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Apologies for the spoilers for anyone who hasn't indulged yet.

Also, with reference to the above, by far the most darkly realistic thing about that story was the company selling killbots deliberately engineering a shouting match/fight between two rival nations/enterprises at their head offices just so they could then sell more killbots to both of them.

Remember, it's "peacekeepers", not "killer robots".

Just goes to show that the propagation of digital misinformation is as much an issue in football as anywhere else. Also, for all our sakes, it really had better be misinformation in this case.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj93e40znl3o The world could see hugely damaging sea-level rise of several metres or more over the coming centuries even if the ambitious target of limiting global warming to 1.5C is met, scientists have warned. Nearly 200 countries have pledged to try to keep the planet's warming to 1.5C, but the researchers warn that this should not be considered "safe" for coastal populations. They drew their conclusion after reviewing the most recent studies of how the ice sheets are changing - and how they have changed in the past. But the scientists stress that every fraction of a degree of warming that can be avoided would still greatly limit the risks. ....The 2015 Paris climate agreement saw the world's nations agree to keep global temperature rises "well below" 2C - and ideally 1.5C. That has often been oversimplified to mean 1.5C is "safe", something glaciologists have cautioned against for years. The authors of the new paper, published in the journal Communications Earth and Environment, external, draw together three main strands of evidence to underline this case. A needed bit of clarity from the climate science corps, though of course it isn't really what those wanting to pretend there isn't a problem want to hear.

It's the basic lack of any kind of honesty of purpose that really gets me above all else. This is all going on, anyone with eyes and a brain can see it's going on, and yet they continue to lie and play injured innocent about it all.

And if only other nations with similar or greater power than that bloc would actually put their ridiculous puerile nationalist sentiments aside, at least on matters like this.

With great power comes great responsibility. AI already confers great power, will confer more in the future, and a lot of those governing it now (except in China, perhaps) have zero sense of responsibility - exactly as you say. The more groundbreaking technology like this is developed, the more our society will have to change in order to use it effectively, or it could (and in all likelihood will) end catastrophically.

That's going a bit too far IMO. LCFC are well known outside the region too.

Good to see the usual print media suspects being entirely rational regarding the agreement reached between the EU and UK yesterday. It's interesting that they didn't make such noise about sovereignty etc when they were practically begging the UK to hop into bed with people of upstanding moral character such as Felon#47 from across the pond. I wonder why that is?

These are all excellent points, but tbh I'm still looking for an answer to the question I asked because I honestly don't know myself - what way is there to balance the food based needs of people while maintaining necessary biodiversity for the future? A crash in populations either way is really unacceptable.

As per above, I'm not sure how muchmore sustainable those independent operators are in the mid to long term anyway. While we need sustainability, is it possible for such a ban to happen without causing famine issues in a lot of different places? I would have thought fish farming to build controlled and sustainable stocks would be the best solution for the time being.

Possibly. Or possibly they might be thinking such agreements are, while distasteful to some, better than the death, blood, loss, pain and intestines (hanging out) that stood in place of such agreements when they were of age. I guess it's difficult to know for sure, given the dead can't really be contacted for their opinion.

Tbh I think such measures would have the same end result in terms of habitat and biodiversity loss, just a bit more slowly with regular fishing boats than supertrawlers. That being said, perhaps the UK is closer to actually considering sustainable solutions than other places. I'd like to be proven wrong/ right there.

I have to say that I find the inference that the UK is somehow significantly more ethical or altruistic on this matter (depending on need and opportunity, and along with a lot of other biodiversity related matters) than the EU or any other human group rather lacking in substance beyond mere "patriotic" assertion.

... if it's any consolation, the way those fish stocks are being overfished by everyone (including UK fishermen) it will no longer be a problem in a couple of decades anyway. There will be a rather larger problem to replace it, but not that one.

You would think so, but I'm not sure what this has to do with Trump Jr being his usual dickish self.

Exactly. And relative to a civilisation that has managed - by whatever method - to master travel over hundreds or thousands of light years, I think it's highly likely that our more tribal concepts and viewpoints on life would be considered entirely backwards to them.

Reading a particular sci fi novel right now, and this paragraph stood out. "Fleshers [humans as they are right now] used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of ‘competition’…as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn’t have had the power, or the wit, or the imagination, to rid itself of obsolete biological imperatives. Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice." I do think a lot of our preconceived ideas about alien spacefaring civilisation, if indeed there is such thing any out there, is based on our own (relatively) primitive mindset towards life and so is in all likelihood totally bullshit.

Don't worry, the progeny has it covered.

...I wonder where he got that particular line from?

Yeah, as per above there appears to be a certain amount of shenanigans going on, perhaps.

Good question to ask anyone given the current world we live in tbh.

The public voting patterns were certainly... interesting last night.

Yeah, I think this one is a case of an egotist actually making a good point but for entirely the wrong reasons (eg. It's all about him).