Pretty decent news for us non-Americans tbh.

It’d be a real shame if fewer GPUs are sold in the US and more supply hits shelves across the rest of the world.

Their source doesn’t seem reliable. They use a singular source (https://www.freedomforum.org/journalists-memorial/) for their WW1 and WW2 numbers.

It’s rather easy to see how these numbers are very much incomplete.

Why? It says that during WW2 a total of 10 journalists were killed in Germany - yet not one of them was German. With ~1.1 million German civilian deaths, I’d argue there were realistically a couple hundred German journalists among them at the very least. Sure, they were journalists for state propaganda outlets and I cannot bring myself to care about nazi propagandists. Yet they were journalists nonetheless who should be included in statistics.

And this doesn’t even begin to encompass all other countries where many more millions of civilians were killed. There is not a chance in hell the number of journalist deaths during WW2 is even in the same ballpark as ~60. 10,000 would be my lower estimate.

Those are the results from the 2024 European Parliament Election.

Here are the results of the more relevant 2023 State Parliament Election:

The state government is right-wing conservatives with centrist-at-best “social” democrats. Both are very supportive of police cracking down on people who wouldn’t have voted for them anyways.

Berlin is run by right-wing conservatives, not liberals. The federal government lacks authority for states deciding whom to deport.

It’s perfectly legal to compress something to a single bit and publish it.

Hell, if I take and publish the average color of any copyrighted image that is at least 24 bits. That’s lossy compression yet legal.

Ireland and the UK are solid options though.

Also, it’s most definitely not impossible to practice medicine in a language you’re not a native speaker of. For example, Syrians make up more than 1% of all doctors in Germany, the vast majority of which arrived in 2015-2016.

Tesla is overtly hostile towards German unions and has convinced enough workers to not join any. They have mostly hired foreign workers who are unaware of their rights. Additionally, workers are pressured to sign documents withdrawing from their right to compensation during sick leave which isn’t illegal.

Also, the state government of Brandenburg - the location of the Tesla factory - would rather see worker’s rights trampled than Tesla face consequences. Their future election results depend on Tesla performing.

Edit to add: As far as I know, Tesla doesn’t need to pay any damages if courts overrule them denying paid sick leave. They must only pay the sick leave and for the worker’s lawyer. Denying sick leave makes them more money in the end.

Trump will certainly refuse to remove the base and use any attempt by Greenland to do so as pretext for an attack.

He desperately wants this excuse, as it provides enough legitimacy for him to convince ~50% of the US population.

Greenland and Denmark are most likely aware of this and act accordingly. I don’t know what current preparations are but I wouldn’t be surprised if they built up defenses against the US right now.

And Hitler only invaded France because France declared war on Germany.

There were no German ambitions in France beyond Alsace-Lorraine, had they not done anything in response to the German-Polish war then France would have been spared.

Therefore France is responsible for every war crime the nazis committed in France.

I really hope I don’t need explain why this logic is imperialist apologia.

The people who care are a minority.

An important one, yes, but hardly large enough to even protect themselves.

But most US citizens are either reactionary conservative or neoliberal - and neither truly care about minorities.

I honestly believe the number of Americans who actively oppose Trump, to the extent of fighting instead of tolerating him, rivals your tech unionization rates.

That’s not quite the same though.

I doubt anyone but queer individuals ever donated to Hungary’s pride parades - if they even accept donations to begin with.

Like why would any Hungarian company ever donate to a pride parade? They all benefit from and support Orban’s corruption. Scapegoating minorities keeps their stream of money going.

Far right groups and constant Russian lies about vaccines have made plenty of Europeans antivaxers, sadly.

31,000 cases occured in Romania alone in 2024.

This will be 100% put into the yearly criminal statistic as far-left terrorism.

There will come a point where there is simply not enough time to put human hands on every ballot cast

Source? Why should there ever not be enough time, we don’t have less time today than 50 years ago. And even for a rising population it doesn’t take meaningfully more time considering the rate of volunteers is likely to remain constant.

I am happy that our constitutional court ruled electronic voting to be unconstitutional. Election transparency cannot be guaranteed without a paper trail.

I’m not suggesting anything but RC cars with small propane torches mounted facing upwards might be a danger to Teslas. It might take one or two minutes though.

Also, generally, in parking lots only one EV per row has to catch fire.

Sure, but not legally so. Patents are the reason there are only really two x86-64 vendors and a company could similarly patent their own RISC-V modifications.

Anyone can design and sell little circuit blocks and on chip peripherals, even proprietary ones, for use on any chip.

What’s the likelihood of a dominant player emerging and implementing patented, proprietary RISC-V architecture changes which turn out to be necessary for high-performance? And if such a company gains sufficient market share, they could turn RISC-V into basically another x86-64 with many proprietary extensions. Sure, others could create their own RISC-V base processor - but if their performance is 500% lower than processors from the proprietary vendor who would purchase them?

Remove the first “M”, there are hardly any players on the map to save on server costs.

I’ve played both a lot yet it’s not rare to spend 10 minutes without seeing a single other player.

The games are fundamentally, very alone.

Do you believe segregating a minority group making up 1-2% of the population will not have discriminatory effects? That there will be equal access to funding, scholarships, competition and sport leagues?

You can’t seriously believe this. Isn’t it plainly obvious that this would be an excuse to ban trans people from doing any sports? That any sports club will just argue there aren’t enough trans people to allow them to be members?

And I’d seriously like to know how it is unfair for cis women to have to compete against trans women in chess. Right now trans women are barred from competing in any women’s leagues regardless of when they started transitioning by the way.

How do trans people have any advantage in hundreds of other sports, from gymnastics to ballet to competitive diving - all of which have a more or less significant artistic element?

By the way, there are already discriminatory regulations barring certain cis women in the name of “fairness”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone_regulations_in_women's_athletics

Also, what a coincidence:

At the 2020 Olympics a number of athletes, all from African countries, were withdrawn from their events because they did not meet the eligibility regulations.

Sure sucks for these Africans that they “randomly” happened to not meet these criteria. It couldn’t possibly be that certain ethnicities are more or less likely to have certain genetics.

A separate but equal league? Sure sounds appealing to many to segregate trans people into their own categories.

May as well apply it to bathrooms as well while we’re at it.