@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de calls to end premiership of Pedro Sanchez

I mean in Venice you have to admit that cruise ships offer a very unique view on the city. To my knowledge, they travelled through Canale della Giudecca when they were still allowed there, i.e. cruise ship passengers could view the entire city center including Piazza San Marco from above in a way you can’t anymore nowadays. But of course that also made them a nuisance to everyone else because of waves and also because this just doesn’t look very nice.

Venice is so uniquely beautiful I wouldn’t want to spend just one day there anyway, so abolishing cruises there may be good for the tourists too.

There’s something similar much older than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservapedia#Conservative_Bible_Project

nothing stopping people from just flying to Nice if that is where they want to go, there are many other ways to travel to Nice

Problem with cruise ships is that cruise passengers don’t spend much money in the places they go to. I went on a cruise once myself and if I get three all-you-can-eat buffets a day included in the cruise fare, no way am I going to a restaurant on land. So I get why places don’t like this.

Yes, but that is less likely if they have been deleted very soon after creation.

citing sources such as … “traditional news media”, right?

Israel/Palestine is truly a conflict where no matter what argument you raise (on either side), there is a counterargument.

The argument against yours, for example, is here: https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2024/05/a-really-strange-genocide.html

I am generally very sympathetic to the Palestinians and think the immediate root cause of the present situation is the fact that Israel has been blockading Gaza for more than a decade, not allowing movement in or out of it, which I do not think can be justified by anything. I regularly read the blog I linked to above (yes, I consciously read things I don’t agree with), its author would probably say that the immediate root cause is something Hamas did in October of 2023. Difficult to say how to “neutrally” present that, right?

Yeah but instances are supposed to e.g. delete posts when the user deletes them. A malicious instance might not do that. Even without malice, I know this doesn’t always work because some weeks ago, I deleted a comment almost immediately after saving it, then kept getting upvotes for it; I found out this was because (at least) one very popular instance hadn’t deleted that comment, its users were still seeing it and upvoting it.

Wikis are unsuitable for anything contentious. Wikis are the solution to the problem of crowdsourcing objective facts, what makes them great is that anyone can add a few (even very obscure) ones; on anything contentious there are way too many, not too few, people wanting to write about them, making the wiki a solution to a nonexistent problem. This news story is yet another example of this.

… and hardly anything is more contentious than Israel/Palestine, which is why wikis work least well for articles on that.

the divisions and minus? what now?

That would require a constitutional amendment in the US.

I’m very slightly too old to be part of Gen Z and can tell you that teenage and early-20s me also thought that surely the future would be awesome because then people like me, people who see the world the way I do, would be in power and fix all problems I see with the world.

Now there are plenty of politicians and other public figures who are my age or younger, and I can tell that they are not all like me, they do not all see the world the way I do, in fact they are just as diverse as everyone before them and make the same mix of good and bad decisions as everyone before them.

fediverse groups, of course that would require structuring the software in a way that resembles mailing lists instead of reddit

Linguistically, I want neither English but Chinese, but an auxiliary language to be the lingua franca. I already know Esperanto, so this would be a good candidate as far as I’m concerned. There’s no way I’m learning Chinese.

I want to see as much nonfree closed source software replaced by FOSS as possible, no matter who makes it.

The others (pop culture, companies) wouldn’t bother me much at all. But I don’t think Christmas would stop being popular at least in Europe.

I switched to “new comments” a while ago and have no desire to go back to anything else.

Kind of a non-story that whitehouse.gov is completely redesigned (and pages added and removed) when there is a new president, has happened every time so far.

“Doctor, I’m afraid of individually spelled out letters.”

“Why?”

Patient screams.

“Are you okay?”

Patient screams even louder.

“Oh, I see.”

Patient runs out of the room.

Now, no one can say anymore that Trump has never done anything positive.

But do you photoshop things with GIMP?

The thread still works for me.

Your link is a link back to this thread, I suspect you meant to link to something else like e.g. https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/28935257?scrollToComments=true