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If by “do your own research” you mean “read the studies” then by all means, go ahead. If, and I guess that’ll be the case for 99% of people without related degrees, you can’t understand them you should accept that you’re in no way equipped to do your own research.

So we’re in agreement then. Russia needs to withdraw from Ukraine immediately so that peace talks can take place.

We’re the ones cheering on the war?! Are you shitting me? We aren’t the ones bending over backwards to justify this invasion. We aren’t the ones justifying Russia indiscriminately bombing Ukraine’s cities. We aren’t the ones justifying letting loose an army of convicts and rapists on Ukraine’s population. Fuck you. Seriously, fuck you.

I’m not really surprised. They got more and more open about their assassination attempts for years. They’re not meant to covertly get rid of enemies, they’re very public warnings to other dissidents. It’s rule by fear.

Putin absolutely couldn’t let Prigozhin walk, nobody could have. It’s not just about the semi-autonomous mercenary army, if a government lets someone get away with an attempted coup d’état they’d effectively encourage others to give it their best shot as well because there was no effective punishment. Assassination is, well, a very Russian approach to the issue, but every government on this planet would have taken some form of action.

The difference is that the images AIs spit out are, well, real. Imagining someone naked doesn’t produce a potentially very convincing actual image that can be shared.

I do think that AI can’t really be effectively regulated (my fucking laptop can run Stable Diffusion), but that doesn’t mean that there’s no need for a debate.

I don’t need to. iPhones are pretty but every time I’ve been forced to use one I wanted to pull my hair out, I know they’re vaunted for being easy to use but I find them incredibly unintuitive, and I need help to do basically anything. MacOS is mostly Fine™ (with that being said - no window snapping? really?!), but they have no laptops with a number pad on the keyboard, and even if they did, they don’t have matte display options so I couldn’t comfortably use the damn thing anyway. It’s a laptop, I’m not going to use it exclusively in darkened rooms with the lights turned off.

Edit: Also, MacBooks are entirely unupgradable. So that’s a hard no from me based on that alone. The “need more storage/RAM? Buy a new laptop!” approach is just entirely unacceptable as far as I’m concerned.

Sorry, aber das war schon immer Naiv. Es gibt Kriege, die geführt werden müssen. Wenn ein Völkermord stattfindet ist militärisches Eingreifen die einzig “richtige” Vorgehensweise, Sanktionen wirken bestenfalls zeitverzögert und sind damit in Situationen die sofortige Wirkung benötigen einfach nicht effektiv.

Und deine Alternative zu einem Krieg wäre damals gewesen? Serbien beim Völkermord zugucken?

Not yet. It’s the inevitable outcome of tolerating Nazis on your platform but it takes time, especially with a userbase as large as Twitter’s.