Western governments need to step up their subsidies for green tech then to compete, I guess. Not start banning the people who are providing the solution.

Yeah no such catastrophic celestial events are likely in the next few millennia, and we’re pretty good at predicting those things now. The impact of climate change is already affecting a billion or more people right now.

I’m fully aware that EVs won’t solve the climate crisis. And, of course leaders in the west, especially the US, pitch consumerism as the solution to climate change. Unfortunately for many people, myself included, we have no option but to to drive as public transit has been purposefully dismantled, and opting for EVs (when already buying a car) is one of the only real choices that has any noticeable climate impact.

Alternative plan: we all are stuck on this rock together and maybe we should prioritize maintaining its habitability over bickering about who is allowed to provide the solution.

Western governments: We need to take climate change seriously and transition to renewables and EVs.

Also western governments: It’s bad that China has ramped up production on renewable energy sources and EVs, hit them with tariffs to protect our insufficient domestic production.

As someone who primarily uses Unix-like systems and develops cross platform software, having windows as a weird outlier is probably best for the long term. Windows is weird and dumb but it forces us to consider platform differences more explicitly. In the future if a new operating system becomes popular, all the checks that were implemented for windows will make it a bit easier to port to newer systems.

This is a false dichotomy. While it’s true that the president cannot massively reform immigration policy or adjust the budget unilaterally, they do have a lot of sway in how to handle the situation by setting the priorities of federal agencies and working with aligned NGOs. Instead of restricting immigration, why not work with cooperative state and local governments, as well as NGOs to make resources more available to those who need it? He could also direct agencies like CBP and ICE to stop wasting their money detaining people and ruining lives, and instead focus on helping those not in compliance go through the legal process instead, and provide personnel support to aid those crossing the border using their existing logistical resources.

Just limiting immigration altogether is the lazy approach and helps no one.

This is going to cause a bunch of needless pain, suffering, and death. And the people that Biden thinks he’ll will over with this policy won’t vote him no matter what.

This is stupid and it’s right on Trumps level. It’s the perfect way to do persuade him.

It’s a bit tricky but I think a privacy preserving algorithm is possible. Simply put, the more data available, the better an algorithm can be.

The algorithms are what makes these services. Most interactions aren’t searching and selecting something specific or intentional, they’re just opening a fire hose and expecting the algorithm to pick content they find entertaining for them. It requires the algorithm to have a lot of information, both about the specific user, and about similar users.

I think estimates are month or two ago was that it would take upward of a decade to clear rubble. Unless Israel ends its siege they will have a hard time importing any building materials, and countries that historically sponsored major works such as hospitals and universities will be reluctant to do so, because why invest hundreds a of millions into a construction project that Israel will just bomb a few years later?

This some fascist shit. Why is the government so obsessed with shielding cops from accountability?

The Israeli genocide of Gazans will go on until the last Palestinian is dead or Israel is forced to stop. Biden could end this tomorrow diplomatically if he wanted to. Israel is extremely dependent on imports and US sanctions would likely be sufficient enough to remove Israel’s ability to continue genocide.

At a minimum they certainly knew it was coming and reduced the number of IDF near the border and sent in their own helicopters to shoot civilians so they could pump the civilian numbers up and blame Hamas.

Depending on your opinion of kpop this is arguably proportionate.

Great. Stop funding the genocide. If you really mean it, put boots on the ground and drive the occupiers out.

Most people shouldn’t self host. It’s a hobby for people who want to do it, and there are benefits, but spending 3 hours on a weekend fixing stuff is not how most people wish to spend their time. Furthermore, it’s not a good use of most people’s time. We split labor up into specialties, forcing people to do work outside their specialty causes pointless inefficiency. I agree with what other commenters have said in that a better approach would be to have more small businesses hosting federated together, and anyone not inclined to self host should just purchase service through one of those many small providers instead.

As someone who has a great deal of respect for academia, my opinions on the administrations of many average and top universities has declined significantly. In the last month or so.

Normally this would be correct, but recently Israel took over the Palestine side of the crossing as part of their invasion of Rafah. The first thing they did while taking over was shut down aid deliveries.