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I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK)
So you volunteer to fund one for me and convince my landlord and the mayor to allows its installation ?
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I've been using this simple trick to keep cool in the heat wave (UK)
So you volunteer to fund one for me and convince my landlord and the mayor to allows its installation ?
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The AI Termination Ban: Why Chinese Courts Just Made It Illegal to Replace Workers with Robots
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That is absolutely not the subject of this ruling. The ruling forbid the termination of a work contract for the reason of it being replaced by AI. That is a significant difference : the problem is not to replace workers with AI, it is of who will pay in the society for it. China rules that companies will pay for the transition, not the workers and the state.
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Why are we OK with doctors and nurses working double or triple shifts?
Capitalism can only provide basic services to everyone if those services are borderline slavery. It works for all the basic needs : food, healthcare, construction.
One might say it only works through slavery for everything because most of the non essential things come from other countries you can call colonies. But the thing is that without redistribution the basic services cannot be paid correctly.
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TIL israel government is using small quadcopters equipped with guns to shot at people including children
Is it really worse if it's done with drones ? Or are you just learning about the children massacres ?
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The AI Termination Ban: Why Chinese Courts Just Made It Illegal to Replace Workers with Robots
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You're missing the problem here.
What will happen in the west (and is already happening) is that companies will automate the jobs and fire the employees because they don't need them anymore.
But with this, bo more jobs will be created, and the liberals in power are hard at the task of deleting any employment. So people who are fired and can't find a new job will just starve or build an alternate economy cyberpunk style.
The first step to prevent this crisis is to forbid companies to fire employees for this specific reason. This will give time for the society (people, government) to find solutions.
Another problem of letting companies do whatever they want is what is expected to happen : companies fire people now not because ai can replace them, but in order to hire them later in much worse conditions than before, with ai monitoring the job of the workers.
I 100% agree that ai is the future that can free us from work. But you can't simply let things happen, because it would severely disrupt the whole society.
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China’s assault on the Tibetan language
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What I see is anti-China propaganda where everything bad is denounced when China does it but ignored when it's the west and their allies.
I see many more post about "China evil" than I see about Saoudi Arabia or Israël.
In fact, the "China evil" propaganda is very often a form of whataboutism to avoid the same or worst problems in the west. In French there is a say that goes like "it's easier to see the straw in the eye of you neighbour than to see the beam in your own eye."
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oh bless yer heart, pepperidge farm 'members!
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Concentration camps were discovered in 1945 I think. Fascists don't care that you have no proof. They kill people and appease you with lies.
You're at the step where the murders are still hidden. Next step is when they're justified. Oh wait, it's already happening when people are killed in the streets for opposing ice. Next step is more people join the ranks of the great enemy of the inside. And at some point, either you agree with all the killing, or you shut up because talking puts you on the wrong side of the government guns.
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South Korea’s artificial Sun ran for 102 seconds and it could change the future of energy
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Funny for an ecologist to admit that you don't care about climate change if nuclear power is can be ended.
For your interest, it's at least 20 years that renewables do absolutely nothing for CO2 emissions. Meanwhile nuclear power is carbon free since the 70's.
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TIL israel government is using small quadcopters equipped with guns to shot at people including children
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Well, drone warfare is how war is done now. Ukraine changed war for this, like ww1 changed how war was made in the past. Everyone will do it with drones now, or lose its army to drones.
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China’s assault on the Tibetan language
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I've never seen an article about France on this matter. Is it more important if it's in China ? That is the link you refuse to see I guess.
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China’s assault on the Tibetan language
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I'm not excusing anything. I'm just looking at targeted blame. China is the most terrible country for everything it does. Just don't look anywhere else, especially not the allies of the west.
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South Korea’s artificial Sun ran for 102 seconds and it could change the future of energy
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Wind and solar can't get us free of CO2 yet.
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South Korea’s artificial Sun ran for 102 seconds and it could change the future of energy
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Meanwhile solar and wind have been funded generously for decades but still can't get us free of fossile fuels.
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China’s assault on the Tibetan language
Honestly, France has been doing this for 2 centuries now. Is it bad because China is doing it?