Isn’t “it takes two” couch coop?

IMO the way to prevent such a scenario from happening is not by blocking Meta, but by inviting equally large competitors to join the fediverse. The described tactic can only work if you have close to a monopoly.

They’re right though. Top of the line software for certain domains (CAD, photoshop) just doesn’t exist for Linux. As much as I would want it to be.

It doesn’t read as if the author is generalizing all Europeans, it reads more as if he’s criticizing European policy. For what it’s worth in his book he’s very critical of Brexit as well.

Reality: most tech workers view it as fairly rated or slightly overrated according to the real data: https://www.techspot.com/images2/news/bigimage/2023/11/2023-11-20-image-3.png

The paper I showed earlier disagrees

I think the use case is not people doing potato study but people that want to lose weight and need to know the amount of calories in the piece of cake that’s offered at the office cafeteria.

It needn’t be exact. A ballpark calorie/sugar that’s 90% accurate would be sufficient. There’s some research that suggests that’s possible: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.01082.pdf

No paywall: https://archive.ph/2023.11.12-212740/https://www.ft.com/content/8fde56b7-2515-441a-9472-30c8aedcc200
Tbh, the article doesn’t really talk about the headline. Just some history and talk about Elon musk and Twitter. Not a convincing argument about social media in general.

Because you were replying to this statement by OP:

and as societies get richer in material wealth they produce fewer children and have the luxury to pay attention to things like the environment and their impact on it.

In short your source doesn’t support your claim, but it does story OP’s claim

For crying out loud, Clyde… you need a bunch of science nerds to tell you something this obvious? Fine.

Lol, very first sentence in that source:

Three mechanisms influence the fertility decision of educated women: (1) the relatively higher incomes and thus higher income forgone due to childbearing leads them to want fewer children. […]

Sci-fi is fictional, Clyde - not prophecy.

They’re just referring to the fact that the universe we live in is no “finite system” per the meme

Riiight… that’s why we’re the most destructive agent on the planet since the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs - because we “do more with less.” Wtf?

Yes exactly! They’re not saying that’s a good thing but that’s exactly why!

Which societies, Clyde? The ones that capitalism has impoverished so that a small minority can pretend their privileged lives are (somehow) “normal?”

Regardless if the distribution of that wealth is acceptable, growth has made the overall society richer in material wealth. The distribution of that wealth is an entirely different question.

And that’s a good thing, is it? You know we could just achieve that easily by giving women reproductive rights, don’t you? As in… no capitalism required at all?

You have any proof for that statement?

Adding to this, “limitless” growth just refers to the idea that it’s very hard to reach all limits in our present universe.

I agree that there are more important problems with capitalism than if we’ve reached a limit or not.

Yes

Not saying I agree or disagree with the author. However you being his wife did not result in “female-initiated disruption of a male hierarchy” (their words) so it’s not really an argument against their hypothesis.

(Of course your husband being nice and not a dickhead probably also plays a role)

What are you talking about?

There’s still the European Parliament. But yeah I guess he gets the job…

Truth is not supposed to be assigned to who makes the statement. What is actually happening is what is truth.

Also not all Muslim countries, mainly authoritarian régimes.

How come that one shitty device has a range of steps rather than a single number of steps?

“We must eat the billionaires. This is all the fault of capitalism. No wonder that’s how they make their profit.”

This sort of thing is ‘leftist’ everywhere.