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Comment Re:Opera Browser (Score 1) 131

You're correct in principle, but this needs going deeper into relevant human traits.

People that could push this sort of a change require to have a combination of a specific traits. First one is ability to do complex future planning and sacrificing short term for it. Very small percentage of people in total are capable of this. A large plurality if not outright majority barely has a conception of the future if at all. Of those that remain, clear majority has problems tolerating the sacrifice (see: obesity "epidemic") needed for long term gain. Even when gain is massive elevation in quality of life and survival.

And even for people who can do what you describe, the gain must be clear and unambiguous. To go beyond that, you need to go to a different trait, that being risk tolerance. This trait is independent from the future planning one.

Finally you have the actual ability to what is needed to secure those long term gains.

So the people who could tolerate high risk and are capable of imagining the future and capable of sacrificing in short term for it and have the ability will genuinely invest only in things that have a massive return. Because there's so few of them, and so many opportunities they can direct their unique talent set towards. So because they walk rather than crawl for lulz, they will invest their time and effort only in most efficient things.

Causes like you speak of have such low returns compared to alternatives where such people could orient their effort towards, these people will not even look at them twice. All you get is ideological, highly disagreeable weirdoes who ride generally lack one or several of required traits to enact the kind of thing you are talking about at scale you're talking about.

And so, we get status quo. Because it's human.

Comment Re:Still not good enough! (Score 1) 158

I'm an ICE user, who just bought a new car and after carefully considering an ev or hybrid, chose ICE again because of a long litany of EV shortcomings for my context.
Nevertheless this range accomplishment is great news. I think that's really great.

Is it constructive to immediately assume anyone who disagrees with you is a zealot? Do you think that's convincing anyone to be more open minded?

Comment Re:I use Brave (Score 1) 131

If you're really into the whole "need resources for technical support for things support for which was removed in Chromium project", you want supermium.

It run on windows XP, even today, and project's goal is to integrate win2k support with modern chromium based browser eventually.

Comment Re: So adjusting for (Score -1, Offtopic) 80

Despite very credible allegations, Biden was never convicted of raping raping Tara Reade. And his daughter's recollections of him inappropriately showering with her outlasted any statute of limitations. But I see where you're going, there. The rest is a good fit, right down to the weaponized government, for sure. The plot twist is that the real kingpins are behind the scenes, using him as a puppet. It's good villain story line material fresh from real life.

Comment Re:Regulations written in blood (Score 1) 221

That moment when you're so utterly ignorant of reality and so captured by your desperate need to be right, that you don't know that biggest hatreds fester among people who are very similar to one another.

Mizrahi Jews and Arabs. Pakistanis and Indians. Russians and Ukrainians. Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks. Hutus and Tutsis. The list goes on.

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