminated, just moved around. /s
Ah shit, I just ninja edited that it. Too late! Oh well.
It is conservative in-group solidarity, and a crazy cult of personality he managed to stumble into, but that's not a common, easy-to-manufacture situation.
For most of history and still in most places, paying off officials was/is a normal, everyday part of life. Now, living in Canada, I've never paid a bribe, or even been given the opportunity. Democracy seems like the obvious answer as to why; it's not because Canadians are just better.
With a large enough body, it's true bribery gets harder, but you also have some of the same problems as direct democracy. At some point you've basically just made a smaller voting public.
There's very few things about representative democracy that works exactly as intended, but it does makes (illegal) corruption hard to maintain. A politician having a reputation for corruption and self-dealing is one of the few things that voters uniformly don't like, and will actually act on at the polls. (Obviously there's a major counterexample right now, but the trend is undeniable)
Ugh, it's pretty rare I'm tempted by meat, but this does it.
I guess it makes sense - the more CO2 you breath, the more your body has to deal with, and it's physiologically relevant.
I don't know, does social intelligence count? It's basically the crowd you'd expect from a top-tier sales job, with some nepotism mixed in.
With a poker face and textbook driving practices the whole time.
Fugue in D minor by Bach.
It's not a normal answer, which is the point, but it has the exact right energy.
Are there? It seems more like 90% of people don't care, and 9.9% say they dislike big tech, but don't really feel it strongly enough to seriously look for alternatives.
Oh, I see, by "people" you mean a few hardcore nerds just to run the server. Sure, they exist, and whatever indie version of Facebook exists. But, without people moving away from Facebook to it, there's not much to do on them. Lemmy was a ghost town before the API Rexodus, for example, and now it's just active enough that the large communities are rolling nicely.
Here, read this. When it comes to if a social media service is useful, the servers are like the smallest component. And, as a result, whichever server goes first has a huge advantage, and whoever started it becomes Mark Zuckerberg.
TBF a French peasant might have had less expectations about what food is for, anyway.
Although, that can go either way depending on which bit of pre-modernity is in question. Sometimes land was plentiful and lots of ingredients were around and in season, so peasants ate okay.
Maybe that would be true - if there was much the Canadian government could do at all.
The Middle East isn't our region, and the one major player in our own region has very strong opinions of their own.
Ah, so it's started a bit now. Good to know!
Often, it just wasn't well publicised, which is why police - and people friendly with the police - got away with so much more shit than they could now. If there weren't a ton of unfriendly witnesses, with no video they could just lie. If there was, the papers had the option of covering it, but the average journalist was friendly with the police. They might just make a gentleman's agreement that whatever incident was either a regrettable mistake, not worth upsetting the public about, or even that it was illegal but good. Things had to get pretty crazy bad before it got reported.
If you were a black person, you and people you know just very directly felt it. The police could harass or beat you whenever they wanted, which was often enough. And that was on top of the more open racist policies that existed.
Do consider, as well, that informal violence was more normised. Now, if you punch somebody you probably get charged with assault. Then, brawls happened fairly often, and as long as it stayed fisticuffs, it tended to be considered a personal matter. Which meant getting roughed up by the police probably wouldn't be considered brutality at all until deadly weapons come out, or it's an extended beating while you're restrained.
With police brutality specifically, a highly professional, highly centralised, very white and very pro-authority press might not have covered it better.
If you didn't read the article, don't get too worked up - it's a cell raised in a bath of ready-made cell organelles, which it can absorb and use, basically.
It's still impressive, given what the state of the art was, but don't expect it growing on a damp spot near you anytime soon.
Hmm, I wonder if that's regional, or just your grandmother specifically.
If you look at stuff from deep history, it might be a bit smaller (because people were smaller), but the 20th century furniture that makes up the bulk of what you'll see on the secondhand market isn't noticeably different.
More kinds of furniture used to be fashionable, that much is true, and if you don't live in a house as big as your parents (because people tend to move into bigger places until they're retired) getting rid of the china cabinet might be inevitable.
Yeah, the third point seems like it holds. This is basically just "kicking the can down the road". Maybe some enormous amount of meat would have won the war for Russia a couple years ago, but it's very late to start seriously conscripting now. Like, how are they going to equip those people? And enforce discipline? The momentum is very much not on Russia's side.
If Zelensky is saying it, I suspect there's at least a grain of truth. Until Putin has announced it, he could always change his mind, and do something more or less dramatic, though.
As for the other two:
It's propaganda lending them a sense of legitimacy. Think about it, if the elections didn't matter at all, then why would they run them? Basically, winning an unfair election is worth something.
In Russia, mostly people who are personally on the chopping block if the war fails think digging in even deeper is a good idea. So, they very much need to fabricate a strong case for it, and for their authority to do so.
The front line moves very very slowly in this war. And as long as it's not rolling up on Moscow by then (lol) they can hope to push it back.
What could happen is that their logistics situation gets ever worse, and they start having domestic unrest as a result of all the conscription. That just has to be less scary to Putin and friends than the alternative with no conscripts, though.
Yup, I've got quite a few things by now, and I'm in line for some more.
I don't know about a sense of belonging, but a historical thing you're tangentially connected to is cooler than just a random historical thing.
Sounds like something a therapist would say. Actually, the usual line is something like "if there's a bear, negative emotions are very helpful". (It's always a bear; never a mugger or a giant rolling boulder. I don't make the rules)
It's hard to say over the internet, but either you're in a crowd where they overuse that line, or your emotions have grown to become unhelpful in your life.
It's weird that Africanews is covering this. And it seems unlikely uncertainty about which currency to trust is anything new there.
TIL! Then it's interesting that it didn't get bigger faster, since the idea of locking people into your product isn't new. Like, Dell could have been doing in 2000 what Samsung is now with it's phones, and Linux would have been dead in the water.
Edit: Oh right, there weren't any SoCs yet, at least at full scale. At the very least, you could always get out your probes and flash the ROM that way.
Of course, history is over, and all governments and corporations are 100% trustworthy. We don't need to consider that opportunity for evil can't actually be eliminated, just moved around. /s