Hasn’t he admitted to changing his opinion after learning about the effects on children? I’m not in the loop about this.

But yeah, you definitely shouldn’t treat his words as gospel. A lot of questionable-at-best stuff in there.

I sometimes like to read his political posts:

https://www.stallman.org/archives/2025-jul-oct.html

And honestly? I mostly agree with them? Like this:

ABC ordered to pay Antoinette Lattouf another $150,000 for unlawful termination over Gaza Instagram post.

But a company faced with enormous threats wielded by fascist officials who demand that certain views be suppressed will treat such penalties as the normal cost of sucking up.

The [Israeli] army says that HAMAS is using apartment buildings for “surveillance”, and has bombed some of those buildings to destroy them. Based on this logic, the army might bomb every tall building in Gaza City with the large bombs that the US is providing

He has some questionable beliefs as well, though for unusual reasons. He accepts non-binary people but refuses to use they/them pronouns because he doesn’t like the ambiguity of singular/plural pronouns. So he has invented the neopronouns per/pers to refer to singular non-binary persons. I genuinely think no other person on this planet could hold this opinion.

Same here.

A pattern in almost every song, book, poem, movie?

Like greed? Antisocial behavior? Populism? Lies? Belief in your own supremacy? Capitalism?

Honestly, my first thoughts were they witnessed Cthulu. Though I suspect they intentionally chose to phrase it such that it invokes this analogy.

If we ignore the pattern aspect they mentioned maybe how history repeats itself? How tyranny emerges and sustains itself on fear and oppression?

I have no clue. It’s so vague.

No. But it will force companies to make their unhealthy products less unhealthy to remain competitive.

Just halving the amount of sugar in sweets and soft drinks would probably add months to the average life expectancy and reduce healthcare cost drastically (especially dental expenses).

Public health is also very important though.

Unhealthy food should always be less convenient than healthy food.

According to the German (I have not found an EU equivalent) office for statistics, you are part of the top 1% of full-time workers if you earn >213,286€ per year:

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2025/04/PD25_134_621.html

Sure, this doesn’t include billionaires who don’t work but there just aren’t enough of them to matter. It’s not like there are hundreds of thousands billionaires in Germany.

Earning 400,000€ in two years makes you part of the 1% though?? Where else would this guy be? Upper middle class?

Do we know this?

I suspect they usually compress videos at most a couple times (for each resolution) and then keep the results cached somewhere. At least for popular videos that combined take up 99% of bandwidth. For 0 views videos I’d imagine they only store the highest resolution and compress it further down on demand.

I’d argue DRMing all those popular videos would take up so much computing power it cannot be offset by ads.

DRM is expensive. Very expensive in fact because it is basically non-trivial encryption.

A website with as much traffic as YouTube cannot afford to DRM every single video stream. There just isn’t enough processing power and electricity available.

Netflix et al. have a tiny fraction of YouTube’s traffic with more income per user due to subscriptions.

Plus YouTube’s storage demands are many orders of magnitude larger. A maximum upper bound for Netflix is 1 PB I’d imagine. Archiveteam alone has selectively downloaded more than 3 PB. YouTube has, I’d imagine, a double digit exabyte amount of data stored + backups.

Base load doesn’t exist. At least not in the way you consider it to.

Right now energy production is based on demand. With renewables, this should be reversed: Demand should adjust to the supply.

One very quick way to achieve this is by mandating dynamic electricity pricing for everyone - company or individual alike.

It will not take long for energy intensive companies to construct their own battery storage (since “purchasing” at -1 cent/kWh is much more economical than at 60 ct/kWh). Consumer demand will also adjust. If your washing machine costs 3€ to run at midnight and -10 ct at 2 pm, when do you think people will wash their clothes? The same goes for charging their EV, vacuuming etc.

The sole remaining factor is heating in winter. Which can not be solved by better battery storage but rather by building thousands of wind turbines everywhere.

That’s what I’m saying.

The argument:

If you never pay for music, artists won’t be able to make new music

is fundamentally flawed. Nearly all artists don’t make more than pocket change at best.

Even if we were to abolish all copyright tomorrow and no one would every pay for art again, art would still exist and be published. Because as it turns out, people enjoy making art.

That’s not to say they shouldn’t be paid. Of course people should make a living by selling art. But OP saying art will cease to exist if there is no money is completely wrong.

Open https://bandcamp.com/discover?s=rand and check how many albums have sold more than 5 copies.

How are those artists able to make music without making money? Because according to you, they can’t.

They must be thorny.

Partly right-wing extremist refers to the constitutional protection office’s assessment.

The AfD is classfied as a suspected case of far right extremism. This is the 2nd of three classifications, the last one is “confirmed right-wing extremist”. To be classified as a suspected case, there must be indications of right-wing extremism.

Therefore, the assessment “partially right-wing extremism” is factually correct. The AfD is not yet classified fully (or confirmed) right-wing extremist. That assessment must first be reviewed and confirmed by a judge since the AfD is currently suing against it.

The E in EBC is basically as relevant as the E in European Article Number (EAN) which are used globally.

I suspect Tunisia is one of those countries that desperately tries to appear tough to their population. It’s a national embarrassment to have a foreign nation attack vessels in your water without you noticing.

The idea of anomaly detection is to project some input onto a (high dimensional), numeric output. From the training data alone, you can then see where the projections are clustered and develop a high dimensional “boundary” where everything within is known and good and everything outside is unknown and possibly bad. Since orders come in relatively slow, a human would be able to check for false positives and overwrite the computer decision.

By the way, an ideal training set is preprocessed and has duplicates removed and new orders added by recombining parts of individual orders.

For example, if we have 3 orders:

• (Hamburger, Fries)
• (Hamburger, Fries)
• (Cheeseburger, Sandwich)

We could then create the following set:

• (Hamburger)
• (Cheeseburger)
• (Fries)
• (Sandwich)
• (Hamburger, Fries)
• (Hamburger, Cheeseburger)
• (Hamburger, Sandwich)

And so on, and so forth. A naive variant is just taking the power set of all valid orders.

There are machine learning algorithms for anomaly detection though. They actually work decently well because exploits like this do in fact differ significantly from regular orders. Because they assume all anomalies are attempted exploits, their false negative rate is rather low while their false positive rate can be a bit higher.

Taco Bell has the capability to create a decently large training set from all recorded orders (which must all be valid and non-malicious) so they shouldn’t have too many issues developing this model.

If an anomaly is detected, make a human verify it is indeed an irregular order.

If only you sharted in your pants instead; then you would’ve been able to partially accomodate OP’s request.

Processing would be quicker?

This would add significant processing overhead because of conversions everwhere. There is a lot of string processing going on inside your CPU already, I’m reasonably sure this would add a measurable overhead.

Plus I believe this would cause even more string related security vulnerabilities to emerge because of additional code that needs to be maintained.