The vast majority of coding isn’t making something new, it’s using existing patterns and tools and arranging them to fit a specific use case.
Llms may not be able to create a new framework or design pattern, but neither will most coders in there day to day.
There’s also a video going around now of him in 2011 claiming Obama was going to start a war with Iran, due to his incompetence at negotiating, right before the election to boost his popularity.
He’s projecting more then an imax movie theater.
He is definitely able to do it. Over the past months he’s shown that he can act unilaterally on pretty much anything, especially on foreign policy, and no one stops him. He could stop weapons shipments to Israel tonight and if that happened Israel wouldn’t be able to support it’s 4 front war on the region and have to come to the negotiating table. He just doesn’t because he’s a coward and afraid of the Israel lobby.
He’s already stopped aid to ukraine, no reason he can’t do the same for Israel.
It’s not that borrowing money is free, zero interest rates means the government pays zero interest for its loans, not companies. It does put downward pressure on interest rates companies pay but they’re still going to have to pay a couple percent apy.
The reason zero interest rates are good for tech is because it forces capital to seek more long-term and risky investments. If I have a lot of money and can get 6% apy from loaning it to the US government, the safest bet on the market, why would I invest in something else? If i can’t get any money from loaning to the government (zero interest rates), and i cant get much from loaning it to other institutions because of that downward pressure, then maybe I’ll buy some more risky tech stocks because it’s possible for that company to grow more then the 1-2% id get from just lending my money. Most of techs financing is done through selling stock, not loans.
Yeah, since it’s “peace time” and less risk there’s probably a decent chunk of the armed forces who are just in it for the perks ( free college, Healthcare) and don’t believe in it and are trying to serve there time and get out and not make a career of it.
They aren’t cops who almost always want to be cops and make it a core part of their identity and belief system. They aren’t allowed on lemmy.
This isn’t Russia, just nationalism. The right in Poland doesn’t want Ukrainian immigrants coming in and “taking polish jobs,” especially since a lot of Ukrainians will want to leave their country that Russia destroyed.
Not everything has to be some 3d chess move by putin the puppet master. You’re giving Russian diplomacy and spy craft far more credit than it deserves.
That’s the whitest thing I’ve heard of in a while.
The only one I’d give you shit for is andre 3000 on the right since he’s been around forever and the outfit matches him perfectly.
The rest are unknowns to anyone not deep into the met galaxy and pop culture
It is horribly under covered by mainstream press and does have atrocities equivalent to the war on gaza. The Sudanese military has kicked the rapid support forces (rsf) out of most of the east and capital region, but the rsf holds a lot of the west / darfur region except for the city of al fasher which is currently under siege and probably has conditions comparable to Gaza in terms of lack of food and water coming in.
The reason no one is out protesting or trying to raise awareness is because we (the west) can’t do anything about it. We aren’t supporting either side and shouldn’t be, the RSF is worse but the Sudanese military has no shortage of war crimes. So we have no leverage to try and get a ceasefire, whereas in Israel we continue to send them billions in military aid to continue a genocidal war. We could tell them to take peace talks seriously or we cut off aid any day now but refuse to because trump wants a new beach resort.
It’s cutting both ways, Israel is using Sudan for whataboutism. Saw this bill board on the 101 the other day
Depends on what your judging life by. For health and economic security living in Cuba is better then being poor in the u.s. life expectancy for Cuba and the u.s. are even, and life expectancy in the US is heavily dependent on income, so your average Cuban is living maybe 10 years more than someone in the US living under poverty.
If your judging life by political freedom and economic mobility , then yeah living in poverty in the US is better.
Yeah by economic statistics you’re “richer” if your in the bottom fifth of the US compared to cuba but you aren’t paying half your income to rent in cuba and you won’t be ruined by medical debt if you get sick.
Housing as an investment leads to real estate speculation which pushes up prices. It creates a class of people who stand to gain when property values, and downstream of that rent, go up.
This class of people are very wealthy and tend to oppose any action that will decrease there property value. That includes things like building dense affordable housing, especially close to them, as that increases the supply of housing and thus decreases there property value.
This is true especially for land lords, even small “mom and pop” landlords. There goal is to raise rent and the value of there investment. Anything that will lower rent or even stabilize it like rent control they will oppose, no matter their scale.
Tl;dr: housing speculation creates a wealthy class of people opposed to housing affordability.
another of these clearly illegal things
They seem to be actually doing work. Yeah it’s illegal to work without authorization but by the same logic an undocumented migrant working is illegal. Sure but I wouldn’t argue it’s immoral or would make them a rogue state.
There’s plenty of other horrible shit that north Korea is doing, but I wouldn’t put this in that bucket, this is probably the most honest work they can do considering they’re sanctioned by nearly every country.
In the u.s. a bidet refers to a type of toilet or an attachment for a toilet that shoots water at your asshole to clean it while your still on the toilet after you shit. The separate sink as a bidet is unheard of here.
Yeah, the u.s. ended up with ~70% of the world’s gold reserves by 1947. In a global economy still mostly using “hard” gold/silver backed currency this was a massive advantage.
if it just wants to die quietly along with the older people who just remain catholic by habit.
That may be true in europe and north america, but catholicism is booming in Sub-Saharan Africa in a lot of countries with younger populations. A lot of those countries also don’t have very progressive views on LGBT people and would be fine with backtracking on that front.
This is why I’m for tarriffs dependent on wage, labor and environmental standards. If you’re moving production to another country because they have some resource or large field of experts fair enough. If you’re moving production over seas to dodge labor and environmental regulations you should pay up. It also encourages those countries to raise wage and labor standards to avoid tarriffs.
Trumps tarriffs are idiotic, tarriffs on countries with higher labor standards like Canada and the EU aren’t helping anyone. The countries that do have low labor and environmental standards aren’t going to raise them to avoid the tarriffs, it seems trump just wants to get them to buy more American goods to lower the trade deficit for some reason.
If it was a comedy I would give it a pass, but this episode wasn’t, or at least it was a bad one. The only sort of funny scene was the sermon. The rest was young boys slowly dying.
Thanks for the references.
Fair enough, seems there’s not full consensus on this. Just wanted to point out that there is real science backing the idea that saturated fat is bad and it’s not just some contrived myth by a bunch of politicians like OP said.
It may have helped bibi in the short term but the zionist project has lost all credibility for almost anyone under 40 who aren’t bought off by Israel.
Once the Islamophobic older generations die off its going to be real hard for Israel to keep it’s western support. It’s just like South Africa, it took the generation who grew up in segregation to die off and loose all power in order for the west to drop support for them.
If hamas didn’t do oct 7th then Israel could’ve kept up it’s quiet ethnic cleansing with more settlements, settlers violence, “mowing the grass” in gaza etc. Keep it out of western media and allow westerners to think Israel is a normal democracy just like them. Oct 7th made Israel go mask off and show there true goals, and most people are disgusted by those goals.