This statement is often misunderstood, and it doesn’t mean that you should follow what a teacher or the scriptures say. Instead, it means that you should ALSO verify everything by yourself and put into practice the teachings before calling someone fake or true. This can take a lot of time, especially for the most complex ideas and concepts, but that’s what sets Buddhism far from other religions: you have to practice; reading texts or hoping only in an external help isn’t enough for “reaching nirvana and ceasing suffering”.

I’ve been using Ecosia for years and it’s only improved over time. Their commitment to environmental activities is sincere and you can check everything they do through their blog. I think using it is a no brainer.

All the downvotes lol I’m an Apple user myself, but lately Apple lost everything that used to make it different from competitors (and also lost the AI race). This was a great video, thanks!

Nice share! Mistral also shared data about one of its largest model (not the one that answer in LeChat, since that one is Medium, a smaller model, that I guess has smaller energetic requirements)

https://mistral.ai/news/our-contribution-to-a-global-environmental-standard-for-ai

I think we should start with better understanding how much life is complex in general. Our ideas and our way of being are a product of education, culture, society and the historic period we live in. But still ideas don’t exist themselves like an entity, they just illusions and products of mind. When we see other acting or thinking in a way we perceive as wrong, we should always remember that right and wrong aren’t absolute and never changing things. We can agree that right view, right action and right speak are conductive to the path of enlightenment in a Buddhist sense, but still those aren’t absolute and should be pondered case by case. For being compassionate towards others, we should first of all not be attached to our own idea of right or justice, and then understand why people may think in a specific way, and how often we too can get attached to our own ideas, even if these are for the benefit of the others.