Importantly, the success of the Beetle came after the Nazis. They built the factory using confiscated union funds as well as having people pay instalments for cars which they would never get, built two or three Beetles, then switched production over to war-time production, Kübelwagen. After the war the unions effectively took over the whole plant… and also bought a couple of farms to make sure workers and families had enough to eat. Most of that is gone now but they still have their own butchery, VW part number 199 398 500 A is a saussage.

For reference.

Water is a human right. Quoth Article 11, (1) ICESCR:

The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions. The States Parties will take appropriate steps to ensure the realization of this right, recognizing to this effect the essential importance of international co-operation based on free consent.

“food” here can be safely assumed to include “water”. “Everyone” means “also people who can’t afford shoelaces”. There’s exactly one country in the world which didn’t ratify the ICESCR and it’s the US.

Regarding “uniquely evil”: Yeah I’m definitely boycotting Chiquita (United Fruit) and Bacardi harder, both are still, effectively, whining about having their slave plantations expropriated. Both aren’t exactly hard to do their bananas are more expensive than no-brand organic ones over here, and Bacardi, well there’s plenty of good rum, Bacardi ain’t one of them. If you ever make a Cuba Libre with Bacardi I shall explode into tirades.

Plenty actually, like former slaves from plantations which sold products to Nestle.

…it’s part of the reason why Nestle is currently lobbying the EU to not dilute the supply chain act, those kinds of cases are a PITA for them, and the documentation they need to do for the supply chain act is exactly what they need to nib cases in the bud, “Here’s the inspections we did, here are transcripts of anonymous interviews with random workers at the plantation”, “If something slipped between the cracks we deeply regret that but we did do our due diligence, plaintiff’s beef is with their ex boss, not with us”.

It is absolutely more expensive to pay an army of lawyers to defend yourself than it is to pay workers proper local wages and document that. Not to mention that people who run slave plantations don’t share their extra profit with Nestle.

The other reason is that they don’t want smaller companies to have a competitive advantage: Smaller companies are not subject to those kinds of lawsuits, and also the ones complaining about the supply chain act. Nestle is also not at all keen on a consumer boycott from Africa.

a best guess as to what the next instruction or data it needs will be

More precisely it’s speculating on the results of a yet to be executed (but already known) instruction, e.g. whether a branch will be taken or not, and begins to execute instructions in that branch before the final verdict of whether it will be taken is done. If it guessed right, it can just continue, if it guessed wrong, it has to cover its tracks, making sure that what it did is in no way observable. It’s the latter part, “in no way observable”, that all these security failures are about: If you can somehow observe that stuff, you might be able to observe stuff you’re not supposed to see because the branch speculatively taken was “nope, you’re not allowed to do this”.

All that might be hard to grasp without an understanding how modern CPUs execute instructions, which very much is not “an instruction at a time”, Computerphile has excellent videos about pipelining and branch prediction.

Ukraine didn’t even want to join NATO. Before the invasion, that is. Also Russia doesn’t get to tell other countries which alliances it can and cannot join, what are you, an imperialist or something?

I think people downvote quite more readily to show disagreement here, not in the least because downvoted comments don’t get buried.

And, like, seriously. If you can’t even muster thoughts and prayers, if you can’t even muster being indifferent, can’t muster simply not leaving a comment at all, but have to shout your disapproval of Ukraine existing as a sovereign state from the rooftops, you’re an asshole. Unambiguously.

In this case, probably an attention troll.

When you’re baking bread you want 1% of flour weight salt, plus minus a bit. For a quite standard bread made with 500g flour that’s 5g, being off by “a couple of grams” ranges from none at all to twice as much. With a cheap kitchen scale there’s no issue landing at 4.5-5.5g which is adequate. It’s the rest of the ingredients you can and should adjust as needed but I’m still going to measure out 300g of water because that’s the low end of what I want to put in.

But that’s not actually the main issue, the issue is convenience up to plain possibility: The thing I actually weigh the most often is tagliatelle, 166g, a third of a pack, doesn’t need to be gram-accurate just ballpark. Try measuring differently-sized nests of tagliatelle by volume, I dare you. Spaghetti you can eyeball, but not that stuff.

Which is why NFTs work. They’re refreshingly honest: They represent nothing of any kind of value, yet are valued. Something something fetishism.

Obvious troll is obvious.

Certainly!

It depends on the density of the ingredient, as well as the packing density, e.g. coarse vs. fine salt makes quite a difference.

Which is why it’s silly to use volume in cooking which is why Americans are doing it.

Especially because programming is quite fucking literally giving computers instructions, despite what you believe keyboard monkeys do. You wanker!

What? You think “developers” are some kind on mythical beings that possess the mystical ability of speaking to the machines in cryptic tongues?

First off, you’re contradicting yourself: Is programming about “giving instructions in cryptic languages”, or not?

Then, no: Developers are mythical beings who possess the magical ability of turning vague gesturing full of internal contradictions, wishful thinking, up to right-out psychotic nonsense dreamt up by some random coke-head in a suit, into hard specifications suitable to then go into algorithm selection and finally into code. Typing shit in a cryptic language is the easy part, also, it’s not cryptic, it’s precise.

Oh great you’re one of them. Look I can’t magically infuse tech literacy into you, you’ll have to learn to program and, crucially, understand how much programming is not about giving computers instructions.

Lots of techies loved the internet, built it, and were all early adopters. Lots of normies didn’t see the point.

With AI it’s pretty much the other way around: CEOs saying “we don’t need programmers, any more”, while people who understand the tech roll their eyes.

Shovel vendors scrambling for solid ground as prospectors start to understand geology.

…that is, this isn’t yet the end of the AI bubble. It’s just the end of overvaluing hardware because efficiency increased on the software side, there’s still a whole software-side bubble to contend with.

Escape next to 1 is also underappreciated. It’s how vi was meant to be used.

Nah. The usual Stirner pictures (google exists, btw) are simply pictures of other people. No asking ChatGPT involved, just grab them.

The way you described it, “imagery of real people” is straight-up misleading: No likeness of any real person was generated. There’s no photos of him, how could his likeness possibly be generated if noone knows what he actually looks like.

Noone knows what Max Stirner looked like, either, yet we’re somehow using portraits of him. That’s the kind of thing we’re looking at here, and RetroBytes is being very transparent about it. Certainly more so than random publishing houses printing purported Stirner portraits on books.

“I couldn’t find a photo, here’s what ChatGPT thinks he looks like”. ChatGPT then generates a Danish-looking guy presumably on the basis of a Danish-sounding name. You make it sound like RetroBytes faked video footage or something.