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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Coming up with a plan would be squarely in the hands of scientists and engineers and passionate individuals. Perhaps the government and the public would help in enacting that plan, but not in creating it. I'm led to believe that the sc
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Smart people are doing those things. Just in a way that benefits them and not necessarily you or I. Anyway, what is the solution that the scientific community proposed and that was killed by the political and corporate establishment? What i
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Things do in fact work that way. Here's a list of things that a small number of people changed without the consent of the public, all before we got a single workable plan for climate change: The internet, cell phones, social media, fra
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I didn't say that the media said that. It was the general feeling that many people (myself included) had and that activists perpetuated at that time. Disaster was about 15-20 years away. What I said about the media is that they talked
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Climate change is the only issue I'm aware of where "humanity" routinely gets implicated. Climate change has been a mainstream issue since the mid-90s. From then until now we've had massive material and ideological chang
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Something that's interesting to me is how climate change has largely fallen off the media radar over the past few years. Back around 2007 it was a HUGE topic and many of us thought we'd be living in hell by 2025. Yet here we are a
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I never understood why the entire population needed to be involved. It's not a referendum. A handful of smart people just needed to get together and come up with a solution. Then the governments of the world implement it. I understand
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Thanks. Now you've got me curious how this really differs from just paying taxes, just like people have always done in non-feudal systems.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Those are goals, not a plan. Is there a plan that scientists and activists agreed on that I should be supporting?
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
1. Wouldn't there be even more money to be made by saving the human race? Putting aside profit, wouldn't people with money want to continue existing and therefore be aligned with the movement? 2. Your example isn't something
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
An often forgotten field that's adjacent to programming but much easier to get into is network engineering. If you're smart enough to program then you're smart enough to to architect and configure a network. Salaries are comp
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
What would the world look like if we had won the fight? I've been hearing about this fight for my entire life. People are extremely passionate and self-righteous about it and have science to back up everything they believe, so why was
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Sure, maybe the Grand Algorithm could do what the market currently does and decide how to distribute surplus wealth. It could decide how much money you deserve each month, how big of a house, how desirable of a partner. But it still needs v
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
If the wealthy own everything then where are you getting the parts to build your own tech or the land to grow your own food? In a feudalist system, the rich gave you the ability to subsist in exchange for supporting them militarily. In a ne
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
He pretty much hits the nail on the head as far as describing modern-day political and social movements. It's about doing the bare minimum to make oneself feel better and to be able to brand oneself as an activist. It seems like all th
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I fear it's too late for this. For any category of item, pretty much all the stuff you buy from Amazon or elsewhere online generally comes from the same few factories in China. Any other potential suppliers probably went out of busines
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Yeah, I guess the virtual nature of it allows a pimp, possibly in a foreign country, to put a bunch of girls in front of cameras and have them do whatever they're told to do. A typical porn video is slightly different than that. Still,
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Yes, it's on you to identify if the seller is Target or a third party. It's listed on the product page, but if you didnt know that there were third party items, you would probably just assume you were buying from Target/Walma
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
What you said is true for their physical locations, but both Target and Walmart implemented Amazon-style marketplaces a while back, and my impression is that there's very little oversight or quality control. Even less than on Amazon.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
That's what I figured, but I don't quite get why normal porn, made by a director, is allowed, but not custom porn where the customer pretty much is the director.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Normal porn still requires someone to pay someone else to have sex, and still allows for the possibility of exploitation, which I guess is what these laws are trying to combat.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I read the article but it's still not clear to me. Is normal porn already illegal there? Or do they just have a problem with "custom" porn?
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
You're right. The numbers seem way too high. Nine Starbucks?? Not to mention that these are only the fast food spots. In total there are 300+ restaurants. I'm guessing that high density cities skewed the numbers way too high.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
To me, this is less about how Americans incorrectly categorize food (not that they don't do that) and more about how lazy algorithms do so.
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Apparently an American city of 100,000 people has: 9 Starbucks and 4 Dunkin’s 6 McDonalds, 3 Burger Kings and 3 Wendy’s 4 Taco Bells and 2 Chipotles 9 Subways 3 Dominos and 2.5 Chick-Fil-A’s
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
It probably also belonged to a certain period of time and a certain generation. The peak of couchsurfing coincided with millennials coming of age, and provided something that appealed to them at the time. Namely, cheap travel and interestin
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
I said cheaper. Not better. What difference does it make if it's better if only a few people can afford it. I also don't accept longer lifespans as something that is always worth pursuing. You also didn't address my point tha
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Most of the things in this list are pretty innocuous and were never weaponized. Two exceptions, social media and cell phones, have been weaponized and after a certain point, I would say that we'd be better off without them. I would put
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
When I look at the problems in my life, in my country, or in the world around me, not once has it occurred to me that they were due to a lack of advanced pattern recognition or DNA prediction. When people were dying of hunger then being abl
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by yupitsme123 1y ago
Do you really feel that skipping LLMs would be like skipping the industrial revolution, electricity, or the internet? Twenty years from now where do you see societies that "embrace" this technology vs. ones that don't? It&#x2

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