And now needs to be quoted for the censor troll mods.

Hmm... Probably a good topic to stay away from, but I've thought about it quite a bit.

Ma Nature has a different idea. Her focus is on stability and equilibrium, but the genes are shuffled at random. When you do the math, that means that maintaining the population equilibrium calls for each pair of parents to have four children so the two children who draw the least favorable genes can die before reproducing. Extra kids are okay--as long as most of them die. Only in weird and transient situations are species allowed to get away from those numbers, and only for brief periods. Don't forget that Ma Nature's clock is set on geological time.

But human parents don't like seeing ANY of their children die. Funny joke, but that's also a Ma Nature thing. Human children are so helpless that we have to love them that much or NONE of them would survive long enough to reproduce.

There's a joke in here somewhere, but I'm not laughing. And I bet the Funny tab is as empty as usual...

As expected all too sadly.

But you, Mr Dollar Ton, propagated the AC brain fart into visibility and propagated its trollacious Subject. Your comment also seems confusing, almost incoherent, but that's probably the natural result of responding to whatever the ACs mumbled...

The joke I was hoping for? So many possibilities. So little humor on Slashdot these years.

Hey, it's my fault, too. My unfunny thought is "Any complicated system that becomes too fixated on one dimension will implode along that dimension." I dare you to laugh at that, though it's the profit dimension that dominates and fixates Dimon and Facebook and YouTube and f[r]iends. Or maybe it's funny that they can only see the profits of the current accounting period? It's like sports where the next season wipes the slate clean and they have to start all over again trying to get an even bigger profit...

(Mostly triggered by The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher. Quite a depressing and solution-free book. Not quite finished, but I can't imagine the plot twist that would "make things all better" in the last few pages. And off to the probably empty Funny tab...)

I was going for Funny and trying to encourage Funny. *sigh*

You forgot the YOB's superpower. Can't feel shame. He's actually quite skilled at shaming cowards into kowtowing, but no counterattacks are possible because the shame just rolls off him. Or maybe it's more like dark matter passing long time ago?

While I agree with your position more than your wife's, I also think "belief" doesn't matter to him. Memory of a goldfish and he "believes" whatever he just said and then "believes" the opposite in his next sentence.

But I found your post on the search for "evil". My basic position is that Amazon is evil and Bezos wants to the the king of evil. Largely due to the customer manipulation tactics. Scientific lying guided by the most profitable applied psychologists. On that side, I'm reading The Choice Factory by Richard Shotton for marketing scumbags seeking more sales. Is it a bestseller within Amazon? Converging with several other recent books, though the most potent is The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher, where the focus is on the psychology of fostering extremism and reprogramming people for more evil behaviors... Mostly focused on Facebook and YouTube, though Amazon gets a few mentions.

At a different level, I don't think it's exactly that we are becoming too stupid to survive (per The End is Always Near by 'influencer' Dan Carlin), but more of a compression problem that is making it more and more difficult to find and recognize true information. In short, language compresses reality, and written language (especially in books) compresses language and subverts the visual cortex for huge storage capacities. Unintended consequences, anyone? And now we humans are collapsing into a fog of cute AI-enhanced cat videos? (Though yesterday's example was actually a 'cute' exercise video from a physician, the better to walk farther...)

Oh yeah, I probably should clarify YOB. Yuge Orange Buffoon. I reject the YOB's own branding. It's clear the YOB doesn't "believe" in the existence of bad publicity.

Your joke here.

But it doesn't matter. Check your EULA and MS ain't liable.

Just finished another book on cyber-crime and totally unable to conceive of trusting valuable data to any machine running any flavor of Windows.

I have data accessible via Windows machines. Therefore my data must have zero value! Problem solved.

'Nuff said. Actually too much said.

Mod parent Funny, but this discussion already has a pretty good haul of humor.

Also deserves some Funny moderation, too. At least that's how I'm interpreting the open Subject.

But in general I feel like there's nothing to do these days but laugh along the way. Doesn't seem to matter if we are heading for a cemetery or a crematorium.

I think this branch should have been FP, but at least the discussion didn't start with obvious AI slop and the AC brain fart appears to have been wafted away...

However I still dislike vacuous Subjects. This transient Subject is based on another book about international cyber-crime, this one focused on politically motivated crimes. The intersections with this story are at two loci.

The first is that I am astonished anyone would entrust any valuable information to any computer system with any flavor of Windows on it. Not just storing the data there, but even allowing access is like running through a minefield.

The second is that the generative AIs are already making things much worse, though the book basically ends before that problem became so apparent. So many ways, but I think the most important is that the GAIs can help mask language deficiencies so more wannabe bad actors can do their worst.

The book also increased my paranoia to the point where I am unwilling to ask more relevant questions in public. Lots of important questions were raised, and I can see angles for researching the answers, but would that make me a target of interest? But mostly I just can't imagine why anyone would put any valuable information within reach of Windows... (Hypothetical answer: Because the security situation in the real world is similarly bad for all of the alternatives, but the book was only focused in that direction.)

I'm also confused what is going on here, though I was thinking more about the renewable energy side of it, not the electric car stuff. There must be some loaded language in the declaration?

However, the way China is building up the renewable energy capacity it looks like "Yuugen Jikkou" to me. That's actually a Japanese/Romaji version of a 4-character Chinese/Japanese expression that can't be used on Slashdot anyway. I'm not sure if there is a way to say it in English. "All talk, no action" is kind of the opposite idea (and there's also a 4-character expression for that), but yuugen jikkou is about doing what you said you were going to do. However what I wanted to say is still slightly different... It's more like the Chinese aren't really worrying about what the Europeans are saying about climate action, but they are just acting. The Chinese are building up LOTS of renewable energy capacity and not worrying too much about who says what. Pledges are cheap.

Now how to go for funny? One angle would be the YOB's recent claim there aren't any wind farms in China versus the reality. Not sure how much I trust the google's AI answers these days, but I'm pretty sure that the summary saying China has 40% of world capacity for wind power is in the right ballpark. However if the claim for new capacity around 50% (for 2022) is accurate, then that bodes even more Chinese dominance for the future...

Now I notice another spelling error in the human part...

Yours was the first visible comment in the AC hate stream.

But don't get me started on the question of whether Mormons should be classified as real Christians versus real suckers.

Mod parent Funny. We desperately need some Funny around here. Crying only makes the flooding worse.