At the risk of sounding uneducated, I wasn’t to say I don’t think I’ve ever read a 45 minute article.

I mean most days I would spend at least that much time reading technical advice or commentary, but not an “article”.

Do they make antibiotics in your neighborhood?

I think it might be too late. We just don’t have the mechanics in place to manage this type of threat.

Take for example Musk’s “lottery” in the US. If not technically contrary to law, very much contrary to the spirit of the law, and while I suspect that some kind of “action” was commenced, it was certainly never progressed in any meaningful way. Closing the gate not only after the proverbial horse has bolted, but after that horse has run amok, sired a foal on the prize mare, and grown old and died.

It was hard enough when nana was sharing memes on facebook or your second cousin was getting radicalised on youtube. Now social platforms are openly influencing “engagement” with bots, very obviously supporting far right rhetoric in the name of “free speech”, and avoiding any suppression of misinformation.

Just gonna point out the obvious - this “tribal lifestyle” you speak of would be amazing… for about 1% of the population that would be happy with a subsistence agrarian lifestyle.

For the other 99% of us it would create more problems than it solves. How do you have any form of technology whatsoever without organisation, which requires regulation, and regulators, which we call government.

Who will do all the things though? ChatGPT can’t clean my toilet or wash my dishes.

Also, what is the point of being wealthy and powerful if there’s no one to rule over?

Yeah mine takes forever to boot.

Yeah that’s exactly what this is.

This is for the oil and gas industry.

Ain’t nobody paying for an underwater habitat for researchers when all researchers do at depth is take photos and samples, which can be done by an ROV.

Oil and Gas OTOH need deep see divers to do welding and other maintenance all the time.

I think that an obvious bot can still manipulate users. Fb has infinite resources with which to test this stuff prior to roll out. They skittish do it if it didn’t work for them.

I hadn’t heard of CBC. I consume a lot of BBC content. Also maybe check out ABC (Australia). These public broadcasters produce some great journalism IMO.

I get this type of intrusive thought. I think there’s a french phrase for this “l’appel du vide” or call of the void. I think it’s quite common actually.

No. There’s a reason cheap apartments in China have enclosed balconies.

This is my understanding, and rightly or wrongly it’s the theory underlying the artistic license supporting popular fiction like the star trek and star wars universes.

Obviously my views are supported by confirmation bias, but in the only ecosystem we know of the hominid body plan is the most successful.

Things would be different in different environments, like higher gravity or ocean planets, but in the absence of any data about those the safe bet is that most intelligent life looks similar to us.

Yeah noongar.

People would 100% correct you if you use an alternative system.

That’s what I thought.

The core tenets of far right in the UK and Germany just wouldn’t seem that relevant to a wealthy person. It’s not like he’s going to interact with migrants in any way.

What is it about the right that benefits him though? Small government and reduced regulation?

I genuinely would like to know…

Does he actually believe in these ideologies, or do they just happen to align with his interests presently?

I suspect it’s the latter.

Even pizza shops with their own drivers. I’d usually prefer to go get it myself so it’s as fresh as possible.

Even in places with good infrastructure and generally non-murderous drivers it still gets very sketchy.

The majority of drivers just havent ridden a bike since they were 3, and just don’t understand that you’re part of the traffic, as though you can magically just slip around between all the cars.

I mean you’re right, but it’s not very enthralling.

It’s mostly the contentious political questions that hit the front page.