the gap doesn’t seem massive, couldn’t this just be importance of owning a car by “stage of life?” obviously people with kids, jobs, no knees etc… need cars more than uni students.
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2·2 months agoand yet crypto recieves speculative investment to this day. Say what you will about AI, at least the end product can sometimes do something.
why are you defining imperialism as the export of capital and not, idk, the use of force against other nations?
aren’t marxist-leninists supposed to be against all empire?
Under the asumption I am most people, can you give me the definition of socialism you prefer?
and are the enlightened centrists in the room with us now?
5·2 months agoand not even on a womans bicycle! (very empowered)
21·2 months agoWould you like to place bets on the chance of there being a 2028 election? I won’t even ask for 1:100000 odds, I’ll happily accept 1:100
I downvoted, not due to any disagreement towards the politics, but just because the memecraft on display here is abyssmal.
I dislike the framing of this, specifically:
“When we extend tolerance to those who are openly intolerant the tolerant ones end up being destroyed”
Implies that the intolerant are guarenteed victory. I vehemently disagree that this is true, and therefore would argue tolerating the bad actors is often a necessary evil to ensure that good actors are not unjustly censored. The risk of ‘another hitler’ is accepted this way of course but unless we as a society can demonstrate (if at all) that risk would be mitigated by the censorship of hate speech we have no good cause.
This just kevin-bacons all human beings into nazihood.
111·3 months agoSoftware costs nothing to copy and paste, only to design.
The term “whale” just implies a big spender, it doesn’t exlude gambling addicts, dumb children or the fiscally irresponsable.
You actually can’t ‘just all retool the factories’. The mining of certain materials, notably copper, becomes a limiting factor. To produce the worlds 100,000,000 motor vehicles per annum (given a generous assumption of 50kg of copper per electric vehicle) would require 5 million additional tons per year, a 20-25% increase over current figures. Meanwhile the cost of refining increases exponentially with decreasing ore grade.
Sure not every manufacturer would go out of buisness, but the industry would absolutely collapse.
I kind of disagree on ‘just as terrible’ noise/space sure, but not being able to smell the petrol is such a biggie for me.
9·3 months agoWe scrolled through the feed every couple of weeks to check what was being served up.
This is a critical flaw in the studies methodology. ‘loiter time’ is a metric used by algorithms to serve up new content, if the researchers where checking each post for signs of misogyny, then they were probably skipping by totally innocucus stuff whilst paying attention to misogyny. This (being the only feedback given) will have shown the researchers what they wanted to see.
Three months later, The Office, Star Wars, and now The Boys memes continue to punctuate the feed, now interspersed with highly sexist and misogynistic images that have have appeared in the feed without any input from the user.
It’d be good to know the actual ratios, given this was a guardian study there’s no reason to withhold data, nor a secondary source I can go and find the data. It’s possible that Facebook is simply serving up the entire spectrum of posts proportionately to their activity on the internet, or even favouring anti-sexist posts that are just not noticed/mentioned by the guardian.
Does anyone genuinely believe banning this sorta stuff is going to “end violence against women and children in one generation”?
Company proceeds to be purchased by microsoft
Can’t wait for dumb investors to get bailed out again can’t have the engines of finance halt woo woo lets go.