Your link - seriously?
"Tobacco giants say"? Dude, they said that smoking is actually healthy for a few decades. I'd trust my cat around buckets full of her favorite treat more than those companies.
Wow, people still ready penny arcade in the year of our lord 2026?
What’s next, a link to stile project?
Why is that desirable?
Because the cost to society is paid not by the smokers but by all of us. And health care costs are only the tip of the iceberg.
Cull the least smart and self-restrained.
There's no culling here. Both doom scrolling and smoking kill you so slowly that evolutionary it doesn't matter.
While I’d have no real problem with meta being banned for those under 18, or just their business model somehow made illegal
They weren’t selling drugs. They weren’t killing opponents. Making a product so good that people find themselves addicted to it isn’t something you get fined $1.4 trillion for.
Quick google says Tolkien co. allows fanfiction, but not if the authors are trying to sell it at a profit. That a fanfiction author did self-publish his fanfiction book, then sued Amazon and Tolkien for ripping off his plot, and lost the suit because he didn't have rights to publish in the first place.
Isn't that what you'd expect? Is there more going on?
The endless scroll is predatory at every moment.
It even reloads when you stop for a while. Switch to a different tab, do something else for five minutes, come back - it reloads and refreshes everything. Why? Because that activates a primal fear in your brain that you're losing something, missing something that might've been important, so your instinct is to NOT divert your attention elsewhere.
In theory I would agree, but the issue here is that social media platforms intentionally compromise your ability to make decisions. That's what the addictive pattern is all about. You could at any moment decide to stop scrolling and get back to work or life - but everything in there is designed so that the decision is made for you and bypasses any critical thinking paths in your brain.
And while I'm the first to agree the politicians are sleazebags and are the first ones that need much tougher regulation and laws, it's a fact that laws in this area actually do work. Anti-smoking laws have reduced smoking, for example.
All of that is still available for you, all you need to do is stop clicking the cheapest price you see every time you fly.
Someone hasn't flown in a while.
I don't click the cheapest price. What happened is that the major airlines have copied some (not all) of the budget airline shit. Luggage used to be included, now it's an extra - which causes people to bring carry-on to the max instead, which leads to the overhead compartments always being full.
You're being offered a nice delicatessen along side a shit sandwich and *YOU* are choosing the shit sandwich and complaining about the taste.
Yeah, good point. No, wait, that's complete bullshit.
I've taken a number of trips on business class in the past years. What you get in business class today is what you got in economy class 20, 25 years ago.
Either way you're getting an order of magnitude better flying experience for the same price as the days of old.
You know what, you may actually be right if you compare multi-thousand halfway-around-the-world intercontinental flights. I've never flown to Australia, so I can't compare that. I'm talking about shorter flights (a few hours) which I do frequently and where I can compare. We might both be right.
gaining access to a luxurious airport experience
So... ordinary airport before enshitification ?
Air travel used to be pretty cool. Now absolutely every part of it is annoying. Especially the booking and its 25 upsale offers.
A few years more of this and you'll have to book business just to get a seat and fresh air.
Probably.
But the mirrors, for example, are made by Zeiss. Lots of parts are from the supply chain and ASML doesn't even HAVE their secrets.
You are right that some industrial espionage could be useful. I just say it's not as useful as most people would assume (which is basically the Hollywood plot of "steal this secret and we can copy it"). Nah. You can find on the Internet how a nuclear bomb is made. But it takes a lot more than a print-out to actually make one, and a couple of those steps are genuinely hard.
Fascinating answer.
It seems to me that the unablated thoughts fall into the category of "what would a human user expect that a good answer to this prompt would be?" - and out comes something that is clearly an aggregate of stream-of-consciousness writing.
But then the ablated models seem to go for a direct answer without much less interpretation and "pretend to be human". I wonder what that's about. I'd love the AI to answer more like the machine it is, and right now I'm getting that through skills.
Not sure how far industrial espionage gets you here.
There's nothing fundamentally secret in lithography. We know how it works. The secret sauce is the experience, processes, know-how, highly specialised suppliers etc. The practical complexities are immense. Given the security incidents ASML already had, I'd make a bet that a large amount of the valuable data is already in China. But the supply chain and the engineering don't live on paper and are not easily duplicated.
... as in: If you get in bed with them, you'll get screwed.
You really have to be a special kind of dumb to buy anything from Facebook. What did you expect? Their entire business model is selling YOU.
Even without PlayStation doing this, nobody is buying disks anymore and the 2nd hand market for games made recently barely exists.
And digital downloads / disk isn’t the deciding factor. I can still play KOTOR on a modern Xbox whether I have the original disk from 23 years ago or the $5 download, but my jet set radio future disk won’t run on a modern machine.
That was quite a rant. You put quite a bit of time into defending your brand. U mad that a phone with
Neutrinos have bad breadth.
