If I continue to try to educate you then I will only allow you to drag me down to your level and beat me with your stupidity. Enjoy being an uneducated fool.

Your analogy breaks down just a bit when you realize that the IT guys don't make less money when nobody clicks, and if management is smart they recognize that the education provided by IT is working and they get a promotion or raise. Dentists also typically don't get blamed when a patient gets cavities, but IT guys *might* be held accountable if they had an education effort and this still continued to occur. It is telling that this thread started with a guy admitting he was stupid enough to click on the link, but has hate for the IT guys exposing him rather than admitting that he is living proof that this kind of thing is necessary.

No, "emberissing" is being so uneducated that you think that it would even be possible to keep such an absurd proposed conspiracy afloat. Either you have never seen the many Black Hat presentations including the OpenAI Hugging Face incident and interviews with experts including Bruce Schneier, Max Tegmark, Roman Yampolskiy, and many, many others or you are stupid enough to be a flat earther. You double down on the "emberissment" by proudly broadcasting your ignorance and stupidity to the world.

the climate doesn't care.
if the answer is that everyone, China, India, all of Africa is allowed to have Western European per capita GHG emissions before we take significant action to reduce emissions enough to mitigate global warming, we may as well not bother.

The proposed EU age verification app is a good deal less intrusive than any of the nasty mechanisms that some social media is already employing. Most of those are a privacy nightmare. The EU app, in contrast:
- Site / App operator does not get your identity, only a proof of age.
- Government does not get to see which sites you visit.
- Actual verification takes place once, and whatever ID you use does not need to be stored (and can't be subsequently stolen)
- App is open source, so the workings can be verified.

Well, it would be interesting to hear why you disagree with anarchy so profoundly.

My basic principal is that "illegitimate hierarchies are bad." In particular, having a hierarchy without consent is bad (ie, no taxation without representation sort of thing).

I would like to say I have a full system for how a very good anarchy system should look, but I fully admit it's not an easy problem. So instead I focus on general principals, and trying to find incremental changes that will improve things with high probability.

Realistically, modern democracies are already a massive improvement on the situation in most countries 300 year ago, with a much weaker hierarchy. Since a full revolution carries significant risk, it's better to make incremental improvements one at a time (unless the problems in the current system are severe). But simplistic "left-right" thinking and political parties are both a net negative, as they are both a method employed by bullies to to increase their power over others. So I feel confident getting rid of them would be an improvement (although I do admit there are some benefits to parties, like recruiting candidates to smaller, less important offices or recruiting election observers. So we need to be aware of the positive and the negative).

"Remind us again, how long as Biden been out of office now?"
I'm surprised no one is blaming FDR

Independent analysis based on Starlink IPv6 traffic estimates there are 4.7 million US Starlink residential subscribers, and that about 2 million came on line in the last year.

I suspect my understanding of the situation is dead on correct; Starlink is filling the vast hole, whatever your "semi-rural" anecdote has you thinking. At an average of 2.53 person's per household in the US, this means Starlink is now the provider of 3.5% of all per capita broadband in the US, and likely to 5% or more inside another year.

I thought we lured them all onto Facebook then ran for the hills?

You are literally just repeated words you have heard without understanding on a basic level why you have no idea what you are talking about. In order to make such a ridiculous statement you have to literally zero understanding of AI, the fact that it is non-deterministic, and that it doesn't execute instructions. It doesn't do exactly as it is told. You should be embarrassed to post such a ridiculous and clueless comment.

Maybe the jacket has a kevlar fiber for support?

Of course they would do that.

1) Comcast could have started moving to fiber a decade before the upstarts and qualified for the same subisidies.
2) Comcast has received 2.6B in subsidies since 1987.
3) Remind us again, how long as Biden been out of office now?

Tovarishch, your sons are dying, cold, alone, in a Ukranian ditch; just waiting for one of the many overhead drones to notice them and blow off their manhood while they bleed out. And for what? So the ex-KGB gangster in Moscow can fantasize about reuniting a mythical Historical Russian Empire that never existed and never will?

Go home to the family farm and enjoy a peaceful life. There's no glory for you in Ukraine.

You are right, those losing their money due to AI deserve it :)

I don't think anyone exclusively blames trump for the current state of things, but he did lean in heavily into making things worse as a religious issue.