Tools are often useful because they are dangerous in a certain way. Cars. Hammers. Computers. Search engines.

Thank goodness there's still some semblance of the free market. Nobody will want to use the useless AI's.

Noteworthy for zero photos of the outside or other units. Lots of people renovated the interior of their commie blocks. It's like painting a piece of shit.

So if they are what you describe, and they're getting 42% of the vote, imagine how horrible the other parties are.

A pox upon all their houses. No party in Canada deserves a vote. There are no good options.

Most Russians. Just because you can point to a Russian who is "not like that" does not invalidate my claim. Their culture and value system is radically different from ours, and it would be wrong of us to assume that they just need to be "educated" or "freed". They're well aware of what's on the other side of the fence. They like what they have, or they would have changed it by now. Specifically, they like their brutal "dog eat dog" culture, because most are eager to be the one on top. They don't hate the game, they just hate losing.

You talk like Russians have no free will of their own.

Russians like authoritarianism. Despite all it's flaws, they are comfortable that way. It's what they know and more or less it works for them.

I remember the binaries on Usenet. You are misinformed.

Bingo. I recall getting more relevant search results using Lycos or Webcrawler. We don't have search engines anymore, the profit motive is too strong to allow them to remain that way. They're pitch engines.

I remember the day AOL opened the floodgates. I wouldn't call it the dark ages, it was a mixed bag, but in the end, giving the public access to the Internet cannot be considered worse than what was before.

There was another big transition... the day the USA passed laws allowing the Internet to be used by corporations. Before it was gov't, education, and military only. That was an even bigger deal, but I wouldn't call either the time before or after the dark ages.

Up until recently, things just got better and better with time. Now not so much. Big Internet companies are controlling public narrative and swinging elections in their favour by controlling who says what and how. The state has unprecedented spying power, and in many previously free countries (such as the UK) people are getting knocks on the door and are being sent to prison for saying the wrong political opinions online. Nothing like this has ever happened before, and it's far worse than what has come before. Now is the dark age of the Internet.

I remember dial up. It was less censored.

It's not porn. It's an image of a woman with a bare shoulder. Unless people saw the original image they would never know.

It seems the kinds of feminists that only pay lip service to equality are the ones in charge. We never hear them fight for "equality" when it's unpleasant or dangerous. 95% of workplace fatalities are male, but you see today's feminists protesting in the streets for a few percentage points different in gross pay, despite women working less hours by choice. Who's going to narrow the death gap?

No. This won't drag us back to the "dark age of the Internet". There was no "dark age of the Internet" unless one counts what's going on right now.

GMX beat Gmail by over a year. At the time I recall noting that Gmail was stealing their business model and marketing plan. GMX still exists. I prefer it to Gmail.

The real academic crime is the baseless assumption that 50/50 sex representation in STEM is fairness or some form of equality. Men and women can have radically different tastes and preferences, and this heavy handed forcing of "diversity" is an affront to the human right of freedom of choice.