Mountain biking. Ridiculously fun especially when you have good trails and a good bike.

What did you switch to?

“zero factors that could effect that degradation”

So in other words, only a completely unrealistic estimate can be made? After all, our sun is not going to be the same in 5 billion years, so unless the material comes along with a solution to maintain the material’s temperature (as per the manufacturer’s website the longevity is temperature-dependent) then 14 billion years sounds rather unlikely.

France may not participate directly in imperialism these days, but it sure as hell has neocolonial and exploitative structures in place. E.g. see this Jacobin article.

…but then why did she cry in response to the stranger’s comment? Logic doesn’t seem to be adding up.

So let’s be clear then—it’s not that other countries cannot influence this conflict, it’s that they choose not to. And even that is not quite right: Modi’s meeting Putin right now and their active trade with them does have an influence on the conflict, just not in Ukraine’s favour.

It is not clear if there are other countries other than the EU that can influence the situation(aside the US and Russia).

I’ll be the first to admit I am very ignorant about the geopolitics of this war, but how can this possibly be true? India could stop trade relations with Russia; China could invade Russia; the global south could conscript and send armies to support Ukraine. I’m not saying these countries would or even should do these things, but isn’t an analysis self-defeating if we just assume only EU & US have any influence?

Sir, that is the definition of a rhetorical question.

Genuine question since I am not knowledgable about this: could you expand on how HRW is Zionist? Wikipedia notes that HRW has been criticised for being overly biased against Israel, and I read through a rather awful article on Sapir (which appears to be quite unapologetically Zionist) which indeed makes this claim. Is there evidence to the contrary?

Apart from fringe activist groups, who thinks of politics as something they have to make happen on a daily basis?

Lots of people actually. The comparison you’re making between many people being generally uninterested in politics vs mental illness being criminalized by the state is, frankly, ridiculous.

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Fair enough but this doesn’t make much sense to me in the context of this post, since it implies that pilots are / should be idolized more than any of the other travelers (also mostly labourers of some sort) or other airport staff.

I mean, is it though? Seems like there are a whole lot of such countries… at the very least, every country which isn’t some sort of democracy.

Honestly how much does that mean when they lack representatives / are unable to vote, and do not get full protection of US constitution (as per Wikipedia)? Sounds like citizens in name only…

Why would you idolize anyone? To err is human; we all have flaws and just because you have a fancy profession does not mean you are a good person.

Not just India, basically all of south and south-east Asia, maybe even elsewhere in Asia too.

That would be good but unlikely, considering that Holocaust denial is specifically illegal in France.

Doesn’t this apply only if you are looking at mean average exclusively? There are loads of other metrics you can look at based on scalar ratings.

No my argument does not depend on that at all, it merely depends on the distinction between generating code (which LLMs do in a nondeterministic manner) and compiling/running the generated code (which happens, as with code written by humans, in a deterministic manner). Also I did not call humans tools.

Apparently this isn’t the case - see their other comment. I haven’t read through the article yet but they are claiming a pretty direct connection.