Not_mikey @ Not_mikey @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Interesting that Newsom didn't say anything when colleges were forced to send the names of any professor or student who doesn't support genocide. I guess he has very specific concerns about academic freedom.

Hamas probably won't go for this as it still requires them to demilitarize and they, along with a lot of Palestinians in gaza, view that as a path to slow ethnic cleansing like what's happening in the west bank.

You'd think the "Hillary's gonna take our guns" Republicans would understand not wanting to surrender your guns and security to a government in general, much less one that's been trying to genocide you for decades.

You can make that argument for anyone feeding there cat dry kibble then as a cat probably couldn't tell the difference between kibble with meat and the one without as it's so processed anyway.

In general the stuff we feed pets is more like chicken nuggets then chicken breast and you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between a vegan chicken nugget and a real chicken nugget these days.

Seems like it could be like music production software becoming widely available. Now you don't need to get a drummer, a bass player etc. Together to make music, you can just make it at home on your computer. It enables lower level people to get off the ground as they now have the tools that the pros do, you want a saxophone but don't know anyone in town who can play or can't afford one, just use a synth that sounds like one. Once you get signed though and you have a label giving you studio time you might hire an actual saxophone player because it sounds better.

Same with movies, AI could be helpful in making small low/no budget indie movies, but I don't think it's at the same quality as real actors for big budget movies where people expect more, so maybe the wealthy studio execs won't benefit from it much right now.

I mean that's sort of the point of the article. Stopping climate change is going to require both systemic and personal change. Media likes to focus on the systemic parts:

mining, manufacturing, and energy production (55.9%); fossil fuels (47.9%); and transportation (34%)

And ignore the personal parts because people don't like to be told "this thing that brings you joy is killing the planet" and are more open to the idea that it's all just the big corporations faults and if we could just control/regulate them we can have a sustainable future without having to change our lifestyle.

We are going to have to change our lifestyle though and meat consumption is going to be a big part of that change. It's also a personal choice, it's not like cars where the system is basically forcing you to drive. You can become vegan or vegetarian tomorrow and the only cost would be to your taste. Sure there are some subsidies nudging you towards consuming meat, but rice and beans is still the cheapest diet there is and no amount of beef subsidies will make a burger the cheaper option.

Beef industry groups take an active approach to messaging, including staffing a 24/7 “command center” in Denver that scans social media for negative stories and deploys counter-messaging.

Damn, as if watching out for Russia bots and Israel bots wasn't enough now we gotta watch out for beef bots.

Is there any evidence it stood on two feet? Figured it would look more like a gorilla then this.

I assume they already did this for advertising purposes, just like every other platform trying to guess your demographics to sell you more useless shit.

It's just like the old "music sucks now, it was best in (insert decade of your late teens, early twenties)" argument. It's a combination of

1. Survivorship bias, you only remember the good music, movies, games of the time and forget all the trash and dumb trends happening.
2. It's when key parts of your identity are forming and you develop strong bonds with the media of the time.

And for games it's also when your playing them the most. When you get older and get a job, partner, children and other responsibilities you tend not to have as much time for games . You can't put hundreds of hours into a game to fully appreciate all the story and content it can provide.

AI may not be profitable right now, but there's a lot more to "the magnificent 7" than AI that keeps them profitable. Even if the AI bubble popped, people would still be wasting their time on Facebook and Microsoft teams.

The nazis were inspired by the American example. Hitler grew up on cowboy and Indian stories and thought what if we did that to Poland and Russia.

There's a difference between the settler colonial project of the US and the extraction colonial projects of France, Spain and the UK. The former requires ethnic cleansing, the latter doesn't as you want to keep the natives to provide cheap labor for extraction.

Likud and the settlers bare just as much responsibility for Oslo falling apart as hamas. Probably even more so since they funded hamas in the first place.

Would've been nice if they did this 80 years ago when they started this whole mess

✅️ France running up huge deficits because it can't tax the wealthy

✅️ Wealthy obstruct any attempt to make them pay there fair share

✅️ prime minister after prime minister go down trying to fix the financial crisis

☑️ frustrated king president calls the estates general

...

☑️ this guys head in a basket

Fuck the hanoverians though, worst kings ever. They should've gone back to Germany before losing us the American colonies and losing my personal fortune on the south sea bubble.

"They're not to me, my f-350 assault edition can get t-boned by a semi-truck at full speed and still keep going"

your average republican

the vice presidency isn't worth a bucket of warm piss

John Nance garner, former vice president to FDR (before truman)

The only thing that'll improve attendance in Sacramento is if they put a giant shade over the stadium. No one wants to sit in 100 degree Sacramento heat to watch a team lose.

No, probably Korean incels. They've become a real problem recently and have started to become more political.