A system where a housing tax that primarily targets the poorest is the main source of social care funding. And this system is finally crumbling? No one could have seen this coming.

The main risk of sugar isn’t the calories themselves, but rather their effect on our fullness perception. That is, the more sugar we eat, the harder it is to feel full after eating something. This in return cases a vicious cycle, one that can easily lead into obesity. I don’t know if that same issue can happen with sweeteners but I don’t generally trust anything that tricks our senses to such a degree. I don’t consider coffee the holy grail either, it’s just that its negative health effects have been tested for ages and are acceptable for its overall benefits. But that’s my own risk assessment, with only my health in the line.

It’s hard to get a good grip on the health neutrality of diet soda when the companies who make them have lied to us about sugar for decades. Maybe sweeteners are just their next lie, who knows. Much of the research done on sweeteners is funded by the ones who profit from it. The food industry have far more power than anyone should be comfortable with them having.

Whatever your reasons, that was whataboutism.

Expecting others to know what goes on in NASA discussions is moronic at best. That’s not the topic we are in. You didn’t even link it or reference it.

The Indian caste system is a humanitarian crisis. Would you rather westerners ignore it? There’s just no winning then, is there?

Credit is definitely due and this is an amazing feat by India.

I haven’t bothered to discuss the other topic. Is there even any point when US issues are always on the front page here? I probably know more about US politics than my own country at this point.

Though of course you could also go there and take a jab at Americans. Let me know when you do so I can give you some support.

Would slowing them down be enough? I’m thinking along the lines of a magnet.

Whataboutism bs. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

whataboutism /ˌwɒtəˈbaʊtɪz(ə)m/ noun the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusation or raising a different issue.

I think the implication here is to take the knife and stab the scissors person.

Alistair! I’m not a window cleaner!

Since when do we blame the responsible people when things go wrong?

Welcome to the world of training datasets.

There are many ways to go about it, but for a limited number they’d probably use human analysts.

But in general, they’d put a lot more effort into a chunk of data and use that as the truth. It’s not a perfect method but it’s good enough.

Have you tried rubbing a lamp?

Facebook has been abusing people’s mental illnesses for decades. It will take more than a statement on lemmy to fix that.

The fires are happening today.

The world has its own CO2 cycle so it’s not that we need to reach 0, we just need to reach a balanced emission threshold. Though at this point we will also need to aid this process with further removal.

The issue is mostly that we are outputting too much. Shipping industries, energy production, other transport such as cars and planes. These industries are a big part of the problem and the ones fueling (e.g. oil) them are the ones most interested in your feeling of hopelessness, as then they have free reign over their actions.

The world has and will get hotter. There will be more disasters. But it’s unlikely to be the end of civilisation. The more we act now, the fewer people will suffer.

It’s not a hopeless cause at all. Look at our tech now vs 100 years ago. Humanity has the means to do it.

I have thought about it for a while but the US is basically in a cold civil war, with a significant chance of it becoming hot. And it looks very similar to their previous one. Neither side seem to have a charismatic enough leader.

It’s easy to look over the pond and think it’s none of our problem. But if the US falls to chaos a lot of other countries will follow suit. We can already see this influence in the UK and I’d argue many other EU countries. Russia probably saw this weakness, bet on it worsening much quicker than it did, but lost that bet (so far).

With that said, addressing the US as a whole no longer makes sense. I’m sure plenty, plenty of Americans see what is happening.

It’s unfortunate that one of the wealthiest people on this planet has taken the anti-democratic side, but it’s not the first or the last time in history a powerful man, rich beyond measure has done so.

Arch/linux = 0.5 or so right

I thought it was arch?

If you’re that intelligent you’d know how to frame your thought process, ideas and way of life for others. If you don’t know then don’t worry, you’re just average.

Folks who watched Star Trek and didn’t understand this missed a good chunk of Star Trek. I’d argue most of it.

Star Trek addressed our present a few times. It’s essentially portrayed as a dark age.

The truth is out there too.

Yes, I have seen their market cap.

Tencent began investing on Reddit several years back.