That's an example of why they have really bad messaging, because they are more interested in politics than in science/reality. That leaves room for someone like Trump (the reality TV star) to do better messaging.

Biden/Harris were going around saying they wouldn't trust the vaccine. Governor Newsom was throwing large dinner parties after telling everyone to socially isolate. That's a strong indicator of people who don't care about science, and that's why they can't do better messaging than Trump.

The problem with free form worlds is they invariably turn into some kind of crappy reality TV show. That's the only way most people know how to interact with each other.

A clear example is the messaging on vaccines and masks. These aren't a matter of scientific debate: if everyone wears a mask and gets vaccinated, the pandemic will be slowed.

But, somehow it turned into "Biden is forcing us to do ..." whereas with a little better messaging, only crazy people would have minded. The problem wasn't the message, it was the way the message was delivered.

You should probably put more effort into winning the election next time.

Trump is what you get when your party sucks at communicating.

Yeah, it's not personal, I just feel like you've been caught up too much in the AI hype and that clouded your vision. You are definitely a net positive in the conversation: with interesting ideas and a (unfortunately not more common) ability to actually look things up and learn.

The AI problem will resolve itself automatically in the next few years (either the AI hype will die out or strong AI will be invented; one way or another.)

We should ensure his fat ass is hauled in one in the not soon enough state funeral

Do these people really think they're hiding Directive 4 from us?

threatening to force Americans into higher subscription prices and fewer choices over what and how they watch" Warren said on Friday

Higher than paying for multiple streaming services? Is there really choice at the moment or different flavours of lack-of-choice? Surely consolidation of the lack of choice is more convenient.

Perhaps the ownership-over-information ship has sailed?

It shouldn't be that you can use your monopoly position of yesterday in order to leverage and have a monopoly position in the market of tomorrow

Hello, which planet are YOU from?

They can just recycle Twitter the way mainstream news does.

They want to drink a glass of water without getting their mouth wet.

To be fair, their complaint is probably best translated at "Look at meeeeee!"

We need to sue them too - the NYT have been kind enough to put up a wall to protect us from their recycled drivel and now Perplexity have covertly injected some of it into our minds. Wtf!?!

A shame Google didn't buy it then it would have been shut down. There's still hope, I suppose.