No worries: now that everybody’s 401k is invested in SpaceX without their consent, when the AI bubble bursts, mass bankruptcies will happen without anybody leaving the comfort of their own homes.

I doubt it and here’s why - but bear in mind that this is purely anectodal, based solely on my experience:

Some people have acidic sweat and tend to make everything they touch rust overnight. For those in the high-precision, or high value metalworking industry like gunsmithing, it’s a real problem.

Sadly, I’m one of them: when I worked as a gunsmith, I had to either thoroughly clean all the parts I had touched during the day with degreaser, or store them in a jar of lamp oil or petroleum to resume work on clean parts the next day - something my colleagues with neutral sweat didn’t have to do.

Back when I worked as a gunsmith, I had a bad case of acid reflux. As a result, I would guzzle gallons of Gaviscon and other antacids all day long. That lasted for a good 15 years until I got so close to oesophageal cancer that I got experimental surgery to my stomach to solve the problem.

The surgery worked great. But guess what: I still sprinkle rusty fingerprints on all the steel parts I touch. My stomach probably had higher-than-normal pH for years with all the antacid medicines I popped, and now it’s back to normal, yet there’s zero difference to my unfortunate ability to ruin nice steel parts with my sweat.

Make of this what you will. It’s not proof of anything, I’m a statistical sample of one here. But I figured maybe my perspective on your question might interest you.

24 hours and counting.
And it was running like shit for days prior to crashing.
And it runs like shit on a regular basis.

And the SDF people have the gall to give me a hard time because I didn’t contribute to the “service” more than once…

Just wait until they find out Jesus was a jew…

I don’t think any living human being with a working brain cell has seen what the true web looks like in decades - raw and unfiltered, with the full gamut of ads, popups, popunders, mailware, nagware… If the Germans are forced to experience this, they’ll be so shocked they’ll probably ignore the law completely.

You make the mistake of believing that Trump tries to maintain a coherent narrative like the rest of us.

That’s not how Trump works: he says anything at anytime, and doesn’t care about contradicting himself or being fact-checked or anything. What matters to him is the instant soundbite. And the more soundbites, the better - what his fatass friend Steve Bannon calls “Flooding the zone with shit” so that nobody has enough time and energy to follow up on anything Trump says.

Trump has been doing this for decades. This has nothing to do with dementia and everything to do with his particular brand of shameless populism aimed at his simple-minded voter base who only care about the instant soundbites.

It’s TACO night!

I don’t think soldiers and war-related events qualify for a nomination for a Darwin Award.

War is just sad and terrible. There’s no good lesson, chuckle or schadenfreude to be derived from videos like this.

LibreOffice does not include artificial intelligence (AI) out-of-the-box.

Yeah! Ain’t that great?

Is he requesting the Nazi gold?

The teacher is the one who’s confused here. The kid is entirely correct.

I owe my entire life to piracy.

I learned all I know on pirated software, and all the jobs that I’ve ever held are entirely attributable to it.

Did I shaft the software vendors I pirated the software of? Absolutely. But! I’m also very well paid and I pay a lot of taxes thanks to my ill-gotten skills. So overall, I contributed to society as a whole orders of magnitude more than I stole from the individual software vendors.

Of course, I recognize that this sort of logic is self-serving and leaves the software vendors I shafted without any money. But… just sayin’. There’s more than one face to this coin.

As for media - music, movies and such, I’ve almost never purchased any. I bought a few LPs as a kid before my parents bought me a cassette player (and more importantly, recorder). After that, I never ever paid a single dime for any media I’ve ever consumed. Never. And I still don’t.

I make no apology for this: it’s theft pure and simple. The only weak justification I can offer is that if I tried to purchase music or movies, it would be inconvenient to procure, DRM’ed, force shit I don’t want to watch down my throat, like those stupid unskippable FBI warnings on DVDs, and the pirated versions of mp3s and movies are much more user-friendly and resistant to time and deprecation. But at the end of the day, I fully admit that I’m a shameless freeloader.

The only thing I pay for religiously is books. No particular reason why I respect writers more than musicians or film directors… It’s just like that. I want writers to get paid.

Aaw great, now Europe wants to have its own implementation of this scourge. Like American Big Data wasn’t nefarious enough.

India probably could do without Israel’s support.
Everybody could do without Israel’s support, the same way no country wanted Nazi Germany’s support 85 years ago, and nobody wants US support today.

That’s because USA created social media systems first

It has nothing to do with social media, and it predates it by decades, as demonstrated by this famous Genesis song.

Not sure where you have lived,

I have lived in 7 countries, and you’re correct: the entire world is dumbing down. But I found nowhere as fast as in the United States. Also, it matters more because the US is (still) the richest country and the most powerful military power in the world.

Imagine America is an institution for the mentally feeble and it will suddenly make complete sense.

Nah, no way. Their scam has been working great for over two millenia. Why would they give it up?

The Catholic church will elect another magical thinker in chief and he’ll carry on peddling magical thinking. What else could happen?

I can well believe that.

Whoever it was, it wasn’t Dubya, anymore than any of the shit Trump is doing was his idea: both are much too dumb to come up with any of this.