The average claim per person for all their travel expenses during the experiment in Brisbane was $125 – but they saved $300 in car costs. “I hadn’t realised how much money my car eats up,” a 43-year-old man from Brisbane said.

Those $300 for 20 days look like just fuel costs. Add the yearly depreciation value of the car (especially bad for new cars), insurance and maintenance costs and it gets even worse.

Even limiting oneself to only a financial viewpoint (which is quite reductive since the are also big Environmental, Health and Social costs), for most people (especially those who live in cities) cars are stupidly expensive for the utility value that they deliver.

Games in GOG for 2€ or less right now. Quite a number of them still look great and others have fun gameplay which transcends time.

Then there are quite a lot of free games like OpenTTD or Luanti.

Last but not least, for PC games piracy has a pretty low technical barrier to entry.

Also an Oil Shock will almost certainly cause the AI bubble to burst, another win which also reduces global warming.

Personally I would also love to see the ended of the Reserve Currency status for the USD, which is a possible consequence of the reduction in use of Oil (though it’s a less likely outcome in the short and even mid term).

PS: By the way, great username.

It will accelerate energy transition.

Even Fertilizers can be produced from renewable power (the hydrogen needed to make Amonia can be produced by electrolosys) and need not be made from gas.

A short sharp pain might be in the best mid and long term interest for most of us, the environment and even parts of the Middle East itself (American interference there makes no sense if their Oil is just another unimportant mineral product) and it might even lead to the end of the USD Reserve Currency status.

Oil AND gas.

Which in turn will propagate to massive inflation in the West and possibly even problems with food production.

Further they can fuck up the economy of the Gulf states which are allies of America to such a point that they end up in a death spiral from which they can’t recover.

Again, again and again Trump has shown that he follows the mindset of the bully, and he’s not even subtle or sophisticated about it: he threatens the other side to get something out of them and if they concede in some way (and merelly trying to accomodate him is seen as a concession), then after a while he’ll come at them again with further threats and demanding even more, whilst if they pushback he TACOes.

We saw this with Europe: Trump does the whole Tariff thing and the EU Commission goes for a trade treaty to accomodate him. He kept on using Tariffs as threat against the EU and EU nations and didn’t took long for him to break that treaty. Meanwhile with the whole Greenland thing Europe started preparing for War and various European nations even sent military trigger forces there with the result that Trump TACOed.

So what Iran is doing is exactly the correct response to somebody like him: “You do that and we’ll fuck your shit up even more than now”.

“We’re not as bad as the worst of the worst” isn’t the gotcha you seem to think it is.

Well, you see, I trust the view of a Turkish person (whilst this being the Internet were everybody can “be” whatever they want, I’m chosing to trust you on being what you say you are).

What I don’t trust is an American “press trust classifier” set-up by some random person, with obscure connections and which already has a long track record of profound political bias.

Being the one which decides which Press can be “trusted” and which cannot is a perfect place for a Propaganda op (if you think the Press is a great place for Propaganda, imagine how great a “Worldwide Press trust authority” is) to shape opinion in this era of open access to information in the Internet and which specifically targets newspapers when Social Media is by far the biggest playground for modern Propaganda, and this coming from a country with one of the least trusted Press environment in the World and which is known for regularly all kind of interestes doing this kind of shit (not just the apparatus of the state setting up “opinion shaping ops” but also ultra-rich setting up “think tanks” to push “studies” endorsing policies that favor them), just adds to the suspicion that this isn’t just some pure soul who is trully worried about the evils of misinformation on the Internet.

That this specific forum - were people often get “moderated” as “anti-semites” for criticizing Israel - in this specific Lemmy server - were when I was a member of it and after heavilly criticizing Israel due to its actions in Palestine, I got an e-mail in the address I had used to register as a user of that server and which only server administrators could get from a group in Israel inviting me to a “learn about Israel” online conference - has endorsed this, further adds to my mistrust of this “worldwide press trust authority”.

The relentless push for this “press trust authority” here has a deep stink of “opinion shaping”.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the “most moral army in the World” fully showing their “Western values”.

Using the guy in a basement who thinks the New York Times is leftwing as an authoritative source for the bias of news sources isn’t the trump card you think it id.

A coin flip would be less biased than an American-based media “trust” checker op which reliably tags everything shotrt of Fascism as leftwing.

Human bugs tend to follow patterns, quite consistent ones for the same person.

Further when searching for bugs code done by the same person is quite consistent so somebody else looking through it will figure out the pattern an much more easily navigate it.

Last but not least, the human actually learns and will stop making certain kinds of bugs, especially if they’re the one having to find them out and fix them.

AI bugs don’t follow patterns, the code isn’t consistent across the code base and it can’t learn.

I get the impression that this Lutris Dev isn’t even at the expertise level of Senior Developer.

PS: Oh, I forgot what’s maybe the most important thing - humans try a lot harder to avoid making bugs which can cause huge problems or at least will put measures in place to avoid huge consequences if such a bug exists (the probability distribution on the severity space for bugs made by humans is not uniform but rather weighed towards bugs with fewer consequences), whilst AIs do not, being just as likely create bugs with massive impact as cosmetic ones and not really creating “just in case” checks to catch the nastier bugs.

Siding with Iranians for being the victims of an ethno-Fascist aggressor state were over 70% of the population sees them as “vermin” because of being Muslim in the very same spirit as the Nazis saw Jews and Roma as “vermin” and a Fascist aggressor state with a long history of wars of aggression in the Middle East which caused hundreds of thousands and even millions of civilians deaths, and whose President right now is a sociopath pedophile who wants to steal their Oil, isn’t the same as siding with the Regime in Iran.

Mind you, right now I do support the Regime in Iran to win this war, not because I like them in any way form or shape but because right now they’re the only thing stopping Iranians from suffering the same fate as Palestinians at the hands of the Zionists - a 21st century version of the Nazis - which in a country of 90 million could be a new Holocaust which would make the NAZI Holocaust look insignificant.

There are very few, if any, Regimes in the World right now which are more evil than the one in Israel and in recent history maybe only the Nazis beat them and the Zionists are working hard at surpassing them.

The Guardian, spinning this as “regime survival” rather than, you know, Iranians trying to avoid being the victims of the same kind of Genocide as Palestinians (and, by the way, The Guarding was also busy for over a year spinning baby mass-murder there as Israeli self-defense), as if any other Iranian government would not have done exactly the same as this one when attacked by the US and Israel with the cooperation of all those Gulf states hosting American bases.

This article should’ve been posted in !ManufacturingConsent@lemmy.ml

Yet.

And how exactly do we know for certain that all that juicy web access data complete linked to whatever identifying information associated with a Mozilla account isn’t going to be sold?!

It’s their “Final Solution for the Palestinian problem”

Ethno-Fascist even - Fascism anchored on ethnicity and ethnic-superiority like the NAZIs, rather than the Fascism anchored on nationality of Mussolini and Franco.

Both kinds are violent, but Fascism anchored on ethnicity is way more murderous - they’re the ones who calously murder children when they’re from a “vermin” ethnicity.

So, will Keir Starmer comment on this or is his mouth too busy wrapped around Netanyahu’s dick?!

Everywhere there are good people doing good things with the best of intentions - people doing art for the love of the art, actually taking care of natural areas for the love of nature, helping others because they don’t want others to suffer rather than as some “charity” grift to make money or make others think they’re good people, and so on.

They’re just not in power in the US and, IMHO, don’t add up to anywhere close to being the majority of people.