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There's two layers two it. Ukraine joining the EU is not the same as joining NATO at all. Yet, Putin would have also been vehemently opposed to this idea. So it's clearly not just a military fear, but a desire for that land grab. Ukraine is not only a breathing ground but also a potential resource to exploit. He wants to exploit it regardless of anything NATO does. IMO access to ports, not paying for the use of gas pipes, consolidating control over the world's agriculture, control over mines, etc., these were all much more probable causes to start this war than whatever NATO does or thinks. Now who knows what's in Putin's head.

Rape cases are neglected all over the world, that’s why feminists and leftists are fighting for this issue. The idea that the faults of law and judiciary systems are somehow due to the left-leaning people is laughable.

Ukraine and Moldova have started official talks for accession to the EU. Or rather EU started it with them, opened its arms. It was yesterday I think.

@CARDOZZO Not at all, but it's important to asses what is possible during our lifetimes and what is a dream for the next centuries. Otherwise you are burning investor's money. Thus, wasting humanity's potential.

@CARDOZZO Citing this guy's master plan: True. Continuing growth is unsustainable, if you start with this assumption, you are already dead at the start. Doesn't address what I have said at all, apart from these comments.

My man, go to this YouTuber's subreddit or something, explain to people there the concept of Lines of Development, and discuss with them, they will be much more happy to talk about Destiny.

Why do you assume people in this video are migrants? They might have French citizenship. Like France is not a monolith country of one single ethnicity for a long time. The people in the video look very young. Deviant youth does deviant acts in all countries. Like fuck, dysfunctional kids in the US take guns to school. Ask yourself what's worse.

Graeber's Bullshit Jobs were enjoyable, though. A little bit too long, but cool.

I don't see how humanoids fit into global economy in the next 50 years. All new technology relies on the bet that we will somehow expand our energy sources, mine more materials and not collapse on civilization complexity from climate change and environment pollution. Whether the robots are good or bad idea depends on their reliability. And Tesla has very mediocre reliability. It's a finicky bet. I bet we will go back to simpler means of production in all sectors of economy in the next century. That means no popularization of fancy robots.

This is exactly because they don’t have deep knowledge and would like firms that had invested billions in it to share it. We live in a global economy where guarding knowledge is a must. You don’t guard if you don’t have any. If all Western tech companies released their patents and started creating educational materials on their most valuable processes, that would damage them beyond imagination. Maybe it would be beneficial for humanity in the long run, but terrible for these companies and countries which economies they support. I will repeat myself. There’s no more interest in STEM because it’s not needed. Someone needs to warm the hot dogs at gas stations. Maybe if we had more DIY and repair shop oriented culture, but the current zeitsgeit is still to make unauthorized unofficial repairs as hard as possible, because it’s bad for business. But this business pays taxes and supports the social security system, so it’s never as easy as saying force them to stop doing it. Although this one I would force them, and I love the EU decision to force batteries to be replaceable in all devices even smartphones.

@CARDOZZO I think you are terribly missing with your comment. I don't know what country you would like to compare, but let's say the US. Workers in the US need to have big salaries, especially educated ones with quality "hard" science education. The business is already saturated, there's enough workers. There's a constant supply of new ones, that's enough. No-one forces kids to learn these things as it's simply not needed there. The only result would be more rivalry for jobs, lower pay, yet not more business. More business would be if they had lower labor cost, more materials, shorter supply chains, etc. But it's all in Asia for now, and teaching kids to solder won't bring it to the Americas.

I mean, possibly both will work, it's just that carbonate is stronger. How to freebase: dissolve in water, add base like sodium carbonate, filter on a coffee filter. Done. There's really no philosophy here, with 5-MeO-DMT it should be powdery/paste/oil. You can take a razor blade and jab jab this paste so it dries faster, if it's not immediately dry. Or maybe even store it next to bags with desiccant in a small box, so it gets really dry. After a while it should be powdery.

Oh, then I get your point.

This is exactly my point. You act like you know me, just like you act know-it-all about this conflict.

You are huffing too much copium. You don't need to guess where the bombs go, you can see photos of the destruction. The zeal and ignorance some people in this thread present reminds me of some right-wingers. It's the same pattern of behavior, this time taking sides in a military conflict instead of blindly defending one's favorite politicians on online platforms. It ties in with the post about right-wingers being media illiterate that Leo posted on his blog. I think the root cause is the same.

It's a root of your confusion, that it all looks so easy to you. You think you know, but you don't know, and are very proud about it.

@MysticalSnow You sound very judgmental for someone supposedly so spiritual they don't care about dating.

Zen, maybe not that much. I would do EEG neurofeedback meditation regularly plus psychedelics on the weekends.

It's not about the level of development of average citizens. You have a certain government. Just like Russians have a certain government. In fact, these situations are not much different. Israel is like Russia in many ways in this conflict.

Like most humans You have got a point Musk doesn't have one and look at what happens. I wonder what Grok would say when asked about Elon Musk's politics. If it's trained on Twitter it should know his takes and be able to evaluate them.

I don't think this technology will ever be something like a full fledged general intelligence. Can't tell you why, but it's just not intelligent at all I feel. Like with this image of bass drop. It's just a sum of meanings behind words bass and drop. The language model does similar things with words as this one does with pictures. It needs a director who would select and remove the fish from the image. I don't think this current technology is capable of directing and correcting itself. It needs an actual intelligent supervisor, maybe some other technology will be able to do that, on top of that one.

@Squeekytoy It's not a gimmick as an editor and writing assistant in general. It has great command of language, you can just spurt random points in everyday language and then tell it to rewrite them in a concise, educated way in full paragraphs.

It's actually funny how the most biased people are the loudest. Maybe because their limited perspective needs constant protection from clashing with reality.

I have real problem believing you are an honestly confused person and not just a bad faith actor who stirs some pointless drama on purpose. They are occupiers, no-one agreed on giving them the land they have been illegally grabbing, even according to their own rules expanding settlements had been illegal. What are you getting out of this pointless bickering?

He is not in force in any of these things. So no. If any billionaire is doing something important it would be Bill Gates, but there are many critiques that could be made of him also. He is at least lightyears more mature than Musk.