I take your point about the first amendment - it hadn't occurred to me but it makes sense.

Given the context, do you think there's some kind of societal change that could be engineered to make its consequences less extreme? It occurs to me that an instrument as powerful as the first amendment demands of citizens a sense of responsibility and restraint. I suspect the founders didn't foresee the extremes of self-centredness, obliviousness, and ignorance that today's America suffers from.

The "/block" by default should apply for these types more personal data collection

Not surprised given that showing you opinions that are contrary to your own opinions is more likely to get you to continue using the social media site.

Enough people are too used to scientific consensus aligns with my opinions, any opinion not aligned will seem as a personal attack.

Contrary opinions, statistics, facts, ideas, and debate should be encouraged; otherwise its going to be an illusion of free and open debate where only narrow range of "allowed ideas" are presented.

Progressing and resolving the multiple generation social problems needs debate and ideas outside the 40 years set of "approved ideas" used to block progress by both the wealthy left and wealthy right with their team mates in the top-tier of finance, government, non-profits, NGOs, corporations and the UN.

Open reasoned debate by everyday people, where the dogmatic believers of power dynamics, oppressor/oppressed, economic dogma are excluded would help.

Thinking it is about time that Linus decides on moving Linux away from the legacy git to a more modern source control platform.

Having to explain to many different non-programmer people how to use to use git, with its misdirected command line syntax stumbling block, is the reason.

Earlier ones, subversion, cvs, and Microsoft platform ones weren't much better.

Good point, but also a false dichotomy. There IS a middle ground, where some (arbitrary until research gives further guidance) amount of "what I'm interested in" is mixed with some other amount of "everything else regardless of my viewing and posting history" and delivered as posts, recommendations, or whatever.

Of course, this would ultimately result in less addiction to the platforms, and therefore less profit. I see that as yet another argument in favour of social media being regarded as part of the common; by this point in time it's effectively societal infrastructure anyway, so it should be a tax-funded and government-run thing, kind of like a utility.

I can already here the objections, and I'm not presenting it as a finished solution, but rather as a talking point. Clearly, corporate-controlled social media of ALL kinds need to be very heavily regulated and/or dismantled. A LOT of the corporatocracy needs to be dismantled.

A strange game.

The only winning move is not to play....

Mod parent Funny, though "continues to be money" was a bit annoying or something. Or maybe my case is too weird or too ancient? Even worse, it was an open contract with no special incentives. (And none of that insane "Thank you for your service" garbage in those days.)

By being mindlessly propagated...

Actually not too bad in this case. Scrollbar metric indicates only about 20% penetration of the discussion.

Okay funny, but the joke I was looking for was rage-induced suicides. Some sort of road rage joke...

I'll check back tomorrow in hopes more funny has blossomed on this rich target.

*sigh*

s/more more/more money/

I propose a new metric for assessing the bloviated market value of AI companies. Not sure what to call it, but it's based on price to earnings ratio. As far as I know, the current leader is Musk's corporate cancer with a value over 200, whereas the same source said the other big AI companies including the google, Anthropic, and Microsoft were around 25 to one. My fuzzy memories of helping an MBA researching corporate bankruptcy included something about normal ratios of 10:1, but that was a long time ago. Of course my prediction is that this new Chinese company has a ratio comparable to whatever Elong [sic] is calling his company now.

But if the Chinese company stock price is significantly above 200 times earnings, perhaps approaching infinity, then China wins again?

Oh, wait. What about negative valuations of the ratio? Has anyone yet managed an IPO on a company that has no earnings yet?

Give me FUNNY. (Of course they won't) Or at least nominate me for a Nobel Prize in Funny Economics.

Disclaimer needed. I think Musk is a mass murderer, but it wasn't anything personal. He just desperately NEEDS more more than any sane person would ever want. One of the requirements for winning that kind of pseudo-nonrandom lottery is an insane level of greed. My new theory is that a "normal" lottery winner only suffers from excessive hopefulness or extreme luck. Good or bad luck, that is the question.

Is that an indirect way of saying you spend an inordinate amount of time and money performing maintenance on your old clunker to keep it running? Cars haven't sold with CD players for a really long time.

I know a 2017 Mazda that still has a factor CD player in it.

And then again, often people put new stereos in cars...aftermarket, etc.

I wonder how many fatalities "Radar Love" has racked up over the many years it's been out?

I have to admit, my foot to this day gets VERY heavy when that song comes on...among some other choice "driving" songs.....

By attributing this primarily to "habits" I think you're minimizing the difficulty here. Maybe because in English we use "habit" to describe both an accustomed and reflexive action, and a biological addiction?

The distinction is important. TFS says "children born just a few months apart had very different levels of sugar exposure both in the womb and during early childhood". It also says "early-life sugar exposure continued to affect people's diets even 50 years later".

From those I deduce both a five-alarm fire of a health crisis, and a major crime. I think the what the the food industry has done to make this situation worse during my lifetime makes the things that Big Tobacco did look like shoplifting by comparison.