It's not that nobody wants to learn it's that an educated populace can't be controlled so they're not allowed to learn.

And every religion is fucked up. You're believing something because somebody told you not evidence. That's the definition of faith as it is described in the bible. Not sure about the Quran but equally likely.

And the Quran can be reinterpreted however the hell you want because of how weird the Arab writing is. I don't know the details but because of the way punctuation and tense works in the language you can basically read whatever the hell you want into it. The Christian Bible has the same thing going on because there isn't a single voice in the bible. It's just a collection of documents. Not even books half of it is just somebody's letter is to other churches. And half of that wasn't even written by the guy it claims to be.

Basically you can use religion for anything and everything you want regardless of anything. Just like how in America half the country used the Christian Bible to condemn slavery and the other half used it to support slavery.

holy texts mean whatever we want them to mean. They have no inherent meaning. And the same goes for religion in general. That's the downside to a hidden god. He never actually shows himself to anyone. So any old charlatan can make up anything they want.

I saw a YouTube video by an expert and I have had switches like that (not on that quality level) just because I wanted to know how they work.

Well, tons of money, a fucked up religion that does not allow them to do anything with it and an education system that is not good either (apparently, nobody wants to learn). So yes, batshit insane covers it nicely.

Somewhere there has to be a master record that keeps track of your identity as a single entry in a database. There's just no other way to do it. the identity verification system needs to know who you are and the way they know that is you send your data in and they keep it on file.



Sooner or later that database is going to leak and when it does it's going to be a disaster like Ashley madison. In particular a bunch of people who go to gay porn sites are going to commit suicide. Or possibly be murdered.

But at least the private company who stores all of the data is going to make a ton of money off the government contract.

If private companies weren't involved and profiting this wouldn't be happening. A huge part of the reason these stupid fucking things exist is that it's a big pork project for some private company linked to somebody. Some nepo baby is going to get very rich at our expense.

Hmm, I guess that tells us that :)

Wish that argument had been made already, sigh.

You certainly cannot, but it's unclear how you can get past the being attacked by people who are trying to kill you stage without doing some of it. I'd love a nonviolent solution, but not if it gets me killed in the process of making the attempt. I'm willing to risk death to some degree, because life is a risk, but most of us have limits.

Nothing I am about to say excuses Fox's obscene weaponization of attention, but this has always been true of all news media starting at least with bards, criers, and orators, and that's assuming that prior primates didn't have members of bands that fulfilled the same function. Sensationalism has always gotten eyes and ears and what news is or isn't reported, and how it has been reported, has always been a means of manipulating the masses.

... the app becomes mandatory for everybody and will also block unwanted political speech and any statement the government does not like.

This has zero chance to make it past the EU court of justice.

From the description of those switches, it is basically impossible to switch both at the same time with one hand. You have to pull them out and only then can you move them.

No. It was _not_ the pilot's fault. Boeing had neglected to tell the pilots about the new system and they had no chance to find out that a system they did not know about was malfunctioning.

Your usual level of complete lack of insight, though.

Indeed. The only thing amazing is the stupidity of the people that really think that.

I'm not going to go over the entire list. That would take all damn day, and I owe you nothing.

For me, it's frankly sufficient to say that Trump is a racist, rapist, and pedophile, and Harris isn't.

For a slightly longer statement: Everything bad that Harris is, Trump is more of it. Authoritarian? He's a full on fascist. In favor of genocide? He wants the genocide done faster so he can build a hotel on top of it. A liar? Doesn't even bear inspection, he's one of the lyingest liars who ever lied.

Yep. That is the level of "insight" LLMs operate on. And, contrary to an incompetent human, LLMs will always hallucinate some lie. Some humans will do so too but many will admit not having a clue.

Here is another example from teaching a 2nd semester Python course to engineers: The students has to extend a game-of-life in 100 lines of code (including all fluff, placeholder functions, comment lines, etc.) They asked ChatGPT questions about it and it was a total and utter failure. Their take was that if you have a max of 3 simple lines, you can usually get an explanation faster than looking at the documentation and that you usually could get single-lines written competently by the LLM. Now, the "coding" LLMs are supposedly somewhat better, but even then they will completely fail on any non-toy examples.

Indeed. But the AI hype-space is full of idiots that know nothing. Was the same the last 2 or 3 times.