So what I'm hearing here is that Europe is closer to being a real society, and America's heaps of wealth for those at the top are built on top of everyone's shoddy working conditions.

Trump has pledged to pump a huge amount of federal money into purchasing bitcoin. So, the hogs are stocking up, pumping the price up in the process, hoping to either sell to the feds or capture a lot of value when the feds juice the price further. Cryptocurrencies were always a scam, their main purpose is transferring wealth from a gullible public to insiders, and now they've found a way to go after government money.

Bitcoin is not a real thing! It's neither currency or asset. You can't buy anything with bitcoin, it's completely impractical as a means of exchange. It's not an "investment" in anything, there is no object or company backing it in the real world. Bitcoin is a zero sum game: for every dollar that someone makes, someone else is out that dollar. To get a little money with bitcoin you need to get lucky, and to get a lot of money with bitcoin you need to be evil.

Canada is weeks or months away from electing a conservative nearly as odious as Trump, and some provinces have passed or announced anti-Trans measures as bad as any red state.

Sadly, where the US goes, Canada goes.

And here I was actually looking forward to the cookiepocalypse.

I mean this was obviously just a play by Google to corral the ad market. But with third party cookies gone and all those third party trackers dead in the water, we would be left with just one big shitty company to regulate instead of ten thousand tiny shitty companies. A future without trackers was imaginable if this change went through, but if Google can't force it then we're going to be stuck with tracking cookies forever.

Not mentioned in the news: he died of covid. We're currently creating a new generation of people wounded by a virus in long covid patients. For polio, we broke out all our medical and engineering ingenuity to eradicate the virus and to support its survivors. Instead today we are carefully ignoring covid and the huge numbers of people it leaves injured or disabled.

So after all that, for an accomplished life-long polio survivor to be killed by covid has some really painful poetry to it.

I was a huge fan of Digimon as a kid, and I can't think of a Digimon design that looks or feels like it was copied from a specific Pokemon.

But for Palworld, there are many designs that have a passing resemblance to a Pokemon design, and there are a half dozen that look like straight up trace-overs. Palworld is blowing up where the others did not for a reason, the copying is blatant.

The short of it: our governments are the ruling committees of capital, and the billionaire set does not care if the plebs live or die. They've got money to make. It's clear at this point that public health officials get marching orders from government.

The joke might be on our owners though. If COVID reinfection and long-COVID are as common as the research now shows, then we're causing disability on the scale of our entire population. The cost of lost working hours and providing care to long haulers is already huge.

A society that actually valued the lives of its citizens would do an awful lot of things differently, starting with basic COVID protections.

I'm on KDE, and I also saw 24 apps come up in the fingerprint in both browsers I tried, most of which are not installed, including a bunch of Mac and Windows specific stuff. But this is not actually a good thing, the test for these apps may not be reliable but the result is still a fairly distinctive fingerprint.

The idea of perfectly unlimited free speech sounds pretty good on its face. Everyone can say what they please, and the best thoughts can win out in the marketplace of ideas.

But it's fundamentally out of step with reality. Whether it's yelling fire in a theatre, cranking the music up while your neighbours are trying to sleep, spambots filling comment sections with links, shitposters loading up twitch chat with copy-pasta, false allegations spreading through whatsapp that see people mobbed, predators luring children, or neo-nazis organizing to "patrol" their neighborhoods for "troublemakers", there will always be speech that you and I as individuals or as a group consider unacceptable.

So in one way or another, we moderate speech. We try to figure out some rules that permit worthwhile communication and that ban obnoxious or dangerous messages. And, the enforcement of these rules will always be subjective and imprecise, because speech is messy. The ironic part of this announcement is that the site's features implicitly acknowledge this: in the 50 character requirement, the ability to vote comments up or down, and that if your up/down ratio gets too low your comments will be hidden. Even Peterson isn't a true free speech maximalist, he just draws the line on unacceptable speech further out than most.

Even if the site goes ahead with these moderation options, I predict it will be unusable from the instant it goes online. It's going to be choked with spam, lies, attacks, zero effort posts, flamewars, trolls, scams, illegal content, and hatred. So I can see this odyssey ending one of two ways: the most likely ending is that, like every forum in the world, some rules are adopted and enforced. The less likely ending is that the site actually continues with its stated rules until its uselessness becomes undeniable.

What I guarantee though is that Peterson's disciples won't stop to reflect on why their free speech platform is unusable, or why it becomes usable only because of moderation. The cognitive dissonance will wash over them, with no effect. They're going to continue saying things that people find awful, and they'll be shocked and outraged when they keep getting kicked out of other people's platforms for it. They'll be even more shocked and amazed if and when they are kicked off of Peterson's own site! And they'll keep pushing free speech, to soothe their burns and rationalize their victimhood.

I think the author was probably using "safe space" sarcastically, in the way that the stereotypical poster on this new site probably will.

But I also think that when progressives say "safe space", they mean that it is guarded against hatred and prejudice, and not against any and all criticism.

Exactly this.

It's fundamental to user interface design that the interface not lie to the user and that it put them in control, rather than the other way around. Whenever a system takes that power away the results vary from irritating (inability to control Windows updates) to enraging (inability to disable location tracking in newer versions of Android, cell network locking) to dangerous (the MCAS system). The system is transformed from a trustworthy tool to something unpredictable and harmful.

I'm all for a 30 km/h speed limit on residential roads, the stats cited by other posters are absolutely true, it would save a lot of lives in pedestrian collisions. But an automated system enforcing a hard limit is the wrong way to achieve this.

To say nothing of the potential carnage if a system like this fails. What if your speed regulator has a problem, decides that your limit is 30 km/h on a highway where everyone else is doing 110, and slams on the brakes for you?

I don't think the point of the piece is that people see content on youtube and mindlessly vote a certain way because of it. What these budding politicians have done is tap into a new broadcast medium to build networks of supporters. They've created a sense of common identity. Like Trump, they've figured out that they don't have to go through mainstream media to reach interested people, they can just speak directly to them.

I suspect that this is a sign of the times. The power of TV, radio, and newsprint isn't going away overnight, but my guess is that we'll increasingly see successful campaigns built on networks like these, without any gatekeeper between supporter and candidate.

Yes, obviously, slavery and those things you just invented warrant similar levels of justified outrage.

Changing the terms because some people find them offensive is the right thing to do.

It's true that offence is personal. Not everyone has a problem using master/slave, lots of commenters here clearly don't. It's true that people can theoretically claim to be 'offended' by just about anything. Lots of commenters have come up with wild fantasies where other words could (but never will) be targeted for replacement.

The civil war may have ended the formal institution of slavery, but racism against blacks is alive and well. If you doubt this, try googling "life while black". I find it completely reasonable for people who daily face different treatment because of their skin to ask for one less reminder of it while they're at work. "Political correctness" isn't about forcing people to change their language just because, or about rubbing your virtue in everyone's face. It's about having some fucking empathy for the people around you.

The cost of changing a few words in the docs is marginal to non-existent. If it improves a few people's days, we should gladly do it.

Both of course! CR followed by LF has been the Microsoft line ending style since DOS at least. The convention dates to the teletype era, where moving the print head to a new line required a carriage return command (to send the print head back to the left) and a line feed command (to step the paper up one line).