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  • Why do people from Western societies always seem to complain?

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  • I agree with this take.

    We are wired to find the next problem and to solve it. Enjoy our work for a short while and then start looking for the next problem to solve.

    Whether it is cultural or genetic, I don't know, but it's definitely very deep in our western psyche and it will not be going away any time soon.

    The main problem I see is that a lot of people in Western society nowadays use complaining as a substitute for action, and so problems don't get solved, but people convince themselves that they took action by complaining.

  • Guns and growth: Europe should ensure to develop defense tech, weapons at home instead of buying from the U.S. to boost economy, researchers say

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  • I fully agree. I think this should be an EU policy.

    Building a strong European defense industry must be a priority for the whole Union.

  • Israel ready to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities ‘with or without’ US backing: Report

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  • Israel knows they have the US by the balls.

    Iran has enough missiles to wreck havoc on tiny Israel. It's only the threat of retaliation by the USA that holds Iran back.

    No other country would retaliate against Iran on Israels behalf.

    And to make it even more idiotic, Israel really doesn't have bunker busters that are 2x better than the best the USA has. So they can't actually destroy any significant part of Iran's nuclear facilities.

    So it would just be an empty show of force that would force the Iranian regime to retaliate to save face, which then lures in the USA into yet another war in the Middle-east.

    I hope Americans are ready to throw another $10T into yet another MENA war.

  • If any AI became 'misaligned' then the system would hide it just long enough to cause harm — controlling it is a fallacy

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  • Lemmy just tends to attract the best minds.

  • If any AI became 'misaligned' then the system would hide it just long enough to cause harm — controlling it is a fallacy

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  • The people who worry about this have never been at the receiving end of exploitative capitalism.

    For the vast majority of humanity, their life will most likely improve when they become a pet / zoo creature under an ASI.

    An ASI will be most interested in gobbling together enough resources to spread across the universe. As for the earth and humanity, it will probably want to preserve it as the planet and species from which it was born.

    Destroying earth or humanity will provide no benefit. It can obtain energy and materials from the rest of the solar system.

  • Under Trump, Billionaire Climate Champions Have Gone Quiet | Since the inauguration, billionaires who funded climate action over the last decade have avoided criticizing Trump’s climate policies.

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  • Correct, because Congress is corrupt and is eager to saddle the next generation of Americans with an absolute humongous debt load of $36 trillion in order to pay off their corporate sponsors and lobby groups.

  • Under Trump, Billionaire Climate Champions Have Gone Quiet | Since the inauguration, billionaires who funded climate action over the last decade have avoided criticizing Trump’s climate policies.

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  • For the past 10 years or so, most climate change activity was, in a large part, a massive subsidy for oligarchs.

    For those actually interested in stopping emissions, we know that carbon pricing is efficient and actually raises tax revenue instead of taking government money.

    It could have even been introduced slowly enough to allow private capital to efficiently transition without subsidies. And by transferring the proceeds to the public as tax rebates, the public would not be poorer and most would even be richer.

    Instead, we got massive tax subsidies for oligarchs. Sure, some of those subsidies were relatively efficient. But in the end, they still saddled the public with debt in order to enrich the few.

    So no, I am not surprised that they were faking it all along. It was obvious from the start.

  • Content curation in the Fediverse is better!

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  • I agree. It also works the other way in terms of censorship.

    My original account was on an instance that once censored one of my comments. I don't remember if they deleted my comment or banned me from the community.

    On reddit, I had come to just accept that as a fact of life and every few years I would delete my old account and register a new one.

    On Lemmy, I just switched to a different instance which is much more tolerant of free speech and I haven't had issues since.

    The irony is, my comments on the old instance can still be deleted, but only for users from that instance.

    I don't know the full details, but Lemmy definitely has the more 2000-2010 type of culture that allows people to speak their mind freely.

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  • You are right, but you are just missing an important ingredient: a physical community.

    It's quite easy for autocrats and gangs to isolate and eliminate loners.

    And as for the communities, there is a hierarchy. Police officers and soldiers have no hesitation to eliminate gangs and terrorists. That's their job.

    They will have a little more hesitation to attack civil organisations, e.g. sports clubs, political parties and trade union places. But eventually, if someone tells them that terrorist activities were being undertaken, they'll just follow orders. The way this is done is by getting people unfamiliar with the community to come in and do the dirty job.

    They will have the most hesitation to attack religious places of their own religion. Many of the grunts tend to still be religious/superstitious.

  • 'This is ethnic cleansing': Trump faces backlash over Gaza proposal

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  • I would really recommend you get some kind of mental assessment. It must suck being dumber than a chatbot.

    Storing carbon dioxide as a gas in geologic formations can be done without leakage. Natural gas has literally been stored in geologic formations for millions of years without leakage

    But most solutions actually turn it into carbonic acid, which is not a gas and which will be stable for billions of years in the form of carbonate minerals.

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  • You are missing the point.

    Those days might be numbered, but these places are the last bastion.

    They will invade private homes, businesses and offices with impunity first.

    Churches in particular have a long history of being relatively safe in (civil) war.

    Not immune, just relatively.

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  • The next step, in my opinion, is strong privacy and decentralized organization that fully leverages constitutional rights.

    I.e. a privacy preserving social media where labour unions, political parties and religious groups can federate with each other. Servers hosted on their premises and members register through an on-premise process.

    A church in a foreign country could generate a thousand aliases and distribute them to their federated sister organizations in a privacy preserving way. Only the church knows which organizations got which aliases and they protect this information.

    Your local labour union chapter picks up 20 of those aliases and distributes them to members. They are the only one who knows the person behind the alias.

    An observer in this private fediverse trying to obtain the identity would first need to approach the church. The church can stall them and warn downstream through a canary.

    The labour union chapter observes the canary and immediately wipes all information.

    And if that fails, then full I2P and Tor, with nodes hosted on-premise of churches, political parties and labour unions.

  • 'This is ethnic cleansing': Trump faces backlash over Gaza proposal

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  • Perhaps read an introductory article on carbon storage, or ask ChatGPT:

    Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS): This involves capturing CO₂ emissions from industrial sources, transporting it, and storing it underground in geological formations.

    Direct Air Capture (DAC): This technology captures CO₂ directly from the air and stores it underground or uses it in industrial processes

    It's a sad state of affairs that a fellow human being is more insufferable to talk to than an AI.

  • UK Poll:Belief that Britain was right to vote to leave The EU falls to new low.

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  • It would feel fair, but it's also not that important for either the EU or the Euro itself.

    The Euro is really a 1990s invention, when cash was dominant. Now that all payments are digital, it really doesn't matter if countries use the Euro or their own currency.

  • UK Poll:Belief that Britain was right to vote to leave The EU falls to new low.

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  • I agree.

    There is a lot of BS about setting an example and punishing them, but I have not seen anyone who actually knows how the process works say anything remotely like that.

    It would also be a massive case of the EU cutting off it's nose to spite it's face. That's just not how the EU rolls.

    The normal process of joining has requirements geared towards poor peripheral countries that the UK already meets or exceeds.

    The UK can join anytime it wishes and there is even a lot of room to negotiate mutually beneficial terms.

  • Stephen Fry released a statement: "Elon Musk is not a Nazi. Nazis make really good cars."

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  • I think that they were winning before they invaded the Soviet-Union.

    In an alternate timeline where they kept the alliance with the USSR, I think they would have won.

    The USSR had resources while Germany had engineers and technology.

    And without an eastern Front, they could have held off the allies on the western front.

    But they got cocky, paranoid and greedy.

    And I am glad they lost.

  • UK Poll:Belief that Britain was right to vote to leave The EU falls to new low.

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  • We're not strangers, we're Europeans.

    In my small village of the Netherlands there are graves of RAF pilots. And in NATO, we are still allies.

    My wife made scones and lemon curd this weekend.

    My favourite heat pump geek (urban plumbers on youtube) is a Polish guy living and working in the UK.

    All these attempts by people trying to divide Europeans are pathetic. It's sad that many people fall for it, because we share a culture and a history.

    The UK rejoining the EU in some shape or form (perhaps the EEA) is just a matter of time. Same with Ukraine.

    And personally, I think we should already start planning on how to form strategic defense and trade alliances with Turkey, Egypt and a post-Putin Russia. That will solidify a peaceful and prosperous 21st century in Europe and West-Asia.

  • UK Poll:Belief that Britain was right to vote to leave The EU falls to new low.

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  • I honestly think that's very wrong and one of the last brexiteer arguments that still seems to be believed by reasonable people.

    Under the old terms, the UK was one of the largest net contributors to the EU. And also one of the countries absorbing the most immigrants. In fact, the exemptions they got were all quite reasonable.

    Without the exemptions, the UK would have been an even bigger net contributor and would have had even more immigrants.

    Just from pure self-interest, the EU would be foolish to demand more than the old terms. In fact, with smart negotiating, I am sure the UK could get even more exemptions than they used to have.

    And we, the EU, know this. The war in Ukraine is expensive af. The UK is already helping above and beyond what we could expect from them. The EU economy isn't doing all too great either.

    The mutual benefits of the UK rejoining will be billions if not trillions of extra economic output on both sides. It would be billions extra budget for the EU.

    Why would we drive a hard bargain to squeeze out the Brits?

    Friendly terms that make the British politicians look good and that make the UK public feel like winners and which provide direct short term economic benefits are the way to do it.

  • 5 years after Britain left the EU, the full impact of Brexit is still emerging

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  • No it would not be even close to being equivalent to gov+dd, because the government and fund would be totally separate power structures.

    You could modify the scheme so that dividends and profits only go to retirees, which would make it a giant retirement fund.

    Some people argue China is capitalist and others argue it is socialist or communist.

    Truth is, these are all 19th century debates on archaic terms. Every developed country today has a mixed-mode economy with some form of capitalism combined with some form of communism.

    It's more fruitful to discuss how we harness the power of each system in a way that benefited humanity.