Several American citizens have been disappeared for several weeks at a time. So far all of them have turned up only slightly worse for wear but it keeps happening and eventually some of them will not turn up or if they do they will have permanent physical damage.

Like I said it's not black and white. If you are teaching children yes you need physical books with paper and you need to give them paper and pens and pencils. This is extremely well documented.

This does not mean that having a screen completely destroys education and that we must burn them all like we used to burn books we didn't like.

And yes I am aware that you're not suggesting we burn screens like we used to burn books. However you're complete unwillingness to recognize any nuance whatsoever will inevitably lead in that direction. Because the lack of nuance is what leads to people burning books.

I'm not criticizing your position I'm criticizing your entire thought process and the American popular consciousness as a whole. In case you're wondering why I don't engage in the specifics of your points that's why.

It doesn't matter if I point out more nuances you won't acknowledge them because you are locked into black and white binary thinking. Which is especially hilarious because that's part of your criticism...

I mean I wish these guys well but you lost. The final straw was when muskrat

Independent journalists were making a living on twitter, okay they were scraping a living by but they were at least able to function his journalists independently and they would periodically break major stories that mattered. You didn't notice because the way the system worked they would do their journalism on the website and it would get picked up by the other news outlets because it had to be since if one of them didn't pick it up somebody would eventually.

Naturally all that got shut down as soon as muskrat took over. Because the point of buying Twitter was to use it as a propaganda Network.

There are people trying to do journalism out there but they don't have a platform. YouTube Will demonetize and Shadow ban you if you do anything against their corporate Masters. You can post all the videos you want they make sure nobody sees them. Like how Patrick Boyle did a good video about the financial ties involved in the Epstein files and it was doing gangbusters and 3 Days later without any notice demonetized and Shadow ban.ed.

You let the 4th estate die. You let religious extremists take over the courts. And you let a pedophile and his sickle fans run the White House and congress. Bad things are going to happen to you now. It can't be stopped.

So you can absolutely learn useful information from a screen. The electric company and sesame Street used phonics to teach inner city kids to read.

The issue is that at the end of the day you do need pen and paper because the motion of it reinforces brain pathways in a weighted screens don't.

You also still want teachers. The electric company and sesame Street did amazing things for students that were getting abandoned. And you can't exactly have a kid in class 24/7 so it's okay to have some screen time and it can be productive and worthwhile and enjoyable.

Again there are nuances. I do not know why Americans hate nuance so much but it's pretty deeply ingrained in our culture.

Even worse, it installs a special Excel that you can only access through Solitaire, but which still takes up all of the space of normal Excel.

I use Firefox with UBO and occasionally youtube gets mad for a day or two, then it works again. Yes, I've run updates manually.

I still recommend it as long as it works, though.

Sadly I can't recommend Firefox for mobile any more. It crashes on me every day, sometimes multiple times, when using javascript-heavy sites.

You were so close. It's obvious you post as a coward because you're stupid.

Again sex is not binary it is much more complex.

It's not a mutation per se but a difference in how genomes get expressed.

That said it wouldn't be entirely inappropriate in the cases of gender dysphoria to call it a birth defect. Since it is something you are born with that causes a uncomfortable medical situation.

Because I played a bit of Warhammer 40K I met several trans girls. Seriously go play Warhammer you will meet some trans girls.

There was always a bit of friction between the trans girls and the gay community because when the two of them got together for support groups the gay community was primarily focused on activism while the trans groups were focused on general support group stuff for medical reasons. Basically the details of their transition.

In practice this means that yes as our technology advances trans people will more or less go away because we'll figure out the exact specifics that cause gender dysphoria.

My advice as far as understanding all this is think of this, imagine going to work and everyone looks at you funny because of how you are dressed. The next day you come in wearing a floral print dress and everyone calms down and treats you better but you feel very very uncomfortable in that dress right? That's gender dysphoria. When society forces you to express gender characteristics that don't match the ones you feel natural it causes substantial discomfort mentally. I don't know about women but it's something any man can easily imagine provided they have any imagination whatsoever which being a nerd I would expect that you do.

It's not just about cross-dressing imagine getting treated poorly because you're not in a floral print dress and aren't wearing makeup. And imagine what you would feel like if you just had to dress like that every single day to fit in with everybody else. That's gender dysphoria.

It's a medical condition that has a specific treatment plan and it's certainly true there are means of treating it today are ridiculously primitive and if our society somehow doesn't collapse they will gradually get better and better until it's just not a thing anymore.

But getting back to calling out a birth defect that's a loaded phrase because dropping defect implies the person in question is inherently defective. That might not have been your intention but you picked up on it from somewhere and you should be aware of it. Basically you want to avoid those kind of negative medical terms because outside of medicine they tend to get misused to dehumanize people.

It's the same reason we stopped saying retard. It became a way of dehumanizing people and after world War II we learned that dehumanizing people is extremely dangerous.

It's done by whatever schlub worked for the cheapest on weekends in between other work.

The goal of vibe coating, or realistically letting generative AI build software for you out of stolen assets, is to not have to pay somebody who can actually write applications properly.

So it's going to be slap dash. As the saying goes, fast, cheap, good pick two. Or in the case of genai I guess you get cheap at least. For now anyway.

I'm sure they're vibe coding as fast as they can!

Oh look it got mad I insulted its sock puppet

It is when they get it, but I'm not sure you understand the purpose of an archive

It would be useful if they were required to make any training data they didn't pay for publicly accessible...

But they aren't

Don't worry, I have no illusions about reaching him. This ain't my first rodeo where he's the bullshit

Except you can't trust that Google's browser isn't snitching anyway, so no, it's really just a way for Google to keep you using their service without having to process your tokens