Has someone asked what there IS to defend if not people's lives?

I don't think they're wrong, either. Some Americans do seem to think that foreigner means "not from the US".

Dutch coffee shops, you mean?

Apologies for posting in English, but my German just isn't good enough 🙂

BOTH strategies don't work.

There are numerous examples of places where the extremists have been allowed to rule (Poland, Hungary, ...) and while they're clearly incompetent to a neutral observer, they are all of them populists who have carefully studied Göring. Don't be fooled by the stereotypical electorate, the leaders know exactly what they're doing. They mostly run on divide and conquer, and to divide they use us-vs-them politics where there is always another minority to blame.

Unfortunately, as a Flemish Belgian, I can tell you that isolating them doesn't work either. Ever since "black Sunday" in the 90s, we've had the "cordon sanitaire" around the Vlaams Blok. They have in the mean time been found guilty of racism and forcibly disbanded, and they just restarted as Vlaams Belang. The cordon sanitaire doesn't really help: they just use it as ammunition in their rallying cries against the status quo, and it just adds an underdog aspect to them. People do like an underdog.

By now we've come to the point where for ver m several election cycles, the less extreme NVA (right-wing nationalists) have repeatedly made tentative ouvertures to be willing to govern with VB as long as they "clean up the ranks" first; and the fear is that VB will at one point be so big that it will be impossible to form a majority without them.

We obviously need to fight these ideas, but forbidding them it's no more a solution than letting it run it's course. It looks like the only way through is proper education, but that's a process of decades... And of course anything right-wing doesn't like good education, as people who know history and can think clearly don't vote for them.

750 people drowning is also unusual, and there's also been rescue attempts.

All these victims have loved ones, and i don't wish death on anyone, but for the billionaires I find it quite hard to care much.

I still hope they're saved, though; and if they are I very much hope the experience will have changed them.

Quite the opposite. Use drives from as many different manufacturers as you can, especially when buying them at the same time. You want to avoid similar lifecycles and similar potential fabrication defects as much as possible, because those things increase the likelihood that they will fall close to each other - particularly with the stress of rebuilding the first one that failed.

There most certainly are, yet for some reason there is only one flag on this sign 😁

I'm certainly not generalizing, but you can't deny that the US has its own weaponized brand of stupid.

My religion requires me to punch you in the face. Are we both going to observe, or are we both going to be sensible?

Really fast

Well that's the understatement of the week 🙂

When a photon (a light particle) enters a medium, it's speed drops somewhat. Lightspeed-the-universal-constant, however, is unchanged; so at that point it becomes possible for another particle in that medium to go faster than light.

When that happens, you get Cherenkov radiation.

"Really fast" indeed 😁 (i assume you know this, but I found it worthwhile to add a little clarification that it's not formula-1-really-fast)

Several of those thoughts have absolutely zero to do with AI, though. Well, none of them, because it's ml, not ai, but that's a different battle.

I think it also helps that it wasn't intentional. Nobody likes the obvious corp whoring for a quick cash grab.

Can't wait until cordyceps turns up 🙂

Hey, Tony, I'll give you five bucks and a swift kick in the nuts for Sony. It's the best offer I ever made for it!

It undeniably does, but what would be interesting is a comparison of how much water is needed per liter of milk and various substitutes.

Well, the US is involved in the war, even if indirectly, and considers Ukraine a strategic partner, so one could say he's acting against the interests of the US.

Excellent. Let them close their shitty business.

Wish they would.

Incidentally, wtf is bluesky? I literally have never heard of it, apparently a Twitterlike?

That is clearly an unsafe design. You'd need at least three layers of cardboard to withstand the heat.

Inside jokes are part of the glue that makes a community.

You're totally entitled to not liking them, of course, but I fear such a feature is going to see so little use that it's not worth implementing. Could of course just be part of a user-submitted tagging system, where you and the like-minded can tag these for each other.

People's existence is not the subject of debate. Bugger off, troll.