But at least it was your own fault. Much easier to forgive yourself than a global kafkaesque system of greed-driven bureaucracy.

I never really understood the appeal of arranging severed plant genitals. Sure, it looks nice. But boobs also look nice, and I don’t cut them off and put them in a pretty bowl on my living room table.

I disagree. Everyone believes that people are greedy and their only goal in life is money hoarding. But if you ask them what their own goals are, getting filthy rich has very, very low priority.

If politicians are greedy, that’s because 1) to become a politician (in the USA), you already have to be rich, and 2) if politicians are paid lots of money, greedy people want to become politicians.

You don’t want to attract greedy assholes to represent you, but that’s exactly what you’re doing if you pay them too much. The people you do want to be politicians are those who aren’t interested in money.

He said the same thing a month ago: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmer-nicolas-stihl-35-stunden-woche-nicht-mehr-zeitgemaess-a-a69431e3-905a-4c8a-ba45-abdaa6dfceff

But I don’t get it. Wealth doesn’t really increase by working more. For skilled jobs, working longer means you are producing the same output in more time and feel worse. If you want to increase production, you need to invest in research and technology.

Hundreds of years ago, one farmer could feed a hand full of people, today it’s probably thousands, thanks to modern technology. If the farmers back then would work twice as much, they could still only feed a hand full of people, but they would probably die a lot sooner.

Unlikely because they have very strict hardware requirements for security reasons. So far only Pixel phones had the required hardware. Motorola is planning to release some GrapheneOS phones in 2027, but they will be very expensive.

What I meant is that you can play the game perfectly fine without having solved it. I know because I play once every two decades or so and always lose because forgot the solution.

… if you start and know what to do. It is perfectly possible to lose for either player. Unless maybe if both players want to lose?

She’s wearing it better anyway.

Can you explain what you mean exactly?

Caspian Report zur geopolitischen Finnland-Situation [20:35]

Die beste Strategie für Putin scheint mir zu sein, weiter den Westen auf alle irgendwie möglichen Arten politisch zu destabilisieren. Je mehr Europa mit sich selbst beschäftigt ist, desto mehr Handlungsoptionen hat Russland. Einem wirklich geeinten Europa hätte Russland nicht wirklich viel entgegenzusetzen, Atomwaffen hin oder her.

The point of Uber is to make money. As long as businesses can make money by kicking you in the face, they will do it.

No, as the title says, this book is about the social aspects of AI and what the new far right movements (hope to) gain from it. It does explain a little what “AI” is and isn’t and how it basically works, but it’s not really about the technical side of things. I have zero interest in using AI and I feel like I already knew everything the book explained about the technology.

I’m currently reading AI and the New Fascism by Rainer Mühlhoff which is exactly about this.

I’m only about 30 % through and probably forgot half of that, but one point that stuck was that AI has parallels to immigrants from the point of fascists. Both are powerful forces that threaten our way of life as we know it. We must keep AI/immigrants in check by whatever means necessary, even if it means we’re violating basic human rights or destroy whole ecosystems. There is no time to argue about this because the threat is so severe and we must act now before it is too late.

Fascists also like AI because it discriminates against any deviants. If you are uncommon in any way, it is more likely that AI will not recognize your medical issues, ignore your social needs, etc, which makes life harder for you. Fascists are all about social conformity, so they love this aspect.

But you are still driving your car because it benefits you. Nobody thinks they are helping others by driving through a busy city center.

You misunderstand me. I agree that being a pedestrian or cyclist should be more convenient and safer, and I don’t care if that means car drivers are inconvenienced by whatever it is that needs to be done to achieve that goal.

But you are inconveniencing car drivers while also making the situation worse for pedestrians, cyclists and everyone else. What you are doing has no positive effects for anyone, except maybe you feeling righteous for a moment.

No, they don’t drive their cars because they think it’s good for you, they drive them because they think it’s good for them.

Deciding what is good for random strangers and then forcing them to enjoy whatever it is you came up with doesn’t sound like very good idea.

And how is this helping your situation? Breaking and accelerating increases noise and pollution. If cars have to spend more time on the street instead of being at their destination, they either need more road space or they spend more time in traffic jams that, again, increase noise and pollution. Cars are the least likely to be involved in accidents when they are cruising, so you are also making your city less safe.

Just to be clear: I’m absolutely in favour of banning cars in cities, but you are making the already bad situation worse for everyone.