To be fair all kings initially became kings exactly the way Trump is trying to do. No matter how they try to paint it as a God-given right or create elaborate origin myths, it all started with violence, marrying into power, betrayal, political scheming and a lot of inbreeding.

It’s kind of appropriate that a kingdom recognizes this (although that was probably not what they were trying to do).

I can’t imagine how sternly worded our letter to Russia is going to be! Scary stuff.

Might not be the biggest risk to your life but it’s 2.3% out of 55 Millions death (so, just to put things into perspective, we’re talking 1.6M deaths per year).

Besides, the risk is not only death directly in an accident. For those 33% who died from heart diseases: stress is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and the paper does mention specifically work stress as a risk factor

The risk of a cardiovascular event was higher in patients with a history of social isolation (OR, 2.47), marital stress (OR, 2.28), work stress (OR, 3.2), childhood abuse (OR, 2.78), or trauma (OR, 2.67).

Again not all of it will be due to commuting to work, but raising your stress levels by having you commute needlessly in traffic is not good for your health even if you don’t die in a car crash.

How does the madman theory work when your head honcho is an actual, bona fide madman? Don’t go anywhere, we’ll find out right after this quick commercial war!

Like, you know when you are walking and suddenly they Hulk out and break your shoes? Man I hate foot-boners!

Awesome, isn’t it?

Turns out that if the government is controlling the narrative by threatening, harassing or jailing whoever dares go against it, people will only read about the good things!

Wouldn’t it be great if the US did the same thing? Could we all become a happy place like China if we tried a bit harder to make our country… I dunno… great again?

You’re doing it wrong. You’re meant to look at people who are happier than you and think smugly “ha… ignorants!”

A few slaps on the butt (assisted by a carpet beater when the occasion demands it) will usually do it. At least that’s how my mom did it with us.

“You! Have! To be! Good! To! Your! Sister/neighbor/dog!”

(EDIT: /s if not clear)

yes, but which one is more likely to try to invade Sweden, grab the Nobel Peace Prize and take it to Trump with blood still dripping from it?

thank you for raising awareness on this, I had no clue

I want to boycott Lockheed Martin but man… I was really looking forward to getting that Black Hawk helicopter for Xmas! No, but really, a few of the companies in this list are a relative surprise (Bcom, AirBnB), others are well known pieces of s*t, a few are literally in the military industry and are probably involved in every conflict in the world (or they are actively trying to)

translation from Russian: they will keep bombing schools and hospitals in Ukraine, but now it’s going to be a “reaction” just because they were provoked

“he’s no longer the sensitive man and caring lover that I used to know”

That would be… horrifyingly effective. Just the thought makes me want to bleach my brain

" Under the mighty gaze of our Beloved Supreme Leader, steel folded and the Great Warship itself bowed. Cower and tremble, enemies of our Powerful State!"

I was not blaming your country at all, you’re more than doing your part. It’s just frustrating.

Thinking of the families of the victims, I hope that knowing they are not forgotten and people are trying to uncover the truth about what happened will at least provide some closure.

The Netherlands and Australia want the ICAO Council to order Russia to enter into talks on possible reparations

“enter into talks on possible reparations”. Absolutely brutal, I wouldn’t want to be Russia right now…

and he would have done it too! If only that Biden stopped interfering and ruining the economy. /s

I think that’s already uncomfortably close to reality.

A fully AI company was already tried as an experiment. There is also a company that appointed an AI CEO but I suspect this one is a publicity stunt. The experiment was a “failure” by the way, with AI agents only completing less than 20% of the tasks in the fake company and with some hilarious mishaps. But 20% of a company tasks being done in full autonomy by (not specifically trained) AI is scary.

Right now, various socials are full of AI generated fake engagement, images and videos. Meta is offering AI-powered ads. The obvious question I see asked every time, also here on Lemmy, is: if most of Facebook becomes a zombie world where comments and fake engagement is all LLMs, who would buy those Meta ads? That question was actually what inspired this wildly successful (-27 votes and counting!) showerthought of mine: this fake engagement only makes sense if Meta thinks we’ll give AI more and more agency to choose the products we buy and (eventually) buy them on our behalf. So it’s going to be AI convincing other AIs to buy. Our money becomes sentient, so to speak,

Crazy talk, right? Well…

Thanks! I’ll try longer showers.