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[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

Yeah I don't think this covers the situation as much as it's a nice feel good story.

Imagine for a second you are relatively poor, you go to a state school or community college in order to afford it. You have loans, but they are small.

Now imagine you're upper middle class, you go to a private or out of state school and take loans out for a much much larger amount than the other person, with the expectation that you're getting more value for your money (let's ignore the labyrinth there for a second -- this is something many people believe and believing it, for some, makes it true).

Now, both loans are forgiven

Youve succeeded in making the rich richer, giving them both the higher valued education and all of their money back.

Or imagine you're that poor student but you're smart: you got a grant or scholarship making your loans nonexistent, but only if you go to the state school.

Once again, forgiving loans makes the already wealthy person significantly more wealthy and does nothing to benefit the poorer person.

Yes, of course, there's a wide range of reasons a person might go down either route, and I'm absolutely certain there are many millions of people who have gotten loans way above their wealth in order to go to a better school and jump out of poverty (or whatever). This comic ignores the nuance.

In the cancer analogy, this would be a poor person dying or otherwise experiencing terrible health problems because they couldn't get the care they needed, then when a cure is developed, only administering it to the people who could afford care to begin with (ie american health care)

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 13 points 1 day ago (6 children)

They're the national guard, their job is to help old people in hurricanes.

Really? It seems pretty up to date since he's talking about something that happened in the last year or so.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This seems like roughly what I said except discounting the idea that a changelog, marketing communication, sales communication, and support are all wildly different. I don't want some dumbass in sales or marketing who can barely add two numbers together without a calculator trying to explain that Firefox fixed several crashes in the latest release. Similarly I wouldn't want a developer trying to psychologically manipulate you into buying something you don't need -- that's why you hire sociopaths.

So you want to watch a movie of people being tortured and deported and killed? I don't get what you're trying to argue here.

Right, like I said, no human at the helm

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Alternate, simpler explanation: watching the trump administration in movie form isn't fun. Fascism is boring.

No, this isn't a "law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" -- just violating a norm

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You dont need an llm, and it doesn't need to be a developer. Devs are more than capable of writing down words that a human can understand, and if the project is big there will be a manager who has the context to provide a short summary.

However all of that requires company effort.

People who use defaults, what do you mean?

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The obvious answer is there's no human at the helm recording changes, it's just the next build. You'll take it and you'll like it.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Now seems like a good time to do a backup.

For local use: https://www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-to-download-wikipedia-for-offline-at-your-fingertips-reading/

If you have a server: https://blog.stefan-koch.name/2024/11/14/self-hosting-wikipedia

(Kiwix-serve is what you're looking for)

Unfortunately I can't vouch for either of these instructions as I followed instructions from a now defunct privacy podcast.

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