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It should be said that he is not advocating for a “we need to hear both sides” sort of disingenuous argument common among right wing rhetoric but a sense of balanced intellectual humility (even if I believe the behavior and evidence strongly supports the view that Israel is aiming for something akin to genocide) - whether this is a hill he (Wales) should dying on is also another matter.

New genius product by Elon Musk: Hardware as a Service!

Ok an authoritarian regime allegedly being cyber-attacked by another authoritarian regime whose economy is significantly dependent on trade and renegades from that regime

This sort of mindset is typical of the oppressed population in Singapore - oh hey nevermind it all, this police state is awesome.

Na. GDP pp is meaningless without accounting for inequality and civil liberties.

Singapore is an interesting case because it looks great on paper but it’s arguably one of the worst/best form of authoritarianism. For example, ~80% of Singaporeans live in public housing, which they don’t technically own (99 year lease), whose rules are dictated by a government agency. Eg, there are police cameras right up to the apartment lifts and every entry/exit; the number of pets they’re allowed to own is regulated and interestingly less than those living in private property arbitrarily (without consideration for property size). Nevermind the complete lack of civil liberties and high gini coefficient/inequality.

Who or what is this bill trying to protect??

Singapore is addicted to cheap foreign labor so this seems like the natural progression. It does make one wonder the kind of data required for such models to have a chance of success. Most Singaporeans live in public housing with police surveillance right up to the elevators, coupled with a lack of privacy protections against the state, perhaps health initiatives using behavioural monitoring from surveillance cameras is next? It’s all for the benefit of the public needless to say.

Fun fact: ~80% of Singaporeans live in public housing and all the entryways to those buildings are filled with (offical) police security cameras, including two in each lift. The cameras extends to the nearby carparks, carpark gantry (to ID the driver), bus stops (and on the bus) so all movement can be monitored. Private housing do not have such police security cameras because the estate is gated and have their own security guards, not that crime is much of an issue there. Dystopia for the masses?

This is sad to hear. I guess Trump’s values (whatever they might be) resonated more with them than Harris’s progressive liberal values.

Calling him a fascist would be an understatement

I think calling it mere stupidity is a little too reductive. There are genuine grievances among his supporters, such as rising inequality, loss of opportunities/jobs and an economic system which is not working out for them. But expecting a narcissistic misogynistic racist billionaire rapist to actually help them is…the definition of stupidity.

What about using the tariffs on Chinese products to support American companies/interests?

Singaporeans work the longest hours in the world, are the most sleep deprived and have the highest rates of depression in Asia. On top of that, an authoritarian regime, a lack of civil liberties, high cost of living and inequality. Maybe the kind of conditions to make people not want to have children?

Here’s a book that argues for the same. [0]

Makes one wonder whether such articles (OP’s) are part of a spin campaign..

[0] https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691211411/sp...

Who are these people that you speak of/for?

What I mean is Singapore is hardly the ideal city to be measured against if we take into account the non-materiale aspects of life.

There are probably better examples to be found. The "competence" comes at a price - extremely high levels of inequality, utter lack of civil liberties, a one-party authoritarian regime and so forth.

In this political climate: Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson

Credibility matters. If someone is equivocating genocide with “making Germany great again”, it deserves to be pointed out and their testimony taken with a huge grain of salt.

The idea of surviving a nuclear war is analogous to a “who can stay in a tub of boiling water for the longest” contest. You might win the contest but you’re sure as hell still going to die.

The nuclear winter that follows a nuclear war will bring humanity back to the Stone Age. We really need to disabuse ourselves of the notion of “surviving a nuclear war”.

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” - Albert Einstein

“Black hole” is probably the wrong metaphor here, supernova might be more appropriate - repulsing investors/data, not attracting them.

A previous rumor involving the same class of submarine:

Chinese submarine crash rumor unsubstantiated: MND

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/08/22/...

A previous study that came to the opposite conclusion: vaping is certainly not as harmful as smoking tobacco.

https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/41/28/2612/587566...

> Yes, your links indicate that it's even more radical than you described at first

The basic idea is the suffering of animals, factory-farmed or not. If you can recognise that, good for you. How far you want to take that is entirely up to you.

> you don't speak for all vegans

I have never claimed to if you actually read what I wrote.

> I'm not real bright

Not resorting to ad hominem arguments is a good start

> So, to be clear here, you're absolutely A-OK...

It is not about what I think, it is about what are the contemporary arguments for veganism or vegetarianism. If you care about the suffering of factory-farmed (or not factory-farmed) animals, good for you. How far you want to take that is entirely up to you. Some people eat less meat, others avoid all animal products.

Fair enough. It might have begun with that in mind but the contemporary argument for veganism or vegetarianism is not about that. There is no need for such language.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Liberation_(book)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_liberation_movement

The argument for veganism was never about not killing animals but about how much suffering factory-farmed animals go through to become meat on our plates. Because of the difficulties in sourcing ethically raised animal products, some choose to forgo all animal products.

Can you elaborate more on why you think “none of this seems gruesome”? To most people, experimentation on animals that results in such unthinkable suffering is abhorrent. Is such practices simply “the norm”?

Besides that, the central argument of the article is it disputes the Neuralink/Musk’s claim that “the monkeys died due to unforeseen complications”. Instead, what seems more likely is Neuralink experiments were directly responsible for the gruesome deaths of their test subjects. None of what you wrote addresses or refutes the evidence presented in the article.