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That's right it's a woman with huge breasts and a low cut dress. I swear every time I see AI hobbyists all I feel is

Am I missing something or does it have to be intentionally wrong to interpret GAZA written on a memorial to a victim of genocide as somehow pro genocide? Gaza and the Shoah are the same.

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User tries to troll progressive politics by saying just vote to remove Republicans. Proceeds to punch left when people raise why more than voting is needed

There is nothing unique or special about CBDCs. It is just like a checking account at the central bank. You are just shifting the liability from commercial banks (Barclay's or whatever) to Bank of England. There is no risk difference since commercial banks have state guaranteed deposit insurance anyways.

It won't change anything unless you add money for people to use. But given that Labour has "sound finance" brainworms that's unlikely.

Fiat currencies are not failing. These cryptobros see decline of the Dollar and rise of BRICS etc and go "its end of fiat currency". Yuan, ruble, rupee, rand and real are all fiat currencies. The "replacement" for dollar is not bitcoin but other fiat currencies.

America moment: being forced to rely on a burger company’s app to find out where power outages are

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Oh, and of course we can not forget that said burger company is using this massive natural disaster/tragedy as an opportunity to do Brand Twitter™ PR and marketing in the replies to the original tweet!

You know some bad news about Twitter just dropped when you start seeing Musk inventing new metrics like “user seconds”

https://subium.com/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3kwv35yzjqr2l

X / Twitter's user base has stopped growing under Elon Musk | Mashable

https://archive.ph/9tbj7

I ran into this article today and its says some things that are so weird I don't even know how to refute it properly. So I was wondering if you all have some thoughts on it. But I would suggest not wasting your time if you don't know who this guy is.

First, he seems to be really mad at degrowthers. I don't know what degrowthism entails exactly. Maybe there is a Degrowth LLC somewhere with a Chief Degrowth Officer who has laid out the official degrowth position. I have personally always FELT (I have no evidence) that supply chains are designed to push down costs rather than resource usage. A liberal will conflate the two but a large part of the costs is labour costs and labour costs are "artificially" suppressed due to imperialism. A large part of why developing countries are not allowed to develop is that it would drive up their wages and thus the costs of goods and services that global north nations buy from them. But he seems to think that degrowth means that we should go back to the copper age to keep emissions low which seems disingenuous to put it kindly.

Then there is stuff like this:

Dematerialization, not offshoring, is what has allowed U.S. GDP to continue to increase at a more-or-less steady clip even as we’ve reduced our usage of energy, fresh water, copper, aluminum, and other metals, as well as our carbon emissions.

This is presented without evidence.

What is dematerialization? I am not sure but this part hints at what it is:

Think of the classic movie American Graffiti. George Lucas depicts his memories of a 1950s world where young people have fun, hook up, and get social status by driving around in cars all day and all night. This is hugely resource intensive. Nowadays, kids can have fun with their friends by chatting, sharing stories, and playing video games online. They can use Tinder to hook up instead of cruising around. And they can get social status by accumulating Facebook likes, TikTok views, and Twitter follows. Thus, young people have been ditching cars for smartphones. That means less gasoline burned, less steel and aluminum used, and so on. But more fun ultimately to be had.

He seems to be saying that what was once done by cars is now done by software. Software is, simplistically put, an arrangement of ones and zeros that creates value out of thin air. Hence, dematerialization. He seems to acknowledge somewhere that the computer industry has material resource usage at all points but I think he sees it as less than what cars consume or a lump sum cost that is paid for at once in advance.

What I don't understand is that how are cars and phones mutually exclusive? He draws on this Atlantic article that I am not gonna read. Also I think most kids just can't afford to have cars anymore. Also I don't think Ferris Bueller and Mean Girls depict the average school experience.

It’s certainly possible for economic growth to happen in a virtual environment with no increase in real resource use. To see this, just do a little thought experiment: Imagine simply simulating the economic growth that has already happened on Earth.

Imagine that sometime far in the future, with highly advanced technology, we create a complete, physically exact simulation of the planet Earth in 1600 A.D., complete with the minds of 554 million digitized human beings. And then suppose we simply run that simulation forward, as the digital people develop steam engines, railroads, tractors, cars, airplanes, and so on.

This is a very real increase in GDP!

Russian companies are reported to be increasingly using a food additive that is banned in the country—"meat glue" or transglutaminase—to cut production costs.

rofl how do those sanctions taste ruzzians??

Transglutaminase was also banned by the European Union in 2010

It has been banned for use in food production in Russia since 2020

It is still permitted for use in the United States.

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Honestly, just really dumb of Hoyo and the promotion company to try to sponsor someone with "4Chan" right in the name.

Aaand of course tankies are mentioned for doubling the hilarity factor (maybe i should rather post that to memes?)

I WILL NOT LET A REDDITOR BE MY PRESIDENT

Rule 8 justificaiton: hella followers just beleive me

https://x.com/cbouzy/status/1810342834114809963

... there was one seismic change that was overlooked by every major news outlet. Which is this: every middle-aged woman I know feels, right now, kind of … fruity. Turned on. As erotic as a British woman can feel during a wet summer.

And so however it pans out, at the beginning of this new government, the fact that they seem at the outset incredibly competent is making women of a certain age very frisky.

(criticism of jordan elections is, of course, absent)

from a community space local to me

https://www.instagram.com/p/C9J6nGVRq6I/