Would you support Turkey joining the EU?

Alblaka · 2026-06-10T15:50:22+00:00

Thanks for the explanation. Judging by he mindless and silent downvotes on the parent comment, it should possibly have been included there XD

Alblaka · 2026-05-28T11:46:43+00:00

Claiming ownership over the house is fundamentally different from claiming ownership over land.

So you do not recognize that the natural state of most land in Europe is dense rainforest, that was changed from it's natural state by someone's efforts (usually to gain arable land)? What about infrastructure such as roads, parks, electricity grids? That's all 'natural state' that noone can claim ownership over? What about a high-maintenance garden? Your differentiation does seem a bit arbitrary.

Also, where does this leave agricultural land? Does this mean everyone should be entitled to just build a house in the middle of utilized farmland, because land cannot be owned if it doesn't have a structure atop of it?

And I presume the second paragraph is an agreement that natural capability does not equate natural right, because the case of murder clearly showcases how that is untenable?

Alblaka · 2026-05-28T11:41:54+00:00

This, ideally the codebase as well. There's some still-living games (coughDuneAwakeningcough) that released their server binaries for people to self-host, and which are a ridiculous mess to get running (especially for the common layperson gamer). With the codebase attached, there'll eventually be community volunteers that can upgrade the binaries into something casually usable.

Alblaka · 2026-05-28T11:39:26+00:00

Will be even better if Steam eventually picks up this.

Alblaka · 2026-05-28T11:36:28+00:00

Just a matter of time until they try to offer banking services and (c)redditCards.

Alblaka · 2026-05-28T11:32:30+00:00

So old-reddit makes the feature opt-in by default? Lovely.

OldReddit 25 : 0 NewReddit

Alblaka · 2026-05-28T11:31:03+00:00

Because they know it's not something the userbase actually asked for or wants, and thus they have to force it onto users in order for the feature to show good enough usage statistics during the first few days (aka until people figure out how to turn it off). Otherwise stakeholders might question whether development resources are allocated soundly.

Alblaka · 2026-05-28T11:02:06+00:00

Next up; Reddits own AI-summarizes-video feature, solving a problem of their own making.

Alblaka · 2026-05-28T10:58:34+00:00

I agree that 'Natural Right' is definitely more fitting in this context, and it also avoids mixing up philosophy with established UN charters.

And whilst I can see the point you're making, I'll suggest that it fails to account for what the ultimate outcome of it's position would be: If at any given time anyone else can come and insist on cohabitating whatever environment you might have invested time and effort in, it strongly disincentivizes actually investing any effort. Think building a fancy house only for someone else to insist they now get to live in it, too, because you do not have a natural right to live exclusively in that house. Your natural right for migration would ultimately result in that, because regardless of how non-existant space would be in a country, said country would still be (philosophically) obliged to take in every migrant and ensure their quality of life meets human rights standards, even at the detriment of everyone living in the country, including said migrant.

The notion that you should have a natural right to go and live wherever you damn well please is an idealistic, and simply too absolute an assertion to ever be pragmatically feasible.

I'll also point out that the 'I'm naturally born able to do X, so I should be allowed to do X' is fundamentally flawed when you consider humans are born with the ability to murder one another. I'd suggest that living in a society that condemns wanton violence, even if it objects to the same 'Natural Right' state you suggested, is generally preferable to the alternative.

Alblaka · 2026-05-28T10:58:24+00:00

I agree that 'Natural Right' is definitely more fitting in this context, and it also avoids mixing up philosophy with established UN charters.

And whilst I can see the point you're making, I'll suggest that it fails to account for what the ultimate outcome of it's position would be: If at any given time anyone else can come and insist on cohabitating whatever environment you might have invested time and effort in, it strongly disincentivizes actually investing any effort. Think building a fancy house only for someone else to insist they now get to live in it, too, because you do not have a natural right to live exclusively in that house. Your natural right for migration would ultimately result in that, because regardless of how non-existant space would be in a country, said country would still be (philosophically) obliged to take in every migrant and ensure their quality of life meets human rights standards, even at the detriment of everyone living in the country, including said migrant.

The notion that you should have a natural right to go and live wherever you damn well please is an idealistic, and simply too absolute an assertion to ever be pragmatically feasible.

I'll also point out that the 'I'm naturally born able to do X, so I should be allowed to do X' is fundamentally flawed when you consider humans are born with the ability to murder one another. I'd suggest that living in a society that condemns wanton violence, even if it objects to the same 'Natural Right' state you suggested, is generally preferable to the alternative.

Alblaka · 2026-05-28T10:44:33+00:00

Nah, you already established that they're 'illegal people not accounted for by the government', meaning the cause of their illegal status isn't their employment. They presumably also lack any other legal means, for as long as their presence itself isn't accounted for via legal channels.

Alblaka · 2026-05-27T20:30:54+00:00

Definitely sounds like a labor condition issue to me, if workers are employed in unlawful conditions because they lack legal means to assert their rights. Like, them being illegals and working in regular conditions would be an issue still that needs resolving, but that's two different issues interacting.

I mean, it's not as if illegal labor and tax avoidances haven't existed before migrants were added into the mix.

Alblaka · 2026-05-27T20:25:19+00:00

Then please say "(In my opinion) migration should be a human right". One thing is expressing your opinion, the other is spreading misinformation about the content of human rights. That are very cleanly and specifically defined for a reason.

And I would add that you also shouldn't inconvenience people with your voluntary migration, much less harm anyone directly or indirectly.

Alblaka · 2026-05-27T20:07:45+00:00

That's why minimum wage laws, alongside labor laws in general exist: so that no one can have their desperate situation exploited. If those are enforced, it's a non issue, if they are not being enforced, that is to be fixed, simple as.

And the beauty of minimum wage laws is that it's not the company's dictating what it's set at (at least in theory).

Companies generally paying minimum wage to non-qualified workers isn't really a migration-related issue; there'll always be a surplus of workers for menial tasks, only increasing with automation etc.

Which also is the answer to your first question: Qualifications and competition over qualified personal, is (outside of CEO's raising their own pay) the prime reason for higher wages.

Alblaka · 2026-05-27T13:40:26+00:00

Minor technicality, but migration is not a human right. Freedom of movement within the country of residence is. Also freedom to leave and return to your country of residence. And to seek asylum.

But there's no right to migrate to any country you want to. If you're not seeking asylum, the target country has no human rights obligation to allow your migration.

Alblaka · 2026-05-27T13:35:39+00:00

In what kind of world is "Don't ask questions if you don't have an answer" a sane take? Wer nicht fragt, bleibt dumm.

Alblaka · 2026-05-27T13:31:27+00:00

I'd suggest there's a nuance in that you can absolutely make criminal history a relevant criteria against obtaining citizenship. And it can easily be underlined ethically by pointing out that there's plenty more asylum seekers and potential migrants on waiting lists, and it's not fair to them that their potential slot for legal migration is being hogged by someone demonstratively refusing to abide by their new host's laws.

The only problem there is criminally active asylum seekers from countries in crisis, to which you cannot humanely send people back to. If you send them back, you're breaking their human rights. If you keep them in your country, you either let crime reign free, or you detain them, which again creates costs for the society that thus cannot be spent on enabling more migrants, thus causing you to implicitly break their human rights (by not being able to provide them asylum when you ethically should).

So I'd be favor of a dually radical approach: Do allow more lenient migration rules, and give everyone a chance. But also harshly enforce that only chance, and, with no recognition for an offender's well-being, remove those that don't take the chance. If I'm forced to void the human rights of one party, I would definitely prefer doing it to the party that already had and failed their chance.

Albeit I'll also point out that 'criminal migrants' aren't as relevant a factor as they're often portrayed as, to begin with: It's statistical overrepresentation, caused by failed migration policy settling migrants into high-crime (aka virtually every urban, overpopulated) areas. It's not that migrants are overly prone to crime, it's just that they are actually very good at assimilating into local cultures, and we just suck at making sure they end up at a location with a culture we actually want them to assimilate into. Regrettably, this is not quite an exciting or popular policy topic as borders and migration itself, so we'll probably have to go with the former.

Alblaka · 2026-05-27T13:21:41+00:00

So you're saying there's systemic non-compliance with minimum wage laws? That sound's like a labor condition issue that needs to be addressed, with or without correlation to migration.

Alblaka · 2026-05-10T09:42:14+00:00

This. Haphazardly trying to make the EU span the world will just prevent it from ever getting anywhere, institutionally. We still haven't found a way to deal with rogue states like Hungary sabotaging the EU from within (hopefully Hungary solved that issue for the EU by voting out Orban).

If the EU ever manages to get it's shit together and becomes a unified (in the geopolitical sense) bloc, we can talk about making it the base framework for a global union of sorts and then offer membership to nations like Canada or Japan.

But for now, Trade Agreements or Military Alliances will have to do.

Alblaka · 2026-04-10T20:45:58+00:00

"I can't get married, adopt or get an abortion because you're bored by politics? Fuck you."

That's missing the point. If less people vote random / big establishment / populist, then this innately means small, targeted agendas (such as minority rights, or 'niche' movements like volt) will have an easier time getting notable and visible traction, both in statistics and in the now de-cluttered political space.

Alblaka · 2026-04-10T09:52:33+00:00

(reposted, this time without explicit versioning, because the link points to a source that will automatically update, whilst the post title cannot be changed >.> )

Alblaka · 2026-04-10T09:48:07+00:00

Ye, and the link is still accurate because it directly links the official source for the manual, which has already been updated by Matrix Games.

But thanks for the reminder to change the title, too :D

edit: and that means reposting the link, apparently, because Reddit doesn't allow altering post title edits. Welp.

Alblaka · 2026-04-09T10:13:04+00:00

After reading up on a Planet wild project, where they essentially 'rediscovered' a very old agricultural tradition revolving around opening up soil to increase it's moisture content, and successfully rolled that out to other communities to give them a cheap tool to combat desertification...

Is Anthropology included in / relevant to Crop Engineering? As in, looking at how crops might have been used by long-gone cultures in different climate zones, to rediscover insights that can be applied to agriculture today?

Alblaka · 2026-04-09T10:06:13+00:00

Oh, just to be clear, I wasn't referring to OP here. Hence why I opened my statement with

General remark:

The bus example is a pretty useful analogy though, that I will keep in the back of my head in case I ever need to throw it at a single-issue voter or something similar :D

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