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F - Cis - Bi
Unapologetic “lib” & Eurofederalist
Nazis and tankies can fuck off.
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We’re not talking about 40-somethings who can’t get off of cigarettes, we’re talking about teenagers who are starting to smoke/vape because they think it’s cool.
And your attitude really could use some improvement, you’re coming across as a colossal, condescending dick.
Is it? Because if you thought I meant “it’s better to just smoke” then you’ve misinterpreted me, I meant “neither is a good idea”. If that was ambiguous then I apologise.
The judgement on vaping is still out. It’s not been around for long enough to know what health effects it’ll have in the long-term, but since you’re still inhaling things your lungs just aren’t made to inhale I expect that it will have a negative impact on health.
Ja, das ist in etwa so abstoßend, dumm und menschenverachtend wie ich es erwartet hatte.
The current system is entirely sustainable. It does need reforms, but a regulated market economy combined with strong social welfare programmes is the best economic system we’ve come up with so far, by a very large margin. Planned economies were attempted, they universally failed.
Correct, all diminutives are neuter in German. In this instance the base word is die Magd (historically the maiden, nowadays the maid), which is grammatically female.
Which they technically didn’t. I’m sure Nvidia has a legal team that vetted their solution, they certainly have the money for it. At this point the “protection” against the proprietary driver is just anti-consumer.
31, Germany, I can’t drive at all. City kid.
I’d assume that fucking it up is the goal. Some people are just irredeemable sociopaths who get satisfaction out of ruining other people’s days.
If by “do your own research” you mean “read the studies” then by all means, go ahead. If, and I guess that’ll be the case for 99% of people without related degrees, you can’t understand them you should accept that you’re in no way equipped to do your own research.
Unlike Russia, Ukraine is not ruled by fascists and no provinces that want to secede from Ukraine either.
You know, it’s fascinating how some people on the left are willing to side with fascism just because it happens to oppose “the West”. Talk about ideological inconsistencies.
So we’re in agreement then. Russia needs to withdraw from Ukraine immediately so that peace talks can take place.
We’re the ones cheering on the war?! Are you shitting me? We aren’t the ones bending over backwards to justify this invasion. We aren’t the ones justifying Russia indiscriminately bombing Ukraine’s cities. We aren’t the ones justifying letting loose an army of convicts and rapists on Ukraine’s population. Fuck you. Seriously, fuck you.
I’m not really surprised. They got more and more open about their assassination attempts for years. They’re not meant to covertly get rid of enemies, they’re very public warnings to other dissidents. It’s rule by fear.
Putin absolutely couldn’t let Prigozhin walk, nobody could have. It’s not just about the semi-autonomous mercenary army, if a government lets someone get away with an attempted coup d’état they’d effectively encourage others to give it their best shot as well because there was no effective punishment. Assassination is, well, a very Russian approach to the issue, but every government on this planet would have taken some form of action.
The difference is that the images AIs spit out are, well, real. Imagining someone naked doesn’t produce a potentially very convincing actual image that can be shared.
I do think that AI can’t really be effectively regulated (my fucking laptop can run Stable Diffusion), but that doesn’t mean that there’s no need for a debate.
I don’t need to. iPhones are pretty but every time I’ve been forced to use one I wanted to pull my hair out, I know they’re vaunted for being easy to use but I find them incredibly unintuitive, and I need help to do basically anything. MacOS is mostly Fine™ (with that being said - no window snapping? really?!), but they have no laptops with a number pad on the keyboard, and even if they did, they don’t have matte display options so I couldn’t comfortably use the damn thing anyway. It’s a laptop, I’m not going to use it exclusively in darkened rooms with the lights turned off.
Edit: Also, MacBooks are entirely unupgradable. So that’s a hard no from me based on that alone. The “need more storage/RAM? Buy a new laptop!” approach is just entirely unacceptable as far as I’m concerned.
Prinzipiell eine gute Idee, aber der CDU traue ich nicht mit der Umsetzung. Mehr bezahlbarer Wohnraum wird bitter benötigt, auch wenn die NIMBYs was dagegen haben. Nur wird’s mit der CDU halt kein bezahlbarer Wohnraum werden.
And yet somehow a mandate worked for seatbelts. The people who politicised basic safety measures between then and now have blood on their hands.