TheGrandNagus

Curious that you've referred to some "that" which implies a specific thing but all I said was the UK legal system in action which is very general. I wonder what the specific thing is in your mind.

I don't even know what you're trying to say here.

I'd echo that back. If you think the UK legal system is any way just and not a tool of oppression and control (a la fascism) then you must be extremely sheltered.

Again repeating you think our courts and legal system is fascist.

Gonna even attempt to prove these claims?

Because having laws and courts is not fascism. Nor are our courts or legal system fascist.

I don't like us selling directly to Israel at all, given how careless Israel is when it comes to collateral damage and harming civilians. To the point where it's pretty clear there's genocidal intent, even.

Although this line seems a bit weird:

Arms campaigners say the three-month total is more than what was approved altogether under the Tory government between 2020 and 2023, and said the increase was “truly shocking”.

No shit they buy more military equipment while they're at war. The war started on the 7th of October 2023.

Does there being an increase in wartime compared to relative peacetime really surprise anybody?

Why compare the three month period of October - December 2024 only against pre-war times, as opposed to any time from October 2023 all the way up to October 2024? Or, if they really wanted to compare against the Tories as fairly as possible, any time from October 2023 to July 2024?

Fallacy fallacy.

You are out of your mind and extremely sheltered if you think our courts are anything even close to fascist.

Close to fascism, are you crazy?

Starmer fascist? Lmao

Having a legal system = fascist now

Incredible.

Good. Our prisons have been full for a while, and Conservatives built fuck all. They even scrapped plans for a new prison.

I live less than 1km from HMP Northumberland and I can happily say that it's seemingly getting some upgrades too, as is our closest hospital.

Quite refreshing to see things being built again, and having a bit more long-term planning.

I know people here appear to have the opinion that having a legal system and prisons = fascism, but that's an absurd and extremist opinion.

If someone rapes/kills/grievously assaults someone, or whatever, there has to be prison spaces available for them. Overcrowding in prisons has led to worse outcomes - re-offending, radicalisation, lack of prisoner and guard safety, etc. We need to build.

Building prisons is not fascist. The world needs prisons, and we've not been building any despite the population increasing and existing prisons being full.

That absolutely won't happen.

Everybody on Lemmy and Reddit were saying the same when they banned account sharing and price increases. In reality their subscriber numbers went through the roof and so did their profits.

Unfortunately, it's quite difficult for AMD and Intel to make any big difference in the short term.

On the Intel GPU side, bluntly, they are far behind in tech, so they have to mitigate that with more aggressive pricing.

Don't believe me? Look at the process node they use and the die size of their chips, now look at the performance and power efficiency they get compared to similar node/die size Radeon or Geforce cards. That means Intel has to spend a lot more on manufacturing but can't charge anywhere near as much. In other words, they have to use more raw materials to make the same performance.

Intel doesn't make money from their GPUs yet. They literally don't want to sell too many cards because they generally lose money on each one sold. That's why their launch was a paper launch. They're spending right now to build expertise and expertise before doing a bigger push later.

On the AMD side, there's some good news in that their latest generation is pretty great and has massively outsold their previous generations.

The bad news is that even if AMD has doubled sales or whatever, they were already such a small part of the overall pie that Nvidia (85%+ of the market) shitting the bed isn't something AMD can suddenly fix.

It'd be like if all carmakers except Mazda shat the bed, Mazda can't suddenly expand and fix the market. They could increase it a bit, probably, but filling the orders that the VW or Toyota group usually do? Impossible.

Also, whenever there's excess demand for CPUs, AMD would prefer to service that market. It's far higher margin.

Nope. I'd still say social media/social media algorithms.

Imagine if social media didn't exist (beyond small, tight-knit communities like forums about [topic], or BBS communities), but all these AI tools still did.

Susan creates an AI generated image of illegal immigrants punching toddlers, then puts it on her "news" blog full of other AI content generated to push an agenda.

Who would see it? How would it spread? Maybe a few people she knows. It'd be pretty localised, and she'd be quickly known locally as a crank. She'd likely run out of steam and give up with the whole endeavour.

Add social media to the mix, and all of a sudden she has tens of thousands of eyes on her, which brings more and more. People argue against it, and that entrenches the other side even more. News media sees the amount of attention it gets and they feel they have to report, and the whole thing keeps growing. Wealthy people who can benefit from the bullshit start funding it and it continues to grow still.

You don't need AI to do this, it just makes it even easier. You do need social media to do this. The whole model simply wouldn't work without it.

This has been going on for a lot longer than we've had LLMs everywhere.

Yes. One of the only benefits of FPTP is that for most of its history it has stopped tiny, insane, extreme, populist parties getting a foothold, and instead encouraged relative stability. For all the issues we have, the UK has been a phenomenally stable democracy over the years.

That is no longer a protection against Reform, as they've broken past the "not being popular enough to gain any traction under FPTP barrier".