False. The article is talking about a network function that was created for routing messages to a target device. It's like saying your computer responding to ICMP ping requests is a feature deliberately created for spying. It's just not. When SS7 was created people not only didn't give a shit about this (it's not a flaw to not consider something that no one considered at the time), but they didn't envisage a world where enough people would be using the protocol to actually tamper with the protocol to do some spying. That came some 20 years later.

There was some spying related features added in the 90s, as I said, but they are unrelated to the process used for spying on people we are discussing right now.

Did you read that before you posted it, because it makes my case for me. *ALL* of the health impacts listed are related to studies of extremes. Circadian Misalignment affecting insulin takeup in studies that converted people from 24 hour days to 27 and 21 hour days, health issues in people who work night shifts, additionally part of your link also talks about how we don't naturally align with our circadian rhythm even if we are put in a position to do so. The health impacts of jetlag only become relevant across multiple timezones, DSPD is linked to a 3-6 hour forced change in sleep, etc.

All of this deals with extremes, and any evidence to say that we would be healthiest left to our own devices is incredibly weak.

Ahhh yes this all works because you found two cases which work for you and thus the rest of society sees no problem. But I have no kids either, and of course I can go to the store after work. Now let's talk about my work, when I'm at work and I need to call a vendor when do I call them? I mean you think everyone should just work willy nilly, does that mean we need to create a "do not contact" buffer zone either end of the work day for business to business transactions because businesses can't agree what time to start and finish because their employees?

Society is about more than just you taking your childless self to get some twinkies from the bodega.

No I didn't. In fact "wants" not aligning is the core to the OP's problem. You may *want* to change your work hours, but in practice your ability to do so is limited by the wants of the rest of society.

Well that makes *you* unique. It also makes you pedantically focus on just one aspect of a wider problem. Congrats man look after your own kids tomorrow, the daycare staff *want* to work different hours and would kindly ask you to accommodate them or go fuck yourself because everyone in your world view focuses only on their own personal desires rather than synchronising as a society.

Now the rest of the actually normal people in the world usually only check opening hours of businesses on sundays or public holidays (and restaurants on mondays). Because that's how a societal agreement on opening hours works.

You inadvertently pointed out the problem with your story. You said "you". As in "individual". Most work cannot be done on an individual level, it needs to align with a societal agreed schedule. The easiest way to move a schedule for a society is to adjust the clock they run on.

Again you and I are arguing for the same thing, moving clocks permanently to push more work into the dark. But while that suits me, I just checked and apparently I am me, and no one else is. Different people may have different opinions on the matter.

Just a theory? I'm impressed theories can produce actual measured results and graphs demonstrating the hypothesis. Must be a hell of a theory. If you want we can create a quick AI picture to help restore your faith in science? We can even put multiple pictures in different cells and with little thought bubbles containing key snippets of text if reading a paper is ... "not your level."

Europe is developing P2P payment systems, and IIRC Brazil already has a very successful one.

PayPal used to be the way to pay for stuff on eBay, but it was terrible, and now thanks to Trump efforts to remove US processors from the loop are accelerating. It seems like the future for PayPal is uncertain at best.

The way it has worked for many years on Android is that even when you enable "install apps from any source", you still have to enable each app that wants to start an installation separately. So your would authorize the app store of your choice, and random .apk downloads in the browser (which Chrome and Firefox will shit a brick over anyway) are still blocked.

To be fair I don't think Google is being accused of using BitTorrent, that was Facebook/Meta. Google actually scanned a large number of books themselves, for the Google Books project. That was found to be legal, although that only covered scanning, searching, and making excerpts available, not AI training.

As for your Sleeping Beauty example, since that story dates back to the 1600s, and appears to be a based on an even older story going back to the 1300s, any copyright protection it may have enjoyed has long since expired.

I'm having difficulty finding good data, but what I did find suggests that the US has not been doing very well for a while now.

https://www.iea.org/data-and-s...

Well behind Europe and China, and especially Japan. Note that Japan has very difficult terrain, frequent extreme weather, earthquakes, and suffered the loss of all nuclear power in 2011, most of which was not back online in the time period covered by that data.

"There is no Epstein class, there was just Epstein" And those redacted names on the Epstein files were for Ma and Pa Kettle and their kids? Grow up.

Yep, and the AI nutjobs figure we need to produce more power no matter what it costs us. So they'll populate the land with data centers all sucking power, usually from hydrocarbon power production. This will increase the Earth's temperature, so they'll be needing more power to cool those data centers. And they'll be needing more data centers to run the AI whose job it will be is figure out how to solve the problem they created. Now rinse and repeat several hundred times.

You know where this lead, right? The Singularity!! Where the entire Earth is one giant interconnected data center-power plant, but waaaay to hot to support human or any other life. The Singularity will have arrived, Kurzweil, Altman, Elmo, la Presidenta, Amodei, most of Silicon Valley, etc. will all be exhausted from jacking off at the thought....just before the Giant Fucking Singularity Bot figures they too must go, they waste energy it needs.

Because the 18th season of Igloo Bachelor is coming out next week.

It's not copyright infringement. Copyright doesn't protect ideas, only the specific form an idea takes. This is why, for example, there's many sci-fi seafaring tales, but in space books, TV shows and films.

Heck, I finally got around to watching that Wednesday series on Netflix and they basically did that whole school for exceptional outcasts trope, which is so heavily used that it actually ends up divided into several sub tropes.