> Could we stop chopping down trees from primary forests in the Amazon to save the planet for us humans?

Keep the Amazon out of this. From whichever country you are, you should demand your government to grow and keep some forest carrying the economic burden for that. It's too easy to point to poor countries so the rich ones can keep consuming like kings without guilty.

Not normal but some people just can't leave Reddit.

My experience is the opposite. Fasting is great to stop cravings making it much easier to eat healthier when braking the fast.

X is dead, that's not just fine.

That's called globalization. It was considered great while the world was forced to depend on US and EU companies.

> Iam referring to the past when there was less divisive leadership.

Are you referring to what period?

Certainly prior to immigration being an issue. Also probably prior to common currency - as I said I'm not yet entirely certain on my views of a common currency. So I suppose things have been getting exponentially worse, but perhaps a key inflection point would be the Maastricht Treaty, although the EU's economic peak predates even that by about a decade.

What got better in the UK after Brexit?

I made no claims that anything got better. Just that people are exaggerating its effects to support their politics.

> Inference is cheap;

When they outsource training to China they will be so profitable!

Is anyone forcing you to use MCP? You don't need it. If you can't see the benefit of it, don't use it.

It's why I asked the question. Maybe I missed something.

MCP is an API. The biggest difference is that it defines some primitives that AI clients know how to implement beforehand so every MCP server works similarly, otherwise each API implements its own way to list the tools available, change/react to changes, authorization, session management, etc. MCP *is* an API.

I'm thinking more as a provider. Why put a model on my side to handle permissions/scope/auth/actions when thats already handled (or easy enough to spin up)by a rest-inspired http api?

If you're needing to give the model direct and broad access to your SqlServer instance...I don't get it.

Dedicated customer facing API is like whitelisting approved actions; MCP feels like getting an LLM to enforce a complex blacklist.

Check WebMCP that ChatGPT Desktop just implemented for a good example.

Now every website can create tools that gpt can use. So it's possible to have your users use AI without the need to pay for tokens.

What’s the harm in being curious and seeing what you might be missing?

There's no harm in being curious but why frame it like the thing you don't know how to use is not useful? That's harmful.

They do but you need to check the dead / flagged comments.