𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠

He’s ancient. He might keel over from old age before the appeals process finishes.

The “Nothing to hide” argument isn’t really an argument, it’s more of a conclusion. That conclusion is then taken to support mass surveillance. It’s also not a logical fallacy (even if it’s wrong). It may be “proven” using logical fallacies, but that doesn’t make it a logical fallacy on its own. So I think it’s correct to remove the logical fallacy text.

I think the more effective defense against this one is to provide counterexamples for why you might care about mass surveillance:

• People do have something to hide. E.g. browser history, religious/political beliefs, etc…
• You may not have something to hide now, but in the future you may wish it was still hidden. You can’t unpublish information these days.
• People you care about may have something to hide, and not caring about mass surveillance puts them at risk.
• Relatively harmless individual datapoints can be combined to create harmful datasets that allow for mass exploitation.
• Governments may abuse mass surveillance, whereby you may experience negative effects from journalists/political dissidents being silenced
• Etc…

This is largely coming from the right-wing anti-immigrants government. They definitely are idiots, and some are assholes too.

There are sensible reasons to want this. They don’t want this for those reasons.

82% positive just means that out of everyone who decided to buy it in the first place, 82% feel like they got what they expected. If you don’t expect greatness, then perhaps this game is exactly what you thought it’d be.

So? There’s not much value in past comments/posts is there? Like, how often do you look back on those?

Been huffin’ too many of those chemicals, Willy?

NATO has stopped all cooperation with Israel because Turkey has vetoed it: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-blocks-nato-israel-cooperation-over-gaza-war-sources-say-2024-08-01/

It has, it was forced to by Turkey: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-blocks-nato-israel-cooperation-over-gaza-war-sources-say-2024-08-01/

All joint exercises and meetings were stopped and nothing w.r.t. aid for Israel was approved. All vetoed.

A very bizarre rise in the polls indeed. A mere two weeks ago he was polling at barely 2%, in the exit poll he came third and instead he’s first. People expected Simion to be the far-right candidate but he was well off.

Ciolacu still has the best cards, ahead in every poll in 1v1 matchups (and his lead mostly grew over time). But as far as I can tell there hasn’t even been a poll of just Ciolacu vs Georgescu, because nobody expected him to get remotely close to qualifying for the second round.

Hopefully Ciolacu manages to win regardless.

EDIT: Lasconi is the second candidate, she beat Ciolacu by just 2700 votes. She is also pro-EU and pro-Ukraine, so foreign policy-wise they’re not much different it seems. Good luck Lasconi!

Not sure it’s that bold even. Chrome has approx. 10% more lines of code than Linux, and even for Linux 60% is just drivers.

Flawed metric, sure, but it at least shows that they’re probably similar in complexity.

Biden has also repeatedly forgiven student loans.

Yes this totally all makes a genocide completely reasonable and acceptable. Genociding the local population, that’s true justice innit?

I was friends with her and I trusted that she would handle it well if she wasn’t interested. And turns out she indeed wasn’t interested, but we did talk about it and decided to just stay friends. It was a little awkward as my feelings for her still lingered a bit, but eventually that passed and I’m now with a wonderful girl who I think is a much better match for me.

We’re still friends to this day.

They’re all gods among men.