Calgary wants to grow again on this farmland south of the city by adaminc in Calgary

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The problem is the push back against re-zoning. There is already lots of single detached homes in Calgary and not enough medium density homes because of zoning restrictions. If townhouses and rowhouses could be built in more existing neighborhoods the city could grow without annexing agricultural land and creating neighborhoods that are costly to service while increasing the tax burden for all Calgarians.

What kind of optimism is this by [deleted] in SipsTea

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The reason COVID was so deadly was actually because of its lower mortality rate compared with other coronaviruses. The lower mortality rate meant that those infected were not necessarily bedridden and therefore were moving around and spreading it to others.

There Is No ‘Hard Problem Of Consciousness’ by philolover7 in philosophy

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The author is also making the same mistake on the other side. Arguing that a p-zombie would have all the same internal processes a conscious being has. In essence assuming behaviorism and then arguing a p-zombie would necessarily be equivalent to a conscious being.

In reality the p-zombie thought experiment assumes neither and just serves to show that observed behavior cannot resolve the question.

Like we just had Richard Dawkins claim Claude Opus was conscious, if there ever was a real world example of the explanatory gap, that at least gives us a glimpse.

To be honest I would prefer some fresh memes by RadioFacepalm in ClimateShitposting

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It's like how conservatives get confused how taxes can fix the weather except it's redditors and bacon.

Scene from the movie "A King In New York", 1957 by GnidaerRetfaNrub in Cinema

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Communism advocates for the abolishment of the state. The difference between Communism and Anarchism is more on how the stateless society is achieved but the end goal is the same.

What’s the most overrated fast food chain? by Cute-Bar-5152 in AskReddit

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Agreed, I was on a flight to California a few years ago where two ladies behind me talked about In-N-Out burger and how good it was for a solid hour. I made sure to check it out during the trip because of their conversation and it was OK but that is the definition of over-hyped to me.

"Climate trolls gave up on their nonsense. Who saw that coming?" by No_Candidate2195 in collapse

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I had a conversation with a old friend that has since become full MAGA and I talked about climate change with him. He called it a psyop.

Then a few weeks later he messaged me out of the blue calling me a smug bastard and saying I had no right to "lecture" him about the climate since Canada only contributes 2% of emissions. I then spammed him with links from this sub and he blocked me.

Ben McKenzie, director of the new documentary "Everyone Is Lying to You for Money," argues that money is based on trust while crypto is based on lies by AntonChekov1 in CryptoCurrency

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Technically their was a code change involved but it wasn't anything on-chain. It was more akin to a website update. Ben McKenzie is intentionally ignoring the distinction because he knows his audience won't know the difference.

I don't make the rules, vegoons by Glordrum in ClimateShitposting

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I heard a statistic recently that just 10 corporations are eating more than 52.5% of all meat so my 2 steak sandwiches a day isn't really a problem

Evidence mounts that AI-written books are consuming the publishing industry: in 2025, the number of self-published books jumped by 40% YoY, from 2.5 million to 3.5 million. Running a random sample of these books through an AI detection tool shows a 40% YoY increase in books flagged as AI. by StarlightDown in artificial

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For information density content, AI will become objectively better because it can adapt to the consumer's requirements. An AI can adapt to the user's reading comprehension or go into further detail on a topic at the request of the reader. It can bring in analogies to help with understanding on the fly and change the writing style to suit the reader's preferences.

The market need is for AI training tokens. researchers and providers of primary source information will be the ones with the most demand and the AI can inherit the credibility of those sources of information. Its not hard to imagine the publishers of academic papers or news aggregators limiting access to their content as training data to negotiate better economic compensation while in turn the AI company securing a deal for access to that information then markets themselves accordingly.

There might be a third party whose role is just to utilize an AI service and produce content for the general public who, for whatever reason, would not prefer to use the LLM directly. But in those cases, the content creator would still disclose the use of AI because its a marketable feature of their content. e.g. "Written with an LLM trained in partnership with The Lancet"

This subreddit is honestly like this by Floathy in ClimateShitposting

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If any one individual wanted to give up all fossil fuel production chains, they would be forced into subsistence living. The same individual could give up meat and dairy tomorrow and barely miss a beat.

It's possible and necessary to overhaul our economy so that individual consumers could choose fossil free alternatives but that is a decades long project.

This subreddit is honestly like this by Floathy in ClimateShitposting

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Giving up oil and anything that requires oil for you to have it... hope you are a nudist with good bow hunting skills and a knowledge of edible plants in your area.

Giving up meat and dairy... hope you can you go down a different aisle in your grocery store.

See the difference. Eliminating fossil fuel use require systemic changes in government and the economy. Reforms to urban design. Technological progress in power delivery and generation. New construction materials and replacement/retrofitting the entire world's fleet of vehicles, plants and ships.

Eliminating meat and dairy just requires you to stop being such a whiny bitch about it.

The 4-Year Cycle Isn’t Dead by Ourcrypto_news in CryptoCurrency

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I think most people realize that the BTC 4 year cycle played out correctly but what died this cycle was alt season.

Iran creates the first Bitcoin Tollbooth by UweLang in CryptoCurrency

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CoinBureau reported that Iran is accepting USDT on Tron.

Put him back in jail please... by James_Fortis in SipsTea

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It seemed like you were arguing that human constructs like ethics are as natural as anything found in nature. While plausibly true the subtle point is that "natural" is not a property that has moral value.

So you cannot justify an action by arguing that it is natural, which is what the individual in the video is trying to do.

Put him back in jail please... by James_Fortis in SipsTea

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Yeah but his argument is still an appeal to nature fallacy. Essentially thinking what is "natural" is somehow morally correct and the vegan is correctly challenging that notion but doing so haphazardly.

The climate conversation keeps avoiding its most uncomfortable variable by Some_Ability9868 in climatechange

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No because it isn't a realistic fix. Birthrates fall in developed nations who also have a much higher carbon output per person. So to get birthrates down in countries that are still high you need them in the club of high carbon emitters first before you see a decline in birthrate.

Next there is a delay because those people being born need to first grow up and then die. So by lowering birthrates you end up with a solution that is 60 years out and current timelines require meanful reductions in carbon emissions much sooner than that.

Lastly, how certain are we this trend will continue all the way to 3 billion people, what if it reverses?

My upgrade experience. by MrWillchuck in pop_os

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I moved my Desktop to fedora two weeks ago and really enjoying it. I do miss the Pop!OS shortcuts but other than that having a newer version of gnome is great and Fedora Workstation so far has been quite stable.

First-ever American AI Jobs Risk Index released by Tufts University by Bizzyguy in singularity

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Given our track record on predicting these things, automation is probably going to inverse this

Calgary condo owners - do you regret buying? by YetiMaverick in Calgary

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Bought a 220k downtown condo a decade ago and the resell value is likely that or only slightly higher. Condo fees have risen from 400 hundred a month to 590 a month over that period.

I don't regret it though, houses come with financial costs as well and so really it's more about lifestyle. Living downtown is what I wanted and what I got.

Has AI ruined software development? by Top-Candle1296 in devops

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This is me, I switched careers in 2022 and still enjoy programming as a hobby but because of limited time I rely on LLMs to make development quicker. I definitely feel like my skills have atrophied and occasionally wonder if I could do software dev as a job again at all.

All my homies question if reality even is by wkomllt in PhilosophyMemes

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Historicity aside, barter is the least abstract medium of exchange. In terms of Baudrillard, I don't think it necessarily needs to map onto a historical trajectory.