There can be a whole bunch of bad things going on, even as steady improvements elsewhere still has more of an impact. Aside from improvements in medical care, the summary notes explicitly that part of this is due to a reduction in overdose deaths. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean we as a society are handling drug addiction that much better. So many people died that they aren't in the pool. Similarly, some of this is post covid with covid having killed a variety of people, including some very healthy people, but also some more sick people who would have likely died in a few years. And at the same time, note that most of Europe is not right now seeing a bump in life expectancy this large (even as their life expectancy still exceeds that of the US) and they didn't have an opioid epidemic and also did a better job keeping death rates low during the heights of covid.

It's not a lie. The unemployment rate is crap. Both parties like to use it to lie about how good things are when they are in charge, which is why most of them don't want to kill that goose.

It's destroying the planet. Sustainability is job #1. SMH here.

No, it literally is not an ad hominem in absolutely any sense whatsoever, period. If you think otherwise, you may or may not be stupid, but you're definitely ignorant. I could have phrased it some other way, if I were trying to be dishonest, but that is not what I do. I'm not here to be nice about shit ideas which ennoble or enrich shit people, nor to coddle their enablers.

Ad hominem means insult from a person. It is an argument that an argument is false because a certain person made it. It literally does not matter whether an insult is involved, although it can be. The fact that you're issued moderation points for a site like Slashdot when you're so eager to be so fundamentally wrong about what something means is utterly pathetic. This is exactly why moderation should be public, so people can know whether it means anything, or it was executed by someone who has no fucking idea what they're on about. This is also why moderation is and always has been fundamentally broken on Slashdot. Posting and moderating in the same discussion isn't allowed, but the people who are most qualified to moderate are also the people who are most qualified to comment.

I also note that you failed to understand the part about comments whose sole purpose is to insult and enrage, with your comical focus on insult when that is not even the core of what ad hominem even is. It's especially amusing that you quoted that section in light of your inability to understand either thing.

Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time.

lolololol etc ad infinitum.

By the way, a followup note: I agree with you that the current Shor's algorithm records shouldn't really count for much. The primary disagreement here seems to be whether it is more useful to look at component metrics (number of qubits, coherence time, efficiency of error correction schemes), or to look at practical applications. I am favoring the first, and you are favoring the second. Let me suggest that the first is right now more important because that's where we can usefully measure if there's been improvement or not. An analogy here that may be helpful: It wasn't until Yuri Gagarin that any human went into space and only a few years later that humans went to the moon among other things. If you look at the improvement of rockets from the early 1930s until 1961, you'd see massive improvement in rocket capabilities, but your metric for humans in space would keep being zero until 1961 when you get Gagarin, and then Titov, Shepard and Gus Grissom all in one year and a lot happening after that. Using a metric which is at close to zero and where we know why that metric would stay at zero even if we see improvement isn't a great way to understand what is happening.

You don't even know what an ad hominem attack is, since I didn't make one.

Learn what words mean before you use them, kid.

I guarantee it was an off the shelf device running their app. It's the elon phone!

If you don't hate Elon after what he did to USAID, which has killed thousands abroad elsewhere and also resulted in the screwworm showing up here, you're stupid.

Fine words from someone who has done neither.

What you're doing is called simping.

Well, they not only block bots this way, but legitimate visitors, too.

Not just history but the present is replete with counterexamples. Cartels abound.

wank wank, flonk flonk.

I remember a time when Slashdot was peopled mostly by humans who looked down on copyright law in general as a farce. Those were better times in a lot of ways, and this is only one of them.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Everything is coercive.

Who came to defend the honor of the fire stick?

The fix is to come up with a news reader with cryptographically managed identities (not verified, just consistent) and go back to USENET with it. This does everything valuable that social networking does, but without the malevolent overlord.

This is what I came to say. Starting with elements is as close to scratch as we get, and they didn't go there