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Government-sponsored facial recognition aside, I was gonna celebrate this as a rare event of a government doing something right, but then

The measures don’t apply to researchers or to what machine translation of the rules describes as “algorithm training activities” – suggesting images of citizens’ faces are fair game when used to train AI models.

and I feel like that undermines the entire idea, since you can easily hide behind that excuse and not give a shit. And given previous circumstances, I feel like a lot of companies are gonna get away with it.

Both jus soli (citizenship by birth) and jus sanguinis (citizenship by blood) exist more for historical reasons than because one is better than the other. Both are simply a way to try and make citizenship a more clear-cut thing, because it's as close to being a made-up thing as you can get, especially in cases such as parents having a different nationality to the child (which is even more confusing when both parents are of different nationalities).

Jus soli is more common in the Americas due to various factors, including an incentive towards immigration from richer countries during colonial times and the various movements towards emancipation of the enslaved peoples a few centuries later, but the fact remains that neither system is any more arbitrary than the other. Jus soli is often favored because it simplifies things like immigration and asylum seeking and reduces statelessness, which is still a significant issue that affects millions of people worldwide, mostly around war-torn areas.

As mentioned in another response, enfranchisement is also a very important issue that jus soli resolves, although a significant part of it is also due to other, unrelated citizenship laws that may not necessarily conflict with jus sanguinis.

As expected, the government starts to collapse the moment there's a real possibility of a ceasefire. Pretty much everyone could've seen this coming the moment the ceasefire deal was announced, maybe even the moment the first government approval ratings were published after the war started, and you can already see Bibi try to backtrack on all of this to desperately cling to power and avoid the prospect of prosecution for his crimes. It would be pathetic if it weren't so destructive, but his thread is finally unraveling after 15 months of clear genocide. One can only hope he and the rest of his cabinet get what they deserve for all they've done, but at this point there's no telling what can happen.

I feel like it'd be wise to wait for further developments. Valve is notorious for being horrible at communication, but even then it's rare that they do something like this without some sort of reason. It still sucks that Valve shut this down after 8 years, but it's hard to know anything for certain until either side comes out with more information, especially with how stupid Valve's legal team can be sometimes. Could be that they just backpedal and say it's alright in a few days, who knows.

Of course, trusting Valve is always as risky as trusting any other corporation, given they have a bit of a track record with tolerating and even outright allowing gambling with skins, but this could easily be their legal team being overzealous yet again as well.

Seems a bit early to tell if this will have much of a lasting effect. So-called economic "shock therapies" have a long history of working for a year or so, and then unraveling later. And especially for Argentina, the cycle of decades of growth followed by decades of recession has been going on for a while now. I'll be genuinely impressed if he manages to actually fix the economy long-term, but that still remains to be seen.

This was maybe the most pathetic coup attempt in recent years (excluding jan 6th and brazil's jan 8th because they both wouldn't have worked as actual coups regardless). At least some part of the military was clearly in on it too, but they didn't even stop the representatives from voting to invalidate the declaration, and even worse, it was attempted while the opposition nearly had a supermajority, and with an incredibly disliked president.

Maybe this is overthinking it, but why would you ever try a coup without at least some popular support? Yeah, it doesn't matter what the people think as far as making it happen, but lack of popular support often leads to a lot of instability, and the first one to die in an unstable dictatorship is often the guy at the top.

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

The whole capitalization of pronouns thing was pretty much entirely made up around the 19th century anyway (as well as the capitalizing the word "Lord", which the King James version invented outright), so you can argue that protestant churches are following a woke plot to change the pronouns of the christian god as well.

Falling afoul of the unspoken rule a bit, but this is a lot more social anxiety and/or introvert being forced to go to a social event than autism. I know a lot of people with autism who are very much social butterflies, and just as many who want to be left alone.

You'd be entirely correct, and that's exactly why there's an ongoing debate in physics and cosmology as to why there's so much matter, and so little antimatter in the universe.

Given the historical record on attempts at Mercosur-EU trade deals, this is likely to fail yet again, since the EU's agricultural voting bloc (mostly in France and Italy) doesn't really want the market to be populated by cheaper products from abroad (at least not any more than it already is). But at this point, given the several ongoing food crises that Russia's invasion of Ukraine caused, the chances for a successful agreement are about as high as they can go, so they might as well go for it.

To be fair, I'd be absolutely vibing in a room like this. Probably wouldn't help a panic attack though.