so we can unfuck all the things he's fucked.

But the reality is, Trump is a symptom, not a disease. He was elected by the people. Those who voted Trump once were either Nazi sympathizers or fools. Those who voted Trump the second time around were definitely Nazi sympathizers, or definitely fools.

Impeaching Trump won't do anything. The next Nazi in line is JD Vance and he's ten times worse because, unlike Trump, he's not an idiot with a case of fronto-temporal dementia.

And even if Vance and the rest of the Nazi goons are out, the people will vote another fascist in the next time around because the people has proven twice now that they're fucking fascists or fucking morons.

In short, America is fucked because Americans are hopeless.

Fed up customers fleeing in droves.

Nobody likes Microsoft. Nobody has ever really liked Microsoft. But everybody puts up with Microsoft's low quality products and abuse because Microsoft is a monopoly that's hard to escape - particularly in corporate settings, and for gaming.

But they've really cranked up the abuse to 11 recently, with Windows becoming a terrible advertisement platform, requiring new hardware when people's old machines were still serviceable, the constant privacy invasion, relentless push for online accounts, for their cloud offerings, and now their godforsaken AI shit that literally nobody likes nor want. Not to mention upcoming price hikes for the privilege of getting all that enshittification thrown at your face...

Microsoft has gone too far for a lot of people, and people react by going to Apple or Linux. And quite frankly, personally, I desperately want Microsoft to continue shooting themselves in both feet like they're doing so they make themselves irrelevant as quickly and as thoroughly as possible, and we're finally, at long last, rid of them at last. 50 years we've been waiting! That's like half a century dude...

Not to mention Kilngons!

about as much as having a former WWF executive with a single-digit IQ serving as Education Secy.

I'm sure glad I have a real education in the 80's.

So Amazon is going to give money to OpenAI so OpenAI can buy chips from Amazon. And Nvidia is giving OpenAI money to buy chips from Nvidia. And AMD is doing some weird thing giving OpenAI stock warrants so OpenAI can sell the stock and buy chips from AMD. How the hell is Sam Altman convincing people to keep this house of cards standing? Is he really a genius running a company so amazing that this makes sense behind closed doors?

And how is OpenAI making its code work well on all these different platforms? Everybody else seems to be writing their code to run on one architecture. Does OpenAI have three teams of programmers adapting their latest code to work on three chip architectures?

Xiaomi built it's electric vehicle program in only three years with no experience manufacturing or selling automobiles. Ford has been around for over a century and can't even make one electric truck that consumers will buy. This company is going to be destroyed when the Chinese brands open factories in the USA. And the battery business is going to tank when Chinese companies open better battery factories in the USA. Investors need to clean house at Ford; replace the CEO and the entire board of directors before it's too late.

Is the problem here really AI or are there just too many people graduating with STEM degrees? Businesses and governments have been telling young people to get a STEM degree for years, schools expanded and created new CS programs, parents all over the world pushed kids into CS programs, and now there are too many programmers for the market to absorb. Maybe the issue here isn't AI. It's just nobody thinking about education beyond filling the immediate needs of very loud businesses.

You cannot have creative destruction if nothing is destroyed. AI is going to be like the Linotype: most of the typesetters lost their jobs when the newspapers switched over. Then the book and magazine publishers switched over and they hired many times more typesetters than the newspapers laid off.

Probably gamers who need something to listen to while they play through the same mindless game over and over. The ones who are too smart to enjoy Twitch streams but not actually capable of reading for a sustained period of time.

AI is only going to become useful for businesses if they actually engage with the AI companies. But if they keep investing in AI some of it will pay off. Nobody was making money from their internet experiments for years (the sysadmins were just using that T1 burst to download the latest kernel source) and now most large business would be crippled if their connection went down. It's going to be the same way with AI.

I was around back then, I remember the fight against it before and after its passage, and most importantly I remember that the actual legislative history of the Communications Decency Act disagrees with you. It was introduced by Senator Exon, a Democrat. Exon introduced it with a prayer that included the statements "there are those who are littering this information superhighway with obscene, indecent, and destructive pornography" and "Lord, we are profoundly concerned about the impact of this on our children." It initially passed the Senate by a vote of 81-18, with 1 not voting, and that 81 included plenty of Democrats. Then the Senate passed the conference version by a vote of 91-5. Bill Clinton signed it and made statements in favor of it, and his Justice Department vigorously defended it even as the courts tore into it. People forget that in the 1980s and '90s, prominent Democrats like Tipper Gore were among the most vocal proponents of censorship.

Was that a dig at Windows?

They won't even bother with keeping the plants online. The government will just direct deposit subsidy payments into the coal industry's bank accounts, Trump will proclaim that he saved some absurd number of jobs, and all the plant workers and miners will still get laid off and left to die with no health care.

This is the first time I've heard about Java applets in over a decade. I just sort of assumed that they went away along with the rest of desktop Java when Apple dropped the JRE from MacOS and people used that as an excuse to ditch Java.

If your basis for judging research is truth in propaganda why would you trust science from the USA? The current president is a pathological liar and his regime is trying to convince the world that Venezuela's government is a cartel of narco-terrorists so the USA can invade and hand Venezuela's oil wells over to American oil companies. Truth has no value in the USA.