Yes, I’m sure failing to defend democracy will result in it being eroded. Of course people can use this to their own personal advantage and claim democracy is at stake when it is not. Voters need to be well informed to discern whether those claims are legitimate, or not.

I don’t think anyone reads “X ban” as sending people to offshore “entertainment” facilities. Lol.

Democracy: good. Destroying democracy: bad. Still too specious for you?

VPNs exist. All blocking of websites is just a slight inconvenience at the end of the day.

Because we have to defend democracy or it will be eroded. We should not stand by idly as misinformation and corporate interests continue to cripple it. Just because people are voting against their best interests does not mean they are no longer their best interests.

It’s very clear you are not arguing in good faith.

Other economic systems don’t incentivise companies to produce trash products that break quickly to keep the customer coming back, or to use non-recyclable materials because they cost 3 cents less.

Capitalism =/= money.

/jk right? Right???

Sure would be nice if capitalism didn’t exist 🤪

I think the joke is that not many people use the fediverse.

Being 2m tall they have to eat quite a bit more than average, and it sounds like they’re not.

We’ve made some strides on the renewables front yes but it’s never been enough. We’re still increasing our carbon output year on year, due mostly to the political willpower for renewables simply not existing. Two years ago we had a prime minister who didn’t acknowledge climate change. The fact that we’ve got any renewables at all is simply because of the economics of it. We get so much sun it’s impossible for us to not lead the world on solar, and yet our government still drags their feet on renewables (yes, even Labor are barely any better on environmental issues).

Definitely not. There’s much less land mass in the southern hemisphere, so there’s also less utilisation of natural energy. Speaking as an Australian we’re also not super great at embracing the whole renewables thing so that definitely comes into it too lol.

Yep

Yeah I should probably use gpt4. Just don’t want to pay for another subscription haha.

That’s fair I guess. I don’t have a VR headset or talk to AI so imo they’re both pretty nerdy. I only talk to chatGPT every now and then to see if it can help me with code problems, and it almost always fails spectacularly unless I’m doing something really basic.

I’m just saying the accessibility of AI doesn’t necessarily mean it has more utility. Just that it’s more accessible.

If you had to buy an expensive headset to use chatGPT she wouldn’t either.

Are we sure Tesla hasn’t done this too? Sounds like something they’d do.