My opinion is pretty much based on their manifesto. I don’t see how they can do anything progressive when their mandate is based on that bag of shite.

He got the most votes in a few (three?) elections in the space of a few months. But not a majority. He didn’t win the presidential election (Hindenburg won that).

But as leader of the biggest number of seats he had to be considered for chancellor. He didn’t really get what we might think of as his total control until the enabling act was passed.

All the commie/ union/ socialist persecution in 1933 was not enough to get the supermajority needed in the March election for him to pass the enabling act on his own. He was still a minority chancellor. . . . but it turns out he needn’t have worried because all the Centrist/Conservative Niemollers banded together and voted for the enabling act anyway.
Presumably they thought Hitler might favour them in the new post-Weimar government.

So you could argue that the dissolution of the weimar government was a product of (representative ) democracy. The reps in parliament just voted the parliament itself out of exitence for some reason. It was all part of the democratic system until that act was passed. Very few people in the country were happy with Weimar though pretty much since the wall st crash.

Britain left of centre ? . . . these are blairites, “labour” in name only , they literally propped up the second homes buy to let market through the 2000s. and they’d gladly privatise every public service we have left if they can. I’ve already heard shit like “individualised healthcare” being mentioned in their “think tanks”.

They’re probably not worse than the tories, and they probably will fuck it up less, that’s about all you can hope for them.

They aren’t going to tackle anything fundamental like bank regulation, promoting domestic investment, industrial strategy or developing public services.

I hope France gets a lot better.

laughs at people scared of choice and “mess” . . .

If they’re switcing to linux they should first come to know about open source forking around - arguably - one of the most important features of the whole thing.

If they don’t wan’t that choice and all that inevitable open source forkery, they probably should go for an apple mac or windows or something like that. And maybe they will have to pay for some software for the privilege because it takes work to do those things. They can of course try plain old ubuntu and do stuff the way canonical wants, that removes quite a bit of choice if it is otherwise too terrifying for them.

But in general, I don’t think its a good idea to to try to sell pig-carcasses to vegans by painting them the colours of broccoli.

I guess someone needs to tell google.

Strange that ‘classics’ are taught mostly in the poshest schools. It’s rare for elites to want to preserve any power they have and make it inaccessible to oiks. /s

Can you give an eggsample?

the year of the unknown desktop!

Right whales too - with a metric tonne of balls to bring to the party - they are made for lovin’ not fightin’:

Right whales form large mating aggregations, which can include several males seeking access to a female. However, unlike humpback whale competitive groups, male right whales do not engage in aggressive displays. One female may successively mate with several males, and it is believed that males compete to pass their genes to the next generation through quantity of sperm they deliver when they mate, rather than fighting for access to females. This theory is supported by the fact that male right whales have the largest testes of any animal on earth (up to 500 kg each), as well as extremely large penises.

https://iwc.int/about-whales/whale-species/right-whale

Intelligence is a very loaded word and not very precise in general usage. And i mean that amongst humans and animals as well as robots.

I’m sure the real AI and compsci researchers have precise terms and taxonomies for it and ways to measure it, but the word itself, in the hands of marketing people and the general population as an audience . . . not useful.

“feeling sick and being sick” That’s the more usual term for it in England.

cool, that actually looks like a good idea. Interesting for sync uses too , say, in film as i think so long as you re-performed the melody (not the “song”) you’d be royalty free. I do think it’d be funny to hear the Joni Mitchell paved paradise melody in a car commercial - but that’s still creative freedom. Interesting stuff.

Thing is a douche is useful. I giant one is probably also useful in cleaning, industrial or civil applications like sewerage.

I think only flies or dung beetles would be interested in the turd sandwich.

obligatory demolition man clip. https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=Awr2YhW3HEE

hmmn, churn out a billion random chord progressions and copyright them all you say ?

If flu can’t case nausea someone needs to tell our health service https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/flu/

wow, is Is “nonce” really a commonly used name in the iteration?

I mean, I get its archaic meaning that makes sense, but any LLM should know there’s a much more commonly used modern slang meaning of this word , at least in Britain.

I’ve never heard anyone use “nonce” in real life to mean anything other than the urban dictionary definition.

42 would have been statistically the most likely answer among the original humans of earth, until our planet got overrun with telehone sanitizers, public relations executives and management consultants.

not SunOS then ):

my whole university email server was accessed via telnet. So everyone used tty for email.

I think there may have been a gui or mail app that you coud point to it, but no one did. There was about a million(trillian?) gui’s people used for icq messaging though.