I would love it if Boost supported Regex blocking.
Camden, NJ cleaned house and dissolved its municipal police department when corruption and the lack of accountability became too much of an issue to deal with. Policing services are now performed by the county.
The answer to why you weren't excluded but Russians are is simple: vae victis.
Some countries do things that others don't like. Other countries retaliate. But some retaliation is more effective than others.
My opinion is that any large-scale functioning economic system must be inherently hierarchical. The system described is too loose; people do not often enough willingly cooperate and hold themselves to agreements if they are not forced to do so, and thus anything that requires large-scale, inter-community cooperation will be much more difficult to achieve.
I do not even need to look at the details; any decentralised, anarchist structure will not be able to uphold the modern world's standard of living. Our modern lives rely on large-scale cooperation and that cooperation must be efficient. There must be laws and a centralised body able to coerce others to follow them against their will. There must be contracts and bodies to enforce them even when one of the parties doesn't want to uphold their end of the bargain. The more decentralised a system is, the harder it is to uphold order on a large scale. That's why international geopolitics is so chaotic.
The system described works if and only if you're content with a much simpler lifestyle and a much smaller world for each of its participants. You're not going to develop the Internet under this system. You might get close-knit communes where everyone's needs are satisfied, and you might call that a success, but everyone's expectations might be different.
I agree that Epic Games should have never allowed them in the tournament in the first place. That's a mistake on Epic's part and it does make them seem like they're trying to weasel out of paying prize money.
This is discrimination. But not all discrimination is unjustified. I discriminate against people all the time. I discriminate against unpleasant people when choosing whom I interact with. I discriminate against companies that have a history of doing bad things. Epic discriminates against residents of a country that broke a decades-long peace in Europe. I believe it is justified.
I think a good compromise solution would be to donate the prize money to a humanitarian organisation. That way it doesn't seem like Epic is only doing it because of the money.
What's a good alternative?
Shoplifting gangs, I think, are one of the few crime outfits that think rationally. It's a game of risk and reward.
- How much is the reward for us if we get away with everything?
- What are the odds of getting caught?
- What is the punishment if we get caught?
The retailers and manufacturers can influence the first factor, the police can only influence the second, and only the district attorneys and the Legislative Assembly can influence the third.
I'm curious to know about the interactions that caused OP to post this meme.
It seems the Portland police are either stretched too thin and need more resources, or they are too lazy to be bothered, or the distribution of police resources is not very efficient. I don't know which it is but I definitely think there's something wrong if theft is not being seriously prosecuted. It's pretty easy to catch thieves–even a security camera and a number plate lookup will catch a large portion of the laziest shoplifters.
Of course, the underlying social issues that cause people to shoplift ought to be looked into as well. But there's nothing more I can say about that because I'm not well-informed enough to comment.
If you installed it via your distribution's package manager, the maintainers should either push the package or backport the security fixes within the coming weeks.
That's true, but most Lemmy clients default their sort to "Local" (only posts from the instance you registered on). I don't think there are many dedicated NSFW instances that are federated, at least not with my instance (lemmy.ml). Your experience may differ. The problem is that if few people can access and are aware of a community, then fewer people will post in it. That might explain why there is a lack of good porn communities on Lemmy compared to Reddit.
Even if the police had arrested a murder ring you'd have posted the same comment but with slightly different insults