Coolkidbozzy
joined 3 years ago
If you aren't part of a union in the US, you're probably working without a contract in an agreement called 'at will' employment where this is 100% legal. This is how the vast majority of jobs operate
"Since 1880" is misleading, as it was likely hotter than any month since the last interglacial period
seems to completely ignore that lack of regulation on AI watermarks (outside of China). All future datasets will be polluted with AI output, worsening accuracy. The more "AI" (large language models) grow as a field, the worse the problem will get
the cold war turned every civil war into a proxy war with at least one large power (the US) prolonging conflicts and fuelling large death tolls by supplying weapons to the right-wing, if not directly intervening
vietnam/cambodia/laos, both afghanistan wars, angola/namibia, liberia, sierra leone, syria, ukraine, both congo wars, occupation of lebanon, libya, yemen, and the years of lead are some examples of this
less nations legally declare war on each other now because declaring war requires UN backing, but the cold war was a violent extension of imperialism that never ended and a lot of people have been killed