Is this named after Karl Popper? If so that’s unfortunate because Popper spent his life arguing against the validity of inductive reasoning in science. His distinctive contribution was to try to describe a scientific method that did not depend on induction.
https://philosophy.institute/logic/poppers-critique-rejection-induction/
In Chinese, affirmation is often compiled through negation:
没错 (méi cuò) = “not wrong” = Right
不差 (bù chà) = “not bad” = Decent
还行 (hái xíng) = “still passable” = Okay
没事 (méi shì) = “no problem” = It’s fine
In English, this feels bizarre. If something is good, you say:
Nice
Great
Perfect
Brilliant
You name the quality directly. You point at it. You own it.
In American positivity-laden, self-marketing, businessy English perhaps. But in the UK “not bad”, “could be worse”, “not wrong”, “can’t complain”, “I’ve had worse” and so on is often as positive as it gets, or at least was for a long time. American positive-speak gets on British people’s nerves; it’s perceived as boorish, boastful and unsubtle. And “no problem” is common in English all over. British people do say “brilliant” but only when they’re being unusually enthusiastic, or fake, or sarcastic.
Their agenda sounds good but apparently they’ve acted a bit shadily in various ways.
https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html
If ID verification is required but not practical for small independent websites, these laws effectively make it impossible to run an independent website. So only big corporations can serve content on the internet.
Fortified with vitamins and cancer.
There’s evidently a concerted international effort to end anonymity and privacy on the internet, disguised as protecting children. It would be worrying at any time, but it’s particularly alarming when authoritarian fascism is also on the rise pretty much everywhere. ID verification (sold as age verification) is a major step towards making it impossible for political dissidents and victimized groups to organize resistance or read uncensored information without being put on a list, to find, support and defend each other, or to travel freely.
Capitalism is destroying the world. We need to rise up against that. The AI bullshit is just one manifestation of the whole world being geared to serve capital and the handful of people that control it.
This reasoning, “I’ll do the bad thing because if I didn’t someone else would,” could justify anything. If that’s your moral standard, it’s effectively no moral standard. Whether it’s an individual or a country, someone has to step up and act better than the worst.
Yes, of course. I’m making fun of a particularly crude religious take that’s unfortunately too influential in the USA.
Canada’s code of conduct is “We’ll fuck anything up for money.” See also our mining corporations, oil companies, etc.
Because of the modern-day $$.
Who needs science when all truth is in the Bible? Also, who needs some bits of the Bible when all truth is in the other bits of the Bible? It’s just a matter of knowing which is which. If in doubt about this, check the Bible.
They’ll make an exception for business use by corporations with enough money to pay, and for themselves. It’ll only hurt the little people who can’t afford million-dollar lawyers.
It’s not like the White House to tell the truth. He has to be in even worse shape than we thought.
I’m Canadian and I disapprove of this message. It would also be nice if we stopped selling weapons to Israel.
No problem. I appreciate it when mods give warning and a chance to fix the issue instead of just deleting.
Isn’t that like inviting all your friends and family onto your LAN? That would seem to have its own security risks.
Sorry - updated the post.
Well that makes more sense. Thanks for the information!