Or maybe ya’ll are have been so full of hubris and are now finally getting wiser with age and start to recognize that you were always shit or average at best.

Liberal democracy was always a race of who could buy the biggest megaphone. Now they are worried that AI is making it even easier to fling shit and spin lies. Nothing however breaks because of AI, it was all about as dysfunctional as it could get before. What NYT and other legacy media is mostly worried about is that with AI psyops and fake news is becoming more and more democratized instead of an expensive top-down ordeal and for making harder for anybody to trust anything anymore, a trust that they relied on to control the narrative.

Is there any actual proven point of filtering out microplastics from the body? We still don’t know if there are any serious health effects from them, there is just this they might be connected to X,Y,Z. Even then the focus really should be environmental purification and water treatment.

Google search engine has been shit for a decade or more. Wasn’t there some document that it was made so by purpose, because there was no incentive to improve it becuse there was no real competition or the competition was just a front-end to google.

Why think of the consumer when you have practical monopoly on online video content distribution. If the creators are on youtube so will their audience and vice versa. Where will any of them go if you squeeze?

North korean are forced to use a smartphone?

I call that a normal day at Google or Meta

I don’t watch star trek and I only use linux on my home server

True, true… The techpriest vibes I’m getting out of this is because it’s a minor to non-existant improvement that might or might not be placebo is achieved by seemingly outlandish cure. As if the angry spirit of the fridge needed appeasing so that it stops haunting your mouse.

This is like the tech equivalent of consulting the village shaman or wisewoman for some serious disease.

“having much power / authority without being accountable to some third party”

A useless definition. Truly useless. You are going for the “But we can voot the bad people out of the system, so we are better than Chyna” shtick, aren’t you? A liberal narrative of democracy vs authoritarianism that has nothing to do with reality. Any sure way for people only can get accountability even in the west if they protest and riot on the streets. Otherwise the interest of the rulers will always overrule the interests of the people when there is a conflict between the two. And when talking change I’m not talking about promises or shuffling one talking head out to be replaced with another, I’m saying that real systemic change within the system has become nearly impossible, much less having accountability. The politicians, party machinery, institutions, the media and the 1% funding all of them are so deep in bed with each other.

China is authoritarian

“Authoritarian” doesn’t even mean anything as a word, beside being maybe vaguely synonymous with “enemy”. Any actual attempt definition of the word is either hypocritical and/or so wide and universally applicable to every state, making it useless.

Also why positive view of US in places like Eu and Canada is sliding is not because people really think America is sliding into non-democracy, or because people see US no longer as an shining example of prosperity, or have people really awoken the reality that US is the worlds largest rogue state and sponsor of terror (Israel, etc.). nor is china really seen as an better alternative.

Those people who most espouse having lost faith into US since 2024 are mainly the liberal-internationalists who are in power in these places (and in the media) would love nothing more than return to the pre-war status quo where EU is the junior partner in the American enterprise called west. They hate Trump and everything he represents, not America. They hate Trump not because he is incompetent or giving bad leadership per se, but because he makes people in places like Brussels and London nervous and makes “the west” look bad or atleast give it a look that more mask off and undignified look than they would like.

Crypto bros have just one issue. They are all economic parasites, worst than your average landlord, with no real concrete function, service or product that any society or anybody really depends on. They are not saying that they want to take over states, but at this point they would need to take over states and suck them dry to save their grift.

They have nothing real to offer, since their meme money is worthless by itself and all they want to do is to do speculation by wasting electricity, hardware and compute. Crypto speculation like any speculation is only possible anyway when there is free money and no interests around. You snap free liquidity out of the picture and these cretins would crash and burn all they way to lowest pits of hell where they belong.

I code using grep’s search and replace.

Horse shit, posturing and political big talk. Remind me again when fusion is actually viable.

I suppose the dogs don’t mind the texture.

I mean since we are, then aren’t we more likely to be part of a trend than just a singular fluke? Like some people think they are special, but in reality most likely the totality of their attributes are average because that is how averages work.

your industry obviously isn’t thriving on renewables The german “green transition” of the past few years is widely explained on expensive energy killing heavy industry and therefore lowering total energy consumption and making renewables more pronounced in german energy mix. You done goofed by shutting your nuclear plants down.

EU has no significant AI prowess to speak of, so it cannot be counted among the main players in the race. EU is just a consumer of American and Chinese AI that can only hope to maybe do some regulation with it.