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Reads more like a toy/pet (think Kirby) to me, so it could actually not be a competitor at all to those. Whether that’s a viable product I don’t know.

Millions fewer people will die. That’s the difference. It’s just a sliding death scale, not a binary one. Sure, there might be steps, it might not all be linear, but still: doesn’t…

I think that’s an interesting point and one I did actually think about while writing my comment but ultimately didn’t address. The interaction between individual behavior changes a…

That’s pointless. Political change is needed to achieve any of this. Changing your individual behavior or even the individual behavior of everyone you know – while certainly not wr…

Limiting temperature change by every additional 0.1°C is still worthwhile from a human welfare perspective. In that sense it is never to late. We can always do something to limit t…

Things are changing. Look at starting points and direction, not just things as they currently are. That said, renewable sources are so cheap and consequently economically appealing…

You don’t know the difference between tactics and strategy. The US has been consistently tactically excellent. Strategically this is a blundering loss. If you strategically aim you…

That’s a wildly uncharitable read. Empirical evidence through observation or self-reporting, sampling in some meaningful way, would obviously be preferable but is also often just n…

Even the worst music videos I have seen aren’t as incoherent as this mess. This is actually mostly down to constraints: even if you suck you will suck in some coherent consistent w…

This tech isn’t steerable enough when it comes to creative output. Maybe there are some nooks and crannies where this tech can be employed and actually save time/budget. Maybe. But…

ID cards aren’t exactly super standardized inside the EU. German ID cards have a RFID chip which basically contains all the same info that’s printed on the outside (PIN protected).…

Changing your own behavior is certainly not wrong but also not a solution. Policy changes are needed to address this problem. It’s a political problem that needs a political soluti…

Lack of consistency seems entirely normal to me for a blog post. At a certain point the information is simply redundant. The meaning of the naked number can and will easily be infe…

That’s not universally the case, no. For example in Germany, splitting the bill is pretty normal, to the point where restaurants are adapted to it. Since this process adds some fri…

In Germany (where this happens frequently and many people expect to be able to pay separately – I don’t like it and we generally don’t handle it that way with friends, but when I’m…

This is such a sad perspective. The only path for workers to have leverage against capital is if they work together in solidarity. There is no other path. Unions are a path towards…

It‘s the exact opposite of selfish. It’s solidarity and efforts to denigrate solidarity and lift up stories about selfishness as the only important thing are the thing that keeps u…

The current admin has been embarrassingly bad at wielding the awesome powers of the US in a meaningful way. Of course the US are the all-powerful juggernaut with many levers to pul…

That’s wrong. Wearing headphones is not banned. Isolating yourself to a degree where you cannot hear warning signals (emergency vehicles, car horns) is (10 € fine), though that’s n…

At least with social networks the network effect is a powerful force. Foregrounding regulatory burden in that context is nonsensical. (That does not apply in the same way to models…

It seems to me that demonstrated leverage actually is different from theoretical leverage. I do think that is a crucial difference.

Machines aren’t humans. Your first have to argue that an analogy between machine and human even makes any kind of sense. That‘s the magic trick you are doing with your analogy. You…

That doesn’t make sense. In the medium term this will strengthen efforts in China, Japan, India and the EU to move away from fossil fuel dependence much more quickly.

It is interesting to consider what we talk about when we talk about whether an image was photoshopped because I do actually think that is a fuzzy line and different people may thin…

I’m a bit confused about the claim that the image was altered. Sometimes skies look like that and grass looks like that and (the right) film is more than capable of capturing that …