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Comment Re:New religion (Score 1) 90

"Religions generally accept wisdom from sacred texts."

This is false. Religions CREATE privileged texts, which they call "sacred texts" or scriptures, which contain stories that are fabricated. Religions do not "accept wisdom" from these created texts because religions create those texts.

Now, parishioners could be said to "generally accept wisdom from sacred texts." Perhaps that is what you meant. Religions are a mechanism to control people, scripture is a tool that is used.

Personally, I think the entire premise here is absurd. AI usage doesn't create two kinds of users, there were these two kinds of users before AI came into existence. Religion is particularly effective on one of those two kinds.

Comment Re:Laws are weird (Score 2, Interesting) 132

"... this CO scheme wouldn't be legal here in CA..."

It would not be legal in Texas either, but legal is what a judge says it is. Judges aren't there to find you not guilty.

Earlier in my life I had a friend whose father was a prosecutor. He claimed his father had never lost a case and couldn't understand criticism how that result was not something to brag about. Turns out his father was a personal friend of the judge that tried his cases and served as a temporary judge in that same court when the judge wanted time off. He thought this level of corruption was a point of pride. Texas, although likely occurs everywhere.

Speed limits are set to ensure a ready supply of people to fine. The more effective and automatic enforcement is, the larger a problem there is going to be with the public. Local government basically steals whatever money it wants while officially looking good to the voters by making the "bad guys" pay for things. That will end when the "good guys" get fines in the mail.

Society seems to be engaging in a race to ruin its infrastructure.

Comment ...not that you should be speeding on public roads (Score 1, Insightful) 132

"...not that you should be speeding on public roads in the first place."

Why is that? Speeding is defined relative to an arbitrary value, if the state doesn't want speeding it should set those values properly. Speed limits are set to ensure speeding, not to improve public safety.

Comment Re: Coming to America (Score 1) 101

"SS is a scheme designed to rip off people like me"

How is SS designed to rip off dumbasses?

"I'm more than likely not going to live far enough into the age it allows you to start receiving benefits from..."

Sounds like a "you" problem, and ages are not selected to rip off morons, they are selected to balance cost and benefit for the population as a whole.

"Why can't we just have a mandatory individual retirement contribution system ... instead a stupid fucking Ponzi scheme, which by design, causes some people to lose? Oh wait, I forgot, it's not a Ponzi scheme if the government does it."

Because you don't understand what a Ponzi scheme is and you believe that "mandatory individual retirement contribution systems" have guaranteed returns. The problem here is how stupid you are. SS is LITERALLY a "mandatory individual retirement contribution system", it ensures the largest possible population to participate AND uses the most stable investments with payout guarantees.

Comment Re:Insider perspective: AI helps with amnesia only (Score 1) 66

"Python users who vibe code, just ship bugs and let their users find them."
I think that's not just python users who vibe code, that's all CI/CD.

"The scary part is that it looks good. "
The purpose of all automated testing.

It is popular for people to repeat a common lie that a corporation's only responsibility is to make money for its stockholders. As long as people accept that corporations act like sociopaths they will do so, this kind of thing will be the consequence.

Comment Re:I don't agree with age verification (Score -1, Troll) 193

"There's no call for that sort of crap."

Depends on who you threaten. Celebrating Charlie Kirk's death should be treason punishable by death, celebrating Robert Mueller's death? Just another day. Death threats against doctors at health clinics A-OK, it just depends on who does the threatenin'

Comment Re:It's inevitable (Score 2, Interesting) 193

Anything can go away. People need to realize who the enemy is and what the rules actually are. We now have a Constitution that does not apply to the President, we have major media that is corrupted by billionaires and controlled by political parties, we now have a corrupt Supreme Court with a supermajority of partisan, Catholic justices. Linux can go away tomorrow, just like citizens can be gunned down in the streets and military veterans can get deported. Go ahead, connect that contraband Linux box to the internet, nothing bad will happen, right?

I'm sure Elon Musk will have an answer though. Just buy the Musk linux edition he invented. He's world's foremost linux authority, after all, and no one knows free speech like he does. Probably worth a 100B government contract.

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