Better a few Boomers lose their shirts than decades or centuries of techno-fascism.

Because only boomers have investments.

Your whining is the same thing that has been said for centuries whenever a new technology or process has come along. I can guarantee you would have been one of those whining when the cotton gin was invented, or cars and airplanes started being made. This is how society advances. If you don't like, you don't have to participate.

You're so cute when you think the dangerous AI in China is visible to the public. Ditto in America.

But I wasn't actually joking about Xi buying control of Taiwan. I do think they have military contingency plans with clouds of drones to enforce a virtual embargo, but much less expensive to just outplay the suckers. The "US Tech Stocks" are just collateral damage from that perspective. (If Xi could control the YOB the way Putin does, then I would guess about some American targets for the stop-loss triggers. Does anyone else have the liquidity now?)

Mod parent (FP) Funny, but I think you're missing the point. My hilarious theory is that China is crashing their own stock market in hopes of triggering a crash in the American stock market. When it crashes far enough Xi will suddenly jump in and buy control of TSMC. How to win without even trying (to invade).

File it under "celebrating the election"? And no, I don't really understand how "sell triggers" work. The stock market has become a game for bigger suckers than me.

Suits Reddit. Pretty sure I also tried to find some humor there.

How about a joke on google as the secondary target? Just collateral damage while the real plan is for Xi to buy control of TSMC as the AI bubble implodes?

Mod parent funnier, though I think the real target is elsewhere. What if the Xi could crash the American stock market (to celebrate the election?) and buy up enough shares to control TSMC when the price drops? How to conquer Taiwan without even invading?

Not just TSMC, but that's the juiciest target. The real key to such an attack would be how many shares in which companies are linked to automated sell orders when their prices fall to trigger levels...

My cue to add to the discussion, though I never spent that much time adding to Wikipedia and I never tracked what happened to any of my efforts. Also I suspect there are some folks who would accuse you of having one or more axes to grind...

But trying to answer the original question, I think it's because of the financial model. If money wasn't a factor, then why not let everyone have a Wikipedia page? It could even be a way to implement my mythical MEPR (Multidimensional Earned Public Reputation) to solve all the trust and reliability problems we are drowning in. With AI to manage the networks of real humans and detect the attempted infiltrations of sock puppets and attempted exfiltrations of personal data.

Gimme Funny!

Enshitification comes to mind. Did I get a kudo?

Basically the ACK though I can't decide if I don't share your optimism or we share slightly different flavors of the same pessimism.

You need rage bait and outrage porn to engage people on the internet

On r/lawncare, it's people's shoes and dogs shitting on the lawn. On r/laundry, it's people either deliberately telling you what piece of clothing is dirty and asking how to clean it, or showing the labels.

I don't have an account, but even I can recognize this astroturfing. It's being deliberately done to get views.

What delusional world do you live that the taxpayers don't have a right to know where their tax dollars are being spent?

Companies are private entities. They do not operate under the same rules as government. Your example is invalid.

It's called transparency. It's what good government does. When you work for the government you give up some of your privacy becausse you are working for the people.

You must work for Trump to think the people don't have a right to know what their government is doing.

I understood that reference. :)

Loser thinking is dropping everything at the drop of a hat based on nothing more than one article written by somebody nobody has heard of on a fringe website.

Loser thinking is dumping tech stocks because they said they might make a few million dollars less in the next 3 months than they anticipated despite them making money hand over fist.

What's with the black leather jacket he always wears? Does he think he's the Fonz? Or a Ramone?

Essentially, his wife and daughter made the choice:

For a bit more on the subject:

DuckDuckGo allows you to do this. On their homepage you can choose between a regular search or an AI search. I have my default page set to no AI.