Sadly no, we're simply exposing our existing latent stupidity. People like to argue. Ragebait makes arguing more likely. Arguing is considered "engagement".

Prove me wrong.

They are literally links to the cases. Jesus Christ I've met single celled organisms with more brains than you.

Nope. You can verify this yourself by looking at what gets loaded in the browser. The first page is loaded, then the bottom half of that page is cut-off. The entire article itself is never sent to you unless you're logged in.

Well I'm sure the fine article would have those details, except the entire article appears to be one line:
"This content is not available in your region"

Honestly if it gets Americans to stop driving oversized pedestrian murdermachines then it may actually be something positive to come out of his administration. I mean to be clear it won't happen, and even if it did this isn't the intention, but still wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where America's pedestrian accident rate was *not* increasing?

Why do you need power? How badly designed are your roads that a small 3 cylinder 1000cc engine car can't safely reach highway speeds on the onramp? You want a racing car fine, but don't pretend that power is something anyone actually *needs* to commute to work.

Also I knew someone with a Mirage back in the day. The fit and finish matched every other car in its price range and was perfectly adequate for the purposes of going from A-B. I recommend not living in it, and maybe not using it to ferry Saudi Princes around, but beyond that it was a fuckload better than the Tesla of the day.

There's no imagining here. There was a very specific action from the car companies lobbying to have exclusions for classes of vehicles from certain rules that resulted in a massive push to larger trucks becoming the standard.

Size matters, and by that I mean big things are often more expensive to produce. You complain about fit, finish, and price, but the Mirage given its size and engine in every way is much cheaper to put on the road than a large pickup or sedan. The fact that it isn't reflected in the price itself *IS THE CONSPIRACY*. You literally described it to us just now.

You contradict yourself. A product that isn't easy to use or setup in one or two clicks fails in the market. Hence cloud.

While I agree, see the whole ease of use thing. Enshitification and dumbing down of everything is done because quite frankly most people are frigging useless when it comes to technology. The more options you have, the more rope you gave idiots with which to hang themselves. Most products are unfortunately designed for the commoner, not the techie in mind.

Actually my bigger gripe than this is that products which *do* have this functionality are often locked down to "professional installers". Like wtf. I bought the device, give me the god damn service code so I can configure it myself.

I did. You know who didn't? Most people. Which meant the Internet was largely a source of information by a handful of nerds for a handful of nerds covering little more than a handful of nerd topics.

Yeah great you can find out how to compile a new Linux kernel. Whoope de fucking do. Where's a Dutch language video guide to how to replumb your shower? I could find great information to help my hobby of amateur radio, but how does it help the wife who has an interest in creating fancy cakes? It doesn't, because the content wasn't there.

The internet's usefulness has nothing to do with the protocol. The point is the content, and back in its infancy it was a niche product for niche audiences with niche topics. Today it's being shat on by AI slop. But around the early 2010s it was a world of information about everything and anything you could imagine which made it most useful.

If people can buy a new car for not much more than a used one, and it's more efficient and comfortable, they just might.

That idea works in theory where there isn't any negatives. The problem is there always is. Your goal is to consume media. Do you care about quality? Netflix is the antithesis for that. Their goal is for you to consider them the second screen.

Second.

Not first. Not only. They are not trying to engage you. They want to be on in the background so you feel a connection to them to not cancel your service, essential noise while you doom scroll.

They have explicitly said as such and that is the reason many of their shows have fucking horrendous screenplays that would get you an F in a high school drama class. Like really basic don't do this 101 level shit such as expositing what is currently happening on the screen. You know... because they don't want you to actually watch the screen.

While too many streaming companies is a bad thing, nothing good comes from Warner Bros being dragged down to make absolutely fucking rubbish at the direction of Netflix's upper management - which Netflix is objectively doing.

That's great. You get all my competitors together to follow this standard with a minimal amount of opt-in data and I'll just keep hovering up the entire internet. You see why my competitors may not be so keen on your standard idea?

Does your browser advertise itself as a web crawler? But let's math this shit!

You are a human. I suspect when you browse it takes you a good 10-20 seconds to make a connection, wait, receive a captcha, re-evaluate and context switch, and attempt to switch to another website. That's conservatively 6 attempts per minute. I assume you need to eat, drink, shower, shit and sleep so let's say you spend every other moment constantly battling Cloudflare like a lunatic even professionally while you work. That's 16 hours a day, 960minutes, or 5760 attempts per day. Or a total of 875,520. There'd need to be close to 500,000 of you lunatics doing this all day, every day, every waking moment, continuously for 5 months to match this number.

Somehow I think even if you did get get stuck in a captcha, and it did get counted ... I don't mean to belittle you but you're quite insignificant in this number.

I thought Microsoft just shovel money at OpenAI. Do Microsoft even do any of their own model training at all?

Anti-trust violations are not innovation. But thanks for writing the most stupid thing I've read this year, which is impressive given how low the bar already was. I see why you post AC.

And the evidential basis for the truth of this claim is...

hmm...

wait a second...

That sounds awfully like a completely unverifiable conjecture with literally no possible way to be based on observable fact, but conveniently explains away that you're totally wrong when presented with things that are observable facts.

Weird. I'm sure glad our entire political discourse isn't constantly centered around those kinds of claims, it'd be really tiring.