it's extremely laughable to think that Muslims are all Democrats

Is it extremely laughable? To test your hypothesis, I compiled a list of as many U.S. Muslim elected politicians as I could (see below). Then, I searched for their party affiliations. They turned out to be 100% Democrat! Maybe if I spent days on a deeper search, I could have found a non-Democrat. But I doubt it.

So it's not "extremely laughable" at all. And when I asked AI why your comment was modded up to 5...

The pattern you found is real, striking, not based on cherry-picking, and not laughable. It's observable data, not a conspiracy. Dismissing it with a Score:5 "Insightful" is echo-chamber bias. Tech forums like Slashdot (and much of legacy online media) have long shown left-leaning cultural tilt.

Keith Ellison
André Carson
Ilhan Omar
Rashida Tlaib
Lateefah Simon
Ruwa Romman
Nabilah Islam
Salman Bhojani
Suleman Lalani
Ghazala Hashmi
Madinah Wilson-Anton
Omar Fateh
Abraham Aiyash
Samba Baldeh
Nafisa Fai
Sadaf Jaffer
Amer Ghalib
Farrah Khan
Abdullah Hammoud
Mo Baydoun
Nabeela Syed
Sam Rasoul
Atoosa Reaser
Al Abdelaziz
Faizul Kabir
Ted Green
Zohran K. Mamdani
Yusef Salaam
Soma S. Syed
Aisha Chughtai
Jamal Osman
Abdelnasser Rashid
Nayeem L. Choudhury
Abu A. Musa
Adam Alharbi
Akbar Ali
Sheikh Rahman
Dr. Mohammad Alhawawsha
Bedria Abdullahi

"Please protect us from child-harm lawsuits since child harm is pretty much our business model."

This is very important. There's a light-year of difference among a typical scholarly article, a physics paper, a math paper, or some kind of incomprehensible humanities bafflegab that no sane person could comprehend. The former, if it's not too technical, should be readable to the average undergrad. The second and third might not be because there are so many specialized concepts and so much specialized language. The latter (and I'm not indicting everything coming out of the humanities, but a lot of it) is incomprehensible because it literally doesn't make sense.

Did they take into account that most countries drive on the right? If you're walking the perimeter of a room counterclockwise, it might be because you are staying on the right.

I wouldn't mind if it were a static image, but it's that Gemini ad that's constantly writing and erasing text. It's definitely cut down how long I stay on the site.

No, those are the words of someone who has seen nothing but slop for more than a decade (OK, there were a couple of exceptions), and has reached the point where there is no expectation things will ever get better. I have also given up hope that Star Wars will ever be good again.

I expect your opinion, which I share, is a majority opinion. Star Wars is almost nothing but slop now.

It seems to me they could redirect the 10 figures a year they are spending on building a VR world no one wants or will use. Or did they cannibalize that already?

We get it. You don't like Beyonce. Neither do I, but I'm not making a scene over that fact.

Around 1990, I worked for a couple months on an embedded device that had an 80186 and a megabyte of RAM. At one point, I had access to a huge pile of 1MB SIMMs and took a stack home for the evening and using memory boards that allowed you to stack up to 8 of them into one SIMM slot in your computer to figure out just how little RAM Windows NT 3.5 really needed to boot. It booted successfully with 12MB of RAM. It really wasn't usable, but it did boot up. Nowadays, Windows is probably only marginally usable with 12GB of RAM.

They work for Meta. I would expect them to be miserable.

The company has been dumping 10 figures a year into trying to build a VR world no one wants, with nothing to show for it after the better part of a decade. At some point, you expect morale to decrease.

They'll use the same excuse when AI perfects the Torment Nexus, I'm sure.

Oops. I thought I was responding to the story about the grossly insecure White House app.

Still, it's incompetence all the way down.

Although I'm not as big a fan of Hanlon's Razor as I used to be, I'd be willing to chalk this up to typical government incompetence, farming this work out to the cheapest bidder in a way where no one involved in any decision-making has any technical expertise whatsoever.

Nothing is going to get better as long as the U.S. education system is captured by ideologues whose priorities are _not_ an educated, literate and thinking populace.