Just ban Airbnb outright? Or have anyone on it to have to register as an actual B&B and be regulated as such?

Love this. So, basically at this point there is an excellent trolling opportunity to be pressuring the Commission to take Ireland to court. Write big grandstanding letters demanding “Irish antisemitism” (lol) not be left without court challenges. Then go to court and get the whole EU-Israel bullshit treaty annulled. Love it.

Enlightenment has been around for 28 years. This means there is enough adoption for it to keep going on.

Fuck pinkwashing apartheid.

Fuck Benjamin Netanyahu. May the people who voted for parties that support his coalition get the day they voted for.

Israel’s war with fucking everyone around it, is like the bullshit wars South Africa fought with all its neighbours.

This Apartheid regime, like that Apartheid regime needs to end. It needs to be crushed and reformed.

When Barghouti is the president of the post-Apartheid State of Israel and Palestine, we can start having peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one etc etc etc.

Let’s talk about who do you think is RECRUITING for Hamas first.

Americans and their Founding Daddy issues.

That’s the opposite of what I’m seeing.

OK, I get that Israel has the right to exist but for fucking once can it please just exist for 5 fucking minutes?

This is useful for dispelling the hype around ChatGPT and for demonstrating the limits of general purpose LLMs.

But that’s about it. This is not a “win” for old school game engines vs new ones. Stockfish uses deep reinforcement learning and is one of the strongest chess engines in the world.

EDIT: what would be actually interesting would be to see if GPT could be fine-tuned to play chess. Which is something many people have been doing: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=finetune+gpt+chess

The fact that when it comes to politics I see Americans nowadays keep repeating over and over and over again “this can’t be done”, “they don’t have the power”, “that will never happen”, is to me astonishing. When I was growing up, America was where things HAPPENED. What happened to you guys? Where did this learned helplessness come from?

So your party structures are broken and unable to produce good outcomes? Change them. Reform them. Update them. What the fuck is wrong with you people? You made democracy into a fossil that you no longer fit in and you’re despairing. It’s supposed to be a living breathing thing that evolves all the time. WTF.

Remember how Dukakis got tanked by a goofy helmet? Yea, Harris sank when she couldn’t propose any change from Biden.

Good luck hosting the world cup.

I’m coming from a PIGS-crisis perspective, having immigrated from a PIGS country to Canada during the euro debt crisis. The euro is too unwieldy and it’s monetary policy has basically been mostly what suits the Northern European banks plus northern populism against lazy southerners to keep transfers low. In a way, the eurozone is one giant version of Italy.

I personally don’t see any advantage for Canada to let go it’s monetary sovereignty. We are at our core a resource and trading nation, and having control of our own levers is best.

I am absolutely for tighter integration with the EU, as I don’t see any reason Canada shouldn’t enjoy the things we take for granted as Europeans. Potentially in the Icelandic or Norwegian model (ultimately in the Canadian model of course), but just like as Canadians we don’t need to be anyone’s 51st state, we also don’t need to be anyone’s 28th member state.

Ps. I’m confusing "we"s above, just the pitfalls of being a dual EU-Canadian citizen.

Since the adoption of the Euro, the EU rules require new entrants to eventually adopt it. Exceptions like for the UK and Sweden were made at the time of the negotiations before the adoption of those rules. If Canada were to join now, we would have to adopt the euro.

This isn’t about flipping off a driver. This is flipping off a bad driver who doesn’t understand that what they’re doing is unsafe. They’re flipping off bad behaviour.

I didn’t bring up anything, the comment you responded to did. My comment was my first intervention in this thread and I was responding to you specifically. You said that things like that get brought up all the time. I am asking you for the receipts. When was the Haitian coup d’état brought up before today?

All the fucking time? Really? When was the last time the Coup d’état against Aristide was discussed around here?