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Comment Re:Once again we can't get Americans (Score 1) 299

you just proved his point. You do realize that sugar is just as addictive as cocaine right, we wouldn't need ozempic if the greedy capitalists weren't making all those addictive snacks. Not everyone has the will power to beat an addiction especially when its normalized and seen as the "American Way"

Comment Re:What Does It Mean (Score 1) 197

Exactly, I've been switching my computer illiterate friends and family to linux for a few years now after various windows updates made it so I could not support them remotely, (user could not get past MS forcing MS accounts after rebooting for an update) and frankly it pisses me off how fucking stupid that is. I personally have one laptop with windows 11 left and updates keep pissing me off so much that I'm ready to switch to Kubuntu or Bazzite on it I don't play new crappy FPS games so it won't hurt me, the Steam deck proved it to me. As for driver issues I have a bunch of frankensteins built out of random hardware I recovered for people and never run into any it just works.

Comment Re:Wars (Score -1, Flamebait) 224

Civil war is the most likely outcome, sadly I live within 100km of the border and I worry a lot about the spill over. I know I personally won't be heading South anytime soon and I'm a white guy. Mexico is safer than the US at least I can avoid the criminals there, pretty hard to avoid the so criminals in the US since they wear government uniforms.

Comment Re:Midjourney lawsuit - both necessary and inevita (Score 1) 88

No I am putting responsibility where it belongs The AI is not actually intelligent so you can't blame it for doing what its told to do. There is nothing wrong with the model generating a picture of Mickey mouse that's fair use. The same as if I asked my friend to draw one. The only ones doing anything illegal are the users that get it to generate copyrighted crap and then sell it. The illegal part being selling something they do not own the copyright to. but you are a "shitty person" that supports idiocy so I guess I am too for replying.

Comment Re:Midjourney lawsuit - both necessary and inevita (Score 1) 88

Midjourney, the ones being sued currently, are clearly the ones who should pay, and you're a shitty person for even making this argument.

No you are the shitty person for not blaming the user that directed Midjourney to generate the image. Is a soldier that is just following orders and doesn't know he is shooting unarmed combatants responsible? No the higher ups that knew and gave the orders are responsible this is the same.

Comment Re:bigoted comment from the peanut gallery (Score 1) 66

Its not to stop a nuclear war. The good old USA is essentially bankrupt and can't afford to because you keep electing idiots that give everything to huge corps run by psychopaths. Now those psychopaths have more money than most countries and have taken every advantage they could and will enslave us all. Hopefully the nukes will kill us all and be done with it.

Comment Re:Charity versus human rights (Score 1) 95

The problem (as I see it) is that either you think people deserve help or you think people don't deserve help. If you think human beings have some kind of intrinsic value, then you may conclude that they deserve help when they have problems. Now if you expect charities to provide that help, you are basically saying "Good luck getting the help you need because you're going to need it." You basically have to hope that some charity exists with the resources to help you, that the charity is interested in your specific problem, and that you are lucky enough to get the help before other people who need the same help exhaust the resources of the charity. In theory there could be weird cases where charities are so "blessed" that they can help everyone, but in practice I've never heard of such a case.

Me? I think people do have intrinsic value and that there are lots of things that shouldn't happen to them. Easy example: Children shouldn't starve to death. But I think it should be the job of the government to address such problems for EVERYONE. Okay, it's nice if a charity can help prevent a few deaths from starvation, but it's really the job of the government to prevent all deaths from starvation. (And of course the details get messy, whereas a charity can just ignore the details 'out of its scope'.)

The only problem with all that is for it to work we would need to get rid of all our tribal tendencies and have a single government for the whole world. But then the rich that got rich by taking advantage of our tribal natures wouldn't like that and would do everything in their power to stop it. Leading to the shithole that is the world as we know it.

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