We're too small for readers to overwhelm a site. And we're definitely less relevant than Taylor Swift.

that leaves for a lot of multiverses.

"That which is common to the greatest number gets the least amount of care. Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common."
-- Aristotle

It takes an advanced culture and individual maturity to counter-act basic human nature that Aristotle identified and many have discussed through the centuries. So while you're goofing off with reactionary politics, can you stand back and let the big girls and boys take care of the serious problems?

Z80 is turing complete. And 64k bytes is enough to count all the atoms in the visible universe.

Management is here 6 days a week generating mountains of paperwork. Why can't you be more productive like them?

I'm pretty sure assault is still illegal, even for a cop. Although with qualified immunity it is possible that no one will be held responsible for the assault.

Heck of a business to be in. Make a service that has been available for free in some form or another for decades. And then compete with dozens if not hundreds of other startups and open source projects. Maybe I should sell of the few shares of WORK (Slack) that I have.

We have had jabberd setup at work for about 15 years. But a few years ago, my work decided to pay for both Slack and Teams. Teams is sort of free, but not everyone actually wanted MS Office so it was only free in our IT department's weird fantasies.

How do I find my coworkers when we're on 3 different services. I run 3 different apps/tabs. Also a handful of coworkers refuse to use chat programs, and will video conference but only if you set it up via email in advance.

I'm not really trying to complain. More pointing out that the tech industry is full of brilliant people who can't even make a simple agreement on which nearly identical pieces of software to use company-wide.

Getting older, slower, and crustier isn't evolution if you can't support negotiating text encoding in your forms and burp out garbled unicode as a result.

This crappy late 1990's website uses several more times RAM to render than my early 1990's computer had installed (32MB)

People will do with less. Make less money. And live at a lower standard of living. That's what this means.

Out of an abundance of caution, let's assume a new technology has unintentional consequences until proven otherwise. That's it. Be a "doomer" until we stop having fundamental questions about the performance of our AI systems. That you can trick an LLM into giving you restricted information should be a warning sign that we don't fully understand what we're doing in this industry.

Russia should get a little bump too if I'm reading this right. I mean assuming there is no macroeconomic blow back of 90%+ of the world population facing economic hardship.

Back in the old days they'd off the idiot son of the ruler to make room for a more reliable heir. The great thing about dynasties is the family running things has an interest in keeping their reputation. But you still end up fighting to settle grey areas of succession like with Lancaster and York in the War of the Roses.

What's the opposite of peace and prosperity? Because without reliable long-term leadership we're going to leave future generations worse off than the current generation.

These IRC clones like Discord and Slack are so incredibly broken. We've had the technology to chat online for decades, and the visually impaired have been using screen readers and braille with IRC since the beginning. With Discord and Slack, it is much more cumbersome to navigate with a screen reader. Since it is ultimately a web app. The ability to also do voice chat is nice, but for us old farts we don't really want to talk on what amounts to a chaotic party line.

I feel like both IRC and Jabber/XMPP missed an opportunity to offer some of the quality of life features that Slack and Discord have. The ability to start your own private zone inside the server, where you can customize the channels and welcome message is pretty huge. We used to do welcome messages with bots back in the day, and it was much more cumbersome. Do I need custom animated reaction "emoji" ? Not really, I don't need chocolate to survive either but I don't mind having either around.