This is an important point. Simply giving a ton of rice to an area will put the rice farmers in that area out of business.

They’ll need to grow something else to make a living, but then when the next year comes around, no one is making rice anymore and they’ll be dependent on that external flow of rice.

I mean, votes are public in the fediverse. I wouldn’t try to read into the reasoning from a single downvoter too much though.

One downvote could be accidental. 2 downvotes in the same thread makes that seem less likely.

Downvoting/Upvoting doesn’t mean the same thing that it does for everyone. Some use it as an agree/disagree. Some use it for whether a comment is productive and adds to the conversation or not. Some use it as a visibility score whether they think a comment should be seen by others first or whether there are other comments that are better. Some may agree with most everything in a comment except for one part and then downvote because of that.

Ana Valens recently resigned from Vice following an article about the censorship of games. On social media, she shared communication between Mastercard and Riot Games.

Looks like Vice can’t be trusted as a reliable source of information if they’re willing to fire journalists after a little outside pressure is put on them.

The article addresses the topic of how quickly the banning of this kind of material can get out of hand:

These are, it seems, the same people going on book-banning crusades that ensare such smut as Calvin & Hobbes comics.

Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne, children’s poet Shel Silverstein and Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson have joined Judy Blume, Sarah J. Maas, Eric Carle and Kurt Vonnegut on a mind-boggling list of hundreds of books purged from some Tennessee school libraries.

The removals are the result of a growing political movement to control information through book banning. In 2024, the state legislature amended the “Age-Appropriate Materials Act of 2022” to specify that any materials that “in whole or in part” contain any “nudity, or descriptions or depictions of sexual excitement, sexual conduct, excess violence, or sadomasochistic abuse” are inappropriate for all students and do not belong in a school library. This change means books are not evaluated as a whole, and excerpts can be considered without context, if they have any content that is deemed to cross these lines. This leaves no room for educators and librarians to curate collections that reflect the real world and serve the educational needs of today’s students.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/02/tn-govt-saves-school-children-from-smut-like-magic-tree-house-calvin-hobbes-a-light-in-the-attic/

All they really need to do is make self-driving cars safer than your average human driver.

When it comes to the economy, capitalism with a heavy dose of regulation is the best option we have right now.

Attempts at communism have failed miserably and just led to dictatorships.

Unless you’re proposing something better than either of those?

If I read somewhere correctly, they’re also the first to open source their swipe dataset:
https://huggingface.co/datasets/futo-org/swipe.futo.org

You can also contribute and help out with their dataset here:
https://swipe.futo.org/

An NPU isn’t required for something like recall, it just makes running local models more efficient.

Life pro tip: bend the prongs a little to give your device more grip if you encounter outlets like this.

To be clear, even if you have a door that opens outward, the doors first open inwards before rotating to go back out. That way pressure will always keep the door from opening when at a high altitude.

Veritasium did a video on it: https://odysee.com/@veritasium:f/what-everyone-gets-wrong-about-planes:e

While Trump is definitely exaggerating what’s happening there, I think you’re downplaying it a bit too much.

This video is: a) more than a decade old,

There were multiple videos, but the concerning part here is it looks like even in recent rallies Julius Malema has continued with this chant: https://web.archive.org/web/20250502020122/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/world/africa/south-africa-kill-boer-song.html

It is ridiculous that there were no dates/locations for anything in these clips given what Trump is trying to claim here.

b) from a rally of a minority opposition party i.e. not the political party of the people Trump was meeting,

Yes, but it’s worth pointing out that the EFF is still one of the more popular parties. The 3rd or 4th largest party from what I can tell based on this list (and from what other articles have mentioned). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_South_Africa

It is good to hear that someone like him is increasingly being sidelined.

Thanks for pointing out the court case. After a little digging it looks like the court has ruled on this more than once. Back in 2011 they found him guilty of hate speech for the chant: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-safrica-malema/south-africa-court-finds-malema-guilty-of-hate-speech-idUSTRE78B2DD20110912/

And in 2022 the courts ruled that the chant should not be taken literally.

That chant when coupled with statements to his supporters such as “never be afraid to kill” is still alarming.

It reeks of “it was just a joke, bro” energy and what fascists try to do when they are testing the waters.

Please explain.

Edit: I see your edit… But I must still be misreading the conversation.
Even after double checking the username, you were the one that said, “Such as?”

Yes and you were the one asking the questions about things that are explained in the article so I responded with some context.

This question really shouldn’t be that hard to answer. Here’s the video that was shown at the Whitehouse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLDl3mblm-c

Video of the full meeting (I set the link to skip ahead to the part where the TV is brought in) if you want to see President Cyril Ramaphosa’s reaction to it: https://odysee.com/@NTD:2/live-trump-holds-bilateral-meeting-2:5?t=1313

Besides the video of the crosses along the road, there are video clips of the Economic Freedom Fighter’s leader, Julius Malema calling for a bloody revolution as well as chanting with large crowds to “kill the Boer” (white man/farmer).

There are no timestamps/locations for any of the video clips, but it looks like this guy founded the Economic Freedom Fighters back in 2013.

Edit: typo

Poe’s law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe’s_law

Or you bought his car before you saw him for what he is. Tesla’s have been around for almost 2 decades now.

I actually saw the opposite last week. It was a Tesla but on the back was a sticker that looked like this:

I know that this is an ongoing thing between these 2 countries, but it always makes me nervous when I remember that they both have a nuclear arsenal.

This is why you don’t take on odd jobs from people contacting you remotely.

If your only job is to forward packages/letters/money sent to your home address (or to pick up packages from nearby addresses) and you get a cut of the money, you’re probably a mule for money laundering.

If your only job is helping others from another country (they will like about where they’re actually from) get through interview/hiring processes, you’re probably working with countries like this.

If they want to use your name for a job application, you don’t have to do any work, and they will send you most of the paycheck, you’re probably working with countries like this.

It’s not something unique to capitalism. In communism you can easily have tons of monopolies as well.

Regulation is definitely a good thing. Competition among companies is a good thing.