They do those things to some degree, but those things remain banned for under 18s, which I suppose reduces harm, even if it doesn’t fully eliminate harm.

I read this BBC article about it

Obviously if this turns out to be life that would be interesting, but it could turn out to be nothing.

If it turns out to be some moss or bacteria or other basic life, that would be pretty cool. If it’s humanoid aliens then maybe we’re screwed.

By that logic we shouldn’t ban anything for teenagers. But we do: smoking, gambling, alcohol, etc.

I just searched the internet for any news articles from 2024 about Trump’s comments on prices. Here is a video from Truth Social where Trump complains about prices rising under Biden. But now Trump is of course causing price rises himself with his tariffs.

Speaking of Truth Social, it says on that website: “Proudly made in the United States of America”. But Truth Social seems to be based on Mastodon, as indicated on one of their pages about open source software. And Mastodon was largely made by a German guy, presumably in Germany, rather than in the USA.

Also he said he would lower prices, but of course his tariffs will instead raise prices.

As the New York Times put it last year: “Trump Vows to Lower Prices. Some of His Policies May Raise Them.”

Ah okay. It looks like some people believe the summary is AI-generated though because six people (at the time of me writing this) have upvoted the comment claiming the summary is AI-generated. I really did write it myself though.

Maybe I wrote it in a matter-of-fact way. It’s just a long article so I thought I’d explain the gist of it.

I wrote the summary myself, I didn’t use AI for it.

That would be great. “Get tae fuck ya wee bawbag” (I think that’s the kind of thing Scots say)

Unfortunately I think they’ll stick with the USA

True. There are definitely more praiseworthy things than not pissing for 25 hours.

But still I think it’s rare to see a mainstream politician show such commitment.

The article says he didn’t wear a diaper:

A rep for Booker confirmed to TMZ that he did not wear a diaper during his speech.

Yeah I thought that. This is probably just Trump’s attempt to appear “neutral” when he isn’t actually neutral.

Maybe Lemmy is a 2020s version of phpBB (the forum software, which is open source like Lemmy is). Lemmy and phpBB can both be hosted by anyone, but of course the interesting thing about Lemmy is that Lemmy servers can share their content with each other.

I wonder if there’s some validity to what OpenAI is saying though (but I certainly don’t completely agree with them).

If the US makes it too costly to train AI models, then maybe China will relax any copyright laws so that Chinese AI models can be trained quickly and cheaply. This might result in China developing better AI models than the US.

Maybe the US should require AI companies to pay a large chunk of their profits to copyright holders. So copyright holders would be compensated, but an AI company would only have to pay if they generate profits.

Maybe someone more knowledgeable in this field will tell me I’m totally wrong.

Fair point. Maybe I just think the pain of being shot would be less unpleasant than the pain of a botched injection or electrocution.

I listened to more of their stuff on YouTube, it’s pretty cool, I can respect the guy’s anger and pissed off attitude.

But tankies told me that Zelenskyy is a dictator?

True. I still think I’d prefer the firing squad though. Maybe it’s because I think the effects of the other two options could be less predictable and therefore more unpleasant.

Interesting idea. I suppose you could start a Lemmy community for meet ups for people in your country. I don’t know how easy it would be to find willing people who are relatively local to you though.