Nah, just a glitch in my memory

I mean, he’s Danish

AfD in Saxony-Anhalt

Yes, I’ve heard of that. I’ve also heard that they vary much in, eh, ideological climate in different states. So - it may be just a result of them being a populist party.

I would provide a source, but it’s in German

That’d be fine, I can’t write and speak in German, but a wee bit better at understanding texts.

They speak like Nazis,

Not really, I’ve actually took a lot of interest in how Nazis really spoke when I was 15 years old. It was a weird time in my life, so wanted to know more closely things surely known to be evil and good to recognize evil and good in my surroundings.

(Thinking of Klemperer’s book.)

“Antisemitic and xenophobic” statements are not limited to Nazis, while some specifically Nazi traits of speech I can see being more popular, but really not limited to AfD and the likes. Even here one can encounter such.

they act like Nazis.

I don’t think they’ve started killing their opponents on the streets yet, or forming paramilitary groups.

doesn’t mean they are harmless or that calling them out for what they are would “water down the term ‘Nazi’”

You may be right, but parties and entities more similar to Nazis in other parts of the world usually were pretty open about their intentions from the very beginning, while AfD doesn’t send the same signals.

Anything is worth differentiating from a thing which is, well, different from it.

Kemalists are not the same as Young Turks, for example (however, saying that Kemal and Kemalists are not a direct continuation of Young Turks for all intents and purposes is something only a clueless European would do, trying to whitewash them because Kemalist Turkey joined NATO early).

He can go to Afghanistan and offer his kids (if he has any) for bacha-bazi, right now.

Congrats, you are smarter than most people talking about regulations.

Nazis will also never come back. What, they soon are the biggest party in Germany, in other countries too?

Calling AfD Nazis is an exaggeration watering down the term.

I’m not saying actual honest-to-God Nazis are not coming back. In fact, I’m sure they are, no evil is ever defeated forever. Time to cast away stones and time to collect stones.

People obviously learn by doing real things, so competitive skilled labor won’t be more available than it is now. EDIT: … if they wait for it to be

They just have to get projects through one by one, then with time there’ll be more competent people.

But yes, some effort in schooling won’t hurt.

I’m too young, but I think I’ve read that we’ve already been there, when expert systems written in Lisp were all the rage, and you would write them questions. Of course, the percentage of humanity to ever see such a system was slim.

It could. In fact it will make that part of the Web yet another step closer to a bot-populated SEO-infested graveyard where a living human will find nothing useful.

If only my friends would stop using VK to communicate, and my family FB for the same.

I meant something with peerflix inside, to stream torrented stuff.

Not only pedos, in general sadistic people tend to try and get jobs which would give them the feeling of power over someone, and not all of them can be dictators, warlords, just politicians, even lowly prison guards or policemen, also cowardice is a factor. So - child-related jobs.

But, to be frank, I’m not sure background checks are going to do that much good. People of this kind tend to bunch together, help each other, and can either get past the radar rather easy or utilize these checks to discredit anybody who’d be a threat to them.

It’s a complex matter.

In my humble opinion until the producers of such appliances learn honesty through pain, it’s much better to have a pirate streambox (with something like torrentflix or Popcorn Time or whatever, I just download torrents and watch on my laptop, so don’t use these things).

No shit.

If it were for me to decide, they would be down in hiding. Cause being up in arms would mean legs broken, and also fingers or their hands to prevent further use of computer keyboards and mice.

Also an abbreviation which is expanded into “search engine optimization” by the very fscking name means that they are ruining the Internet, or the Web as its part, more precisely.

And if it’s based on algorithms more fit for dating, kids with most problems would be the least likely to find adopting parents.

That’s because platforms as a paradigm have failed. Their Achilles’ heel has been found, end of story.

Not only in the Web, IRL too. The world is going to be P2P (which is the same as imperial, because an empire is a P2P network united by philosophy, I think I’ve even seen some passage by Marcus Aurelius with this general idea). Call me mad or just scroll further if this looks nuts.

Yeah, I get it, why stream the video if you can generate summary, why find creators if you can generate content, why attract people if you can generate comments, generate, generate, generate …

I think I have a question concerning where do humans fit in all that, except for clicking ads.

At this point where they say this that openly I think I’ll stop all the efforts at arguing online unless the opponent is quite clearly not a bot.

Lem’s “Bomba megabitowa” comes true in everything.

I like Lem and one may find some solutions in his approaches. But I also liked the Web like 20-15 years ago, it was nice.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is rather easy.

But anyway, no mainstream user-friendly Linux distribution is that hard to use if you can read and think.

So when people say that they can’t manage one on their desktop - they also usually can’t manage Windows on their desktop, they just think they can.