Great take. We must ask ourselves: what happens the day after the revolution?

This is so beyond flakes. This is the fascist purge of the “disloyal” before a full on dictatorship…

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2414274121

The PNAS article. Cool research!

I mean, I’m pretty sure Yugoslavia was never a part of the North Atlantic area. Unless we’re counting the Mediterranean Sea. But I don’t think that helps the argument here…

The countries you mentioned were all built on a genocide of their indigenous inhabitants to establish an ethnostate. They each, however, have since at least acknowledged that ethnostates are bad and have structured their charters/constitutions on the principle of strict equality for its citizens.

Israel, on the other hand, is currently in the process of establishing a Jewish ethnostate with an outspoken intention of creating at best an apartheid state, if not a completely ethnically cleansed state.

I see a clear difference in ongoing behaviour, and I don’t think the ideas are as conjoined as you present them.

This is a false equivalence.

Can you articulate what you mean by a state having “a right to exist”?

This is just an add…

Each dialect/accent is completely unintelligible to its neighbours.

Absolutely do not do this to a peeled banana like in the photo. It’s easy for it to break off and get stuck in your throat. Just use a dildo ffs.

Also: AI-slop.

1. The nearest two hitches are pixel-perfect square to the camera.
2. The tailpipe on the first truck on the right melts into a smudge.
3. There is almost no detail in the concrete even though all the trucks are in sharp focus.
4. All shadows have an ethereal quality and the light seems to have an inconsistent directionality.
5. The ball on the white truck melts into the white line behind it.
6. The green truck behind the white truck has a fender that seems to melt into a wheel.
7. The box on the orange truck on the left seems to be about 3’ deep.

Lol. I encourage you to zoom in and look at the details.

What in the GPT is going on with the hitches in the distance?

The protection is understood to basically be by them from them, in the event you don’t pay. If you pay, things are good. If you don’t, they’ll make sure things are not good.

Is it?

If only there were a huge trove of nutrient dense biscuits nearby. Too bad that one that did exist was incinerated by the Tump regime just days ago. A tragic coincidence I’m sure. /s

I suppose we’re about to find out if these things (LLMs) are any good at extrapolation. I expect not really as they’re effectively just interpolation machines.

By all means: be an advocate for safer driving. Just know that this kind of advocacy been the dominant strategy for decades and the research says it doesn’t work, or at least not as well as roads engineered to be safe. Have a look at the work by Strong Towns for more information, if you’re interested.

I know there’s nothing I can say in this moment that will change your mind, as were just typing to eachother on the internet. I’m just an advocate for this because I believe it has the potential to fix huge portions of Canada and Noth America generally, without a strictly left/right partisan stance.

Instead of hoping people will feel a particular way, would it not be easier to get people to drive safer using measues that directly cause them to drive more safely, irrespective of their feelings in the moment?

That’s exactly the point… If they drive safer because they don’t want to scratch the paint on their car or because the feel some kind of communion with others, what difference does it make? We often chalk up problems to “personal responsibility” when we should be focusing waaaay more on systems and the built environment.

People use things the way they’re implicitly built to be used.

Either I missed it or they added it.