I disagree, this flip-flop logic is what drags down the movement and allows “no billionaires except the ones I like” idea to poison the public discourse. If we collectively stick to a unified view we have much more power in changing things.

The point is that there is no “better ones”. The billionaire should not be socially acceptable concept ever. Full stop.

Why is “death for billionaires” so taboo though? Clearly they’re damaging our society much more than a single murderer or marijuana carrier and yet we have no problem accepting that these people should be punished socially but if you mention guillotines for billionaires then suddenly you’re an extremist.

Try mentioning this to Tailor Swift fans and you’ll get immediately crucified. We should normalize the idea that THERE ARE NO ETHICAL BILLIONAIRES. Period.

It’s a staggering amount of wealth that allows to do shit like this and why do we tolerate this is will be eternally confusing to me.

Not only is this an issue of equality but it’s a social issue as well. People stop taking public responsibility issues like pollution or climate change seriously because “if private jets are legal then why should I do anything?”.

Good, last time I was in Osaka the urban cyclists were plenty dangerous even without texting. Japan doesn’t have a great cycling infrastructure and definitely needs more safety rules because of it.

which it has not and is not going to

So you’re confident that AGI is not fundamentally possible? That would contradict basically every single scientist in the world and this is exactly why this issue is so difficult. Ironically, proving my point for the OP’s question lol

That’s simply not true. All datacenters of the world (including crypto) only use 6% of our power.

considering the track record they should start putting “courts” in quotes when discussing Russia.

That AI safety is much more important than AI hurting copyright or artists.

I say this because the “AI sucks haha” and “AI just steals” retoric is very harmful to AI safety movement as people just don’t believe AGI or even close-to-AGI will be capable enough to harm our society.

Currently many estimate that there’s 1-20% chance that AGI could end our civilization. So fuck the copyright and fuck the artists when we’re looking at ods like this we need to start preparing now even if it’s 10 years away.

But alas, nobody can’t think further out than the length of their nose and honestly I’m just hoping we’re lucky enough to be in that 80% because clearly we’re not going to do anything about it.

My home garden. I’m by no means a great gardener but I’m a software developer working from home and just popping in there to spend 30 minutes caring for the plants is really refreshing.

I think Americans need to address the flaws in their 2 party political system and start working on a change, but it’ll never happen because neither party would give up power like that.

Two party system is inherently divisive especially with so much foreign and domestic propaganda. More options would not only reduce the total surface area of conflicts, but it would make propaganda much harder and represent people more closely.

ah you’re from .ml, feel free to ignore my comment entirely. Didn’t want to ruin your day with non-extremist world views sorry.

People outside of US have the right to worry about this election as well imo. It’s one of many currently on-going battles of autocracy vs democracy and this election will heavily shape the battlefield.

I wish all of the luck to my American friends and really that’s all non-americans can do so I’ll just grab a joint and catch up on the new season of What We Do In The Shadows until this blows over.

cult, sect, religion — all the same thing in practical reality tbh

From what I can tell is that japanese baseline is quite conservative so all parties are quite different from what we would have under the same name in the west. Though, they are definitely not left like the name would imply.

For example, LDP is known for it’s “Japan, Inc.” policy which advocates for close ties between the government and business. LDP also supports for “traditional family values and social order” which in all fairness is a must for every major party in Japan.

In the west we’d probably refer them as centrists or slightly-right of center.

Komeito on the other hand is a much more intersting party which is a Buddhist pacifist party with conservative but socialist ideologies. TBH I fail to find a western equivelent reading through their wiki but as someone who spent some time in Japan as a foreigner their policy against kafka-esque beraucracy in Japan make me like them them at least a little bit.

I know this might be difficult for some people, but it is absolutely possible to be critical of both sides in a conflict

Seems like we’re in agreement here but somehow Lemmy even when Israel is put against Iran which is straight up a comic book evil level regime Israel are the bad guys?

This logic that “X is bad and they can’t do any good things and are always in the wrong” is bigotry and prejudice i.e. anti-semitism. You can say Israel is evil and agree that Israel is in the right in this particular conflict, those two things don’t cancel each other out.

I swear Lemmy is turning anti-semitist. Clearly Israel is the good guys in this Israel vs Iran conflict and yet anything that suggests this is being down voted to hell. Isn’t that crazy?

Iran is rules by a purely evil Islamic State regime and somehow it’s not OK to enjoy their down fall?

Frankly, I’m tired of every reddit alternative being captured by these extremist bafoons.

Iran is the “find out” stages now. Weirdly enough Iranians actually welcome Israeli strikes. If they couldnt overthrow the brutal Islamic State regime then maybe a bit of Israeli rockets can lend a hand.

I almost bought a Chinese EV but decided to hold back and not support China because of their support for Russia. Got a 2nd hand ICE Mazda for now which I hope will last me until there’s some non Chinese EV competion in my region or China finally grows some balls and starts doing the right thing.

Yes, just because they do something right does not dismiss the low level premise that they are a state sponsored propaganda machine. Qatar has no laws to protect press from the government. There’s zero press freedom and Al Jazeera will do everything Qatar tells them to and can’t even talk about it. Isn’t that crazy?

This premise makes everything Al Jazeera does untrustworthy and needs to be verified by more trust worthy institutions.

I don’t get it how is it so hard to understand that? That’s the most basic of concepts and the irony that people defend this on a decentralized network is just incredibly poetic if not sad.