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ublock origin and annoyance filters works fine for me

you mean the checks that both parties voted unanimously for, and the act that allowed for PPP and was also voted for unanimously, is only trump's fault? we're pinning that on him when literally every single person in the senate voted for it?

can you see why this rhetoric is tiring?

But bothered enough to respond I guess?

SJ doesn’t own the rights to the character. She can’t legally go play Black Widow for another studio just because she was the actor

Go read any first hand account of anyone who's spent time in solitary for more than a week and tell me that isn't torture. People go into solitary for years

LLMs can describe day to day interactions in a small town just fine. They can deliver accurate text around stuff no one has likely ever bothered to write down. For example, I gave it a list of random objects and asked which ones would need to be treated delicately by a robotic hand. A cotton ball, an apple, a rock, a puddle of water, etc. It responded to each item accurately, though I doubt anyone has ever written that a cotton ball doesn't need a gentle touch from a robotic hand

Israel isn't in Gaza at all. They're just on the borders playing with puppies. Hey, look over here. Puppies.

WorldCoin solves this despite it receiving near universal criticism (for usually wrong and misunderstood reasons)

"We have big goals"

translation: "we want you to work harder and spend 2 hours a day commuting to an uncomfortable office to make us more money"

Politicians are barely paid by income taxes. They're mostly paid by lobbying and special interest groups, i.e. corporations

So basically this Airbus order surge probably has little to do with recent Boeing news and the headline is misleading clickbait

whose driving purpose is to give the founders a nice exit

this seems to exist everywhere? no matter the stated the mission, no one is owning a business to not make money off it

the government could never allow it. If a corporation were able to grow to that size, they essentially become the government

the US government is already overwhelmingly something that is structured by and for the benefit of corporations

There are hundreds of millions of dollars of bribes exchanging hands every year: https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs...

PACs are the method of bribery in American politics. Anyone can contribute in unlimited amounts. The other is donations to foundations owned by the politician, and of course speaking fees.

Unlikely, parent commenter has a history of stating facts without any substance

And none of that even takes into account how completely uncompetitive nuclear energy is in economic terms

Nuclear is extremely price competitive if you actually force carbon producing power generation methods to pay to clean up the pollution they emit. Which is something we require of nuclear but for some reason not any other.

long-term storage of radioactive waste still lacks a proper solution despite decades of work.

This is both a solved problem and also a non-problem. Advanced nuclear reactor designs have effectively zero waste.

It's a dead technology, and the time has come to stop wasting resources on trying to make it work when those could be used much more productively to accelerate the move towards renewables

It's not dead?

I think the "ClosedAI" jokes have been pretty boring since before the first person even made them. Every comment thread has at least 4 people making it

The trick to find an article for free by searching for it and having Google be the referral seems to not work almost all the time these days.

services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works

A soft paywall that can be removed by modifying HTML elements on a page doesn't seem like an actual control for copyrighted material, since the server has already provided you the entirety of the copywritten work and it exists on your computer in plain text (within markup). That they're choosing to do that is on them. I am lawfully accessing their website and how I interact with the local copy of data that they send me is 100% my business as long as I'm not redistributing it.

Or the inspect panel. Or the ability to download a local copy of a page for later modification. Or tools that allow you to inspect HTTP requests. Or screen readers that look at underlying page data instead of what's visually present. Or web crawlers.

The vast majority of journalists are barely performing what any rational person would call journalism, and for the most part they're providing "journalism" on the same shit that 50 other journalists are covering too.

If I had the ability to use the internet and never had links to content that refuses to be presented with out ads or paywalls, then I would gladly do so. Unfortunately that isn't an option, so I use ad block. I am convinced that 95%+ of the content we view on the internet today would still exist if there was no way to monetize it. But because it's monetized, we have the same news story, same recipe, same how-to guide, etc all repeated a million times over. It creates a ton of garbage and fluff and noise that brings no value to the planet to be duplicated so many times.

Abusive DMCA takedowns are unfortunately extremely easy, very time consuming to report, and seemingly very rarely have any action taken against the person who falsely claimed. Not excusing Namecheap here, what they did was totally shit.

Heroku did the same thing to me for same reason - completely shut down my entire account with several revenue generating websites with zero notice.

Regulations seem more or less the same today as they did a decade ago. What exactly are you referring to?

What percent of a uterus owner's day is spent doing actions related to having a uterus? On a heavy flow day, maybe 10 minutes? Maybe half an hour a month? That's 0.3% of their life, leaving a possible 99.7% overlap in shared similar experiences.

Center seating is a better option for 99.99% of the time spent in the truck. And the vast majority (nearly all) of toll booths have toll tags. It's baffling that people think the 99.99% of a product's use should be dictated by the 30 seconds of paper handling that occurs a few times a day.

A truck driver who isn't the intended audience for the vehicle and doesn't understand the engineering decisions that went into the product. For every con he lists there's a con to the opposite approach. There isn't clear cut right and wrong here. It's just different use cases.

ADAC's measure includes the cost of the vehicle itself so that number is completely inappropriate for the actual operating costs. Also ADAC has been called out as wrong and having biased testing many times: https://insideevs.com/news/456957/bjorn-nyland-charging-loss...

It's likely being guaranteed because he knows the cost of installing solar and battery banks and he (and his customers) doesn't have to buy directly from local power companies.

0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works

I feel like this is silly. The daily events of my life - waking up, using the restroom, driving a car, the work that I do all day, the conversations I have - all have an extremely close resemblance to the same actions almost everyone else does every single day. My exact explicit experiences are a minuscule fraction of all experiences, but they're extremely representative of how life and the world works for a billion other people.