Don't confuse authoritarian regimes with fascism. China is an authoritarian state running a diluted version of communism, but it's not fascist. Russia under Putin is leaning more towards fascism these days for sure, but they're not fascist outright yet.
Maybe what the hexbear folks gravitate around the most is the idea of authoritarianism. The flavour doesn't matter as much.
Surprised Ireland didn't even make it to this ranking.
I take a selfie when I get the haircut I like and show them the picture next time. Nice and easy.
inb4 in 8 years time "Greensky a.k.a. Trust Me Guys This is THE New Twitter Forever" gains a million new users in the last 3 days.
Isn't this basically Firefox's version of the third party cookie block that Chrome rolled out a few months ago? Or am I missing something here?
I mean, it's good news either way but I just want to know if this is somehow different or better.
The problem is that not everyone looks for that human-to-human emotional connection in art. For some, it's just a part of a much bigger whole.
For example, if you're an indie game dev with a small budget and no artistic skills, you may not be that scrupulous about getting an AI to generate some sprites or 3D models for you, if the alternative is to commission the art assets with money you don't have.
Similar idea applies to companies building a website. Why pay for a licence to download some stock images or design assets if you can just get a GenAI to pump out hundreds for you that are very convincing (and probably even better) for a couple bucks?
Realises devs have always joked about their jobs just being about copy-pasting solutions from StackOverflow 80% of the time
Oh God...
I'm not saying a traumatic childhood is a good reason to dismiss someone's crimes as an adult. Whether you had the best life as a kid or not, hate crimes must be punished all the same.
Our responsibility as a society in all of this should be to give these people the support and education they need before they find it in these cults of hate. This is where we're failing big time.
What is exactly the bullshit part about what I said? That a bad childhood usually leads to a fucked up adulthood? Because it does. Of course, everyone copes with trauma or a tough childhood differently, and some people do move on to lead surprisingly well adjusted grown-up lives. But for the ones that don't, having a poor childhood experience is a very common factor.
It took me 2 mins to find this research paper to evidence what I'm saying: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-016-2906-3
I could probably find a few dozen more if I spent more time looking.
Being an unloved —or worse, abused— child is quite often the root cause of a vast number of affective and personality disorders people develop later on as an adult.
They'll be so ugly though. I guess it's ok, cos who needs mirrors anyways.