But it also has to still make people mad, so it can’t be too acceptable

DARPA-funded startup SLRS came up with it using AI

Putting together a compilation of soyjacks in various contexts to see who gets mad

The drop in international tourism can’t be helping things either

A warning or a threat?

Kind of bizarre that a monopoly would care so much about brand image

A lot of big tech companies like Google Facebook etc are stockpiling small ARMs, which TSMC produces and Intel doesn’t. Apple is even selling arms directly to consumers.

Got a Fields Medal, no joke

Oh, 135 new comments? Must be some major events in the world?

No, 3 new articles and 132 new comments of

Obviously not used to these kinds of questions

Yeah that’s the debate that always comes up. I haven’t really heard a great answer yet.

On an individual level, people make decisions shaped by cost, hope for the future, social support, all that stuff. On a population level, the poorest countries have the most kids per capita; as far as I’m aware it’s a strong correlation. If there are any non-fascist demographics nerds I’d like to hear some expert opinions on this contradiction.

But personally my opinion is that we should do the things that make people’s lives better and give them more options, regardless of its impact on birth rate. The population level, and it’s moderate increase or decrease, is only a problem because we live in a system that can’t do any planning and is terrible at allocating resources. A hypothetical communist world system could work with basically any realistic population level. In the current system, the population shrinking (or growing, or changing demographics) at any realistic rate is not even a top-5 problem so why worry about it? We have war and genocide and fascism and climate change and tons of other urgent problems, I don’t see why anyone would care so much about demographics unless they’re huge racists or a certain sub-type of neoliberal nerd that thinks this will threaten markets over the long term (and somehow doesn’t see any larger financial risks in the next several decades).

Big relief, this means that I can cross the border again

Are the image and the link related somehow?

arrested two Israeli soldiers facing accusations of war crimes in Gaza … who were in Belgium to attend the Tomorrowland festival.

Oh fuck yeah!

After the interviews, they were released

goddamnit, so close

Could have just entirely skipped the “die in an explosion” training course

I was going to say the same thing. You still get routine, exercise, arthritis, tinnitus, low pay, and an actual pension. Both get to drive around in the heat all day with no AC. I imagine both ship a similar amount of drugs. Either one can get you shot for being on someone else’s land, but I like to think it’s less likely with postal work.

“She’s handled it very well, and it’s going to be up to her,”

She’s fired

Yeah in Ukraine I guess? Idk much about it but it seems like a whole thing

What if Trump replayed his recent success: drop one bomb on something insignificant, run away, declare victory? Has anyone gamed that one out?