LwL

Tbf there's a konbini with trash cans every few hundred meters. Only issue being if you don't buy something it's not considered ok to use them afaik, but can just buy sth to eat immediately and throw away the packaging there or just something smaller than your trash and bring it with you after.

Or honestly ignore it because realistically as a tourist all your trash came from the previous konbini anyway and it would just even out. Just don't go there to dump whatever.

Self sufficient? So youre saying they grow their own food and repair all their own homes?

It's a simple problem of not enough laborers to provide all the menial everyday ressources people want/need, while a growing number of people is retired and still consumes these things. We're technologically advanced enough that it won't cause us to starve, but fewer people making things when the same amount of people consumes things will always lead to lower quality of life if technology doesn't offset it by automating labor.

Capitalism is merely the cruelest system at this, since it will always fuck over the vulnerable first. Under capitalism it's a problem for old people and everyone whose elderly parents are still alive, under a fairer system it would equally affect everyone, but to a lesser degree.

He believes there are only two genders because if a man becomes a woman, there are are still only two genders because they are now a woman and not some third category.

Well that's one thing where he's halfway there at least I guess. Completely right about that part, just missing the one where gender norms are stupid and some people don't wanna be associated with them at all.

Honestly in general from the bits I see of him he doesn't seem like a bad dude, just someone with poorly informed opinions on everything (though i guess that's his job) and some major mental health issues that he should really get help for.

The citations metric is also slanted, because pretty much all countries will cite english papers regardless of the language of the paper being written, but all non anglo countries also produce a significant part of papers in the local language, which are much less likely to get cited.

Which is not the same as the effects of urban sprawl destroying their habitat (however this is obviously impossible to quantify)

Tbh yes but I think as long as EU countries still send then weapons it feels like a hollow gesture that distracts from the real issues. Russia is being sanctioned and has generally been disconnected from the rest of Europe in many ways, meanwhile Israel can just genocide palestine and get some stern words.

It's sad, but sadly not actually inconsistent with general foreign policy.

Northern Germany, had that book as a kid as well and read it many times.

It's the result of weird ethical standards, which make the side effects justifiable for women since women experience all sorts of effects from periods that can in some cases get better with hormonal birth control. The fact that someone (many people I'm sure) might choose to deal with these side effects in exchange for their partner not having to, or just for additional safety, doesn't factor in there.

I honestly think it's rooted in the same beliefs that also make it hard to get any permanent body alterations done if not deemed "medically necessary". Things like a vasectomy or HRT, both of which reportedly have tons of hoops to jump through to get them.

A lack of trust in people to be able to decide what to do with their own bodies.

It is more appropriate for llms, but not for diffusion models (imagegen). Those are more throw shit at a wall and refine it a thousand times (whereas llms just grab shit that looks similar to what they want). It's why generated images usually look normal at a glance and fall apart the moment you pay attention to details, because the AI judges the whole image to be close enough to training images that match the prompt instead of having any intent behind individual parts.

Does AI just generate a font now and use that for text? I'm asking because the letters seem to be entirely consistent which I don't think would happen if the text was image-gend.

There's also a good chance it's just the image that was AI generated and someone did manually add the text, easiest check might be to reverse search without the text.

In what fantasy world do we stop using it large scale for any reason other than supply dries up? Freight ships run on oil, planes run on oil, both do not have economically viable alternatives yet. Cars run on oil and it will take more than 2-3 decades until 95%+ of global cars are EVs. Plastic currently uses around 10% of global oil supply, so even if everything else drops to 0 we still need a lot.

Have you considered that it could not be making fun of it but rather them genuinely thinking it's aesthetically pleasing? Because I kinda agree those photos look great.

Also the concept that something historic HAS to be preserved isn't universal across all cultures, even though it's very common. Personally I think it's nice trying to do that, but things will eventually be destroyed and that's how it goes, might as well find some beauty in it.

Reactions like that aren't unexpected but they do make me think the responder is an idiot anyway