No peace-loving human being can ignore the carnage waged against...
In advanced economies, about 60 percent of jobs may be impacted by AI. Roughly half the exposed jobs may benefit from AI integration, enhancing productivity. For the other half, AI applications may execute key tasks currently performed by humans, which could lower labor demand, leading to lower wages and reduced hiring. In the most extreme cases, some of these jobs may disappear.
In emerging markets and low-income countries, by contrast, AI exposure is expected to be 40 percent and 26 percent, respectively. These findings suggest emerging market and developing economies face fewer immediate disruptions from AI. At the same time, many of these countries don’t have the infrastructure or skilled workforces to harness the benefits of AI, raising the risk that over time the technology could worsen inequality among nations.
the US, which is more likely to fully degenerate into a corporatocracy due to its particular off-brand of delusional idiocy — Benkei
You're a decade too late if you're trying to assess what type of evil you're dealing with — Benkei
This just in, Capitalism is working just as intended. — Benkei
other than as a tool to diagnose why it is unfair. — Benkei
They won't do it voluntarily, not any of 'em — Vera Mont
The gains made by minorities and LGBTQ aren't even close to being wiped out. — RogueAI
Hasn't capitalism increased the standard of living immeasurably over the last 100 years? — RogueAI
The problematic aspect of your lament over the dissolution of state's rights was that the war that formally drew them legally bound together under the same Constitution was not one fought for any lofty principle. It was fought to protect the institution of slavery by a confederacy that did nothing to try to protect the individual state rights within its confederacy. It's just that South wanted its own slave protecting laws for its region and so it went to war. — Hanover
resurrection — Hanover
Not far from krystallnacht, at least in spirit, but with 'Liberals' and 'the Deep State' as targets. — Wayfarer
disproportionate retaliation — 180 Proof
misogynistic, Islamophobic, transphobic and anti-immigration .
— BC
These seem to be hard-to-define, usually-incorrectly-attributed, subjective and naive things to consider... (minus the underlined). — AmadeusD
Am I noticing a somewhat socially left-leaning element to this forum? — AmadeusD
This alone makes the movement different from the Nazis. It is less about a national people, but about a select people. — Count Timothy von Icarus
That doesn't mean anything. Most of the people who have the huge stockpiles are probably Trump supporters. — schopenhauer1
Republicans (50%), rural residents (48%), men (45%), self-identified conservatives (45%) and Southerners (40%) are the most likely subgroups to say they personally own a gun.
Liberals (15%), Democrats (18%), non-White Americans (18%), women (19%) and Eastern residents (21%) are the least likely to report personal gun ownership.
I'm very much afraid several of its forms are looming on the horizon. — Vera Mont
What if it is necessary to go around (dissolve, restrict, reinvent) the Federal Gov? If you can only prevent disaster, civil war, and/or global catastrophe by doing so does it not become the most logical/ethical pathway? — Elysium House
It would be constituted locally, for the needs of the local population, without all the heavy armaments, license to search, seize and destroy. Powers limited to keeping the peace and enforcing the law: to serve and protect, not dedicated to vested interests. — Vera Mont
Do you think there's any way states would (or could) become self-governing and communally prosperous — Elysium House
You are tasked with developing a path which leads away from U.S. Government expansion and global unification towards smaller systems of governmental power and authority. Can this be done? — Elysium House
I very much doubt that Americans (or Canadians, for that matter) really know much about their government and what it does, or how. — Vera Mont
Latin is definitely not the source of any of the daily English lexicon except for the few words I mentioned, French is the source of almost everything productive in English today. English did not exist at the time of Ancient Latin. — Lionino
Just a heads up, you ended up replying to a 3 year old post. Check at the bottom of the post in the lower left corner and it will tell you how old it is. — Philosophim
SOME RECENT AND ON-GOING WARS
Myanmar... around 15,000 killed in 2023 (around 200k since 1948)
Israel... around 30,000 +/- in 2023 (around 55,000 since 1948)
Sahel region... around 14,000 in 2023 (around 56,000 since 2002)
Russia-Ukrane.... between 30,000 and 90,000 in 2023 (around 200,000 since 2014)
Sudan... around 13,000 in current war
Columbia... around 2500 in 2023 (453,000 since 1964
Afghanistan... around 1000 in 2023 (between 1.5 and 2.5 million since 1978)
Somalia... around 9000 in 2023, (between 350,000 and 1 million since 1991)
DR of Congo... around 1400 in 2023 ((around 9,000 since 1996)
Nigeria... around 3,000 in 2023 (about 90,000 since 1998
Iraq... around 1,300 in 2023, (between 300k and 1.2 million since 2003)
DR of Congo & Rwanda... 2000 in 2023 (around 25,000 since 2004)
Mexican drug cartel wars... 6800 in 2023 (around 350,000 to 400,000 since 2006)
Sudanese Nomadic Conflicts... about 1240 in 2023 (around 300k to 400k since 2008)
Boko Haram insurgency... about 5,000 in 2023 (around 368,000 since 2009
(the list goes on and on)
the US has only made “blundering efforts to do good,” and is always acting defensively. — Mikie
There are way more than 1.6 million — Count Timothy von Icarus
I think he wants the refugees to leave Israel. Or die. — frank