Think of “it” like a pronoun akin to “he” and “her” and so “its” is like “his” and “hers”
It’s confusing because to say “Rebecca’s” you would use an apostrophe, but you don’t do that for pronouns. “It’s” exists only as a contraction of “it is.”
What do we need ISPs competing on if the infrastructure is run by the government? They can’t increase speeds, they can’t increase service availability, they’ll just be getting a profit margin on top of what the government is charging them to use the communications infrastructure. I’d rather just pay the government the pre-profit amount
The myth of capitalism is that it improves things for the consumer. It’s very obvious that it only improves, at best, the next quarter’s returns for the investor. Once that husk of a company stops “line going up,” the money goes elsewhere and we repeat.
If the line can’t go up through creation it’ll go up through destruction.
I’m so tired of this nonsense argument, is capitalism your God to which you give credit for every human accomplishment? How did capitalism help to raise the Russian serfs to the status of a world superpower? It didn’t… How did capitalism help Russia get to space before the United States? How did capitalism help human life improve before the 16th century?
I wonder what you even think capitalism is. I wonder if you comprehend that technological advancement, markets, money, and trade aren’t synonymous with it.
You love democracy but when it comes to matters of economic decisions you are bootlicking the petite dictators that control every aspect of your economic life. You are employed by people whose means of acquiring wealth is to skim off the top of what you’re producing and steal it from you but you are too busy making eye contact while you suck them off that you don’t see their hand in your pocket.
The world is burning and there’s plastic in your balls because of capitalism, you are such a good submissive little peasant.
I am suspecting this is the real reason everyone is coming out with their own LLM. Pumping massive amounts of arbitrary data sources into them feels justified to the average user and it’s a convenient excuse to collect whatever they want without needing to invent “features” which justify it. Yeah thanks for showing me a picture I took 10 years ago snapchat if I wanted to see it I’d look at my photo album but I guess now you have a “reason” to keep it
I know this seems like needless cruelty towards the most marginalized people in our society but the Democrat candidate acting like a Republican is actually a really good thing.
These drugs are typically used for individual and group therapy sessions and not given as prescriptions to take at home. They’re basically just there to augment therapy sessions.
I do think they should be legalized and allowed for recreational use as well but your concerns aren’t really justified if you look at what existing therapeutic applications are like and what companies in the psychedelic space are trying to do right now.
Efforts by Israel’s intelligence agencies to undermine and influence the international criminal court (ICC) could amount to “offences against the administration of justice” and should be investigated by its chief prosecutor, legal experts have said....
worth noting this is a decade-long campaign not related to the current conflict. back when most of the world was unconditionally loving Israel they were doing this
Capitalism only works in theory in practice it’s all homeless encampments, people going hungry, wealth inequality, gender inequality, race inequality, global inequality, climate disaster, war.
The only way in which communism is inherently authoritarian is in that wealth must be forcibly taken from capitalists and landowners in order to help the masses.
Equating communism with authoritarianism, but not doing the same with capitalism, a system in which the owning class oppresses (to the point of homelessness and starvation) the working class, is simply ignorant.
There is oppression under this system as well, there are private prisons that lead directly to incarceration, there is gross inequality, there is global injustice (forced extraction of wealth and natural resources from foreign lands), there is climate injustice in which a tiny minority of the population is directly causing harm, suffering, and an increasing amount of climate refugees (to which they deny entry after making their homes unlivable).
but yes an economic system that puts the needs of the many above the lavish lifestyles of the few and which prefers cooperation to competition is inherently authoritarian and this one isn’t. How many terrible capitalist countries can you name?
Social programs and social welfare aren’t really balancing socialism with capitalism, the means of production is fully owned by capitalists and there is no democratization of it. Sure we have some coops but the vast majority of workplaces are dictatorships
Gaza officials say the death toll from Israeli air strikes on a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah in southern part of the strip has risen to 40....
Too lazy to see CNN, BBC, CBC all reporting the same? If you take the IDF’s word alone maybe their acknowledgment of civilian deaths in the strike will suffice?
I don’t get why even capitalists are ok with the economy being so focused on investor hype. Whatever happened to companies making profit by providing valuable goods and services? We don’t even factor the consumer in anymore, it’s all just executives trying to woo investors no matter what it does to the product or service quality being offered.
I’m a socialist, but you’d think there’d be some capitalism advocates that are anti stock market at this point.
A system doesn’t need people to get together and collude in order to manifest certain behaviors. The market is regulated either by legislation or by people’s actions. I’m wondering why pro-capitalists have no intention to regulate this or change their behaviors.
VFX artist explains why CGI in films is worse now (www.independent.co.uk)
A visual effects artist has revealed the reason why special effects in movies are so much “worse” now....
ISPs seek halt of net neutrality rules before they take effect next month (arstechnica.com)
Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero' (www.techradar.com)
CEO of Zoom: what if we take deepfake fraud, right, and make it a push-button feature of Zoom (www.theverge.com)
Biden is said to be finalizing plans for migrant limits as part of a US-Mexico border clampdown (apnews.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/biden-immigration-border-crackd…
Vegan hotdogs // Veggie "Completo Italiano" (aggregatet.org)
Although it does not mention any vegan variation, there is a wikipedia article about the “completos”.
FDA’s review of MDMA for PTSD highlights study bias and safety concerns (arstechnica.com)
Israeli campaign against ICC may be ‘crimes against justice’, say legal experts (www.theguardian.com)
Efforts by Israel’s intelligence agencies to undermine and influence the international criminal court (ICC) could amount to “offences against the administration of justice” and should be investigated by its chief prosecutor, legal experts have said....
China is banning ‘wealth-flaunting’ behavior on social media (www.nbcnews.com)
At least 40 killed in Rafah after Israeli missiles hit camp for displaced (www.aljazeera.com)
Gaza officials say the death toll from Israeli air strikes on a camp housing displaced Palestinians near Rafah in southern part of the strip has risen to 40....
local warzone (lemmy.world)
Google criticized as AI Overview makes obvious errors, such as saying former President Obama is Muslim (www.cnbc.com)