If we do nothing my life will be completely fine. Currently we're on track to drastically reduce emissions and my life will be completely fine. You want to actively make my life worse. A conundrum.

>All of the human characters in the movie are beautiful and everything on “our” side as we view it is shiny and “the good side”

must have been shocking to see that in a film

You want other people to be forced to pay for the content you consume.

Because you believe in freedom of speech?

Typical liberal democracy has 2 modes of work: peace time and war time.

In time of peace, value of human life is infinite, thus fredom of someone ends where freedom of somewhere else starts. Nobody can cut basic freedoms of someone else without court decision.

In time of war, this freedom creates vulnerability, so modern democraties have utalitarian laws designed to maximise survivability of nation as whole instead. It's not so important for behemoths, but it's essential for smaller countries. However, even in large and powerful democraties there are loopholes around basic freedoms for desperate times, such as natural disaster, or assault, or war, etc.

For example, it's not allowed to shut somebody else, except when defending or to save life of someone else. It's not allowed to force somebody else to keep silence, except when it puts lifes of others in danger, such as hate speech, or division by race, color of skin, nationality, religion, income, etc.

Russian outlets are doing just that. They are trying to portrait other nations as evils. They are telling to Ukrainians that Jews are rulling our country (half truth, many politics in Ukraine are Jews), then they tell to Jews that Ukrainians are Nazi, to induce fighting between nationalities, to start civil war.

This creates danger for everybody, so we cried for years to shut down Russian propaganda. Nobody listened to us until today.

I don't think the separation to the time of peace and time of war is even needed.

Ideally, any limitation of freedom is there to actually guarantee freedom, e.g. your freedom is limited in the form of an obligation to come to a police station to submit an explanation, but thanks to that the police can protect people from those that would otherwise limit their freedoms.

In similar vein, freedom of speech has to be limited, when some propaganda could lead to the decrease of the freedom.

It is tricky of course to judge what limitations are justified, but I find the sanctions against russian news sources on the quite safe side.

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Is that a star trek reference?

In the inconceivable case that this is an earnest question, it's from the movie 'the princess bride'. Highly recommend it.

Yes the police can and do try to predict crime

That is beyond their remit, if applied to individuals.

They could do a much better job predicting and preventing their own crimes. They have no constitutional limits on that, yet are extraordinarily bad at it.

Was this before MS bought Mojang?

Yes, 10 years ago it was still Mojang only. I contacted them about a year ago, when that now 23yo got nostalgic and wanted to play again.

I assume people who give advice they don’t follow are just talking to themselves.

If it's good advice, does it truly matter if the giver follows it?

So far it has worked for 0 out of the 1 people we know who've tried it. Maybe it's not good advice

What makes you think it hasn’t worked out? Leaving Twitter seems like a pretty good start.

He brings up politics in his videos occasionally and it clearly still gets to him. He left twitter because it made him feel bad. It hasn't changed how he sees the world.

edit: or just look at his reddit account lol

People trying to make themselves happy isn't something new or dystopian. A better description if you don't mind being slightly rude is that it's a bit pathetic.