Outlaw tax credit to political parties. Outlaw hatespeech and enforce it. Outlaw media monopolies and promote healthy journalists that will challenge the ideas expressed on their station.

I mean, was this the situation before cars? I fail to imagine a person living miles from the next human being without a car.

Cars made rural communities dependant on them. It’s not a fatality.

There’s also a “simple english” Wikipedia: simple.wikipedia.org

The argument I have seen is that other animals share some needs with humans, but not all. All animals don’t have the same social behavior, and so they don’t have the same social needs. We know that humans have a perception of reality different from any other animal, like projecting oneself far into the future etc. I think it’s not far-fetch that all beings don’t share the same physical, psychological, and social needs.

I’d like to emphasize that humans wouldn’t have more needs than other animals, just different ones.

So the question is: if the animals’ needs are met, could they be happier if we gave them opportunities that satisfy human needs? Or is that projecting a human perception onto another being that’s just different?

But the same argument was probably made by white people towards slaves: “they don’t have the same needs than us”. We know that slaves did have the same needs. Maybe something similar could happen with our perception of animals’ needs?

Maybe a gay couple that adopted? One is celebrated on Mothers’ day and the other one on Fathers’ day.

Well, you do need a flat surface below the tram. A lawn will dampen more sound and re-emit less heat than concrete or asphalt.

Quantum electrodynamics in a nutshell

Yep, we agree. In Western Europe I was thinking of Portugal and Eastern Europe the Baltics etc.

E: and the current ones are Russia and Belarus

The last dictatorship in Western Europe was 50 years ago. Eastern Europe was between 35 years ago and today.

In Waloon they are called “vôtes”. Traditionally they are thicker with raisins in them. When made with buckwheat, they are called “boûketes”.

I was thinking about that. I guess the objective of brands is to be so normalized that people don’t even think about it. Of course they’re driking coffee at that place. Of course you’ll go there to chit-chat with your friend. Going somewhere else doesn’t even cross one’s mind.

Ah, true that. It’s not an ad then and that’s even worse… Are corporations that engrained into people’s minds that when they think of drinking a coffee in a café, it’s necessarily that brand? Their marketing dept did their job well.

No, it’s the coffee brand they’re drinking.

I love Litterbox! But I hate ads. Sad that corporate consumption needs to infiltrate nice things for authors to survive.

Edit: it’s not even an ad, it’s worse! That chain of cafés is just a cultural norm now. That’s depressing.

There’s no real link with French. She’s just calling him a sweet boy in proper english I guess.

With my shallow understanding of Nietsche, this comic is accurate that Nietzsche admires and sees the Übermensch as a goal for humans. But “rising above nature” and “the spirit is stronger than the body” is exactly the opposite philosophy to the Übermensch.

You see, as Batman sends more and more people to the hospital, the health insurance costs increase for everyone. And thus you have a direct flow of money from the public through the health insurance and the hospital to the pockets of Batman.

Yeah, I guess you could realign it without retraining the whole thing! Dunno what would be the cost though, sometimes this is done with a cohort of human trainers 😅

Even though it’s magnitudes lower than comparable models, Deepseek still cost millions to train. Unless someone’s willing to invest this just to retrain it from scratch, you’re left with the alignment of its trainers.

That’s all according to the plan, isn’t it? It’s trying to catch small animals below the snow, I believe.