I'm rooting for a Wall-E outcome myself.

Just buy a cheapo Android TV box.

They double as emulators all the way up to Nintendo 64.

If Debian goes proprietary that would be a sign of the end times.

The problems inherent in unpaid moderators was evident back when USENET and MUDs were around in the 1990's. Amazing that Reddit thinks that it can solve this problem with techno-totalitarianism and I guess newly appointed slave mods?

Non-paid anonymous moderators are liable to randomly quit, have strange agendas, and other problems like selling their accounts.

In France it is nigh impossible to collect data about racism because collecting data about races on official forms is illegal.

They could start with that.

Racism exists whether you ask on the census or not.

French "universalism" - which believes that the French language/culture "civilizes" people - is idiotic.

Unitary governments tend to concentrate resources/infrastructure in one big city and that means protests and riots can concentrate themselves much easier than in places like in Germany or Canada or the US.

Paris 40% of the French population - down from 50% post WWII. A federal France would be a lot more stable imho.

My sister moved to the UK with her English wife pre-covid, became stuck there for a year, and has been absolutely shocked at how often the local river smells like sewage. The locals mostly think it is normal. With the heat during the summer it is all she talks about when we are on the phone.

She'll be moving back here once her wife completes her degree. At least the Clean Water Act is enforced in most of the United States, for now.

Ciao.

Take care of yourselves.

Reminds me of when all the moderators began fleeing Usenet after Eternal September.

alt.politics.moderated and the like were great places with active/knowledgeable moderators -- until they weren't.

I have ADHD and I cannot concentrate with moving text/video/ads so I have to block everything to use most websites.

Amazon holds ~20-60% of the market share from everything from clothing to electronics.

No one can compete with that on their own except big, big, big companies like Apple.

Same with creative works.

I've seen only a dozen or so narrative structures being utilized by ChatGPT with little to no variation besides names/places.

Even if that was increased 10x, it still does not scratch the surface of the variety capable already by humans.

Reddit has its useful communities but moderation has always been hit/miss and super problematic communities/users being able to operate openly for over a decade (including de facto child porn) I refused to keep an account there.

Us social media users should have higher standards.