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That’s pretty much the same thing this headline is saying. We are deep in it now, maybe not the absolute worst case it could be, but definitely not good. And 12 months is not nearly enough time to deal with the problem, so much so that it’s laughable to even suggest it could be. The only solution will be long, hard, expensive, and require a LOT of pain and sacrifice. Plus, there’s no guarantees it will even work. It may just be too late at this point.

No, it’s not the same thing. When most Christians, or governments in countries with majority Christian population, hear about priests raping kids, they are disgusted by it and are 100% ok with punishing the offender.

When Muslim countries hear about the above, they think justice has been done. Obviously the girl should have just been a good little child sex slave and went along with whatever her husband wanted. The see shit like this as A-OK.

It’s a false equivalence to say these two views are the same.

Not to mention they usually count the weight of whatever they’re in too. See a big news story about the cops seizing tons of product at a port? Well they’re including the shipping container weight.

What insurance company would be braindead enough to insure NFTs?

Iowa is pretty flat, it’s not hard to run cable across flat land. Try doing that in a mountainous area like Montana or Utah and it gets much trickier.

where companies can’t sell an LLM product with copyrighted training data.

If an artist learns their technique from copying other artists until they are competent enough to produce their own original works, should they be banned from selling their original work or services? After all, they used copyrighted training data to gain the skills needed to produce said work and services.

And people said NFTs were stupid. I mean, they are, but people have been paying for essentially the same thing for years now.

Dirty Jobs, Cash Cab, Future Weapons

Not much for a while. Meat produces would continue to fill their previously agreed upon contracts. Grocery chains would continue to buy their contractually agreed upon amounts. Large food chains would continue to offer their contractually obligated menu items containing their contractually purchased meat.

People don’t seem to get how little consumer opinion matters these days. Consumers are idiots with short attention spans and companies know it. That’s why there are contracts. It doesn’t really matter if consumers get upset and stop buying a product, they’ll typically forget within 3 months.

Know what would happen if McDonalds one day said “we’re going to stop serving meat starting immediately.”? They’d be sued to high heaven by their meat suppliers for breaking contract.

Long story short, don’t shop on Black Friday for deals in electronics.

Note, this does not apply if you use responsible stores like Micro Center.

Retrieved, not reused.

1. Governments aren’t doing enough

2. The world as a whole isn’t doing enough

3. We’re already fucked and starting to feeling the effects.

I feel like there’s a lot of variables here. I am making some assumptions here, but as an example, I don’t think the hospitals in Gaza would have things like multiple MRI’s or CT Scanners that you would find in more developed areas. Those things require a pretty large amount of power. I know a lot of hospitals in undeveloped regions often only have one, sometimes none at all.

I think the only thing that can give some perspective is how big the diesel tanks are at the hospital. How much does 300L fill them? If that’s like a quarter or less of their total capacity, then yea, that’s not enough. But if that fills them by over half, then I kind of get it. You can only deliver so much at a time if you don’t want trucks of fuel parked outside the hospital, which just seems like a bad idea for many reasons.

Ah, sorry. That kind of protest is old, a bit “last season”. We’re really just focusing on Israel/Palestine protests now.

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But where do you draw the line? Sure, microchips in vaccines is one thing, but what about simply warning people the vaccine doesn’t stop the spread of disease? During the pandemic, that would get you crucified, except now it turns out it isn’t as effective at stopping transmission as we were first told.

I was and am pro vax. It saves lives. But I’m also not going to pretend there wasn’t a weird animosity towards anyone saying anything contrary to the official, government sponsored, talking points during the pandemic. People were vilified for suggesting the virus came from a lab. Or that masks weren’t as effective as we were making it out to be. Or that the tests were producing false results.

It’s all well and good to say people shouldn’t spread falsehoods, but sometimes the lines of what’s true are blurred through the lens of hindsight when they seemed so clear in the moment.

Wish granted.

Now they use X.

That explanation for why dark chocolate is so high seems like a stretch and really casts doubt on all the rest of the information.

Say Mexico was starving. Say aid was sent to them again and again but every time, the Mexican government snatched a large chunk of it up and hoarded it. Say then that the Mexican government decides to attack the US and the US cut off aid. The Mexican government still have huge stocks of food and supplies from the years of aid that was meant for the people, but now no new aid is coming in.

Is the US to blame for Mexicans starving? Or is it the Mexican government who refuse to distribute their stockpiles to their people?

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Medical patents and approvals are an interesting miasma of red tape. Apparently the new Pixel 8’s have been having some hurdles with them. They contain a temperature sensor which can supposedly be used to check body temperature and monitor for disease. But merely checking body temperature makes it a Class II medical device which requires a ton of paperwork and red tape from the FDA, with disease tracking making it even more difficult. So that’s why the Pixel 8 was released with a temperature sensor which, for now, can only be used to measure external things and is prohibited from being accesed by third part developers.

Another good example is 23andme. When they first started, it wasn’t just genealogy information. They’d give a whole background of genetic diseases and conditions you might be at risk for. Then the FDA found out and shut it down since they didn’t go through the hoops required to give out medical advice. So even though they have the complete capability to gather that information accurately, they are no longer allowed to provide it to their customers, simply due to red tape.