[-] FortuneMisteller@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

BTW It is interesting to note how the linked article accurately avoids to talk about the real issues and what is really triggering the protest.

The classic corporate driven edulcoration.

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The elections are approaching and the polls show that the conservative are trailing. Is it a surprise? The leader makes image of the party, how much can a rich guy of Indian origin connect with the British public? Not at all. There could still be the appeal to the other British indian, after all the statistics say that British of Asian descent make a big minority, but a big chunk of them originates from Pakistan and on them Sunak is likely to have the opposite effect. There is also the big share of British Indians who are concentrated in Urban areas where the rest of the population overwhemingly votes for labour, they won't bring any support. For what matters all the other voters Sunak is definitely not a popular character as was Boris Johnson when the Tories won the election.

What I say is quite obvious to the experts and the Tories have a team of very good analysts. Why are they sticking with Sunak? Because they want to lose, they could not carry out the work that must be done now. The privatisations of the Thatcher era have exhausted their purpose. Big finance extracted all the value they could squeeze from the privatised services and they now they hold big piles of debts. it's time to nationalise the losses.

It's not just Thames Water. The railways have been asking for money for quite some time. Wales and Scotland already nationalised the local networks. The rest of the work already started, now it's time to complete it.

[-] FortuneMisteller@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

It seems you don't get it. The purpose of the nationalisation is not to restore the services, but to take over the debts. After few decades they will be privatised again. This is just another cycle.

[-] FortuneMisteller@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

overpopulation is not measured by how many people you can pack into a telephone booth. Overpopulation in measured by how many people the Earth resources can support.

We began to consume more resources than what the Earth can provide decades ago, when the population was less than six billion people. Not just fossil fuels, we are consuming fresh water, arable land and forests in a non sustainable manner. The wild fish population in the sea reached an all time low and we are still overfishing. Fish farming accounts just for a small fraction of our consumption.

The alarms by the World watch and other institutes began in the '70s. Nonetheless the world population kept increasing and it is still increasing.

[-] FortuneMisteller@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

They are telling provocative things on purpose. It is needed to create the fake debate that traps the public between two falsehood.

The heated tones and the strong arguments are meant to enrage people, drag them into the battle and push them to take one side and accept the arguments of that side without a proper deep thinking.

[-] FortuneMisteller@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is what big business want. Did you have a look at what the media think about electric cars? They always show either Tesla or big electric SUV and they tell you that they are green. Big business want to sell big cars even if they require a lot more energy and materials to be manufactured, even if they consume a lot more energy when they are on the road, even if they take a lot more space on the road and in the parking lots.

[-] FortuneMisteller@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

famines, conflicts and mass migration

This will happen for sure and the cause is not just climate change. The cause is overpopulation and exhaustion of the Earth resources.

[-] FortuneMisteller@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Make a search on Bing, then make a search on DuckDcukGo. Compare the results. You'll find out that DuckDcukGo is just a front end for another site that provides links to business affiliates.

[-] FortuneMisteller@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Is it a move to save money or a move to weaken the position of all those employees who objected to the questionable contracts with many intelligence agencies?

I can bet that they will ensure that the new employees will be selected among those who have no qualms.

[-] FortuneMisteller@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You assume that it will be either the self driving software in charge or the button pusher taking the wheel. You did not consider that the button pusher might have a foot on the brake, but instead of taking the wheel he might have to enter some commands.

Like the case where there is a road block ahead and the button pusher has to evaluate whether it is safe to move forward or not, but he wouldn't take the wheel he would tell to the driving software where to go. In similar cases he would have to decide whether it is safe to pass aside an obstacle or stop there. Even in case of a burglar trying to get on board he would have to call the police and then give some commands to the driving software.

The idea at the base of the question is that in the future the AI or whatever you want to call it might be always in charge for the specialized functions, like calculating the right trajectory and turning the wheel, while the human will be in charge to check the surrounding environment and evaluate the situation. So the Ai is never supposed to be deactivated, in that case the truck would stop until the maintenance team arrives.

[-] FortuneMisteller@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Does your office have a choice or have they been caught in the permanent obsolescence game? Often one single professional app that provides new versions only for W11 does the trick.

[-] FortuneMisteller@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I suspect that the problem is not just about recommended recipes. Failure to warn about all the hidden sugar does also have an impact.

How many people eating a hamburger realize that the bun, the ketchup and other ingredients contain sugar?

How many people believe that the label "raw food" is used for healthy food? How many do realize that the usual raw food bar made with dried fruit contains a fucking lot of sugar?

[-] FortuneMisteller@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

It seems that permanent obsolescence is beginning to cost too much for the users. I hope they will all keep dragging their feet, but will be a tough fight because friendly providers of professional tools will keep releasing the new versions only for Windows 11, eventually they will force some to upgrade.

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According to the news self driving trucks are about to hit the road with no driver on board.

But according to this book that is not going to happen. The author says that the real purpose is to get rid of the skilled drivers and replace them with underpaid button pushers.

Will they really do that? What's going to be the situation few years from now?

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