I haven’t read the books (yet), so I don’t know how closely it resembles the condition in reality, but crucially, it’s a real thing, it’s not a magical fantasy possesion

But I mean like… so what?

There was a need/desire for a word describing this concept, it was created, and is now used. It’s a new word

…you do realize that all words are made up, right?

Who cares at this point, they’re doing evil, treat it as such

Well, then they have to face the consequences of not paying attention to the things happening in the place they intend to go to

Like, yeah, ideally you wouldn’t need to worry about this, but this is always a risk when traveling, and politics has that trait of being interested in you whether or not you are interested in it back

Yeah lmao, that’s the worst possible argument he could give I think

“Have you forgotten your economics class?” And then compared public research to a private newspaper

Like, lmao

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-fred-rogers-evil/

And then… What is that money going to get used for, exactly?

That’s the fucked up part in all of this. A government is much closer to something like a non-profit than it is to a business. Because, like, when you’re a government and have a monetary surplus, what do you do with it? Of course you just wanna spend it!

I know the actual answer is “to give to the billionaires because apparently having enough money for 2000 uber-wealthy lifetimes is not enough” but you know

Remember that a loooot of that goes to stuff like funding research, as that’s the domain of universities beyond just education. I don’t think it’s unreasonable at all

I will say, even despite me being the one constantly yelling about the incoming american fascism, I also though it’d take at least a little longer

But here we are, with most institutions and companies just rolling over. Sure, I figured it would happen, but I at least thought it’d take more than a year. Not… 3 months

It’s… I lack words, even. This is straight up nazi Germany, except we have the hindsight of history, and yet it’s still all for naught. Incredibly incredibly scary

Only older people from what I’ve seen. At least, whenever I hear a ping out in public, it’s always someone older

So, to answer your question, no, not really

The more you take an interest in and try to learn at least a little about basically any other single topic, you’ll quickly realize that nearly everything has a near infinite complexity and depth

The rabbit holes are endless, there’s so much knowledge to have everywhere. The people who don’t appreciate this fact and say stuff like in the screenshot are a bit foolish, I think

I don’t know what they were teaching you at the course, but home/personal IoT was never the most interesting thing in the field. IoT sees a lot more interest and use in industrial application, for example stuff like logistics, farming, automation, measuring, stuff like traffic signals and smart grids, and so on

What they are, are statistical models. You can verify the output, you know

AI has been used for tons of useful stuff for ages, you just never heard about it unless you were in the space until LLMs came around

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Well, in that case I do agree with you. If they gain independence, the subsidies should stop. I mean, that’s only natural

And yes, I don’t think it would be a wise choice for greenland to do, but ultimately they should still have that choice, otherwise it’s just a glorified colony

Well, yeah, obviously they wouldn’t get the subsidies anymore, I thought that was implied in gaining independence

Either way, they should still have the right to decide themselves

Actually, greenlanders have polled and voted to become independent as a supermajority, they just haven’t started the process of independence yet.

I expect that the process towards independence for greenland is going to be delayed in light of recent events though. I can’t imagine they’d want to go through with it right now

Either way, Denmark has come out and said in the past that they will respect the wishes of greenland

Edit: here’s a recent poll I believe https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/virtually-no-greenlander-wants-to-join-the-us-poll-finds/

Who is controlling the American government right now?