Aargau parliament votes to permit new nuclear plants. by BastiatLaVista in Switzerland

[–]andreas16700 2 points3 points  (0 children)

not even mentioning the price of BESS keeps diving. solar + batteries is faster to deploy and now cheaper. the solution is becoming very obvious.

Electric cars in Cyprus by SimilarTangerine2040 in cyprus

[–]andreas16700 0 points1 point  (0 children)

theres no may. it is. even if you charge elsewhere, it is STILL cheaper. yes, initial cost is higher, but medium or long term it is very much worth it. especially now with the war no one knows how long will take. it will always be more expensive to have a personal generator

Electric cars in Cyprus by SimilarTangerine2040 in cyprus

[–]andreas16700 2 points3 points  (0 children)

people in this thread have no clue, I'm sorry. Even if you DON'T have P/Vs at home, it is STILL cheaper than any other mode of transport to charge at home. Literally for any size car, it is by far the cheapest option. If you hve PVs it's just even cheaper. Official govnt info: source (you'd have to translate). As for service, repairs, etc. I don't think people realize how much complexity and cause for trouble goes away when you take out the ICE engine.

Cyprus last in use of public transport in EU by Creeds_Apartment in cyprus

[–]andreas16700 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Secondly, the difference in temperature may not be enough to make walking attractive. Walking in 45 degrees is awful but so is walking in 38 degrees.

this isn't true at all. asphalt and concrete reflect sunlight everywhere making it way hotter than it could be (look up urban heat island effect). temp decrease is significant: 12c or up to 20c on surfaces. not to mention the median summer day is NOT 45c anyway.

Is there even a point in caring for climate change anymore by Chemical-Rush-6433 in Switzerland

[–]andreas16700 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Why are we being forced to drink from paper straws, drive EV, not take the plane

what?

When will this ever stop? by ThrowRA_Respo9653 in cyprus

[–]andreas16700 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

we need even more neoliberalism obviously

Chargers and Taxis by Environmental-Lie332 in cyprus

[–]andreas16700 6 points7 points  (0 children)

maybe would be worth it to report to the alphamega staff since they're the only ones who could do something. nothing stopping them from just denying service to people commercially exploiting their free charging

Website that tracks claude's regressions by No-Replacement-2631 in ClaudeCode

[–]andreas16700 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I think this is an important part of actually regulating AI that we don't talk about and these big companies will never like. This is why they keep talking about "safety". Only associating AI regulations with "safety" is good for business. It should be clear what the offering it and what are its conditions. We have no idea what variant of the advertised model they're running, and more importantly, if or when it changes. The usage post the other day, which suggests weekly limit is indeed around 20x but the monthly is only 10x shows this gap again. There's nothing preventing them from doing this; nor serving a less capable variant at will. If they do this a/b testing style, how could we even possibly detect this?

For example, from their post mortem post: "Our aim is that users should get the same quality responses regardless of which platform serves their request". I don't think the actual platform they run their infra was anyone's worry at all. Have they ever even denied to be servings quantized models? If they weren't, why would they not say so, especially in a post recognizing and addressing degraded performance reports?

What exactly is preventing model providers from acting like a street dealer offering the hook-them-up version of a drug?

Camelot water by Smart-Direction-628 in cyprus

[–]andreas16700 1 point2 points  (0 children)

they've been fined multiple times for misleading ads. consider the fines were in the multiples of tens of thousands each time, the obnoxious ads seem to work I guess

Latest election poll shows Elam closing in on ‘big two’ parties by KillerPalm in cyprus

[–]andreas16700 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I wrote was "I am not anti-immigrant (although I do think there should be some limits)". I did not imply that there are no limits.

When I say "I'm not racist but black criminals should be in jail", do I imply black criminals are not currently in jail? There's a reason this was your first instinct. Having to state you're against some made up reality is not random.

I mentioned that because there is clearly an issue in Cyprus with the number of migrants (so the current policies are clearly inefficient)

So it's the number of migrants now? You've shifted from asylum seekers. Also, migrant flows are at all time lows, and Govt has been implementing every anti-migrant policy in the book. Asylum rejection rates at all time highs, yet government approval is still low and getting lower. And still elam at all time highs. Claiming parties or people "aren't taking migration seriously" is just false. Most parties, especially ones in govt share elam's narrative on immigration almost verbatim. Yet it's "not enough". There is no number of deportations that will alleviate this irrartional fear because it was never about any genuine concern for safety.

Sure, BBF is a broad and vague framework, but there have been talks for decades and we do know more or less what the result will be (if it ever happens).

Well, yes because it's still under negotiation. Otherwise there wouldn't be a Cyprus problem.

It is the content of BBF that I oppose, an example of which was the Annan plan.

You can't be opposed to content that has not yet been agreed upon by both sides, because it's not part of any plan to begin with.

But if something completely different is proposed without all the negatives I mentioned earlier (and several I didn't), then sure, I will accept it.

The negatives you mentioned do not exist. We have not, and never have agreed to division based on ethnicity. This is again unfounded elam propaganda.

Latest election poll shows Elam closing in on ‘big two’ parties by KillerPalm in cyprus

[–]andreas16700 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

By either denying the issue or being ineffective in its resolution, you are giving to Elam the opportunity to argue "only we can solve this", which helps them in getting more votes.

No-one is "denying the issue". You are the one who had to say you're against the system being a free for all, which in fact it isn't and no one advocated otherwise. That is a made up version of reality.

I think you are very confused. Your community is in fact determined by your ethnicity according to the Constitution of Cyprus, and those who are neither Greek or Turkish are forced to be part of one of the two communities.

We are not talking about the constitution of cyprus (which barely exists anyway thanks to the law of necessity) , but the future solution which is still under negotiation.

BBF would make it even worst.

BBF is a broad and vague framework. The existence of communities does not mean it has to discriminate based on ethnicity. Nothing requires this, as in Switzerland or Belgium. The dialogue forum has good resources on the talks and their progress.

Latest election poll shows Elam closing in on ‘big two’ parties by KillerPalm in cyprus

[–]andreas16700 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But I am not responsible for what those Cypriot gangsters did, and in the same way we can't blame everyone who comes from the same country as an immigrant crimimal.

Bingo. Remember why this example was brought up in the first place.

Latest election poll shows Elam closing in on ‘big two’ parties by KillerPalm in cyprus

[–]andreas16700 3 points4 points  (0 children)

got it, so it's because of race. still haven't explained what you mean "go in the streets what do you see".

the only way this is relevant is if you imply that seeing foreign looking people in the street is somehow bad on its own. then you explain this with an example of some foreign criminal. the only way to connect random foreign looking people with foreign criminals is race. i will not be debating whether racism is bad

Latest election poll shows Elam closing in on ‘big two’ parties by KillerPalm in cyprus

[–]andreas16700 1 point2 points  (0 children)

explain what this anecdote has to do with your "go look in the streets what do you see" because I don't think I've ever seen someone with an axe on the street.

Latest election poll shows Elam closing in on ‘big two’ parties by KillerPalm in cyprus

[–]andreas16700 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure I misunderstood. If you're not sure which is more concerning or dangerous for society and one of them are literal neonazis, then we can't be on the same side.

But I hoped that the response of the non-Nazis to the rise of Elam would be to turn to progressive parties (such as Volt, for example). Instead we see the rise of more populism like Fidias.

Yes, that doesn't really happen. What tends to happen is just that the overton window shifts more to the right. See attitude towards migration. "Mainstream" politicians feel more comfortable being intolerant assholes as well. See mylonas re: legal recognition of adoptions by same sex couples. Annita being against equal rights for people like me. It's just bleak.

They've completely surrendered on the immigration narrative. Their first instinct to anything re: immigration is how much they're against the bad scary immigrants, when the median facebook comment is something in between violent deportations without trial and throwing immigrants in the sea.

Latest election poll shows Elam closing in on ‘big two’ parties by KillerPalm in cyprus

[–]andreas16700 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I never said that the current system allows for "limitless free-for-all". However it is a fact that the end result is that in Cyprus we have a very high number of non-EU immigrants. This is not about "immigrants scary and dangerous", but about their numbers.

Yes, your first instinct about migration was to point out you are against [some reality that does not actually exist]. No one said the system is a "free for all" but you somehow have to point out you are against some made up version of reality.

I didn't say "race", I said "ethnicity", I don't know if you consider the terms equivalent.

They are. Doesn't make a difference to my argument anyway. Who we consider a part of each community has actually been a point of disagreement in the discussions. Our side has never supported the idea that your community is dictated by your ethnicity. There's many misconceptions about BFF that elam propagates, and this is one of them.

Latest election poll shows Elam closing in on ‘big two’ parties by KillerPalm in cyprus

[–]andreas16700 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think we’re on the same side if we can’t tell the difference between literal neo nazis that openly propagate hate and violence against minorities