That's actually an interesting possibility I've been considering. Hear me out for a sec:

I've had the experience, once, while riding in a car, looking at a single parked car by the roadside, of having the impression that it was a miniature.

Intellectually, I knew with certainty that it was a regular-sized parked car. I wasn't ill, nor drunk, nor drugging, no novel Rx meds.

But I couldn't shake the feeling that the car was tiny. It was a little distance away, so it was some seconds before we passed.

I've guessed that I had some momentary glitch in the wetware that lets us evaluate relative size.

Perhaps this shroom triggers a similar glitch.

Couple-three answers:

1. No, of course not.

2. More and more it describes where Republicans are being let by the nose, away from traditional conservative topics, which _certainly should have a place in any informed and putatively neutral discussion. Why the right has turned to bullshit sauce lately is beyond me. They used to have ideas worth discussing. Not just lies, hate and bigotry. Look at the leaders. They're flacking this.

3. These lunatic topics (including climate change denial, which someone else was kind enough to point out) are what's being excluded when someone plays the "left-wing-bias" tune. For people making this noise "left-wing-bias" is stiff that looks like factual science-backed fairly neutral reporting. Y'know, like we used to have before the world went nuts.

left-wing ideological bias in its articles.

In other words, doesn't include claims of baby-eating, claims of basement dungeons in slab-foundation businesses, Jewish Space Lasers, Holocaust denial, incitement to political violence, anti-vax horseshit, bullshit about DNA and RNA from people who do "their own research" in their rec room, fake voter fraud, misogyny, frank racism, homophobia, xenophobia... Do I really need to go on?

Happily, I retired just before AI would've started to raise my ire at work daily, but I cannot imagine tolerating the Hell of trying to think while on a corporate floor full of people babbling at their computers all day.

Someone please invent the cone of silence. What?

To run whatever code you find on a USB drive.

I already didn't like Roku since they orphaned my 3 Soundbridges (an M1000, an M500, and an M2000), but I was starting to weaken and thinking about buying one of their TV boxes.

This certainly streamlines the decision. Nope.

Because:

a. It's still working
b. The tiny workload of serving Netflix and MythTV to the adjacent TV doesn't tax it.
c. I'd rather it stay on macOS, like my M3 MAX daily driver MacBook Pro for uniformity, software that works on either, stuff that Linux _still_ doesn't have.

Looks like I'll be moving it to Mint though, soon enough.

Easier to avoid.

On the spammer's phone? On the impersonee's phone? On the target's phone?

I have RCS turned off on mine because
a. SMS works when nothing else does.
b. I don't fancy my every text going through Google.

Mod parent up.

Interesting. And there will, of course be better, worse, and Rockstar spec writers, just like devs.

This is very old in AI time, but it fascinated me to see how a game could build a self-consistent world by keeping an entire book in context.

https://thelongcontext.com/

Of course, if the AI has a gigantic context window (it may not yet, but I'm sure it will), it could have the entire code base "in mind" at once (as though every page of a novel is fresh in yours).

With such a window, it could see where such (mal?)adaptations are used everywhere in the code.

That can't work every time, but it might be a useful talent.

I'm hard-skeptical about AI as a do-it-all coder, but as a tool, I'm certain it's profoundly useful in the right hands, right situation.

Maybe AI can help with the archaeology that has to happen whenever new hands discover a code base.

Not to mention irradiating yer astronauts.