>"Gotta have that phone in case there's a school shooting."

Um yeah, sure. But that doesn't require unrestricted internet/app access.

The problem isn't the population. Bedrock can handle more than that. London isn't sinking because of all the people (and London is huge!), it's sinking because the ice sheet that pressed the Highlands deep into the crust has been gone for the last 10,000 years, resulting in the entire island tilting back to where it naturally should be. You could move London's population into the Great Glen and it would not make the slightest difference - London would still be sinking. The ice sheets were a whole lot heavier than a few tens of millions of people.

(Ok, it would make a difference. If the rich people actually lived in Scotland, the transit system and public services would see a thousand percent improvement inside a week. If they were also forced to speak Gaelic, English would vanish in a month.)

Aquifers can be deep. The aquifer that supplies the town of Buxton in England is so deep that it takes rainfall 5,000 years to rech it.

Every place? Fascinating.

There are towns in England and Wales that have been occupied for the past 10,000 years. Manchester isn't the greatest place on Earth, but I'm really not convinced it's going to start sinking into the ground any time in the next thousand years. If "short term" is longer than the remaining lifespan of the human race, I am not convinced "short" is really the right word.

"Short term" is only meaningful if it's shorter than the time needed to take meaningful remedial action, and the time it would take to remediate the problem in Mexico City vastly exceeds the time it will take for the city to crumble into oblivion.

The sun will not explode in 4 billion years. It's far too small. It might well run out of hydrogen by then, but that will simply cause it to swell. If, in four billion years, we can't find a way to drift the Earth outwards to remain within the goldilocks zone, then we're a failure as a species. Of course, we might well have built a Dyson Ring by then. Although, to be honest, if we were going to do that, we'd want to find a gas cloud that was about to form a stellar nursary and head there. If we arrive as the proto star fires up, we've maximum resources in the easiest possible form (a dust cloud, so no mining needed and minimal processing required), can build the Dyson Ring or Dyson Sphere by the time the star really gets going, and have another ten to fifteen billion years.

>"following pressure from parents who claim too much in-school screen time has zapped children's attention spans and left them worse off academically."

And how many of these parents gave their children phones/tablets/computers with full internet/app access?

>"seriously? of course firefox users fucking complained. That's why the mozilla had to add their AI kill-switch after they got caught auto-adding AI."

No. Mozilla never "added AI". They added the ability to optionally hook Firefox into third-party AI systems (with the default on). And there was ALWAYS AN OFF SWITCH. It just wasn't in the main settings, it was under about:config. Then they later added in the main settings as well.

It never downloaded or installed any AI system. Very different.

>"I've gone and deleted chrome. I'm using Brave, but its crypto-bros in charge of that so I dont exactly trust them either. They just have a really effective adblocker that doesnt seem to trigger youtube into issueing shrill threats about breaking TOSs with adblockers"

I would suggest Firefox + UBO. I have no problems on YouTube or other sites with them (at least that is my experience on my machines which all run Linux). And as a huge bonus, you get to NOT support Google's efforts to control the web (Brave is still based on Google Chromium). Plus you also signal to sites that you want to support actual browser diversity, not mostly just a different UI on yet another Google-controlled engine.

>"Quick - copy and paste all your comments from the "Copy Fail" discussion over here!"

Pretty much :) It is essentially the same issue, found in three other kernel modules. Alma Linux and others already have pages up about it. These are serious issues for multiuser/multitenant servers needing to mitigate immediately. Not so much for single-user or home systems.

Copy Fail used the algif_aead module and for enterprise Linuxes, that is built-into the kernel. So either update the kernel, or mitigate with:

# grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init"

and reboot. Dirty Frag uses three additional modules: esp4, esp6, and rxrpc. Enterprise Linuxes don't build those in, so all distros should be able to use something like:

# rmmod esp4 esp6 rxrpc
# sh -c "printf 'install esp4 /bin/false\ninstall esp6 /bin/false\ninstall rxrpc /bin/false\n' > /etc/modprobe.d/dirtyfrag.conf"

for immediate mitigation, without rebooting. Of course, disabling those modules has a price, it will disable IPsec ESP, IPsec VPNs (like Swan), and AFS clients. So if you use/need those, you can't mitigate without losing that functionality.

What if you write a bunch of random noise of the same file size to weights.bin ... what happens then?

CloudFlare was an aggressive global internet surveillance and privacy invasion operation. Now it's an AI-powered aggressive global internet surveillance and privacy invasion operation.

Why don't I feel excited about it?

When it comes to "(anti) trans crap" (for lack of a better word), the question is not about the biological sex of transgenders, but whether biological sex or perceived gender should prevail in various social contexts, and when one would be considered a transgender (self-declared, diagnosed with gender dysphoria, or having undergone sex reassignment surgery). And so on. They are social rather than biological questions, even though biology does play a role, for instance when considering transgenders in sports.

Please remember the APA voted to torture and destroy the minds of people who wore Casio watches, and assisted in that torture program. (All anyone needed to be arrested under the bounty program was to be in a suspicious area or to have a highly accurate clock or watch. No actual evidence of wrongdoing was required.)

Many practitioners had absolutely no problems with abusing their knowledge and ability, not against actual terrorists or even people from the same nation as the terrorists, but against easy targets. The banality of evil, demonstrated to a high degree.

If an organisation can commit acts of utter depravity and evil on whim, then a whim is all that is needed.

This doesn't mean it will happen, but the APA has shown no obvious signs of maturity or rationality, only excuses. And that's not a good position to be in, when the head of state has licensed ICE to gun down people without cause and has promoted the wellbeing of diseases like measles over that of the citizens.

I don't believe forcible injections are likely, but I'm also not going to say that psychiatrists have been earning trust these past 26 years. Personally, I think forcible injections won't happen, but not because psychiatrists have discovered ethics. Rather, because it just isn't practical.

Psychotherapy is unusual in that regard and they have a long history of doing exactly that. Particularly in the US. A very large chunk of what is known about psychoactive drugs come from American government programs where patients were injected without consent with a range of substances. A lot of their biological warfare research in the 60s and 70s, possibly into the 80s, was also done that way, allowing patients to die slowly from a range of diseases.

Nor has this completely stopped. The Gitmo "enhanced interrogation" program of the early 2000s involved not just torture but also involuntary substance abuse.

The use of fake vaccination programs by the US military (and the unauthorised use of Red Cross markings on vehicles by the same) is a significant factor in current world paranoia.

To be honest, it is not surprising that so many are paranoid about medicine - they voted for, and actively encouraged, such abuse when it was people they resented who suffered. And with so many in the APA voting to abuse their medical training under Bush II, it's hardly surprising that there's a feeling that such things can now be used on everyone else, too.

"Security is defined as a positive integer. By having none and then removing a layer, we overflow to perfection."