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[–] antonim@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

This is a good comment and it forced me to really think about this. So here's my try:

Firstly, regarding the "social" position of different beliefs. The danger of playing on the road is as close to objective and universally accepted as it gets (that's why the state made laws against playing on the road); the belief of going to hell for whatever is usually instilled by a particular institution/community, which is aware that their belief is not accepted as true or relevant by many, including the state (otherwise, the state would make laws in accordance with that belief).

Secondly, the parent might also have delusions and hallucinate nonexistent dangers, thereby harming the child similarly as the religious cases, just limited to an individual situation. In such cases the parent is also completely convinced of the danger, just like how a religious parent is convinced of the danger of hell and practically everyone of the danger of playing on the road. But the state can't view all these beliefs as the same. In the case of insanity, it would be expected for the parent to lose custody of the child, so it seems logical to punish the same outcome with different motivation, i.e. religious. Or do we permit ridiculous and possibly harmful belief as long as it is religious, i.e. communal?

I do however agree that the religious limiting of career paths shouldn't be focused on. I think that a law against such limiting should be general, assumimg it is tenable at all. I am not aware of the exact situation in Japan, how the Unification Church affects people's beliefs regarding career paths, which that might help understand this law better.

[–] antonim@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Wait, cock.li is still alive?

[–] antonim@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The ancient murals prophesied of his arrival...

[–] antonim@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

usually

No, quite the contrary.

Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter... have paid moderators. That's a small number of massive social media sites. Forums, including their descendants in the form of reddit and Lemmy, and IRC chatrooms with their descendants in Discord and Telegram channels, are primarily user-moderated (with paid admins intervening in more complex situations when needed). Even Facebook offers groups that function like this. Number-wise the latter sites are way more numerous (but with a smaller userbase), and historically older (if it's not too pretentious to speak of the history of the internet). They are the default. So my point is that reddit didn't offload the work, because nobody (especially in the early years) thought that it was reddit's work in the first place, it's just providing a large playground and you do the rest.

The traumatising part of moderation is dealing with child porn and similar, which is not much of an issue on traditional forums and chatrooms, and tbh I don't think it is on reddit either. The worst the traditional mods deal with is harassment if they come across some aggressive loony.

Idk, I used to moderate two (rather tame) subforums, it was kind of like picking up trash from the ground and throwing it in the bin – not super pleasant by itself, but satisfaction came from knowing that the place is a bit better off than before.

[–] antonim@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

That's a weirdly written article. It's about a fictional person but is frequently written as if she's real, e.g. "Hart represented herself as a nurse" and "She regularly posted pictures of herself". No, she was presented as a nurse, and her, uhh, author(?) posted AI-generated pictures representing her.

[–] antonim@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Moderation of pretty much all traditional forums is done by volunteers, a practice that naturally extended to reddit and Lemmy. Perhaps it's even more logical in the reddit format, since it's the users who create and take responsibility for their subreddit, rather than having a centralised "government" deciding how to organise and moderate the place.

Wikipedia’s content is also 99% volunteer-made and volunteer-moderated.

[–] antonim@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Elves are kind of hippies, so they don't have any building regulations.

 
[–] antonim@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Alphonse Mucha?

[–] antonim@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"My" standard? It doesn't meet the standard of your source either.

[–] antonim@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

!dailybunnies@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] antonim@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

They're taking our memes!

 
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The recommended place to legally obtain HoMM is on Good Old Games. Avoid the "HD edition" of HoMM 3 on Steam.

HoMM 3

https://sites.google.com/site/heroes3hd/

HoMM3 HD - a non-official fan made addon (multifunction patch) for Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Initially, the addon was created to change the original game resolution 800x600 to a bigger but now it has even more features.

https://vcmi.eu/

VCMI is an open-source engine for Heroes III, offering new and extended possibilities.

https://h3hota.com/en/download

Horn of the Abyss (HotA) is a global add-on for Heroes of Might and Magic III that extends (and fixes if needed) classical gameplay elements and adds some of its own. HotA adds three new towns to the game, a number of new artifacts, neutral creatures and objects, as well as new campaigns and maps.

HoMM 2

https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2

fheroes2 is a recreation of the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine. This open source multiplatform project, written from scratch, is designed to reproduce the original game with significant improvements in gameplay, graphics and logic

HoMM 4

https://www.moddb.com/games/heroes-of-might-and-magic-iv/downloads/hommiv-wrapper-v129-english

The magnificent wrapper that fixes the black starting screen, no movies being displayed, CTDs, and warped resolution ratios, plus many other issues related to graphics on newer Windows OSes. Also includes several graphic upscalers.

King's Bounty

https://sourceforge.net/p/openkb/wiki/InspiredGames/

Post any additions you'd want to see in the comments.

 
 
 
 

The "new Steam release" being vanilla HoMM 3 with expansions that's been on GOG for like a decade already.

 

When Anna's Archive suffered widespread downtime earlier this month, many users feared a legal crackdown. Instead, the site was reportedly targeted by a coordinated assault on its network infrastructure. Just as it did after facing $340 million in damages and losing several domains earlier this year, the Archive quickly bounced back.

 
 

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/grokipedia-stopped-reviewing-edits-in-april.-it-didn-t-tell-anyone

Altogether, what we found was that the “live” change feed is gone, past decisions were retroactively reverted without explanation, new decisions are not being issued, and article text appears frozen (and, in some cases, outdated). We do not know whether xAI is preparing a major revision or has altogether abandoned active development of the project.

 

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