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More than 100 nations had pushed for even stronger language, seeking an explicit “phase-out” of fossil fuels.

The final agreement calls instead for “transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade.”

I guess their headline sounds better than "nations agree to noncommittal language on climate change".

The only way we can get support to give foreign nations more money for weapons of war is by first agreeing to harsher treatment of asylum seekers at home.

Cool. Great. I'm so glad nothing is fundamentally changing.

The only way this strategy works is if at the end there is no one left to seek revenge. I'm sure there's a word for it.

But freedom of speech is allowing all opinions, even when you don’t agree with them.

It isn't, and it never has been. The First Amendment does not protect hate speech or harmful speech.

This sort of friendly, polite, "devil's advocate" (emphasis on the quotes) support for Nazi speech is exactly what someone above was saying about why PCM is/was extremely toxic.

Allowing "actual freedom of speech" and respecting "all opinions" requires allowing Nazi propaganda and calls for literal genocide, and respecting "all opinions" means respecting Nazi opinions.

Call me a bigot, but those are some intolerant opinions that I will not tolerate. And when normal people refuse to tolerate that nonsense those people migrate to places without moderation....so they can spout bigoted nonsense under the guide of freedom of speech.

I think there were two choices: stay out of Russia and be dodging Putin assassination attempts the rest of his life, or return to Russia and hope his arrest and treatment spark real change/protest/revolt in Russia.

He gambled on the latter and it did not work out in his favor.

Terrible...but due to the "Eddie Murphy Rule", you have to be careful how you use such information.

This is what happens when countries rely on the US for foreign aid. We are unreliable.

Other countries need to increase their own funding if we are dropping the ball. We are not the only nation in the world.

Interesting, but I only really trade in frozen concentrated orange juice futures.

I want AI in our voting process exactly as much as I wanted blockchain in our voting process the last time around.

".@CaseyDeSantis went on Fox News today and called on people to be BUSSED INTO IOWA from other states to participate in the Iowa caucus. THIS IS ELECTION INTERFERENCE AND CHEATING," posted far-right activist and Trump ally Laura Loomer. "@RonDeSantis is basically a Democrat. This is what Democrats do. They bus people in. #Trump2024"

Even when it's literally a Republican doing it in their own example it's still somehow Democrats...

Safety and reliability are two of the biggest factors in family cars. You would think they would want to make larger family vehicles with those selling points.

I just looked it up and the only minivan EV is 114k........

I mean, he's dealt with a lot of deaths and addiction and now he's the biggest target of the entire Republican misinformation campaign...I feel a little sympathy. Send him to jail if he broke the law, but the asshole's been through a lot.

I honestly think something like that is going to be as much or more of a harm for the person making/using it. When the world is just flooded with fake images I think we're gonna get jaded by them very quickly and it will be just another form of (really fucked up) cyberbullying.

For the people making them the harm is more insidious. They're likely to be doing it in secret (because weird/immoral sex stuff) and isolating themselves, and we end up in a weird Futurama Lucy Liu-Bot situation with even more social isolation and further declining mental health.

I guess I found what I'm reading next, thank you.

I think even that is ultimately a lost cause. There are cameras everywhere and there's getting to be more. Facebook is trying to get us all used to having cameras right on our face at all times. Even if you could completely block your face from every camera, how long until the AI equivalent of a police sketch artist just remakes your face from someone's description?

We're finally going to learn if the "imagine everyone in their underwear" trick for public speaking really works.

This is going to be such a culture shift. Kids today are going to grow up in a world where anyone can make any image or video of any person at any time. I have no idea how this will impact sexual health and development or if really it will even be a bad thing. It could lead to more openness and freedom, kind of like growing up with the Internet did. It could also have some really harmful unexpected consequences...kinda like how growing up with the Internet did...

“We were told by responding officers that he made a comment, ‘Free Palestine,’” Hawkins said at a news conference.

terrorism: the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

That's a terrorist. This is what terrorism looks like.

Lazy projection. The Trump campaign was already literally part of Russian PsyOps a decade ago.