[-] aleats 16 points 1 week ago

Well, legal proceedings take time. Not like they could (or should) just execute him on the spot or anything like that, it's at least supposed to be a democracy with proper checks and balances to make sure everything's in harmony with the law.

[-] aleats 20 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] aleats 19 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] aleats 18 points 4 months ago

Why do they have Toblerone boobs though?

[-] aleats 27 points 5 months ago

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

[-] aleats 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

~/src/

Simple, effective, doesn't make my home folder any more of a mess than I already left it as.

[-] aleats 17 points 6 months ago

Truly shocking that the AI trained on data provided mostly by male and privileged individuals would sound male and privileged.

[-] aleats 24 points 7 months ago

Isn't the entire point of the Rome Statute that the country accepts the court's jurisdiction involving international crimes and crimes against humanity as higher than that of any national court? I'm not an expert, but I imagine this defeats the point of signing the statute in the first place.

[-] aleats 16 points 8 months ago

Lula's always been pretty good with calling out other people's bullshit around Latin America, it isn't particularly surprising that he'd do that (and the same applies to Biden). Shame that he doesn't have the courage to do the same with Russia though, even if that's more because Russia has held Brazil's agricultural market by the balls for a while now.

[-] aleats 24 points 8 months ago

I don't really see the problem as long as they're still working because they enjoy doing it, rather than being forced to do it to survive.

[-] aleats 19 points 10 months ago

I really don't see how supporting Manifest V3 is a problem. It's still going to be used by many extension developers, and there's no harm in its availability as long as you can still block WebRequest, which is currently the case. On the Mozilla taking Google's money point, sure, that's true, but it doesn't seem to have affected too much of the browser, other than search defaults abd a few other things that can be very easily turned off or removed entirely. I wouldn't say the chances are particularly high for Manifest V2 to be completely removed, personally.

[-] aleats 15 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately for us, the sun isn't an egg timer, and it's pretty much completely impossible to determine exactly when and how strong the next solar flare is until it's hurtling through space and potentially in our direction (beyond general trends like solar cycles and such). Would be great if it worked like that though.

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