I wonder if it’s a coincidence that the security team got the sack and soon after, some servers were found to not be properly buttoned up.

What we need is techno-realism. Technology in an oppressive economic/political system will be used to achieve oppressive goals. So it’s the system that needs to be looked at, not just tech in isolation. And we should really be moving to an approach where we don’t adopt new tech unless it’s proven safe (not perfectly safe, but tolerably safe). And similarly, externalities need to be understood before mass adoption is enabled (e.g., massive power usage by shitcoins and LLMs).

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Someone did the world a favor.

I worked as a consultant for a long time. I learned that anyone who starts a question with “Why don’t we just…” generally doesn’t understand the problem.

That would make sense if corporate bureaucracy was not bureaucracy. But it is.

In that case, every stack that you use is riddled with those and we are all hosed. And yet somehow your computer, your phone and the internet keep on working most of the time.

What if we took a insignificant amount of the virus and injected it into people.

That’s called vaccination. At least, that was one of the original methods. You can use killed virus, weakened virus, a related virus that triggers the same immune response (for example, cowpox for smallpox), or a selected part of the virus that will trigger the immune response but is not capable of infecting you. The last is the most common method used now because the weakened-virus approach can go badly wrong.

respond with “we don’t know what they put in painkillers and yet you take them no problem”

But we do know exactly what goes into both.

Saying this makes them question their line of thought.

They don’t think. There is no line of thought. They just react to memes with brainless conformity.

Anti-vax parents should have their kids taken away.

Long before there was a vaccine, I developed meningitis from a measles infection. Luckily my parents weren’t idiots and took me to the hospital. I ran a high fever, had febrile convulsions and hallucinated. Afterwards, I was over-sensitive to light for at least a week. Anyone who would inflict that on a kid belongs in prison or worse.

Pro-fetus. Anti-life after birth.

The courts are corrupted. It’s up to us to hold them accountable.

Measles parties will kill kids.

MTG is a psychopath.

This is going to kill people in order to enrich SwastiKet.

It’s interesting to see a squabble between two of the reactionary Catholics on the court. I’d have thought it’d have been between the fascist bloc and the religious whackos.

more rubber to make the ride softer

That’s one of the least important contributions to ride softness.

It would make for an amazing driving experience

Going forward and stopping are the easiest parts of a vehicle’s driving experience to implement. Now try getting them to corner well-- that’s more challenging. And nobody needs 3-second 0-to-60 times in normal driving conditions.

Not to mention you would be saving lives in the case of an accident.

You’d be improving the odds for those inside the vehicle at the expense of other drivers, cyclists and pedestrians. The environmental impact of manufacture is also directly proportional to vehicle mass.

Anyway, too much of your analysis is based on the current poor energy density of batteries, which has good potential for improvement in the coming years. SUV-sized EVs are an entry point in the market, but regulators should be providing incentives for manufacturers to shrink them instead of staying with the present unsatisfactorily large size, which is not a positive feature, any more than it is for gasoline-powered SUVs.

Somehow, I knew it was Eich man.

Coke using people tend to get on my nerves

Coke use increases aggression and paranoia. My baseline behavioral profile is laid-back and slightly goofy. On coke, I’m a raging, sarcastic, borderline-violent dickhead. Luckily, I had enough self-awareness and self-discipline to walk away from it.

My own experience with K users is much less positive than yours. I won’t even let them in my house, and it saddens me to see how wilted and lifeless they become after habitual use. It might possibly have some value in a controlled clinical setting, but as a recreational drug, it’s shite.

We could have had Scheme in the browser instead, but the control freaks won and we got saddled with an inferior language instead, misleadingly named after Java because it was so long ago that some people still thought Java was cool.