It's the same thing that happened with Facebook. It's almost like building these massive siphons of personal data inherently leads to massive personal data leaks...
Solar panels and wind turbine blades don't really get "obsolete," they get handed down to where they can continue to reduce fossil energy use, if less efficiently. They do sometimes get damaged and they're not rocket science to recycle. Neither are EV/hybrid batteries. New large TVs are quite power efficient and a grid-powered heat pump on a house can make it just as warm as oil heating while allowing for centralized power cleanup. When Trump gets dumped we'll have adults for all the important world leaders again and they can complete and strengthen the Paris accord.
Stick to used cars, preferably ones that get good MPGs. Seriously. A huge fraction of a car's lifetime CO2 emissions comes from manufacturing the car, and newer cars don't emit a whole lot less CO2. Then get a used electric car with a good/new pack when that old car bites the dust.
This is the massive threat to humanity we've seen in sci-fi movies, usually represented by an invading alien species or some massive natural(ish) disaster, but in real life it was our own pollution that first posed a huge threat to us all.
And now we see how we react as a species to that threat. We didn't temporarily put aside our differences to work toward a common goal as fiction has often speculated. Instead most people kind of brushed the problem off and went back to focusing on the small-scale problems in their own lives, and a few people convinced themselves that the threat was made up and we'd all be fine. When we already had a good idea of how dangerous this threat was, those people elected a raging moron who shared their collectively suicidal beliefs to what was at the time the most powerful political office in the world.
The biggest threat to humanity is ourselves. Working to optimize our societies into what is effectively a perfect breeding ground for psychopaths over the last few hundred years (and especially over the last few decades) has been biting us in the ass the entire time and is about to finally rip out our throats.
I think our only hope is a millennial-driven political revolution - vote out every conservative everywhere across the globe, and put something between social democrats and democratic socialists in power so we can refocus our societies on benefiting as much of humanity as possible and defeat the incredibly short-sighted and largely detrimental business interests driving us to collective ruin.
Sadly the possibility of everyone being dead years from now is not considered by these algorithms. HFT bots don't consider what's going to happen beyond the next few seconds. Most companies don't look beyond the next few quarters - usually not beyond 1 quarter. Some industries like insurance look further ahead and are already taking global warming into account, but most don't.
Humanity is strapped to a machine that is indifferent to human suffering or ecological collapse and is dragging us toward catastrophe for our species and most of the life in the known universe.
You're pointing out extreme examples on the left again (although I don't think the BBC's HR department or college admissions departments should count...and they don't "discriminate against" Asians any more than they "discriminate against" whites). Since you're so enamored with these extremes, let's look at some extreme examples on the other side of the spectrum.
Richard Spencer. David Duke. The guys marching with torches and swastikas, yelling "blood and soil" and "Jews will not replace us." The actual Klan. These people actually kill, unlike Antifa. Right-wing extremists are the most prolific and second deadliest terror group by ideology in the US, close behind jihadism and at least an order of magnitude ahead of leftism. They fight for white supremacy and white nationalism. They vote for policies that create child prison camps, separating them from their parents in a way that makes it impossible for them to meet again, thus creating orphans to punish children for having parents who tried to cross a border without permission. That's not toxic and unreasonable? You'd rather side with this crowd than the "tumblerinas?" Because that's what you're doing. And if you want to make your decisions based on fringe extreme examples, you have to reckon with both fringe extremes. You've backed away from the extreme of the far left without seeing the camp you're backing into.
I think there's still hope for you. Look carefully at both sides and consider which one you want to side with and which you want to side against.
Not more than they'd make as a secretary, but their income should be effectively capped at a sane level, somewhere around a well-paid engineer, I'm thinking $250k/yr.
The idea of technological progress being hampered in any way by a high marginal tax rate is counter-historical nonsense. There was no period of slowed technological advancement in the 20th century. What did happen under the high marginal tax rate was improving middle class incomes and purchasing power.
Even if the cost of ending runaway inequality were a halt to technological progress, I'd take it.
Keith Ellison's being pushed out of the DNC already. Soon enough he'll be gone and you'll have no target for your whataboutism. The democrats are responding slowly but surely to this single allegation of domestic abuse. Afterwards you'll have to look back to the '90s to try to justify your false equivalences.
And how do the Republicans respond to the triple allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh? Well you've demonstrated it. Just a smear campaign and bullying, nobody cares, move along, put the shitty judge who would make the President an autocrat onto the Supreme Court.
And then there's Trump and Moore...the right is fooling nobody but themselves.
Indeed, I don't know how you could trust anyone who could travel back in time and mind-control you into sexually assaulting 3 different women and then both lying about it under oath and revealing extreme partisan bias in the process. He is a perfectly innocent man in an alternate timeline.
(But seriously, that's not even the worst of it. His laughably terrible and legally outright wrong executive power maximalist views are.)
Interesting, do you have a source for that number? I hope it's true, it would put the conspiracy theorists' "follow the money" argument 6ft under once and for all.
There's nothing leftist about authoritarianism. You're using 1-dimensional political thinking in a political world that has at least 2 dimensions. Today's Republicans and "conservatives" are even further right than they were in 2015, but also much, MUCH more authoritarian.
We should thank the people who buy new cars and take a bath in depreciation so that the rest of us can buy affordable used cars. They provide an important service.
Maybe Jeff Bezos used his long-term thinking to figure out that underpaying workers will starve the economy out in the medium/long term, since demand-side economics is real and supply-side economics is destructive nonsense, so to keep a population of Amazon shoppers around, he wants to raise wages across the board. I'm surprised a guy who prides himself on his long-term thinking didn't figure this out sooner.
That's right, what about the crabs that have spent a long time getting near the lip of the bucket? Are they gonna let those other crabs that just dropped in get to the lip of the bucket too? - said the fisherman.
Holy shit you're a cosmically evil hyper-misanthrope. This is the kind of utterly inhuman shortsighted capitalist-utilitarian cruelty I'm afraid AI will empower.
Or more immediately, will the screen or mobo snap the first time it sees a meaningful amount of force from being packed in a bag or some accidental rough handling?
Slashdot Mirror
Progressive Social Media Complex
LOL
https://www.vox.com/policy-and...
It's the same thing that happened with Facebook. It's almost like building these massive siphons of personal data inherently leads to massive personal data leaks...
Also, I highly recommend you read this article for its information on fascism's history and methods:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018...
Solar panels and wind turbine blades don't really get "obsolete," they get handed down to where they can continue to reduce fossil energy use, if less efficiently. They do sometimes get damaged and they're not rocket science to recycle. Neither are EV/hybrid batteries. New large TVs are quite power efficient and a grid-powered heat pump on a house can make it just as warm as oil heating while allowing for centralized power cleanup. When Trump gets dumped we'll have adults for all the important world leaders again and they can complete and strengthen the Paris accord.
HTH.
Stick to used cars, preferably ones that get good MPGs. Seriously. A huge fraction of a car's lifetime CO2 emissions comes from manufacturing the car, and newer cars don't emit a whole lot less CO2. Then get a used electric car with a good/new pack when that old car bites the dust.
If she's not a hypocrite and is just very poorly informed, she could carbon offset her flights. It's not that expensive. Send her these links:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/sci...
https://co2.myclimate.org/en/f...
https://www.terrapass.com/prod...
This is the massive threat to humanity we've seen in sci-fi movies, usually represented by an invading alien species or some massive natural(ish) disaster, but in real life it was our own pollution that first posed a huge threat to us all.
And now we see how we react as a species to that threat. We didn't temporarily put aside our differences to work toward a common goal as fiction has often speculated. Instead most people kind of brushed the problem off and went back to focusing on the small-scale problems in their own lives, and a few people convinced themselves that the threat was made up and we'd all be fine. When we already had a good idea of how dangerous this threat was, those people elected a raging moron who shared their collectively suicidal beliefs to what was at the time the most powerful political office in the world.
The biggest threat to humanity is ourselves. Working to optimize our societies into what is effectively a perfect breeding ground for psychopaths over the last few hundred years (and especially over the last few decades) has been biting us in the ass the entire time and is about to finally rip out our throats.
I think our only hope is a millennial-driven political revolution - vote out every conservative everywhere across the globe, and put something between social democrats and democratic socialists in power so we can refocus our societies on benefiting as much of humanity as possible and defeat the incredibly short-sighted and largely detrimental business interests driving us to collective ruin.
Sadly the possibility of everyone being dead years from now is not considered by these algorithms. HFT bots don't consider what's going to happen beyond the next few seconds. Most companies don't look beyond the next few quarters - usually not beyond 1 quarter. Some industries like insurance look further ahead and are already taking global warming into account, but most don't.
Humanity is strapped to a machine that is indifferent to human suffering or ecological collapse and is dragging us toward catastrophe for our species and most of the life in the known universe.
You're pointing out extreme examples on the left again (although I don't think the BBC's HR department or college admissions departments should count...and they don't "discriminate against" Asians any more than they "discriminate against" whites). Since you're so enamored with these extremes, let's look at some extreme examples on the other side of the spectrum.
Richard Spencer. David Duke. The guys marching with torches and swastikas, yelling "blood and soil" and "Jews will not replace us." The actual Klan. These people actually kill, unlike Antifa. Right-wing extremists are the most prolific and second deadliest terror group by ideology in the US, close behind jihadism and at least an order of magnitude ahead of leftism. They fight for white supremacy and white nationalism. They vote for policies that create child prison camps, separating them from their parents in a way that makes it impossible for them to meet again, thus creating orphans to punish children for having parents who tried to cross a border without permission. That's not toxic and unreasonable? You'd rather side with this crowd than the "tumblerinas?" Because that's what you're doing. And if you want to make your decisions based on fringe extreme examples, you have to reckon with both fringe extremes. You've backed away from the extreme of the far left without seeing the camp you're backing into.
I think there's still hope for you. Look carefully at both sides and consider which one you want to side with and which you want to side against.
Not more than they'd make as a secretary, but their income should be effectively capped at a sane level, somewhere around a well-paid engineer, I'm thinking $250k/yr.
The idea of technological progress being hampered in any way by a high marginal tax rate is counter-historical nonsense. There was no period of slowed technological advancement in the 20th century. What did happen under the high marginal tax rate was improving middle class incomes and purchasing power.
Even if the cost of ending runaway inequality were a halt to technological progress, I'd take it.
Maybe the top and sides were filled with batteries, with the shredder and maybe some lead shot at the bottom to balance it out?
Heavy and bulky frames are the norm for expensive artworks, they don't just stick these things in a frame from Ikea.
Not just that, it's an opportunity to pick up some excellent money laundering instruments.
At this point I wish for the glory days of the 90%+ marginal tax rate about a dozen times per day.
Keith Ellison's being pushed out of the DNC already. Soon enough he'll be gone and you'll have no target for your whataboutism. The democrats are responding slowly but surely to this single allegation of domestic abuse. Afterwards you'll have to look back to the '90s to try to justify your false equivalences.
And how do the Republicans respond to the triple allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh? Well you've demonstrated it. Just a smear campaign and bullying, nobody cares, move along, put the shitty judge who would make the President an autocrat onto the Supreme Court.
And then there's Trump and Moore...the right is fooling nobody but themselves.
Indeed, I don't know how you could trust anyone who could travel back in time and mind-control you into sexually assaulting 3 different women and then both lying about it under oath and revealing extreme partisan bias in the process. He is a perfectly innocent man in an alternate timeline.
(But seriously, that's not even the worst of it. His laughably terrible and legally outright wrong executive power maximalist views are.)
Interesting, do you have a source for that number? I hope it's true, it would put the conspiracy theorists' "follow the money" argument 6ft under once and for all.
I hate it when I first hear about cool and useful stuff in news stories about how it's no longer available...
There's nothing leftist about authoritarianism. You're using 1-dimensional political thinking in a political world that has at least 2 dimensions. Today's Republicans and "conservatives" are even further right than they were in 2015, but also much, MUCH more authoritarian.
Cool plan but it involves a lot more trouble, expense, waiting, and ads than torrenting.
We should thank the people who buy new cars and take a bath in depreciation so that the rest of us can buy affordable used cars. They provide an important service.
Maybe Jeff Bezos used his long-term thinking to figure out that underpaying workers will starve the economy out in the medium/long term, since demand-side economics is real and supply-side economics is destructive nonsense, so to keep a population of Amazon shoppers around, he wants to raise wages across the board. I'm surprised a guy who prides himself on his long-term thinking didn't figure this out sooner.
That's right, what about the crabs that have spent a long time getting near the lip of the bucket? Are they gonna let those other crabs that just dropped in get to the lip of the bucket too? - said the fisherman.
False dichotomy.
Holy shit you're a cosmically evil hyper-misanthrope. This is the kind of utterly inhuman shortsighted capitalist-utilitarian cruelty I'm afraid AI will empower.
Or more immediately, will the screen or mobo snap the first time it sees a meaningful amount of force from being packed in a bag or some accidental rough handling?
She had one in physics (1903) shared with her husband.
When I read the headline my first thought was "A certain Madame Curie would like to have a word with this guy..."