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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

New level of terror? Is it? Or do you only care when the level of terror becomes slightly more symmetrical?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

So any of those 1.5+ milliard people? Literally 20% of the world's population.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

China ended absolute poverty within their borders. That's 800 million people in a 40 year period.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See the problem with this logic is that you're weighing the west's real actions at best, or probably their white washed actions against fairytale versions of their adversaries who only exist in the west's propaganda. It's not hard to be better than someone written to be a caricature of evil.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you draw this?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Saudi-led Opec Plus cartel decided to cut production by 2m barrels a day – the opposite of what Biden administration officials had pleaded with the Saudis to do. After the shock of that embarrassing announcement, which threatened to raise gas prices around the US midterm elections, Biden vowed: “There’s going to be some consequences for what they’ve done.”

I thought you liked the free market?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The west's own savage actions so massively dwarf anything Saudi has done in this period that it's a pretty silly guilt by association point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you download Vicuna or Stable Diffusion XL, they're a handful of gigabytes. But when you go download LAION-5B, it's 240TB. So where did that data go if it's being copy/pasted and regurgitated in its entirety?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Bluetooth is 1.4Mb/s. At 74 minutes, the recommended length of a CD per the standard, you will have transferred 777MB, or more than fits on a CD. Even ignoring all the massive advancements in audio compression, and massive advancements in computational power afforded to decompression hardware (thus allowing better compression to be used), you will have more bandwidth, or "quality" in a Bluetooth stream than a CD-player compatible CD.

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