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byMisagon
2026 @04:30PM
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Attached to: China Executes 11 Members of Myanmar Scam Mafia
Compare to Scandinavian countries where they're closing prisons down because they don't have prisoners to put in them because they simply have less crime, and when someone DOES commit a crime, they rehabilitate them.
Wrong. It is actually the opposite situation here in Sweden now, unfortunately. That was perhaps the goal and sentiment respectively thirty years ago.
Today, the prisons are full, and there have been inquiries to rent cells in other countries until new prisons have been built.
The current administration had been elected for being "tough on crime", and wants to put 13-y/o's in prison despite of experts claiming that branding them as criminals and forcing them to socialise with older, more experienced criminals would only make them worse.
We are still a long way from the death penalty though, Thank God.
BTW. My best argument against the death penalty is that it would degrade ourselves to the criminal's level. We don't kill people, because we are better than that!
180710736
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byMisagon
2026 @04:38PM
(#65961520)
Attached to: The Bill Gates-Epstein Bombshell - and What Most People Get Wrong
You've got something on your nose.
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byMisagon
2026 @12:53PM
(#65957050)
Attached to: Windows 11 Has Reached 1 Billion Users Faster Than Windows 10
Windows 10 was an upgrade to Windows 8, and to Windows 8.1 ... back when I installed it.
But Windows Updates since then have removed pre-installed programs and made the system much slower.
Not to mention the irremovable Cortana icon that lingered in my task bar for a few years, despite Cortana never being available in my region.
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byMisagon
026 @05:38PM
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Attached to: Richard Stallman Critiques AI, Connected Cars, Smartphones, and DRM
It is not about human intelligence, but about different types of technology within the field of "artificial intelligence".
In classic "Artificial Intelligence" before neural networks became mainstream, the term used to stand for when a problem was solved exactly because it was based on carefully crafted rules, put in the system by experts.
Now it means technology that is a black box by design which probably is correct, most of the time, hopefully, knock-on-wood, and based on random posts on the Internet from well-meaning users and edge-lords alike.
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byMisagon
2026 @10:54PM
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Attached to: Half of World's CO2 Emissions Come From Just 32 Fossil Fuel Firms, Study Shows
Calling it a "crisis" is apt, because we can still do something about it.
The next step is "catastrophe".
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byMisagon
2026 @10:51PM
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Attached to: Half of World's CO2 Emissions Come From Just 32 Fossil Fuel Firms, Study Shows
One problem with that argument is that there are limits to how much CO2 plants can absorb.
And the majority of CO2 that gets absorbed is actually absorbed by algae in the ocean. And there are limits there as well.
Too much CO2 leads to ocean acidification, which harm life in the ocean.
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byMisagon
2026 @10:43PM
(#65941112)
Attached to: Half of World's CO2 Emissions Come From Just 32 Fossil Fuel Firms, Study Shows
Pumping do in many cases also cause CO2 emissions. Oil wells contain more or less of natural gas as well as crude oil, and that gas is often considered unprofitable to collect or to pump back into the ground.
This "waste gas", consisting of mostly methane is typically burned to produce CO2 ("flaring"), which has lower climate impact than just letting it out, but the latter happens too much too often. It also happens that flaring can malfunction, leading to incomplete combustion and unwanted emissions.
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byMisagon
2026 @07:30PM
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Attached to: Energy Costs Will Decide Which Countries Win the AI Race, Microsoft's Nadella Says
There are only losers in the "AI race". Feeding a bubble serves only to destroy capital.
Those countries who will lose less are the ones who stay away from AI, and who transition away from using Microslop products the quickest.
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byMisagon
2026 @05:13AM
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Attached to: Bank of England 'Must Plan For a Financial Crisis Triggered By Aliens'
They will also show that there's a crashed space ship under the inland ice on Greenland, and only USA is able to undertake the endeavour to excavate it and understand its technology.
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byMisagon
026 @04:13PM
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Attached to: Partly AI-Generated Folk-Pop Hit Barred From Sweden's Official Charts
An established singer/guitarist with actual talent made an acoustic cover of the song, and it is currently trending more on TikTok than the AI-generated one.
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byMisagon
026 @10:56AM
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Attached to: 'Star Wars' Boss Kathleen Kennedy Steps Down From Lucasfilm
Unfortunately, Kennedy is still staying at Lucasfilm as producer of the upcoming The Mandalorian and Grogu film, and of Star Wars: Starfighter.
There have been rumours that Jon Favreau is planning to make a film adaptation of the Thrawn Trilogy, series of Star Wars books.
but Disney would permit him to do that only if The Mandalorian and Grogu does well in the box office. ... and because Kennedy is producer of the latter, the Thrawn Trilogy movies will never happen.
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byMisagon
026 @10:39AM
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Attached to: 'Star Wars' Boss Kathleen Kennedy Steps Down From Lucasfilm
The downgrading of the Expanded Universe ( = everything but the movies, basically) into the lower tier "Legends" was like spitting the fans in the face.
Especially since only a few months before, at an official Star Wars convention, Lucasfilm had promised to clean up and bring the majority of the Expanded Universe into Star Wars canon.
This became apparent for most fans when TFA came out, which redrew the post-ROTJ continuity altogether. And completely without reason as well: the major themes in the movie had also happened in the books, but with somewhat different names -- and done better.
And later, Kennedy had the nerve to publicly claim that Star Wars would have lacked lore to source from, despite Filoni many times having borrowed things from the old EU.
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byMisagon
026 @10:24AM
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Attached to: 'Star Wars' Boss Kathleen Kennedy Steps Down From Lucasfilm
What are you talking about? The original trilogy are the three last episodes - in universe chronology, and the prequels are the last three episodes - by release date in the real world.
There are no other Star Wars movies.
THERE ARE NO OTHER STAR WARS MOVIES.
LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU !
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byMisagon
2026 @05:51AM
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Attached to: Nvidia Details New AI Chips and Autonomous Car Project With Mercedes
This will really make me want to buy a Mercedes.
I love it when companies get in league with crypto-bros and AI. Moral fiber is overrated. The climate is going to hell from all of this, but then I'll be dead anyway. I'll get mine. F U. /s
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byMisagon
2026 @05:47AM
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Attached to: Nvidia Details New AI Chips and Autonomous Car Project With Mercedes
Here in Scandinavia, road markings can be hidden by snow and ice for several months every year. You'd have to drive at the correct distance from rods sticking up through the snow at the side of the road, several m apart.
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