except at least the commie blocks were affordable lol

“cheap to build” meant “cheap to rent”, not “our housing company is making record-breaking profits! 😃”

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in case you (the reader) weren’t aware, the amount of Palestinians shot dead by the IDF while waiting for food has surpassed the amount of israelis who died on October 7th

think about this the next time someone’s like “but what about Hamas!!!”

versus how much québécois content the average person in Québec consumes

you’d be disappointed… we still consume a lot of american media in quebec. more and more untranslated, too

of course, this is just my experience, not a study, not sure how it compares to english canada either tbh

we’d probably consume more quebec media if less of it fucking sucked lol

i just use a debit card lol

with the liberals trying to pass shit like bill C-2, frankly, i wouldn’t be surprised if they started to subsidize gardaworld instead

tbh, the real reason to use paper straws instead of plastic is that they’re much more biodegradable, not so much the CO2 use. we should use way less plastic in general, imo

and it bears mentioning that the CO2 released by private jets still pales in comparison to what the airline industry produces; the average global northerner’s overseas holiday is still very destructive for the environment (tho obviously not as much as a rich fuck using a private jet)

according to this wiki article, over its lifetime a plastic straw will release 1,46 grams of CO2, while a paper straw will release 1,38 grams of CO2. that’s a saving of 0,08 grams.

and according to this article, a private jet releases 4,9 kilograms of CO2 per mile.

so: assuming you are using one straw per day, a year of using paper straws instead of plastic straws offsets about 0,006 miles of one private jet, or a bit more than 10 meters.

that’s fun.

you’re thinking too small

1000$/year baybeee!

or rather, they’ll find the perfect balance of profitability, between how many people can afford it VS how much they’d pay for it

the poors will die but that is a sacrifice they are enthusiastic to make

because it’s not about being “pro-life”, it’s about controlling women’s bodies

because they’re trying to manufacture consent for a war with Iran

id rather be using whatsapp, honestly

it’s not good either, obviously, but messenger still collects a buttload more data

(and iirc whatsapp encrypts both group chats and DMs, on messenger it’s only DMs)

you have it backwards, israel is an american puppet; not the other way around

still works tho, why would america restrain its imperialist genocidal outpost? creating chaos in the Middle East is its raison d’être

imagine being the person forced to use FB messenger because your friends are on it and won’t bother installing anything else

i am that person 😖

I think people in the replies acting fake surprised are missing the point.

it is important news, because many people see LLMs as black boxes of superintelligence (almost as if that’s what they’re being marketed as!)

you and i know that’s bullshit, but the students asking chatgpt to solve their math homework instead of using wolfram alpha doesn’t.

so yes, it is important to demonstrate that this “artificial intelligence” is so much not an intelligence that it’s getting beaten by 1979 software on 1977 hardware

in the west too our phones spy on us but everyone knows, everyone thinks it’s bad, and yet nobody cares

it’s not that they would do this, it’s that they’re already doing this

(note that she’s Indigenous, too – because misogyny always goes hands in hands with racism and colonialism)

one time they made the 10$ bill vertical and no one gave a shit

i don’t think there’s anything like that on linux sadly

personally i just use the VLC mobile app (yes, this exists!) to play my local music collection. it’s surprisingly good, and you can even send music to it from your computer to your phone wirelessly!

the republicans are abducting and deporting Brown people, and importing white afrikaners as “refugees”

it’s not about so-called “illegal” immigration, it’s not even about immigration, it’s about turning the US into a white ethnostate