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  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • Its an urban planning and transport issue essentially. Medium density housing (think 4-6 story blocks) allows enough people to live in an area that it becomes feasible to have trams/light rail serving that area.

  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • You're right that there's orders of magnitude difference, but its the driving that's far more! One query to a chatGPT type model uses roughly 1Wh of energy, which is about the same as is released in burning one droplet of gasoline.

  • Electoral reform in the UK feels inevitable

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  • I mean, Farage is a cunt, but he's been publicly in favor of PR for decades, likely not least because it would benefit his parties.

  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • No I'm a meat eater who is anti-car! I'm more getting at how people have latched on to the energy use of AI models without realising the huge energy usage that goes into their daily lives.

  • Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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  • Yeah, I too hate those hypcrites who complain about the massive environmental impact of AI, then drive a 10 mile round trip to buy a burger made from a cow raised on soy.

  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • Just FYI, this use of republic is not recognised in political science and as far as I've seen is only used by americans justifying why their system is undemocratic. Republic just comes from "res Publica" (public affair) and means the head of state is not a monarch but a member of the public. There are very democratic republics like Finland and there are very undemocratic republics like the PRC. The way you describe a republic would apply to countries like the UK or Sweden, which are constitutional monarchies, not republics.

    Representative democracy is a better term for what you are talking about, where the population elects representatives who are able to advocate for them and take the time to become subject matter experts on running the country (idealy).

  • NSFW

    GOG NSFW Giveaway

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  • Presumably the devs have to agree to it. I dont think gog cn just decide "were going to give away this game we dont own for free"

  • Russia to spend $1.1 trillion preparing for 'upcoming large-scale war,' Ukraine's intel chief says

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  • I mean, they already are, just for recruitment to the army rather than factories. There's plenty of stories of people being rounded up by police, put on trumped up charges and being given the option of jail and abuse there or signing up to go to the front line.

  • GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship

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  • Thats pretty funny given the current "save the children" censorship in the uk that is going on.

  • ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

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  • Yep, and when you click a button that liteally says "make this discoverable on search engines" which is off by defualt, its the later.

  • ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results

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  • Everything the right - and the left – are getting wrong about the Online Safety Act

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  • I wouldnt be so confident in that. The wikimedia foundation are already in legal proceedings arguing against the act being drawn so widely that they would be included with the likes of instagram and twitter as a large scale social media company just due to their talk pages.

  • 4.2% pay rise for police officers across England and Wales

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  • Eh, public services have been getting pay increases across the board to make up for the ridiculous tory freezes on wages for a decade. for example, just two months ago there was a 4% increase for teachers and doctors in england, is that also Keir bribing teachers to get them on side?

  • Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery

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  • It would be nice to see a price/GWh of this (along with running costs, it says they save 1 Million per GWh, how much were the running costs before!?), but any improvement in battery tech is definitely a good thing.

  • Russia to spend $1.1 trillion preparing for 'upcoming large-scale war,' Ukraine's intel chief says

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  • How long they can do it for is a significant open question, the Russian economy is already showing serious warning signs and most of the forcasts that I've seen show 2026 as the year where things start to become very bad for them. It's not an all or nothing thing either, its not that it is about to implode and all of a sudden Russia cant do anything, but that the economy degrades to the point where it becomes difficult for them to maintain funnelling sufficient resources into their invasion.

  • Russia to spend $1.1 trillion preparing for 'upcoming large-scale war,' Ukraine's intel chief says

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  • Russia has an "official" central bank interest rate of 20% with parts of the real economy seizing up due to the country's resources being funneled into creating vehicles that last for a few months before being blown up in their invasion.

    Large countries have a lot of levers they can pull to keep their economies going when they really need to, but they are damaging in the long run and get more damaging the longer they rely on them. Russia doesnt have some magical property of being extra resilient based on slavic tolerance of suffering.