No? Well, I think I've heard enough from these people.

By "in the 1940's" I assume you mean when the UN handed the region to the Jews? There were no "Palestinians" at the time, that ethnonym was invented by Yasser Arafat, an Egyptian terrorist. Egypt, by the way, allied with the Nazis in WWII. As did the other nations whose territory was taken to re-form Israel.

So, that initial "theft" was actually the rest of the world recognizing that the Jews needed their land back, and that siding with the Nazis deserved a little punishment.

Congratulations! Look who you've sided with.

By psychopathic billionaires who are actively trying to manipulate people into new feudal hellscape...

This is why they go out of their way to attack higher education and convince us all to be plumbers. They want us on educated and lacking in critical thinking skills. Yes some of us figure that shit out naturally most of us don't.

https://apnews.com/article/rob...

Because The Guardian is trash.

And the Republicans know this and many of them have their own presidential ambitions. If Trump is successful in a third term then we are probably in for a permanent Trump dynasty with Baron taking over when Trump dies and then Baron's son taking over and so forth.

While it's true that the heritage foundation is fine with that since it would still just be a puppet regime for them plenty of Republicans are hoping to be that puppet. Trump has made billions being president.

So what you're seeing here is the Republican party trying to undermine and split from Trump in order weaken his position in the party so that they can prevent him from running for a third term.

What's going to make that hard is the Republicans do not have a viable candidate for 2028 besides trump. The candidates they have with a national profile who haven't already retired are all deeply weird and deeply unpopular.

That means it's likely the heritage foundation will push for Trump to run for a third term.

It is possible voters will reject that but they can probably make up the difference with basic voter suppression tactics.

I suspect after the midterms when the Republicans lose the house they will go harder after Trump but it's tough for them to do that because he is still in a position that he can endorse primary challengers against them. That's why you're seeing so many people drop out of politics and then go after trump.

Kewl, you watched that news report about children who volunteer to make games and often don't get paid...the same way every social media company is, especially YouTube. I am sure the economic facet could use improvement. However, no one asks kids to make games. They volunteer to with the hopes of making money or doing something they love...like everyone on YouTube, bandcamp, etc. I am sure things would be better if they changed thresholds and percentages, but I think it's overstating it to call it a platform that exists for exploitation.

It's definitely a net positive. Many children get free games they can play with their friends. There's a huge diversity of games and the ability for any moderately intelligent child to play around and create their own game.

As far as " A not insignificant portion of their users also exploit children, in the worst ways you can image", you'll have to be specific. If you're talking sex stuff...you're a very warped person with an unusual view of the world. Look up the numbers and probability. How long would a typical child have to be on there to run into one of these "not insignificant portion" of the userbase? What's the probability? yeah, something shitty happened somewhere sometime...but I'd wager the probability is EXTREMELY low. This is like bear and shark attacks...VERY scary....and VERY rare. When someone is killed by a shark, it definitely makes the news, but not the billions of people who visited beaches that day and didn't have an encounter of any sort.

If Roblox is in your top 100 of "fractals of evil," you really aren't a well informed person. I can think of 1000s of things that are more harmful to children than Roblox.

I think you forgot you're talking about Russia, a country with a long history of indifference to slaughtering their own civilians in mass numbers. They're the worst civilization I know of in regards to human life. The more you learn about Russia and the USA, you appreciate how much better we are than them. We care about our soldiers and hold hearings when they die. We take good care of them. Russia has no problem sending thousands to their deaths. Americans HATE dead soldiers. When an American soldier dies, it's considered a fuckup by leadership. When a Russian grunt dies, it's a tactic...sending them into the meat grinder for the most trivial of goals.

I am confident Russia doesn't care about the well being of their people. They're just upset it's a company in SV making the money and not one of their own.

This is simply a power play. I am sure Russia has no problem when local companies are making money off their children.

The difference is a human gets ticketed when they do that shit. Self-driving cars are explicitly excluded from traffic enforcement and police are told not to pull them over

It really isn't FFS. Where do you live that you think this? It's not common at all...that families pimp out their children/nieces/nephews to have sex for money? You watch too much TV. Spend time in the real world and you'll see nearly every grade school child playing Roblox. It has no more predators than your local school, library, or church. It's not a realistic risk.

There just aren't that many predators out there. Do they exist? Yes. Is your kid going to find one playing "Steal a brainrot"? No...not by any realistic probability. First of all, the number of offenders is very small. Secondly, if they say the wrong word, they're flagged and booted automaticall. Finally, if anyone notices them acting sus, it's easy to report them.

Look, you want to think everyone is a child molester and they're around every corner. That says more about you than Roblox or anything else. You sound like one of those people who gets on a plane and is certain you're going to crash and die. It's irrational. It ignores probability. Spend time on it and you'll be disappointed to see no one is trying to molest you...you'll just see kids acting like little assholes online playing games, just like Halo 20 years ago, Call of Duty or Fortnite today.

Few people on the planet want to have sex with children. Have you ever met children? They're fucking gross even if you're a sociopath who doesn't care about the damage you'll do. And if you want to molest kids, I imagine there are much better ways of doing it than spending hours playing tedious games hoping to run into a vulnerable one. Most kids don't want to be molested and will happily report anyone acting sus.

Your though process is simplistic and stupid...ooh children are here...that must mean molesters are here too!!!! Give your theory any scrutiny and it doesn't hold up. Roblox is at worst a lame cash grab and at best, a nice platform for children to play. They're interested in your kids' money, not their privates.

This is why I'm waiting for someone to make a dual-DIN Android head unit with the source available so we can rebuild it free of nonsense like unwelcome ads. They don't have to warranty it. Just make some decent hardware and gimme the source, and I'll handle the rest (and sing their praises endlessly).

I could build one but I literally don't want to.

I know Russia is full of shit, but we have Ken Paxton trying to do the same here. For those without kids, Roblox is a platform that give free (mostly shitty) multiplayer games to kids and the best development environment I've ever seen. It's basically what Facebook was to blogging for gaming...in that it allows nearly anyone to create their own multi-player game...in the same way that Facebook enabled anyone to blog...or how YouTube enabled anyone to get their videos out there. My children got into programming making silly clone games.

Roblox is really fucking popular, like nothing I've seen before. There are a lot of diverse games and a few are even fun. My kids and all their friends absolutely love it. It generally has decent AI moderation and it's very easy to report anything bad happening on it. I've played on it nearly every night with my kids for the last month. I haven't seen anything beyond the same routine assholery you see in all multi-player games....it's just Halo and Fortnight never had such a broad marketshare, so no one went after them. Also, it has attracted a record amount of young girls, whereas past gaming hits were more male dominated.

All that said, I am experiencing Deja Vu all over again...the same shitheads that said Metal would make us Satanic and that violent video games, like Mortal Kombat, will lead to an increase in violence...and that GTA will turn is all into criminals....they're going after Roblox. Russia has their own shitty agenda and I don't give a fuck about that failed state. I am more concerned about the Republicans back home who look to Putin for inspiration and are trying this bullshit at home. Their elderly voter base hasn't seen it and will believe any stupid shit Fox News says about it being a groomer platform...when if you actually play it, it's just a gaming platform and focused on play.

So yeah...when you and Putin are allies in a fight against everyone else, you really should question your decisions in life.

I know there are a handful of people who are kind of freaked out at the suggestion that we should put a halt to any new technology. But besides that knee jerk reaction is there anyone who genuinely wants to see these data centers built out?

We could just tell the billionaires no. We would have to take their money away because money is power but we could do that. There's about 8,000 of them. There's 8 billion of us.

We could just tell them no.

Is AI producing economic activity outside the building of AI datacenters? I know that the buildout is a massive chunk of America's current GDP, but what activity is AI itself generating? Does AI represent a net gain?

Hey, if you're feeling bitter about it, I'll help out by letting you mail me your 5090. I mean, it will be a terrific hassle for me, but I'm willing to suffer through it to take that burden off your shoulders. You have more than enough to worry about.

I like to help.

Hey, remember when the x090's only cost about a grand? You know, back before bitcoin when an x080 was around $800. Someday, I'm going to find the guy who invented bitcoin and I'm going to punch him in the face several times. Then I'm going to make him unlock his wallet so I can dump his holdings and crash the entire crypto market. I won't actually do these things, but part of me really wants to.

I know how you feel. I was pissed about it in 2020 when bitcoin miners made getting a GPU damn near impossible, and damn impossible to find one at MSRP (which is now what the miners pushed it up to, thanks a-holes), now it's RAM, and thus also graphics cards.

It's really damn annoying to get screwed by market conditions. If it weren't for the other disastrous consequences, I'd be praying for an AI bubble to burst so these things can go back on the open market.