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Weka posted:The west is not a monolith and does plenty of good things lol
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Weka posted:The west ...does plenty of good things. Cracked cracker brain. Degenerate rear end robber Baron civilization.
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You've got nothing more than a Greco-Roman and then Anglo-Saxon legacy of being the worst shittiest stupidest motherfuckers on the planet. Gj keeping up the tradition in the modern day. If Xerxes had nipped yall in the bud or Charles Martel lost we're in a 3000x better planet.
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Weka posted:The west is not a monolith and does plenty of good things. Often hand in hand with that neocolonialism but I would like a particular criticism before I condemn a thing. how is the phone app better than a book
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idk anything about the farming app but anytime i see some kind of tech product (especially western AI) used to help the global south my assumption until proven otherwise is that it's a way to give grant money to silicon valley at best and at worst, it's a way to someone trap them in some kind of western dependency or trojan horse some neoliberal policies that will let them buy it all up in a few years. the app could be good, but i can't tell from a 2 min video.
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May 14, 2024 07:02
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Weka posted:The west is not a monolith and does plenty of good things. Citation needed
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personally I like not having smallpoxThird World Reagan posted:how is the phone app better than a book it networks data to head off disease spreading. also it is much easier to use, you just point it at a plant basically. it's like saying how is a crossbow better than a longbow. any schmuck can use it. I don't know if you have ever tried to identify plant diseases but I have and I found it rather difficult.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:No....just no... Eh. Propaganda of the deed and all that. They're getting fewer by the generation, but there are still people in power who understand that the credibility granted by a genuine good deed now and again is quite useful for maintaining larger systems of exploitation. A right thing done for a wrong reason isn't really the highest priority to get Internet Mad about. There's plenty of wrong things done for wrong reasons left. e: also, an app is better than a book because making copies is free and you don't need to carry them around to hand out if there's mobile data and people have cell phones
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crepeface posted:idk anything about the farming app but anytime i see some kind of tech product (especially western AI) used to help the global south my assumption until proven otherwise is that it's a way to give grant money to silicon valley at best and at worst, it's a way to someone trap them in some kind of western dependency or trojan horse some neoliberal policies that will let them buy it all up in a few years. We have local apps and companies that do the same stuff. I prefer to support them because they don't funnel money to Silicon Valley. The funnel money to Cape Town, which is then funneled to off-shore tax havens.
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Weka posted:personally I like not having smallpox The bow comparison is not apt. Ease of use is doing some work here.
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Cassian of Imola posted:is there any evidence the app even works? this seems like an important question to answer before we get to slapfighting about whether The West has any redeeming qualities. I suspect that the app, much like other AI crap, doesn't accurately diagnose plant diseases, and this is a way to shuffle money around NGOs instead of just giving people books with colour illustrations
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Cassian of Imola posted:this seems like an important question to answer before we get to slapfighting about whether The West has any redeeming qualities. I suspect that the app, much like other AI crap, doesn't accurately diagnose plant diseases, and this is a way to shuffle money around NGOs instead of just giving people books with colour illustrations See if you teach them the information themselves and how to teach it then there won't be any jobs for NGOs and NGO-adjacent developers This seems a bit like when a lot of global south countries had places that could make the vaccines but because ~reasons~ they couldn't get the patents to do so
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https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1790359746790244703quote:In explaining why Niger is kicking out U.S. troops, Niger's prime minister tells "We didn't threaten them, we just made very clear that they had to do what we say or there would be major consequences."
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VoicesCanBe posted:https://twitter.com/John_Hudson/status/1790359746790244703 the US could have probably got what they wanted or close to it if they didn't deliberately insult Niger or treat them like a colonial subject
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bedpan posted:the US could have probably got what they wanted or close to it if they didn't deliberately insult Niger or treat them like a colonial subject on top of nobody at state believing in diplomacy at all anymore we're also just too racist to pull that off
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atelier morgan posted:on top of nobody at state believing in diplomacy at all anymore we're also just too racist to pull that off
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IDK why some people here object to NGOs like the FAO or the Nigeria based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (a CGIAR member) or universities. Who do you think should be doing agricultural research?Third World Reagan posted:The bow comparison is not apt. Seems way easier to use to me but perhaps you could say why you think that's not the case. Type in your location and the plant variety then point at the plant vs learn the signs and symptoms of a dozen diseases.
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Weka posted:IDK why some people here object to NGOs like the FAO or the Nigeria based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (a CGIAR member) or universities. Who do you think should be doing agricultural research? I'm just skeptical their app works because it's using machine learning to visually diagnose, like, root fungus when similar tech can't reliably identify a child standing in the road
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Cassian of Imola posted:I'm just skeptical their app works because it's using machine learning to visually diagnose, like, root fungus when similar tech can't reliably identify a child standing in the road iunno about diseases but I use two apps for birds and plants where I post a pic and it tells me which species it is
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tried to ID a seaweed and it said i was looking at a giant slug. I'm not putting my trust in technolalgae
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Psycho Society posted:tried to ID a seaweed and it said i was looking at a giant slug. I'm not putting my trust in technolalgae you need to switch to the back camera
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Weka posted:you need to switch to the back camera lmfao
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Cassian of Imola posted:I'm just skeptical their app works because it's using machine learning to visually diagnose, like, root fungus when similar tech can't reliably identify a child standing in the road actually you said it was probably just a way to shuffle money around NGOs, which if that's the case it's still good, give the FAO more money imo.
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Weka posted:you need to switch to the back camera gently caress
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Weka posted:you need to switch to the back camera 
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Weka posted:you need to switch to the back camera 
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Weka posted:you need to switch to the back camera drat
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Weka posted:you need to switch to the back camera
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Weka posted:you need to switch to the back camera lol cruel & unusual
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Weka posted:you need to switch to the back camera wow
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Weka posted:you need to switch to the back camera
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Weka posted:you need to switch to the back camera
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Weka posted:you need to switch to the back camera
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Weka posted:actually you said it was probably just a way to shuffle money around NGOs yeah because didn't think it worked. if it worked then it would have a second purpose, identifying diseases in crops
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https://x.com/PresidencyZA/status/1790724028493169059?t=fQW_aKKETZcb17XHd2yA9A&s=09 Ramaphosa is signing the National Health Insurance into effect, strategically a few weeks before the election. Maybe this helps the ANC stay in power, but since it'll take 6 years or more to roll out, it's hard to say.
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I think Raisi may be dead https://twitter.com/Seamus_Malek/status/1792200533295636600
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The foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, was also on board. Edit: So were East Azerbaijan Governor Malek Rahmati and Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, representative of the Iranian supreme leader to East Azerbaijan. OhFunny has issued a correction as of 18:44 on May 19, 2024 |
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it's possible rescuers haven't even made it to the wreck yet. they're extremely dead
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