What's ironic is that feeds his megalomania. Extreme-ego types love that their detractors are thinking about them all the time.

"Living rent-free" is the ultimate payoff.

Best to ignore them as much as possible.

Instead of 10 activations limit it to n number of sync chains.

Pair the activation authorization to the hash of a chain code or whatever on the Brave activation server.

Reduce the number to 5, that's fine.

A good number of privacy folks have extra devices to run certain apps. You might trust Brave and have them all synced but not some odd banking apps or dating apps or stuff work makes you have.

A decent used phone can be had for $50; keeping all those apps on one device seems nuts.

5 sync chains would effectively be a family license around here. Sounds like a good deal at $60.

Having a license wear out because your phone needed a factory reset or went in for service just doesn't make sense.

Well, there is a difference between understanding how nuclear weapons work, and understanding the global political environment (not to mention the elements of human psychology that help shape it). Making predictions about whether or not there will be a nuclear war anytime soon would be better left to focus groups consisting of political scientists, psychologists, and sociologists.

I, for one, am not an expert in any of these fields, so I am nowhere near qualified to weigh in. That, of course, won't inhibit me at all.

Genetically speaking, modern humans are no more enlightened than the warmongering war criminals that led the world during the dark ages. We are not intrinsically more moral or more concerned about others, etc. The only difference is the technological landscape we are in. Not just the presence of nuclear weapons, but also the communication technologies that have tied the entire world together and produced a much more aware populace. This creates new political pressures and new incentives to make different choices than our recent ancestors would have (but again, morality is not a factor. It's still just a matter of incentives and consequences).

The concept of mutually-assured destruction is not very noble, but it is very real, and it is effective at staying the hands of the world's nuclear powers (at least somewhat). And this is also nothing new, as it has always been true of humans that the most effective deterrent to violence is a credible threat of devastating retaliatory violence (insane people excepted, of course).

So, with that in mind, our best short term option is to ensure that world leaders are sane enough to understand this mutually-assured destruction risk. This isn't a judgment about their morality or even their loyalty (as those things are too easy to lie about) but about their mental grasp of their situation. So long as they all know how that war would end all life on our planet, they probably won't start it. This also means ensuring that any country that cannot produce leaders at this level of sanity must be proactively prevented from attaining nuclear weapons by intrusive actions on the part of the greater world powers.

Unfortunately, there isn't any way to guarantee the sanity of the leaders of any country. Democracy sure doesn't do it (it's just a popularity contest and insane people can still win great popularity among the voting masses), and dictatorship sure doesn't do it either.

I was going to add a bit about countries forming alliances with each other and such, but that feels secondary to the main point about sane leadership, which we have no way to ensure.

So, in short, we are doomed.

... and with all their mass-firings probably AI slop too.

I prefer the small rural theaters with a dozen people at a matinee.

Big and Loud will appeal to the Zoomers who aren't broke. That's about 10% of them.

These are the new Intolerable Acts.

There's a reason you learned how to be a Marine. "Foreign and domestic."

Right. You are applying legalese word precision assumptions to throwaway online comments. I don't think that's going to work well.

Many machines have replaced or greatly reduced the need for human labor. What makes acting deserving of special protection from automation?

This seems to be the open-access link but in searching for that I saw another article from the authors about the small intestine metabolizing fructose into glucose.

So it's probably more complex than we thought. Another 5-6-fructase pathway, I'd guess, haven't read it yet.

I know several very healthy vegetarians would disagree with you. And I know of many more, including the Shaolin monks.

Maybe being omnivores gives us some options?

No, the one that answered:

"You know what he means, ahole. If this were truly a problem the jet fuel would be rationed and private aircraft would be at the bottom of the priority list"

The entire point of rationing would be to REMOVE the pure market forces that would deal out the limited commodity to those with the largest wallets and replace it with a scheme that benefits the most people, instead of the most money.

If you actually knew better, you'd have posted it, not just made a vague assertion.

Yes, and the only ships running on nuclear reactors are military ships. As I said: No civilian use-case.

An iris scan is still just data. It can be copied or forged. How is it any more reliable than any other data that can be copied or forged?

I think this whole notion of "prove you are a human from the other side of the Internet" is misguided. I understand why people would want this, but given the nature of the tech, it is too easy to fake it. We are going to need to adapt differently.

It was an unusual campaign in that 95% of campaign promises weren't not just unfulfilled but 180* opposite of policy. Ultimate con man.

But now that Philippines is nearly out of oil China has made overtures to take care of their oil needs which have been defacto accepted.

The quid pro quo isn't stated yet but US caused their oil crisis so this announcement isn't real.

What an odd thing to say.

I rip my DVD and Bluray discs to a NAS and play them with Jellyfin. There's not even an optical player near a TV anymore. The last one died in about 2008.

But I have put some of those files on USB before for the kids.

Used Blurays are about $5 usually and much better quality than any streaming service rental.