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State Department official resigns after Biden administration says Israel not blocking Gaza aid (www.middleeasteye.net)

A career State Department official resigned from her post on Tuesday, saying she could no longer work for the Biden administration after it released a report concluding that Israel was not preventing the flow of aid to Gaza....

intensely_human,

Yes. This stupidity definitely has grass roots.

German carmaker Volkswagen says forced labour in one of its sub-supplier's plants in China was not identified as 'no full supply chain transparency exists' (www.hrw.org)

- Volkswagen (VW) in 2023 commissioned a deeply flawed audit at a plant in China’s Xinjiang province operated by a subsidiary of Volkswagen’s joint venture with SAIC, a Chinese state-owned carmaker....

intensely_human,

Not sure what you’re referring to exactly. VW is saying they can’t comply with the new law because China is not transparent enough. Sounds like that’s the truth.

Would you expect them to simply stop doing business in China as a result of this lack of transparency?

intensely_human,

Yeah I think I agree. The law should be: if you can’t positively confirm it’s clean, you can’t use it.

We should have standards for the treatment of people, and strive not to participate in or reward those who treat people in unacceptable ways.

If we have to take on some difficulty for that, so be it. Maybe if our difficulty gets to the point where I’m hungry, I’ll choose differently. But until then I’m willing to take a break from this or that car brand until they can figure out ethical sourcing.

I do think, to whatever extent possible, the change should be implemented smoothly. Maybe a rapidly-growing tariff on such goods for a few years, followed by a ban on their import, instead of an immediate ban on the import.

It’s not good for a country to create an unfair marketplace. And it is an unfair marketplace when rules which acutely affect only certain people drastically for the good of all, are implemented too quickly to adapt to without major setbacks.

Just saying it should be phased in, to minimize local economic tearing.

intensely_human,

These aren’t “consequences”. These are new rules we’re imposing on good people.

The fact you view this as a war between you and the companies being regulated means I hope you are never a regulator. You see it as an operation to take them down. That’s fucked up.

intensely_human,

It’s his piercing eyes

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No, art is not for thinking. Books are for thinking. Art is for experiencing.

intensely_human,

No, it’s not. The prerequisite to creating valuable art is ability, not some stance toward intellectualizing visceral media.

intensely_human,

One of my favorite lines ever

intensely_human,

Sure yeah, thinking afterward is great. Just like you can think about sex, music, food, etc.

Just don’t stand there thinking “What am I supposed to be thinking about with this one?”

If an artist’s message is so small it can be put into words, they should just tack a notecard to the wall.

intensely_human,

Holograms are still just 2D images on smoke right? Do we have holograms?

intensely_human,

Part of the disorientation of the first cold open

intensely_human,

Then play Star Wars: Squadrons for at least 10 hours (you may split this up with sleep if you like, or a little ham), then watch Rogue One

intensely_human,

Wow they really did it.

They put the um in the coconut and shake it all up

I have a level that is a tribute to The Stanley Parable in my game, here is my progress. Any feedback? (lemmy.world)

My game is called Do Not Press The Button (To Delete The Multiverse) and in it I have a multiverse called A Universe Where This Game Was Made By People With Actual talent and it’s a “What If” the Crow Crows Crows guy made my game. I think it’s turning out good. What do you think? Here is my Steam Page

intensely_human,

Put some floating shelves above the cabinets to break up that vertical space. You can put some knick knacks up there.

intensely_human,

The right thing to do is to get a job at Monsanto, acquire a copy of the gene sequence, then smuggle it to some off the grid lab to do one’s own cross breeding.

Like Praxidike Meng did with that protomolecule yeast.

intensely_human,

It’s only a danger to the other farmers legally. They could be sued for using patented genes.

China is eager to show the world that it can lead in generative AI technology. But one of its first challenges is chillingly unique - how to make its chat bots speak like the Communist Party. (chinamediaproject.org)

China is determined not just that it won’t be left behind, but that it will lead the generative AI trends of the future. But this comes with substantial political risk for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership....

intensely_human,

That is not a unique challenge. Aside from X, everyone pushing generative AI is focusing enormous effort on ideological purity of output.

intensely_human,

Ugh! We don’t want larger games! We want more games!

intensely_human,

It’s the future of gaming!

intensely_human,

Punishing attackers makes future attack less likely. I’m an American and I’m all for allowing Ukraine to actually HURT Russia, but I don’t actually think that would make the world more dangerous.

I think striking attackers where they are vulnerable makes peace more likely, not less.

Also when you give someone a gift it’s not yours any more. It’s now their thing. Ukraine has the right to defend itself, and retaliation is the only workable defense against something like military action since straight up blocking attacks with a huge wall or the like isn’t feasible.

intensely_human,

As long as you only use the gun as armor, to stop incoming bullets, it’s all good.

No firing the gun though.

intensely_human,

Liberals generally don’t try to start wars. They start them by trying as hard as they can to avoid them, deriving their choices from a woefully incorrect model of how war happens.

intensely_human,

Yeah but he’s not launching nuclear weapons. It can be a lot worse.

intensely_human,

Utility is when an action or tool moves you closer to what you value.

They aren’t opposites; they’re two components of the same mechanism.

intensely_human,

Putin has demonstrated a willingness to lie about when and where he will order the Russian army to attack.

As far as I’m concerned, that means he doesn’t get a voice at the table any more.

So I agree: fuck his red lines.

intensely_human,

gitkraken has a lot of features that I never use. But showing the various branches and their connections as a color-coded tree is worth paying money for.

intensely_human,

Whew! For a second there I thought I had to drink two liters a piss every day!

intensely_human,

I drink it for the articles

intensely_human,

Do we really want to use the word “groundbreaking” to describe advances in synthetic minerals?

intensely_human,

Isn’t it null though?

intensely_human,

This. She must have been giving them treats whenever they killed her.

intensely_human,

Why can’t you understand that being capable of snuggling does not make a pitbull incapable of killing.

intensely_human,

Has those Goldens’ havoc ever involved spilled blood?

intensely_human,

“They’ve never killed me before!”

intensely_human,

And people who consciously decide to keep them in their own household, with their own children, are willfully ignorant or downright evil.

intensely_human,

What would you do if your pitbull hurt a child?

intensely_human,

When I asked them about the fan’s history, all they would tell me it is got shipped up here from Texas

intensely_human,

She was probably made of meat

intensely_human,

Also guns are inanimate objects

intensely_human,

Actually all a gun can do is sit there. There is zero chance of your gun killing you. You might accidentally kill yourself with it, but the gun is never going to kill you.

intensely_human,

Just so we’re clear here, it’s the game marketplace called Steam. Not just, you know, steam.

intensely_human,

Given I’ve been described as a right with conspiracy theorist for saying that capitalist countries experience less starvation than socialist ones, I’m going to have to take this assessment with a grain of salt.

Maybe it’s more like right wingers in general are coming back in droves after finding an online community that won’t ban them for their political affiliation.

intensely_human,

Right, because a healthy business consists of a sort of zombie corpse leech, not a symbiosis.

The little diner down the street where everyone has a good time every day? That’s not a healthy business.

It is very important that we twist the definition of every word to ensure people understand how bad capitalism is. Language and the ability to think is secondary to the great Revolution Take 25!

intensely_human,

If I ever run a successful company, I am never taking it public, and I hope that I will never accept a sum of money that more than doubles our assets.

I’ve worked in the startup world and seen too many companies fail in all but name when they receive investment money. It really sucks the soul out of a company.

intensely_human,

Yup, that’s what qyron is presupposing with his argument. Read it again if you misunderstood.

intensely_human,

I fucking hate when people write safety-critical code with the same level of sloppiness they write social media popup horseshit.

intensely_human,

Everyone involved is to blame. Writing code that fails causing death is on whoever wrote that code.

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