Not in this case. Cloud Innovation is basically a global spam operation that hijacked a good portion of AfriNic IP space to operate from.

"real communism" requires the dictatorship to make people go along with the stupidity. Real communism has been tried in many places. It always results in mass death and misery.

Obesity is not a disease. It's one symptom of metabolic disease, caused by overeating carbohydrates.

Plenty of people keep the weight off ... if they permanently change how and when they eat.

I'll agree that while exercise is very good for you, it has minimal impact on weight gain or loss.

The top tier price is free; arrrrr me mateys.

These morons have forgotten why streaming became popular in the first place.

College has largely been pointless since we started sending more than ~20% of kids to college.

All streaming devices support drm

If you need a credit card to eat, you have an immediately problem to fix. One that paying interest isn't going to help you with.

I oppose it because it just means that half of Americans will no longer have access to credit cards. Which is probably better for them, but hardly freedom improving.

I donate money to causes I find worthy. Some of them are humanitarian.

I don't steal money from my neighbors to donate, though.

No, the real question is whether cholesterol is even a problem in the first place. Triglycerides are bad. LDL, not so much.

I can't think of a single reason to steal money from American tax payers to fly Ethiopians home from Myanmar. The world is full of problems, can't pay for them all.

Please point to any significant jurisdiction that has eliminated fossil fuels (or even severely curtailed their use) and their energy now costs less.

Just had that happen ... and now I'm running Firefox.

Entropy says nope ... energy is not renewable. It might be easily replaceable by new energy coming from the sun, but that energy is just as gone as would be oil. Or, more accurately, downgraded to heat.

But then I see an article describing AIs that have learned to cheat, one by hacking game opponents. And at least one that tried to copy itself to another server to avoid being shut down.

Not sure what to believe about the near future.

Our own brains are at best sophisticated pattern matching engines. Original thought is vanishingly rare.