About time. On that note: required viewing: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/plastic-wars/ enlightening…

Futurists look to reach the singularity and Evangelists look to invoke the rapture. Not everything any group looks to do is actually practical.

Let’s say Don is now supportive of medical assistance (MAID) in dying. That’d be a better way to look at it. I wonder if that became a point of discussion whether he could actually be persuaded to support it. Although, there is an issue with some medical assistance in dying policy being too lenient, so not sure how to thread that needle.

1meal/hour

Good to know. Wasn’t sure 3BP show would be good because I think the book was so slow. Probably lost in translation.

What do we have here? It seems OP was referring to Bill Maher’s podcast.

Now I’m even less likely to watch the video. Panned over to 12:38. That is a pretty egregious error. Either they are incompetent and their opinions aren’t too valuable, or intentionally trying to mislead the now over 1.4million people who have watched that video. This seems like they tried to cherry pick a stat that bodes in favour of their argument and biffed it. Lots of people are still immigrating to Canada, so definitely far more than “no one” wants to live in Canada. https://www.statista.com/topics/2917/immigration-in-canada/

I see no citations in the video description and I’m not too interested in listening to their argument if they can’t provide those citations up front. The only measure they seem to be appealing to in order to support their claim that “no one wants to live in Canada” is that Canada has lowered in happiness index. But, by that measure Canada is 15th in the world and USA is 23rd. So, if that’s the main reason to think people don’t want to live in Canada, then people really don’t want to live in the USA. On its face, that strikes me as exceptionally untrue.

https://archive.ph/2024.05.07-220842/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/07/astrazeneca-withdrawing-covid-vaccine/

But how do you make them more whale-friendly?

Fuck. I thought I might have more time to see him one day. Waited too long

With Amarula as a treat

Memento

Citation needed

It’s impossible to know exactly what we don’t know. This is a big issue, but there are people taking it seriously. It seems likely new antibiotics which will work are going to be developed. For example: this new class that was discovered a couple months ago using AI.

Less niche content from the subs that I couldn’t find an equivalent for here. Also less random bullshit from all the reposted recycled memes that were often somehow just perpetually in my face. It would be nice if there were more people here on Lemmy commenting to link over to relevant related communities (sublemmys??) to a post that they think others would like. Sometimes that’s a good way to find more subs. Don’t really see that happening round these parts. TL;DR Wasting less time on interwebs

How’s this for a plan:

1. build high speed rail
2. build more housing (especially single dwelling) that is not corporate owned
3. tax more heavily income from real estate conglomerates to fund 1 and 2

You can’t make someone interested in learning. You can investigate what excites someone and foster that excitement. You can also show your excitement and hope it’s contagious. But, sometime it’s not.

Most divided by celebrating 28th / 1st, few celebrate at midnight between, few celebrate both (Vox 2016)

Welp. I guess we better buckle up as it’s about to get much much worse considering the new text-to-video AI capabilities coming https://openai.com/sora Very worriesome