The heritage foundation has been packing the courts with lunatics for the last 45 years. It's part of project 2025.

I remember back in the 90s, search engines' web site(s) [don't remember which one(s)] used to show what people were searching.

Do you know the way to leave Safeway?
I've been inside so long,
I may go wrong and pass away.
You can't really leave from this Safeway.
I hope that I will find
Some peace of mind outside Safeway.

Lower prices are the magnet,
They can lure you far away from home.
With a drink in your hand you're never alone.
Hours turn into days, how quick they pass.
And all the thieves that never were
Are noshing grapes and passing gas.

Now I know you're an idiot. Any idiot could see that human civilization is nothing like a meritocracy and that it's impossible for it to be.

Human beings form clicks and clans and in groups and out groups and we artificially advantage members of our group.

If we ever stop doing that we will have become something that isn't human anymore. And I don't think we're going to survive long enough to do that. We are on track to hand the nuclear launch codes over to religious extremist lunatics after all.

I want to say that your post is just AI slop but it's so carefully engineered to piss everybody off who would read it that I think you're a real person putting way too much effort into being a shitposter.

Even referencing that stupid spherical cow joke is clearly designed to get a certain class of nerd on your side.

Whatever the case the point of my post wasn't mathematics it was to try and get you to understand that the same trick gets used to control you generation after generation. The fact that you can't understand that is why the human race is doomed.

Because money can be a great equalizer. Remember the Kings lost to the merchants.

Billionaires don't like being dependent on consumers and employees. They want a more complete and more absolute power.

Because I can't imagine anyone writing that of their own volition.

AI looks like slop because it's just grabbing a bunch of shit and stuffing it all together without any actual creative work.

The prompts have nothing to do with that. You can have the best prompts in the world and the technology is still going to produce slop because it's just slapping together something based on a large data set. There isn't going to be any individual creativity because there isn't any individual creativity it's just a mess of other people's work jumbled together by a computer algorithm.

The result is the most watered down garbage because it's a little bit of everybody from everything mixed together by a computer. It's not just about human creativity it's about individual human creativity. When people talk about the artist's vision that actually matters.

AI is just copying somebody else's work. Worse it's copying the work of a whole shitload of other people together. That's always going to make crap because there's no real effort in it.

All this is a moot point. The real purpose of AI is to replace employees. Everything else is just a goofy tech demo in order to get some data for the long-term goal of eliminating White collar work. Some blue collar work too since this AI technology is being applied to robotics.

And our species is very much not ready for a world where at least a quarter of the population has no purpose and no reason to exist.

DEI is woke which is sjw which is PC which is just desegregation under a different name.

Like Gavin Newsom said and he woke is just anti-black.

If that makes you uncomfortable, good. Now get out there and enjoy some good trouble.

A lot of people chose Chrome long before this. Back then, the time you were talking about, Firefox while a capable browser ran like absolute dogshit. It was slow to load, slow to render pages, and riddled with memory leaks. That button may have driven a nail into the coffins of the alternatives, but those coffins were built on the back of V8 - a blistering fast Javascript engine which showed the world that it wasn't their modems that were slow, but rather the browsers they were using. It was almost a decade before Firefox even got back into the same league (Firefox's Quantum project in 2017).

Many of us migrated to Chrome long before a nag button appeared on Google's home page.

So please go through Mozilla's financial reports and show us where they are underspending on development. Also show the costing of having an artistic team (which exists and represents a fixed cost, and is a necessary component of any company selling a product) is impacting development ability.

You don't seem to understand how costs or effort is allocated. If you wanted to discuss a development team focusing on item A in the bug tracker instead of item B, then you have a point, that is a zero sum game for fixed developers. But a completely different existing department doing something different has zero impact on development. They not creating a little mascot would result in not one second of extra development time on bug tracking.

What's the point of developing an app if you users don't know about it? Marketing teams exist for a reason.

And have the marketing team do what? Wait ... are you suggesting we should get an expert in Adobe Illustrator to start ... doing ... bug fixes? That would be a disaster.

Fun fact it was created by a marketing person at Mozilla, not by a developer, and not by the community. But they did offer guidelines on how to draw them. Maybe you should pull your weight and start drawing wallpapers of Kit? Seeing how you're so desperate for this community involvement.

And they all have the same ability. Just open up the Windows Volume Mixer to redirect an application to a different output device.

Actually they don't all have this same ability. The "creator's" and "artistic's" OS, the audio engineer's OS of choice, the dominant OS in the music industry in the 90s, ... Mac OS doesn't support this feature. You need a 3rd party app for that.

The person who can't get their parcel doesn't care how many ton-miles an aircraft does. If we follow your logic and assume the mileage on other air frames is higher, and you use a different airframe to replace what the MD-11 was doing then not only is 9% not a "pittance" it would actually be a far bigger impact in capacity loss for UPS than just 9%.

I had to look this up to double check but it would seem that we are currently discussing UPS flight 2976 out of Kentucky in 2025, so yes it very much is off topic.

But the courts are paying more attention now because it's ai and it's bad press.

But I would bet money if you did a exhaustive analysis of court filings you would find plenty of made up citations that nobody ever looked into.

Then again lawyers are famous for their honesty and decency so maybe I shouldn't make assumptions.

Don't reply to trolls. He wants you to reply because your comment gets modded up and that keeps his comment visible. Without your plus three comment keeping his comment visible the idea is he's putting out disappear because his low-modded comment doesn't show up on most people's screens. The mod system hides his comment as the low effort troll post it is.

Wait a little bit and let the mods do their job. Now sometimes the mods failed to do their job and sometimes sock puppets mod things up anyway. If that happens that's when you want to step in.

And remember, DEI is woke which is sjw which is PC which is desegregation.

Bankers in America at least don't really do that. What you're thinking of are large investors. People with net worth over 500 million.

Bankers just loan money. These days they don't give a shit who they loan it to as long as the loan is big and they can justify the loan to shareholders and the government. Which of course is remarkably easy because we don't regulate things properly anymore.

The banks don't care about the quality of the loans because they have set themselves up so that if they go down they take the entire world economy down with them basically meaning we are all in a hostage situation.

The same is true for those ultra wealthy investors by the way.

Thanks though are an institution rather than individuals. That's an important distinction because Banks are, or at least should be, heavily heavily heavily regulated to force them to be run safely and intelligently. The problem is we've gotten so obsessed with free market bullshit that we don't regulate things that we need to be regulating anymore.

Getting back to AI bullshit though that's going to be investors and big shareholders demanding limitless returns and line go up.