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  • I lost half my weight in jail, but I'm not broken, says freed Belarus opposition leader

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  • It still gives the bot the at-first-glance appearance of being a human user of long standing, though, which I assume would make the account saleworthy to bad actors.

  • 20 bodies, some decapitated, found in part of Mexico where factions of Sinaloa cartel are fighting each other

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  • Calling it now: Trump will invade Mexico before his term is up, arguing that it's to "secure our borders" and that the Mexican government has "failed".

  • Zelda BotW vs TotK - which one should I buy?

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  • They're both great. One is a sequel to the other. Get BotW.

  • I lost half my weight in jail, but I'm not broken, says freed Belarus opposition leader

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  • Should someone repost the article so that it can be discussed and shared but the bot doesn't get the upvotes?

  • The Billionaires Are Abandoning Humanity

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  • Damn Fox, you didn't have to turn me on more.

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  • I suppose first we should consider food. For that we look at what every human needs to consume (considering all necessary vitamins and minerals in addition to obvious calories) and then try to figure out what sources of those nutrients is currently the most efficient at producing them. Then there should be data somewhere on how much of that foodstuff is produced per year and how many people are employed in producing it. If not enough of that foodstuff is produced to meet the planet's needs for that nutrient, then move on to the second-most efficient source and so on until the need is met. Then the same again for the next vital nutrient, hopefully with overlap on sources of previous nutrients. And so on until all nutrients are accounted for, and that should provide a number for how many people are directly involved in the production of the food. That would be the primary list. THEN we would need to consider secondary elements for food production: everyone involved in producing the tools/resources used in direct production (tractors, combine harvesters, fuel, fertilizer, etc), but ONLY calculating for JUST enough to meet the demand represented by the primary list. Surplus manufacturing to be ignored. Keep going that way until you have it all the way down to raw materials (steel, silicon, rubber, etc). Finally, you look at the distribution network necessary to actually get all of these things where they're needed. This would, naturally, include workers employed at road maintenance, transport drivers (although billionaires seem fairly insistent that these jobs can be eliminated soon), etc. That would provide you with the BARE MINIMUM workers necessary for food production.

    Then you perform a similar process for the production of:

    • Housing
    • Clothing
    • Healthcare
    • Education

    Once you have the bare minimum, you can actually talk in concrete terms of just how much of humanity is employed in essential work and how much isn't. Most likely, when evaluating clothing, the "most efficient source" was sweat shops, so once you know that humanity has enough non-essential workers, you can make a compelling case that laws need to be passed to guarantee that more workers are diverted to clothing production, with an aim of providing better working conditions for all.

    We can't really have intelligent conversations about whether capitalism is or isn't a good way to allocate resources until we have the data on what the optiminal use would be. We all SAY that the world produces enough for everyone, but nobody really KNOWS.

  • The Billionaires Are Abandoning Humanity

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  • The main problem with modern civilization is that it's no longer possible to rob rich people. If Peter Thiel's money actually physically existed, in like a vault somewhere, SOMEBODY would have burgled the vault by now, purely because of the insanely favorable risk vs reward ratio - like a lottery where the cost of buying tickets of every possible combination costs less than the jackpot, once the reward is high enough, there will always be SOMEONE who will make the necessary investment to negate the risk. And "robbing the rich" would always have enough popular support that there would be little effort to find the thief as long as the oligarch was unpopular enough. But now Thiel's money no longer physically exists, and it's basically impossible to forcibly take it from him without basically having to destroy the entire global banking system first in order to get at it.

  • Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans

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  • You've basically just described "confession". You go into a little box designed to make it as difficult as possible for the priest to identify you, you talk about all the ways you feel like you're a bad person, and the priest talks to you for a while about it, then gives you some actionable items to make amends and once you've done them God officially forgives you. The whole concept of confession is designed to allow people to let go of their regrets and live in the now. It's actually quite clever as a bit of societal design. If modern priests had psychotherapy degrees then everyone in the world would have access to free therapy - unfortunately they wouldn't be very useful for LGBT+ people.

  • Ars Technica declares SteamOS the victor (plus other 🐧🎮 news)

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  • If I could install it on my desktop I would.

  • US to withdraw from NATO under Republican bill

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  • Yep, the USA likes to complain about Europe being security freeloaders, but the only member to ever invoke Article 5 was the USA.

  • Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games!

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  • Europa Universalis IV 90% off. Alan Wake 90% off. Prince of Persia series 80% off. Devil May Cry 1-4 67% off. Various Hitman games 90% off - the original is going for 79 cents. I could go on but I dunno what you'd be into. They have more recent games too, like Baldur's Gate 3 20% off.

    Anyway, mostly they're the same discounts as on Steam at the moment so I dunno if it counts as "of note". I just mention it because if you buy with GOG you get the game DRM-free, plus some people prefer to spend their money with the EU (as opposed to the USA) these days for obvious reasons.

  • Japan says no fentanyl seized at border in six years after US smuggling report

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  • Yeah all governments have a tendency to sweep problems under the rug, but Japan are a whole other level. They NEVER admit to anything ever being wrong.

  • Steam Summer Sale is on! Discuss deals in the comments and recommend some great games!

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  • Note: GOG is also having a sale

  • Canada ‘urgently seeking more information’ on death of Canadian in ICE custody

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  • Nah, photos show a white guy. He probably had memes on his phone or sassed an ICE agent.

  • Petrochemical Industry urges Lagos Government to reject disposable plastic ban

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  • I mean, would we expect anything else?

  • Orbán: “Ukraine is not NATO member and I intend to keep it that way”

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  • Orbán does just enough for farmers to keep them voting for him. Keeping Ukraine out of the EU is part of that - if Ukraine were a member, Hungarian wheat prices would plummet.

  • Orbán: “Ukraine is not NATO member and I intend to keep it that way”

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  • What makes you think they will?

  • Bazzite founder might shutdown whole project if Fedora drops support for 32 bit packages

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  • Can't Bazzite just permanently branch away from Fedora?

  • Damn Fox, you didn't have to turn me on more.

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  • I'd genuinely be interested to know how many human beings need to work a 40-hour week in order to produce and distribute enough food, medicine, clothing, shelter and education for all 8.2 billion humans, and how many of the rest of us are really just building follies purely just to keep everyone busy.

    If tech billionaires insist on continuing to make jobs like "taxi driver" and "checkout operator" obsolete via automation while also refusing to share the proceeds of that automation with the humans whose expertise was used to train said AI and then got replaced, then the question of "exactly how pointless do the new jobs (I mean, 'influencer'? Really?) need to be before we accept that money has ceased to make sense as the way we incentivize people to not have more kids than the global industrial output can sustain?".