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Another upside is the easy permission management.

You can revoke network access from your password manager to reduce attack surface; you can revoke camera access from your chat app to prevent accidentaly enabling it; You can restrict an app's file system access to prevent unwanted changes; etc.

It's not yet fit to protect from malicious apps, but it still finds some use.

If half of the shit is thrown out every week, less shit will be produced next week.

there are plenty today [...] that would take a painless death in a heartbeat even if they aren't clinically suicidal. Life is that bad for most people.

Most people aren't suicidal, not even passively. A small minority is passively suicidal (and that minority is very loud on Lemmy and Reddit), but generally humans do enjoy life.

There are no reasons for it that do no begin and end in pure self interest.

Doing something out of self interest does not make it immoral. Creating art out of pure self interest doesn't make it immoral either.

it would still be a selfish act to force a being into existence to experience joy as much as it would be to experience sorrow.

Forcing a being to exist is no more selfish than forcing a being not to exist.

It would be great if politicians could all be philosophers writing political theory.

But that's not what gets the votes. In a democracy, the most important skill of a politicians is being able to sell their ideas.

There's a reason populism is popular. Because people don't read theory, people read posts on X.

My cat likes to jump on my shoulders. When I wear clothes, she uses her claws to keep her balance. But when I'm topless, she doesn't use her claws (and instead awkwardly tries to get down). It seems like she knows that clothes mean I'm protected and that she can use her claws without hurting me.

YouTube recently started blocking IPs showing bot-like behaviour.

I don't know what the best way to circumvent that is, but for me using a Cambodian VPN successfully bypasses the blocks.

It promotes investing into electric cars tight now. Without the bans, some investors might be hopeful to still profit beyond the 30s. But with the ban, it's clear for all investors to invest in electric cars.

Eh, the AfD has always, and still does, represent some extreme positions that the CDU is still far away from. Remember that the AfD was founded as an anti-EU party, a position they still hold. The CDU has only really copied the AfD when it comes to migration. Otherwise they are still very different.

Even the Merz CDU is left wing compared to US democrats. Remember all the social programs we have, for example public healthcare.