I recommend you visiting the Brazilian region of Pantanal, if possible travel through Mato Grosso do Sul -> Mato Grosso -> southern Pará where it transitions into the Amazon.

You will see vast areas of cattle ranching, soybeans plantation used for cattle feed, and other crops that can be used as cattle feed. All that area used to be the Pantanal and Amazon, now transformed to grow beef.

If we would reduce the calories wasted on beef, this area could still have a lot more native vegetation. Of course, it's purely wishful thinking because this ship has sailed, beef consumption will take a long time to stop growing, these farms will fight for their lives to keep producing, and we've lost a huge area of incredible nature to eat some steaks and burgers.

I don't know which one is worse: to grow soybeans to feed cattle or to use as biodiesel.

What is really upsetting, the speed with which jundles are replaced with oil palm.

Humans have mastered exploitation of everything: the nature, the livestock and other humans.

People starving come from parts for the world affected by global warming, which unsustainable farming is one of the reasons. Which, in turn, crates mass migration issues. Which, in turn, is a major reason behind massive shift of Overton window and the current world situation we're in.

Just leave the bot running on your home PC, a Telegram bot can be programmed in any language of your choice that can communicate via a network.

If you aren't a programmer it's also the kind of small project that LLMs are great at, there are many examples ingested in their training data.

Stockholm is a very quiet city, people still wear noise-cancelling headphones all the time.

No, they won't, punishment is never better than good design that incentivises and directs how something ought to be used.

Jaywalking is even a misdemeanor in some areas of the USA, it doesn't stop it from happening at all.

That was a very narrow window of time, mostly the time between the fall of the USSR ending the Cold War up to 9/11, so about a 10 years period since the end of WW2.

Before that the USA was aiding and fostering violent dictatorships, helping them to perform coups all around if they were amenable to the US's interests (aka: they were anti-commies) like in Latin America, Iran itself, etc.; bombing countries where their right-wing coups failed like in Vietnam during its independence period after French rule, for example.

There were fuckups too but the declared goals were usually not bad. Now declared goals seem bad. The language is the language of hate. It's a big change. and this is not north korea. it's one of the most powerful country and definitely most influential in the world

See for yourself compared to the past https://youtu.be/X6GRMdn8ZD4?t=6

And now tell me it's all the same as before and I'm burying my head in the sand.

Naw, sorry, reading through this thread you're burying your head in the sand; sorry, just calling balls and strikes.

I say that as a person who is out in the streets in the US doing what we can against the current government. But to be honest, we were out in the streets before. The difference is that you were at brunch and didn't notice.

I wasn't asking you.

> But to be honest, we were out in the streets before.

Who is "we"? Do you remember your past lives? If you are fighting against every government when you will realize you should maybe just move to another country?

I'm not american or from US but this reads like mental illness

The enormous, diverse country excuse is a good thought-terminating cliche but doesn't really hold up when the population of such enormous, diverse country is well concentrated along the coasts, with very dense rich pockets.

Sweden, for example, is tiny in population compared to the US but geographically its size covers from north Florida to NYC, with barely 10m people it's able to have great public transportation, fiber coverage to 80-85+% of buildings, cellphone coverage to 98% of the population even in remote locations.

Being enormous like the US might leave a vast area of low density population centres but it doesn't excuse at all that the areas where the vast majority of people live are dense enough to have these services very well covered. That doesn't happen though so the issue isn't being an enormous, diverse country at all.

I'm an immigrant in Scandinavia, originally from a hot country, in my experience a 73C steam sauna is quite tolerable for a 2*15 min session.

The first time I was in a sauna after moving was a bit harder than after getting used to it but doable.

Nowadays I just love them, my friends and I built a couple of saunas to leave by the lake in their summerhouses, the cravings of going from hot -> very cold, and back to the heat is hard to explain, and I totally recommend it.

It's sensory overload as a reaction to cold dark grey murky winters.

Don't they consume less of the token quota in case the subagents are running cheaper models like Sonnet and Haiku compared to Opus?

Correct—I just wouldn't want folks to mistakenly think that the context fill % corresponds 1:1 with session token use.

Our current incentives system is absolutely amoral, there's no financial/economic benefit for being moral, it's the opposite: being moral is penalised since you'd be disadvantaged competing with others who don't care about it.

I completely agree with you, moral progress should be incentivised somehow...

This has typically been done with social processes. The community publicly condemns or celebrates things according to how they fit our morals.

The problem is, there is no public town square anymore where we can shame the people who are responsible. The billionaires/megacorps control the media through which they communicate to the public.

In other words, the immoral actors have captured the systems meant to socially control them, and are instead using them to temper the moral instincts of society.