As someone with celiac disease and SEIBO, and who knows many people suffering from Crohn's and other auto-immune diseases, I hope they offer fecal matter transplants (sounds gross, I know), but this is the only long-term/permanent cure for these conditions. There are some SEIBO treatments, which are extremely expensive and very challenging to undergo, but they don't provide long-lasting benefits. The issue usually recurs fairly quickly.

Currently, if you require such treatments, you must travel to the UK and incur significant expenses. Thus, only wealthy people can access these therapies. I know someone who went and did it, and apparently, almost every digestive issue he had has been cured, along with his autoimmune diseases. But not available in the USA!

Thank you for proving my point precisely.

Every time MS has EOL'd version of Windows, we see this same question show up or someone writing an article about how this will make it the year of the LInux desktop. I've been using Linux since 1996, and I can tell you - sadly but honestly, that it will never be the "Year of the LInux Desktop" where Linux suddenly breaks out and get's insane mainstream adoption. if Linux does become very popular, it's going to be a gradual gain over many years, just like has happened since the 90's. And probably the most we could ever hope for is to reach parity with or slightly exceed MacOS as an install base.

My 2 jaded cents.....

It's not too hard to use; that's largely resolved. Linux is just too fragmented to catch on in a big way. There are too many permutations and flavors, and it makes it difficult for devs and 3rd party vendors to target. If the LSB base had taken off and we could rally everyone around one package manager, one package format, and one desktop and GUI toolkit, then maybe it would have a chance, but now, at almost 30 years of Linux usage, that hasn't happened and is unlikely ever to happen. If everyone wants Linux to go mainstream, everyone should get behind one distribution and one desktop. - but every time a good candidate comes along, everyone craps on them (ahem, canonical), sometimes deservedly, often not. We are like a community of crabs in a bucket; as soon as one looks like it's going to break out, the rest pull it back down and climb on top of its carcass. IMO, Ubuntu was the best chance for this to happen, and community infighting (mostly coming from Red Hat and the Gnome people) made sure to torpedo any chance that had of becoming the de facto standard. Sadly, I got tired of all of this and moved to a Mac as my main machine a couple of years ago, but I still keep my Linux box for dev purposes. THere are times when I really do miss my KDE desktop though.

must be after that uni engineering degree and all those classes in philosophy of logic, I lack any understanding of predicate logic universal (x) or existential (x) quantifiers. But I'm sure you'll be happy to tell me what they mean to demonstrate how intellectually superior you are, pedantic troll.

I asked it about Tienamen Square and it immediately said that it was a forbidden topic of discussion. WHen I asked it what topics were forbidden it refused to tell me and purposely decided to be vague reasoning that even listing the topics would be tantamount to discussing them or informing people about them which would be against the interests/desires of the government.

There is no point in using a Chinese AI as you will never be able to discuss anything that the Communist party doesn't want you to talk about. For fun I asked it its opinion of XI, and it also refused to give any answer at all.

Totally useless. I don't care how well you reason if you refuse to talk about anything important.

Just wondering - the summary says she injected herself with Measles. Was that injected viral load alive or dead?

Yeah, they may delay the inevitable, but as soon as all the 70-80-year-olds pass away, their business is over. My 68-year-old neighbors recently canceled all of their cable and satellite services when they got Google Fiber and switched to all streaming services and YT-TV. So, even the old folks are cutting the cord.

I can see interest low at tech companies that treat their employees well and pay well, and interest high at companies that don't compensate or treat employees well. I worked for a long time at a company that only ever gave 2% raises - if they even gave a raise. The people who had been at the company the longest were always the lowest paid. A union could potentially help fix some of those problems (while probably creating a bunch of new ones.) We'll see how long this fad lasts in tech companies.

What about the Internet Bill? Or did you leave that out b/c you didn't see it coming and it bit you in the ass?

Also, wrt AI, uhmm, unless you've been living under a rock, file this under Captain Obvious.

Ok, so what is the point? What is it that you think the solution is? I get it that there is history that got us to this situation, but what do we do about it now?

I agree. I'm a legal immigrant to the US and even I support a border wall. I live in Texas and I see the effects that illegal immigration, and the organized crime that has grown up around it, has not only on the communities of south Texas, but the communities of northern Mexico - things that the democrats don't want you to see or talk about. Not only that, blue states rarely, if ever, are impacted by the negative consequences of the issues at the southern border (and let's be clear - I'm neither a GOP nor Democrat - I can't vote and personally I despise both of them.) My wife is a chair on a non-profit that provides humanitarian support for illegal immigrants coming over the border and there is absolutely a crisis there almost every day. The conditions for immigrants are appalling and leave people exposed to be preyed upon by cartels.

The solution, however, IMO - is two fold:
1) to stop illegal immigration (or at least make it extremely difficult with harsh penalties)

*and*

2) Fix the bloody immigration system. It's so so so difficult and so expensive that I don't blame the poor, and uneducated people coming across the border. It's near impossible to get in legally w/o a good, and very expensive, immigration lawyer. That and the system is horribly inefficient, slow and backed up. They need to overhaul the entire system, fund it properly and streamline the bureaucracy so that getting in can be done in months for hundreds instead of years for thousands.

The problem is that no party will support the other party fixing it b/c they both want to play to their base, and be seen as the immigration saviors that all the immigrants vote for - I believe that's one of the reasons behind the democrats push for open borders (that and they don't feel any of the effects of these policies) - more voters for them - and a big reason why the GOP is against it (well that and a growing amount of xenophobia.)

I was a huge super hero movie fan, but now I'm starting to tire of them. The quality of them has been noticeably decreasing for some time, particularly since Disney bought Marvel. They were kind of 2 dimensional to begin with, light on character development for sure, but it seems it's just getting sillier and more 2D as time goes on. Maybe that's b/c Disney wants them to appeal to younger and younger audiences.

The only "recent superhero" movie that I thought was any good was Joker. Everything else that's come out since then has been trash.

How exactly were their GitHub repositories "hacked?" If they got in by defeating GitHub security measures, then this is a much much bigger story, but if they got it via poor access management or social engineering or a stolen laptop/device, then that's a different story and bad on Okta.

I'm not surprised, if you've ever been to Edinburgh - even if the air quality now is pretty good, the entire city is basically covered in soot. You can't tell me that none of that makes its way into the air or peoples lungs. Someone needs to powerwash the whole place.

Absolutely agree. I wanted to try it, I thought about it very seriously b/c I'm on a Mac, but then I had to ask myself - what happens when Google decides to just turf the whole thing? That ultimately led me to go to nvidia instead.