Adsense payments dropped off a cliff. This is why so many websites are laying off staff. Google wants all traffic to stay on its site. Gemini AI (yes, the one that, when asked to draw Scottish people, drew only Blacks and then asked to draw a group of diverse people also drew only Blacks.

What do you need to click through to a website for? Those can contain dangerous information like warning people not to take the COVID-19 vaccine. That disease is still out there and still dangerous. Get your boosters, everyone!

People want helpful AI that doesn't hallucinate, code crap code, tell you to eat glue or commit suicide.

No; it's absolutely a terrible idea. It may be great for the businesses; but, it's absolutely fucking terrible for the consumer.

This is absolutely fucking insanity. Imagine having to carry 6 different cards and wondering which one a particular store is going to take.

Wasn't this covered in "Orphan Black", where the clones all had the ASCII string "Property of Dyad Institute" encoded into their DNA? I have zero doubts that these self-serving asshats won't do something very similar with any "creations" they might make, no matter how egalitarian they make their motives sound. That they are trying to do an end run around the law of their land by going overseas says it all; they have zero ethics, and zero fucks will be given if it all goes horribly wrong.

SAS has been dead for 15y; it started with R and then Python absolutely destroyed it. No one teaches SAS in universities any longer, why would they? It's terribly expensive and absolutely fucking dead.

We migrated away from SAS back in 2017 and never looked back. The only verticals still using it are heavily regulated and running long-standing legacy code that they're slowly migrating to Python.

I remember absolutely dying when they tried to renegotiate our contract UP back in 2015. I flat out told them they were dead and we were moving away from them and they told me, "good luck managing your data without us!"

Two companies and 10 years later, we're doing just fine and they are not.

China IS bad! Tiananmen Square massacre. Enslavement of Tibet. Uighur genocide. Constantly threatening to invade Taiwan. One-party rule, just like in California. Check out the youtube channel Laowhy86, he gives constant updates of just how bad it is over there.

We don't want to be associated with a fascist regime when the wind changes.

I trust Windows Server 2003 more than I trust Windows 11. It's less stable, but Microsoft isn't in control of your machine.

I knew the hard left would be along to take a gigantic diarrhea dump in the mouths of the AmeriKKKan working class, and the rsilvergun account does not disappoint.

It's not the book learnin', it's a class issue. University graduates want to work with other university graduates. Working with high schoolers weirds them out and makes them feel uncomfortable, especially when they make less.

. The wife in the story is a great example. Women are getting all the degrees, and a woman wants a husband with higher status than her. But women won't accept lowly men who spend their time bending over with buttcracks showing and come home dirty and hairy, demanding dinner made from scratch and then later sex, no matter if the woman consents or not. And if she refuses either, she gets a black eye. The highly educated have very low rates of DV, but for working class? We all saw the old TV show C.O.P.S. DV call after DV call, trailer park after trailer park, and it's always an uneducated man who attacked a defenselesss woman. This is why women won't marry them, or if they do the marriages won't last.

Here's a "joke" that I learned way back when I worked as a clerk at Sears Automotive, from the wrench-turners: "Whaddaya say to a woman with two black eyes? Nuthin'! You already done told the bitch twice!"

These low IQ men who can't run a business without the wife's business administration degree doing the heavy lifting are a danger to women, and educated women are fools to choose them. Wild bears are literally less dangerous. They kill fewer women every year than working class (or unemployed and on government benefits) men. This is why women choose the bear.

The man bought a vacuum cleaner that required an internet connection, and that didn't make him suspicious?

Not so clever I reckon...

The pigs using ubiquitous street camera surveillance to accuse the woman, or the woman using ubiquitous in-vehicle camera surveillance to prove her innocence.

No part of this story makes me warm or fuzzy.

and the ubiquitous surveillance of large swathes of the internet as well. Woohoo!

Note to self: stick to Debian and don't touch Ubuntu or Mint for a few versions until the kinks have been worked out.

Hussein Obama himself blocked Chinese solar panel imports with prohibitive tariffs, "to protect AmeriKKKan jobs."

The planet is boiling, a huge hurricane just wrecked the Caribbean, gain, a wildfire burnt down LA, and "dey took our jerbs" is the watchword, even though the US never had any solar manufacturing capacity anyway. The bucktoothed hillbillies aren't going to work anyway. Most of them are on SNAP and have been since LBJ.

By the way, the whole "free Tibet" thing is bullshit. Tibet was never free. Tibet under the lamas was a literal medieval society complete with mandatory state religion and serfs, literal slaves. China's CPC marched in the Red Army, liberated the people, introduced athiesm, and most enraging of all taught women to read.

The lamas believed so much in their people they ran away to India where they still are today.

Ever wanted an atheist government of scientists? The CPC is for you. Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. Stupids like Trump are locked out of government. Not a single war since 1972. Their cheap solar is powering the world that's smart enough to trade with them.

Good guy CPC.

Shut down all sensors that have nothing to do with navigation, that Google uses to put people under surveillance, stop the data collection and stop sending data to the mothership all the damn time. I guarantee you power usage will go down significantly.

How do I know that? because my Fairphone 4 running CalyxOS gets a few more hours of battery life than the same Fairphone 4 running vanilla Android, and my Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch also does better battery-wise than the same phone running Google's surveillance platform.