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Comment Put 100s of millions out of work... (Score 1) 25

... then see how well your economy performs when you have mass civil unrest. And all the tech bros who BS about paying people to do nothing using AI profits - yeah, people on benefits always find constructive things to do with their time, they never get depressed due to lack of purpose and end up on drinks, drugs or in prison.

Comment Re: Not wars over water (Score 2, Insightful) 29

The conflict is over honor before reason. As most wars are. And as with most such things in recent decades, it really does take two to tango.

If the Israelis had really wanted peace, they wouldn't have engaged in half-assed occupation for the past sixty years. They would have either flat out annexed the territory and expelled the occupants (as the Soviets did to ethnic Germans in Poland and western Ukraine, for example) or they would have drawn a line, built a wall, and made damn sure no one went across it. Not the have your cake and eat it too they've been doing.

Similarly, if the Arabs wanted peace more than they wanted honor, they would have granted full citizenship to "Palestinians" in their territory instead of keeping them as refugees for four generations now.

Comment Re:An old familiar story (Score 0) 70

Are you saying you didn't see this coming? It is a democratic system, ain't it? So this means politicians just do what is expedient, that's why they are elected. Leaders have stopped being elected long long time ago. Not that I am for any government intervention into any of this at all, I am against it. I believe we must do what we do as a species without any collective action enforced by government, I am against all government intervention. I am totally against anyone trying to architect our survival as a species, I am all for real natural selection.

Comment Re:tells me the time fine (Score 1) 75

Asked the thing to tell me:

I have heard that you sometimes give wrong time and sometimes even answer that you cannot tell the time, why does this happen to some people?
ChatGPT said:

You see different behavior because the system reads time from the userâ(TM)s environment. Some users block this data. Some browsers hide it. Some devices send inconsistent region info. This leads to gaps.

You see steady answers because your browser shares stable time data.

Other users trigger fallback behavior. In those cases I answer that I cannot read the time.

is this it?

Comment It's the government IT project equivalent of... (Score 2) 70

Having sat I don't know how many times in a room waiting to have my government credentials renewed while the government IT on this side of the Pacific was living up to its expectations, I am somewhat relieved to again be reminded that the United States did not invent stupid. But I am somewhat dismayed that we appear to have competition in perfecting it.

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