AwesomeLowlander @ AwesomeLowlander @sh.itjust.works

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Yeah. How much of that progress, as a result of sustainability focus, came about solely in the past 2 decades? You're proving my point, that we just don't do something about future problems until it's become a today problem.

Human nature being what it is, we won't be making any progress on sustainability until it's staring us in the face and has become a survival issue. FFS, we KNEW about global warming and what coal-burning would do back in the 19th century, and what did we do on that front in the couple hundred years since? Literally speed up the process, until we hit survival-level issues.

Oh, forgot to mention previously - population inertia is a thing. While birthrates may have dropped precipitously, it takes a long time to reflect that in actual population figures. So much so that every scientist speaking on the issue takes pains to state that the reducing birthrate will not affect our current environmental woes. For better or worse, we're stuck with our current population size to figure out the environmental thing. The birthrate issue is not about the current catastrophe, but the upcoming one.

Unsustainability is unsustainability. Does it matter if we run out in 100 years or 1000? The goal should be to go sustainable, and that is actually MORE likely to happen with a larger population base, as sustainable tech requires a higher tech base, and consequently a larger population base to support it.

You're making the assumption that with less population, they won't be able to mess up the environment. I personally find that assumption extremely dubious. There's no limit on idiocy. Short of us losing technology, it's a great force and idiocy multiplier.

Of what? The general issue is mismanagement and unsustainable usage of resources. If we're sustainable, it doesn't matter how big the population is. If we're unsustainable, we'll run out anyway and it's just a matter of time.

Who's doing 'pimping'? The daughter herself?

Way to move the goalposts after being called out for dishonesty.

We have no real shortage of natural resources, the problem lies with equitable distribution of said resources.

I agree, but based on current trends there's nothing gentle about the coming decline. Some countries are going to see their populations drop by more than half within decades

I didn't forget it, that is one of the main reasons why there's no political will.

1. In places with poverty and violence, kids are an asset. They work and contribute to the family in times of crisis.
2. General lack of education, awareness and access to birth control means there are no options for women.
3. Women have fewer or no rights, and little to no say in whether they have kids.

Unless we're planning on this route (which it seems the US is set on), the alternative is to make parenthood attractive (or at least not-unattractive) enough to negate the costs.

Additionally, fertility rates are dropping worldwide, even in low-income countries. They're further back on the curve, but they're definitely moving along it. Some institutes claim we've already dropped below the global replacement rate of ~2.3, though it'll take a few years to confirm the current statistics.

“Users who in the past would type ‘free online file converter’ into a search engine are vulnerable, as the algorithms used for results now often include paid results, which might be scams.”

Mm hmm.

The name of the comm is rhetorical, you're not supposed to try and disprove it.

It's been shown repeatedly that putting the same input into a gen AI will often get the same output, or extremely similar. So he has grounds to be concerned that anybody else asking the LLM about him would be getting the same libelous result.

Yes, the problem lies in companies marketing it as more than that, hence the company being sued right now

Wow, the daily WTF is still running? That's the biggest wtf for me. I was reading it near 2 decades ago.

My understanding is the Brother fiasco turned out to be baseless. At the very least, nobody else has stepped forward to corroborate the issues that were claimed.

The idea of a plug-in processor is wild. Isn't that most of the console functionality right there?

Somebody provide context for those of us who have no idea what this monstrosity is?

An octopus stole the pixels, huh