'Years' is soft-peddling it. We lack the technology to reach the nearest star to the Sun in less than 80 years, and even that is so expensive and unlikely to succeed that we'd never fund it. A 49 light year trip would take 980 years to get there, and assuming nothing critical broke enroute, it's incredibly unlikely you'd successfully beam any useful data back.

We could eventually build a fusion drive and halve that time. There's still nothing at the end of the trip to justify the investment. Telescopes are the vastly superior tool.

And no, nano probes accelerated by giant laser to near light speed are not realistic. At all.

Reporting doesn't really work. It will be weaponized to suppress competing content and the reporting mechanism will become untrustworthy.

Blah blah blah. Same mindless response. "You're stupid because you maintain personal relationships and don't consider everyone you know to be your best friend".

You're just a blithering idiot with a shitty handle on English... if you were functionally literate, you'd have noticed I differentiated between friends and acquaintances - just like you did in your second paragraph.

Jobs will be automated to save money - Government services will do it to reduce tax burden, companies will do it to maximize profit, and people who still own things will do it to protect their things. This will result in fewer workers and more desperate poor people for the people still working to protect themselves against. There will be more and more cameras in more and more places, there will be AI monitoring them, and this will continue until there is a strong enough backlash.

It's not the Meta glasses you really need to worry about, it's when the tech is inexpensive enough that people willingly add a Google or Amazon bodycam to their daily fashion choices. When every car has as many cameras as a Tesla. And the government will demand access to all of it.

Everything will be justified and rational every step of the way, and it will very predictably end in oppression.

It might actually be time to work on some skills of worth in a pre-industrial economy; the rich and their robots go one way, the poor get to survive if they can find enough productive land the rich don't claim and patrol with drones.

Once the rich have robot enforcement, there's no way they'll stop taking more and more and marginalizing anyone who tries to stop them.

The sad part is it's the poor who are enabling this - we build the robots, we design the AI. Right now, we are the servants to the ultra-wealthy and any one of us close to them could start a French solution to the issue of billionaires.

We're all so desperate to be rich in the current economic system that we're selling our own futures and we'll enthusiastically drag down anyone who tries to stop us.

Yep. And many domestic Canadian flights transit American airspace - if there are any issues, you're landing at an American airport.

Even with slightly longer flights and current fuel prices, I'd rather Canadian airlines stay on the Canadian side of the border going forward.

That is why this was always destined to fail as an authentication mechanism. And anyone smart enough to code it already knows this - which is why you know the real reason is to collect training data for AI, not to create a robust and secure authentication system.

I don't have a lot of friends, but I tend to doubt most people do. Many people have a lot of friendly acquaintances.

My friends are people I keep in touch with and don't need social media for each of us to remember the other exists.

I didn't say he was wrong. I should be more specific and say that he is not incorrect.

He's still 'wrong' as a human being.

"We have your photos, but we really need multiple angles with consistent lighting and background to train our AI. Also, as per company policy, fuck you, you're all morons."

-Zuck

Trump doesn't care about the USA getting hurt, he cares about hurting others. You can't threaten him, that just encourages escalation - but you can't let him abuse you, because that encourages escalation.

The best strategy - which is still a losing strategy because we're watching a mutually beneficial relationship being torn down unilaterally - is to ignore him where you can, and apply pressure without threats where you can.

Eventually Trump will make the US so unattractive to trade that it will evapourate. For the moment it continues because of momentum, but the world is going to route around the US eventually. It just takes time.

Then you have fuck all right to complain about what people do on it.

I know consistency is out of fashion in the US, but people really should demand that their constitutional rights actually be inviolable, and not magically irrelevant because a power-tripping fascist says they don't apply under certain circumstances.

You're never going to be as good as a bat or a dolphin, but try going into a quiet room and walking as close to a wall as possible with your eyes closed.

You don't even need the clicks - just the changes in ambient sound will let you know.

>As it points out in the summary, it requires you to turn your head on command, to prevent people using photos of you.

Yeah, no way you could use a real-time avatar program to fake that. Last time I checked, the cheap ones couldn't do profiles... but for just how long do you think that will remain true?

TLDs primarily exist to divide the DNS space into human-comprehensible chunks.

I wish the original setup had been national TLDs run by the the nations they represented, then let them go Wild West.

If your company is big enough to operate in multiple companies, it is big enough to have a domain for each country it operates in.