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AlteredEgo

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  • Hail Corporate!

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  • Maybe China will bring out a cheap, affordable and degoogled phone lol.

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  • Haha well that is much darker and sounds like a good premise for a science fiction / fantasy. I think star trek had a story like that. And planet of the apes / the time machine.

    Crazy enough, there have been attempts to create a hybrid between an chimpanzee and a human. Luckily, none succeeded lol

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  • Yeah that's basically what we've done to wolves, horses, cats and cows/oxen through breeding. A giant ape would be a little more intelligent and sapient, but not that much. What would be unique would be a domesticated animal that can grasp and pick up and carry things, and trained to use some tools.

  • Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid

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  • How does google plan to enforce this? Will they disable side-loading for any app that isn't registered with google?

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  • Imagine homo florensis had managed to domesticate Gigantopithecus, riding on their shoulders like toddlers shooting arrows to hunt food.

    History would have played out differently with a mini Genghis Khan and his horde riding on giant apes!

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  • I think that's where hyper-individualism leads us when people don't want to share spaces but want their own little castle. But sharing spaces and parks would be vastly more cost and energy efficient (so I assume these countryside arcologies would also be very cheap way to live). Also you'd want an association that is geared to be more democratic than typical HOAs are (they are designed to improve and maintain property values for the whole project instead of living quality or utility). So even the individualism of suburbs are a kind of scam.

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  • Yeah exactly. Highly compact and energy efficient living while still living in nature and luxuriously, and little large scale infrastructure.

    Restoring nature would be a major way to fight climate change too. Of course you'd want fields lined by hedgerows (Bocage?) and food forests to produce the food those 10-30k inhabitants needs right outside, so you save transportation energy costs. And it's self sufficient at least in areas with water sources nearby or rainfall to capture.

    I can also imagine a "mini-monorail" with single seats that run on a simple metal beam build by a welding robot to connect such buildings and transport people, carry internet and power.

    I've seen fancy ideas for "arcologies" in cities but never one in nature with enough food calorie production right outside. I'd honestly love to live in a skyscaper where each apartment has a beautiful view on unspoiled countryside.

  • 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds

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  • What matters is scalability and how much material and cost you need to produce per energy unit. Kites (either parasails or fixed wing) are much simpler, can be scaled up too, and you only need a simple cable that pulls the generator's winch. Overall kites seem much more efficient to scale up.

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  • Yeah but I'd also like to see such huge buildings in the middle of nature. Imagine 10.000 people with their own daycare, school or even medic / doctor surrounded by fields and food forests so they can produce their own food. Generates it's own power, centralized super efficient heat storage system for winter, cleans up it's own water etc. And have a fast mass transport to the next hub, like a chain of such buildings a few miles apart linking to the next big city. That's my solar punk.

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  • Germany no, not directly. Indirectly they are collaborating with their ally and shielding their foreign policy. Like saying only those US rivals are dangerous. Indicating we need to invest in more weapons to defend ourselves against the bad guys. Europe probably should create their own military alliance to decouple from US military aggression, and stop supporting US sanctions / economic aggression.

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  • I'm curious how that will play out. They removed the carrot but kept the stick.

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  • All we can really agree on is that the country is ontologically evil and must be stopped at all costs.

    But at what cost?

  • DEMS PULL UPSET ON EPSTEIN FILES: Democrats dropped an 11th-hour motion at an unrelated hearing after noticing that most GOP members on the panel had publicly demanded the files be released.

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  • Oh no, I was the russian bot all along?

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  • ONLY if you ignore "soft" power, "regime change" economic imperialism and meddling in foreign democracies.

    You are responsible for your own actions, and the actions of your own country. Don't allow yourself to be blinded by the propaganda pointing to the "shithole" countries. Look at the numbers and the effects of the wars in recent decades. Follow the money.

  • DEMS PULL UPSET ON EPSTEIN FILES: Democrats dropped an 11th-hour motion at an unrelated hearing after noticing that most GOP members on the panel had publicly demanded the files be released.

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  • Can you point to the comment you suspect of being a russian bot?

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  • It's become strawman arguments to create different tribes. The issue isn't about China or what they do well or do badly. The "facts" and accusations against "tankies" are just taken as given.

    Prejudice has become mainstream and a serious problem because people are just fed up with actually arguing. I think it started with the global warming denial. we learned that it's not just fringe groups that are simply immune to arguing, but that you can have half of the people be immune to political discourse. And of course Russia propaganda played a major role in that, but much less than the climate denial or religious or libertarian propaganda that comes from think tanks and the Koch brothers and Murdock and other plutocrats.

    As a radical and dissenter myself, I'm not pro Russia or pro China but I see them as a country of human beings and see how the propaganda against them is used to deflect both blame and attention away from the dominant world order, "US centric imperialism". The "leftists" and "progressives" point their finger to Iran or China or Russia about the LGBTQ or whatever issues over there using mainstream media or memes, instead of primarily focusing on the responsibility of their own actions, the actions of their own countries. The effects of soft power, the effects of "economic imperialism" on other countries, and their ignorance of what regime change actually means for the actual quality of life of those people living in "shithole" countries. Liberals don't realize how redpilled they are, how "unwoke". Hate sells really well in the attention economy.

    Almost nobody on "those instances" believes Russia or China is socialist. It's simply that a unipolar instead of a multipolar world will mean much less hope for any socialist projects to succeed. Constantly painting them as "evil" and threatening them with military expansion is also just wrong.

  • “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for”, President Trump says

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  • Don't worry about the AI companies, they can afford it and then make a profit (eventually).

    Worry about the open source AI models that you can run locally using solar panels. They will become defacto illegal piracy. Affordable hardware to run large models without too much power is finally appearing (Ryzen AI max), but the software will become proprietary intellectual property of those who own the world. Which is the worst case scenario.

  • The ol' Uno Reverse

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  • You made a very strong claim that she committed a sex crime. You imply her accusations are wrong and malicious. You jumped to that conclusion and took that as fact. And you didn't even bother to read what she did. You judged her without even caring about that.

    Not saying you are a bigot, but what you did was bigoted. You should reflect on your behavior, apologize and resolve not to do it again. Only then you could ask for the downvotes to stop lol.

  • Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette

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  • Yeah public broadcasting is under attack because of advertising. Advertising fuels private broadcasting and it's in their owner's interest to push anti public broadcasting propaganda.

    Any system humans design to serve us as a society will over time become "min maxed" by people or institutions seeking to maximize their profit or gain more power or maintain power in the face of changes. Advertising is a primary vector how those with the most economic power can influence society without people even realizing it. And everything is political.

    For example take the ratings and something like yellow pages and announcements for new businesses like a plumber - needing to invest additional capital in advertising has an effect too. It makes it so new businesses are more indentures, more like wage slavery, than if no advertising existed at all. Obviously no advertising at all would favor seniority. But we have advanced in technology since we designed our government systems - there should be an independent "forth estate" or fifth or something for economics and regulation. They could be independently voted on to the executive or legislative. And their job would be to deal with regulation in the public's interest, and sponsor things like an independent ratings portal that is moderated, and force shops like amazon to use the independent ratings for the products and the vendors. It will stay a struggle to stay ahead of people trying to abuse the system for gain, but right now we pretend the tools we have right now are somehow god given. We Europeans are far more conservative than we like to think.

    If we want to have any resiliency against what is coming (because we destroyed our planet and let wealth inequality spiral and social media is nearly completely controlled by plutocrats) we need to push for better tools to govern democratically. And advertising is a major obstacle because it allows unmitigated influence of those who own the world.

    TLDR: We don't *have to * screw over new plumbers, but we should do it if we had to because stopping the brainwashing is more important.