Just the deaths of hundreds of thousands, nothing to see here.

To save 0.3% of the budget.

Didn't even do that--just about everything DOGE claimed was AI mistakes.

The typical citizen soldier wasn't capable of atrocities, which is why they had the special selected einsatzgruppen. ICE rhymes with that word.

State sponsored sabotage.

Even if that would be true, turning off these systems would just kill more of the people.

Almost like he's the elite he's complaining about.

Always projection.

... Because they've been less open from the start?

It seems to me like they mean that Android has now lost its technical advantage, so might as well use the option with the shinier UI.

Your comparison only makes sense if you also consider how many requests are being made.

The "only the biggest thing matters" is a faulty logic. If you truly care about the environment then we need to improve things across the board.

And moralizing about living beings doesn't help your cause here.

It might not help the cause, but ultimately it's an uncomfortable truth. It's easy to dismiss a fact as 'moralising'.

It's simply a fact that animals suffer when they are factory farmed and then killed. It's a fact that they are living sentient beings. You can be totally okay with that, but the reality is that most people are only okay with it because it doesn't happen right in front of them.

I used to eat meat, btw. And I also used to attack people for 'moralising'. I now realise this was my brain trying to defend itself; to try to make sense of why I would pet a dog but eat a pig (everyone else is doing it, this person is just different and wrong, go away bad vegan person!)

I also had this sudden realization a year ago about the cruelty of animal usage in society and went vegan and my only regret is that I didn't do it sooner.

One other angle is there are the beginnings of consideration of cruelty to AI's. That's great that people are starting to consider it, to try to be compassionate out of the abundance of caution that it might matter.

But to then just straight up pay to have tens to hundreds of obviously sentient animal killed for you per year (and yes egg laying hens and dairy cows are killed in their youth, when they don't want to die) seems like a blind spot a lot of people have. I had it myself until recently, so I don't cast any judgment, but I also wish it was easier to make people just see the truth on this

Good for you for accepting an uncomfortable truth and making a change. I'm not sure where you are based, in some places it's easier to eat out as a vegan than in others. That said, the more people the better, and the easier it gets for everyone.

I do live in a big city, and I've found the eating part to be a non issue after like a one month learning curve. I now miss absolutely nothing, and am healthier and spend less on food. The hard part is dealing with social situations, but it's not that bad.

I'd say this is even more an Asian thing? Or maybe I'm just extrapolating from my visits in Japan and Malaysia.

That's not an absolute rule, of course...

> Something is really, really wrong in Europe. There will be books written about this in the future.

Replace Europe with the US and the statement holds just as well. Or China or why not Russia.

We live in bad times.

We live in times. There is always something: just in Europe, in the 50s and 60s we had the Cold War (and on the other side of the Iron Curtain, outright invasions); in the 70s we had terrorism and economic shocks; in the '80s we had Libya, Lebanon, heroin, AIDS, Chernobyl; in the '90s we had genocide in Yugoslavia, big market crashes and sovereign debt crisis, the war in Kuwait; in the '00s we had 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq; you can go on and on...

The reality is that, as long as we don't start firing nukes, we'll all be alright in the end.

On the contrary during every decade above there were regions in Europe with prosperity, driving premium German cars, and benefiting from cheap workforce and "entertainment" services from impacted other European regions. Some remained prosperous through all of these decades.

Sure, but there was also Baader-Meinhof, Munich '72, plenty of robberies and car theft (which are comparably pretty rare now)...

My point is that no decade is particularly "good" or "bad" even in peacetime - shit happens all the time. And of course, only 80 years ago most of Europe was in rubbles.

No need for dirt. Putin simply funnels money to Trump and that's enough.