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.

Because one hand has seven fingers and the other three.

"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.

Yes.that is how justice works...?

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.