Does this even count as an article it’s a single paragraph that just links to Meta’s announcements…

Oh yeah it’s not like it stopped him in reality but it burned his most popular acct

ensure you don’t

What’s crazy is the original poster was something of a superuser on reddit. First to 1 million karma iirc

And he lost basically all popularity after that comment.

In retrospect: it was pedantic but so mundane. He was just being a prototypical redditor

This is a good thing why you trying to spin it as bad?

Arbitration has always favored companies.

Here’s the thing. You said a “jackdaw is a crow.”

Is it in the same family? Yes. No one’s arguing that.

As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be “specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.

If you’re saying “crow family” you’re referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.

So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people “call the black ones crows?” Let’s get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.

Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how taxonomy works. They’re both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that’s not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you’d call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don’t.

It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?

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Snowboard, ski or surfboard wax

What I find particularly interesting is that it’s an ad they’re serving directly from their own infrastructure - ublock isn’t blocking it as an ad.

That’s pretty normal for financial charts like this though.

Nearest convenience store is 200m Chain supermarket is 200m Bus stop is 150m Library is 50m Park is 500m Train station is 800m

NYC makes everything easy

I honestly think that difference in opinion speaks highly of Banks as an author - the books speak to us differently and he wrote diverse enough stories that they capture each person separately.

Per capita with total as tiebreaker:

Brazil 94kg

Germany 78kg - 17% less than Brazil

China 76kg - 2.6% less than Germany

UK 76kg - 2.6% less than Germany

USA 73kg - 3.9% less than UK/China

France 61kg - 16% less than USA

India 55kg - 10% less than France

Russia 33kg - 40% less than India

Big disagree on the best - Use of Weapons, Surface Detail and Consider Phlebas are the favorites of my partner and me.

Not that the 3 listed are bad just that I like my 3 more :)

3.4bn is their gross - we have no idea what their operating costs are since they refuse to share them.

Some estimates say they’re burning 8 billion a year.

To call my statements unnuanced is patently false. Unnuanced is your assertion that getting rid of religion is genocidal.

You consistently conflate religion and culture and act as though a group that lets their religion die has somehow had a genocide committed against them.

The death of a religion is not the death of the culture and genocide has no role my desire for the extinction of the dark and superstitious past that we are in the process of leaving.

There is not a single thing that a religion does to help people that is irreplaceable with non-parasitic communal structures.

What religion does beyond helping people is leech off of superstition and ignorance to control and coerce its adherents into its modes.

If a religion is free of superstition it ceases to be a religion: requiring no faith.

Cultural practices are beautiful and deserve preservation - religions are shackles that keep those marginalized people we care about enslaved to the past.

Religion as a concept is evil.

These are arguments from a position of pure concept and theory, the realm that religion deals in.

Pragmatic reality means that we’re never getting rid of religion because people will continue to perpetuate the abuses of the past into the future.

That doesn’t make them bad people; they sincerely think they’re doing good.

Nonetheless: their belief does not make what they’re doing good.

My youth spent canvasing in favor of the bigotry of Prop 8 in California is not absolved because as a fundamentalist I believed it was the best thing for “the gays”.

I’m sorry it makes you uncomfortable but the truth is that religion and the religious cause endless suffering on this world and they deserve to be called out.

The latest releases ChatGPT 4o costs $600/hr per instance to run based on the discussion I could find about it.

If OpenAI is running 1k of those models to service the demand (they’re certainly running more since queries can take 30+ seconds) then that’s 200M/yr just keeping the lights on.

You’re religious so you’re being defensive and fighting for reasons to keep your beliefs. You don’t want to believe that you participate in a larger organization that harms humanity. That means you’re a good person.

The religion you participate in still harms people. It doesn’t matter what religion it is.

Good people trying to do good things participate in evil organizations that perpetrate harm.

Religious people are part of the religion but not the whole.

As demonstrated by my previous comment: it is the religion that is the problem, not people finding camaraderie or community therein. I’m glad the previous commenter finds solace but it is important to call out that mechanism is exploited by the religion itself to propagate.

You cannot fully separate a religion and the religious. Without the religious a religion has died.

It would be best if all religions died: the religious that keep them alive are good people who have been misled.

All religions, no exceptions. To kick things off with the lowest of low hanging fruit: your religion practices male genital mutilation.

But the abuse, manipulations and control go all the way through from patriarchal hierarchies to an “exacting regimen requiring absolute obedience and humility; strong social pressures and rewards for cooperation;”

Which is to say cult brainwashing techniques used by any religion from Judaism to Mormonism to Hinduism. From the Branch Davidians to the Sumerian high priesthood: humans have never ceased using the 0-days of the human mind to exploit and manipulate their fellow man.

Does that mean religions can only do evil? Of course not. I’m glad you get a sense of connection and peace from it.

But that connection and peace serves to perpetuate the primeval toxic hierarchy. You’ll raise your kids on it. Make sure they believe it from a young age. After all - “Train a child according to his way; even when he grows old, he will not turn away from it.” (Proverbs 22:6) You gotta get em young or they’ll never believe when they’re old.