You cannot permaban a cheater for the saame reason you shouldn’t have death penalty, people need to be able to challenge the decision which should trigger a process

As a piece of software, I highly doubt there isn’t a single bug in VAC that would cause a false-positive

Oh, I see That sounds interesting, perhaps I’ll look into it sometime

Wait, do you guys have editors specifically for recipes?

I write mine in an .epub (using Calibre) and send it to my 7" e-reader

Awwww man, why would you rebuke my argument before I even make it?

Are the echos in the chamber that predictable?

(I have 0 knowledge on the matter, but just wanted to say:)

Insane? Yes. Dumb (or incompetent/incapable?) I guess not

I usually try to sing well (even though I’m bad at it) However I also like to choose satiric songs which

So a bit of both worlds for me, I suppose

This isn’t a flex in any way

Is this a chad/wojak situation where they are both chads?

Ahh, fair enough, I always can tell when somebody picked up because the timely beeps stop (and also somehow I know that the silence from the background is different from the silence before it)

Anything from !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org

I do because in general one of the following scenarios happen:

1. A person is on the other side and when they notice the call went through they say hello (at which point I always reply regaedless of being scam/unexpected call/etc)
2. A robot is on the other side and automatically starts blabbering gibberish (usually it is instant hang-up when I hear this)
3. A robot is on the other side and waits for a signal, hanging up in around 3-5 seconds (since I was silent)

But to be fair if it was ever a human in scenario 3 and I missed an important call, I wouldn’t know (however I don’t think that ever happened)

Also, the burden of initiating conversation should be on the active caller side, not on the passice receiver

And lastly, I heard thar if you answer the robots, your number gets flagged as real (instead of other robot), making the scammers call you more often (I’m agnostic in regards to this statement)

Indeed it is, back in the university there was a kind of meme among students

Whenever you had any bullshit argument you pulled out of your ass you could say: “this is trivial and the proof is left to the reader”

On a more serious note, it was one of the main points of attriction betwee professors and students

In maths “trivial” is usually when the author has a statement they could prove, but chose not to (either because is too obvious, stems from a result in another text, or is a lenghty proof)

Well Europe had the benefit of full sovereignty over the entire continent, instead of investing in infrastructure it was all just plundered in the name of profits for the honeland

I mean, don’t get me wrong I know that China is not doing anything of pure benevolency, still having China as a partner is better than being a colony I guess

I believe that a better counterargument would be: “well when Europe was relevant to the african continent electricity wasn’t even deployed in all of Europe”

Arranged marriages were very common throughout human history (and I believe it likely must still be in some places)

Which I’m sure some of them are, but not in the capacity that anyone wants them to be.

I laughed, then I cried :_(

Fair enough, I can agree on some points, and agree to disagree on others, I believe our conceptions largely align even though the labeling is different

You (and the other guy that replied) are indeed thinking of usury (which is a very evil thing, even frowned upon by most religions), which is the situation of lending assets to for the sake of profit

Debt on the other hand is a more general concept, did you ever borrow a pen from another person? While you were writing you were in debt for that pen (but this is a silly example that can be disregarded)

Did your parents take care of you as a child? In most cultures, thar means you’re in debt and owe them care when they get old (though I understand that this varies from culture to culture, but the idea is there anyway) If you are friendly to your neighbors and they invite you home to dinner several times, you are also expected to pay back the favor sometime down the road, this is another form of debt

To sum it up, debt is much more intrinsic to our behavior as humans than we usually think, even though “formal debt” might not be

Are you thinking about usury? Debt in general is actually one of the moat important threads of our societal fabric

We should see more Disco Elysium memes