Undercover in Saudi Arabia’s secretive program to keep the world burning oil
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Ospreys are easily the coolest and dumbest machines we've got. They need to be phased out ASAP.
The police, regulators and politicians all work for corporations now. The people are only a means to power, nothing more.
So, do american's not know their own history very well?
Like, the confederates were, literally, the enemy of the united states. I always found it weird that people even brought the flag anywhere with them outside of a museum.
The car dealers need to be abolished. Not even an ICE vs EV argument, car dealers are fucking awful, they barely know shit and borderline scam their customers trying to up the price of everything and then 'pretend haggle' down to a 'reasonable price' that's still probably 30k over msrp
On the one hand I respect personal choice but on the other hand I feel like this is definitely something that should be done (or the recommended idea from undercrush's comment of extremely high taxes on the products to disincentivize use) because the public healthcare system is definitely spending too much time and effort dealing with the ramifications of peoples decisions to continue to hurt themselves.
Yes, quitting sucks, I was at like a pack a day before 16, ended up going cold turkey around 24 and although the first few months suck with the odd craving for the next year or two, it's not that bad. If push comes to shove, changing smokes to sugar free gum would be a vast improvement.
Although a few friends have tried that 'fum' thing and said they succeeded in quitting but I haven't personally tried that. There's a wide variety of ways to beat the addiction these days and if everyone is contributing to a national money pool for everyones health then at the very least we need to do the minimum amount of effort to try to be healthy so as to not overburden the system and collapse it.
... especially when canada keeps losing billions of dollars to corporate tax fraud. Fucken CRA is trash at everything.
Italy has been on a roll of incredibly stupid and incompetent bills lately. Working on literally everything except insuring their people can fucking afford food.
Every time I think "maybe I'll buy youtube premium today" I see something like this and decide to insure ublock is updated.
If you go anti consumer I go anti company.
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It'd be great if they re-released sc2 but retconned most of the story to make it not flaccid and disappointing. WITH A BETTER ENDING FOR TYCHUS. TYCHUS WAS HILARIOUS.
I'm more interested in the fact that the waltons divulged something around 5.36 Billion USD with multiple family members liquidating their entire walmart holdings.
I am of the opinion we could convince china to abandon coal if we helped them get CANDU reactors off the ground.
Their current stock of nuclear reactors are not amazing and because of this a lot of their power production has been coming from coal. I'm not sure they 'wanted' to use coal as much as they were forced to due to technological and economic limitations.
Not to mention the plethora of misinformation surrounding nuclear reactors and nuclear waste, but I'm not certain how much of an impact that would have on decisions within the chinese government.
I think he could be right about generative AI, but that's not a serious problem given we're moving beyond generative AI and into virtual intelligence territory.
Generative ai right now requires someone (or something) to initiate it with a prompt, but according to some of the latest research papers in OpenAI as well as the drama that happened recently surrounding the leadership, it appears that we're moving beyond the 'generative' phase into the 'virtual intelligence' phase.
It's not going to be 'smart' it will be knowledgeable (and accurate, hopefully). That is to say VI's will be useful as data retrieval or organization but not necessarily data creation (although IIRC the way to get around this would be to develop a VI that specifically only works on creating ideas but we'd be moving into AGI territory and I don't expect we'll have serious contenders for AGI for another decade at least).
The rumours abound surrounding the OpenAI drama, the key one being the potential for accidentally developing AGI internally (I doubt this heavily). The more likely reason is that the board of directors had a financial stake in Nvidia and when they found out altman was working on chips specifically for AI that were faster, lower cost, and lower power consumption than current nvidia trash (by literally tens of thousands of dollars), they fired him to try and force the company onto their preferred track (and profit in the process, which IMO, kind of ironic that a non-profit board of directors has so many 'closed door' discussions with nvidia staff...)
This is just the thoughts of a comp-sci student with a focus on artificial intelligence systems.
If interested in further reading:
https://www.ibm.com/blog/understanding-the-different-types-of-artificial-intelligence/
https://digitalreality.ieee.org/publications/virtual-intelligence-vs-artificial-intelligence
Keep in mind that because it's still early days in this field that a lot of terms haven't reached an established consensus across academia yet, so you'll notice variations in how each organization explains what "x" type of intelligence is.
If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft.
Anything canada related has been hijacked by "activists" and they arbitrarily ban anything their delicate sensibilities can't handle, which is basically anything. I got banned for referencing historical data in relation to the current direction of geopolitics and the likelihood of another world war soon and our (canada's) heavy involvement in the arms industry to tyrants around the world. Specifically I was referencing the "War is a Racket" book by Major General Smedley Butler and apparently the facts that the military industrial complex runs the show got them severely butt hurt. Especially since Canada isn't a country as much as a puppet for corporate interests these days.
It's not a company nor a random strangers responsibility to raise someones kids, and in reference to adults, they can click elsewhere, looking at content online is entirely dependent upon what you search and click.
Blaming the company or someone else for something entirely in the individual complaining's control is absolutely ridiculous.
I watched multiple children die absolutely horrific deaths before the age of ten and I don't walk around crying about it, I deal with it and don't make it someone else's problem.
You are fully in the right here.
This absolute incompetence surrounding personal responsibility and decision making these days is ridiculous "I don't want to think for myself, think for me".
As a Canadian, the vast majority of our 'news' is just corporate or political propaganda so google paying out is actually hilarious to me.
Nvidia is actively supporting our adversaries abroad with their military technology, should be arresting the entire c suite
Here's a wide variety of sources/dates to get you started since this is something that, much like the oil industry and climate change, has been massively lied about in the media in order to prevent any action from forming against the associated companies because that would actually negatively impact them. (Maybe, I personally doubt it since all 'off brand' and 'no name brand' shit is just name brand with shittier packaging now days, there's zero competition in this market and zero incentive for these corporations to improve when all they have to do is cause a controversy to offend an active group on twitter to have any serious discourse of their court cases disappear in a jumble of brainless arguments over superficial garbage).
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57522186 https://cocoarunners.com/chocopedia/the-dark-history-of-chocolate-slavery/ https://foodispower.org/human-labor-slavery/slavery-chocolate/ https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/12/mars-nestle-and-hershey-to-face-landmark-child-slavery-lawsuit-in-us
Additionally an honors thesis with all the associated references inside: https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=honorscollege_ehc
There's only extremely small farms that are not run by slavery and that chocolate does not make it to north american or european markets, regardless of what the stickers say.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/17/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-nestle-in-child-slavery-case.html https://www.courthousenews.com/candy-giants-sued-over-failure-to-end-child-labor-on-chocolate-plantations-in-ghana/
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-416_i4dj.pdf https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2022/06/28/backed-by-big-law-hershey-nestle-dodge-second-child-slavery-case/
The sugar industry and all related industries are industries of death, they only profit by stealing tax incentives after bribing politicians and using slavery, they don't need or want to make money they're just in it for the mergers and acquisitions which can suppress competition, hide losses, and increase their own power over the markets they work in, at the expense of everyone's health (with the amount of sugar in food these days) and at the expense of peoples freedom.
Here's an investigation by cbs that was released yesterday which has child slaves (as young as five years old) active as late as last week: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/candy-company-uses-cocoa-harvested-by-child-labor-cbs-news-investigation/ar-AA1kKztT
And here's basically the same findings from 20 years ago https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cocoa-and-slavery/ which, of course, all the associated companies said they 'fixed the problem with our third party suppliers that were using slavery without telling us' and then they get off by buying the judge.
Slavery never stopped we just exported it to get people to stop bitching.
No counter argument or point to make, just a few insults and the typical air of incompetence surrounding someone who just assumes they're right without understanding economics, the current state of technology both software and hardware, the impact unions have, how unions work, how unions preserve jobs, the ramifications of those preserved jobs to market competition in an era of advancements, and apparently the written word of their native language.
An impressive display of intellect, truly.
You should go complete some elementary school literature tests.
It's clear you didn't understand what was written.
Thanks for the laugh though.
Nuclear fire would be ideal, but honestly if we pull military support and equipment sales from them they'd get invaded by their neighbours before the end of next year.
The problem would then solve itself. Along with the entire country's abuse of literally every poor soul that found themselves either abducted or coerced to stay in the country as a slave. They can 'coerce' people to stay by taking their documents to 'verify' them and then just not giving them back, leaving them stranded on the street looking for work in order to eat.
We also shouldn't forget that the Saudi's bankrolled the entire 9/11 shit show.