ImplyingImplications @ ImplyingImplications @lemmy.ca

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Guy living in the government funded house for the leader of the official opposition, even though he is not the leader of the official opposition, suggests the PM isn't being ethical.

because 99% of gamers do not give a fuck.

Then why would any government care?

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This gives me AI vibes.

atro_city said it well:

If the SKG movement doesn't organise, that's all we'll get: a communiqué to shut the hell up.

Over a million Europeans have signed a petition in less than a month. Why only Europeans? Big ecelebs like PewDiePie and Critikal have made videos on this. It's got a lot of people interested. Why not get everyone in on something more direct? Something international? Why does the world need to sit and wait and hope the EU parliament fixes everything? It seems like a waste of momentum. It needs to be more than just a European petition. A call to boycott the worst companies until they change their EULA and TOS would be a great start.

My point is that the movement should be doing more than just signing an online petition. What happens if the EU parliament declines to make any changes? Nothing? Oh well we tried? What will you do?

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How? I genuinely believe something along the lines of an organized boycott would be far more impactful than a hail mary petition. The reason I think it wouldn't work is because most people couldn't commit. That's why I said this isn't activism.

It's not activism if you're not putting in any effort. I don't care if people downvote me, but at least post an actual opinion. Have an actual stance. I'm glad others have posted some, although all of them seem to be along the lines of "this petition will definitely fix everything so we don't need to try anything else".

Discussion on the internet is dead. You ask a question and people respond with meme pictures and downvotes instead of a point.

Voting is activism?

using official channels is certainly not activism.

Isn't that called "lobbying"?

I mean to encourage people to actually do something as sharing a post on social media isn't activism.

Give me an example of a "successful one". I've read only two initiatives have lead to law changes. One on the minimum cage sizes for farm animals being slightly bigger and one on banning pesticides that ended up with slightly more oversight on their use. All the others that passed only resulted in a statement by the government with no legal changes.

Did anyone actually expect the EU to regulate a multibillion dollar industry because it's trending on social media?

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the Walrus: Canada’s conversations

This article was written by an American for Americans. It compares the Finnish parental benefits system to that of the US. Canada is never mentioned once and the monetary amounts are all in USD.

My understanding of quantum computers is that they're great a brute forcing stuff, but machine learning is just a lot of calculations, not brute forcing.

If you want to know the square root of 25, you don't need to brute force it. There's a direct way to calculate the answer and traditional computers can do it just fine. It's still going to take a long time if you need to calculate the square root of a billion numbers.

That's basically machine learning. The individual calculations aren't difficult, there's just a lot to calculate. However, if you have 2 computers doing the calculations, it'll take half the time. It'll take even less time if you fill a data center with a cluster of 100,000 GPUs.

First Asmongold, now Notch. Any other famous bigoted incel want some easy PR?

Entered the US illegally and is now claiming asylum? He's really hoping being a white conservative is going to stop him from going to jail.

Making great progress! Bill is such a great character. He's turned his town into a fortress occupied only by him. Sounds great until you realize he's been alone for years. It's less of a fortress and more of a prison and, with the way he talks to himself, you get the sense that the isolation is starting to wear on him. Even then, when given the opportunity to leave, he doesn't. He's going to die alone in that place because he sees trusting others as a weakness. Something he tries to impress onto Joel. But does Joel want to be like Bill? Does he want to be like Tess? Such a great chapter!