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Love this, but fucking hate having to deal with all the push back from Polievre, the Conservatives, Alberta, etc. Just hate seeing political ads masquerading as polls, or oil and gas companies trying to greenwash themselves, or the endless amount of idiotic comments from people who still don't believe in climate change.

Took me a while to figure this one out - FAANG to MAANA: Facebook --> Meta Apple Amazon Netflix Google --> Alphabet

2Billion? Seriously? I'm not a fan of the military-industrial complex, but 2 billion sounds like the annual military budget for a well to-do developing nation.

So, all those European countries combined have about the same population as the US, but spend a combined 1.2T, whereas US spends 1.8T?

Should probably be "slaps". That's more commonly used when talking about penalties and fines.

Sorry, this needs more clarification! Do you mean "intent recognition" where some AI, trained with biased data, will assume that some brown person is upto no good? Or do you mean that they will misidentify black and brown people more often due to how cameras work? Because the latter has nothing to do with biased data.

OTF funding is also not a direct indication of funding from US intelligence or backdoors in the code. OTF could just be promoting development of software that breaks free of repressive regimes, which indirectly benefits US foreign policy.

Start playing around with Tor and VPNs.

Nobody disputes it when social media addiction is the topic du jour, but internet porn addiction has been around even before social media became big. And I'm basing this on the number of downvotes you got - I guess these are all the people that went on Pornhub, saw nothing enticing, and moved on.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkwashing_(LGBT)#Israel

• .. the Israeli government "insist[s] on advertising and exaggerating its recent record on LGBT rights ... to fend off international condemnation of its violations of the rights of the Palestinian people".*

You need to follow trusted sources like the IDF

I can't even tell if you're being sarcastic or if you actually believe this.

Ofcourse you should trust the footage from the US forces fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan because they're backed by a democratic government and wouldn't carelessly cause collateral damage, shoot innocent civilians, torture detainees, and then jail the whistleblowers. /s

For "intent recognition", I agree. A system trained on data of mostly black committing crimes might flag more black people with ill intent.

But for the sake of identification at security checkpoints, if a man named Omar - who has an eerie resemblance to Haani the terrorist - walks through the gates, then they probably need to do a more thorough check. If they confirm with secondary data that Omar is who he says he is, then the system needs to be retrained on more images of Omar. The bias was only that they didn't have enough images of Haani and Omar for the system to make a good enough distinction. With more training, it will probably be less biased and more accurate than a human.

Large tech companies have been known to buy out smaller competitors before they become a threat or before somebody else buys them out. Not being able to do so with a government-funded Chinese company, I imagine killing the idea before it takes shape is a prudent business decision.

As they say, power corrupts. So, really we should ask what psychopathic tendencies the CEO had before and after his/her rise to power.

Hydrogen is a dead end, because it is nowhere near green to produce it in large quantities, and the technology is still not ready, nor is the supply network. It's just an idea pushed by fossil fuel companies hoping to transition to selling hydrogen.

E-fuels are not zero emission, but the basic premise is that somewhere else along the chain it reduced GhG emissions into the atmosphere - like capturing methane from cow burps, or biogas from garbage dumps.

These fuels will have uses - hydrogen in rockets and e-fuels for aircraft - but for almost all land vehicles, BEVs or going electric, is the most readily available and working strategy.

Carbon tax deals with industries that creates emissions by taxing the fuels that cause the emissions. All businesses involved in making EVs and EV parts can choose between using taxed GhG-emitting fuels, or non-taxed cheaper renewable sources. Free markets will pick the winner, but at least all winners will be producing EVs only.

Came here looking for a Stranger Things 4 reference.

And how can you claim it for fact if you hadn't been there to see it yourself? Please look into how confirmation bias is deluding your views.

And how do I know it's not some kind of Jewish blood libel ritual? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel

You're doing the same thing that people have done to Jews in times past.