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Still, why should be Telegram paying for this, when they offer the service for free?

Exactly. I know of many public grants that you can’t get if you aren’t doing everything in the EU, and so many companies in the EU would cease to exist without these handouts.

It’s not something that the business owners want to do, but they are being forced to from above.

If they were in the same tribe they wouldn’t be excluded. Unless you move the goalposts of what the tribe is.

Not wasting our money, I hope…

The more we solve economic inequality the less children people have since they have more interesting things to do with their lives.

I have none, I already am aware of the functioning of the systems that have been deployed, hence my statements of fact.

There are no active implementations that do not suffer from severe issues.

privacy-preserving age verification

No such thing.

Outlook is better than Gmail? This is a hotter-than-the-Sun take.

Have you actually tried both?

I was talking about the first world. And yes, I think most if not all of the problems in the first world are gratuitously self-inflicted.

Practically all the ills we suffer currently are depressing manifestations of an aging society.

That, and the lack of real issues to solve.

I predict in the future many will blame the poor overall quality of software and the poor uptime of services on AI, as if things weren’t terrible before AI.

That’s not what I said. I said there are more important things to increase the wellbeing of the citizens of a country than democracy. In other words, a country can use democracy as a tool to destroy itself.

He didn’t mention race anywhere in his comment. Unless you think Californians or Sicilians are a different race, which is an, uh… interesting theory.

I doubt Canonical cares much about the desktop segment, at least the segment that doesn't pay. They seem to be focusing on servers. Or at least that's what it seems to me.

Or an ugly reflection on the intelligibility of some accents.

How do you filter out live streams? They look exactly the same to me in the rss feed.

Steal things? What is this, the “you wouldn’t pirate a car” argument again? I thought we were well over that.