Personally I’m not too excited by that future, if AI are made efficient enough to be contained on device & more trustworthy, I’m afraid of a surveillance state where the spying is not done remotely in large datacenters, but rather where data is processed by on-device agents and reported.

A black box in every device, maybe even in the form of hardware; kind of like the on-device scan Apple tried to impose a while back, but far reaching & that can be modulated & updated to be tailored to every region. One country using it to spy on dissidents, another for crime, another to repress LGBT people…

I don’t see AI as it exists as really useful beyond just being a “smarter google” that doesn’t (yet?) get all its results from SEO-optimized garbage. UI & UX is pushed so far nowadays that a “smart assistant” barely saves you a few taps on your smartphone, so I don’t think the smartest AI, whether LLM or otherwise, will be useful for everyday life as a tool for individual users.

AI integrated to robotics as a “servant” for chores is one possible use, but the advancements there are so snail-paced that I don’t think it’s something that will exist even in ~50 years.

relevant veritasium

If you have to pull out an etymology argument to justify a political position, you’re wrong by default. Because you’re blatantly ignoring the actual movement & extracting whatever meaning you want out of that word.

Feminism fights against the patriarch, which in modern terms include both traditional restrictions placed on women and men. So the fight against patriarchal expectations placed on men, among them toxic masculinity, are absolutely part of feminism as a political stance today.

Russia is not an hegemon, it does not project power enough to be considered as such. But it will have to fall, like any capitalist state.

From a strategic POV, this would ideally happen after the fall of the US or their position as global hegemon. As it stands, even if we hope for the eventual fall of capitalist Russia, it’s still a force against the US, hence the critical support.

We’re perfectly aware that Russia is capitalist, it gets no more credits than Germany for its communist past. The reason it receives critical support is because it’s opposing the US, and the US hegemon falling is pretty much the gateway to socialism worldwide.

We’re so clear about it that I don’t even understand how you could possibly think we support Russia because we think it’s still socialist?

Air is a fluid; gases & liquids are both fluids

That’s not what democratic socialism is. That’s social democracy – Capitalism with some kind of social net. It fails for the same reasons capitalism eventually fails; usually after failing as a social democracy first, because capitalist elites will cause corruption & dismantling of the safety net (as is going on everywhere in Europe)

Edit: It’s turning my double dashes to emdashes, I didnt chatgpt this :(

damn, I wonder what the american backed Syrian regime will do

oranges, bananas and other “Southern Fruit” were mostly a Christmas special

It was true for most of Europe afaik, unless you’re speaking about like the 80s I suppose, but oranges being a christmas thing was true for my grandparents as well (not in Germany)

Farmers are often depicted as a profession done by poor people, the reality in the US is that the poor people got bought out decades ago, most farmers are actually gigantic land owners and often millionaires

Have they? Piracy used to be extremely widespread even among people who didn’t know much about computers, and recent reports in Australia show that 85% of teens use VPNs to bypass restrictions. In countries with restricted such as China & Russia, VPNs are tools that are near universal.

Also, the current French president (along his government) is on the way out, the next elections are next year, there is no telling how long the law will remain in effect.

I think (mighty me with 0 drone or RF experience) that it would be possible to combine the fiber optic with radio, by having a control relay be physically attached with fiber optics, but then you control that relay with RF. If your fiber optics range is sufficient, then RF jamming won’t be an issue

Chinese car makers aren’t really more subsidized than Europeans and US. Actually we’re only seeing the brands that survived the internal competition of the Chinese car market, where a ton of brands failed and died.

What we’re seeing are the brands that survived that competition through extreme optimization, at a level no other car manufacturer had to reach before. And they did that in a growing market of 1.5 billion people.

Why should they struggle when competing with an aging industry with aging production modes that only address ~600m people? Especially when those companies offer objectively worse products at worse prices?

One missile in Suez would cripple the international economy like never before too

No monologue, no images, no sound. Just… concepts. It’s a bit weird.

Even weirder is that I can actually conjure images while asleep (or about to sleep, or barely just woke up).

I loved books as a kid, but never understood why people preferred them to movies where you could actually picture what is happening on the page. It took me until my mid 20s to figure out my experience was different to other people’s.

I can get lost in my imagination, it’s just not visual or auditory

today’s system of survival Capitalism

it’s not “today’s system”, this is not a different kind of capitalism we are living through; it’s simply the logical continuation of capitalism.

Capitalism means profiting from owning. This systematically means, as the meme says, “line goes up”. The line must go up, otherwise owning stops being profitable, and capitalism stops. We’re just at a point where the avenues to keep growth going are becoming harder and costlier to reach, and each time those avenues are explored, they make the next ones costlier. So we’re all getting squeezed, both as workers (mass layoffs, multiple jobs etc), and as consumers (enshittification, product quality deterioration, price increases).

This is unavoidable; European countries that are currently more livable than the US will inevitably face this as well, they just took the scenic route

Fingers crossed they do

Again, you don’t have to like them, but maybe just shut up about it for a second so we can all focus on the bigger issue. It’s called critical support.

There are issues with LGBTQ people in China, but they’re not really worse than Japan for example. Not good, because there is no official support or recognition (except at the local level), but no one really cares, especially not the government (except trans people – they do get treatment & support)

I’m sorry that I draw the line at genocide.