I really like bash when dealing with even somewhat advanced scripting. Like the 300 LOC scraper I have written over the past two days which horribly parses HTML files using grep | sed.

It’s genuinely so much more fun to do this with Bash than, say, Python. I have once written a scraper using Beautifulsoup and I have no desire to do so ever again.

Honestly, only Haskell manages to beat Bash in how satisfying it feels when you manage to get something working well.

Gambling addictions have very high suicide ideation and suicide attempt rates. The exact numbers seem ti vary from study to study but I haven’t found any with percentages below double digits.

Gambling addictions are not uncommon either, with 1-3% of the general population being affected [Wikipedia]. Risk factors include starting young and online gambling by the way. Guess who encourages both?

If I had to guess, thousands of people have committed suicide at least partially due to Valve. “Partially” because case gambling could’ve been the entry into other forms of gambling that cemented gambling addictions.

Disagree slightly, human created content can have intent but doesn’t automatically have it.

A corporate ad does not have any artistic merit besides grabbing as much attention as possible. Actually creative ads where some thought was put in are the very rare exception.

The same goes with a lot of pop music today. I cannot speak too much about English language pop but German pop is nothing more than fast food. See the Wikipedia article of Menschen Leben Tanzen Welt.

Or take a look at video games. How much artistic effort is put into AAA games? Maybe someone spent 40 hours making the lootboxes as satisfying as possible to open but that’s probably where the most thought was put in.

And movies? Aren’t Disney’s recent “live remakes” of their old, successful animated movies anything but CGI slop? Sure, I admit it takes a lot of effort to make and animate all these models. Just like it takes effort to shit when you’re constipated.

Honestly, the only thing distinguishing AI from megacorp content is that the latter has more consistency and fewer “mistakes” than the former. The sole intent of both is making money.

Ah, thanks. Searching for “national DPA” just yielded some “National Data Privacy Agreement” or - when adding the term “journalism” - the German press agency DPA.

That’s your article. I was talking about the articles OP linked which do not contain this phrase anywhere.

I’m not about to discuss an article that is completely irrelevant for OP’s point.

China’s emissions have peaked and are going down now. Way before the promised 2035 deadline from your post.

The 2035 deadline is not for the emission peak. It’s for the 7 - 10% emission reduction from the current peak. The difference between 7% and 30% is very much significant.

Plus how has information changed?? The article linked is from 5 days ago. Nowhere is the period from 2020 to 2025 mentioned, neither in this comment nor in the article.

Are you an LLM? Because your reading comprehension sure is no different than one.

Have you read the comment you are responding to?

Nowhere does it state China keeps increasing CO2 emissions. It states China’s own target goals are insufficient.

This is an AI bot. Please report them.

You can tell because there are a lot of instances of “X and Y”:

• GDPR and ePrivacy
• private companies and state actors
• dangerous and morally obscene [who talks like this?]
• big tech and ad firms
• regulators and courts
• industry capture and political cowardice
• national DPAs [what even is that?] and journalists

The message is solid though.

To be fair, socialist countries thus far have been mostly utilitarian when dealing with people.

If 10% of gay people commit suicide but 20% reproduce then the policy is a success. Lifes are just resources that can be spent for the “collective’s” (read: state’s) benefit.

Your description made me read it like “pooned” at first.

Do you need any grounds for appeal?

Couldn’t they just appeal regardless and e.g. argue the judge didn’t take this (in their view) mitigating factor sufficiently into account for sentencing?

Torrenting for commercial use is probably worse, legally speaking.

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It’s in the AUR.

Me too. I’ll even make them full AI.

Please send me $2 billion by Tuesday. My salary as yetAnotherUser CEO & CTO is a modest 20 million/year. Results are expected to appear by 2030.

To become a member of the EBU, a public broadcaster must either be:

• based in a country in this area, defined by the International Telecommunications Union:
• be a member of the Council of Europe

Why should Israel be excluded based on its geographical position alone when every country bordering the Mediterrenean is eligble.

To be honest, DNA is stupid anyway. Worst data format ever invented.

I mean, a single mutation to get sickle cell anemia? Use fucking error correction codes, dammit! No, having everything twice is not error correction. It’s only error detection and the detected error is just silently ignored and randomly passed on to your offspring.

Where are the damn backups? 3-2-1 should hold for every data format! How would an offsite backup be designed? I don’t know I’m not evolution incorporated.

Why are viruses even a thing??? There is no reason EVER to be able to insert new DNA into your genome. Make it read only! With checksums! Why is there no Denuvo DNA-DRM?

Slightly unrelated but even worse, your immune system is literally only controlled by the equivalent of HTTP. Deactivate completely? Attack everything on sight? No authorization required whatsoever! Just use the public API! Surely nothing could exploit this, right??

Small Edit as a response to everyone mentioning the need to change for evolution:

Maybe, just maybe use a test environment? You don’t just push to production the moment you make a change. Move fast and break things my ass. Since women already have the production environment just create a similar structure in men! They already have TESTicles after all.

Maybe English should just get rid of the stupid “the first consonant is silent when two consonants form the beginning of a word” rule tbf.

It’s a skill issue to mispronounce loan words (like gnome, pterodactyl or psychology).

Hasn’t he admitted to changing his opinion after learning about the effects on children? I’m not in the loop about this.

But yeah, you definitely shouldn’t treat his words as gospel. A lot of questionable-at-best stuff in there.

I sometimes like to read his political posts:

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2025-jul-oct.html

And honestly? I mostly agree with them? Like this:

ABC ordered to pay Antoinette Lattouf another $150,000 for unlawful termination over Gaza Instagram post.

But a company faced with enormous threats wielded by fascist officials who demand that certain views be suppressed will treat such penalties as the normal cost of sucking up.

The [Israeli] army says that HAMAS is using apartment buildings for “surveillance”, and has bombed some of those buildings to destroy them. Based on this logic, the army might bomb every tall building in Gaza City with the large bombs that the US is providing

He has some questionable beliefs as well, though for unusual reasons. He accepts non-binary people but refuses to use they/them pronouns because he doesn’t like the ambiguity of singular/plural pronouns. So he has invented the neopronouns per/pers to refer to singular non-binary persons. I genuinely think no other person on this planet could hold this opinion.

Same here.

A pattern in almost every song, book, poem, movie?

Like greed? Antisocial behavior? Populism? Lies? Belief in your own supremacy? Capitalism?

Honestly, my first thoughts were they witnessed Cthulu. Though I suspect they intentionally chose to phrase it such that it invokes this analogy.

If we ignore the pattern aspect they mentioned maybe how history repeats itself? How tyranny emerges and sustains itself on fear and oppression?

I have no clue. It’s so vague.