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UK’s richest family on trial in Switzerland for human trafficking, confiscating staff passports, paying as little as £7/day
  • Why do the merchandise sales not count? Are they not a product of her creative writing? Many webnovelists sell merch. One of my favourite webnovelists semi-recently hired an editor, would that disqualify them?

    I'm a little confused on how you are defining the conditions. If the artist can only count their personal contributions than I don't think it is possible in any sense. No person no matter how hard working or talented can personally generate a billion in profit.

  • Patriarchy harms boys and men, too. Helping them realize this is key to erasing toxic masculinity
  • It probably is. Not everyone has a robust education, misinformation is rampant, and there is always a new generation still learning the world. At a glance the word "feminism" appears as a movement just for women, so occasionally having headlines like this can help the misinformed or still learning to reevaulate their understanding.

    Some people are surprised to learn it is not just about women.

  • 85% of People Want Global Ban on Single-Use Plastics
  • Meat was sold in wax paper (butcher paper) for years before switching to plastic. Yes, plastic is superior in pretty much every non-environmental aspect, but waxed paper is hardly an impossible leap. Many smaller shops still use it today.

    Beer is sold in both cans and glass bottles, while still remaining cheaper than water in many places. How is beer able to remain cheap in a glass bottle but premade soup stock would not? Yes, glass bottle would increase shipping costs due to volume/weight/breakage, but I think the significance of this is greatly overstated.

    If beer can stay out of a plastic bottle while remaining cheap the other liquids can as well.

    The epoxy used in cans (and inside paper containers) may not be any better for you but it would be a enormous decrease in quantity of plastic compared to pure plastic containers.

  • The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates
  • That may all be true, but the amount of water used by these data centers is miniscule, and it seems odd to focus on it. The article cites Microsoft using 700,000 liters for ChatGPT. In comparison, a single fracking well in the same state might use 350,000,000 liters, and this water is much more contaminated. There are so many other, more substantive, issues with LLMs, why even bring water use up?

    Edit: If evaporative cooling uses less energy it might even be reducing total industrial water use, considering just how much water is used in the energy industry.

  • Animation of How the P90 Magazine Works [1:28]
  • The two dummy cartridges at the end of the magazine for the push I found to be an interesting design choice. Does anyone know of another magazine that uses a system like that? I'm also a little curious how easy it is to hand bomb rounds into the magazine.

  • First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says
  • I'd imagine they'd evetually design a jet purpose built for an AI that would be a lot cheaper than a human-oriented one. Removing the need for a cockpit with seats, displays, controls, oxygen, etc would surely reduce cost. It would also open the door for innovations in air-frame design previously impossible.

  • Addicted to being housed and fed
  • It is probably a good thing they aren't unified. If it was unified companies would, share, compare, rate and note. Forget just blacklisting someone from an industry, they'd use that system to blacklist people from employment altogether. Fuck giving corpos even more power.

  • Student loan repayment problems frustrate borrowers, prompting federal response
  • Agreeing that a debt exists and agreeing to pay back a debt are two different things. The budget doesn't argue whether the debt exists, just how and when it will be payed back. It is the difference between "Yes, I owe you $100, you'll get it back someday.", and "Yes, I owe you $100, and I've budgeted to pay you $20 a week for the next 5 week until we're square."

    The consitution guarantees the first part, but doesn't help much with the second. However, without the second part everything grinds to a halt.

  • Canadian Army needs to spend $220 million to replace gear donated to Ukraine, says general
  • We aren't sending more equipment because we don't have more. Canada's Army (and Navy, and Airforce) is destitute, and we had to scrape the barrel to find the equipment we did send. We do help with more than just equipment though - we have an ongoing mission training Ukrainian soldiers that has been operating since 2015.

  • The fashion industry is still pushing crazy thin body images
  • You're right that it is distasteful to encourage eating disorders, but assuming the model has an eating disorder is also distasteful. Some people are naturally that skinny. The problem is that the fashion industry makes it out to be far more realistic and achieveable than it is. However, it is still a hurtful thing to say. I look like that. I do not have an eating disorder. The OP's comment is insulting to me. I get shit on all the time for my weight and it really sucks. Insulting someone for being fat is horrible, but insulting someone for being skinny is 100% OK, right?