I think I’d rather just make fewer, more durable things. One computer per year per person is way way too many. And cars barely need to exist at all, compared to the number of cars actually in existence. Vans, trucks, trains, and buses are of course a different story.
Are you saying you would write the headline differently?
How can we trust MEE while its owner is undisclosed?
When I read the title, I thought the OP had editorialised it. Then, I clicked through and realised it was editorialised by the source itself. This is not serious news. It is effectively opinion. It does not belong here. Read the rules again, OP.
I eventually figured it out. I was searching in world@lemmy.ml—not world@lemmy.world. And the first time, I was looking in world@lemmy.world under ‘Top Week’, but didn’t quite scroll down far enough lol. It was just out of range of the first page. If I had hit ‘More Results’ or whatever, it would have been the very first one. Whoopsiedoodle lol
Anyway, it would be better if the ml vs. world mistake were more difficult to make, but yeah, human error.
Oh, good, then it’s just lemmy’s search function that is broken. Honestly, I am relieved. How did you find these?
This happened 5 days ago. I was shocked to find nothing about it in this community.
I am really questioning the ability of this community to find and post the most relevant international news. We need to do better.
EDIT: This was the result of a technical failure—not a community failure. Still, something is wrong.
On one hand, fuck social media. The recommender AIs that run it are only supposed to optimise engagement, thus optimising ad revenue. But they are far more powerful than that. They can influence public opinion as a whole. Totally out-of-band from the sovereignty of any nation. It is foolish to think that Google, Youtube, Facebook, Netflix, and Twitter aren’t abusing this power. Every responsible nation that wants to defend its sovereignty against recommender AIs must ban social media immediately, along with every other source of such recommendations.
On the other hand, everything else that happened in Nepal. I’m just glad the actual decisions happened on Discord, the least terrible of the platforms. At least Discord doesn’t have these sinister recommender AIs.
The moderate Israeli majority are the only ones who can stop this, now that the US has made it perfectly clear which side it’s on. It seems, though, that they are content to merely wave a sign around in protest. They want peace, but not enough to actually do anything about it.
Time for a general strike in Israel.
Here is The Dissident’s site: https://www.thedissident.news/
I searched it for every variation of “Shitrit”, “IDF”, and “October 7” I could think of, and turned up nothing. I do not believe the source; I do not believe the Canary. Overall, I’d say this is fake as hell and should be taken down.
This is basic due diligence, and I shouldn’t have had to do this. OP, what the hell?
Metal.
The US condemns it. Must be on the level, then.
I was about to say public healthcare savings, then did a double take. Excellent point, Mac.
The second biggest reason I moved here from Onterrible.
What a fucking mediocracy.
Traffic engineers and urban planners in the US and Canada know all about European design, and they agree.
It’s the voters that are the problem.
This feels like a Harry Potter reference.
The last resort.
This is opinion—not news. What is this doing here?
Europe’s complicity in Israel’s imperialism has been a colossal embarrassment.
It would be, if there were no market externalities.