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  • Trump Is Trying to Blackmail the Supreme Court

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  • Works two ways, incentive for SCOTUS to rule in his favor and a reason for him to ignore their decision if they don’t.

  • Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers

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  • Extra judicial killings are bread and butter for US presidents, made really popular by Obama.

    This is of course fucked, but there are clear precedents for presidents killing any one, including US citizens, they name a terrorist.

  • Greta Thunberg speaks before departure of flotilla carrying aid to Gaza [video]

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  • Thank you for this thought through response. I've been meaning to get back to it sooner, but I have been very tired after work and not feeling I have the bandwith the matter deserves. I'm afraid this might not be the evening either, but I found it rude to not respond at all.

    One caveat I'd like to enter into the wider discussion is that the distinction between "acting" and "talking" is often more tenuous than either of us have acknowledged thus far.

    Either way, to the point where you say we differ most, i.e. "but first people need to realize the switch is even there". From my perspective, what I fail to understand is when you would consider that condition met. Should action be deferred until there's a perfect consensus or at what point do you envision that enough people have come to that realization? Do you consider people embracing ideas like this to be likely to happen, considering real world conditions? Both genuine questions, not rhetorical.

    I too am a believer that it is perfectly possible for humans to live good lives outside of the (selectively available) exesses of the fossil fuel paradigm. But I also think it's evident that paradigm will only come to an end through either a decisive and global shift of our collective lifestyles and economies or through the looming risk of societal collapse. At this rate, my frustration is that collapse will come knocking before we're done talking. I'm not as optimistic as you, that we can figure it out, let cooler heads prevail and do things perfectly and achieve a smooth transition. I think it's worth considering that we might stand to lose a lot, whether we commit to change or not; one thing that sometimes get glossed over about fossil fues is that they're damn near magical in terms of what they have enabled us to do.

    Maybe we mostly differ in outlook, not predominantly in what we hope for. Because I sure do hope your more optimistic takes prove right.

    My apologies for the jumbled and poorly proof-read stream of concioussness, I really need to go to sleep now.

  • Greta Thunberg speaks before departure of flotilla carrying aid to Gaza [video]

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  • I strongly disagree.

    In a lot of ”very complex” issues, the answers are really simple, and we all know fully well how to solve them.

    This is particularly true of the large existential problems we are facing. With climate change, for instance, we have known the solution for a long time: stop burning fossil fuels.

    What to do about it has been clear, straightforward and simple all along, but not easy – it would have taken sacrifice to achieve it. We’d have to live more simply, do away with consumerism and have to put things on hold while we find sustainable ways to do them. And we probably would have had to take enormous risks to our own lives, to stop those that wouldn’t aggressively cut down on fossil fuels voluntarily. Without any guarantees of success.

    Even transitioning to a solar punk utopia would have been hard, including for those on board from the start.

    All while the alternative to the solution is to to have long warm showers at will, enough cheap food that we can get really fat and still throw half of it away, intercontinental air travel that costs less than a bus pass, and so on.

    It’s not because we have talked too little or that the discourse hasn’t been good enough that we can’t seem to solve it – our most brilliant minds have talked endlessly for a generation about climate change and how to address it. It’s simply because quitting our fossil fuels addiction is a bitter fucking pill to swallow. And pointless if you do it alone.

    The same goes for the ”slow” slide into fascism all over the West, a.k.a. the steady concentration of wealth in the hands of dumber and dumber financial elites. (Not that it’s a separate issue from climate change.)

    If you want to beat it, whether peacefully or not, you eventually have to accept that your next meal won’t be guaranteed and that, you might get beaten, arrested or even killed – hungry, tired and cold.

    As our American friends have showed us, on this matter, the stakes of disruptive protests are not very appealing – it’s better to continue going to the office, get that paycheck that keeps the lights on, holds off the bank from taking your home and lets the fridge stay full, even if that means paying taxes to and serving those you protest in the weekends and in social media posts.

    Tackling these issues does not require exceptional individuals, but a lot of ordinary ones working together, accepting that it’s probably gonna suck really bad. Even so, there is already an abundance of extraordinary people out there, notably Greta Thunberg (of this thread fame).

    And yes, it does also take talk to bring those people together, but that talk won’t get you around the hard parts.

  • Greta Thunberg speaks before departure of flotilla carrying aid to Gaza [video]

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  • The billionaires are probably pretty content with people trying to figure out ”truthful communication” while the people who stormed the Capitol keep winning.

  • Middle Man

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  • Greta Thunberg speaks before departure of flotilla carrying aid to Gaza [video]

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  • While you make some good points, have you heard the expression ”talk is cheap”? There’s no lack of talk.

  • Hey environment, how's it going

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  • On the one hand yeah, on the other: meh – any benefits by doing something good will soon be offset by something twice as bad. Coal powered AI pump and dumps, subsidies to airlines and regional aiports that replace aging railway networks, infinite more lanes on highways.

    I think good public policy at this point is putting alcohol and microdoses of barbiturates in the tap water and outlawing good looking people wearing clothes in public. These are achievable goals within any of the political systems currently accessible to us, beating climate change is not.

  • Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues

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  • I find it interesting, from my own experience, that video games often are comprised of structured problem solving within clear boundaries and with explicitly stated goals: In many ways it closely resembles something we’d describe as work. Do a unit of work, get a point. Get enough points, you win. Only, the real world is nothing like that. In fact, it’s becoming increasingly less like that with corporate intermediaries and algorithms that are added on top of everything, e.g. empoyers’ Applicant Tracking Systems that automatically throws your job application in the trash because it didn’t include some keyword, or whatever.

    I think focusing on the dopamine kicks from the games’ rewards misses part of what make video games effective escapism from many alienated youths and adults. It’s the game themselves that are the escape.

  • You can’t gaslight me into thinking Gavin Newsom is our last hope...

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  • BUT HIS INTERNS WROTE IN ALL CAPS. HE’S A GENIUS, SOME SAY NO ONE HAS NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE. EPIC. THANK FOR YOUR ATTESTATION OF THIS MASSAGE.

  • Gates Foundation Quietly Cuts Ties With Firm Linked to Democrats

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  • To clarify, this is the answer Turdburglar seeks

  • “ChatGPT killed my son”: Parents’ lawsuit describes suicide notes in chat logs

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  • Yeah, taking the service down is an acceptable solution, but do you think Open AI will do that on their own without outside accountability?

  • “ChatGPT killed my son”: Parents’ lawsuit describes suicide notes in chat logs

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  • I’m sure that’s true in some technical sense, but clearly a lot of people treat them as borderline human. And Open AI, in particular, tries to get users to keep engaging with the LLM as of it were human/humanlike. All disclaimers aside, that’s how they want the user to think of the LLM, a probabilistic engine for returning the most likely text response you wanted to hear is a tougher sell for casual users.

  • World's largest sovereign wealth fund divests from Caterpillar and five banks on Israel concerns

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  • The same fund was recently caught having invested in an Israeli company that’s made bank during the war, maintaining Israeli jets making bombing runs on Gaza.

  • Gavin Newsom mocks Trump with parody merch store—including $100 signed Bible

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  • As a non American, I’m so weirded out by people hyping Newsom’s* lame trolling as the second coming of Christ.

    It’s a real dumb country to dominate the world, and despite all the suffering it will involve, I’m glad it’s finally collapsing. All the best to you non-insane people living there though, I’m rooting for you (but not betting on you, yet).

    *His Gen Z social media staff

  • Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

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  • This gas no basis in reality. No way that society makes it to 2050.

  • Trump says DOJ will sue California over redistricting as he celebrates Texas effort

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  • *reign

  • Argentina wants to monitor social media with AI to ‘predict future crimes’

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  • Every country is moving towards this and there is no fucking stopping it, it seems.

  • Donald Trump health fears erupt again over strange spot on hand

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  • They don't tend to die of natural causes while in power though, right?