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Corporate Censorship Bring You Here?
  • Just the opposite.

    I left reddit because they don't censor nazis hard enough and will actually ban people for reporting hate speech, calling it an "abuse of the reporting system".

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    What part of a game you enjoy replaying do you dislike replaying?
  • and a lot of other parts where its just people talking at legnth - its only interesting the first time, but its almost half the game and really detracts from replayability

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    Scientist Discover How to Convert CO2 into Powder That Can Be Stored for Decades
  • Storing carbon as sodium formate has the same problem as storing it as trees - bacteria will eat it and release CO2. Its also not useful as portable fuel - its energy density is an order of magnitude less than kerosene.

    Its potential use as a battery is interesting though. I can imagine a system where a long lasting catalyst is used to fill a tank of sodium formate using waste CO2 from industrial processes and excess electrical generation capacity from renewable sources like wind and solar, and the machines that use sodium formate to generate electricity at times of low wind and solar generation could potentially be less polluting overall compared to mining lithium for new batteries and recycling worn out lithium batteries.

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    How do you explain to yourself the existence of this Universe or the existence of anything at all?
  • a black hole

    assuming a thing into existence isn't a satisfying answer

    where did your black hole come from? another black hole?

    might as well just claim its turtles all the way down

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    Data poisoning: how artists are sabotaging AI to take revenge on image generators
  • AI does not learn and transform something like a human does.

    But they do learn. How human-like that learning may be isn't relevant. A parrot learns to talk differently than a human does too, but African greys can still hold a conversation. Likewise, when an AI learns how to make art by studying what others have made, they may not do it in exactly the same way a human does it, but the products of the process are their own creations just as much as the creations of human artists that parrot other human artists' styles and techniques.

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    Data poisoning: how artists are sabotaging AI to take revenge on image generators
  • Everyone should be assumed to be able to look at it, learn from it, and add your style to their artistic toolbox. That's an intrinsic property of all art. When you put it on display, don't be surprised or outraged when people or AIs look at it.

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    For real tho
  • I hope that includes what other sites would call "strictly necessary". No thanks, if your site won't work without, then I don't need to visit.

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    Rate of suicide in the U.S. peaks among older men, a hard demographic to reach
  • That's not just an idea - its physical reality. You can't get your physical needs met in old age if you didn't win the lotto. Suicide is the retirement plan for most of us non-boomers.

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    Canada faces declining EV interest, report shows, despite push to boost sales
  • The Tesla brand has become distasteful due to the owner's antics, and no other carmaker builds an EV that's capable of long range travel due to a lack of quick charge capability and infrastructure.

    edit: "the owners" meaning the person who owns the company, ie Elon, not the people who bought the cars. Apostrophe added for clarity.

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    Morocco has received nearly three times more armored vehicles from the United States than allocated to Ukraine
  • USA and Morocco signed a treaty 1786 which remains the longest unbroken relationship in U.S. history, in 2004 Morocco was declared a "Major Non-NATO Ally", and Morocco's military and law enforcement train and work together with their U.S. counterparts.

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    This is a totally normal thing to find on your food's packaging
  • Do you actually believe that though? Think about it. Would a lack of regulations really prevent monopolies, or would it enable them? And is a market that has been captured by monopolies "free"?

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    This is a totally normal thing to find on your food's packaging
  • Capitalism is rule by whoever owns the most capital. Its not in the capitalists' interests to allow a free market - competition is dangerous to whoever currently owns the most capital and gets to make the rules.

    For a market to be free, it specifically requires enforcing anti-monopolist, pro-competitive regulation. Furthermore, the decision making efficiency of a free market is enhanced by regulation that allows individual decision makers to have something closer to perfect information.

    The idea that deregulation leads to a free market is capitalist propaganda that only benefits the billionaires.

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    This is a totally normal thing to find on your food's packaging
  • But a free market specifically focuses on the removal of regulations.

    That's capitalism, not a free market.

    A free market requires regulation to keep it free, otherwise monopolies take over.

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    Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars
  • There were two hybrid minivans on the market a couple years ago when I went shopping for one. One plug-in from Chrysler and a non-plug-in from Toyota. Both cost about as much as a Model 3.

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    ‘Nudify’ Apps That Use AI to ‘Undress’ Women in Photos Are Soaring in Popularity
  • Or maybe an accessibility improvement. You don't need to practice creating your own works of art over many years anymore, or have enough money to commission a master artist. The AI artists are good enough and work for cheap.

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