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Re:Germany's identity crisis: The trains no longer run on time on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @09:25AM (#44811679)
I don’t understand why someone would take the train instead of his car unless he wanted to take the risk of losing the flight.
Re:Grok generates fake Taylor Swift nudes without being asked on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @09:20AM (#44811607)
Good thing they are not forced to use the “spicy” setting.
Re:Teacher AI Use Is Already Out of Control and It's Not Ok on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @04:26AM (#44809299)
>What are we as humans even doing.

We are avoiding work that we don't want to do and therefore saving time, which is precisely what technology promised would help us do.

Re:EPA Moves to Cancel $7B in Grants for Solar Energy on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @02:59PM (#44802631)
With the notable difference that lawn flamingos are not necessary because of the terrible energy policies of the government, whilst balkonkartoffel are.

In other words you have lawn flamingos because you have bad taste not because the government impoverished you.

Re:EPA Moves to Cancel $7B in Grants for Solar Energy on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:22PM (#44800102)
Damn, I've looked at it on Google and it's such an eyesore.
And those who are not supposed to be quacks will commit fraud anyway. Which is why you shouldn’t trust anyone.
Re:Can you block it? A simple Ad Block Tester on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @09:49AM (#44797952)
Guy just decided to create a site using Wordpress and then post it to HN
The alternative is not trusting the science or the quacks.
All of them? That worked well for Alzheimer research, didn’t it
That is a lot of typing for a massive strawman that is more likely to belong in Reddit than here.
He’s right. You can see it every time people vote to restrict their individual freedoms, which in the west doesn’t stop happening.
Mass migration, meaning there’s an overwhelming supply of workers and not so much demand for them. In other words work turned into a buyer’s market. Cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44783586
When IKEA does it it’s good because IKEA is European.