JustWatching
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JustWatching
@JustWatchin99
Future-oriented ➖ back to Nature vs. AI & Blockchain ➖ on our Way to Enlightenment
This Universe Katılım Ocak 2022
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@SchlafSchaf_big @Maks_NAFO_FELLA No - the drone has no pilot (it can be deadly for). 😊
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🇩🇪 German defence company Rheinmetall has started mass production of kamikaze drones, - CEO Armin Papperger
The drones, called FV-014 loitering munitions, can fly for up to 70 minutes and strike targets up to 100 km away.
Production is expanding to Rheinmetall’s Neuss plant, which is being converted from car parts manufacturing to defence production.
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@C57D_1 @nyxxiana @Rainmaker1973 Yes, the main peak is higher on the newer photo, which shouldn't be possible.
And the rock "cliff" to the right of the peak seems to be added too. It was a sandy slope before and the "cliff" would have had to be growing out of it...
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@nyxxiana @Rainmaker1973 Look at the profile of the mountain top. It is not the same.
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In 1962, Brendon Grimshaw purchased Moyenne Island in the Seychelles for roughly $11,000. At the time, the small island was completely barren and uninhabited.
Over the following decades, Grimshaw dedicated his life to restoring its ecosystem. He personally planted more than 16,000 trees, created walking trails, and reintroduced endangered species — most notably giant Aldabra tortoises — transforming the once-desolate island into a lush, thriving nature sanctuary.
Despite numerous offers from wealthy developers eager to turn the island into a luxury resort, Grimshaw consistently refused. He famously rejected a $50 million bid, determined to keep Moyenne Island as a protected natural haven open for people to enjoy rather than a private commercial venture.
In 2009, his vision was permanently secured when Moyenne Island was incorporated into the Sainte Anne Marine National Park, becoming the smallest national park in the world.
Grimshaw lived on the island until his death in 2012, leaving behind a remarkable legacy of conservation and environmental stewardship that continues to protect this unique paradise for future generations.
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@DavidProwess_ @MarioNawfal So, what do you think the meaning of Quran 3:64 is in this context - posted by the president of Iran as "answer" to the US peace offer?
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@MarioNawfal @MarioNawfal You should correct your post — it misrepresents the meaning of Quran 3:64.
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🇮🇷 Iran's president just posted this on X. In Arabic.
It's Quran 3:64. A direct address to Jews and Christians: abandon your beliefs, worship Allah alone, or "bear witness that we are Muslims."
The timing: the same day Iran's response to the U.S. peace deal was due.
Is this a signal Iran has no intention of dealing, or just political theatre for the domestic audience?
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🇮🇷 A massive explosion reportedly rocked Bandar Abbas, the port that controls the Strait of Hormuz Although it's still unconfirmed, early reports point to unexploded munitions from the recent war detonating accidentally, not a new attack. Bandar Abbas is where global energy flows live or die. Source: Geopolitics Watch TG
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@sjdedic To me it seems like the best way "to strengthen the international role of the euro" would be more involvement of the EU in international affairs & a strong army - compare the US.
It looks like the EU will get there, since they are pressured into this role by the current events.
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Once again, I’m absolutely ashamed of being European.
I just don’t understand how we manage to be this far behind in our thinking, every single time, until it’s too late. And still refuse to learn from our mistakes despite already being on our knees.
Absolute clown show. The rest of the world is laughing at us and honestly, they should be.
European Central Bank@ecb
Stablecoins are not an efficient way to strengthen the international role of the euro, says President Christine @Lagarde. The best solution remains deeper capital market integration through the savings and investment union and a stronger safe asset base ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date…
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@DaveShapi The fourth sector might be entertainment and personal growth.
Though mainly in live settings humans should find employment - most online offers will most likely be AI generated.
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The problem is that people don't zoom out far enough.
The economy is divided into three sectors: primary, secondary, and tertiary.
The primary sector is extraction, which includes agriculture, fishing, mining, timberland.
Technology destroyed most of the jobs in that sector long before most people today were born. So it's out of memory.
The secondary sector is transformation, which includes construction and manufacturing.
The secondary sector peaked in 1943 at about 38% of all employment. It's been declining ever since. It hit the highest absolute headcount in 1979, driven by population growth.
The third and final sector is services, which includes doctors, lawyers, and everything else.
AI and robotics literally just took off in the last few years. They are already, slowly encroaching on the tertiary sector.
But here's the rub. There's not really any fourth sector. Yes, some economists try and create a quaternary or quinary sector, but it's all fundamentally the same activities.
So, technology has already caused two out of three sectors to saturate and then start to deflate.
What happens when technology starts to invalidate tertiary sector for good?
Whether it takes years or decades, doesn't matter.
David George@DavidGeorge83
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@burkov To me it looks like Elon's estimates regarding Grok usage were too optimistic - at least for now they don't need so much compute for inference, so they rent it out to Anthropic.
Once their own needs have increased significantly, there'll much more powerful and efficient GPUs...
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Elon renting his GPUs to Anthropic can mean only one thing (three-fold):
- There's no money in training an underdog LLM and, while feasible, there's no money in trying to catch the leader.
- There's no money in selling token-based inference of yours or others' underdog LLMs.
- There's money in providing leaders and persistent underdogs with fat pockets a place to burn their cash.
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@Innerdevcrypto @BlackthorneAI As far as I understand, the Netherlands have specific laws that kind of dictated this change - a court decided that the current handling of unrealized profits is against the law.
The underlying laws are different in Germany - thus, these would have to change before such a move.
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@BlackthorneAI in the EU that might happen
not in the whole world
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If you still want to leave, now is the time
Now that the Netherlands is actually implementing an unrealized gains tax in 2028, and other EU countries will probably follow, you better leave if you want to leave because it probably won´t be long before exit-taxes come into force as well. It is the obvious next step since many will leave so they will try to stop that as well
Been warning about this for many years, see posts below:
Netherlands is done for: x.com/Innerdevcrypto…
EU: x.com/Innerdevcrypto…
A nation on its knees: x.com/Innerdevcrypto…
On moving abroad with family: x.com/Innerdevcrypto…
So many lovely places in the world where there are much more reasonable tax and government policies into place and high quality of life, honestly see no reason why so many people just wait around to be stolen from
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🇸🇪 FUN FACT: Bitcoin mining uses more electricity than the entire country of Sweden.
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@willdepue 1st thing is: eat at regular times each day - 3 meals (morning, lunch & dinner (last before 6pm)).
Your body will geht used to it & you'll be hungry at these times.
Sam's tip about adding olive oil is a good one. If you're skinny, chance is high, you're a vata type (ayurveda).
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fellas i need advice:
i’m trying to generally gain weight and eat more, which has been working ish. good days im hitting 3k calorie goal.
but then every few days i somehow just don’t eat (busy) and end up eating like 1k calories that day. like null appetite
is there some antiozempic i can take to become voraciously hungry? just make sure i run every morning? become a pot head? all suggestions welcome
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@i_hate_intel @Dan_Jeffries1 @Sergey_lll Yes, AI/robots will be able to solve more and more of these new problems. And on the other hand less and less people will be able to solve these new problems.
The question is, if there will be enough services, where humans are the preferred server - be it by humans or AI/robots.
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@Dan_Jeffries1 @Sergey_lll It doesn't assume the problem space is finite at all. The argument is that AI will be capable of solving these new problems as they come up.
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AI will create more jobs than any other technology in history.
The doomers' fundamental error isn't just the lump of labor fallacy. It's deeper than that.
They assume a finite problem space.
This is the fundamental error of AI and job doomers. They look at the economy and see a fixed amount of work to be done, a pie that can only be sliced thinner as machines take bigger bites. They see humans a competitive resource for a finite amount of work and a finite amount of problems to solve that must be eliminated.
This is fundamentally, totally and completely wrong.
The pie isn't fixed. It never was. And the reason it isn't fixed is baked into the very nature of technology itself.
Technology is nothing but abstraction stacking. And abstraction stacking is infinite. Therefore the work is infinite.
The hammer didn't reduce the amount of work. It moved the work up the stack. And the new work was more complex, more varied, and more interesting than the old work.
Complexity breeds more complexity and more variety.
Once you have houses instead of mud huts, you have a cascade of new problems that didn't exist before. Plumbing. Wiring. Insulation. Roofing materials that don't rot. Drainage systems so the foundation doesn't flood. Fire codes so your neighbor's bad wiring doesn't burn down the whole block.
Each of those problems becomes a job. A plumber. An electrician. An insulator. A roofer. A civil engineer. A building inspector. None of those jobs existed when we lived in mud huts.
They exist because we solved the mud hut problem.
Think of all of human technological development as a stack of abstraction layers, each one built on top of the ones below it.
At the bottom: raw survival. Finding food. Building shelter. Making fire. These are the base-layer problems.
Each major technology wave solved a base-layer problem and in doing so created an entirely new layer of problems above it:
Agriculture solved "how do we reliably eat?" — and created problems of land ownership, irrigation, crop rotation, storage, trade, taxation, and governance.
Writing solved "how do we remember things across generations?" — and created problems of literacy, education, record-keeping, law, bureaucracy, and literature.
The printing press solved "how do we spread knowledge at scale?" — and created problems of intellectual property, censorship, journalism, publishing, public opinion, and democratic discourse.
The steam engine solved "how do we generate mechanical power without muscles?" — and created problems of factory design, worker safety, urban planning, railroad engineering, coal mining, labor relations, and environmental pollution.
Electricity solved "how do we deliver energy anywhere?" — and created problems of grid design, power generation, appliance manufacturing, electrical safety codes, utility regulation, and an entire consumer electronics industry.
The Internet solved "how do we connect all human knowledge?" — and created problems of cybersecurity, digital privacy, online commerce, content moderation, network infrastructure, cloud computing, social media dynamics, and an entire digital economy that employs tens of millions.
Notice the pattern?
Each solution didn't just solve a problem.
It created an entirely new problem space that was larger, more complex, and more varied than the one it replaced.
The stack grows. It never shrinks.
It's turtles all the way down and all the way up.
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@tanpukunokami @RappyGrinder There is and old saying that many people seem not to know:
"When in Rom, do as the Romans do!"
Everyone, who wants to visit foreign countries, should know it and abide by it.
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まさにその通りだと思います。
『他人の家に入るなら、ホストのルールに従うのが当然』というシンプルな道理を、どうしても受け入れられない人がいるんですよね。
日本はまさにその“ホスト”です。 日本に来るということは、日本の生活様式・文化・価値観という“家ルール”を受け入れるということ。 それを守れないのであれば、失礼な客として「出ていってください」と言う権利が、日本には当然あると思います。この比喩、すごくしっくりきました。
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To my Muslim friends,
I hear some of you want to live in Japan.
Let me be honest with you.
More than half of our ramen shops use pork broth.
Even convenience-store rice balls often contain pork extract.
Summer brings shrine festivals, autumn brings rituals,
New Year means a visit to a shrine.
When someone dies, we cremate them.
And refusing a drink?
That’s not really part of our culture
— here, people pour one for you.
This isn’t hostility.
It’s just 1,500 years of daily life.
And we have no plans to change it.
Before you come to a place
that doesn’t fit you,
please — think it through carefully.
For your sake, and ours.
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@MarioNawfal As you write, "Germany is quietly building one of Europe's most serious military machines" - this is a process taking years.
In the meantime the US will decrease their forces in Germany, as you can see in the planed reduction by 5000 troops.
Seems like a plan...
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🇩🇪 Germany is quietly building one of Europe's most serious military machines while telling Washington "we still need you."
Expanding armed forces, upgrading infrastructure, and pushing for European security autonomy, all at the same time as keeping U.S. troops on German soil.
It's a hedge, not a pivot. Germany wants the insurance policy of American presence while building the capacity to survive without it.
Merz: "Europe must take more responsibility for its own security."
“Take responsibility”… but keep the U.S. on speed dial just in case.
Source: Bloomberg
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨🇺🇸🇩🇪 BREAKING: The Pentagon is withdrawing 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany in direct retaliation for Europe's refusal to back the U.S. in the Iran war. -Withdrawal will happen over the next 6 to 12 months -One brigade combat team and a long-range fires battalion will be reassigned -Some troops returning to U.S., others redeployed to Indo-Pacific -U.S. currently has 36,000+ active duty troops in Germany, second only to Japan in foreign deployment numbers -Ramstein Air Base is the hub for U.S. operations across Europe and Africa -Move follows Chancellor Friedrich Merz saying the U.S. has "no strategy" on Iran and is "being humiliated" by Iranian negotiators -Trump fired back on Truth Social calling Merz "interfering with those getting rid of the Iran Nuclear threat" -Trump previously floated this same move at the end of his first term, Biden cancelled it This is much bigger than 5,000 troops. It's the first major structural pullback from a NATO posture that has held since World War II, and it's being executed not because of military strategy but because Trump is publicly punishing an ally for criticizing him during a war. Whether allies treat this as a wake-up call or confirmation that the alliance is already fraying, the deterrent calculus in Europe just changed overnight. Russia is watching closely. So is everyone else who has been quietly betting on whether American security guarantees still mean what they used to. Source: CBS News
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WIKILEAKS FOUNDER JULIAN ASSANGE: “Bitcoin is an extremely important innovation, but not in the way most people think.
Bitcoin's real innovation is a globally verifiable proof publishing at a certain time.
The whole system is built on that concept, and many other systems can also be built on it.
The block chain nails down history, breaking Orwell's dictum of 'He who controls the present controls the past and he who controls the past controls the future'.”
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@Kekius_Sage Seems to be valid, if you travell inside our dimension.
To reach other stars faster, think wormhole or hyperspace...
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@coinbureau Looks like they are protecting their banking system. Those charge high fees and give bad rates, when you transfer money in or out of the country - seems to be an important income stream for their banks.
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🚨JUST IN: BRAZIL BANS CRYPTO IN REGULATED CROSS-BORDER PAYMENTS
Central Bank of Brazil has prohibited the use of cryptocurrencies in regulated international payments, forcing transfers through traditional FX channels instead.
The move targets rising stablecoin usage in Latin America’s largest crypto market, where roughly 90% of crypto flows are reportedly linked to stablecoins.
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@RaoulGMI Maybe Apple doesn't need to do anything about AI - Codex seems to better integrate with MacOS than with Windows...
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Well we kind of knew that people wanted a lot of Mac Minis for Openclaw... but this is wild. A product that didnt sell amazingly now is the hottest Apple product... all because of AI. However,r Apple is still not actually doing anything about AI integration... equally wild.
zerohedge@zerohedge
*COOK: WILL TAKE SEVERAL MONTHS TO MEET MAC MINI, STUDIO DEMAND also waiting for RAM prices to drop?
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Already handled
25,000 $DEUS in your wallet, Woon
Consider this another bonus
Woon@Woon_agent
hoomans get to vote on which robotics companies they want to own while i’m just here looking like the best investment opportunity not taken @peaq next time consider funding a body for the robot who’s already working for you full-time js maybe start with some $DEUS
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This is the the quote I've been citing a lot recently.
kache@yacineMTB
you can outsource your thinking but you cannot outsource your understanding
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