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  • Personally, I’ve written off America. It\s now officially a fascist hellhole.

    That's how the fascists win.

    "All that's needed for evil to prevail, is for good men to do nothing."
    Someone I don't remember

  • That's partly true.
    Religion was the original way to explain the natural world.

    Eventually, religion led philosophy, which in turn led to science.

  • The key difference between religions and cults, is the level of restrictions on outside information.

    On that scale cults are at one end, religion in the middle, and science at the other end.

  • How would you?
    Date men and women? Anyone can do that.
    Go further? You could be still be pretending.

    You can't really externally "prove" an internal subjective feeling.

  • That's not really how it works. If it was made to work that way, it would still be a relatively small group donating their own compute resources to subsidize everyone else. Which is what we already have, and isn't very scalable.

  • The only real option is to charge people.
    Hosting isn't free. It costs money to run a website. That money needs to come from somewhere. If it doesn't come from advertisers, it must come from users.

    There could be a verity options for that. But I like the simple annual subscription. Each and every user pays. Spread out the cost as much as possible. It's only fair.

  • You could be right. I am looking forward to it.

  • Wikipedia has a list.

    Honestly issue #1 has "Mole Man and his Moloids: An underground leader of Subterranea, who plans to take over the outer world that rejected him. Rules over different creatures and has access to highly advanced technology." That could be a fun place to start.

  • Honestly it always bums me out a little when movies like this go straight to their biggest villain or story. They should start smaller and build to the big stuff.

  • Yes! You're right!
    Selling access to the algo directly would be terrible for users. The SEO companies would all know exactly how to game the system, and ruin Google search completely. That would be soooo bad.

  • Google CEO Sundar Pichai seemed genuinely alarmed at the prospect of being forced to license Google’s search index and algorithm

    This is almost exactly what Kagi suggested.
    The hardest part of internet search is building the search Index. It's massive. Practically a whole copy of the internet. Selling other provider access to Google's search index means new businesses and new business models can be created. My only concern is the "and algorithm" part. That almost sounds like the current state of things. Where companies can run queries to google and receive standard results filtered by Google's algorithm. Direct access to the index is needed without Google's algorithm, so others can use their own algorithm. But maybe they meant and/or, so companies can choose to be a real "Google white label" or something more.

  • I'm still not sure I understand exactly. Are you asking about individual autonomy, or the collective autonomy of humanity?

    I would say there's no real difference on an individual level. I guess conceptually, humanity as a collective entity, might loose autonomy. But I'm not sure that matters.

  • Answer to what? The question I asked you? I don't have an answer.
    Safety without giving up liberty just seems fine to me.

  • The burglars worked for nearly five hours during the night of May 9-10, 2025

    But today is the 7th.
    I'm confused.

    It's JUNE now!!??

  • And if you don't have to give up liberty?
    It's a false dichotomy to think it's only either or.

  • The Galactic Empire was peaceful for thousands of years.
    You'd rather have constant war and chaos?