What I wouldn’t give for a sequel to Empire at War

That’s the crux with developing countries. If a citizen can make 20x their salary somewhere else why wouldn’t they?

Should we block people from emigrating? Is limiting their freedom good for us/them?

It’s a tricky question because like you say in the long term their home country would most likely benefit from them staying.

Oh is it? TIL

Now if only they could make a Lightroom alternative Id be really happy

Gimp is not intuitive at all. Krita or Paint.net are good free alternatives and Affinity photo is great (but not free)

Source: Eagle Freedom Burger institute.

It’s on wikipedia but sure.

“While corruption is not a new phenomenon in Venezuela, it has dramatically worsened with the Chávez and Maduro regimes. In recent years, Venezuela has been ranked as one of the most corrupt countries globally by international indices, and has played a major role in the economic collapse and broader crisis in Venezuela”

your main concern with the country is "corruption, as measured by whom exactly

I’m merely replying to your previous comment, but maybe reading what you’re responding to is difficult, much easier to move goalposts

The fact is that as soon as a government tries to rule itself to serve its people instead of western capitalists

I’ve highlighted the pertinent part of your previous comment

After all the fighting, suffering and genocide in the region, it’ll all be for nothing once climate change makes it uninhabitable.

I’ve marked the pertinent word from the original comment in bold so you can spot it easier.

The government of Venezuela is trying to serve it’s people? One of the most corrupt governments in the world? That’s your example of a government trying to serve it’s people? Pretty funny

I’m not talking about Iran specifically, although I understand it wasn’t very clear in my first comment, but the region in general.

Besides that, 1953 is quite a few decades ago, will they ever stand on their own feet or will they forever blame the past? Every country has had tragedies but unjust as it may be you have to move forwards

I mean that’s the problem lol

Unregulated capitalism maybe but that’s why you should set up regulations

Ever heard of oil?

The us invaded every country in the middle east? TIL

Guess they’re never going to be the masters of their own fate, in 200 years they can still blame the us for any shortcomings.

They’ve had “infinite” free money for decades and have had Norway as a clear example to follow but have chosen to squander it all.

Edit: I’m not talking about Iran specifically, although I understand the confusion, but the region in general as mentioned in rimus comment.

I don’t disagree with you about AGI but the timeframe is the big question. Will it come in a decade or a century? Impossible to know.

It seems the current predictive machine learning is reaching it’s breaking point and improvements are slowing down. Is that because the limit is reached or just a temporary slowdown until something better is discovered. Also impossible to know

I have no doubts that AGI will eventually arrive unless we blow ourselves up

Yes I could see this being helpful for many a very narrow group of people FTFY

I think youre reading way too much into having sails or not lol

I would not want to go back to that era of illiteracy, poverty and disease.

Adapting old ideas into the modern world where it makes sense is good though

Can you really stop if you never start?

Don’t buy from Temu lol

I assume they meant opinions when it comes to investing not opinions in general.

Obviously, but turning off all electronics in a city will have an immense impact.

As someone who has a 4k monitor, 1440p is a great middle ground for gaming