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TheObviousSolution

@ TheObviousSolution @lemm.ee

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  • If X did that, then there wouldn't be this thread. It isn't just Google, it's every international corporation that has to deal with issues across the border. I'm sorry, bud, but outside of the Musk personality cult chamber, the guy is just incompetent, he just made and inherited a few risky bets that worked out for him and he's still riding their fading glory.

  • “If Young Voters Voted at the Same Rate”

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  • Democratic voters would be winning if it wasn't for gerrymandering. The fact is, they are playing against a loaded deck.

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  • I think any country would ban a business whose CEO ignores requests by its judges and even proceeds to taunt them. An international business that decides which laws it does or does not follow is pretty dystopian, all X had to do was what Google has done for ages, comply with the law regionally.

  • Mongolia obliged to arrest Putin if he visits, International Criminal Court says

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  • Then it can just leave as a member of the ICC if it cannot fulfill its obligations.

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    I was only gone for a day or two...

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  • Never would have happened with a capy!

  • Mongolia obliged to arrest Putin if he visits, International Criminal Court says

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  • So will Mongolia lose its ICC rights when it doesn't, or will they just feign attempt to feign a "we tried to arrest him, but he got away damnit!"?

  • Maybe they're onto something

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  • That something is hairballs.

  • Climate scientists flee Twitter [to Mastodon] as hostility surges

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  • X needs to start getting banned by governments and official governmental channels need to be moving out.

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  • Sono Sion shut down, and good luck even getting your money back. Of course and shamelessly, Sono Motors and their CEOs get to continue to cruise through it. Wait EV startups out until they release is my advice, too much of an industry and competing markets locking new competition out. The only incentive to purchase into them, paying less, is also what puts your money at risk.

    Sono Sion wasn't even Chinese. it was fully German. The dangerous thing about Chinese EVs is that they are much more certain to deliver, and that gives more of a false sense of security that they will continue to maintain and conform to regulations.

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  • It doesn't surprise me. I live in a "first past the post" country that forces a two-party system and penalizes voting your conscience unless it aligns with one of those parties. While there may be flaws in Ranked Choice Voting that could emerge in fringe cases, it is so obviously superior to our current system that it is hard for me to worry about the nuance of how it might not be 100% perfect 100% all of the time. Any (democratic) system is better than what we have now, even if it involves come bot casually stealing comments. 🙃

  • Don't go red!

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  • Imagine having to redefine yourselves as socialism in a comic to avoid facing the facts about its communism. Surprising that this isn't lemmy.ml

  • Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN’s Top Gaza Aid Agency

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  • Yes, if you redefine the death penalty into being genocide, it is genocide, and if you shift the narrative onto a fictional, you can make it not be about genocide.

    Brilliant points .......

  • Israel Is Buying Google Ads to Discredit the UN’s Top Gaza Aid Agency

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  • Yeah, no, sorry bud, it's genocide. Just because it's not overt genocide does not mean it's not a thing. It's not just happening in Gaza, it's happening in the West Bank, here is Stephen Colbert talking about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqK3_n6pdDY

    Just because they have more of an excuse in Gaza to do it much more flagrantly doesn't mean it isn't happening throughout Israel. Covert genocide, it's a thing.

  • Drivers Hate The Tech In Their Cars

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  • There's this thing called a smartphone. You might have heard of it.

  • Drivers Hate The Tech In Their Cars

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  • It's not about the drivers, it's about cheaper costs and normalizing subscription services for your vehicle.

  • Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding"

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  • Can I join anyone's band of AI server farm raiders 24 months from now? Anyone forming a group? I will bring my meat bicycle.

  • Big Crypto Is Spending More on US Elections Than Any Other Industry

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  • Crypto is the currency of the confidence game. The value isn't in the crypto, it's in the people trading actual money who've bought into it.

  • Not all ai is bad, just most of it

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  • You want a device that's only available on Star Fleet ships as part of the crew and probably limited only to a subset of higher ranking members of the crew? A major difference between the holodeck and deep fakes is that what happens in the holodeck stays in the holodeck - unless it gets out, in which case it usually becomes an illustration of why it should have been kept in.

  • This you?

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  • I love how people love to divide things into "left" and "right", even though when you cross international borders not only do they not hold, but different issues become jumbled into their notions of "left" and "right" which they suddenly try to explain away with their own subjective prioritization of which issue is the most important. It's specially ironic when it's computer scientists doing it, computer scientists who have to deal with exponential growth of complexity in computer systems, yet still think wetware systems that are going to be much less defined and are going to be a lot less predictive somehow can have their ideologies put in a line. AI hallucinates, but the bipolar linear political system people delude themselves is proof that humans have no problems hallucinating themselves.

    The day you can place dots for all parties everywhere without labeling on a graph (I'll be nice, you can have an additional axis) with an objective definition for what is left/right/up/down such that everyone can recognize which dots correspond to each party is the day I will be proven wrong. There's actually several models that attempt to do this and have been applied to AI political bias, and even they can't agree on it. (tangential source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaroJxFTVFQ )

    Left and right is the modern day equivalent of the Roman pantheon. There's actually a far more objective criteria, and it is between those who are willing to work within the premises of a system of governance and those who are trying to game it, but unfortunately it does not correspond to what people consider left and right across the borders and is quite distinct and relative to each system of governance, never mind being pedantic versus considering the intent.

    It all comes down to representative democracies being better than winner takes all personality driven democracies, which warps people's views into extremes that can't tolerate critical discussions e.g. US republicans who believe it's all a conspiracy and want to radically change the US, US democrats who won't discuss criticism about Israel, or consider ranked voting systems and popular vote over electoral college. With representative democracies, voting "nOt LeFt Or RiGhT" doesn't result in a lost vote, but means you can have additional opportunities to refine your vote. It's a big reason why in the last elections Spain didn't fall to the fascists.