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  • groet@feddit.orgtomemes@lemmy.worldShowerThoughts
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    12 days ago

    And the brain didn’t even know it was naming itself.

    The ancient Egyptians removed the brain before mummification because they considerd it to be basically useless. Later associations between motor control of muscles and the brain were discovered but it wasn’t until the development of modern neuroscience that the brain was considered to be the seat of awareness, self and intelligence.


  • The post office knows who you are sending letters to. They have to know because they have to deliver it. They do not know the content of the letter. They also dont know if the letter will be passed along by the receiver to a different destination.

    Your ISP knows you are sending traffic to a VPN but not where they are sending it to. The VPN knows where you are sending traffic to but not the content of that traffic. So if you browse a website that only serves pirated content, then they knows you are consuming pirated media but not which media.

    If the law requires the VPN to report any and all traffic to blacklisted sights then a “no logs policy” would breach that law.

    However to make this law work, Italy would have to ban all VPNs and http proxy services outside of Italy. Italy would have to force pretty mutch the whole world to follow this law for it to work.

    What happens if you run a tiny server on AWS in the USA to proxy your private traffic. Unless AWS USA is watching all traffic to see if it complies with Italian law there is no way to enforce it.




  • groet@feddit.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneMarcus Aurelius rule
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    Almost all predator animals have a territory and they will fight for that territory to keep others out. Chimpanzees and other great apes have clan wars over territory. And they have social hierarchies where some get more food than others.

    There is a 100% chance early humans were fighting each other long before the invention of agriculture.




  • Who defines “good hands”?

    How do you assure the dictator stays good (corruption, dementia, general personality shift)?

    What happens if the dictator is no longer good (died, see above, the world has changed and the dictator can not adapt)?

    Sure the dictator can assign ministers for topics outside of their skillset and similar and a head physician to determine when a replacement is needed due to health reasons etc, but a dictatorship is always unnacountable. What if the physician coludes with the vice-dictator to declare the dictator unfit? What if the dictator is actually unfit but accuses the physician of colusion? It has no safety checks against its rulers other than revolution and coup.

    Democracy has flaws but so does dictatorship and they are not limited to “what if dictator evil”