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

I imagine far, far, far more than just building a lot more solar panels on earth.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I'm center-right, I believe landlords should be liquidated humanely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Education and healthcare aren't going to turn from 100% human to 100% AI overnight, but AI can and likely will replace some of the human labour in both professions. Like if a single doctor with an AI diagnosis tool can do the same work as three human doctors without, that's two doctors out of a job. Under capitalism that's going to suck but I don't know what we can do to stop it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Not that I think or hope AI will replace teachers, but chatbots are already great learning tools.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah I think this is the answer. 'White' and 'man' grants a default socioeconomic status, while 'mediocre' means they're less likely to cheat or otherwise cause trouble.

You're just gonna have an easier, simpler time with a sitcom dad than with a hyper-ambitious hotty.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

Interesting, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

How so? Do American trans people buy meds/hormones from China or something?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I want to be mad at you for joke theft but then I remembered that I'm a communist deng-salute

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To be fair, being fictional means they're significantly less dimensional than real people and are incapable of holding secrets.

I mean there are real people I feel absolutely safe around, but they're just normal people I know and have built trust with. There are no famous people I can say the same for because I don't know them personally, even if they seem good on the surface. And for fictional characters like these, we "know" Aragorn is safe because he's written to be benevolent, we've read his entire life, and the author's dead so there's no possibility for new material to change that perception.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Tibet was recognised by every country on the planet as sovereign Chinese territory, both then and today.

(That was also like 70 years ago, China's last war was against Vietnam in the late 1970s)

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (10 children)

As soon as you are on top, your behaviour might change.

It might, it might not. America's behavior didn't change; from the start they've been aggressive and expansionist, the scope just grew as they became more powerful.

China's been growing rapidly for decades while very seldomly acting militarily outside their borders. They don't seem to have expansionist goals outside those declared over 70 years ago (ie Taiwan) and have even negotiated down on border conflicts. It's not impossible but it'd be strange for China to make a complete about-turn on their stated policy of non-intervention.

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