Stainless steel moka pots are cheap and work really well and the only plastic they need is maybe in the safety valve and that one silicone sealing ring which makes the thing actually work.

I cheat or mod games to make them more fun.

It really doesn’t get more invisible hand of the market than this.

Just assume the US to be the homeland of Star Trek’s Ferengi. It all makes sense then.

It would genuinely be an actual achievement to make Cisco software less secure. Usually, letting AI fully write software is bad. But in this case, I expect the rewrite to be better just because of how abysmally low the bar is specifically at Cisco.

That sounds very communist. US doesn’t nationalize companies. US wages war against countries known for doing that (right now it’s Iran).

He’s not wrong though. He can actually end the war instantly whenever he wants. Just completely leave the region. Iran does their ayatollbooth and traffic rises quickly back up to pre-war levels.

That looks like a satire porn title.

He’s not wrong. But the same is true for BioWare in the last decade.

BioWare was meant to be commercially viable, but acted like they were a subsidized propaganda studio. They made games with way too big a budget for the existing target group and failed at wishing their buyers into existence. So they failed. That is a rare case of the market working like it is supposed to.

Yeah, maybe i am a bit biased. And you should definitely tell them to add ad blocking and awareness of targeted and dragnet malvertising to their courses. Blocking ads should also increase productivity by reducing distractions and cognitive load when using the web.

People were always uninformed and greed rules the world since at least ten centuries. We literally had leaded gasoline and chemicals killing the ozone layer.
But we also got MAD figured out - probably the biggest achievement in human existence. And we banned leaded gasoline and the ozone layer killer chemicals. We solved acid rain too.
I think, our species is actually progressing positively right now - even though it may not always look like that.

Putin wants his own Starlink. And he doesn’t want Musk to turn it off. He wants to be able to turn it off himself whenever he needs to - preferably without having to cause a Kessler syndrome.

It’s not like US elections weren’t rigged by massive campaign spending before. This is literally how the system is set up and worked for decades before. Musk just did it “right” by buying the biggest media platform of the time. People literally laughed at the massive financial loss he made with Twitter… then the government changed. Some still don’t get what Musk did there.

But Russia isn’t Israel. That the Mossad could force Musk to do anything they want doesn’t mean, Putin can too.
I think, this time it’s just Putin genuinely thinking that having his own Starlink would have made the Ukraine war so much easier - especially if his satellites would also have some electronic warfare equipment on board for jamming the real Starlink.

I use mostly AI to find stuff on the internet now. I just don’t use Google’s AI because it’s even worse than ChatGPT.

I read the post and it’s still a “duh.” Of course, other countries will exploit the systemic corruption in our system. It makes a lot of sense for governments in non-Starlink countries to target Starlink users on their territory because those are basically guaranteed to be spies or saboteurs. And yeah, ad targetting isn’t exactly a new tactic. I just don’t get how agents are not using uBlock Origin. Don’t they get some basic computer security best practices course?

AI is genuinely useful. You don’t have to trust me for it. Linus Torvalds uses it too.

Public opinion wasn’t on the power loom’s side either.
Tech that is genuinely useful is basically impossible to roll back. AI is here to stay no matter what the AI company bubble does.

To be fair they aren’t really that wrong with their “it’s not the guns” meme. Lots of Swiss have guns. They don’t have the US problems with gun violence. It really isn’t the guns. US citizen are just generally way worse at controlling their anger than other people.