There's no AI databases in tibet, Yemen, Sudan etc.
Yes.. I know... the point was not that AI is stealing water from the Middle East. The point is that, whether its datacenters in the west, or climate change in the Middle East, profit motive, corporate greed, and theft are the main causes of water scarcity and lack of water collaboration. As is stated more elegantly in the numerous sources I've linked - which quantify water scarcity at the hands of corporations.
these places were going to run out of water eventually anyways
Source? This is a massive statement. You think that since humans first settled the Middle East, they were doomed to run out of water? How do even prove or disprove this? Any analysis here is predicated upon a history of capitalism and imperialism.
Climate change is listed as one of the main contributors to water scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa. And as we know, capitalism is one of the main drivers of climate change. Water scarcity is a result of capitalism and corporate greed. Until AI companies are no longer able to move into towns and suck up their entire aquifer just to make AI slop, there is not as much of a water scarcity as there is a water hoarding and theft.
So, what are the facts relating to China’s Social Credit System (SoCS)? First, a system does exist, but it is very different from what is imagined by many critics outside China. The biggest disconnect is around the notion of scores. Some commentators seem to imagine that a magic algorithm draws from AI cameras and internet surveillance all over the country to calculate a score that determines everyone’s place in society. In reality, the SoCS is not the techno-dystopian nightmare we fear: it is lowly digitalized, highly fragmented, and primarily focuses on businesses. Most importantly, such a score simply does not exist.
Classic lib move: dunking on nonexistent "ebil ccp" systems that started off as rumors mere days after the west decided it would clamp down on any semblance of internet freedom - upon a backdrop of rapidly burgeoning fascism and concentration camps. The US State Department has effortlessly oriented you.
People who push this kind of thinking still think warfare is carried out and progresses like it did in the Napoleonic era: two orderly opposed fronts clashing head-to-head in theaters with well-defined boundaries - where the adversary with more guns/people/resources win. Because more guns/people directly equates to military power, right?
These folks would do well to spend even the slightest amount of time learning about fourth generational, guerilla war. The fact that bullets ping off of tank armor does not disprove guerilla war.
Let's take this meme back a couple hundred years and cast you as a counter revolutonary American at the onset of the revolutonary war.
/*Wants to have muskets to fend off british empire
/*british empire:
Starts to seem silly when you realize even our founding fathers were doing guerilla warfare not long ago.
The democrats had a choice between genocide and curbing fascism. Your savior party chose to starve kids over halt fascism. Why are "tankies" obligated to respect your bizarre utility calculation, but Kamala and the democrats are not?
What is your red line? Assuming in 30 years, when the choice is between a candidate who wants 9 genocides and a candidate who wants 10, will you still be militantly democrat? Is there no point at which you would start to call into question your genocidal, fascist, enslaving government?
It's no longer interesting because it's probably bullshit - which is par for the course for these CIA cutouts. These are the same groups that push absurd ideas about state-mandated haircuts, Kim Jong Un dying, that Kim Jong Un executed his ex, that North Korea banned sarcasm, that Kim Jong Il claims he once shot 11 straight holes in one, etc... these pieces get absolutely eaten up by western liberals who, in the next breath, will call citizens of the DPRK the most propagandized on earth.
Turning up the center channel gives you more dialog. But that assumes you've got surround sound set up... Producers don't give as much love to stereo setups these days.
*Laughs in Dolby 5.1 with high quality Remuxes that have a center channel.
Seriously though, you can't blame them. Audio production these days is engineered for theaters and surround sound. Most of Gen z is watching this content in stereo - either through phone speakers or shitty TV speakers.
This is the same "vaguely leftist" person who simultaneously rails on PSL for their stance on Russia Ukraine conflict, and not an hour later goes on his bizarre Civil War comm and hails William Sherman is their "patron saint".
Been seeing all these headlines about people getting sent into chat-gpt-induced psychosis. Hard to tell if those stories come out of pearl clutching akin to the DnD scare, or if there is actually something nasty going on. I'm leaning towards the latter.
For real. My nvidia shield (the tube version), has been struggling with 4k HDR playback lately. It needs frequent reboots. I later come to learn that the device is 32 bit, yet it's one of the most competitive devices in the space? Silly.
Which has nothing to do with the myth of a social credit score...