An ecosocialist world would not allow wealth inequality to become this bad.

We don’t live in one. The challenge is to make one.

It’s a biological fact when resources are constrained that a population will plateu.

Mice and fleas don’t have medicine, feminism, research centres and agriculture. Look at the world around you. In societies with high degrees of scarcity and high infant mortality, humans have tended to have a lot of babies. This is true now, and it was true historically. On the flipside, in societies with high development indexes, humans tend to not have many kids. From Japan to Sweden to Cuba, you see that fertility rates inversely correlate with human development. These are just observable facts.

LMDE because I get the robustness of Debian stable and the quality of life goodies of Mint.

I mean, the “I’m sorry if it makes me an ecofascist, but” line was a dead giveaway from the start.

Oh, so you get to decide who gets to have kids and how many? And the “trailer park welfare mom” is your problem? Like, the straw(wo)man you made up with ingredients from classism, sexism and eugenics?

Yea, that makes you a regular fascist. The “eco” is just the excuse.

What a bullshit dilemma.

And you are wrong that wealth inequality causes the drop in birth rates. The birth rate was higher in the Dickensian times of Britain compared to now. If anything, it is wealth equality, universal positive rights, and women’s liberation that tend to make people have fewer kids.

A ecosocialist world is a sustainable one. An ecofascist world is just a death spiral.

You first, buddy.

If not, this is just a slippery slope argument to “those other people shouldn’t exist/have babies”. That’s just the door to eco-fascism.

If you listen carefully, there is something very soft about them too though. Their songs will sometimes go off into incredibly positive messages, which hit that much harder because they come from such anger. Example, in their “Hunger Games”:

You are more than your take home pay
Making barely enough to make it through the day
I know, I know, I know
You are more than your ability to earn
You are more than your future successors
You are here, you are now
Surely, your existence is testament
To the successful lineage from which you were arrived
Here, now
You are stronger than you think you are
You are love
You are not alone
You are going through hell, but keep going
Be proud, be open
Be loud, be hopeful
Be healthy, be happy
Be kind to yourself
Be decisive
Here, now
Do not live every day as if it is your last
Live every day as if it is your first
Full of wonder and excitement
As you wonder along, excited
Marveling at the possibilities of all that stands before you
Here, now

So did Apartheid South Africa for whites.

Death to apartheid everywhere. Never again this shit for anyone anywhere.

To people put off by the slogan, a reminder that the IDF, being an occupying army, under international law is absolutely a legitimate target for violent armed Palestinian resistance.

Now, I wouldn’t actually wish for death to anyone, so the best thing for all involved is for the Israeli apartheid to be dismantled and the IDF to be subsumed by the armed forces of the post-apartheid democratic government of the plurinational state of Palestine and Israel. So let’s all wish for a gentle passing away to the IDF instead.

Done, thanks!

I think that’s exactly the reference here.

Enlightenment has been around for 28 years. This means there is enough adoption for it to keep going on.

This is useful for dispelling the hype around ChatGPT and for demonstrating the limits of general purpose LLMs.

But that’s about it. This is not a “win” for old school game engines vs new ones. Stockfish uses deep reinforcement learning and is one of the strongest chess engines in the world.

EDIT: what would be actually interesting would be to see if GPT could be fine-tuned to play chess. Which is something many people have been doing: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=finetune+gpt+chess

Sure, but why?

Yea that’s my point.

Punching a capitalist was a thing when capitalists were individuals. Nowadays, with the exception of the billionnairest of billionnaires, capitalists are mostly institutions.

In many countries, some of the biggest capitalists are pension funds. Should I go punch myself?

A culture that obsoletes electronics every couple of years and enshittifies services every couple of other years cannot be seriously talking about MMIs/BCIs.

This sounds like a contrived meta objection to me. Antisemitism-as-prejudice (footnote) lives in entirely in the brain of the perpetrator. The person you know was mistaken for jewish, in the mind of the perpetrator is jewish, and is being persecuted and killed for being jewish. EDIT: for that matter, a convinced Nazi would probably argue that no mistakes were made and if someone is “jewy enough to be mistaken for jewish, then they are jewish enough to be sent to the trains”. I’m going to immerse myself in betadine now for having written that phrase, yuck. Like in the perverted Nazi brain “jewishness” is a taint that must be aggressively expunged, regardless of niceties and nuances and stuff.

(footnote: as opposed to antisemitism-as-system)

Oh I see. Which is why the admins/mods of Feddit.org are also publicly coming out criticizing the German government for this crackdown on nuanced speech, right? Right?

Do Greeks get Constantinople, Marseille and Syracuse back?