Regardless of the debate of whether admins should be legally liable for not deleting unknown child abuse digital files,
Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think seeing a small number of pictures is going to scar you for life. I’ve seen goatse. I’ve seen people decapitated. It’s not pleasant, and I avoid those things, but it’s not scarring.
You shouldn't use your own experiences to make this generalisation, given that people working at agencies prosecuting pederasts often have to receive therapy or even leave the job after continued exposure.
I am disturbed that people are afraid of unused images hiding on their Lemmy server.
Don't you think it's logical for someone to be worried about being vulnerable to being accused of what likely is, in many legal systems, a crime?
The only part where I disagree with you is that I think bringing about a more unstable geopolitical order (a side effect of the path the conflict has eventually taken) is beneficial, as it will weaken the mechanisms holding together imperialism.
Your first mistake here is assuming that imperialism is only when the West does it. If Ukraine is forced to give concessions to Russia in any form, any wannabe imperialist now knows they can now chip away other countries' land if they are willing and capable of enacting enough violence, whether that country is Western or not, and they might get away with it. Unstability weakens multilateralism; multilateralism disincentivizes unilateral aggression.
If there could be a reasonable debate on this, we could argue: A) Even with accomodations, some people are going to be so unproductive that companies cannot justify hiring them at minimum wage -> B) Therefore, the government could subsidize their salary so that they have the option to contribute and earn their own salary.
Unfortunately, due to the pervasive interests of business, implementations of these solutions tend to result in companies suckling out of the teat of the state, underreporting on the actual productivity of their employees, and often putting them under the orders of managers who patronise them and barely see them as humans, with the subsequent issues that this provokes on one's daily life.
And this is even without getting into the terrain of people who do have the capacity to be productive, but society doesn't care about enabling that possibility. Think of people with reduced mobility who are perfectly capable of working in an office, but HR will immediately discard their application without bothering to study if they could be a good fit for the company; or autistic people, who require different sensory and social accomodations (neurotypical have sensory and social accomodation requirements too, but since they're the norm, this tends to be ignored), and will be immediately assumed to be problematic even when they could be more productive than their allistic counter-parts.
I don't mean to be defeatist, however. It is not impossible to achieve a proper integration of diversity.
Specialisterne helped Casa Batlló, a tourism-oriented cultural space in Barcelona, to employ and integrate 50 people on the spectrum, and everything has kept working reasonably well over there since then. This is notable because it is a common conception in business that you can't or shouldn't employ an autistic person to attend the public, but folks over there are literally getting paid to infodump tourists.
Unfortunately, I don't know how it'd be possible to systemize the good work Specialisterne and other well educated and well intentioned groups are doing, without attracting nefarious actors that just want to get public funds even if they do a shit job.
The only thing they do with any competence is traffic control.
They do? If that was the case, wouldn't they actually do something with the rampant amount of bikes without mufflers?
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
- Stephen Jay Gould
Calling dibs on a hot, sexy body of flesh.
Making such reasonable and well thought comments under the name "Prager U" should be a crime.
Lemmy devs may have controversal political views, but their software is written with a good intention. KiwiFarms on the other hand use it to target instances.
Let's go even further than that. Let's say that the most annoying people around the whole Fediverse are Hexbear. On the worst days, all they do is to organize to spam specific threads, which is indeed annoying, but that's the extent of it. KiwiFarms is responsible for harassing people until they commit suicide for the heinous crime of being weird. Anyone aware of this who wants to associate with them has no place in civilized society.
Ok, but what if it wasn't meat industry, but rather self-organized community eating of the rich?
You are never going to have competetent management when they're forced to follow unrealistic goals due to political reasons.
OK FINE, I ADMIT IT, IT WAS ME. I'M SORRY, I WAS HUNGRY 😭😭😭
But you don't see, comrade!!!!! We must tactically support the weaker evil that is defending values even more contrary to our own in this conjuncture where they're provoking perfectly avoidable, immense human suffering!!!! If we didn't, perhaps I'd have to question if my previously held positions were actually the rational conclusion to my core philosophical values, rather than contrarian posturing!!!1!!
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(Also I'm scared that everyone else might look at me funny for saying something that the libs say or that the mods might remove me, but do not say this aloud)
The fire in the north of the island started Tuesday night and has forced the evacuation or confinement of nearly 8,000 people
From a different source in Spanish, updated yesterday: https://www.eldiario.es/canariasahora/sociedad/tenerife-no-descansa-espera-lluvia-milagrosa-despierto-hora-ver-avanza-fuego_1_10454461.html
> It is a sixth generation wildfire never seen before in Canarias, a consequence of climate change: "The island has gone through a very important rainfall deficit and a heatwave without precedents."
https://www.eldiario.es/canariasahora/tenerifeahora/sociedad/incendio-forestal-tenerife-complica-norte-afecta-diez-municipios-obliga-nuevas-evacuaciones_1_10453798.html
The fire has ravaged over 8400 hectares. The fire has reached an extension of 70km long perimeter since last Thursday, and has forced over 12600 people out of their homes.
Absolutely based.
The Torah and the Bible already have weird sex stuff in it. There's relatively explicit stuff like the Song of Songs, but then again you also have weird nonsensical incest such as the daughters who get their father drunk to rape him for no reason whatsoever, which you cannot convince me wasn't written because some Israeli writer was horny. Just people writing about weird kinks like we've seen people do ever since the internet went live, except that the fellas making up the religion needed texts to add to the lore and said "Fuck it, let's get this one in too".
What I'm saying is that you just have to be born at the right historical time to get your kinks made part of religious canon.
You have to drop the fake humility after years and years of continuously being disappointed everywhere you go.
With the emergence of LLM “AI”, everyone will have to learn what many disabled people have always understood
Crosspost from: https://lemmy.world/post/2776711
While the main focus of the article is actually human perceptions of AI, it also delves into the perception of the majority of people regarding those who cannot communicate in a socially accepted way.
This is a very basic fact of life that everyone should learn in school:
If you are forced to accept the bare minimum that is put on the table, your capacity to say no quickly crashes down, to the point that you may be vulnerable to accept a very unfavorable deal.
A scenario where the vast majority of us might find this reality at some point through our lives is the labor market. Whether you are applying for a job, or requesting a raise or a promotion, you are only going to have leverage to get the company to offer you a better deal if you have better opportunities on the table. In socioeconomic contexts where wages are depressed, this is usually not the case. This means that, for a lot of people, accepting a very bad offer means the difference between living a miserable life with a roof over your head and becoming homeless, so they do virtually have no choice but to accept, which only becomes more apparent if they have family members who depend on them.
It is interesting to note that this may be taught in detail to students of business, economics and law, although it is important information for everyone who participates in the economy: https://www.pon.harvard.edu/tag/batna/
In this context, a labor union that decides to initiate a strike isn't just provoking trouble for the sake of it - it is leveling the playing field by creating a situation where not only the livelihoods of the workers are dependent on the negotiation, but the profits of the company and even its capacity to survive are as well, whereas the latter usually wouldn't be.
Note that this applies to many other aspects of life as well. People often stay in abusive relationships because they do not have the means (or think they do not have the means) to leave them. It is difficult to leave the household you share with an abusive partner if you do not have the economic means to move out, and some people may stay in disfunctional friend groups because they think they aren't capable of making new friends, but need some social contact nonetheless.
Different configurations of society may protect people from these pitfalls or incentivize falling into them. The idea that people should find the means to leave their parents' household as soon as they turn 18 deprives them of an economic mattress that would otherwise allow them to be more aggressive when they negotiate for their salary, or even open up the possibility to dedicate time into trying to create their own business or projects. Different forms of social security, such as unemployment benefits, minimum guaranteed income or basic universal rent make working people far less dependent on the possibility of being laid off, which would motivate them to confront management about negative working conditions.
A research article concluded that autistic people cared too much about others, citing inflexibility to be an issue by following moral code even when individual gains are high. In my personal opinio…
This article picks apart a bunch of biases by the researchers of a given paper. The object of study was the differences in behavior between a group of autistic people and a group of non-autistic people when choosing between prioritizing value for oneself or value for the community.
I recommend reading the paper itself too. If that is, understandably, too much for you, I suggest you go for the introduction, the conclusion, and the segments mentioned in the article.
Popular Party leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo narrowly wins but is held back by left-wing parties.
With 70% of votes counted, the sum of the right wing Partido Popular and the far right Vox won't be able to get enough seats to form government with roughly 164 against the required 176 to form a majority.
While they're slightly above the projected seats than their left wing opposites PSOE and Sumar, the parties ERC (Catalan left wing), Junts (Catalan right wing), Bildu (Basque left wing) and PNV (Basque right wing) will hold the key to grant the presidency to either PP or PSOE, and PP's partner Vox's relentless support for radical centralism and opposition to minority languages have made the possibility of a pact between the Catalan and Basque parties and Madrid's right wing non-viable since at least 2019.
Vox has ran a campaign on opposition against feminist policies; against the "Ley Trans" or "Trans Law" passed during the last period, which made Spain one of the first countries in the world to allow legal gender self-determination; and centralizing the responsibilities of Comunidades Autónomas or regional governments; while frequently responsibilizing immigrants for the perceived state of crime.
They are not the same thing, even if a lot of people try to use them both interchangeably.
The modern form of autism as a diagnosis is born in the 1930s, when behaviorism is a dominant force in psychology. Behaviorism seemed pretty useful back then: while you can break a steam engine down to its individual pieces and study them individually, the study of the human brain presents 'a few' more difficulties. In that context, studying a person's behavior and their reactions to different interactions and environments did beat all other alternatives. The problem is that it's still a pretty limited approach. Is this person breaking down because they're tired? Or because they're sick? Or do they want to draw attention, or did they have a tough day before coming here, or are trying to manipulate their way out of-? You cannot truly know from the lenses of behaviorism, because you cannot (or could not) study the mind's internal state. However, the people working in the field still needed to justify their own salaries, so if they managed to get any results, they could claim they were making progress. We've been carrying a lot baggage from this period, one of the most harmful of which would be ABA therapy.
While the contemporary criteria to diagnose autism has improved somewhat, we can still find the traces of behaviorism everywhere through the psychiatric profession. I was recently watching someone take an online test (which, naturally, should only be used as an exploratory tool, but still points out to criteria used by doctors contemporarily or a few years ago, if you want to be optimistic), and a lot of questions are fairly questionable: > - Others have told me that I have trouble managing my anger. > - I have a tendency to yell at people when I feel frustrated or stressed. > - I am often beset by feelings of sadness. > - I rarely experience happiness or joy. All of these questions make perfect sense for a behaviorist: all of these traits form part of a list of observed signs of a disorder widely studied, so they should belong to the same category as all the others. There is a significant problem though: how can you discern between traits inherent to the person's natural tendencies, and natural responses to a hostile environment? It can get pretty difficult for someone who suffers systematic discrimination to live a fulfilling life, but that's no reason to claim that ethnic minorities who suffer from racism are naturally predisposed towards anger or depression.
It is a given in autistic communities that autism is inherent to a person's personality. The scientific community has some trouble to take the last jump to that conclusion, because even though research often finds strong evidence of genetic inheritability, it isn't possible to predict an autism diagnosis in its current form from genetics alone. I posit that that just isn't possible, because the criteria to diagnose autism is an unholy amalgam of traits inherent to the individual and social/environmental maladaptation, which is not the same thing that we here refer to when we speak of autism as a neurotype.
El proyecto de emitir deuda soberana para refinanciar su deuda externa y minar Bitcoin con energía térmica ha sido aparcado casi dos años después de su anuncio.
The project to issue sovereign debt to refinance its external debt and mine Bitcoin with thermal energy has been parked almost two years after its announcement.
Link to untranslated article in Spanish: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/criptomonedas/fracaso-bonos-volcan-bitcoin-nayim-bukele-salvador
Sorry for the external link, but Lemmy wouldn’t allow me to post the whole text. As mentioned at the start, feel free to contribute or debate as you see fit, I might update this post later on.
Sorry for the external link, but Lemmy wouldn't allow me to post the whole text. As mentioned at the start, feel free to contribute or debate as you see fit, I might update this post later on.
If the fediverse is going to be a decentralized, non-commercial network, and it works properly, I'm willing to contribute some share, as long as there's transparency about the costs and the budget. Do we have access about this information for any instance in general, or for @world in particular?
Edit: Well I found it for @world: Enter https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld , then click on Budget.
On the eve of WWII, Paris hosted the 1937 Expo, and the USSR and Nazi Germany had their exhibitions placed on front of each other.
The German pavillon was crowned by an eagle holding a swastika, symbolizing the authocratic nature of the regime, while the Soviet one had a man and a woman standing together and holding a hammer and sickle, with both pavillons ultimately appearing to be opposing each other.
Neither of them could have asked for a better vehicle to represent the narratives they were constructing for their own governments.
It's strangely inconsistent, as I will have no issues with a channel of say, Beehaw, but a different channel from Beehaw will not allow me to interact with it in any way.