Fun fact, in some countries like mine, downloading is completely legal, it’s the uploading back or seeding that’s illegal.

Red hat vs red coat fascists

Ah my bad, I thought slur and swear are synonymous for some reason, I stand corrected.

Though I would argue both dick and cunt are kinda slurs as they imply negative things about a specific gendered thing, at least that’s how I feel about them.

Weirdly I don’t feel the same way about the word for bunch of sticks and the one that rhymes with regarded

Because for me they have a specific meaning that is completely irrelevant to what they mean originally.

Since when is cunt not a swearword you fucking donut

I recommend two good videos about superhero movies.

1 - Defenders of the Status Quo

https://youtu.be/LpitmEnaYeU

2 - The people vs Clark Kent

https://youtu.be/xLUvR8zKbh0

I too have just found out I am a distant relative of OP, hey OP, I will visit soon if that’s okay

Didn’t as much lose it as they called FIFA (an organization worse than EA)'s bluff when FIFA wanted like a billion for the naming rights.

That’s mostly because the west has become a bad place to build things, bike-shedding and a general loss of nuclear building expertise lost due to successful campaigning against nuclear by the fossil fuel industry.

We could be scaling up nuclear right now to help the goals for 2050 to be reached and then coast for a while as renewables pickup pace and fusion is finally cracked.

But no only thing people care about is immediate cost.

Yes renewables are cheaper per kw at the moment but they are also putting a lot of strain on the grid that’s not accounted for that’s expensive to upgrade, they are also not scaling up fast enough, which means there will be added cost to climate change.

Vs we could build nuclear reactors at a loss and bring on serious gigawatts of clean energy in a decade that would provide a stable baseline.

if you plan on batteries that requires lots of precious metals we will need elsewhere to aid in the transition to electric power.

Umm, what about sodium-ion that are now getting put into production?

Hitler is an obvious example of someone who might have thought they are good and doing a good thing, but his death was celebrated by good people.

Because being good is mostly an outside measurement and not an inside assessment by the person, therefore your point is nonsensical.

By your point republicans celebrated the attack on Pelosi and her husband, those are not good people however you slice it.

That’s a circlejerk. Everybody believes that they are on the good side.

- Hitler

Now it will be for the US fascists instead of chinese fascists, Nazis were german.

Kind of sad that you have to root for a fascist dictator prick to keep the fascist wannabe dictator prick in check.

People can’t even handle a zip merge, da fuck we need flying cars for, lmao, another technobro invention that only thinks about the individual and not the wider effect on society

Why is investing in military tech companies bad when someone is from a country so close to Russia?

Also who gives a fuck that artists get paid little?

They get paid.

If you invest in an S&P500 ETF you are betting on the US economy continuing to grow, if you invest in Euro 6xx etf you are betting on Europe to grow,

If you invest in a world ETF like VWCE you are betting on the world economy continuing to grow, it’s still fucking gambling it’s just the playing the odds.

Me investing in a crypto ETF would be me betting that people are stupid enough to keep putting money into it.

I am currently setting up my investment portfolio and considering putting like 5-10% into crypto etfs, I literally hate crypto, the only reason I would do it is to bet on people being stupid enough and keeping investing into crypto.

It would be literally a bet on the HL Mencken quote

No one in this world, so far as I know […] has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

How else would you bet against AI if not by shorting?

I mean I have heard of betting sites having bets on some weird stuff, maybe they offer AI bubble bursts by x date, but I doubt it

isnt well know he had incident with a former employer over something like last year?

It’s so well known that you can’t even name what it is?

Sure you can be cynical about it, but you could also read beyond the headline

Beyond the monetary fine, the European Commission is ordering Google to restructure parts of its adtech business. Specifically, Google must:

• End self-preferencing practices — meaning it cannot give undue advantage to its own services.

• Address conflicts of interest within its advertising supply chain.

• Ensure fair competition by opening its ecosystem more effectively to rivals.