And flying cars have been around for a hundred years. Including production models.

California, however, still favors it heavily, and is doubling down on it.

"When you're dead, you do not know that you are dead. The pain is felt by others. The same thing happens when you're stupid"

Sounds like a valuable social service to me.

Unless you're planning to print it out (requiring about 300 cubic meters of paper - per month, to keep up with edits), you still need things like electricity, and replacement hardware as it wears about and the infrastructure to keep it all going, which is about as likely to be available after a civilization destroying collapse (which is, by definition, what we're talking about) as the internet.

So good luck with that.

All that aside from the fact that it's largely useless with the internet.

And NPR brags about how unbiased and factual they are, and little girls all want a pony.

But it isn't hard to find first hand accounts of their overtly political bias, so perhaps, their own claims about themselves are not exactly reliable or credible.

In my experience, not really, no. Cloudflare, yes, a pretty large percentage of all internet traffic goes through them. But AI scrapers? Not that I've seen.

Or buy them from gog.com, which will come with a custom version of DOSBox all set up specifically for it.

Become? Were they ever not?

If only one could get a reliable list of all IP addresses they use, it would be trivial.

Yeah, I'm sure the internet will be working just fine after what catastrophe causes you to need to rebuild society.

There are, however, actual options for such information.

You're not doing anything to convince me that you're not either a paid shill or an AI bot.

And you won't, either. You won't even try.

It local independents who are most likely to not be interested in Amex, because their fees are, on average, 1-1.5% higher than Visa/MC's. And merchant fees are always higher for small businesses to begin with.

When your net profit margin is under 5% to begin with (and it almost always is), that 1% can easily be the difference between prosperity and your children having to go to public school, and can easily be the difference between a sustainable business and flipping burgers at your McJob for minimum wage.

Your personal anecdote does not define the real world. Reality doesn't care if you believe in it or not, it believes in your regardless.

It is his intention to imply that anyone who doesn't like AI is an evil sinner, like those nasty gays how have the other kind of AI. It's deliberately provocative, intended to keep anyone from actually thinking about what said sinner said.

I suspect he either a) works for an AI company, or b) is an AI itself.