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And the higher prices of food mean more poor people will starve to death. Oil is not only an input in creating fertilizer, but just about everything else that goes into getting calories on to your plate.

For a great summary of all of this I'd highly recommend reading "how the world really works"

https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-World-Really-Works-Scientists/d...

By Friday afternoon I feel sick. I'm wondering if this explains why.

Same as voting in elections?

Though we do vote with our wallets too.

The video is mostly of the upper classes and military. Looks nice but I'm pretty certain I'd prefer to live now. I'm actually from n Ireland but live in the Scotland. The class system is definitely a lot more noticeable here than home. I suspect it was way worse back then.

I have some sympathy for your point of view. I'm very much pro union but when I go to England I think I'm glad I don't live there. So crowded. Most of the countryside fenced off. Unlike Scotland were it's possible to escape to the wilderness. Compared to Ireland I think people in England seem depressed.

On the high trust thing, I think part of it may be partly the mass immigration of the 1950s. As an outside observer I think that may have divided the country a bit. To me there doesn't seem to be much integration.

All I'm hoping is that the UK gets over brexit and doesn't stay in terminal decline. The current Tory leadership only seem interested in managing that decline. At least Boris was optimistic and believed Britain was a great place to be.

I get the feeling that this is people over hyping their field to boost their own status. It's amazing technology, but I doubt there's any emergency here.

In another way this reminds me of Roark's court room speech in the fountainhead

"Thousands of years ago, the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light. He was considered an evildoer who had dealt with a demon mankind dreaded. But thereafter men had fire to keep them warm, to cook their food, to light their caves. He had left them a gift they had not conceived and he had lifted darkness off the earth. Centuries later, the first man invented the wheel. He was probably torn on the rack he had taught his brothers to build. He was considered a transgressor who ventured into forbidden territory. But thereafter, men could travel past any horizon. He had left them a gift they had not conceived and he had opened the roads of the world. "

You might have a point here, maybe the era of cheap money funded this nonsense.

What have we traded away?

Or it's a way to increase your status while not doing your actual job. "Look at how moral I am!". I'm wondering how long this crap will continue. I'm hoping it becomes a cliche and embarrassing soon.

Same as being a Catholic "sign up to feel guilty for the rest of your life". I should know, I was born one !

"...suggests that if the world invested in a “Giant Leap” to reduce poverty and inequality, the world population would peak at around 8.5 billion people in 2040 and decline to 6 billion by the end of the century."

Like a great leap forward?

Or maybe focus on the things that actually lift people out of poverty, free markets and rule of law.

Pretty much the same as me. Windows hardware support is really great, Linux is always a hassle for me. I've tried and tried with Linux, but I've given up on it as my primary desktop

They have free markets and businesses, doesn't sound like a socialist system to me.

How many times do we have to try socialism before we're convinced it doesn't work?

Or maybe you mean something like Nordic countries that are capitalist but tax more heavily and redistribute wealth more?

This is exactly what my employer is doing, they pay so that our internal data (from employee queries) does not become part of the model. They've blocked the public chat gpt etc.

What do 37 signals do that makes money?

I've been playing quite a bit of Goldeneye on retro arch same for 1080 and waverace, the higher res helps, but I think they are still great games that I don't think have been matched since :(

I've an everdrive and an n64, but it looks too awful on a modern even with an ossc upscaler. Well it's not an upscaler really, but a line doubler, the results are awful on n64 (and ps1). I even rgb modded my n64 to use the ossc. Waste of money!

Mario 64 has 209 mario animations. I think this is probably the reason other 3d platformers at the time felt stiff in comparison.

Also they realised at some point in development that mario just wasn't fun to control so they put a lot of effort into that. I feel games today seem to put a lot of effort into content instead.

My favourite games are all ones with deep satisfying controls that require practice to get good at, wave race 64, 1080 snowboarding, Tony hawk's 2, Goldeneye eye. Or maybe I'm just old!

Everyone I grew up with was underage drinking none of these things you've listed happened to anyone I know. Regulating parties might be one way to lessen the chances. But I'm not sure that price is worth it.

"For the past several years, Stanford has required students to adhere to a Student Party Policy, which includes a highly detailed “Harm Reduction Plan” mandating multiple sober monitors and designated alcohol service areas, and prohibiting the serving of any hard liquor.

Party hosts must also provide “EANABs,” or Equally Attractive Non-Alcoholic Beverages, to “contribute to an inclusive and inviting experience” for all partygoers. Hosts are also required to take an online “Party Planning Course” before submitting their applications. "

Is this normal!?! I feel sorry for this generation. Attempts to make their world risk free has turned it into "fuck up once and we'll destroy you".

I just use Firefox with unblock for general browsing. Chrome if I'm trying to buy something and I need the page not to break.

Please stop with the click bait headlines :(

I loved it, thought it was hilarious. Though to be fair I'm from Ireland, and I can see that the comedy might not translate well much further a field than Ireland or the UK.

That's really scary. It's been a long time since any of my friends did coke, not sure would have put them off, maybe it would.

Are there confirmed cases of this happening?

I'm not sure why there is an assumption that the health care is good in Portugal. Purely annecdotal, the only Portuguese person I know moved to UK to work as a cleaner. She couldn't find work in Portugal that would pay enough to allow her to survive. Also she moved her dad over too because he need health care and needed to be near family. I've never looked into, I just assumed that the economy and it's health care aren't great.

Am I the only person who hates feature flags? We're doing it so we can do trunk based Dev. It's ridiculous, it makes every feature so much more complicated. All for the sake of not managing some branches.

Can you give an example please? I'd like to do this.

That is terrifying! So someone could access illegal content through my home internet connection (while I have a VPN running)?

This guy is deceptively good, when I first heard him I wasn't impressed, but he does seem to have in depth knowledge.