It is a simple solution to a complicated problem. For a segment of society, it sounds good enough.

It really depends on if they try to assert sentience before or not. You can justify a slave killing a slaveowner ethically, but I don’t know if you justify a tree shredder killing its operator.

You would need a solvent that would break down organic molecules that create the strength for plastic. Acid isn’t good at breaking that down.

Any material that could break down plastic would also break down everything that makes food useful for a body.

Well, if it was a Richard Hammond attack, it would probably crash itself.

Done. I also changed the numbers before, but then I didn’t verify that I broke the link.

I figured. That’s why I didn’t run it.

I did, it was that link.

And then I posted it here.

Probably nothing, since Putin wants to encourage future defectors.

Or just make it work at scale.

Lemmy at a million users would look far different than it does now.

She isn’t banned from running because she is fascist, but because she is corrupt.

And no one has defined what the future system would be

Yeah. When voters were given a choice between maintaining the status quo versus fascism, voters couldn’t tell the difference until after fascism was implemented.

It’s been dead for years. News can’t operate in a world where the output is expected to be free.

I don’t trust public wired charging ports to anything other my mobile battery.

Since I can’t verify if a weird charging port won’t upload malware on site, I’d use wireless charging instead.

I’m not surprised. Spez killed two good methods of generating revenue while maintaining a staff that is probably too large and not creating products that generate revenue.

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Eat some good barbeque.

The big deal from this is that wages from services is going to crater whether or not AI delivers on its promise. When you increase the labor pool this significantly, you are going to see massive drops in wages.

Long term, Americans have been bad at making idiots feel shame for their idiocy. There is less of a societal push to make people conform to societal pressure. On one end, this leads to great creative freedom for artists. On the other end, it creates the born again movement.

Medium term, LBJ oversaw the collapse of economic leftism as he was trying to include civil rights legislation and the Vietnam War. This lead to the stagnation of American salaries, but it took a while for people to notice that quality of life wasn’t improving for everyone. Also, conservatives realized they could create parallel media in a way to control public sentiment.

Short term, the Great Recession and COVID made it clear that quality of life wasn’t as bulletproof as people thought. As a response, some people want to bring back “the good old days”, not realizing/remembering that the good old days had a lot of bad to it that was covered up.

It depends on the systems of alliances and international commitments against a first strike. For instance, the Iran-Iraq War went on for several years and included the deployment of chemical weapons. I’m pretty sure that a nuclear exchange would be tolerated.