I’m 97% sure there is suppose to be a diamond style steel plate here covering the top.

I assure you there are more than enough reasons for cooperation and collectivism without being disproportionately represented.

A history book eould tell you war is omnipresent throughout all of human society and so is greed. The larger collectives prevent both.

See, I disagree with the last sentiment, because the states with the majority of people SHOULD make the decisions. That’s pretty much the definition of Democracy. A state with 1/500th of the people which drill oil and mine coal should not get to decide, for example, environmental policy and power infrastructure at the same level as the states with all of the people. The small state which are heavily indoctrinated to a specific religious doctrine should not dictate how we approach bodily autonomy. A small state which only gets news from radio and cable TV owned by a monopoly should not decide our foreign affairs.

They should fucking Lump it, and appreciate their autonomy on local economy. And I say that as somebody raised Rural and Religious.

We could elect more third party members if we had more, and proportional, seats to elect progressives to.

There are other issues, too, like North Dakota getting 2 Senators representing 783,926 people while California gets 2 Senators representing 38,940,231 people, or a ratio of almost 50 to 1.

I know enough to get by, but the thing is the syntax isn’t always the same between platforms. Sometimes I make an Empty Hyperlink just to have colorful text and people ask me “Woah how’d you do that?” and I explain it to them but I can’t always show them without it auto formatting so they just never figure it out lol.

Looks like Lemmy formats empty hyperlinks as loops back here.

Does anybody ever figure in parity when comparing bit sizes and all that jazz or are we only ever concerned with storage space?

The post isn’t a video, it’s a single frame from a movie.

When you have a group of things and you take one thing from the group then your thing is one thing.

Kind of is if you consider movies to be a series of photographs. They’re both captured by cameras, in this case on regular camera film too.

I’m getting image matches from 2013 so definitely not AI Gen.

It’s from the 1990 film Dick Tracy.

Lmao you immediately fall back on Ad Hominem, too. Of the 36 stratagems I suggest the best one for you.

What a complete non-response to my comment. You really fought this battle without fighting, Sunzu.

I’m glad you at least admit there is no significance without actual data to back the claim up. My guess is that denial rates are only getting worse with the prevalence of AI in form assessment and documentation industries, and especially with federal funding cuts and freezes to insurers.

According to historians such as François Furet, the new government gave themselves unlimited power which was immediately abused by it. Only about two thirds of men gained the right to vote, favoring wealth, and none of the women, and the King was still in power. After the second round of revolution France split into three factions fighting internally which led directly into the “Reign of Terror.”

And then Emperor Napoleon.

But yes, you could say the French Revolution had some beneficial long term results, now how about you defend the 200+ wars that France has been in over the last two millenium as well?

I present to you 15,000 years of human history. 40,000 if you count the Neanderthal extinction.

Maybe because killing unarmed civilians is wrong. Maybe because starting armed violence is wrong. Maybe because the number of CEOs didn’t decrease and healthcare isn’t getting any better.

Because he is going to run for a third term and they’re expecting to lose with the current momentum.

They actually enforce that members of NATO spend percentage of GDP on weapons. As for individual other nations, hard to say, but it was still no competition with the fucking dictatorships.

Quite ironically the USA actually trained Afghanistan to fight off invaders before invading Afghanistan. Other nations like Iraq and Jordan threw hats in with the communists in the late 1950s.

Oh wow, 1848, great example of post-20th-century hostility. /sarcasm

The Philippines are literally independent.

After the 20th Century it became clear that war could spread anywhere at any moment and destroy vast swaths of people and nature indiscriminately.

The world had no choice but to ally with really big baskets. The USA was the most obvious choice given their lack of hostile landgrabs unlike China and Russia.