Recent talks UK was able to carve out exemption about free university in the last summit before the talks. Let’s see I don’t want UK to get these exemptions.

Some BS AI “visionaries” keep blurting.

You sure I heard it was 300% increase?

No I’m thinking of you only. Now even when I go into your profile, I see bunch of comments in last 24-48h and the nothing for 1 month, nothing between - 1d and - 1mo.

Eyy welcome back. You were gone for a while. Missed your snarky comments man. All good?

Even better buy castor oil.

Visa and Mastercard are horrible companies. For smaller businesses.

1. If your transaction numbers are low they charge a flat + percentage So like 0.55 EUR + 1.2%. Stores in this tier generally try and keep a minimum spend, because you buy 1 EUR and mastercard charges 56c. From 44c you have to pay for product and make a profit. It’s stupid.

2. You can opt for plans that don’t have flat fee, so it’s like 2.25% percentage only. Useful if you move a lot of small value items like a small convinience store.

3. But if you’re a chain of convinience like SPAR, they can get custom deals. SPAR had a tiered deal, transactions below 1 EUR, they charge 0.4%, below 4 EUR it was 0.9%, below 10 EUR 1.5% and, above 1.9% This would never be possible for smaller shops.

4. Every transaction enriches some foreign country as they take the cut. Homegrown system like wero should be dominant, cheap and stays in local economy.

Also I’d like to note, I’ve been out of touch of Europe for a while so my opinions and knowledge might be dated, but this is solved problem in ASIA, PayNow, Prompt Pay, UPI etc exist and are fantastic solutions for small businesses.

Yup, can confirm firsthand, having lookied at mines in Zambia in 2022, 17 year olds were still using pickaxes. While a lot of modern world is doing machine assisted mining. Pickaxes aren’t gone gone.

That’s the point, want a better house work for it, want tasty food, work for it. But there this itch about wanting to paint for 3 months, you can do it, because your worst case scenario is having tasteless food and kind of cramped living space. You won’t have to worry about finding shelter or going hungry.

I think problem is with how basic is demand. Basic is food and nutrition? Fine, mushy food, tasteless but has all the proteins and carbs and vitamins should be available for free to everyone, but they must be Tasteless, textureless. No one should get tatsy FOOD.

Shelter? Everyone must have comfy temperature place to sleep, but place to sleep, 2m x 0.5m x 0.5m should be made free for everyone. Maybe a 0.5m x 0.5m x 0.5m storage space for personal things.

Healthcare should be available for everyone at all times. And it should be top tier and vast.

Education should be available to everyone at all times.

Prisons awaiting trials should be comfortable, but people condemned from the trial should be put to Labour.

I think nothing else classifies as BASIC need. Taste is not a basic need. Entire house is not a BASIC need. Never give out cash to people in need.

That’s my theory on finding balance between people unwilling to contribute to society because of benefits. And people doing terrible jobs because they don’t want to go hungry or need shelter or medical care. This way people are free to pursue ventures without the worry for BASIC needs.

I know man, fortunately I’ve never been there, but I’ve worked closely for years with people who do. Man it’s heart-breaking. It’s so easy for middle class and above to pretend like poor people don’t exist.

I swear so many people if they spend one month like poor, they’d not survive And then my own mom, thinks people are poor because they don’t work hard enough, and I’m like wtf… Her own sister was on the verge of becoming homeless despite both my aunt and uncle full time working and only avoided it because of interest free loans from family. She still thinks my aunt must have done something wrong. She bailed her out, and she paid my mom the money. But my mom still thinks it’s her fault. That was during 2008 FYR.

I’ve been asking her to come with me to soup kitchen like once, and talk to people. She has come but only behind the pot for serving and has refused to talk to people.

Have you seen the modern modular nuclear reactors? They can be up and running in a matter of months, two years you can build a complex in GWs.

Then the target audience wouldn’t understand they’d think we’re making shit up. Man I was talking to this guy, masters in finance, bachelor’s in economics, worked 10 years in commodities supply chain. Fucker is randomly telling me, if you can’t find a job in the city and they’re poor, why don’t they just go to another city halfway across a country? When I told him it’s because they can’t afford the ticket for public transport, he’s like nobody is that poor, I’m making shit up.

Exactly, so I’m not saying AI will not be useful, AI will be useful in reducing cancer related deaths, early detection and management, but for a true “cure” it would have to be some other technology.

It’s going to come from scientists who know how to use ML to supplement their work. Also I don’t think we are finding cure for cancer as a drug. Only cure I think may work 100% we master fully controllable nanotech that can also read DNA non invasively.

I’d just like to know more about who is running the channel, I don’t need a name, just background, what are the motivations for making this channel, why make this channel in flood of geopolitics channel that push so much content. How can your video pipeline release so many videos in just a week?

I like the content and the style. Before I subscribe, help me understand what is the role of AI in making of these.

That’s a fair point though. Although he needed money only for three days. And i guess I would’ve lent him because he would return it. Come to think of it, I’m feeling like the asshole now.

Any advice on how else can I make him understand priority?

I have no problem with people having fun, but my cousin buys fifa or Football manager every year. Which is fine, he has fun with it. Good. But recently he asked money for fuel. And I lost it. All he wanted was 60 dollars because he ran out budget and is maxed at credit card and payday is 3 days away. I refused stating he has spent over 90$ just this week on a game with no meaningful upgrades. never got big limits, he only has one card of $4k, so not financially irresponsible, but starting to with these kind of decision making. And I need to stop it it’s track.

I can’t understand decision making like this, he is smart enough to know how much fuel he consumes, he bought the game when his tank was around 20-25% full. 3 days later tank is empty and now it’s borrowing time? No man fuck that.

Almost everyone in my family keeps sending me AI generated documentary shit all the time. Problem is bets I can tell only 50% of it factual. Every single video in my family, I’m tired of debunking boss. And despite proving more than a few dozen times, that it’s not 100% reliable data, they are content in accepting half truth and half lies for at least the half is true. And it’s getting in my nerves. So yes fuck Gen AI artists. They can rot in hell.

I’m slightly less mad at pure art promoters at least they’re not misibforming. But I’m still mad because art is human expression to me. A human has to decide every single stroke of an image, some speak more than others, but everything is intentional. Mistakes and all.

With Gen AI there is no active decision making in most of the image, prompt was active decision sure, but the details, how each curl of hair should be, or how two colors should blend, 99% of prompter artists are not making that minute decisions. And that to me is just expressionnless. So I might hate them less, but they too can rot in hell.