gandalf_der_12te @ gandalf_der_12te @discuss.tchncs.de

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i do too btw

just take any train :-)

Theseus' ship

Is it still the same ship if all of its parts have been replaced?

"time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle.”

surprisingly based idea? i mean i would have included the lower 10% as well, but apart from that, how are you'all gonna talk this one bad?

I'm not sure about the details yet. I think, libraries give you 1 chip card that contains a public/private key pair that you can use to "proof" yourself on the internet. Ideally, it would have widespread support and many platforms (both fediverse and commercial platforms) would support it.

I think it may or may not be tied to your person, i.e. you might get that chip card without any kind of ID. Then it wouldn't matter so much if it leaks. But idk, just floating ideas here.

Our university has already adapted. We get little homework now, but have to write (very) short mini-tests at the beginning of each lesson. They typically take up 5-10 minutes and contain 1-2 questions which you can easily answer if you understand the course materials.

schools are extremely useful for the economy because in the last 200 years, contributing to economy was much more efficient if the kids got some education. That is why the education was often revolving around practical skills such as math, reading comprehension or natural sciences.

walk up to your library in person and let them give you a chip card that contains an (anonymous) private key, or let them verify your fediverse account somehow, both methods would be without you showing them any kind of ID card.

yes, but at least you can't easily create 10000 bots at once. you could only create 1 bot at a time, and that would already do a lot.

I'm not so much worried about 1 person using AI to write their comments; I'm way more worried about large political parties making 10000 bots to support their agenda (propaganda) or companies creating a lot of bots to create hype about their products (advertisement).

oh you are so mistaken. propaganda, which is essentially advertisement for political stances, takes a toll on us all. you just don't notice it because modern propaganda is targeted towards the subconscious more than towards the conscious, as many people have poorer defenses around their subconsciousness than around their consciousness.

On top of that, you're vastly underestimating how very pliable the human mind mostly is. When presented with one credible idea, an infestation takes place similar to a virus infestation which can make that idea grow exponentially, up to a target size.

Yet you are right that we must not give up confronting ourselves with these kind of messages, in order to find truth. Dialogue is the essential foundation of democracy. Only dialogue can reveal the truth.

First of all it doesn't matter whether you think that AI can replace human workers. It only matter whether company think that AI can replace human workers.

Secondly, you're assuming that humans typically understand the question at stake. You've clearly never met, or been, an under-paid, over-worked employee who doesn't give a flying fuck about the daily bullshit.

We could use public libraries to do some kind of "are you a human" confirmation. I.e. you get a digitally signed token proving that you are a human, that you can use on the internet to show that you are human. Only the library has to be trusted by the public ...

Ok, so let me try to make sense of this:

Around the year 2010-2020, i and many other vehemently warned against the issue of rising national debt. Yet "experts" said "it's fine, we can make as much debt as we want to, nothing bad is going to happen because of it lol".

Starting in the last 5 years or so, lots of experts say "oh no, the national debt is way to high, that's a disaster, that's a catastrophe, we can't let that happen, who put us into this situation?" Just let me appreciate the irony for a bit. I fucking called it. I said this was going to happen. I was called insane. This feels really validating to me.

Anyways, since now lots of people, including economists, are angry that the debt is too high, people want it lowered. The obvious and straightforward solution would of course be to introduce a wealth tax (i.e. a tax on millionaires and billionaires).

In the beginning of 2025, Musk and Trump both agreed (at least in public) that the debt has to be lowered. Musk's attempt was to cut the federal government. Well, the federal government spends money for two things, mostly: subsidies (social security, medical bill assistance, ...) and data-processing (i.e., enforcing regulations, tax collection agency, ...). The first one costs most of the money, but reducing it gets the public angry (understandably) and is therefore a political suicide. The second one doesn't really cost that much, yet that is the one that Musk attempted to reduce to the point of dysfunctionality. Since it didn't cost much to begin with, reducing it didn't save a lot of money. In May 2025, Trump says "was Musk's DOGE all a hoax?" and the feud begins. Musk realizes that Trump is against increasing taxes for the rich and publicly accuses Trump of having no actual intention of lowering the national debt. This is where we are now.

Now i have an image of Trump in a peach dress in my head. Thanks for that :/

Is this real?

Since when has "left" politics started to care about seemingly everything except economic factors? As a medium-interested person in US politics, it easily seems that lots of issues were brought up, but the one central issue, which is to tax the rich and give handouts to the people, fell short. That's the one thing that i actually care for, goddamnit.

Low birth rates are only a crisis for the capitalists (and actually not even that, see below). They increase wages and improve living standards for the population.

We're gonna hit an unemployment crisis in 10-15 years, partially due to AI replacing white-collar workers. If we have a lot of unemployed people, capitalists are gonna complain about how much unemployment money costs. It's actually better to have lower birthrates for capitalists as well, they only didn't realize it yet.

Also, it increases wages because wages are determined through supply and demand of human labor. If there's less supply, prices for labor (wages) are higher.

It's good that people are complaining what Israel is doing. I don't think that it will make Israel change its stance on things; but it's still good that people are complaining.

This is actually great timing, i'd say. Just now most of the northern hemisphere is starting into summer. At least i deeply feel it on a personal level that summer is arriving. I take this as a gift from the universe that directs me towards touching grass, and going swimming. Enjoy your summer, you all! Connect with your local community, if you can.

Just FYI,

1% of US citizens have $10 million or more.

Windows only in a VM.

Yeah, there has to be a point when they’re going to realize that they’re hosting bots to advertise to bots, and nobody is going to want to pay for that.

I think you're underestimating the level of intelligence that world-wide corpos have. they do have statisticians and mathematicians, and i guarantee you they do the calculations about these things already.