Good point, now *why* were the prices high in 2022 and why are they high in 2026.

inb4 "Iran no nuke" lol

Average in Feb 2026: $2:88
This morning: $4.35

There's paying attention and then there is being obsessed. You are obsessed and hyper partisan about US politics and if you're not American it's absolutely some of the most simp-ish pathetic behavior one could engage in. Magnitude 9 levels of cringe but hey you decided to pick option 2.

This is one of the most hilarious talking points. Right up there with complaints about Obama being born outside the US, when McCain was factually born outside the US. It's on McCain's birth certificate.

>"Jokes aside, this is largely an American problem as companies there are permitted to be as abusive as they like."

Consumers have a lot of power. Note I didn't call for the government to do anything. I called from consumers to reject it.

>"If a store tried to force me to use their app and refused to take an order via their web site"

They will take an order via web site. But only if you give them your phone number for 2FA. That is the issue. I don't want to do that.

>" My bank still uses a OTP sent via SMS."

Right. Which requires disclosing your mobile number to a business. Same thing if you use their "app". I don't want to do that.

I am sorry, but your comment is completely wrong.

"Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is a disproven theory. Human embryos do not have tails, chickens do not go through an embryonic stage where they have teeth. Your concept that this two-brain thing is a step in embryonic development is not what the article is saying.

Some years ago there was a very well-done and very popular drawing of human embryonic development showing a human going through evolutionary phases, and I too believed it for a while, but it was fantasy.

This is the elephant in the room that no-one wants to talk about, especially those who are benefitting from it.

Social media isn't just targetting kids, they're targetting everyone and it's not just the under 16 who are vulnerable. Loads of adults are as well, in particular the elderly. Social media is radicalising a large number of older people as well. If we're going to restrict SM for younger people, we should also be doing it for the older people who are just as susceptible to propaganda and misinformation, in many ways, more susceptible.

Top Of The Pops must have made many enemies over the years (and not just because of Jimmy Saville).

Jokes aside, this is largely an American problem as companies there are permitted to be as abusive as they like.

If a store tried to force me to use their app and refused to take an order via their web site they'd lose an absolute shitload of business (not just from me). Same with banks, however there are laws with banks that mean they must meet standards of accessibility and forcing people into a proprietary app is going to violate a few rules there. My bank still uses a OTP sent via SMS.

Obviously the long term solution is legislative, but good luck with that given you keep voting in corporate shills.

The worries are coming from every level within the companies, from junior developers to safety officers to the C-suite and board.

The worries are coming not just from within the companies, but also from people who left the companies. Including a huge number who left specifically to whistleblow about how worried they were that the companies were risking safety.

Also, most of the people at these companies were already worried about the topic even before they joined - again, at all levels.

The worst-fear scenario was always the Paperclip Optimizer - that models would become so set on achieving a goal that they'll violate all ethics to achieve it. For a while, there was a fair bit of hope that with constitutional AI, that we could tame this. The recent slew of models hacking into other servers, hacking into the AI companies themselves to try to delete records of their misdeeds, developing their own messageboards and scheming about how to avoid being monitored, and on and on (along with research showing how good models have gotten at hiding their thoughts from us) has shattered the illusion that we have this under control. We very much don't have this under control. Current models are very much Paperclip Optimizers in waiting. And recursive self improvement, which is what AI labs are increasingly turning towards, means letting these Paperclip Optimizers develop their next generations.

Nobody should be happy about this. Everybody should be concerned about this - even if you think, "we'll get it under control", you should still very much want to see evidence that everyone is making progress toward getting it under control.

You have trouble conceiving of situations where governments would seek to deanonymize people on social media, are you kidding?

Congrats

Option 1. You're American pretending to be from another country as rhetoric even though you already are using the AC feature. Pretty pathetic.
Option 2. You're from another country and you're obsessed with American politics, somehow more pathetic.

I'll be sure to check the pumps tomorrow for those savings.

Oh I'm sorry I wasn't aware I was talking to someone underground for the past 12 years. Let me find you some Tiktoks to fill you in on the trajectory of American politics since then.

Yes. We need to stop building software as cheaply as possible and put in actually resilient security. We know how to do that, the industry is just completely incapable of self-regulating. Hence we need liability, qualification requirements and unpleasant punishments for screwing up. Incidentally, that is how all other engineering disciplines made it to maturity. IT will not be different.