I get your bias, but in this instance the human experts he’d be listening to would be health insurance lobbyists, not people who care about others’ health. ChatGPT, which is obviously incapable of feeling compassion, may very well have more compassion for human life compared to those.

To be faiiiir

Citizens getting too sick to work and dying is bad for GDP.

So the American government doesn’t even give a shit about that.

Redox OS?

Well at least you didn’t hack a Gibson

I swear I’ve seen either Zero Cool or Acid Burn around here somewhere.

Hmm I’ll look into those. I managed to loan a tent off a friend for the festival I want to attend this month so my tent buying will likely happen next year or even later, meaning I now have more time to consider options. Bergfreunde.eu seems to sell them in Europe so at least I don’t have to find a kiwi to ship me one.

Netflix will never replace theaters for every single person out there and I say this as someone who used to have a Netflix subscription that was replaced with increased amounts of piracy (and an Apple TV+ subscription, that’s literally the one thing I haven’t cancelled, great originals and only originals, no watching The Office or Friends for the umpteenth time, I’m starting to feel like a shill for saying it, but they have some great shows and many average or above average shows).

Netflix works best as “background noise”. Occasionally you’ll find a great show to binge that they’ll cancel soon, occasionally they’ll even have a decent original movie (which is sadly made specially for streaming where people are expected to be scrolling on theirp hone so the plot has to be repeated 3 times as they apparently told Matt Damon).

The theater is an experience. You go there to watch a movie you’ve been anticipating. You spend that ludicrous amount on snacks (or don’t) because you know you don’t go every week anyway. You go there because you want to be immersed, your phone on silent in the pocket, maybe you go with your friends or family and then it’s great to discuss it on the walk out after the end. If this is not something you enjoy then true, going to the theaters is an outdated concept for you and that’s fine.

I found a bunch of obscure movies from the 1930s and 1940s when a friend asked for some. I’m still seeding them. And I do mean obscure, not like Citizen Kane or something that everyone knows.

As the other commenter said, likely from China. The US banned exports of the super high-end chips to China IIRC, but not low-end stuff. And India is known to sell anything to anyone as well.

It’s also slightly cheaper (per unit) to manufacture a million phones vs ten thousand.

Here in Estonia you have to be 18 to buy alcohol free beer and wine. The idea being “hey maybe let’s not get kids used to the flavour of drinks that are bad for them to be consuming even once they ARE 18”

I’m having trouble telling if the poster is AI slop or the entire picture is.

The box of Budweiser looks 99% fine to me (bear in mind, I’m not American so I don’t know if that’s what it looks like), but the text on the close edge of the top side of the box looks weird to me. Buuut it could also just be compression artifacts.

It’s also probably mostly BlackRock index funds. Which means tons of retail investors are part of this ownership.

It is not even close to being a main factor at the moment. Main factors are still transportation and manufacturing. Trump’s war in Iran is doing way more to reduce global emissions than the data center protests (though it’s great that those are also happening). Same for Putin’s war in Ukraine which started the fuel price raises.

All that work has paid off for China.

True, they’re minting new billionaires faster than any other country in the world.

Interesting, and I thought it was the workers who generated the wealth. Perhaps it should not belong to them after all then. Why tax the billionaires at all if they’re the ones generating the wealth?

They side with the weak to obtain power, but as CGP Grey said, the keys for keeping power aren’t the same as the keys for obtaining power. You usually turn your back on whoever helped you win once you’re in power, particularly if you’re a dictator (and let’s be honest, “dictatorship of the proletariat” is still dictatorship of the vanguard over the proletariat)

Yes, exactly like the working class in the US controls the government and holds the reins of the economy.

embracing some limited capitalism

They were embracing some limited capitalism last century. They’re fully capitalist now, minting more brand new billionaires every year than any other country. Per capita the US still has more, but not for long. China’s working with some pretty bad inequality.

I wonder if that dazzle camo used by manufacturers for testing prototype cars would work. I wouldn’t mind getting something like that on my car