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That is true. I hope that people sees my comment as a push to do better, not a reason to give up. Things are never perfect, anywhere. And that's why we should continue pushing for more equality, defending the environment and making better the live of working class people.
Straw man argument. Everybody has rights in the EU, including people suspected of being criminals, and of course victims.
Arguing that in the EU victims have no rights is insulting for anyone reading your comment. That far-right view of the world is false and it is just trying to misinform and create hate.
Why do people glorify autism? I have seen this mostly on CEOs that want workers that are hyper-focused, intelligent and do not complain. The ideal employee from which extract value and a minimum cost.
I have worked with autistic people (diagnosed ones). And it is a struggle. One of them could be the nicest most reasonable person one minute and then get a trigger and become obtuse and irrational while making the rest of the team suffer thru all kinds of complains. Meetings would need to be adjourned and time was lost.
> The cynic in me bemoans that we brought this upon ourselves, in more than one way.
I enjoy working with other employees and people need human contact to become fully self-actualized. Isolating people to maximize productivity misses the point and brings no more productivity and just avoids fixing any real existing problems.
I doubt that most Americans comprehend what is living in a well managed citizens-first country were people are represented and many laws are passed just because the working class wants them.
If you compare the USA with the worst places on earth, then it is a good place. I hope that Americans aim higher and want to compare themselves with the best places to live in the world.
That is catastrophic because I heard several CEOs that said that we cannot do anything about it and that the technology is here to stay. So, I suppose that we will just need to adapt to a world with declining mental cognition for millions of children and a future with diminishing production capacity because ... checks notes ... this quarterly profits.
Not only USA products. Most countries with low safety standards and known for dangerous products are barred from trading with the EU, or at least many of their products. Recently, even big Chinese on-line shops are being targeted for selling dangerous products and lying on the description on that products.
I understand that quality and safety is a diminishing goal for the USA. But I hope that other countries keep the care for their citizens as a achievable goal.
> is not entirely incorrect
With enough re-interpretation nothing is not entirely incorrect. Agree on the part that it is misleading.
That sounds a race to the bottom for AI companies profits.
I do not think that LEDs are high profit margin items.
You need both. Even restaurants are heavily regulated to avoid making people sick. To let restaurants make people sick until they go out of business seems a quick way to decimate your own population.
And yes, that everything is consolidated in a few monopolies makes everything bad and expensive. So, that seems a great thing to solve too.
Expecting that the rich will do the right thing out of their good hearts is not just naive but actively damaging for society.
That is using FUD to avoid accountability. In this case is the last one "doubt". - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt
4 degrees is real, it is data, and you ignore it an go in a tangent.
> My skeptic meter
Mine says that capital is on the data-center side and is protected in the same way that fossil fuel companies are protected from climate change discussions: FUD
Legally, to the rules of the country. That is not even a question.
But if we talk about morality, the answer is to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and what it implies.
There is no moral nor legal reason to follow the parent company when it in conflict with the rule of law. People are starting to attribute to corporations a power that they do not have, and that is very dangerous.
(The article is good, thou, and opens a lot of interesting questions)
I'm 100% för this.
This species didn't just die, it was exterminated by humans. It is the difference between someone dying fro a sickness and from a bulled to the head.
> overindexing
How can be stop fishing species to extinction "too much"? How can you justify that way of thinking in this concrete case?
That is very interesting, I wish this kind of things were taught in school. Too many people think that animals just exists in the current state for ever. When in reality it is a dynamic system that once changed cannot be brought back.
That is such a simplification that is just a lie. The two sides are capital and the working class. Because their interests are opposite of each other. There are religious people that are very progressive. There are artists that are far-right. Why create artificial groupings when the economic reality and power dynamics are there for everybody to see.
"Culture wars" is always about keeping people distracted and hide the class war. I have more in common with a right-wing religious working class man that with any progressive billionaire.
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. You made me laugh.
Each time a industry unionizes corporations try to downplay the need of labor. Executives think that employees are just a nuisance and that the working class is ungrateful for their salaries. The reality is that the only ones adding value are the working class.
Unionize, let them fear us instead of mocking us and steal from us.
Ads are an attack aimed at your computer too. They download malicious code to spy on you and gather intelligence data about everything you like, you visit, you buy,... it is malicious software hacking into your computer. The fact that some of the richest companies in the world are the criminals does not make it less of a crime.
The propaganda part is, of course, also totally true. Lies, manipulation, etc. has been normalized when a few years back will have been considered a crime.
Good news, it did not. It is worse.
Why do investors put their money in companies create by people that have never developer even a real application?
50 years ago most people in the field were newbies because the field itself was totally new. So, all founders lacked experience as no-one had experience. Has not that changed? Aren't any software experts that can create new products anymore?
The old "let's break the law as much and as blatantly as possible, our lawyers will delay any punishment until so many people has the product that is not politically viable to stop it".
Let's start to put into prison CEOs that have broken the law, I do not care if millions use Facebook. It facilitated a genocide that is a crime against humanity. Let's tech them a lesson so they stop ignoring the law. And it should be an exemplary prison sentence, not just a couple of years that they spend at home.
Phone companies used to be monopolies, in Europe they were owned by the government as a public service. But when they become profitable politicians betrayed their citizens and sold them. Nowadays, phone companies are a source of scams, spam and everything wrong with big corporations. And all that profits are now private instead of helping to fund the country.
More like buying a microwave and frozen food. Unless you are actually training the LLMs.
They have them in Spain, and they are retired. Do you want them back?
I would blame inequality on this one. In a more unequal world tribalization is a survival strategy and language follows.
When you see everybody else as your equals then focusing on describing that individual person, instead of their group, makes more sense.
Economic inequality affects deeply how we think about others.
Yes. In 1985. Processor allow for things like garbage collectors that in the 80s would have been a terrible waste for most uses. Most game developers will never create a 3d engine while 80s developer will do their, 2d engines, by themselves.
Assembly was created to be able to create any kind of applications. In the 50s that made sense, not in the 80s.
> A lake in the middle of a big city that you can simply get into is not a normal thing.
Stockholm is a big city (for European standards) in the middle of a lake. So, this is probably very difficult to emulate for other cities. Sadly around Sweden, trees that have been harvested for wood are replaced with low quality forest that do not meet biodiversity targets.
> I also feel like during the winter, even though the park looks amazing under snow or fog, there are not many things to do.
Parks are amazing and we should have more in our cities. I see people hiking and running in the forest all year round. Forests and nature are better than parks to bring a pace of mind and mindfulness that cannot be replaced by anything else. And they usually are free, so everybody can enjoy them independently of their economic situation. But each steps forward is a welcome step. And parks are also needed.