... "at least we aren't like Poland" he says.

I just can't even ... this is how low the right has sunk, we're at Poland now. How's the deficit looking my republican bros? I feel embarrassed for people like Shaitan. I think about y'all every time I fill up my tank, it's a damned shame.

Dude we're literally living through Team America: World Police 2 right now, we fucked up the global economy AGAIN. With some kind of national oil interest in a country who's leader we nabbed in the middle of the night. What the fuck are you talking about, how can you be so tone deaf?

You're confused, he didn't rename AGI to SI, he renamed AI to SI.

Superintelligence already had a meaning, but now the federal government will refer to the whole field of AI as SI. You're reverse engineering Trump's SI to mean the part of the field of AI that the government should be most interested in, because that's the only thing that might make sense, but then the government would use the original meanings of both AI and SI... they're not. When the federal government says SI, they could literally be referring to what the rest of us just call AI now. It doesn't make sense because it doesn't make sense. You can't make it make sense. Trump did it because he thinks Super sounds better, that is all. It's exactly as dumb as it sounds.

I think I understand where you're coming from, you're not American right? So from an outsider POV, yes the situation is bizarre. Like what is this Christian Republican nonsense, their actions don't seem to have any connection to Christianity, WWJD doesn't seem to be a factor in any policy decisions, and surely America is still famously a land of religious freedom, so you see us throwing religious labels around and your gut reaction says that must be wrong, like Jewish Democrat and Christian Republican should be equally irrelevant, right?

Yah you'd think. I wish. They should be totally irrelevant. To be fair I don't think any Jewish Democrats really give a rats ass if we identify them as Jewish or not, it doesn't matter and I don't care, same as Jewish Republicans, and I don't think Christian Democrats give any fucks either. It's the Christian Republicans that are something else man. They've turned religious identity into part of their party platform. So you're not seeing an accusation, you're seeing self identification and this elevation of Christianity to some sort of primacy. Believe me, we're ALL confused how their faith relates to their policy, it doesn't make any more sense from over here, but it's their thing, I'm not making it up. You might be wondering wait he said Jewish Republicans, how the fuck does that work? I think the way that works is sort of a shared authoritarian view of America for Christians and Israel for Jews thing. But IDK, I can't figure out log cabin republicans either and that's a whole thing.

They very loudly self identify that way and explicitly claim their religion has superiority. Of course there are objections, to that premise. .. are you joining us from Moscow today bud?

"Some will say I am calling America a Christian nation, and so I am. Some will say I am advocating Christian nationalism, and so I am."

"I'm a Christian, and I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists."

"The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church."

"The separation of church and state is a misnomer, people misunderstand it. Of course it comes from a phrase that was in a letter that [Thomas] Jefferson wrote, it's not in the Constitution,"

https://www.pewresearch.org/re...

If you get kickbanned from #grannypr0n for leaching, you start #grannypr0n2 it's very simple.

IDK what we're teaching kids these days but if you're part of this generation that gave us the overly centralized internet, and you have every tool at your disposal to create another damned happy space like r/fuckthoseotherguys but you complain about gatekeeping because that's too much work, then... I guess I don't have nice things to say to you. Just pointing out that it's all what you make it to be.

It's sad like arguing with the bouncer about how ugly the strippers are, pissed off you're not allowed in the club. It's all woke slop but you want to be there. And it's all virtual dude.. you can make another virtual room with your own ugly strippers but nobody wants to hear your unpopular bs in #saggytitsandpolitics or r/grannysnatchconfederacy so you feel entitled to speak to the billion people tuned into #internet, then bitch on /. about those mods. Then you'll bitch about the /. mods on /. OFC. Then go cry in 4chan or something?

It's the dumbest entitlement on display, but I cheer for that man arguing with the bouncer, it's funny as hell. Please take his money and let him once more get slapped around by the purple haired stripper with C-section scars and kicked out again, it sparks joy.

This is such a weird take on an Internet forum. You don't have to go there. It's as centralized as you make it out to be. It's not the only place to find other people that share your hobby. A single forum with hundreds of thousands or millions of members has moderation you disagree with... well no shit, that's fucking huge. Why are you in such a bigass space??? The rooms are virtual.

I grew up on IRC chat rooms with _tens_ of people, and moderators were dickheads then, because they're random people that got there first. So you go to a different channel. Fast forward today and some of you act like there's one singular canonical #linux with 300 million people in it and complain about being banned for your weird takes because you're entitled to a soapbox on your own terms in any sized virtual room you like. Go start a #linuxhottakes and moderate to your hearts content.

I'm sorry but you're all fucking weird. It's like going to a water park and complaining about the rules. The rules are because all the fucking people there... try a smaller pool or play nice with others because you're not the main character in a room with a million other people. You're not entitled to be. Call a room woke then act like you want to be there. Fucking nutjobs.

You should talk to a psychiatrist.

What, it's true. People really don't judge a product by how many things don't go wrong. It's like how the drummer in a band gets overlooked until he misses a beat. You might actually have nothing that can go wrong, but it doesn't matter if people don't believe it. You need both but perception is right out front like it or not. I'm not suggesting go lead with a perception gap, just that managing it is different from you know, the reality. Knowing it's out front, you have to address it.

Releasing a steady stream of post-quantum crypto upgrades, and being honest, and not regressing in other areas, is more important than waiting for a proven quantum supercomputer proof architecture for example.

So how does this affect the bottom line, will we sell more services?

Yes and let's optimize revenue on the search screen by sorting worst to best, maybe make a few of the ads confusingly look like plausible search results while putting other ads in almost clearly marked boxes throughout the results to lower the user's guard. Probably a banner at top and bottom and both sides that stays in place as the user scrolls, charge a premium for that space, cause you have to have tiers. Could make clicking on a search result pop up a little movie trailer or interactive game ad that you have to play to close, have you seen those?

I just can't believe Google has the gal to put the thing you're looking for right there at the top without properly monetizing it. Barbaric.

You all keep blaming AI, but 10 years ago the internet was already full of regular content mill garbage, SEO spam and ads. Half your results might be some mailing list server scraped and replicated to unauthorized web forum looking things to sell ads. You have to go back 15 years minimum, and rewind the entire internet with it. Some might argue the internet was already beyond fucked even then. Good luck, time traveler.

Man it's very weird knowing Google's whole story and seeing people in 2026 act surprised that search engines make more money the longer it takes people to find what they came for. Like that's how they killed their competition back in the day, by actually getting what you're looking for on the top of the first page. They made their fortune selling ads on OTHER sites. Selling ads on their own search page eventually happened as their competitors dried up.

This news is as dumb as suddenly realizing that the Feeling Lucky button generated less revenue than when people look at the results screen.

Nope. Can't happen. The whole theory is fucking batshit. There is an equal chance of lizard people from Neptune taking over humanity. The provenance of both stories is equally credible.

See if I just said lizard people from Neptune you'd just say that's ridiculous! When I add the take over humanity part, you say of course those fucking lizards would, they want our freedoms or oceans or people meat or some other shit we pretend to care about.

That's why you believe in AI singularity bullshit. You don't have the foggiest beginning of a clue how information theory can even support the concept, but you're afraid. The fear makes it real. Like being afraid of the dark makes whatever isn't out there feel real. It's a weakness, don't know what else to tell you.