It's the opposite, AA is pretty reliable whereas Libgen (.is domain) has been offline for over a month, came back online just a few days ago.

Public companies have to account for the shareholdres' expectation of, well, making money (and more money, and more money, and growing the numbers as much as possible). Shareholders have some degree influence on how the company works, depending on how many shares they own, e.g. they can vote for the CEO. This usually leads to the company to introducing more aggressive ways of making money off the users/customers, enshittification, etc., as it has to satisfy the shareholders and not so much the original customers.

Controversial take: advancing science is better than spending weeks optimising how to play video games for children.

"Observations by Pliny the Elder"... I love the fact that someone is still reading ancient ass proto-science, but it really really has to be taken with a grain of salt.

But the articles literally don't exist. It's 2024, do we still have to explain that chatbots can generate nonexistent "scientific" references?

I learned about furries' existence on 4chan many years ago, and I definitely don't think that site was healthy at any point in time.

This reminds me of the anti-wind-energy arguments about the turbines killing many birds...

Let's be honest people's brains absolutely can turn off when they appear on a quiz. It's a weird and stressful situation. Especially if you remember that all of your mistakes will be broadcast to millions of people and commented on and intensely scrutinized.

Look at the hands in the upper corners, looks pretty AI-ish.

Downvoting makes comments less visible. So downvoting is the equivalent of taping someone’s mouth shut because you don’t agree with them. Is that really what you are trying to do?

This is ridiculous, especially the comparison with physical violence. Upvoting a comment also makes all the other comments less visible, by promoting the comment you've picked, taking up the place where some other comment could've been. Nobody's mouth is taped shut by either upvoting or downvoting, all the comments are still visible, it's just that their order will be determined by the upvotes and downvotes - and removing the latter from the equation won't negate the "discrimination" (comment sorting) created by the former.

I recommend you make an account on a third-party instance that federates with us, like ml or ee until they also defederate from us because we have principles

But .ml is literally the "Marxist-Lenininst" instance, why do they automatically expect conflicts with them as well? Some of these people have a persecution complex.

She committed war crimes in Bosnia. He committed war crimes on Kosovo. Can I make it any more obvious?