For the good of everyone, except the ones who are dead. 🤪

Yes good point… naturally “guzzling resources at planet eating rates” is quite expensive.

I’m so not sold on this AI stuff. It just seems like a fancy new way to create problems.

Exactly, which makes the whole endeavour more of a guessing game than a science.

We can’t even measure calories accurately, never mind predicting how much your specific body will actually absorb. Maybe we could be more accurate with vitamins and stuff, but I dunno.

And comments like this show the damage done by such whitewashed reporting. The most documented genocide in history is happening before our eyes and Canadians “don’t have a dog in this fight.”

Note that ‘authoritarian’ tendencies only need to become visible when the people broadly turn against the ruling class. It’s like Ford’s “any colour you want, as long as it’s black.” Sounds like freedom until you start demanding a red one.

The tldr says 2013, but the full article calls it “the first such death in the province since 1989, when tracking began.”

… It did not indicate when the child died or their specific age.

So we just know they were somewhere between 0 and 5.

I don’t recall being warned away from facebook, google, etc. when it was revealed that all of the data they collect is accessible by the US government. China is supposed to be an adversary or whatever but the US has a much greater track record of meddling in affairs outside their borders…kinda feels like this is just ideology on display.

(Not a tiktok user, if it matters)

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This is anecdotal, but I’ve known several people who immigrated and then chose to return to their home country. In at least one case, specifically because of the cost of living.

Pedantry, of course. Call it a terrorist state if you must, it changes nothing.

This definition fits israel just as well or better, do you typically refer to it as a terror org?

Factual accuracy in LLMs is “an area of active research”, i.e. they haven’t the foggiest how to make them stop spouting nonsense.

I think when a man can’t just listen to a woman (or anyone) say their bit without jamming in caveats, it’s indicative of something.

Especially if someone is venting, do not expect everything they say to be carefully balanced and measured. These people are not secretly plotting to build a completely female utopia and blast all the men into space, they’re just having some feelings like the rest of us. Let them have their feelings.

My mom has one, and the door handles are so awkward, I really don’t think I’ll ever get used to them. From the inside, it’s easy enough, but it’s also just a button, with no physical unlatching mechanism, and the window has to go down slightly when the door opens, so I would not want to be in there if it lost power.

She does generally like the thing though.

Tragic mistake my ass.

As of 20 March, at least 196 humanitarians have been killed in the Occupied Palestinian Territories since October 2023, according to figures compiled by the Aid Worker Security Database

https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/maps-and-graphics/2024/03/21/behind-numbers-gaza-unprecedented-aid-worker-death-toll

The israeli regime needs to be dismantled and everyone involved put on trial.

1. That’s not why you don’t have universal healthcare.

2. Go Houthis! Woooo 🇾🇪🔥😸🎉

I would say that the alternative is a long way off, especially in the USA. The current system is deeply entrenched and looks more likely to fall into outright fascism than get better, unfortunately.

In general…the way forward is for the working class to take control of the government. This can happen through electoralism or revolution.

In the US, the nation’s mythology is so embedded into people’s minds it will take a long time just to unwind those threads and get enough people thinking that maybe things actually could be better. In the meantime, as others have said, there is some hope in the lower levels of government, and engagement there is certainly worthwhile.

It looks like one has punctured the chair, and one is really long or falling off?