deafness, partial or total inability to hear. (Britannica)

Sounds like a conflict of interest. Make laws pertaining to retirement homes before you end up there. You deserve to feel on your own skin whether your laws were any good.

Yeah, what the fuck, he grew a unibrow within a few days??

clbottomt when the chtopt shows up [imagine this as that popular GIF meme]

Came here to post this.

Man I miss the times when Google used to trick us into helping make knowledge more easily accessible to everyone. Now we just train fucking AI for luxury cars.

Good question. In my country (I’ve had some contact with people who work in the area) apparently they aim to keep films on film stock, as it is supposedly the most reliable format for long-term preservation, though they also have digital copies too. Now, I wouldn’t expect them to retroactively put a digital film on analog stock (anyway, the archive is still primarily working on gathering and preserving the existing film heritage of the country from across the previous century), but the purely digital stuff will hopefully also get whatever is regarded as the most reliable long-term medium. I could personally ask one guy who works there when I get the opportunity, though I don’t think I’d get the opportunity any time soon…

I guess they request the distributor/streaming service to send them a digital copy.

Something of the sort has already been claimed for language/linguistics, i.e. that LLMs can be used to understand human language production. One linguist wrote a pretty good reply to such claims, which can be summed up as “this is like inventing an airplane and using it to figure out how birds fly”. I mean, who knows, maybe that even could work, but it should be admitted that the approach appears extremely roundabout and very well might be utterly fruitless.

At least we won’t have any dang countries forcing time zones there to be in odd shapes.

21 was your last milestone,

I’m not American, so not even that, actually. I guess 20 was sort of a milestone, but only symbolically, entering my third decade of life…

once you get into your 80s

Thank you for being so optimistic :)

I am somewhat forgettable in general, I guess. Or just disorganised. But I don’t think remembering such a thing is any sort of mental effort, surely people memorise it spontaneously?

Same. I learned about the ‘releases’ section only recently thanks to some kind Lemmy user (kinder than some I’ve seen on Lemmy and reddit discussing this same image, some people are openly supporting gatekeeping of software).

Kosovars (Kosovo Albanians) are not Slavs.

I never said, nor implied, either side were “dumb” or “barbarians”.

Your stance implies it, in many ways. You’re not really trying to understand the people there, and treat them in a completely dehumanising manner.

Like, do I have to explain why it’s not a good idea to take most goods and history away from a nation and dump it somewhere near the polar circle?

Do I have to remind you of that other guy who thought a fabricated cultural conflict could be solved by moving the Jews away to Madagascar?

the populace of both sides are brainwashed by organized religion, and authoritarians and terrorists are using that as a cudgel to achieve their own selfish aims, and are the real poison here.

The only way to take away their power is to remove the dispute over the region.

Since you’re already proposing completely impossible fantasy solutions, why didn’t you propose e.g. deposing of those authoritarians and religious extremists who fan the fires of conflict, assembling representatives willing to work out a tolerable solution to the conflict, and thus allowing the area (especially Palestine) to gradually develop, and naturally ease and dispose of the extremist culture that most people there are born into?

No, that sounds boring, let’s just take everyone, terrorists and normal people together, and dump them into the Amazon rainforest or Tierra del fuego. Even in your fantasies you don’t seem to wish for especially nice things for those people.

This “solution” makes you sound as if you’re just annoyed by hearing and reading about those dumb middle-eastern barbarians and want literally any solution that would get them out of your news feed, rather than actually wanting much good to those people.

if the people in charge don’t follow policy and procedure

What policy/procedure did Baldwin not follow exactly?

The last part of your comment sounds like an ad straight out of those overlong YT videos.

Really?

Indeed. He’s the director of a Russian foundation, teaches at a Russian university, and is being legally bullied by Russia, as you can see from my three-sentence summary. I’m pretty sure you can’t do all that from Portugal or something.

I think he very much should have thought of himself as one. His mistake.

He should’ve thought of himself as not currently able to travel to Russia?

Ok, lol.