Aerroon

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by Aerroon 2y ago
National elections are dominated by the same parties that dominate European Parliamentary elections. It's the same voting system after all, except you have even less choice since there are fewer spots. > and that vote actually, if I
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by Aerroon 2y ago
If you aren't physically strong enough to defend yourself then you shouldn't be able to defend yourself?
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by Aerroon 2y ago
That's interesting! And I'm guessing the lack of daylight in winter has its own effects too.
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by Aerroon 2y ago
Maybe not 63N but a lot of people still live north of 57N. And from my experience proper blackout curtains are pretty rare.
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by Aerroon 2y ago
How does this work though? 11 pm the sky is still light blue here. 3 am the sky is light blue again. 3:30-4:00 is basically daylight outside already. Do people in northern latitudes have chronic inflammation during summer then?
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by Aerroon 2y ago
> If you're looking at cost per calorie unhealthy food will often win out as less costly What you should be looking for is cost per gram of protein. That's the only macro nutrient you need large amounts of. Calories per gram o
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by Aerroon 2y ago
> something you can take into account in your next national elections There's nobody to vote for. I looked at how Parliament voted on the AI act. https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/166051 Basically everyone voted fo
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by Aerroon 2y ago
I call bs on the second part. It's not unhealthy food that makes you gain weight, it's how much food you have. On top of that, the healthiest foods are among the cheapest foods you can buy. Milk, oatmeal, potatoes, rice, macaroni,
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by Aerroon 2y ago
Does the US actually fall behind other nations in health outcomes? The US has two big factors working against them: much more widespread obesity (and the level of morbid obesity) and the insurance bureaucracy. These two factors should negat
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by Aerroon 2y ago
I think what societies need is a feeling of hope and improvement. As long as people feel that things are getting better they are happy.
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by Aerroon 2y ago
That's true, but states collect a lot of tax revenue themselves. In 2022 they collected $3.66 trillion.[0] the federal government collected $4.97 trillion in the same timeframe.[1] Also note (a few rows down the table)[2] that the US g
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by Aerroon 2y ago
"If you don't want to pay taxes then who's gonna pay for the roads?" Apparently, nobody pays for it either way. It's astounding to me how little tax money goes into paying for infrastructure. In 2023 the US federal
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by Aerroon 2y ago
But it took 8 years to get there. It was basically law of the land for a decade.
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by Aerroon 2y ago
> It's a really nasty feeling to live in a society influenced by politicians in power with ideas so far away from my own This has made me realize that there is little difference in living in a "free" society compared to &
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by Aerroon 2y ago
It shouldn't be. In 2006, the Commission proposed, and Parliament agreed on, the Data Retention Directive. It forced all ISPs to save all browsing data on everyone for 6-24 months. The idea that the commission or Parliament in any way
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by Aerroon 2y ago
Yes, it's subject to court review... Five years down the line. Meanwhile they will force member states to act according to it. If they refuse they will sue them! This is exactly what happened with the Data Retention Directive: https
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by Aerroon 2y ago
I don't think that the problem lies with the commission. If we had a Senate like the US or if Parliament decided to introduce new laws then nothing would really be different. They would still make these boneheaded decisions that are un
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by Aerroon 2y ago
Do you prefer lions or tigers? BBQ sauce or ketchup? Green or blue? I bet you can answer all of these at a moment's notice, but where does your answer come from? Have you ever sat down and tried to reason out which one you like more? O
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by Aerroon 2y ago
Unfortunately the EU has already rammed their legislation through. The US is always going to be compared to EU propaganda about "how they protect the people".
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by Aerroon 2y ago
> Many indie works suffer from the same formulaic failings as popular works, so that doesn't seem like a solution either I think the indie scene for a lot of media is a lot less 'independent' than we might think. This bec
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by Aerroon 2y ago
But the problem is less with the source material and more with the execution of the movie. Look at Game of Thrones and what happened when they ran out of source material. Something about the (modern?) movie making process just sucks out the
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by Aerroon 2y ago
I'm sorry for your loss.
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by Aerroon 2y ago
No idea. How would I find out that I've set all of the knobs correctly? That's kind of the problem I think.
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by Aerroon 2y ago
I've read about it and came upon the same answer as you just gave, but I'm not satisfied with it. Looking around the world, it seems to me that most developed countries (if not all) suffer from the same problem of lack of doctors.
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by Aerroon 2y ago
But what's the actual rate limiting factor? I remember liking at University entrance requirements in my country and the minimum requirements were low compared to what you actually needed because of the insane competition. Why not just
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by Aerroon 2y ago
I've had the same thought about alarms. Back in the day I had an alarm clock. I set it to go off at a specific time and it did. The only failure mode was the battery running out. Then I got a Nokia phone. It worked the same as the alar
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by Aerroon 2y ago
Well, it just goes to show that the people that wouldn't trust such a service were right all along. Everyone else just gaslit them over it "while trying to help". The same goes for things like mandatory reporting requirements
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by Aerroon 2y ago
From my experience Krita didn't feel much better than GIMP. Stuff like the eraser being hidden under brushes is just weird compared to my previous experience.
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by Aerroon 2y ago
* (some?) LLMs run better on Linux than Windows - some people report a 50% improvement in tokens/sec.
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by Aerroon 2y ago
> in the next several hundred years doesn't make it not worth using. A decade before my grandfather was born the area of my country was part of the Russian empire. He was born into a democratic republic that turned into an autocrac

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