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  • On 6 and 9 August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively, during the final days of World War II. The aerial bombings killed 150,000 to 246,000 people. (Copied from wiki)

    The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, according to Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Atul Gawande. Estimates are already between 600,000 and 750,000 so far and counting.

    This administration’s policies are already killing people around the world and has already outnumbered that of actual nuclear attacks.










  • MrEff@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldjames
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    As your tab is auto charged to your biometrics and the bartender points to the door you decide to get the last words in-

    “If something is verifiable sentient then I might change my tune, until then robots can fuck off!”

    Another patron gasps at your lashing out, “did he just use the R-word? I’m so sorry bartender that you have to hear that. Just remember -not all humans.”

    The bouncer approaches you and starts to corral you to the door. “Sir, it’s time for you to go”

    You finish off your final rant from the doorway, “Robotic life will still be a rape baby foisted onto us by corporate technocrats!”

    The door is closed on you. Inside, the bartender’s emotion chip glows, nearing short circuit. The other patron consoles them and tells them, “if you need to take a minute and collect your emotions, I understand. It is a long and hard road to equality.”


  • MrEff@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldjames
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    I immediately imagine a scenario 100 years in the future with you in a bar, slightly drunk and provoked by the young’ns to get the old man to rant against the Silicos.

    One of the patrons overhears your offensively biocentric rant and asks you to check you DNA privilege and to stop using life exclusive language and to consider the feeling of silico-life forms and their struggles for equality.

    You then mock them with a silver-face impression “SoRrY, cOuLd NoT cOmPuTe” while doing robot arms.

    The bar tender, who is a synthetic, is on the verge of tears and asks you to leave…






  • Oddly, yes.

    Percentages also add together in partials. As in 10%+5%+2% = 17%

    So, you start with the 10% by moving the decimal over 83.27 becomes 8.327

    Then add half of that (5%) to its self and get 12.49 (rounded)

    Then take the 10% number and move the decimal over once more (1%) for 0.833 and double it (from 1% to 2%) and get 1.666 and add that to your running total to get your answer of 14.16 (rounding)

    And when I calculator check this I got 14.1559.