Disaster

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[–] Disaster 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'd hoped nobody would come to the conclusion that was the core argument, but it is a consideration.

And I would like to draw attention to the totalitarian nature of our attitudes towards suicide. It's been enforced heartlessly for a very long time - if you commit suicide, you'll go someplace worse. It's this, it's that. All ultimately to remove the last escape for people who are in some form of extreme physical, mental, emotional or existential pain to the point where they don't believe there's another solution.

I'd sooner discuss why we have those attitudes - maybe it's so we get a free pass to be extractive and shitty whilst simultaneously denying the people we abuse even the dignity of leaving on their own terms.

[–] Disaster 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Suicide is not assisted, leaves a mess for those that discover a corpse, EMT's and others to clean up. Someone's suffering might end when they jump in front of a train but the train driver's suffering only just begins at that point.

Suicide is often an unmanaged, chaotic process which causes trauma. It also often fails whilst leaving those that attempt it in bad physical shape. A law like this reduces the necessity of discussing, normalizing or enabling suicide because there is a safe and properly counseled path out of a no-win situation for those that truly need it. A policy on containment when there are probably household cleaners that could do the job effectively with a small amount of chemistry knowledge is absolutely insane - and if someone truly is in that much pain, they'll find a way. Families and loved ones also have time to work through grief and loss rather than getting the wind knocked out of them when they hear the news.

The fact that we've hit a point where we can even have a discussion about this is probably something that should be celebrated, rather than being so totalitarian and controlling that we effectively force people to live even when they're in enormous pain.

[–] Disaster 1 points 1 month ago

Adam Tooze just gave an address in Zurich and talks about this very question.. apparently China is very well aware of this issue and is currently "working on it"

[–] Disaster 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Disaster 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They know exactly who is to blame. But that would involve some degree of self-reflection so, on with the show.. i guess.

[–] Disaster 3 points 2 months ago

Not really, unless you directly purchase the shares, you get no proxy voting rights on corporate governance.

When you have an investment account, do you know who does take your money and hold the corporate governance rights? The fund managers.

[–] Disaster 0 points 2 months ago

OWui has a search module which can be enabled. For me, running it entirely offline is more or less the draw. I think it also supports RAG search, although I don't know how "good" it is.. mostly I was just after a little magic box to play with.

Now, if only enterprise glass GPU's weren't so power hungry and expensive..

[–] Disaster 30 points 2 months ago

ah yes.. "I was only following orders" - Otto Adolf Eichmann

[–] Disaster 7 points 2 months ago

Maybe real estate?

[–] Disaster 8 points 2 months ago

Just as Chris Hedges predicted.

[–] Disaster 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So this is another "Affluezna" watershed moment, I guess?

[–] Disaster 30 points 3 months ago (14 children)

What a piece of shit. I hope he gets the book thrown at him.

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