What is the distinction between consumerism for a child’s happiness vs an adult’s?

If the goal here is to prioritise corpo negative profits over someone’s happiness, then the person’s age should be irrelevant here.

An once a year indulgence into consumerism isn’t as harmful as you seem to think it is.

Why not stop paying for the internet/electricity/any other commodities because you are now an adult?

i don’t think anyone on lemmy is simply bloodlusting. The CEO getting murdered just shows how sick people are of the current system lol

People don’t necessarily actually want more murders to happen, they just want the system to be fixed. Unfortunately, it was so bad it got to this.

Now, murder is bad and it’s usually bad to go vigilante justice, however in this scenario it’s preferable over the much bigger quantity of deaths and suffering the CEO had on his hands.

There’s earthquakes in regions of Europe aswell, and climate varies by regions in Europe aswell.

So what would be the excuse for not using paper walls?

Wrong! Not American! Also not a fucking moron!

If I was an American I would have voted Kamala simply because TRUMP is Much. Much. Much. MUCH FUCKING WORSE FOR LITERALLY EVERYONE. NOT JUST GAZA.

I don’t know, at the end of the day, when you vote for a president first and foremost should be your own interests before any foreign politics. Making sure your rights are intact so you can discuss foreign issues afterwards.

It’s like airplane oxygen masks: Put on your own mask before helping others. The non-voters/independents have frsntically tried to help others first, failed miserably and fainted in the process, slowing everyone around down.

But I am sure the children in Gaza will be grateful you let Trump win because he is such a sweetheart with children :P

And I guess you not voting dems totally did anything fucking productive for the cause.

You are an idiot. You are a self-centered moron for laser-focusing on a single issue and nothing else. Your moral choice has failed not only you, but everyone else aswell.

And now everyone has to pay for America’s dumbfuckery. Not just Gaza.

I wonder if you would have had the same response if I was palestinian and threatened by Israel, instead of Eastern European and threatened by Russia and possible nuclear war.

Nice fucking moral compass dipshit.

Read the fucking room and realise the safety of more people is at risk now, not just Gaza.

Trust me if I was American I would have voted Harris, but fate made it so I am not.

Don’t yell at me for yelling at the same dipshits that didn’t vote Harris, and don’t criticise me for bringing up other issues when it’s relevant to make it clear one choice is worse than the other.

You are a fucking moron if you think for one second I am american.

I am from Europe. I made it very clear when I said in one of my comments I am excited for russia to border me. I didn’t do shit

I guess sending weapons permits a level of discussion with an otherwise insane lunatic. Trump won’t give a shit about the discussion.

Now I ask you, how many ongoing genocides are enough? Because the people that didn’t vote are probably on the side of “Hey, Palestine isn’t enough! Ukraine should get some aswell! And former USSR countries in the future!”

Thank you for voting Harris, you just need to understand the 15 million are idiots for not expressing one of the most essential opinions whatsoever

I don’t think you understand. This election wasn’t about expressing your moral superiority by not voting for Genocider A or Double Genocider B

This election was about preventing Double Genocider B from winning. You could only do that by voting Genocide A and sucking up the morally fucked choice. You failed, miserably. Had you voted for A, in 4 years you would have had the chance to happily vote for any third fourth or fifth party your heart desired. Good luck with that now when Trump brcomes God King.

Good fucking job on wasting your vote away and letting both Ukraine and Palestine get fucked. And the climate.

You are a fucking imbecile

I am not apologizing genocide, I am simply criticising people that voted for Genocide + More by not going to vote at all.

The morally right choice was to reduce harm as much as possible, and that was only viable if voting with Kamala. By otherwise not voting or going independent (In a place like U.S. where an independent vote is basically a waste), you’re just letting the fascism push more.

But again, these people can at least sleep easier at night knowing they didn’t vote for anyone doing genocide. They simply facilitated genocide + everything bad to seep through and win.

Trying to only blame the dems for the civic duty failure of 15 million people is insane in my opinion. In other countries you just vote with the candidate you like the most, even if they won’t see eye to eye with you on some issues, it’s not some “oh I will only vote if these candidates win me over!”. You either vote because you agree with someone ideologically, or you vote because there’s Hitler on the ballot and Jesus Christ you do not want Hitler to win, even if the candidate you voted for will only give Israel more weapons. Otherwise you let Hitler win and now there are two genocides occuring instead of just one.

I will get mad at the 15 million stay-at-home non-voters due to a single-issue before i consider getting mad at the Dems for not caressing these people on their single-issue.

I will get mad at the 15 million who never learned of the phrase “Lesser of two evils”, who thought that by not voting they are making some sort of brave statement on morals.

Suck it up, there were 2 choices: Genocide, with high chance of progress away from Genocide Genocide with bonus destruction, and no chance of steering away from any of it

It’s literally the trolley problem, and people that didn’t vote just didn’t pull the lever and have let mass destruction happen.

Since when are democrats the ones pushing abortion bans? Since when are they the ones wanting to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord? Since when are blue states the ones banning books that contain any mention of queer people?

From my knowledge blue states have been doing anything but those things. It’s red states that are doing all sorts of shady shit, and it’s Trump literally saying he will: -Withdraw the U.S. from the Climate Accord -Appoint RFK as head of medicine -Get rid of education department -Withdraw spending in Ukraine and talk to his lover Putin -Increase tariffs on EU which in turn will just hurt U.S. economy

you can blabber all day about how democrats are doing X Y Z wrong, but Trump is doing all of that PLUS more and way worse. No one likes this man, not even his own party members.

But I guess the best way to deal with a truck about to hit you is to close your eyes and hope for the best

Your bloody avoidance for voting anyone has led not only to Gaza getting flattened, but also women’s rights, lgbt rights, any form of medical care, Ukraine, and the climate.

The blood is on your fucking hands now. At least Kamala would have seen reason and you could probably have talked to her/her party about Israel.

Good luck with fucking ignorant Trump, who won’t even listen when a woman says no to him.

But thank God you didn’t vote for anyone doing genocide! I will feel so relieved you did that when Russia has a border with my fucking country

The difference is that Biden has not once come out to say “i will help neyyanahu flatten Gaza” and from what I’ve read has been criticising him (to the best of his old man abilities).

It sucks that U.S. kept sending weapons to Israel for one reason or another, but the key difference here is that with a democratic president you had a higher chance of getting thru.

Good luck getting Trump to listen to anything at all. And I guess good job for letting Trump take the president seat, not only will he help flatten Gaza (which Biden seemingly was doing anyway), but will also flatten women’s rights in the U.S., will flatten healthcare and education, will flatten any climate change progress, and will let Russia flatten Ukraine. An astounding failure for the entire world, just because your only issue was “b-but think of Gaza!”

I hope you’re happy with your moral high ground because you decided to not vote for Genocide Kamala and instead let Destroy Everyone Trump win.

because Donald “I will let Netyanahu finish the job” Trump is somehow better for this. Get your head out of your ass lol

If they were so inept as it’s said, Ukraine wouldn’t perceive them as this big of a ‘Help us ASAP stop them from reaching’ threat.

And since when is recognising the military power of an army simping for fascism?

AI Training, compared to crypto, has at least been used in medicine to:

Create novel proteins based on specific requirements (useful for developing medicine): https://www.cell.com/chem/fulltext/S2451-9294(23)00139-0?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2451929423001390%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Detect possible cancer: https://hms.harvard.edu/news/new-artificial-intelligence-tool-cancer#:~:text=CHIEF achieved nearly 94 percent,datasets containing 11 cancer types.

And there’s many more uses you can easily find if you look into it. Don’t just assume every LLM slop is all what AI is. Even LLMs probably have their use in stuff actually relating to language, such as translation.

You can probably extrapolate from “if it exists, there is porn of it (no exceptions)”.

If there is porn of something, the most likely reason is that someone has a fetish for it.

If the person making the porn doesn’t have a fetish for said thing, then they’re making it for an existing market of people.

QED, you can say “if it exists, someone has a fetish for it”

P.S: What if there isn’t porn of something? Rule 35 states that if it doesn’t exist, it will be made.

scrolling in the comment section of this news article, i’ve only seen people either being concerner/shocked, and some sarcastically talking about recycling or something. Nothing about masturbation.

And if your criticism of lemmy is that it’s being reddit with elitism, then why try to gatekeep the way people are going to react to an article on c/science? Are we all supposed to have degrees in chemistry or biology before making a comment?

Believe it or not people take heavy news a million different ways and react differently. People ending up making a masturbation joke after discussing microplastics in testicles (i assume this is what happened) harm nothing and no one.