If I found a folder with a hundred images of naked kids on your PC, I would report you to authorities, regardless of what pose kids are depicted in. So I guess the answer is no.
Energy is expensive because fossil fuels are destroying the only planet we have.
If a person is taking lifesaving medicine that unfortunately makes their skin itch, you wouldn't call itchiness "a problem which they have created themselves in the first place"...
> business operation across different countries, a real bottleneck for EU SMEs
Is it actually a "real bottleneck" for EU SMEs? Granted, I've only participated in help growing 3 companies from the scale of 3-4 developers > ~100-150 and from national sales to international, but "going worldwide" or "EU wide" was never the bottleneck we had. The most tricky part was figuring out exactly how to do VAT for every single country, but after a session with a accountant + setting up the guidelines + creating a .csv, that's basically it. Besides that, it was basically smooth sailing.
Today I'm sure there even are hosted services that does all of that stuff automatically for you, probably with Stripe integration as well.
What exactly is that bottleneck you're referring to?
There's a reason I rarely see local subsidiaries of cool small companies from other EU countries - it's too complicated to open them, have a couple of local employees on a payroll, handle notarization, translations of documents, not to mention labor laws etc.
The bottleneck is having a standardized SAFE for Europe. Global investors must be able to invest without having to understand Italian and Polish corporate law
That's a different thing all together, but a good point nonetheless. Always been dealing with local investors when building startups, because of that.
The claim was that "business operation across different countries" is a "a real bottleneck for EU SMEs" currently, I don't think that has anything to do with investors?
>I like the pelican riding a bike test, but my standards for what’s “good” seem higher than generally expected by others.
If you train for your first marathon, is your goal to run it under 2h?
We are all looking forward to perfect results, but our standards are reasonable. We know what the results were last month, and judge the improvement velocity.
Nobody thinks that's a good SVG of a pelican riding a bike - on it's own. But it's a lot better compared to all the other LLM-generated SVGs of a pelican riding a bike.
We judge relative results - you judge absolute results. Confusion ensues.
I think you’re missing the criticism I’m making. The models already have the capacity both to create hyper-real imagery, and they have mastery of the SVG medium. These two capabilities are the entire recipe a human would need to produce what I’ve described.
To use your marathon metaphor, they have the body of Kipchoge in his absolute prime, and are failing to qualify for a local fun-run.
If entities comprising the union are not forced to compromise (and compromise by some type of majority is the most logical one), and want to pick and choose, then that is no union. And there can be no union like that.
>Food shipments are being restricted because it's not generally accepted that you have to feed your enemies while you're at war with them.
Funny way to put it.
You do not feed the enemy, rest of the world feeds the enemy.
You make all effort to prevent the enemy being fed, to starve the enemy to death.
Starving the enemy is generally accepted as a war crime, but Israel disagrees.
Oh yeah, and enemy in this case includes infants.
> The enemy does not include children, but hamas cannot use them as a shield to protect or even deflect attention from their own fighters. Again it's awful but not criminal.
When the Allies bombed Dresden, that was a war crime. When Israel kills children because it's operationally easier than figuring out how to just kill combatants, that is also a war crime.
Like, they appear to be able to do targeted attacks on Hamas people basically everywhere except Gaza, which seems pretty weird.
> there has to be intent to prevent civilians from accessing food
Intent, in cases of genocide, is basically impossible to establish except in retrospect. We can only establish what is happening right now:
> “The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza,” UN-backed food security experts said on Tuesday, in a call to action amid unrelenting conflict, mass displacement and the near-total collapse of essential services in the war-battered enclave.
> The alert follows a May 2025 IPC analysis that projected catastrophic levels of food insecurity for the entire population by September. According to the platform’s experts, at least half a million people are expected to be in IPC Phase 5 – catastrophe – which is marked by starvation, destitution and death.
> It is unclear to me how much actual starvation is taking place there.
It sounds pretty clear to the UN.
Israel is in full control of this situation. If things were playing out differently to how they wanted, they could permit more aid to go through.
> They claim there's enough food entering gaza, but hamas is stealing it
The idea that there's plenty of food but Hamas has squirrelled it away so that everyone starves is ludicrous.
> so long as they are keeping international laws in good faith
The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel multiple times to permit aid into Gaza.
> You have to realise that genocide is not a realistic operational aim for the idf or the political establishment
Sure it is. They just have to keep doing what they're doing right now. It's worked so far.
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I cited a laundry list of expert organizations specializing in identifying crimes against humanity. You've cited an op-ed. The balance of evidence and expertise overwhelmingly indicates genocide, and it's not even close.
The un has such a long and consistent anti israel bias i find it hard to trust anything they say. UNWRA basically is the de facto propoganda and civil administrators for hamas. Again the ipc changed their definition on famine in order to include gaza.
Israel is most definitely not in full control of gaza. They are trying to assert some with the ghf despite UN/Hamas strenuous opposition.
The idea that hamas isn't stealing all the aid is ludicrous.
And finally Israel does permit huge amounts of aid into gaza. I wonder what UNWRA are doing with it.
The only thing you have established is that gaza is indeed in the midst of a war and that resources are scarce for people there and lots of people are dying which is exactly what you would expect in a war.
Just because you want something to be true doesn't make it so. Israel isn't to blame for what has happened in gaza. Unless you claim having an interest in not being massacred, kidnapped and raped is unreasonable.
> The idea that hamas isn't stealing all the aid is ludicrous.
Bro what the fuck are they going to do with enough stolen food to feed an entire nation? It's not as if they can sell it. World's biggest mukbang tiktok stream?
You're either wilfully blind or unspeakably obtuse. Open your eyes or shut your mouth.
"a supercomputer inside a camera that fits in your pocket" stopped being a novelty 15 years ago. We call it just "phone" now!
"lying flat on a table" is a critical feature for a device that on a daily basis lays on the table.
If it clanks and thuds every time you press it (and pressing it is the only way to use it) while lying on the table, then it is bad design that should be addressed.
I legit don't think I have even once used my phone lying on a table. Ergonomically that makes no sense. But then again I neither use my iPad nor Macbook lying flat on a table either, so what do I know...
Huh, that shocks me. I'd say half my day my phone is on my desk here. I'll occasionally swipe/tap it to deal with notifications and various other things.
But I came up using Nexus/Pixels, which had an "always on" display very early, a great UI around "glanceability" putting all kinds of useful and interesting things front and center, a much better Swipe keyboard, and a much more functional notifications experience, so maybe that trained this behavior.
Do you not? Do you just... leave your phone in your pocket all day?
> It's a push to bring international financial systems up to date
It's not a push in any sense of the word. And outside of the US quite a few of financial institutions are "up to date" in most of the areas that matter to people.
> there is no need to reinvent judiciary and executive institutions in this step.
Strange how "up to date" inevitably involves rediscovering all the reasons those exist in the first place and why the "outdated" institutions do the things they do.
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