Both Gnome and KDE were busy growing from almost nothing. They were scrappy and usable.

Then, just before 2.0 (?), both projects went insane simultaneously and started talking about how confused users were and how much hand-holding the users needed. The number of processes exploded and started eating up stupid amounts of resources. It started looking a LOT like Microsoft style engineering where everything is fucked up and unmanageable.

Now, we are here. Both projects have never recovered from what happened in the early 2000's. Both projects are a mess. Neither projects gets any support from me.

Linux on the desktop was successfully subverted. How? I don't know. I absolutely blame Microsoft.

Rules will not work when the governing body does not respect rules for itself.

Would there be outrage? From who? We already have Flock and the only people pissed off are the hundreds of millions of citizens. The tens of thousands that we "elect" to lead all seem pretty happy with it and are willing to suppress stories of outrage by the vast majority of people.

This is the real problem with these systems. Just as Flock, a non-government system, can be misused to throw you in jail.

Do you ever feel like you are an innocent white tourist who is lost amidst an island of cannibals?

The question you are asking implies that you probably shouldn't feel terribly comfortable at Slashdot as many of the folks here understand WHY this person did what they did at a very fundamental level. You do not. That means that many of the motivations that occur here are a complete mystery to you.

You are very welcome here; however, I have to wonder why you want to be here.

Long story short, some people have a motivation to do certain things. When those things align with physical reality, magic happens. Money, power, etc are NOT motivations in this scenario. Just learning is. Doing what is in the mind with real physical objects. It is an orgasmic experience. The why is not really explainable with words. You either know, or you don't.

Don't freak out too bad here, but I have some news for you: There are lots of things you do not know. Even if you lived for a million years doing nothing but learning, there would still be things you would not know. No matter how complete you think your internal representation of the world is, it isn't complete.

Just quoting for entertainment purposes.

Rime of the Ancient Mariner reference. Anyone who listened to Iron Maiden would recognize that line instantly.

Obscure references like that is what made Family Guy and American Dad so entertaining. They seem to have lost that with Seth McFarlane not writing those shows anymore.

Simple, a group of people got together and decided they wanted this all to occur, so they worked to make it so.

It gets political when you try to identify the group and its members and its goals. It is all a conspiracy because they know, as a whole, the population would reject their efforts.

You have somewhat accurate vision. Well done. My vision is clouded so I can't be certain how good your vision is, but your vision tracks with reality from what I can tell.

You think schools are designed to teach something useful. Your next question should be "useful to who?". Schools are designed to squelch independent thought. Any other facts you learn are a side quest. Why do you think they teach math in such fucked up ways now? It is to remove knowledge of actual math principles.

I don't care what happened in the past. I want all current and future treaties to be honored our outright voided/not agreed to. I received an extremely whitewashed education, but so many treaties were broken, it was hard not to see a few of them. I was disgusted as a child.

What blows me away is that many people are still for breaking treaties/promises that they are bound by but expect others to keep their treaties/promises. What the actual fuck? We have words for that behaviour when it does not involve an outsider: Fraud, perfidy, theft, etc.

Why is it okay to break promises to outsiders but not to insiders? Whatever moral code our leaders are living by, it has no consistency as the definition of "insider/outsider" changes with the wind.

And yet, it still happened. Is everyone asleep? I saw it all happening back in the 1980s. Lots of voices against, but our leaders, in lockstep, have advanced this agenda since before I was born. What the fuck?

Let me refresh your memory:

Felonies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Child rape:

The searches returned nothing; however, I do not fully believe that. If your point was that Republicans are guilty of it far more often than Democrats, I concede your point; however, your claim that no Democrat has done that is just not believable despite the searches.

Then you are using the wrong tool for the job. Whatever AI is right now, it can not judge. It can simulate judging, but it can not actually judge. You are asking too much of AI.

To be honest, the stench of magical thinking is strong here. AI is a semi-random output of what has gone before. No actual judging is possible.