My assumption is that it's countries far behind in AI tech with limited access to it (China, Russia, etc) using their platforms to spread the seeds then people picking it up and just running with it thinking that it's stealing all *their* water and power.

Yes children are morons and do die when cars reverse over them, usually done by a parent.

Turkey is a US Ally and part of NATO it's not a "brutal dictatorship".

So ignoring the probability of this being a legitimate alien here for a minute - Carbon dating is based on the accumulation of Carbon-14 in tissues of life on Earth. Assuming an alien was not living out their lifecycle on Earth, it's entirely possible that they have a different native ratio of c14 in their environment. This would make any dating results (assuming the alien claim was legitimate) invalid.

Pretty sure they've gone the other way, over the last few months reports have started going directly to admin and a significant amount of moderation activity is done by "Anti-Evil Operations"

Multinationals *always* lose money, it's the Irish subsidiary that rakes it in.

nVidia famously refused to renegotiate prices as costs fell in the original Xbox, it's why no-one uses their hardware in consoles anymore.

There's no such thing in China as private business the government has ownership of everything from business to property, how is this not "owning the means of production"?

Overly complicated language with no real upside whose proponents solely lived on Digg. It rose with the hipster wave and died with it too

The people they are targeting aren't subscribing anyway so no loss

Haven't you heard, covid is "over"...

That's what Quadro cards are for, multithreaded decoding, higher colour bits and more vram.

So what happens when Russia missile strikes the power plant?

Controllers for the original xbox had magnetic safety detachment points, it was a break in the cable itself rather than at the device end.

It didn't help when the public saw the UN bully their sceptics out instead of countering their criticisms on the methodologies.