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gefriertrockneron Australia’s gains in wheat-farm productivity

Overpopulation is a thing in parts of South Asia and Africa. Climate change can affect the agricultural output in many countries and thus the land will support less people. The population growth is still very relevant in most of the affected countries. So overpopulation will definitely be a thing, unless there are real technological breakthroughs.

gefriertrockneron MacBook Air M4

What comparison are you trying to make? You are not painting a full picture, leaving the weight, CPU and battery life out of the equation. If you personally care about neither, yes the Air will not be the machine for you.

gefriertrockneron Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows

Your point doesn't touch my argument. I'm saying if you are claiming superiority over other animals, you can also claim superiority over weaker humans, for the same reasons, with the same results.

By the way, you can't have a proper conversation with someone, if you don't speak the same language.

gefriertrockneron Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows

> The complexity of human language, social structure, and technology is not even in the same ballpark as animals. Humans make iPhones and travel to space and write War and Peace. We dominate the world, changing its very climate and wiping countless species off the planet, and no other species even tries to stop us.

That's true only for a small subset of humans. 99.9% of humans achieve no feat as you describe.

You can easily make the case for attributing these feats to smaller subsets. E.g., Africans, Native Americans do not make iPhones, travel to space, etc. And therefore its ok to colonize them. I think that sounds familiar to history.

If you go by this notion, it would rather make sense to attribute these feats to a small elite and not humans entirely. And by that logic, this elite is siphoning money, creating riches for their own benefit. Which is probably what is happening in most countries (more so if they are authoritarian).

I think its simply about a feeling of superiority, might makes right. If you can, you abuse others for your own benefit. Whether they are a human or another animal.

gefriertrockneron YouTube is crippling Firefox on Asahi Linux?

At the same time Chromium is not affected:

> Why does this not affect Chromium? Because chromium on aarch64 pretends to be x86_64

gefriertrockneron Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang

Definitely gets attention on HN for it.