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AuthAuth··on Thinking will become a hobby
My big fear is that the politicans continue making effective good policy and fail to effectively celebrate the wins because the media is just making up lies and downplaying everything in the most cynical way possible. Thats why I also think there is a need for average people to also actively boost the politicians.
AuthAuth··on Thinking will become a hobby
As an individual we need to make the case for liberal democracy. Its under heavy attack by two very authoritarian ideologies either side. Liberal Democracy needs to convince people its the right framework going forward once Liberals are back in power they need to demonstrate that they can actually solve the challenges people are facing. And it cant all be left up to politicians voters need to activate to provide energy.
AuthAuth··on NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
It might seem this way because he is showing off his wins on different channels. In terms of passing policy its not different than other mayors. Maybe you think the policy is good and the other mayors policy was bad and thats the gap.
AuthAuth··on Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
Thats if you're sensitive to being flamed. I jumped in after playing against bots for 30s no previous TA experience and I was a complete terrorist for 5-10 games. Then I started just being a "bad" player and going unnoticed.
AuthAuth··on I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard
Its $100 at most. Thats something majority of people can afford.
AuthAuth··on Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy
>generally don't want to say that because it contradicts their ideology or it just plain looks bad, so they resort to an alternative argument: "stupid people should be allowed to vote but the information that they have access to should be controlled by us instead of by the Bad People"

Its objectively true that people are voting based off false information. It makes sense that people would want that to stop.

AuthAuth··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
IT professionals have been automating people out of jobs for years. Why would anyone worry about them?
AuthAuth··on Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data
your brain is cooked if you think sweden is leading the world in rape count
AuthAuth··on Ukraine Can't Stop Russia's Jet-Powered Shahed Drone
That is a count of active military for 3 nations. A deployment would never consist of only "combat troops" so you are nitpicking to try and save your point.
AuthAuth··on Ukraine Can't Stop Russia's Jet-Powered Shahed Drone
France, Germany, UK alone have 500k + another 200k from poland. 500k doesnt mean you have to deploy 500k to ukraine. Just make it known that ukraine has that pool available to draw from. Even a deployment of 50k and equipment would change the tides significantly.

On the matter of attrition its not in ukraines favor at all. I follow it very closely and its closer to 1m to 1.5m. Russia can sustain far greater losses. They have a much deeper pool to draw from where as ukraine has already called up and drafted a lot of their able bodied men.

The propaganda makes it look closer than it is because we want to see ukraine winning but dont take that as thinking they dont need help.

AuthAuth··on Ukraine Can't Stop Russia's Jet-Powered Shahed Drone
The more people on a front the harder it is to push. Currently ukraine is covering the entire front on their own. Having NATO troops to reinforce their lines would allow them to rotate more often and would change the calculation for russia. Currently russia knows that there isnt many people on a front and it can be broken. If they knew that NATO was there adding another 500k active troops the calculation of attrition would be in ukraines favor.

If Ukraine and russia can bare the losses there is no reason why NATO cant.

AuthAuth··on Gemini 4 Argon
They dont understand the fix so sharing a vibe coded patch is upstream spam. They should submit a bug report and their findings. (Written by them not AI)
AuthAuth··on Ukraine Can't Stop Russia's Jet-Powered Shahed Drone
Putin isnt going to nuke over a defensive deployment of troops. As long as they dont cross over into russia its not an escalation. He has already broken this line by bringing in NK troops and EU spec ops have broken this line by operating in ukraine the past 4 years.
AuthAuth··on Ukraine Can't Stop Russia's Jet-Powered Shahed Drone
It would refresh the Ukrainian positions and allow troops to rotate more often. It'd also make it near impossible for russia to take more ground.
AuthAuth··on Gemini 4 Argon
they moved it from the place you'd expect to ai.studio
AuthAuth··on Ukraine Can't Stop Russia's Jet-Powered Shahed Drone
Its really depressing watching Ukraine get ragged by a larger nation while all its neighbors sit on the sidelines and watch. Deploy troops to Ukraine it wont trigger nuclear war.
AuthAuth··on Let's Ditch Google (Verb)
American companies are so good at getting their brands to be the name of a thing.
AuthAuth··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
Different war I am referring to the 2023 Gaza war but my point still stands the incident you linked is not a civilan being run over. "the IDF was engaged in an operation involving the demolition of Palestinian houses in Rafah. Corrie was part of a group of three British and four American ISM activists attempting to disrupt the IDF operation." If you are embedding yourself in Gaza 2003 during the 2nd intifada and doing this you arent a civilan.
AuthAuth··on Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
In a lot of places the power companies are government owned and the private companies get massive amounts of captial from the government for buildouts.
AuthAuth··on Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
The people buying the batteries and the government's capital. It only benefits the private util companies.

The better option is for the government/utility company to build out the required storage for a fraction of the cost.

AuthAuth··on Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries
Its an inefficient use of capital.
AuthAuth··on GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities
>When someone wielding a non-safeguarded model deletes the money in everyone’s bank account

Even more reason to let people go wild with open models

AuthAuth··on McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac
why does this never result in the food getting cheaper.
AuthAuth··on Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over
>Like are there people who really prefer junk food over good food even in the moment, or have to get their will power up to read a good book?

Yes these people are more common than not.

AuthAuth··on You are no longer invited to dinner
2 families over with simple food is still the hosting talked about in the article.
AuthAuth··on I switched to Brave
and gripe you have against Mozilla should be outweighed by looking at the other browsers but for some reason its not. People act like Mozilla is doing these awful things then switch to a browser doing far worse and say nothing.
AuthAuth··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
I'm almost certain a small group of uni aged kids are doing this to my local subreddit.
AuthAuth··on Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
The only solution is to stop caring about security -- An AI booster somewhere
AuthAuth··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
By the time the bulldozers are there civilians have long moved out of the area.
AuthAuth··on Microsoft abandons personal AI chatbot race with Copilot reboot
Governments are above corporations. They can absolutely tell microsoft what to do.
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