so you modded that statement "-1 troll" "just in case" and then indulge in patronizing folks about what/how they post. what a jewel. people like you is why i always have read slashdot at -1, i guess we got what we deserve.

doesn't mean he hasn't a point. sensitive topics on wikipedia have long been taken over by the crowds most interested in pushing a narrative, this started very early and would be very difficult to address now and it seems pretty consistent across multiple languages, so i guess that's just how humans work. it's not an anarchy, though. it's, say, "ad-hoc semi-institutionalized mob rule".

it was a pretty dream, though, and it's still useful for non-sensitive stuff.

you can post on /. with js disabled. that's probably a remnant from the original design of slash that the current "owners" aren't really able to address but for all the whining and teeth gnashing about unicode support one has to give them that.

hardly. initiatives like this one mostly impact the lowest hanging fruit in the audience. which is indeed a huge portion, mind, and they might influence some voting here and there but not very relevant regarding the knowledge space and the public historcal record. that's actually improving. otoh the exodus of honest professionals from "established" media and their replacement with drones is just accelerating the long ongoing establishment's loss of traction. this is very obviously a desperate move in face of that reality. it will not work.

that location feature is still active. (it was only shortly disabled because of controversy).

it's telling that you have consolidated this misconception and that from the many and wildly different causes of backlash (lack of accuracy, "impersonations" from all over the planet, rage and bait farmers, anonymous influencers and activists, ...) your memory only retained "russian" and "far right". disinformation is a very pervasive phenomenon and fucking everybody does it. i recommend you critically doublecheck your actual "trusted" sources and your information parsing process. or not.

Our current business model is losing it's massively overvalued hype machine aura, stock holders are starting to ask questions about "finances" and "profits", pivot to the newest hype bullshit before we have to answer for anything!

here the "cold war ideas" are only the smokescreen for another grift. the public is thoroughly trained into that mentality but the narrative is, as usual, laughable except for the most oblivious minds: china doesn't even want nvidia chips anymore, they have their own and will be happy to sell them all over the world including any "other adversaries" of the us (there are plenty indeed, which the us has been actively and systematically making for the last few decades, which makes your suggestion that the us might somehow be interested in "cooperation" pretty jarring. the game is world domination. and they're losing it, but the grift will continue until morale improves or the ship sinks).

In a fit of irony I'm finishing up a podcast on an old scam of a bullshit box that did nothing, and was sold for millions up and up and up until it wound up in Iraq in the latter half of the 00's as a "bomb detector". And somehow people kept buying them despite all the proof it was made up, it was an empty box of functionally nothing. But it got in the news. And people read about it being bought in the news, or being promoted in the news, by bribed assholes. And they bought it.

And while mini nuclear reactors are a real thing, they are a fantastically dumb real thing. Nuclear reactors aren't super safe, they're never going to be safe, the Chernobyl reactor was a very smart and safe design and humans still fucked that up and turned into easily and by far the deadliest industrial accident in human history once you take into account long term cancer rates of affected areas even hundreds of kilometers away. And yet the nuclear industry puts out a tiny bit of crap about safety and how "coal kills people too so really if you think about it..."

And "small" nuclear reactors still create nuclear waste, stuff that can corrode through containers holding it quite easily and leech into groundwater you might be drinking next to it. A problem so costly if it gets out of hand that the US's original major nuclear research and production site in of Hanford, Washington has a cleanup cost that's risen to over half a trillion dollars decades after being shut down and efforts have been ongoing. And these companies want to put this sort of thing everywhere, near where you live, and have it managed by the cheapest labor the company can find. On top of that nuclear reactors are expensive compared to renewables, and if you make them smaller and they get more expensive.

Just build some fucking windmills and stick them to batteries and you'll be fine. Renewables beat out coal in the US this year despite the dying orange drooler literally bribing company not to build more, and there's no blackouts or anything in the US. These timelines of "X decades" into the future for baseload power "if we start now!" are not needed, not when cheap nigh infinite lifespan batteries have a likely similar or shorter timeline and fucking fusion of all things is promising a similar timeline to these stupid mini nuclear reactor companies.

this is quite normal all over the world because the left has always been objectively "weak" in this fight. they're fighting giants after all. its tools are ideals, reason and goodwill and those tend to not fare well against ruthless power long consolidated in media, administration and executive. i'm from a country with a very rich left tradition and it has endured everything in history from mockery to outright mass killings, and the debate is still the same: the left has to reinvent itself! tactics are ofc important but are not the issue. the old ideals still stand for themselves: equity, progress, justice. as simple as that, and i would throw in brotherhood, but what else? it's just that it is an incredibly uphill and asymetric battle and the opponent always has all the cards. the only power source the left has is the people and mobilizing the people to that extent rarely (if ever) ends well. but let's say you get a win somehow. how long until you get bought out, entramped, corrupted, either from the outside or from within? it just doesn't work. "my" current government is led by a party that has literally "socialist worker party" in its name. it's not "lefty" by any stretch, it systematically bows to the local (and foreign) oligarchs just the same. it is marginally better that when the "right" is in office, but it's still marginal. and they will be back.

new tactics? that's what all that gender/identity/green stuff is all about. to appeal to the people with new slogans. does it work? my country was pioneer in europe in recognizing same sex marriages. it's still a pretty "right wing" government, because that's what power and money mandate. now even the "right" has been appropriating these slogans. they are very good at that and have immense resources. the "right" has always more power, connections and money to adapt to anything. they don't really need to make sense, in the end they can overwhelm any situation. even when the left is in office the right is pulling the strings. it's just how it works.

what i was saying (tongue quite defiantly in cheek, as usual) is that america (and i'm generalizing) doesn't even have a notion of what "left" means. it's not even up to debate, "left" is simply anathema, it doesn't seem to have any meaning, it's just like religious zealots obsessed with (what they consider) sin. that doesn't mean there aren't any admirable and great lefties, even straight out marxists. they're an oddity.

it's a teeny bit too early for that but ... don't give them (more) ideas!

i have news for you: there is no left in america, let alone radical. there is only right, extreme right and fanatical right.

bernie knows prefectly well this is doa, he's just trying to get some attention.

yeah someone has to keep the wheel spinning!

The "innovation" of China "being able to launch new models in 18 months" is f*ing embarrassing. Not for them, but for all the stupid, blindingly obvious shit other auto manufacturers just weren't doing at all like "model it in a f*ing computer before going to all the trouble of building a prototype you tenth wits".

And when people tell you it's fine and other car manufacturers "can't compete" just remember that while this is outlawed in China itself, the Chinese Yuan is deliberately undervalued so it's even cheaper as an export and so is even more undercut!

That is actually one of the positives. AI has no thoughts or feelings, any bias is only a direct result of those building it. The dooms day idea that current AI could decide to terminate mankind is dumb in the extreme when you understand that current AI has no ability to reason or understand, they are just pattern matching algorithms.