You know the whole world will use kW for power, while the US will stay with "horses" because
Oh Thine Hypocrite and Master of All Things Stuck in Ways..might we stop pretending for a moment that the 2025 gas-gurgling models sold the world over don’t all still come with horses marketed under ye olde bonnet.
A century later.
Horses might win today but they'll lose tomorrow...just a matter of time.
The horse listening to the EV owner STILL bragging about how much “horsepower” is under the hood, is laughing their fucking ass off.
You're right in general, of course, but in the specific case of the great leap forward it was more of the government creating massive issues for the population than the other way around.
We’ve spent thousands of years carving up a single planet into Yours and Mine. Therefore, every major Government on the planet holds the responsibility of resource management. Part of that responsibility is population control. This occurs no matter how badly a moral populace wants to deny such a responsibility exists.
Some control their populations in more passive ways. Like legalized abortion and for-profit medical care. Other countries are forced to take more drastic measures when necessary. Things like the Great Leap along with Chinas one-child policy are prime examples. And the results were hardly accidental. They were by design.
China has historically accounted for roughly 30% of the GDP of the world.
If not for the two historical accidents, the opium crisis and the Communist rule, it would have remained the largest economic power. It is not "advancing extremely fast", it is just recovering to its proper position, based on its size. The only factor that can realistically slow down China or prevent it from moving ahead of everyone else economically is the Xi regime, just like the emperors and the Communists did before.
Massive populations can certainly grow massive issues for any Government. Part of the “Great Leap Forward” was the extermination of tens of millions of citizens.
Size does matter. And not always in a good way. The bigger they are..
China seems to be advancing extremely fast technology wise with breaththroughs that frankly should have come from the west with our supposed "advantage".
China has more honor students than the United States has students in total. And that statistic is at least a decade old.
Yes, massive populations grow their own issues, but they also come with undeniable advantages.
Can anyone say that manipulation with anything is producing a real color? I mean, manipulate yourself with LSD and you will see colors that don't exist.
Uh, this manipulation is highly controlled and predictable. As in repeatable. The kind of tech you could put in computers, monitors, and eventually glasses if it catches on.
Good luck writing the product description on a bottle of LSD gummies. Talk about YMMV.
Way too many do send enough information to those tools that when stitched together will result in information patterns that can be used to influence stock market value.
A fucking tweet, can influence stock market value. Is that the tweets fault, or more the fault of an ignorant society assuming a stock market should have its proverbial ear anywhere near the social media grindstone?
Obvious answer, is obvious.
doesn't mean you are sending sensitive company info to AI tools. I still use unapproved tools, but I don't send any code or info that would be sensitive. Why? Because Gemini isn't that great and that is the only approved tool.
What you deem “sensitive” may not always align with your employers definition. Especially tomorrow, when AI ownership and control changes or is revealed.
And please do not assume ALL of your fellow co-workers are anywhere near as diligent as you are. Or even understand why they should be.
I'm sure there's going to be lots of bumps along the way to establishing the kind of social network Facebook or Twitter could have been. I hope Bluesky persists. It has the potential to become the kind of place decent people want to visit.
Replace “social media” with “communism” and see how realistic your hopes and dreams are.
You act like it’s the technology that’s the problem.
Narratives are often more valuable than facts. Why did you marry X rather than Y?.
Why the FUCK would you value a “narrative” when choosing a soulmate?
”Even though the facts told me she’s a divorced porn star with 3 baby daddies, the narrative told me she’s the one for me,” said No One. Ever.
Gullible narcissists are easy to manipulate. For everyone else, there’s a brain.
As the subject says... Let anyone offer check marks based on certificates, and display the certifying entity next to it. "This person verified by Reuters" or whatever. And let users choose which certifying entity to display if there is more than one. The idea being that an endorsement from Reuters would carry more weight than "Billybobs discount blue marks"
You act as if those selling the “news” today somehow don’t have a blatantly obvious profit motive for bias.
And who gives a shit if a post is certified? If the post is received badly enough, the original poster will simply say “oh that wasn’t me” or “my account got hacked” or “my phone was stolen”. Zero accountability.
All checks are pointless. This is the entire reason social media is NOT a valid source of news and fact. Never was. Never will be.
Either way, the stated reason of getting "away" from that smells of BS, as is the argument that BS is decentralized. From the typical person I've seen on there, it looks far more likely that they came there looking for a like-minded echo chamber.
This. The average Twithead values “decentralization” about as much as “interoperability”.
Hey LG, what emotional state am I in now (holds up middle finger)?
(Vegas Brothel Ad) “Come on down and ride the pink pony! We got BOGO Hump Day and all midgets are now 50% off!”
(Never underestimate how low marketing will go. They invented the concept.)
Black electrician's tape.
Wish it were that easy with cameras and microphones these days.
That multi-array challenge upgraded itself from Did you cover it? to Did you even find them all? We need an iFixit teardown just to be halfway sure now.
It should be very suspect that a company tells anyone that they watch you for your benefit.
Someone should tell the CEO that. Right after setting up a 24/7 surveillance team outside the CEOs house.
You know, to help. Somehow.
"When anyone says `theoretically,' they really mean `not really.'" -- David Parnas
