Readit NewsSomething more people should know about the Rwandan genocide is that the Tutsi were not innocent victims but had previously committed genocide themselves - against the Hutu [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikiza].
The hate of the Hutu was not artificially created by some "extremists" with a radio station, but was and is instead the result of the long and bloody history between these two peoples where neither side can claim to be the innocent victim.
copx commented on Coal is dead and Trump's executive order won't revive it – Electrek electrek.co/2025/04/08/co... · Posted by u/xbmcuser
The author wrote this article on a device produced in a factory powered by coal.
In case you haven't noticed: Pretty much all the electronic devices you use are made in China and China's industry runs on coal.
Coal is nasty, the article is right about that, but it is the past, present, and the foreseeable future of industrial society.
copx commented on Dutch Parliament: Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options theregister.com/2025/03/1... · Posted by u/rippeltippel
Called it, again.
Data sovereignty is the true trend of the next decade. Not Quantum, not AI, but the new multi-pole world order divesting from Americentric technologies and back into the sort of locally-grown economies that children of the Cold War would be familiar with. Local vendors serving local needs with a focus on regional, not global, scale and service.
Us Cassandra types have been screaming for years that the US-centric technology catalog (from hardware to software to services to clouds) cannot be trusted long term, as just a single bad administration will expose how easily the US Government could disrupt “business as usual” or turn into a hostile state actor a la China or Russia. Welp, now we’re here.
Man, I hate being right.
>the US Government could disrupt “business as usual” or turn into a hostile state actor a la China
You typed this on hardware made by a hostile state actor: China.
As long as the hardware side of digital civilization is completely dependent on the Chinese communist regime, I certainly don't worry about American tech companies dominating the software side.
There are alternatives on the software side if you want them, meanwhile try to build a computer system without hardware made in China..
copx commented on Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won't buy a Tesla car electrek.co/2025/03/14/te... · Posted by u/madspindel
Now electric car transition there is done, too: they won't buy Teslas, but Chinese electric cars are banned, and European one are incredibly expensive, lose money to their makers, and just plain suck. All hope is for "european" cars made by Chinese brands that are "reassembled" (sometimes by doing as little as bolting the wheels on) from "kits" coming from China. Like Volvo. They are actually decent and may be better than Teslas.
>Now electric car transition there is done
It is not. Only 18% of newly registered cars are electric i.e. over 80% of the people are still buying new CE cars, to say nothing about the massive used car market which is almost completely CE.
I am amazed that ChatGPT can simulate such a believable "persona".
Kinda scary actually. A lot of people falling prey to these "digital parasites" seems to be inevitable.
Even if you warn people about them. It's like telling a heroin user that taking his drug of choice might feel good but it's actually bad for him. He already knows that but does not care.
People will become addicted to AI friends / lovers even if they know they aren't "real" (i.e. not sentient beings) as long as they feel real.
copx commented on Extreme poverty in India has dropped to negligible levels economist.com/finance-and... · Posted by u/suraci
Free housing & food? Which country is that?
The UK is infamous for housing illegal immigrants in hotels, and they don't just get free food but free money, too. Oh, and free healthcare.
Free money, housing, and healthcare for everyone is also the law here in Germany, which is why we get flooded by illegal immigrants too..
..and that's why these Western European welfare states are collapsing. You can only afford something like this if your population overwhelmingly consists of educated, skilled people with a strong work ethic who would never voluntarily sign up for welfare. Once you allow millions of foreigners into the country who are neither educated nor skilled nor have a work ethic such systems start to collapse.
copx commented on Zig's dot star syntax (value.*) openmymind.net/Zig-Dot-St... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Tl;dr: It is just pointer dereferencing.
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It seems AI is profiting from a bilateral arms race here, just like the competing US and USSR space programs did back in the day.
I am betting on the East this time, though.
Western AI companies are ultimately about monetization, while the Chinese regime is certainly thinking about military and government use first and foremost, not about profit. And while Western AI will be held back by civil rights and moral concerns, Chinese AI won't.
So while Western AI will probably just deliver the most laser focused ads, the Chinese will unironically try to build SkyNet.
Fully automated surveillance, control, and extermination of all its enemies. You cannot tell me the CCP is not dreaming about that when they hear "AI"..
An atheist Jew is just as entitled to live in Israel as an ultra-orthodox one.
One should point out that Palestinian terrorism was originally largely secular too, with the secular Marxist group PFLP ranking up the highest body count.
The point being, this conflict does not need religion. Even if everyone involved became secular tomorrow, Palestinian nationalists and Zionists would still kill each other without needing any god to justify it.