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Clojure, a simple grammar but most of the vocabulary is imported from another language.

EU4 has received continuous updates and DLCs since it came out in 2013, but I wouldn’t call it modern (still love it though).

Not to be that guy, but Stardew and Factorio both came out in 2016 (early access for Factorio). They’re nearly a decade old, so I’m not sure they qualify as modern.

So our prisons are so overfilled that we’re letting some people out early, but we have space for this?

Most of the support staff is their customers and users actually.

It’s not users that process refund request, recover your account if e.g. you’ve lost your 2FA method, or any of the other innumerable things you might need to contact Steam support for. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to include the staff that do this as part of their workforce.

This number doesn’t seem to include support staff who iirc are contract workers so might not count as “employees”.

The only Muslim group mentioned is hardly left-wing:

Another decree targeted a group called Jonas Paris, which it said claims to support France’s Muslim community but instead promotes violence, hate and discrimination toward non-Muslims, women and LGBTQ+ people.

Also, the antisemitism talked about in the article is genuine hatred of Jewish people, not just anti-Israel rhetoric.

What groups from the left? The article doesn’t mention any left-wing groups that were ordered to dissolve.

But we already have a carpet museum.

If our politicians are already bought and sold to the point that calling for these industries to be regulated is pointless, then why would politicians listen to our calls for ‘open weights by default’.

If we don’t have the power to stop generative AI, then what makes you think we have the power the change copyright law? Generative AI uses up huge amount of power and water to the point of causing issues for national infrastructure. There is a clear climate case to be made against generative AI and unlike copyright law the public actually care about climate change.

They did mention Lemmy in the article.

It’s performative cruelty to desperately claw back some points in the polls.

I think being indifferent to the suffering you cause on those around you is a moral failing. You said yourself you aim to treat people how you want to be treated, do you not care if those around you inflict suffering on you? I don’t see how indifference to suffering can be universalised.

Edit: didn’t see your edit before posting, I still don’t think you’ve justified why the unnecessary killing/causing suffering of a person and animal are different. Your argument seems very circular on this, killing humans and animals are different because they are different.

Why not? If actions I take cause you suffering, shouldn’t I try my best to prevent that?

Is disease prevention also amoral?

Do you think we shouldn’t try to minimise unnecessary suffering?

No it’s not. Disease is a natural phenomenon and is bad.

i don’t know what it’s like to be a chicken or a pig

But you do know what it’s like to suffer. And you know pigs, chickens, and other farm animals can suffer. Does that not count for anything? Or do you not consider suffering to be an inheriently bad thing?

OK, so this is literally an appeal to nature. I seriously don’t see why behaviour should get a free pass just because it’s ‘natural,’ except the very natural phenomenon of humans killing each other.