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Newt Gingrich perfectly describes how everything is his fault
  • In the end it was all because of Eve and that stupid apple, or maybe the snake. Why was there a tree in the first place? Also was it really necessary to make a universe? Now that’s where the trouble really started!

  • The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net
  • IMO the way to prevent such a scenario from happening is not by blocking Meta, but by inviting equally large competitors to join the fediverse. The described tactic can only work if you have close to a monopoly.

  • Millennials die de mond vol hebben van systeemverandering: jullie zijn zélf het systeem
  • Ik vind het maar behoorlijk generaliserend, een hele generatie in een hokje zetten en analyseren vanuit de leunstoel.

    Overigens geloof ik niet in het idee dat met eigen acties je klimaatverandering tegen kan gaan ofzo. Dat idee speelt al sinds de jaren negentig “een beter milieu begint bij jezelf”. Wij zijn niet in staat om onze eigen gewoontes structureel tegen de loep te houden, en in plaats daarvan resulteert het in zelfgenoegzaamheid.

  • Capitalism is killing our planet
  • Because you were replying to this statement by OP:

    and as societies get richer in material wealth they produce fewer children and have the luxury to pay attention to things like the environment and their impact on it.

    In short your source doesn't support your claim, but it does story OP's claim

  • Capitalism is killing our planet
  • For crying out loud, Clyde... you need a bunch of science nerds to tell you something this obvious? Fine.

    Lol, very first sentence in that source:

    Three mechanisms influence the fertility decision of educated women: (1) the relatively higher incomes and thus higher income forgone due to childbearing leads them to want fewer children. [...]

  • Capitalism is killing our planet
  • Sci-fi is fictional, Clyde - not prophecy.

    They're just referring to the fact that the universe we live in is no "finite system" per the meme

    Riiight... that's why we're the most destructive agent on the planet since the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs - because we "do more with less." Wtf?

    Yes exactly! They're not saying that's a good thing but that's exactly why!

    Which societies, Clyde? The ones that capitalism has impoverished so that a small minority can pretend their privileged lives are (somehow) "normal?"

    Regardless if the distribution of that wealth is acceptable, growth has made the overall society richer in material wealth. The distribution of that wealth is an entirely different question.

    And that's a good thing, is it? You know we could just achieve that easily by giving women reproductive rights, don't you? As in... no capitalism required at all?

    You have any proof for that statement?

  • Capitalism is killing our planet
  • Adding to this, "limitless" growth just refers to the idea that it's very hard to reach all limits in our present universe.

    I agree that there are more important problems with capitalism than if we've reached a limit or not.

  • What custom instructions do you use?

    Since recently OpenAI have introduced custom instructions where you can provide specific details and guidelines for chats (see https://openai.com/blog/custom-instructions-for-chatgpt )

    What have you used?

    At first I added a lot, but I toned it down because I felt chatGPT would sometimes focus on that unnecessarily.

    Now I only have my country and languages, and I have requested any answers to be in metric units. That last one is very useful when I ask for recipes, before it would talk about Fahrenheits and Ounces and what not. Now I at least get Celcius, milliliters and grams!

    I also added that it should reply as an expert in the field with a casual tone. Which causes it to go "aah, the old ..... problem" whenever I ask it for debugging help :D

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