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Comment Good. Politicians should fear the people (Score 1) 59

In the US they're corrupt by nature and will only cooperate when terrified.

Coerce them to serve the people by any means necessary and without empathy, compassion or mercy. They are selling out the commons in return for power.

In a just society the public would use them to decorate lamp posts. The system is beyond fixing without pitiless aggression which I can only hope accelerates.

Comment Re:Completely different (Score 1) 65

I don't think AI only dumbs people down, I just think it feeds people's proclivities.

If I look stuff up with AI (sometimes I give up and do it because the search engines are all so shit now) then I double-check what it shows me and I learn unrelated things in the process.

If you look stuff up with AI and just say "duhhhh OK" and repeat what it says then yeah, that's going to make you dumber.

So basically the people who were getting smarter looking things up without AI can still be getting smarter looking things up with AI... if they know how to think critically.

Comment Re:Just another grift (Score 1) 133

And why should we subsidize bandwidth over reach?

The idea was a future-proof connection, so we weren't paying for old and busted.

Shouldn't Starlink and satellite have the same access to subsidies than Google Fiber, considering they enable people to have internet that otherwise couldn't at all?

No. That doesn't mean they should have no access to subsidies, but they are also substantially more expensive than other options.

Let me also say here that we should nationalize all of the telcos because all of them stole hundreds of billions from us that they were supposed to use to provide high speed internet and gave it to shareholders and executives instead.

Comment sudo make me a data center (Score 1) 59

Step 1: Propose a new data center.
Step 2: Leak false information claiming the current city council is planning to approve it.
Step 3: Agitprop a recall election.
Step 4: Front two slates of staunchly anti-data-center sockpuppets, one liberal and one conservative.
Step 5: Have the winner approve your data center.

And that's why "betrayal of public office" needs to be a capital offense.

Comment Re:100M is enough (Score 1) 133

Honestly, if you want to live in the mountains in bum fuck no where, you can't expect society to provide you a fiber connection. We don't even provide those people with sewer connections for precisely the same reason.

Well, no. The two things are very different. Data leaves down the same "pipe" it came through, while sewage systems and water supply systems are both separate (you hope) and VERY DIFFERENT. They have almost completely different considerations in every department. Also, if you live in the sticks, there's no real drawback to not having a sewer connection.

Comment We do not accept your lack of acceptance (Score 1) 17

The company disputed any characterization that the data was "exposed," saying that an "ordinary member of the public" would not have come across it.

Well then, it's a good thing only "ordinary members of the public" would ever dream of trying to crack your service to provide unintended access! Those pesky Russian hackers would never dream of using means "not discoverable through ordinary use", right?

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