A person can’t regrow legs, but countries are famously not people.

Someone else would have been better, but Carney is the best Canada can manage with its dogshit voting system. At least he’s a servant of the state and not corrupt dictator wannabe like Trump. (Increasingly not wannabe)

I’m starting to think the only way to tackle climate change is for the people to start destroying fossil fuel infrastructure, starting with the highest volume targets that take the longest time to replace.

It’s the UAE—not Saudi Arabia.

The only question I have is why the US was contributing such a disproportionate amount in the first place. It was an accident waiting to happen. It’s not like the US has always been terribly concerned with democracy. If they were, they’d have a real voting system like Germany. I really don’t understand why Trump didn’t happen sooner.

Well, turns out something interesting did happen at COP30.

The real genocide isn’t Israel killing all of the Gazans, though that would work. Not that many people have actually died in Gaza, as a percentage of the total population. For that to work as a means of genocide, the number of dead Gazans would be in the millions. It is not.

The real genocide is Israel destroying their homes, then relocating the people, thus emptying the Gaza strip. That is the real plan. That is what is underway right now. The first step is already complete.

Incidentally, this is how Stalin stole Crimea from the Tatars. No, Crimea was not always ethnically Russian, as Putin claims.

Well, don’t expect a popular uprising any time soon. The KGB have totally depoliticised the Russian people. They believe they have no control over the fate of their country. If Russia fails, it will be because of economic failure at a basic level, where the country’s food, transportation, and energy systems all just stop working. And nobody in Russia will care, or do anything to stop it.

It’s interesting that the KGB has engineered a country uniquely capable of letting itself die.

They can’t print usdies or yuan. And they sure as hell can’t make a microchip.

That was the most surprising thing I read in this article, though:

Even The People’s Republic of China (PRC), which was seen as a potential lender at one time, has turned down Russian requests for government loans.

I was thinking the same thing, so I looked them up:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/national-security-journal-bias-and-credibility/

I guess it’s real. Just not popular.

It would be, if there were no market externalities.

I think I’d rather just make fewer, more durable things. One computer per year per person is way way too many. And cars barely need to exist at all, compared to the number of cars actually in existence. Vans, trucks, trains, and buses are of course a different story.

Are you saying you would write the headline differently?

How can we trust MEE while its owner is undisclosed?

When I read the title, I thought the OP had editorialised it. Then, I clicked through and realised it was editorialised by the source itself. This is not serious news. It is effectively opinion. It does not belong here. Read the rules again, OP.

I eventually figured it out. I was searching in world@lemmy.ml—not world@lemmy.world. And the first time, I was looking in world@lemmy.world under ‘Top Week’, but didn’t quite scroll down far enough lol. It was just out of range of the first page. If I had hit ‘More Results’ or whatever, it would have been the very first one. Whoopsiedoodle lol

Anyway, it would be better if the ml vs. world mistake were more difficult to make, but yeah, human error.

Oh, good, then it’s just lemmy’s search function that is broken. Honestly, I am relieved. How did you find these?

This happened 5 days ago. I was shocked to find nothing about it in this community.

I am really questioning the ability of this community to find and post the most relevant international news. We need to do better.

EDIT: This was the result of a technical failure—not a community failure. Still, something is wrong.

On one hand, fuck social media. The recommender AIs that run it are only supposed to optimise engagement, thus optimising ad revenue. But they are far more powerful than that. They can influence public opinion as a whole. Totally out-of-band from the sovereignty of any nation. It is foolish to think that Google, Youtube, Facebook, Netflix, and Twitter aren’t abusing this power. Every responsible nation that wants to defend its sovereignty against recommender AIs must ban social media immediately, along with every other source of such recommendations.

On the other hand, everything else that happened in Nepal. I’m just glad the actual decisions happened on Discord, the least terrible of the platforms. At least Discord doesn’t have these sinister recommender AIs.