Well all know the most popular car in the world is the Morris Marina.

Sensible nuclear program like France's which costs more than anyone else's and is unreliable?

The other difference was that the consequences of a nuclear exchange were far more tangible. There was no question that even if you did survive the initial bombardments, life afterwards was absolutely going to suck. Radiation has so many awful ways it can kill you, too.

Climate change, though? Depending on your age, it might not even be a problem you'll have to concern yourself with. Trump, for example, is most certainly going to excuse himself from this mortal coil before the shit ever gets close to hitting the fan.

IIRC he's not particularly keen on being among the first to go to Mars. At least not until Mars has blackjack and hookers.

Here's a handy graphical aid and citations for all the data points. https://www.explainxkcd.com/wi...

Feel free to dispute with your own data.

If you're a billionaire or a trillionaire the outcomes are great. You can use the infighting over increasingly scarce water and resources to cement your control over society and you can live in the few remaining temperate zones with plenty of fresh water for yourself.

I mean yeah everyone else is fucked but we're all going to be billionaires right? We're just temporarily inconvenienced... And I'm sure Elon Musk thinks of you and me as his buddies. We will be joining him on Mars

Quit being a pussy and and use your real account.

I've been on Devuan for several releases. Root on [mirrored] ZFS based on the Debian instructions with some tweaks like writing init scripts, Nvidia driver and CUDA installed from the runfile, X11, KDE, wireplumber, etc etc. My Zen3 MiniPC and Zen+ laptop also, less Nvidia. The laptop is even still on the last version because it just runs a browser and CHIRP.

The best description I've heard is that they want police protection from their slaves, but I don't think that truly captures their full flavor. The description needs to include something about being deluded enough to think they will be in the slave-owning class in the dark future they are happy to help bring about.

The stuff in DHH's blog post and Wikipedia entry is pretty tame. Again though, this is viewed from my perspective as an American who really had no problem with all of Obama's deportations (mostly because he didn't make a giant media circus out of them).

It's ironic you should bring up Kirk, because a lot of otherwise reasonable people didn't know all about all the awful shit he'd said either, before proclaiming him to be a decent fellow. Usually what happens is that folks hear "He was just expressing conservative viewpoints" and they don't bother to look into it further to see how deep the rabbit hole actually goes. This is the problem with assuming that someone has identical viewpoints as someone they might claim to "support".

You've been out for 4 years! Where is all the entrepreneurship? Where are all the startups leveraging AI to take over existing non-AI industries? There were several major startups revolutionizing non-computing segments of the business world 4 years after the introduction of commercial internet (1999)...as well as the iPhone (2011). All I hear about are pick and shovel vendors making money off FOMO. Every business who invests in AI is unsure if it's saving them money.

To date, I can say AI has accomplished the following:

1. Given AI-is-my-religion zealots a cool toy to play with and dream about a future whenever this shit starts actually working
2. Made money for a half dozen players in a circular economy ponzi scheme
3. Been used to AI-wash layoffs without any evidence and suppress wages, masking big tech's challenges with rising interest rates.
4. Made the cost of devices we want and actually use skyrocket.

AI has made the future pretty bleak, personally. It doesn't work and is causing a RAMpocalypse...and if it ever actually does, it will cause a white-collar-jobpocalypse and massive social unrest. However, don't take my word for it.

After 4 years, Steve Jobs didn't have to go on press tours to convince people of the utility of an iPhone. No one had to sell the internet as a useful thing in 1999. The fact that Sam Altman has to sell his ware so hard shows even he's not confident about his product. We've all used ChatGPT Sam...We know what it is. We weren't impressed enough to pay for your massive investment to build it.

A libertarian is somebody who thinks their girlfriend shouldn't have to use a car seat.

Aside from the issues with platforming their advertisers don't want to see that stuff next to their advertisements. Not the raw stuff. You've got the internet and you have Google you can easily find that information yourself.

Also your reading comprehension needs work. Your concern isn't with the unnamed blogger your concern is with David Heinemeier Hansson and whether or not the things he said support what the unnamed blogger is accusing him of. You don't want more quotes from the unnamed blogger you want quotes from Mr Hansson.

It takes 2 seconds to Google the phrase " David Heinemeier Hansson ethnic cleansing accusations". Plenty of sources at that point and plenty of direct quotes if you care to be bothered. Or is your Google broken again? For some reason every time I run across somebody backing right wingers their Google is always broken... Oh here is the point where you pretend to not be backing the right winger.

You don't like politicians who serve the public and keep promises huh?

Schools across the country used to teach you how to read, write, drive, cook, and even shoot. Yes, in California, too. By the time I got to school we were only shooting arrows, though. I was able to take classes in cooking, woodworking, plastics, and electronics in public school, but you could feel the Reagan pinch for sure. The only instrument my elementary school could offer me was a dented trombone.