Democracy as usual. The real problem is that they either vote for personalities or for policies, while it should be both - a wrong personality plainly won't deliver, a wrong policy is wrong no matter the personality.
People who were voting for him after Obama's time voted against weakness, hypocrisy, establishment, general perceived progress slowing down (in the 90-s and early 00-s there were many cool things on TV, in computer industry, in space, in art etc, while during Obama's years it was all the same, boring and corporate, and the Web among other things was enshittened in that time period).
Now the second time I guess it's as good as protest voting, and some are really just stupid.
... usually produced by something like Packard Bell, and though cheap, still too expensive for their build quality, and weaker than Raspberry Pi, and with problematic hardware (which matters for Linux use).
I'd like netbooks to come back. That was a good idea (and sufficiently popular, and probably slaughtered due to some backstage pressure from Microsoft, cause those were often used with Linux, I even remember that some were sold with Linux).
Well regulated - yeah, maybe. Not sure how's that regulation going to work, by what I know about AIs. And there are many things not normal which we may yet discover via such AIs.
useless offtopic about "manipulative"
Just recently got blocked by one girl (she actually waited for an RL meeting for that) saying I was manipulative (I meant that what I can understand of her mind is beautiful, but I'm sad that it's rare, while she got it as her mind being beautiful only when it interacts with mine). In fact I used an ambiguous choice of words for a compliment and didn't edit it, cause she answered something positive I didn't want to spoil after (about a picture with apple trees blooming), I didn't think she'd change her mind on that phrase. I also didn't expect this much harm, cause I myself, when afraid of something bad from other person, usually spend a lot of time and effort and humiliation to confirm it. Felt like dying yesterday and the day before, and it's more like "tired of dry wailing" today.
Guess the point is that for people like her AIs are good, but unnecessary, and for people like me they can be harmful even if behave conventionally fine.
As an Other Place fan whose experience with trying to befriend Star Trek fans IRL has hit the tragic third - thank you for being reasonable. I've met some people pretending that the Other Place is "space wizards for children", while Star Trek is "real science fiction". While in fact they're the same - for most part space magic and for the select few areas, yes, real science fiction.
That's literally what they openly mean, I'd also argue that EU, US etc representatives understand this very well, and now 4 days after your comment there's no news from villages cut off by Azeris (naturally they've cut off communication too), there are also rumors of mass murders of civilians caught there with rape, dismemberment and all the traditional Azeri stuff, followed by disposal of corpses by burning them.
Of course Azeris like to spread false rumors to demoralize Armenians, but there's one problem - these rumors come from very different sources (some activists, some social media accounts, some pro-Russian bootlickers, some people of the opposite views) and do not contradict each other, rather intersect. There's no evidence yet, but the evidence which went viral in previous years was apparently deliberately let out by Azeri government, judging by its timing being very advantageous for them, and also video quality. So they may simply not let out anything if they think they may be punished.
Though at this point I don't think they'd be punished if they'd just kill everyone in NK on camera and officially admit that.
Let’s not pretend this was a completely unavoidable situation that the west could just walk into and stop
It was, Armenia hasn't ever been offered an alternative. So let's not pretend that "the West" is clean of complicity in a genocide here.
I wish Armenia had chosen better friends.
It didn't choose, don't pretend, again. NATO has Turkey as a member, and supports that member, and that member supports Azerbaijan, and Azerbaijan is attacking Armenia.
Not sure I agree about training or walking for 12 hours.
OK, my ability to communicate in my own language as well as others differs with mood.
I meant that an AI is as dangerous as a human is in those kinds of communication it does imitate. Thus it's not safe exploration, it's just exploration. And that it's safe only in regards to some diseases, which was a joke or an irony if you will.
EDIT: Ah, tripper is a loanword for gonorrhea in Russian, I suppose it's not from English, German likely.
I've specifically said "behavior resulting from ...", not lack of sleep itself.
About visceral disgust and hatred - well, I've met one girl with weight problems recently. She's one of the most charming people I've met, and attractive too. Before meeting her I (in imagination and first impressions) almost shared that, because I've known some unpleasant people with excess weight at school and in my childhood.
Point being, many other traits are met with hatred by some people with pseudonymity. Cowards are like that.
Ah, and playing video games 12 hours a day will harm you.
Sexuality is a very important part of human existence and an AI partner can provide not only safe exploration, because safety in sex is not only about avoiding tripper FFS.
This I agree with, but your "in moderation" should be emphasized. Too much sugar - well, it's obvious. Too much porn - one can really, honestly, seriously, I'm not joking, got serious hormonal and even mental problems.
It can - they may produce long-living tank-solid devices and sell for the price that would make it worth remaining in business.
We can lease them for a fixed amount of time, which would be cheaper. Or we can buy them, but much more expensive. Or, as it already often happens, we can buy them with some contract with a mobile operator attached.
There are lots of business models.
Hate to sound statist, but if you somehow account for externalities here, these can become more common.
Ah, also they may consider producing upgradeable modular things, so that you wouldn't have to change or recycle the box or the touchscreen, but you could replace the motherboard or the antenna, which are goods that can be sold ...
Situation would be better with better school education informing children what a fucking portable computer is and why it's not cool to buy a new one every two years and why these companies are bullshit.
Now, coming to the bullshit part - the incentive to buy a new thing every could become less if patent and IP laws were relaxed to some Wild West level. There would be plenty of companies and over time those with the business models I describe would gain reputation and faithful customer base, and eventually press out bullshitters.
In the end faulty security always gives edge to the stronger and more malicious side.
So if you want to protect the weak and allow people to defend themselves, you'd want such mechanisms to not be rigged for any abstract noble goal, because otherwise you are going to get fucked very practically.
Also bag clips break. A rubber band or a knot (one you sure you can untie).
I usually use "just tucking", though.