And the experiment was to figure out if they can actually do it without getting sued?

So did I, haha. This was a “yay new friends”-type comment.

I actually haven’t heard much grumbling about it since, so we seem to have behaved alright. Or at least just provided such an overwhelming share of traffic there’s nobody to complain.

You folks ready for the next Rexodus?

Clickbait and a borderline-lie.

Quantum teleportation is a very technical thing you can do with qubits; no actual matter is moved. If you can’t adequately describe a qubit you shouldn’t even care about this.

Donations are usually welcome, if you’re serious about helping.

No, it’d be cartoon logic if I said their motorcade should watch out for packs of dynamite and walls painted to look like more road. By contrast, broken stuff not working isn’t a hard case to make.

Wouldn’t slop AI crash their motorcade or private jet pretty much immediately?

Option A feels like wishful thinking or sour grapes or something to me. Community crossover with the humanities and fine arts is significant.

B is feeling a bit less imminent too; it just wasn’t clear a couple years ago that it will take more than raw compute. That being said, AGI is still bound to happen eventually, seeing as NGI did.

We kind of all knew that though, right?

That’s true. At least there’d be a wave of people forced to discover better ways. It’d suck for things like YouTube videos that have too much overhead to be free, though.

Since I posted this, it also occurred to me that predatory lending could make it’s way in. That’s how a lot of other underclass-serving businesses work.

but polling proves that most Americans (hilariously, even most Republicans) don’t want cutthroat neoliberal everyone-for-themselves economic policies.

Yes, but what if you repackage austerity as “patriotic manly tax cuts”?

Look, sales so isn’t my department, but I’ve been far enough down this path to know bullshit dominates politics because bullshit works. And yeah, it’s fueled by apathy much more than actual stupidity, but comatose isn’t far off of what the average door knock feels like.

I think that Trump would love to install himself as a dictator, and maybe he will, but even dictators keep controlled elections going for the appearance of legitimacy. He’s already 78, and no other Republicans have managed to replicate his popularity among GOP voters. One way or another (unless the US government literally dissolves, which is my preference tbh) we’ll be dealing with a post-Trump US government sooner or later.

Yes, post-Trump will be “interesting” for sure. I’d be mildly surprised if everything went back to normal, though, because it was just so broken before, and there’s so many alternative trajectories available.

The stock market is not the economy. The economy on the ground has not been bullish. The US stock market doing well benefits the wealth-holders, not workers.

So what are you referring to, then? Inflation-adjusted wage growth? That was shit in the 90’s too. The tipping point was the 70’s or early 80’s based on what I’ve seen.

Voters see that they’re not actually moving Leftwards on economic policies that would help their own lives.

You’re ascribing way too much rationality to the average voter here. The politicians themselves don’t - if you’re inside a campaign one day, a rational defense of policies is not how the strategy ever works.

I am worried we’re in for several Presidential election losses before they all die out or get the message.

Bold of you to assume there’s more to come, in light of recent events.

That’s kind of my feeling too, although it’s dangerously close to “better back in my day” given my age.

The period after they shut down browser popups, but before they invented those virtual DOM-hacking popups was great, and that’s a measurable change.

It’s always a bit ironic when people post this on the internet.

It’s not wrong, per se, but much more specific instructions on how not to waste your life would be nice. There’s old people that have spent their whole life on the metaphorical grass and are still dumb as shit.

Rights are soooo gen X.

There’s a few things there. Young people have always had low turnout, it’s not anything the politicians are doing. We’ve actually had a bull market for a decade or so, with a pretty momentary pause for COVID. Apathy happens in other countries like mine too, so it’s not just the Democrats.

As per usual, people primarily care about their own life, and just aren’t motivated by big abstract concepts. Here people’s toys got broken, so they’re mad, simple as. All the discussion about climate change and gun violence or whatever is just a smokescreen for that. If it wasn’t they could have fixed those problems all along. That goes for the geezers too, BTW - they just found out in '83 or whatever that voting is easy and doesn’t require knowing what you’re voting for.

I feel this so hard. Ads and PtW are slowly becoming the only business model because we have stone-age-level impulse control. Hopefully, someone like the EU eventually unfucks it and we switch to micropayments to cover server costs.

The only way it could get worse is if they started banning anyone too poor to properly whale.

Man, if any of that youth passion had shown up at the polls we (yes, including us in the rest of the world) wouldn’t have this problem in the first place. Somehow, the fervour never translates away from from the soft keyboard, though - probably because it’s mostly fake. God, we’re a D-tier species.

That is an interesting phenomenon. I suspect it’s just out of spite, because people not understanding the technology is almost like a new law of the internet, and that it’ll blow over eventually.

If it doesn’t, WTF, basically. People are already getting kicked off of Xiaohongshu for being openly gay.

I don’t believe for a second people use TikTok because they have objections to the data collecting practices of Reels or whatever. They do it because it managed to be super addictive, and got the network effect going before others could catch up.