More evidence the 2026 election will be stolen. They wouldn't be doing this if there was an honest election.

When Google started providing on-page excerpts of the destination web-site, it was the end of Google respecting anybody. Those web-sites complained that Google was stealing/blocking traffic. Australia made a law forcing Google to pay for content. Google made a deal to thwart similar legislation being enacted in other countries.

How did Reddit think, the same wouldn't happen to them?

At best, Reddit was selling the answers (of its subscribers) to Google. Now, Reddit realizes, they've priced their answers incorrectly and want a new deal.

To keep selling their answers, Reddit needed a way to the encourage skilled subscribers to answer more questions. Instead, they took control of moderation and kicked-out anyone who complained. At the time, many people declared that Reddit needed subscribers more than subscribers needed Reddit.

I expect that to have consequences, too.

I think it will be difficult to fight cyber-criminals when the 'smart' machine follows the last person shoving orders into its eval function.

The Hollywood trope of cyber-intrusion and penetration won by the person giving 'better' orders, will be true. Unfortunately, in reality, that would make every AI, a weapon for the enemy.

"Inter-planetary" or "inter-satellite" are alternatives. The English language doesn't have a mother-daughter concept for travel.

This is simply, humanizing a machine. So pick a machine: Thus, great men stand of the 'shoulders' of clitoral vibrators. Doesn't sound so clever now, right.

Sure we depend on machines, we use them to advance our present and describe our history, to a point. We talk about the "Eagle" lunar lander and astronauts Armstrong & Aldrin. Or, the "Nautilus" and Captain Nemo.

Pretending the machine is human, is a recipe for disaster. There's many novels about that very problem.

Blurting out the answer is not helping.

Google is attempting vendor lock-in, fuck everyone else. What sells matters (to rich people), the impending idiocracy doesn't.

The good news is, the DoW uses the syntactically correct "DoW" unlike the former "DOD" which refused to use "DoD".

It really is 2 points:

- The Democrats fix nothing and are abusive but I'll vote for the guy promising to be more abusive and fix everything, although I know that he too, will fix nothing.
- I want free stuff that someone else pays for, but giving someone else free stuff is Communism.

Bernie Sanders exposed point 1: Many MAGA knew Trump would fix nothing and there was no reason to vote for Trump. They were voting for Trump to piss-off everyone else.

I wonder how that plan is working?

You're saying we need cheap foreigners and we need educated Americans.

Why would any business choose American over cheap? You haven't fixed anything. Your choices are to lower wages, which really means lowering the cost (not the budget: Another problem) of US education. If wages are 'raised', the incentive for education also rises. (Limited supply can interfere with that: Again another problem.) That should also incentivize in-house training and promotion.

In American politics, much as they promise to "think of the children", teaching science and civics is not a priority.

I didn't fact-check, because the answer is so obvious, right?

You are correct. Maybe the 'fire risk' is an old wives tale. A few stories of people leaving the gas on, and it's all I remember.

I like to think it refers to a gas hot water service, which is also banned. No gas-powered hot water has an obvious downside: When the electricity disappears, the hot water disappears (Most installations are sized to supply one/two days of hot water.): When one doesn't have hot water, one really discovers how essential to modern living/hygiene, it is.

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Without money or employment, the need to obey the rules and obey the rich drops into the toilet. The choice will be a post-apocalypse movie, murdering more and more people for a sliver of disappearing resources. Or, living in a cave and growing crops for oneself.

The same spiral affects the wealthy: They need factories (and external kingdoms) to make luxury goods and thus will need educated slaves, or will need to spend money hiring people. It's important to remember that several million rich people have only, sufficient money for 1 lifetime: They won't like seeing their wealth disappearing and will want some way of staying rich and powerful. Thus, most millionaires will want modern life to continue and once the slaves die, will need to earn the obedience of the working class.

It is possible to devolve to the bronze age but it is impossible to freeze all wealth. Even rich people suffer the cost of living. As long as rich people are demanding stuff because it's there, the company town or communist economy is not sustainable. The pressure will be to industrialize and sell the surplus goods to other towns (or countries). That puts the bronze age back on the treadmill for more technology. If the rich want to keep the technology they've already got, they will need someone to provide education, healthcare and a set of standards (purity, toxicity, rigidity, size, weight) for making everything.

A couple o' times, this year, I've run into Google Online Grammar Checker: There are no instructions anywhere, on operating this feature. Maybe, because, the feature doesn't, in fact, do anything. It presents a 'suggestion' pop-up: No buttons, not even a "cancel" button in sight. Any use of the keyboard cancels edit mode and, thankfully, the pop-up.

So far, the answer is delete the line of text containing the offending grammar and type something less upsetting to Google.

I'll respect AI when it calculates that Google and Microsoft are willfully enshittifying their products.

No script-writers, no drama coaches, no actors, no celebrity managers, one or two sets: It's obvious why producers and directors love reality/game-show productions.

It's already mentioned: Cable television became popular when free networks switched to re-runs and reality shows. Now, cable television will offer the drek that's already free, for a price. It doesn't take a job in economics to guess what happens next.

I've worked outside in 37C heat (plus heat from direct sunlight). A few thousand kilometres south, that government declared a down-tools policy when the outside temperature was 35C.

In tropical climes, buildings, work-flow and sometimes, clothes, are already calibrated for the dangers of dehydration, exhaustion and sunburn. Colder climates aren't, resulting in sick people. The government is trying to prevent that by forcing relevant safety rules upon entities who have an interest in ignoring them.

Congress isn't interviewing the CEOs of Twitter/Truth Social/4chan: I wonder why?

These networks have proven, highly-abusive posters: Still a small proportion of the population but the racists on these platforms make a point of glorifying their cruelty.

Other posters are correct: This is 'something I don't like, happened', 'I'm the victim', and 'somebody else, do something' propaganda: Whatever the results, Fox News/the GOP/Trump/Miller/Voight will re-write history (memory-hole facts) to decrease the power of the people truly suffering, AKA gaslighting.