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by vlyan 1mo ago
>The union demanded clear protections to ensure that recordings of actors’ performances could not be copied without consent and compensation. >California’s legislation passed AB 2602 and AB 1836 in September 2024, prohibiting media co
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by vlyan 1mo ago
yes, yes, very virtuous of you, now back to my point: why should Hans give a flying fuck about climate change if he will have no descendants to suffer from it?
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by vlyan 1mo ago
not a single European country has the TFR anywhere near 2. with the median age now reaching >=40, the TFR of 1.0-1.5 means rapid and irreversible decline. is this news to you?
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by vlyan 1mo ago
yes. does that not make sense to you? unless Hans is a young global leader who flies his private jet to Davos every year to urge proles to eat ze bugs, his carbon footprint will be less than that of someone with children. (I would use somet
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by vlyan 1mo ago
aboriginal Europeans' TFR is about 1.2 and falling. even if did remain that high (it won't!), 750M will become <100M in 100 years and <10M in 200 years. Europeans have already adopted the most effective strategy imaginable
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by vlyan 1mo ago
acknowledging that climate has changed is climate change denialism?
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by vlyan 1mo ago
okay, sure. I only removed it because I know that questioning the mass hysteria of that brief era gets you flagged. >the RKI estimated roughly 2,600–4,900 heat-related deaths annually in 2022–2025 >Germany reported about 2,800 COVID-1
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by vlyan 1mo ago
I think even when it's 45C and your boomers cook alive in their concrete ovens, I will still see these sneering opinions from the enlightened master race, civilized to the point of welcoming their own extinction to preserve the klimat
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by vlyan 1mo ago
because global-ish exchange of goods and services for money is a deliberately convoluted experience that only a handful of well-connected entities are allowed to facilitate, which enables each and every one of them to put "we reserve t
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by vlyan 1mo ago
>polluting on-site generators how much pollution do you believe modern gas-turbine engines to produce? >Not to mention the water use controversy. what percentage of US water usage do you believe is by AI data centers?
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by vlyan 1mo ago
>I don't really understand this dooming. no one remembers the last time things got better rather than worse. shitcoin-driven scarcity seamlessly transitioned into COVID-driven scarcity and now into hyperscaler-driven scarcity. the c
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by vlyan 1mo ago
very compelling. do the nations that never participated in colonization -- such as Switzerland, for example -- get exemption, or is the blood guilt shared among all wh*te people?
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by vlyan 1mo ago
the likelihood of finding a partner you can bet your life on is nonexistent. the likelihood of the opposite outcome is well-known at this point.
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by vlyan 1mo ago
>The main idea of EPR is sensible: businesses that place packaging on the market should help finance its collection and recycling. it is not sensible at all because businesses and individuals who dispose of that packaging already pay for
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by vlyan 1mo ago
"it doesn't matter what you choose to study because no job is safe from being outsourced overseas, handed over to an indentured servant, or made redundant by a machine. you will spend your whole life surviving while the cannibalis
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by vlyan 1mo ago
>if it gets too good, they are going to make it illegal citing natsec issues and so on. would be amusing to watch it happen while the second coming of the austrian painter is still in power. the media who fearmongered with sci-fi skynet
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by vlyan 1mo ago
why did you even bother to waste time on a comment like this?
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by vlyan 1mo ago
which search engines have no ties to the three countries currently waging illegal wars of aggression? :)
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by vlyan 1mo ago
we miss it dearly in Russia. most (reasonably-priced) furniture we had before Ikea was worse, and what we have now is worse still. high quality furniture loses most of its value the moment it becomes preowned, so it only makes sense to buy
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by vlyan 1mo ago
the irony of you getting your panties in a bunch over being disagreed with is simply delightful. not so different than those pesky billionaires, are you?
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by vlyan 1mo ago
>There is something inherently revolting about pulping billions of pages of literature. even my small town in my not particularly environmentally-conscious country has had those boxes for paper recycling since the 90s. I personally dumpe
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by vlyan 2mo ago
the slop centipede
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by vlyan 2mo ago
>Water is an easily dismissable strawman that sloppers love to bring on. unreal fucking chutzpah. even here, where current thing activists do occasionally get challenged with indisputable evidence debunking their wild claims, they still
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by vlyan 2mo ago
and do you happen to know a zero friction payment system that works internationally like the Internet itself does? because I promise you that unless you already have a captive audience, even a minuscule amount of friction to access your ser
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by vlyan 2mo ago
why do you still believe that EU is a benevolent entity?
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by vlyan 2mo ago
no, apparently, otherwise we'd already have specialized models. every bit of meaningful human-generated data appears to improve the overall capability of the model.