NoneOfUrBusiness

I think the “on public flagpoles” part is important here.

I think OpenAI is big enough to be in the oligarchy running in its own right rather than be acquired.

This is this century’s industrial revolution and the West isn’t even in the competition anymore.

I don’t think it is, maybe we are due for another growth spurt but from here on out I genuinely think a critical mass has been achieved where it will simply make more and more sense for people to come here.

Maybe for English and a handful of major European languages, but there’s no way I could recommend the Fediverse (at least the Threadverse; I don’t hang out on Mastodon) to an Arabic or Japanese speaker. In that area it’s still severely lacking.

That’s… uh… thanks, Trump? Now lemme go wash my mouth real quick.

Gorilla In Gorilla Out?

What. The. Fuck.

As someone watching this from outside: More of this please.

Surprise quiz: Using an epsilon-delta proof, find the value to which the badness of your time management decisions converges to or show that it diverges.

That particular famine’s not the real warning though, that’s just war shit and Russian cyclical famines that were ended by modern agriculture.

Okay so cyclical famines don’t kill millions of people that’s not how that works. The main cause of the famine was the war, but the war caused the famine through (among other things) War Communism. In the immortal words of one angry Irish dude: God created the potato blight crop failures; the British Communist Party created the famine.

What you want is the Lysenkoism-caused famines that followed it, partly because the Soviets were so desperate to end the cycles and thus prove their legitimacy.

Those are more clear-cut since there was no war to blame for incompetent Soviet policy, but I wanted to point out that even Lenin himself was a failure as a ruler and not at all the source of sound socioeconomic ideas when it comes to actually solving the problem he claimed to have the solution for.

I don’t think you should be taking socio-economic understanding from the guy whose mismanagement caused/exacerbated this. And, you know, created an authoritarian state out of a revolution; that was bad too.

Yeah fair enough.

That’s true, but it’s still up to them whether they want to get arrested over social media comments somebody else made.

Y’all should actually read the post. They’re clear that they don’t want to do this but fear extreme repression by the German government, and they even listed examples of what exactly they’re trying to avoid. I’m no Israel apologist, but I’m convinced.

One can only hope, but I doubt it.

Why Democrats Joined Republicans to Block a California Climate Policy

Because Democrats are controlled opposition who ultimately serve the interests of the ultra-rich?

You’re welcome to go take it up with the devs on Lemmy.ml.

Don’t forget to praise Stalin first.

Man I’ll be so fucking happy if this shitshow ends with the dissolution of the Union.

I mean yeah, because that pick did have a good track record.

I’ll never understand the hate boner people on the internet have for this guy.