xdennis

3 gün öncediscuss

A country is not a contract, it's a culture.

It's quite audacious to want to be part of a country, but also to be so quarantined from them as to not even want to learn their language.

xdennis

4 gün öncediscuss

> Otherwise, the title reads like a "Curtains for Zoosha?" meme.

This is also why capitalization is important. In the title, "remarkable" refers to "Remarkable Paper Pro", a tablet. Not knowing that "Fable turned remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary" is very hard to parse.

xdennis

6 gün öncediscuss

It's all about what you actually care.

Piracy helps people who can't afford to pay or have no way of acquiring legally.

LLM training helps megacorps replace people.

If you side with common people against megacorops, you're okay with piracy and against LLM training on copyrighted works.

xdennis

10 gün öncediscuss

> And it is not actually a "designated terrorist organization".

It is.[1] Perhaps you mean it's not a statutory Foreign Terrorist Organization, like Al-Qaida or Hamas. That is a harsher designation, but that's not possible for Antifa because it's not foreign.

[1]: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/desi...

xdennis

10 gün öncediscuss

Why the scare quotes? Are you denying he was a cop?

xdennis

11 gün öncediscuss

> A sentence of 30 years in prison for obstructing an investigation is excessive

Being excessive is the point. It's to deter others from trying to copy their actions.

xdennis

11 gün öncediscuss

> Brown people existing doesn't hurt you.

BBC:

    About 58% of men convicted in Sweden of rape and attempted rape over the past five years were born abroad, according to data from Swedish national TV.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45269764

xdennis

11 gün öncediscuss

Biden. His policies led to a huge increase in illegal immigration.

Look at the huge jump due to his policies: https://www.economist.com/content-assets/images/20240127_EPC...

The same was not true for Obama, who was actually much better than Bush.

xdennis

11 gün öncediscuss

> To me too, then I got to the leaders quote on TV: "We must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense."

Firstly, you should probably cite that. Searching for it leads here. Hopefully, you didn't manufacture it.

But, while the language is unfortunate, do you really think natives should tolerate migrants who are not a net positive?

xdennis

11 gün öncediscuss

People are trying to have a serious conversation here. There's no need for dismissive jokes.

xdennis

11 gün öncediscuss

A country is not just a random set of people. They have to be linked by a common set of values. Importing people who don't want to assimilate, or importing more people that can be assimilated will lead to disaster in the long term.

Additionally, immigration is not a solution for low fertility. If they assimilate, they will also have a lower fertility rate, pushing the problem down the line. If they don't assimilate, and keep a high fertility rate, they will replace the population.

Immigration is a positive thing, but it needs to be low and open only to like minded people.

xdennis

11 gün öncediscuss

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xdennis

12 gün öncediscuss

Curiously enough, Romanian, though a Romance language, was also spelt with the Cyrillic alphabet. Probably because we were under the Bulgarian empire (the ones who invented Cyrillic).

In the 1800s when we switched to Latin, it didn't happen abruptly, there were several intermediary alphabets which mixed Latin an Cyrillic[1].

Example:

    ши се варсъ (Cyrillic) 
    шi se вapsъ (transition alphabet)
    și se varsă (Latin)
    ʃi se varsə (IPA for reference)

When Russia annexed eastern Moldova, it forced them to switch back to Cyrillic, but with a monstrous alphabet derived from Russian instead of the old Romanian alphabet. The Russians forced Romanians to use this:

    ши се варсэ

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_transitional_alphabet

xdennis

12 gün öncediscuss

Probably because Persian is an Indo-European language, and alphabets are better than abjads (alphabet without vowels) for it.

Semitic languages are easy to write without vowels because the meaning is very obvious even if you omit the vowels, but in many languages you have a great deal of collisions if you omit vowels.

It's the same reason Chinese characters are a poor fit for Korean and Japanese. Chinese is not an inflected language so one symbol for a word works quite nicely, but other languages need a way to add prefixes and suffixes to works.

xdennis

14 gün öncediscuss

Stop spreading misinformation. They were found guilty by a jury of their peers of providing material support for terrorism[1]. They shot a cop in the neck.

They coordinated on Signal to bring firearms. They didn't plan to "protest".

They got off lightly. Should have been life without parole.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Prairieland_ICE_detention...

xdennis

15 gün öncediscuss

> However painful these price hikes are, and they are painful, it is worth remembering that computing has become incredibly ubiquitous and cheap.

Counterpoint: it's also become essential and poorly optimized.

Back then you could live quite well without ever using a computer, but during COVID you literally had to have a phone or the governments wouldn't let you move around in certain cases. Many services are restricted or inaccessible without a computer.

Computers have become cheap if you want to run 1996 software, but the two Gmail tabs have have open (work and personal) are costing me 2GiB and 779MiB of RAM respectively. I have no idea how it takes 2GiB to display an inbox with 4 emails in it.

xdennis

15 gün öncediscuss

Romanian is isolated now, but even quite recently there where languages forming a bridge between Romanian and the rest of Romance languages. For example Dalmatian, whose last speaker died in 1898. Now, most people think of Dalmatians as the dogs.

xdennis

15 gün öncediscuss

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xdennis

15 gün öncediscuss

> "EU is left". Haha, good joke.

You are out of touch. The left supports the EU far more than the right. See this Pew poll from 2025[1].

In Europe, for every country, the left view the EU more favorably. The largest difference is in Poland where 88% of left wingers support it and 41% of right wingers support it.

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/09/22/opinions-...

xdennis

15 gün öncediscuss

It's useless to judge left vs right on a global scale because different countries have different standards.

For example, supporting universal healthcare does not make you a left winger in the UK. Or, take conservatism for example. It was first used in France, where it meant supporting the monarchy. By that definition, no one in the US is a conservative.

Whenever someone tries to create a global definition for left and right, they're just baking in their personal biases for what left and right ought to be.

> huge government involvement into economy

This has nothing to do with the right. Stalin had the government even more involved in the economy and he wasn't a right winger.

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