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so fossil fuel is too fucking cheap. this is arbitrage with our environment, it fucks me up.

what the poster mentioned did not sound like a balanced exchange of ideas was about to happen...

thats a wild take... isnt this exactly the purpose of a dictionary: to reflect the words used in general language usage?

It gives you more things to buy, doesn't it? That does not necessarily translate to a better life.

Look up why it was called SARS-2 in the beginning (and most of all what SARS was) and you're going to understand a lot more why they reacted how they did...

You took those trillions literally, it's not meant like that. It's a general observation on how abstract the measuring is.

Ask her if a banana taped to a wall is art.*

If she says no she has no idea what art is, apparently. Or there is no actual concept what constitutes as art and what doesn't. ;)

*https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/nov/21/maurizi...

You must be bummed out that your party didn't get a candidate that follows your morals and values and on top of all that is a convicted felon.

Wouldn't you have wanted a better candidate?

the last bit is only true under individualised consumerism. its when everybody is like a spoiled child is where solidarity goes to die.

For starters, Germany does not give a single person the right to be king with decrees and military leadership.

Also (though not an issue with the law itself) it's really dangerous only having two parties at the helm.

Adding an Elon company to the mix might make the reaction unstable.

I feel somehow inventions like this or ozempic are nice but not at all what we'd actually need as himan race. :(

It's about the "next big thing" not what happened 20 years ago.

Yeah. No.

“The vaccine side effects from COVID-19 vaccines are generally the same as with other vaccines except for the rare episodes of myocarditis in young men which can be circumvented by increasing the duration between doses,” said Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease doctor and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. https://www.salon.com/2022/12/11/do-19-vaccines-really-have-...

It's stupid to think that something that triggers an immune response is not going to have side effects.

Biden actually tried that and bringing the country forward at the same time. It didn't pass and Republicans decried it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal

Now they're going back 70 years instead of moving forward. Big brains there.

So you would subtract their failures from their successes and make some sort of calculation about its usefulness from that?

The world doesn't work like that. Objectively, it doesn't.

Isn't the flipside of this that maybe we're a lot less "intelligent" than we think we need to be?

"se non è vero, è molto ben trovato"

helps the bottom line, I guess.

but... why?

this sounds exactly like that's the goal behind all this.

That's why it's called an 'energy turnaround' not an energy 180.

That's an interesting distinction you're making.

Gambling and investing are very close together. You're only able to make rational decisions on perfect information which is not available.

So investing seems to be a sort of gambling to me, it's just part of a different societal institution.

this is too simplistic, please read up on previous performances of elmo. in a democratic system you should have auditable changes to government systems. this does not seem to be that:

``` “You could do anything with these privileges,” says one source with knowledge of the system, who adds that they cannot conceive of a reason that anyone would need them for purposes of simply hunting down fraudulent payments or analyzing disbursement flow. ```

as a citizen this should concern you.

A week after Trump's big announcement... that cannot be a coincidence.

The structuralist unsuccessfully tried to find similarities between different symbol systems in different cultures. They were convinced they could come up with some sort of formula of how a culture can be categorized and in what development state it is.

Fundamentally it's about language. What does a word or a sentence represent? How do you go from a spoken or written text to something that is meaningful to you if it's presented to you?

This intermediating process of communication is highly complicated and fraught with misconceptions which lead to lots of fuzzy logic being applied by your brain when trying to understand something.

The stuff that's happening between hearing or reading something and you actually taking it in as something meaningful is a vast space which is as of yet unexplored and gives a lot of room for speculation. This is what Beaudrillard (and others) tried to describe and analyze.

And it has nothing to do with math. Math is a whole other story and won't solve the problem for you because it's a different kind of medium (or text if you will). Math sits between you and the other while language is something in yourself, so to speak.

LLM's try to gather meaning from text stochastically. This is not the way we gather meaning as humans and in a sense this is not how communication works in the real.

But Beaudrillard (and others) reasoned that we left the real and live in hyperreality. The most famous example of his is Disney World: As soon as it existed it started to infuse itself into our everyday lives. The simulation of a fantasy world (the real existing Disney World theme park) has started to become real outside of it but not rooted in reality (it became a simulacrum): it is an emulation of reality. In that sense it is virtual. It's like virtual reality in the real world, it's a fantasy you can touch (and that can be sold and be molded to be sold more successfully).

The idea of sociability in social media is another example: it does not exist in the real sense, it is mediated by technology. Its origins are hinted at by using terminology of social interactions but in the end it's a transactional empty sort of sociability which promotes attention seeking and fast, easily digested pieces of symbolism over actual interactions. And more and more this kind of "new" sociability becomes part of our actual social lives.

I'm not sure it's that direct of a connection.

There's something to be said about the structuralist part of it: using large amounts of text as a rule set to return a semblance of truth seems to be a structuralist's wet dream.

It's like drawing the map for the king: the real is being represented by reducing a huge number of data points to a mixture of randomness and hard rules that pretend to be real.

At the very least it's a form of hyperreality as far as I understand it.

Our leaders do their job by trying to uphold our values like freedom of expression and equality and that other stuff.

This makes us vulnerable and we have to adapt. But hopefully not by banning these things, but by educating ourselves about the risks and gains of using addictive technology. At least that's the theory, I guess.

TikTok should be handled like an addictive substance. It and things just like it should be heavily regulated and watched over (e.g. by protecting and educating our youth).

Sounds like Assistant to the Regional Manager.

I guess there are bigger considerations at work here. Like where the money's coming from that fuels Firefox development.

Still using it though.

It's off in Europe. So this is about missing regulation in the US.