Human behaviour is formed by both individual traits and their environment. When there are easy and effective suicide options available, suicide numbers tend to be higher. See e.g. https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/newsroom/news-releases/about-740000-global-deaths-suicide-occur-annually-thats-one
Palm oil can be bad for deforestation, but so is cattle farming (most forest clearing is for cattle grazing or cattle feed). There is certification around to source palm oil from outside recently cleared forests. In general, plant based diets will almost always beat animal products by a very significant margin.
I would say that its mostly about the conference goer. We’re so used to the absurd level of waste of a flight, that we are bothered by the comparatively tiny waste of an AI query. Just like we’re bothered by avocados but not red meat.
Most of Southern Europe is significantly poorer than most of Northern Europe…
The people of Iran are generally quite nice. I wouldn’t call the entire country a shithole just because its run by fundamentalists
If the US falls apart, I would expect it to be a very bloody affair. Not just red state vs blue state, but also city blue against countryside red. The trauma of that would likely be sufficiently deep to keep folks apart for a couple of hundreds of years.
Well it is nice to realise that despite putting in the work, it is a huge privilege to have the freedom to be born in a time and place where you actually get the chance to realise your potential - instead of having suffered abuse at home, being sent to a farm or factory at 8 years old or simply dieing from diarrhoea. So yeah, sucks if people want to be thankful to god for that, but being thankful for what good exists in the world is a positive thing.
And then the baby is forced into bankruptcy because Q4 results were below expectations
All of those examples are things they know about through the press and social media. So either they chose not to believe the lying press, or they get the content moderated in such a way that it all sounds acceptable. The latter of course takes having sick values, but not as sick as you would expect based on the info you get about what is happening in the world.
I know this would be the top comment before looking at the comments
Yep, there’s a few episodes made after that
That’s because they’re talking about another one, where someone’s braindamage is countered by a part of their brain being ran on a commercial cloud. Of course, enshittification follows, and her husband resorts to extreme measures to pay for the increasing cost.
In Belgian Dutch, “having success” can mean being (romantically) popular, maybe the meaning is similar here
It’s totally crazy how single polls are considered newsworthy. Aggregate polling had him bottoming out at 39.3 or so, but he’s already moving back up and is over 40% again. E.g. https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin So sure, his ratings are very low right now, but it’s just random chance that a few polls were significantly below 40%.
Ah of course
That didn’t stop both countries from being allies for several decades, why would you bring that up now?
Frist, campaign funding needs to be capped and be limited to individual donations. But then: there are as many models of democracy as there are democratic countries. It might be useful to compare them and see what model you could work towards. In research, the Nordic states almost always come out on top. So have a look at what they are doing for inspiration.
Cool, thanks for that link!
So these are systems that work when the main power is down? Do people have battery packs too?
I always forget that’s not a Johnny Cash original!