Comment Re: Radiological sabotage? (Score 1) 22
What if you goal was just disable them for a bit? Steam pipes and transformers are probably less hardened.
Comment Re:Restricted air space? (Score 1) 22
Doh!
Slow news day indeed.
Comment It was a different time (Score 4, Insightful) 24
People were more casual about it. It was far more important to be cool than to own things -at least in the online world.
You could use something someone else created -especially if you improved on it. Collections of things other people made were cool, in general. Just don't try to say it was your original creation or your idea first.
Don't be a dick. Reputation mattered, and communities were surprisingly small.
Comment Restricted air space? (Score 3, Insightful) 22
If the air space around these plants is restricted, then it should be defended. Shoot the things down, or triangulate the control signals and arrest the operators.
If it is not, then there is no story here.
Comment Lame duck (Score 1) 22
The timing to have half while we have a lame duck president is kinda interesting. It could be a coincidence, but if you were gonna do something to a country, doing it during a government transition would probably be more effective.
Comment Re: Yeah, right... (Score 2) 34
Government doesnâ(TM)t give rights.
They do in Germany, You have many rights.
If someone has to give you a right, it is not a right. It is an entitlement.
Governments may respect rights or they may violate rights, but rights are inherent to you.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Comment Re:So why do they want to rewrite legacy code? (Score 1) 87
Original article paywalled. Why do they want to rewrite/refactor the legacy code?.
Because AI. Gotta jump on the bandwagon and get that stock boost.
Show everyone that you are a hip and modern company embracing the latest trend, or your company risks being labeled as old fashioned and obsolete.
Comment Re: Oh no! (Score 1) 62
Absolutely correct. I have watched it happen twice in my lifetime:
-When I was in highschool, the older kids could smoke. There was a smoking area on campus, but incoming years were not allowed. Within a few years, there was no smoking allowed on campus.
-When my son was in highschool, they phased out letting students leave campus for lunch. Again, starting with the incoming freshmen class. Within a few years, it was a closed campus from morning to end-of-day.
This change will take longer, but it will become normal for everyone to link their government ID to their internet usage within a generation. Only us old-folks will think anything of it.
Comment Re:The Enshittification Continues (Score 4, Insightful) 93
I started using reddit *specifically* because I could read answers to web searches. Later I created a login so I could ask specific questions. Blocking users out from even reading content, essentially making it a walled garden that you have to log into to even read is the beginning of the end.
Since Reddit sold API access to Google, and Google has integrated its AI into search, the Reddit answers to web searches will be presented in the AI answer. Most people will be unable to get past the AI answer to see the rest of the Reddit discussion thread: just take the AI answer and move on, do no further research. A win for Google, and a loss for Reddit.
Submission + - People who favor science over religious dogma believe in ghosts and magic (psypost.org) 1
alternative_right writes: A recent survey reveals that people who favor secular reasoning and science over religious authority often hold magical or superstitious beliefs, provided they maintain some residual connection to a religious tradition. These findings, published in the journal Social Forces, suggest that the modern shift toward rationality does not eliminate enchantment but redirects it away from organized institutions.
Sociologists track the process of secularization across post-industrial countries. This concept generally refers to the declining social authority of religious institutions, rather than the complete disappearance of individual faith. As churches and religious leaders lose their ability to monopolize moral meaning and regulate behavior, alternative spiritual practices often emerge to fill the void.
Historically, magic and religion have operated side by side, yet they function quite differently in practice. Religion typically requires belief in a god or gods, offers overarching explanations for existence, and binds adherents together in a shared moral community. Magic, by contrast, relies on transactional efforts to manipulate supernatural forces for worldly rewards. It does not require a formal theology or a centralized institution.
Sociologists track the process of secularization across post-industrial countries. This concept generally refers to the declining social authority of religious institutions, rather than the complete disappearance of individual faith. As churches and religious leaders lose their ability to monopolize moral meaning and regulate behavior, alternative spiritual practices often emerge to fill the void.
Historically, magic and religion have operated side by side, yet they function quite differently in practice. Religion typically requires belief in a god or gods, offers overarching explanations for existence, and binds adherents together in a shared moral community. Magic, by contrast, relies on transactional efforts to manipulate supernatural forces for worldly rewards. It does not require a formal theology or a centralized institution.
Comment Re:Yet gambling on the stock market is just fine (Score 1) 55
Most modern trading of investments in the stock market is gambling; however, the purpose and function of the stock markets is to enable investment in businesses.
The prediction markets run by Kalshi, and Polymarket, etc. have the purpose and function of gambling. The cited "wisdom of the crowd" is a second order effect.
That does not mean that gambling is bad, nor that gambling on the stock market is good. It is simply a distinction of intent and purpose.
Comment Re:Search engine company can't do search (Score -1) 94
Typical arrogant elitist thieving colonialist bullshit. The wealthy countries got that way by stealing from less developed countries, USAID is a way of slightly making redress for that. You sound exactly like the fuckheads who say we should let Ukraine fend for itself when they only gave up their nuclear program because we promised to protect them. Fuck you and the horse that rode in on you.
You pathetic fucking half-man. FUCK YOU! I am sick of you cunts laying a blood-debt on people. I didn't do a goddamn thing to Africa, nor did anyone alive today. You cunts always dump everything on whites as if the browns/blacks/yellows don't have histories full of the same goddamn fucking crimes. FUCK YOU BITCH
Comment Re:Search engine company can't do search (Score 0) 94
You are such a fucking retard. USAID is OUR MONEY. Fuck you pathetic, useless, leftists. If you care so much, package up your money and send it over, asshole.
Comment It's not a recession (Score 5, Insightful) 94
This is just the leading edge of a bubble popping. Nothing to see here, move along.
What? The recession has been here all along, but was being masked by the bubble-powered gains in the stock market? oh dear.
Comment Re:Yep, this. (Score 2) 198
Yup the next revolution is personal.
Unfortunately, every detail of it will be documented and shared on social media:
"Don't forget to like, subscribe, and share so more people can be part of my personal journey towards freedom from invasive technology and living a more wholesome life! Behind the scenes, daily updates, and chats are available exclusively on my patreon."
