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Anything discontinued should stop being protected by copyright law, and the manufacturer should be forced to give every piece of information they have on that product.

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The most funny thing about this is when Google AI will pick this as the true answer to the creation of Dune

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Have you read the report?

I haven't read it all, but from reading like a couple paragraphs it says that the Chinese government is making mass incarcerations with accusations of extremism and terrorism, while these terms are not well defined and it appears that they are only targeting Muslims for their religion. Furthermore in these jails it appears that the Chinese government is doing things like forced injections, forcing people to take pills and other classics like torture, waterboarding and rape, invasive gynecological exams etc.

Inmates are forbidden to pray with guards making rounds at night to ensure compliance, being forbidden to speak their own language or practice anything from their culture. Prominent scholars, artists and intellectuals are being incarcerated, people are forbidden to leave the region or to receive or send money from the outside.

If it were Israel doing this, and they are doing this, you'd call it genocide, wouldn't you?

Or doesn't Uyghurstan have the same right to exist as Palestine?

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I'm not sure the old new one is that much better than the new new one tbh. I always found it to be bloated af, especially with time it got worse and worse. Also, why are both sites so slow?

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I'm sorry to hear that, but yeah, heroin is one hell of a drug ^/s

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Good luck making an AI you are 100% sure is PG rated.

Btw someone already put chatgpt+whisper in a kid's plushie/toy, saw it on an old WAN show. The lag is tremendous though

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On Pixel (but probably also other phones) you can press and hold the power button to summon the assistant. Put chatgpt or whatever as your assistant and you have a rabbit equivalent with one button summon.

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It really depends on where you are. There are places where summer is the same temperature as some other place's winter.

Also, I hate the fact that in winter you have to stay inside all the time, there's no sun and everything is cold and sad. Spring and Summer are the times of the year when you travel, go out, enjoy nature and make memories.

And if you have a decently insulated home or AC, you can sleep great.

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I don't know where you are from, but I've been to the US a couple of times and I can understand why the AC power bill can be absurd there. You cannot keep, in August, in the middle of the desert, AC at 18°C when outside there are 35-40°C. It's criminal on so many levels.

I had a layover in Atlanta last summer and I got home sick, so much was the air conditioning in the airport and in shops and restaurants. Outside it was proper sweating hot, inside I was freezing while wearing a hoodie. I've been on a bus where the driver was wearing a heavy jacket, in August, and all because the bus AC was set to something like 15°C. What is wrong with Americans?

Keep AC at 25-27°C, remove all blankets and clothes when you go to sleep, and I bet you it will consume a lot less energy. Unless you live in the Death Valley, in which case, good luck.

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I bet you also sleep with a heavy blanket as if it were winter.

I got sick last time I was in the US cause everywhere was like 16°C while outside was like 30-35°C. What's your problem, people?

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The problem is the magnitude, but yeah, even before 2020 Google was becoming shit and being overrun by shitty blogspam trying to sell you stuff with articles clearly written by machines. The only difference is that it was easier to spot and harder to do. But they did it anyway

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It's not really an issue. 99.9% of the time the passengers will already be safe and the pedestrian is the one at risk. The only time I see this being an issue is if the car is already out of control, but at that point there's little anyone can do.

I mean, what's the situation where a car can't break but has enough control where it HAS to kill a pedestrian in order to save the passengers?

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Will it pull a Tesla and switch off the autopilot seconds before an accident?

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That's a problem with the software. The passengers in the car were never at risk and the car could have stopped at any time, the issue was that the car didn't know what was happening. This situation wouldn't have engaged the autopilot in the way we are discussing.

As an aside, if what you said is true, people at Tesla should be in jail. WTF

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Or how people care soooo much about babies lives until they leave the uterus . After that, they can go die for all they care.

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Well, that would make some very interesting "consenting" cheese.

Love me some queso de mamacita

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Which has the exact same issues, but they are presented as "ecosystem" so it's ok

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We also have it in Milan, but it can be put also before the sentence, same meaning though

"Fa freschino oggi, né?" or "Né che fa freschino oggi?" or in Milanese "Fà fregg incö, né?"

They all mean "pretty cold today, innit?"

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On the other hand, without the invention of lenses we wouldn't have most of our science and technology. No microscope, no telescope, no microchips, no precision engineering. So many things today are possible only because we could enhance our shitty vision with lenses

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I mean, it's great for audio and video chats. What I never understood is why people started using discord as a forum, as documentation or as some kind of program (like, why is Midjourney on a public discord chat? It's probably the worst possible interface).

Discord is excellent for chatting with your friends while playing games, and that's it.

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It helps sometimes with code, when I can't find a solution on Google.

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I don't know, isn't it a huge money sink rn?

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Eh, feudalism too. And real-world communism. And pretty much any society that ever existed on this pale blue dot in space. There are always some in power that live in wealth, and in poverty that get fucked, it's not a feature specifically of capitalism.

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Eh, in feudalism too, if you were the son of a noble, you'd get the estate. And in real-world communism too, if you were the child of a high ranking official, you'd get into positions of power and know influential people. Even this is not specifically tied to capitalism.

Capitalism is the fact that you can buy and sell the tree and the fruits freely. In feudalism, you couldn't do this, not really at least, the land belonged to the noble, and you owed them your life and your work. In some cases, it was more akin to slavery than anything else. And in communism you couldn't do this either, the land and the produce was of the state, and the powerful officials decide how to allocate them.

And I'm not even saying that capitalism is in any way good, just that "powerful people at the top" is not in any way specific to this or that economic system.

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Yeah, thankfully I said real-world communism. Utopian communism would indeed be great.

In feudal society, the noble owns the serfs. The serf cannot move without the noble's consent and is tied to the land in such a manner that, if the noble decides to sell the land, the serf on the land are sold too. They have to work the lands of the noble before their own and have to pay a tax on what they own to the noble. While they own some small tools, like pots, needles, tools for churning butter and other small farming tools, the biggest tools were often owned by the village as they were too expensive for the single farmer. Some other tools were instead illegal to own, a famous example was the grinding stone, which was illegal to own, since you HAD to go to the noble's mill to transform your wheat into flour and then bread. This was because you then had to pay a tax to the miller and a tax to the noble in order to mill your wheat.

So, in essence, in feudalism a serf did not own their land, did not own their labor and was not even free to move. So much better, right? /s

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Regardless, that has nothing to do with the comic OP posted. Are there, in real-world communist/feudal societies, people that get more on the shoulders of other people's work? If the answer is yes, then the comic does not specifically represent a capitalist society.

Because this is what the comic represents. It does not represent the welfare system, or lack thereof. It does not show any means of production. It just shows some person getting wealth on the shoulders of another person's work. That's it.

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Ok, then you are equally ok with this, I guess:

https://feddit.it/pictrs/image/b5aed21b-0dbf-4a95-bb71-94922d0ad358.webp

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What's the conversation then? If you can't discuss alternative systems, what's the point? Circlejerk? How fun

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Indeed

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Not at all what I've said. I just want people here to have an honest conversation rather than circlejerking each other. But circlejerking it is I guess

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Tape, probably /s

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Boeing hasn’t built a new plane in a very long time.

Wait, what? They have created the 787 in the 2000s and the 777X and 737 MAX in the 2010s.

The issues are not because they didn't have projects, but because those projects were done primarily thinking about costs, time and profits. Do it fast and do it cheap always means do it bad, and this applies to any industry

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I'm pretty sure this measure was requested either by the government or some big three letter agency.

I doubt that, if all printers were manufactured by a government monopoly, you wouldn't have this shit baked in. It would probably be way worse

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Wait, how old is that? Because on Wikipedia it suggests that Xerox has been working on this at least since the 80s, and while it was only discovered in 2004, apparently everyone had been using these kinds of patterns for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

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IMO is just placebo effect. In a blind experiment, all else being equal, I doubt you would be able to tell the difference between a vinyl and a CD. That's my two cents

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I think the issue is mostly in the visuals. When you look for traditional English food, it is usually a plate full of beige stuff, sometimes paired with really unappetizing boiled carrots and beans. The gravy being on the side instead of part of the dish doesn't do it any favors either.

Also I'd argue England has pretty low standards for what counts as "food". I've had to work in England for a month, and finding something fresh, healthy and tasty to eat was a real challenge. I've never been as fat as when I came home.

The epitome of the wasted potential of English cuisine is the fact that it's an island full of the best fishes in the world, yet the only fish you can find is battered cod. Why is it so hard to get a salmon fillet? You have Scottish salmon ffs!

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Generally speaking what follows a violent revolution is usually a few decades of war, poverty and tyranny.

It's quite unlikely that you'll be better off in the 2-3 following decades than when you started. After that, it's anyone's guess. You might be better off or worse off, depending on the ability of the new government

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I didn't say that all revolutions are bad. It's usually a mixed bag, some good, some bad.

What I was saying is that violent revolutions and civil wars, like all wars, usually bring death, destruction and poverty for the normal everyday people. So if you are expecting better living conditions right after a revolution, you are either so poor that anything is better or you better be on the short list of elites that will get to grab power and rebuild the country, otherwise you are going to suffer. Maybe your kids will be better off... Maybe.

And yes, there are also independence wars, but those are different from civil wars. The US is independent, Americans don't consider themselves being occupied by a foreign entity.

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"Hot tube" seems like a slang for some kind of drug device. Like a weird bong or something

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It should be clearly labeled then. Also in the nutritional information it should be clearly stated (pure tea is 0% carbs, 0% sugar).

I don't think you can hide your sugar as "aroma"

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That's a US thing I think, which doesn't make sense btw.

In Europe you are required to report the nutrition facts per 100g. Any other size is optional. In Italy Tic-Tacs have 94.5g of sugar per 100g of product https://www.ferrero.it/Tic-Tac#expand-jump-1

So if you are unsure about the nutrition facts, check the European website

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So, since Islam uses the lunar calendar, you're telling me that the reason why they use it is to track menstruations?

Good to know they are attentive to their women's needs

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The same way Arab countries don't need a calendar, they just look up

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It's not about laws, it's about sexual education. Sexual education is a topic that can't be left to the parents and should be explained in school, so as to give the kids a complete knowledge base.

Most parents know about sex as much as they know about medicines. They've had some, but that doesn't give them a degree for teaching that stuff.

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*haptic feedback. The touch and press should be two different actions, not the same action. Otherwise, you need to look at a button to know where it is and if it did what it was supposed to do, which distracts you from driving.

Touchscreens are not that much better in this regard, IMO

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You do though. Without legislations, cars wouldn't have safety features by default like crumple zones, airbags etc. Without legislations, companies could do whatever they want to pad their bottom line. You need laws to define what is and isn't acceptable, especially when it comes to safety.

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Of course I do. Imagine for a second not feeling the different light switches in the dark and turning on all the lights in the middle of the night just to go to the bathroom.

Sure, I know which I've touched AFTER I've touched it. I need to know BEFORE I press it, without having to look.

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Used Ricoh laser. Enterprise grade quality, just works

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